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Desert Cruising

Sep 22, 2021 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

With Captain Ahab

Ep. 158: 9/22/21

3:01 PM		Monolord The Weary N Single 2021
3:05 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:08 PM		Bogwife The Approach N A Passage Divine Majestic Mountain Records 2021
3:15 PM		Sheev Well Whined N Well Whined - Single 2021
3:20 PM		Jointhugger Midnight N Midnight - EP 2021
3:31 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:34 PM		Wolfnaut Feed Your Dragon N Feed Your Dragon - Single Fuzzpanzer 2021
3:38 PM		Mother Iron Horse The Devil's Work N The Devil's Work - Single 2021
3:41 PM		Cynic Mythical Serpents N Single 2021
3:47 PM		Duster 69 Oppose N 2021 - Single 2021
3:50 PM		Planet Fatale Talking To Myself N The Cycle Repeats Planet Fatale 2021
3:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:00 PM		Greenwater Spilth Spilth - Single Greenwater 2021
4:04 PM		The Heavy Clouds Today Is the Day N Life Side Effects The Heavy Clouds 2021
4:08 PM		Psychedelic Source Records Dull Rivershell Blues N Nagykörü Sessions 2021
4:25 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:31 PM		Estacado Chamomile N Estacado The Committee for Acoustical Metaphysics 2021
4:37 PM		Glasgow Coma Scale Magik N Sirens Tonzonen Records 2021
4:44 PM		Transmission Zero Those Brief Moments N Those Brief Moments - Single 2021
4:51 PM		Rasputniki Монарх N Монарх - Single 2021
4:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:56 PM		Arabbia Zeitgeistus N Green Goddess Arabbia 2021

Chat is archived.

And away we goooo

Cheese sauce pasta pics... so hungry make

Hi Brian!

Hello Ahab

So far, so good!

Crystal clear over here.

Phew knock on wood

Happy Fall Equinox! Summer is officially over :'(

Does Fall Equinox get less love historically due to fear of night?

Woo!! Salutations Cap'n and DC Crew! Happy Autumn Equinox to you too! I am LOVING this SUMPFFRAU! (everything sounds more metal in German)

I think it's a bit of that and just the end of the growing season, lots of harvest festivals around this time. Lots of new growth in spring lends itself more to a time of new beginnings haha

Hi Teresa!

Hi Ahab! <3 Harvest festivals and new calendar year for many religions as well.

Indeed! I'll try to drop some fun facts throughout the show

Plus gotta survive that coming harsh winter with nothing but pickled root vegetables

Happy Equinox Teresa!

Hearing some of your show last week was the only way I knew it was Wednesday, Ahab!

Nice to have you back Jon!

Hope you had a nice break

O the low low low.... the low is strong with this

It is very good to be on the other side of school starting and the high holidays. A routine is forming!

Sheev is Emperor Palpatine's first name! Seriously!

all sorts of fun facts today

Really good show today Ahab!

Thanks very much!

AHOY CAPTAIN! STEADY AS SHE GOES!

Aye aye! signal seems to be solid this week

I only go by metric time

A minute seems like a lunchtime....

There will be a quiz later

I thought it wuz cuz ancient aliens had 12 meals a day

That's the other main competing theory!

Fun factoids today

Like a These Vibes Are Too Cosmic / Desert Cruising crossover episode.

this cosmic desert is a total cruising vibe radio show.

I was reading about the decimal time / metric time tidbits at the same time as your last break. Fun facts indeed. In addition to the French info i found out about the Chinese use of the "centiday" or "ké". Used as a division of time. About 15 minutes as we know it.

The traditional japanese calendar had only 12 hours in the day, so each hour was about 2 of the hours we are used to. It's so fascinating once you fall down the rabbit hole of why we measure time the way we do

The WPRB community measures time in 2 to 3 hour chunks based on programming length.

Looking at different ways to measure time is pretty fascinating.

Ahoy, Cap'n! 🍂🍁🍃 Happy Autumn Equinox, everybody

God l love this track. Your whole show is just so cool.

Good because there's another 13 minutes of it!

Glad you're enjoying the show

HppY ‘Nox Christine! 🍂🍁🍂

Hi Christine!

Happy Fall y'all! 🎃 🌕

If it wasn't for time we'd have no time at all.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." ~Douglas Adams

ultimate psych breakdown here... Really good stuff

I know I say it a lot about a lot of shows on WPRB but I love this show.

I measure time in a unit called the "Dopesmoker." There are 22.85 of these in a single day.

Awww thanks Zap

Much fun hearing and reading the time discussion!

@Jon that's a pretty good system

I heard a single unit of ‘Dopesmoker’ can be extremely variable however

Depends a lot on one's ~activities~

Hi Captain!! Just tuning in now... Happy Woden's-day!

Also just reminded me of that story about why CDs are 74 minutes long and Beethoven

Hey Alan! Thanks for stopping by

More fun facts: in order to replace the saints days of the catholic calendar, the French republican calendar assigned an agricultural product, tool, plant, animal etc to each day

Today is grape day

@Jon, cool. We could also measure time in Bath Boy units. There are 142.15 Bath Boys in a day.

(Trying here to find an emoji for grapes..)

6+ Bath Boys = one Dopesmoker.

🍇 🍷

Hi Christine! ✨ Emoji Queen!!

Desert Cruising is 2.86 dopesmokers long, which is to say 17.77 Bath Boys.

Sirens = Great Music to drive an old Classic Pontiac thru the desert, Cruisin"...

Just perfect here.... totally epic.

Sputnik = "Traveller" in Ruuski..

I will not disputnik

Also reads "Monarch"

Excellent show, Cap. Lotta new stuff I need to look into!

Thanks, Captain Ahab! Nice chatting with all you desert cruisers...

Happy Equal Night Ahab, 🍂🍁🍂 and Thanks! bcnu

Thanks team! Glad you could join me and catch you all next week

I just dropped in before my 5 pm video thing. This Arabbia track is fabulous. Hi and bye everyone. Thanks Captain!

Hi and bye Rob!

See y'all