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Secret Coast Radio #23

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Welcome to the Secret Coast Radio podcast broadcasting somewhere on the Secret Coast

Let us begin by saying:

We prefer the first person plural over the singular.

We prefer mystery over journalism.

We prefer similes such as “She had a face like a Sunday school picnic,” over “My life is like a roller coaster.”

We prefer elation over depression, ecstasy over dread, dreadlocks over buzz cuts, erudition over stupidity.

We prefer one-off movies over seven seasons of bloated streaming shows.

We prefer directness over digressions, dumbbells for exercising over dumb shits in congress.

Returning a phone call over pretending someone didn’t call.

We prefer guitars slung over shoulders over rifles.

We prefer the language of change be couched without jargon and academic balderdash or change will not happen.

We prefer Kurt Vonnegut over The New Testament but would really prefer if these two works of literature could be mixed and mashed together. What a book that would be!

We prefer turning people on with enlightened smut over turning them off with sordid politics.

We prefer creeks over cricks, the movie Reds over rednecks, mindfully blowing up dams over mindlessly blowing up in judgment.

We prefer RV names like Vixen and Wolf Pup over Intent and Attitude. Think of it this way: which rock band would you rather see live—Vixen and the Wolf Pup or Attitude with Intent?

We prefer people actually believe public health experts over believing in tooth fairies.

We prefer silence to gab, books over bootstraps, otters over opacity, Gore Vidal over televised gore.

What is this podcast about? Who are we?

Like we said, mystery over journalism.

Let show number 23 begin.

The link to the show is:

http://www.buzzsprout.com/385945

Secret Coast Radio #12

NSP Meditations, secret coast radio ,

Welcome to the Secret Coast Radio podcast broadcasting somewhere on the Secret Coast

Let us begin by saying:

We prefer the first person plural over the singular.

We prefer mystery over journalism.

We prefer snow over drought.

We prefer walks around lakes before deciding the truth of a matter over decisions made with instant uninformed judgment.

We prefer roadside Christmas trees rooted in the ground over dead ones suspended in plastic bowls.

We prefer giving books away over having them rot in garages or warehouses.

We prefer George C. Scott’s portrayal of Scrooge over all others.

We prefer schmaltzy Christmas tales over decapitating Halloween stories.

We prefer giving gifts of something found at random and then refashioned over ordering crap from a corporate retail center manned by robots.

We prefer Rosemary Clooney’s Christmas songs over Mariah Carey’s, Willie Nelson’s over Taylor Swift’s, Sammy Davis Junior’s over John Davidson’s. And we prefer Bob Dylan’s Christmas album over all others because it seem almost indifferent to Christmas, which of course, many people are.

We prefer silent nights over noisy ones.

We really feel sad for those actors who chose to act in Christmas commercials that sell crap to people. But they made the choice, took the money, and god rest their souls. Maybe decades from now they’ll perform Christmas Carol in a memory care facility, kill it and atone.

We prefer lumps of coal and seed packets in stockings over gadget and gewgaws.

What is this podcast about? Who are we?

Like we said, mystery over journalism.

Let show number 12 begin.

The link to the show is:

http://www.buzzsprout.com/385945

Secret Coast Radio 8

NSP Meditations, secret coast radio , , ,

Welcome to the Secret Coast Radio podcast broadcasting somewhere on the Secret Coast

Let us begin by saying:

We prefer the first person plural over the singular.

We prefer mystery over journalism.

We prefer crooked roads over interstate highways. That’s where all the better stories reside.

We prefer fey over fanatics, super duper over supercilious, anything over anger.

We prefer bouquets of flowers handpicked from ditches and roadsides over bouquets imported across oceans from lands chiefly harvested by children breathing herbicides.

We prefer newspapers owned by people who live in the communities served by the newspapers.

We prefer a management style that invites, encourages, teaches and inspires over hectoring and debasement.

We prefer people who take calls instead of letting them always go to voice mail and then never responding to voice mail because their voice mail box is full.

We prefer for those people in crisis and despair to ask for help, over disappearing and silence, but we realize how hard it is for many to ask for help, so reach out anyway.

We prefer raking leaves over leaf blowing.

We prefer the equal distribution of wealth over extreme concentrations of wealth, like what’s going on in America today and getting worse.

We really like love and charity toward everyone and malice toward none.

We love drinking coffee in coffee shops where someone has chalked a big giant message…”You will be asked to leave if you’re not nice. Kindness matters.”

Oh yes it does. It’s really the only thing that does.

What is this podcast about? Who are we?

Like we said, mystery over journalism.

Let show number eight begin.

The link to the show is:

http://www.buzzsprout.com/385945