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Radio, Oracle Radio.

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of the of the desert. Night

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has fallen on

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the desert on

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on the

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desert on this

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Eve. And we've got some

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big And we've

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got some big news

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from Anatolia, modern day

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turkey. Where archaeologists

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say they have found

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the tomb of St.

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Nicholas. St. Nicholas

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Old St. Nick

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better known as

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Santa Claus It's all

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over the all it must be true. it

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must be true But

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if you've seen this

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news in recent days

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days and dig back for

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the actual source news news

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article it turns out

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this story is seven

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or eight years old or

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eight years old and has

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recently found a

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new audience online. online and

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been made popular renew

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popular who people who don't

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know what the day and

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day, and year means at

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the top of a news article. But

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that's all That's all

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right if it's right of

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its old news. Christmas

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itself is all is old

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all. after all. That's why

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we love it. love it.

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Because ancient

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and beautiful. beautiful. The

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time The time for

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walks walks and the

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cold night, just the

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sound of your boats

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crunching through the the snow.

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So I just want to

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talk to you about it

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for a minute The Guardian

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the news paper put out

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this article that starts off

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saying the news of finding

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Saint Nicholas's tomb in the

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very church name for him

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and in accord with centuries

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of tradition has quote dashed

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the hopes of millions of

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children in quote who wrote

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that well the names

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right there on the miserable

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article but I'm not going

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to dignify it by saying

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it on the radio, because

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radio signals travel forever into

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space. And that's a kind

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of immortality. I don't know

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if this is in the

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style book at The Guardian,

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but saints are not expected

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to be physically alive for

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thousands of years. They die

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as we all do. Even

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if, like Elijah being

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taken up by the

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Lord, into the strange

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skies above, they are

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dead for all practical

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purposes, no longer living

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here on earth as

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human mortal beings. Saints

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are not vampires. They

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live, they die. and

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their spirit lives on

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here on earth, where

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they intercede in the

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affairs of men and

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women just like in

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the old times, the

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ancient days. Children should

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not have their hopes

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dashed by the Guardian

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newspaper. Luckily, no one

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under 45 years old

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or so has ever...

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seen or heard of

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the Manchester Guardian, nor

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any other newspaper. Besides,

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I I saw

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a scientific reconstruction of

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the living face of

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St. Nicholas. of St. Nicholas.

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But a jolly old man with

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a white beard, what do you

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know, a new study proves it. Go

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ahead and enjoy your Christmas ahead and enjoy

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your Christmas holiday. Let the

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kids out of their rooms.

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Let them come out for

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Christmas morning to unwrap their

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steam gift cards or whatever.

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Maybe a BB gun. Or

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a nice new shovel. a

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nice new shovel. Every kid

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loves a shovel can go they

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can go outside and try

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it out by the

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the snow out of the driveway.

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If you've listened to this

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radio show for any length

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of for any length of time, you

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know you know just

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just love to gather

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the signs and

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wonders of our time

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like a crow gathering shiny treasures?

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to take back to the

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home site. You

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might remember that exactly five

5:25

years ago, the American Great the

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was in the midst of

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a good old in the midst

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UFO flap. regional

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UFO flap. Mass

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sightings, mass confusion,

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nonstop news reports,

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baffled officials. officials.

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and very very little

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in the way of

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evidence people's own own stories,

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their own experiences. The

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gossipy spread of which leads

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spread of which go out

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to go out looking for the

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drama. And now you've got all the

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people who never pay any attention

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to the night sky in the

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first place. Standing

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outside looking up

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in wonder. So

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every common helicopter

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and small plane, real

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estate agent drone,

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distant satellite, airport

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bound airliner is baffling

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and unfamiliar. And of course

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there are the videos

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everybody sees on their phones

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or on the local

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news segment. And

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it utterly obscures whatever

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might really be happening. And

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whether we are

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speaking of the

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mystery drone wave

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of 2019 and

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very early 2020

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over the American

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Great Plains or

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the December 2024

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New Jersey mystery

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drones mystery. We're

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unlikely to be

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talking about human -shaped

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space aliens and little

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spaceships just doing

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recon over cornfields or

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over suburban New

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Jersey. It's

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as unlikely as

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Dunkin Donuts Corporation

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dropping off Christmas

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treats to every

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household in the

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garden state by

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drone. But

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there's still a mystery to it all.

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And the funny thing about this

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sort of mystery is that it's never

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ever resolved, never solved. It's

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all going to last

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a few more weeks like

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in the Colorado Plains

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mystery drone wave. And then

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all we'll have are

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the memories. If

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you're interested look on

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your podcast player for

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our October 30th episode

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from the our October 30th from

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the year 20 and

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20 The Great Conjunction.

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Desert Oracle Radio.

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Sometimes these mass visions

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are a sign,

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a warning of

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something sinister come. Well that

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was the case with the Great

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Plains that was

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the case with because

8:47

Mystery Drones, because

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exactly as the

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increasingly menacing, often

8:53

triangular, Great Plains

8:55

visitors visitors were their

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strange, coordinated, low

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-altitude nighttime scans

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of the farmland

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below. of the farmland

9:06

below, while brilliant

9:08

hovered high overhead.

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hovered high overhead. Right

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as all that was

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happening a Right as

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all that was happening, a

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sinister virus the into the

9:21

urban population of Wuhan

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in China. A

9:26

virus, it was originally claimed

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that was delivered unto

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us by a unto us by

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a bat. As increasingly

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frustrated and nerve -wracked law

9:38

enforcement officials in Colorado

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feel officials in

9:43

Colorado fielded for

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the for the

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strange invaders. invaders

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over farm and field.

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Too many times in our

9:59

over explained and disenchanted

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world, we demand some

10:03

simple answer, something chat-GPT

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can spit out. Basic,

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and maybe even half

10:11

correct. Were the mystery

10:13

drones over the American

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Great Plains? In late

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November and December of

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2019 connected in some

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provable, legally actionable action

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to the... simultaneous panic

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and spread of COVID-19

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in China, a disease

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that would reach American

10:36

shores a few weeks

10:39

later, just as the

10:41

final mystery drones faded

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from our skies and

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our attention spans. false

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language that fills the

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newspaper articles and bad

10:54

faith arguments and general

10:56

discourse as they call

10:59

it on Twitter or

11:01

blue sky the Twitter

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knockoff for people with

11:06

too many college degrees

11:09

and too many personality

11:11

disorders discourse now that

11:14

the year of 2024

11:16

is coming to a

11:19

close some of the

11:21

worst language ticks of

11:24

our time and Banish

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them forever so that

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we might speak more

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honestly And have less

11:34

reason to immediately dismiss

11:37

what another person says

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to us So I

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posted this I said

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There are a number

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of evil, empty, last-decade

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phrases that must be

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left behind when the

11:54

new year arrives, halfway

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through the 2020s. Let's

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start with circling

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back. Please add

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other evil empty

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phrases that must

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also be removed

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from public life.

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And some of

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the responses were

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as follows. Legacy

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Media. Unless that's

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the name of

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a company, let's

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please stop saying.

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Legacy Media doesn't

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mean anything. The

12:32

CNN manages a

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few tens of

12:36

thousands of viewers

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nationwide while a

12:40

podcaster who is

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not legacy media

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is the most

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listened to broadcaster

12:48

in the English

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language. Someone

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suggests we

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permanently retire

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the word

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workflow. Someone

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else suggests

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grind set.

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And the

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journalist Jack

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Schaefer nominates,

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I Hear

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You. Also

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on the

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list, Impactful.

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What does that

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mean? Are your

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wisdom teeth bothering

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you? My truth?

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There's no such

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thing. There's measurable

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truth, and there's

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opinion. Unpack? We're

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not referring to

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removing items from

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luggage or boxes.

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Green energy, that usually means scraping

13:57

every living thing. from thousands

13:59

of acres of

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pristine wilderness to

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build industrial electricity

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factories that will

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soon be toxic

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electricity a forever that

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will soon be toxic ruins

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upon a forever

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destroyed An abundance of

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caution, we're also cancelling that

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phrase. caution, we're also canceling

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that phrase, an abundance

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of caution, touching base.

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unless you're playing baseball. playing

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baseball. And that's

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a referee call.

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Re-upbing sounds like

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something like were people

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were doing in the

14:43

bathroom of of Studio 54 in

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1979. Anything Anything

14:48

described as iconic, that's

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not a not portrait in

14:52

an orthodox... in an

14:54

orthodox church. Oh, don't

14:57

forget. Clap back. No,

14:59

no back, what are you,

15:01

bunch of marine world

15:04

seals? are you? A

15:06

bunch of marine

15:08

world is

15:10

Desert Oracle

15:12

is Desert Oracle

15:14

Blue, Black,

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Silver. seasonal

15:19

soundscapes by

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red, those

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are all pretty good choices, thanks.

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to everybody who

15:30

made a suggestion.

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Of course, the

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worst offenders Of course,

15:36

the worst offenders will... in

15:40

entities at you, so it's

15:42

up you so it's up to

15:44

you to correct them as

15:46

you would with with a puppy.

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You're trying to house

15:51

train. Don't do that.

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Here's a treat. Most

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of These words and

16:01

phrases phrases are corporate and only

16:04

use to fill the

16:06

empty spaces. to fill the

16:08

empty spaces and zoom

16:11

meetings and other empty

16:13

conversations. Just ask people

16:16

what they mean. If

16:18

your colleague at the

16:21

AI company says she's

16:23

raw dogging the spreadsheet,

16:26

ask for an explanation.

16:30

Generally, the person won't

16:32

have any idea what

16:34

it means what something picked

16:36

up from social media up from

16:38

show or a or whatever. on

16:40

Hulu or whatever. Raw dogging,

16:42

by the way, is by the way, is

16:45

a term you don't want to have

16:47

to explain to anybody. anybody, especially not

16:49

at a work meeting. Or

16:51

over Christmas dinner with all

16:54

the little kids suddenly listening

16:56

with great attention. Your

17:01

crusade against the empty

17:03

jargon of therapy rooms

17:06

is good for everyone

17:08

is good we speak plainly,

17:11

when speak plainly,

17:13

lightly, but with conviction,

17:15

and don't speak at

17:17

all when we don't

17:19

need to, we make

17:21

life better for everybody

17:23

for all. Once you

17:25

Once you point out circle

17:27

back like what a

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toilet does in Australia, does in

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will avoid the phrase

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out of shame. will avoid

17:36

the phrase out of

17:39

shame. Unless also, stop

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saying hay is a

17:43

saying hey

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or a

17:48

business or

17:50

professional salutation. Hay is

17:53

is for horses. These

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are I think

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I know His

18:35

house is in

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the village though

18:40

He will not

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see me stopping

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here to watch

18:48

his woods

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fill up

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with snow

18:54

My little

18:56

horse think

18:58

it it stop

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without a without

19:02

a farmhouse between

19:04

the woods the woods

19:07

and frozen lake? The

19:10

darkest evening of

19:12

the year. He

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gives his harness

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bells a shake

19:18

to ask if

19:20

there is some

19:22

mistake. The

19:25

only other sounds

19:27

the sweep of

19:30

easy wind and

19:32

downy flight. The

19:34

woods are lovely

19:36

dark and deep,

19:38

but I have

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promises to keep.

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And miles to

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go before I

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have promises to

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keep. And miles

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to go before

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I sleep. and

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miles to go

19:57

before I sleep.

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Stopping

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by woods

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on a

20:09

snowy evening

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by snowy

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evening by

20:19

Robert Frost.

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Written down one hundred

20:27

and two ago ago

20:29

broke over the

20:32

snowy Vermont Vermont woods

20:34

where Frost lived and

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tried to keep food

20:38

on the table from

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freelance writing and not

20:42

really knowing how to

20:44

be a farmer. Now

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let us hear

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from another giant

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of American verse,

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Henry Letsworth Longfellow

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of Portland, Maine,

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with his poem

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called Christmas Bells,

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written by Longfellow

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on Christmas Day,

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of the year 18 and

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63. and

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first published two years

21:27

later in 18 and

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65. Christmas

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Day. their

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old familiar carols

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play and wild

22:08

and sweet the

22:11

words repeat of

22:14

peace on earth

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goodwill to men

22:20

been thought how

22:23

as the day

22:25

had been thought

22:28

how as the

22:31

day had come

22:34

belfries of all

22:37

Christian dumb and

22:40

rolled along the

22:43

unbroken song of

22:46

peace on earth

22:48

goodwill to men

22:51

till ringing singing

22:54

on its way

22:57

the world revolved

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night today

23:03

a voice

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a chime

23:07

a chant

23:09

sublime of

23:11

peace on

23:13

earth goodwill

23:15

to men

23:17

then from

23:19

each black

23:21

a cursed

23:23

mouth the

23:25

cannon thundered

23:27

in the

23:32

And with the

23:35

sound the carols

23:38

drowned of peace

23:41

on earth, goodwill

23:44

to men. It

23:46

was as if

23:49

an earthquake rent.

23:52

The hearth stones

23:55

of a continent.

23:58

forlorn the households

24:01

peace

24:03

on of peace

24:06

on earth, goodwill

24:09

to men. An

24:12

in my

24:15

head I

24:18

bowed my head. There

24:20

is no

24:22

peace on earth

24:25

peace on earth, I said.

24:28

For is strong

24:30

and mocks the

24:32

song mocks the peace

24:34

on Of peace on will

24:36

to men will to

24:38

men. peeled the

24:41

bells more loud

24:43

and deep more loud

24:45

is not dead

24:47

nor doth he

24:49

sleep not dead nor

24:52

wrong shall

24:54

fail, The

24:57

right prevail

25:00

peace on on earth,

25:02

good will to

25:04

men From

25:18

envoy to Zyzex

25:20

broadcasting across the

25:22

great Mojave Wilderness.

25:25

This is Desert

25:27

Oracle Radio with

25:29

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25:32

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25:35

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25:37

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25:39

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25:41

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25:43

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25:57

while rain and and

25:59

even Some snow

26:01

is forecast for Christmas

26:03

Day, depending on where

26:05

you are in the

26:08

American West and what

26:10

altitude and etc. The

26:12

Mojave Desert has been

26:14

just beautiful these last

26:16

weeks of December. And

26:18

I expect the Great

26:20

Basin will be cold

26:22

and bright when I

26:24

get up to the

26:26

eastern Sierra in a

26:28

few days. Wherever you

26:30

are this Christmas week.

26:32

I hope you get

26:34

outside and get some

26:36

fresh air, beautiful vistas,

26:38

and long walks. I'll

26:40

take a half-day walk

26:42

up and around the

26:44

desert foot hills over

26:46

just about anything. Nature's

26:49

Gift. Christmas present from

26:51

the Creator. The

26:54

prettiest winter holiday I can

26:56

recall was right up there

26:59

by the Black Rock Canyon

27:01

Campground Joshua Tree National Park

27:03

a couple of years ago

27:05

When my kids were still

27:07

little and no video game

27:10

could compete with Fresh fallen

27:12

snow Joshua trees and their

27:14

juniper friends never looked so

27:16

pretty as when coated with

27:19

new snow the ground all

27:21

white all white all around

27:24

Other than the little paw

27:26

prince of various small creatures

27:28

who've already explored the brilliant

27:30

new morning landscape We hiked

27:32

around before long we were

27:34

throwing snowballs at each other

27:36

Now and then those pictures

27:38

pop up on my phone

27:40

in the passage of time

27:42

hits me like an ice

27:44

ball thrown by a five-year-old

27:46

just discovering his own strength

27:48

While the dog runs past

27:50

again passed again Good

27:52

night and Merry Christmas from the

27:55

Voice of the Desert.