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Back in the day I used to work nights at a door/flooring production plant.  If my production line was up and running, and I didn't need to make any adjustments or anything, I could sit back and listen to a radio.  That's where I got into listening to Art.  When the intro song The Chase started playing, I listened with anticipation to hear Art say "From the high desert."  After awhile, I noticed that he always said it 30 seconds into the song, right when some pronounced drumbeats started to play.  If Art was in his studio, he would start talking just as the first loud drumbeat played.  If he didn't say anything at that time, I knew that Art wasn't there and that there would be a substitute guest announcer like George.  George and all the other fill in hosts would always start talking well after those first steady drumbeats sounded.  Anyway, if you listen to some of Art's shows that have the opening intro music, you will hear what I mean.  There were a number of times when Art didn't show up, especially when he was having trouble with his back.  If Art wasn't there I usually switched the radio to a music station, or would play an old  tape of Art that I had recorded earlier.   

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The return of the tobacco plant.  This plant (a glorified weed, I guess you could call it) returns every spring.  I call it a tobacco plant because as kids, we would take the dried seeds from similar looking weeds, wrap them in a piece of paper and try to smoke them like a cigarette.  Thankfully, the highly acidic smoke would cause us to back off before taking a puff.  I'm fond of the plant though, and allow it to grow to it's full length, which is about three or four feet.  Right now it's about ankle high.  Perhaps this year I will get my Weeds of the West book off the shelf and find out what it's really called.

A mildly toxic plant called curly dock.

back when I was a youngin' and drinking with currently dead people, There was a San Diego area band called Bad Radio. when I see this thread, I think about the band. I finally googled to see what information is out there because they never put out a record. Eddie Vedder and the drummer from 4 non-blondes Through that band at one time or another

AHH When I thought up the name I decided to do a search where I did see the band you refer too.

back when I was a youngin' and drinking with currently dead people, There was a San Diego area band called Bad Radio. when I see this thread, I think about the band. I finally googled to see what information is out there because they never put out a record. Eddie Vedder and the drummer from 4 non-blondes Through that band at one time or another

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The return of the tobacco plant.  This plant (a glorified weed, I guess you could call it) returns every spring.  I call it a tobacco plant because as kids, we would take the dried seeds from similar looking weeds, wrap them in a piece of paper and try to smoke them like a cigarette.  Thankfully, the highly acidic smoke would cause us to back off before taking a puff.  I'm fond of the plant though, and allow it to grow to it's full length, which is about three or four feet.  Right now it's about ankle high.  Perhaps this year I will get my Weeds of the West book off the shelf and find out what it's really called.