Desert Skies - Bonus - Tera-Seraphic Soda

Episode Date: October 10, 2022

Ever wanted to hop in your Buick Skylark and take to the Astral Highway? In this bonus episode you'll hear the first episode of Desert Skies FM, the brand new companion podcast of Desert Skies. This show is a short-form radio style broadcast that is not central to plot of Desert Skies in any way. In each episode of Desert Skies FM, you'll hear some announcements from the staff of Desert Skies Astral Plane Fuel and Service Center, an encouraging message from Mac, and hear about some of the products and specials at the station. Be sure to subscribe to Desert Skies FM wherever you listen to podcasts! Club 86: https://patreon.com/desertskies Merch: https://desertskies.myshopify.com Discord: https://discord.gg/7fuUU78mUh Website: https://desertskiespodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the best listening experience, headphones are recommended. Greetings, Travelers, Jared Carter here. I have an exciting announcement today. The bonus episode that you're about to hear is from a brand new podcast called Desert Skies FM. If you remember the beginning of Chapter 2, unfinished business, the staff of Desert Skies broadcast radio announcements to travelers on the astral plane. Desert Skies FM is like tuning in to receive those messages. These episodes are short, 10 minutes or less.

They are not essential to the plot of Desert Skies. They're not even required listening. They're just short, easy to digest, entertaining segments that can hopefully give you a little boost during your day. This first week, if you subscribe to Desert Skies FM, you'll be able to hear six episodes in total. The first two are available today, Monday, October 10th. with one additional release every day until Friday. After the first week, two to three new episodes will be made available each week. Use your preferred podcast player to find and subscribe to Desert Skies FM,

so you don't miss a single one. And with that, here's the first episode of Desert Skies FM. Hope you enjoy. Incoming broadcast from Desert Sky's Astroplane Fuel and Service Station. Desert Skies FM. What was that? An intro to our show. It's not really a show, it's just some quick announcements.

And is this even an FM station? I don't know. Okay. Greetings, Traveler. This is the attendant of Desert Skies coming live to you from the Desert Skies Astroplane Fuel and Service Station. I have here with me the mechanic, also known as Mack. For those who were still in a state of shock when they left desert skies, or just weren't clear about what's going on, here's a brief recap.

Your life on the physical plane has come to an end. You did. After you died, you arrived at our little gas station here on the astral plane, where we gave you supplies and serviced your vehicle for the long journey ahead. And now you're on the astral highway. This highway is your way to make way across all 33 celestial spheres, after which you will arrive in the next life. And that's it.

Hopefully that clears things up for anyone who is still having trouble. Now, time for your astral highway safety tip. Safe travels tip for travelers on the astral plane. Uh, that seems a bit much. Just roll with it, Tendi. Come on, you're doing great. Wear your seatbelt. Look, you're already dead, which means you can't die here.

Woohoo! But you can get hurt here on the astral plane. So wear it. Wear your seatbelt. Your Skylark is equipped with climate control, which is helpful when you're driving through a place like the ever-stormy eighth sphere. But it's not going to be of much use if you break for a celestial being and go flying through the windshield.

Yeah, doesn't you that have a big old hole? where the rank can come in. You know it, Mac. Seriously, Traveler, who are you trying to impress by not wearing your seatbelt? Click that buckle into place or eat some gravel with your face. Wow.

Impressive rhyme, Tandy. Thanks, Mac. I just came up with it right now. That was improv? Yeah. I don't know what came over me. Well, it's impressive. Thanks.

Mac, the mechanic here, Traveler. How the heck are you doing? This is a little segment. call, rest your weary soul. Rest your weary soul. Nailed it. Maybe you should think about toning down that intro a bit. Not on your life, Tendi. Speaking of your life, Cash, contemplative music, please. Life was hard, wasn't it, Traveler? Maybe even disappointing. I know that, Because when travelers show up here, they're often carrying a big old heap of sad with them. They often feel that way, because they didn't do anything big or important with their lives.

Like, become famous, or cure cancer, or learn how to break dance. You're not alone. Sometimes I feel like what I do ain't important. And maybe that's the way you feel when you drive the Astral Highway Traveler, but you know what? I think you did some really big things in your life. but maybe they just looked like a lot of little things. What in the hell is that mechanic talking about? You may ask yourself. Well, consider this.

There were days on the physical plane where you got out of bed when you didn't think you had the strength to. You brushed your teeth, took a shower, maybe put on some deodorant, and you didn't do that just one time. You did that thousands of times. That took a little bit. little bit of bravery every time you did it.

Think about all the time someone told you something, and you said, Tell me more. Two of the greatest gifts you ever gave your fellow creatures were those tiny little wads of flesh on the sides of your head. I'm talking, of course, about your ear holes. It can take a lot of work to listen sometimes, especially when you're hilarious and always have something interesting to say, like me. But you did it.

did it. You listened lots of times, and that helps some people. And maybe some of you, maybe most of you, had a pet. Think about the life that pet could have lived if you weren't there to give its snuggles from time to time, or put food and water in its bowl. To that pet, you were the most wonderful thing in the world. If you had never been born, your dog or cat or goldfish or anaconda. could have become a circus animal, and that, as I understand it, is a long and tumultuous life. So remember, Traveler, you did a lot of little things, some that I didn't even list, and the big old world was better off because you spent some time in it. So don't stress it.

Rest your weary soul. Tendy, are you crying? What? No? Uh, thanks for that segment, Mac. Now, moving on to a message to travelers freshly arriving from the physical plane. Greetings! You will be arriving at the station soon enough,

and I wanted to take a moment to tell you about some of our specials of the day. Specials of the Day! Desert Skies has all your road trip favorites. Are you missing the feeling of pure adrenaline that came along with doing things like skydiving? asking your crush out on a date, or just answering the telephone? Terra-SeraFix soda is the closest thing we have to steroids on the astral plane. Get it while supplies last. Mac has been going through it pretty quickly.

Hey, I'm trying to see if I can make my heart explode. Oh, and be sure to check out our many varieties of licorice. We have red licorice, black licorice, and colorless licorice, which doesn't taste like anything. But we'll cause you to forget that in business. cause you to forget that embarrassing thing you said that one time. I have one every day. Tendi says it's why I never learn.

And that's our broadcast traveler. Thanks for listening. If you'd like to learn more about Desert Skies, just visit a communication station along the Astral Highway. From there, go to Desert Skiespodcast.com, where you can sign our guestbook. Learn more about the Astral Plain or access transcripts of previous broadcast. Also, be sure to subscribe to our primary podcast transmission, simply called Desert Skies, available everywhere you listen. Now, back to your regular programming.