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Vegas Please (part 6). Day 2

With thumbs out, we walk north out of Kingman, Arizona in the morning. The sun is your friend in the desert spring, so it’s best to get going early. It is much harder and colder to hitch at night no matter where you are at.

We have about 100-miles of desert highway to Las Vegas to hitch hike.

After hiking uphill for awhile, we hit a plateau that reveals a vast desert wasteland in front of us. Buzzards are circling overhead.

“Do you see the birds?” I ask Adrian. “This doesn’t look good.”

We shoot the shit to ignore the situation and keep moving. Adrian wants to come up with “road names” for us. He road-names me “Talks with Owls.”

That’s pretty cool. Thanks!

“So what’s my road name?” he asks.

I pull out the weed I purchased from a stranger at the bar last night and roll a joint.

Giving someone a road-name should require meditation-medication.

After walking in stoned-silence for a minute, while quieting my mind, I let loose a name to be remembered. It is not well received.

“What the fuck are you talking about? I give you a cool road-name and you give me that name?”

I failed my road-name task. I’m pretty good with titles, but I’m not 100% accurate.

I apologize to Adrian. He has already had a bad-naming experience in his past while working for The Rock. He was DJ Hot Karl. He had no idea of the reference.

Car pulls up in the midst of this conversation.

Two 18-year olds are headed to Vegas. We jump into the back of this 2-door foreign car and then drive 100-mph+ through the desert.

They drop us off on the Vegas strip. We are grateful.

Drifter Radio Goes Live in 2022

Last night, Drifter Radio went live as a watch-party for Super Bowl 56. Over 20-people showed up from around North America to listen and watch the podcast. This was the first Drifter Radio live internet broadcast in over a decade. 8-hours 22-minutes was streamed through YouTube for Super Bowl Sunday Funday.

Drifter Radio watched the Los Angeles Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals: 23-20

It was a good “social-distance party” with friends.

Overall, Drifter Radio’s live show went well.

It was fun to yap into a microphone again.

Hopefully, my halftime performance on flute and aluminum mixing bowl was lost to the ethra. The half time musical performance was a request on the live-stream message board.

People tuned in from Hawaii, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oregon, Alaska, Saudi Arabia, and few other places. The live-stream message board was a hit. The podcast was fun.

Today, I spent post-Super Bowl Day reviewing what was learned. How can I adjust Drifter Radio programming from this initial podcast?

Research the inter-webs. Call supporters. Brainstorm.

A few ideas surfaced from yesterdays go-live experiment:

More tech is needed.

Add guests.

Commentate on the message board.

Create a calendar of events for 2022.

Create multiple streams of income.

Write a media/art business plan in book form.

Thanks to everyone for tuning in Sunday!

I think DrifterRadio needs to host a few more live watch-parties in 2022.

It’s the Method, Man

Got hot and stayed hot.

Backed by a whole lot

Of patience and prose.

And a whole lot of thought.

One of my all-time favorite artists is from the Wu-Tang Clan: Method Man.

A style of “clowning” that I had never seen in the 90’s scene. This wasn’t white man clown-college. This dude was “clowning” in hip hop form. In a more indigenous form.

Aggressive, smart, comedic, and creative. Loose on the mic and action.

Method Man’s influence and creative spark helped me in my travels. Some of these travels were in the diciest parts of America. I learned that I could potentially dance and clown my way to safety.

Method was a “Wu-Tang Grand Master” of defense skills inadvertently in my college years. I learned that if I can clown like Method Man, I could go anywhere without being messed with.

“What would Method Man do in this situation?” I would ask in troubling situations.

This led to acting really weird in future real-life street situations in order to keep drifting.

Thanks Method Man! You got me out of situations.

Vegas Please (part 5)

Hitchhike Ride 2 drops us off in Winslow, Arizona at the desert sunset.

We are crossroading Route 66 on our way to Las Vegas.

Adrian is loving this road trip.

Adrian normally does not burst into song, but he starts dropping lyrics from the Eagles.

“Well, I’m standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
And such a fine sight to see
It’s a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin’ down to take a look at me.”
Eagles. “Take it Easy.”

Adrian seems to be inspired by Dr. Love in finding love on the highway.

Why not?

Adrian has per diem interview cash (aka. costs needed to travel to an interview), so he is able to hook us up for a motel room for a night in Winslow.

We decide we need to go “out on the town” on our limited beer-budget to meet the locals and bring some Wisconsinite merriment to Western Arizona.

After a nice beer buzz and telling drifting stories of the day, we gotta get some sleep.

Day 2 Goal: Traverse Desert by Thumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrWUlc46dQ0

This Land is Made for You and Me: Public Trust Doctrine

This Land is your land…this Land is my land….this Land is made for you and me.

This Land is Your Land

I re-started my Master Degree studies in Sustainability Management this month. I will be writing at least three papers a week for these classes on environment, economics, and social equity.

I plan to share some of these writings on this webpage through out the next year.

In my Sustainability Law class this week, I was introduced to public trust doctrine. Here’s one of this week’s discussion questions answered:

“ This modest patrimony ever yet inherited by any people must be husbanded and preserved with care in such manner that future generations shall not reproach us for having squandered what was justly theirs.” -The Whig Almanac (1843)

Public trust doctrine is an environmental ethic that reasons that certain resources are important to past, present, and future humans. The public trust doctrine recognizes that not only are certain resources important to you and your ancestors, but these resources will most certainly be important to the future of humanity.

Public trust doctrine recognizes that we individually and collectively have a responsibility to preserve environmental and cultural resources for future generations.

Public trust doctrine has roots in ancient Roman law and common law. Common law principles can include trespassing, negligence, and statutory liability. The public trust doctrine is applied in both statutes and non-statutory jurisprudence. The doctrine recognizes that there are cultural values beyond just market values in society. The doctrine argues that there are public/common resources that should be preserved from destruction. The doctrine also acknowledges that there are resources that should not be privately owned

One foundational public trust doctrine case is Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois, 146 U.S. 387 (1892) where the Supreme Court rules that there are limits of ownership to submerged lands (in this case was a 1000-acre aquatic area next to the Chicago harbor) because of the public trust doctrine.

The Supreme Court’s decision considered the impact to public use and the impact on navigation and public use of that body of water. Because of cases such as this, our country has been able to protect public resources from privatization while also holding people accountable for the destruction of public resources.

Here’s “public trust doctrine” explained in song. Woody Guthrie:

Vegas Please (4): Hitchhike Ride 2

“We saw you guys walking this morning,” the driver tells us. “Looked like you needed a ride.”

The driver and his crew are Hispanic-dudes. Only the driver speaks English. They are headed back west after a day of roofing. They are blasting the song “Dancing Queen” by the band ABBA on the pickup’s CD player.

I am not sure how they feel about the 1970’s hitch hiking saying: “gas, grass, or ass…nobody rides for free,” ….but I am willing to share what weed I have.

The guy sitting next to me doesn’t speak English. I pull out the remainder of the joint I was smoking by the rail road tracks. I offer it to him in a hand gesture.

He sees what I have and laughs. He double-pump points at the driver.

(You don’t need to verbally understand a language to communicate).

“Do you smoke weed?” I ask the driver. “I have a little left. We appreciate the ride.”

The sun-glassed driver grins in the rear view mirror. “I’ll try a lil’ of that Partner.”

We drive through the desert until we run into a place that sells beer. Adrian and I buy.

The driver does not drink alcohol, but the two other roofers toast a-days-work with beers along with the two hitchhikers from Wisconsin.

“Happy Hour on the Highway.”

This outcome was much better than the “envisioned dying in the desert” earlier in the day.

Here’s a link to ABBA:

Negative Message Posts Explained

Any “negative message” posts on social media can come from multiple sources. A negative post might come from the following sources:

Children seeking the wrong attention
People that are mentally wounded
Foreign disinformation
Uneducated people trying to make jokes
Old people with mental conditions
Uneducated old people
Artificial Intelligence
People named Karen
Foreigners that don’t understand the language
Adults seeking the wrong attention
Bill Burr
Ghost of George Carlin
Infantry Veterans
Your ex-lover

The list continues….

What ever the reason for the negativity, I have decided to stop paying attention to it. Mostly, I figure an anonymous writer of a negative post is someone over-60 years old or a teenager.

Probably not educated and/or mature.

It is not worth communicating with negative people online unless the time spent solves their problems or give you introspection into your problems. Keep your ears open for self-improvement, but take the negative posts you hear on the internet “with a grain salt.”