the best thing you are not listening to

Holy audio amazeballs. One of the surprise treats on our adventure to Anderson Valley, was that our residential host is also host to a weekly radio show on the one station you can get in the valley. It's the NPR affiliate, and has some very local programming.

It's called Trading Time, and is best described as "Craig's List for the radio." Yes, it's talking classified, where people across the valley call in to sell, seek, or give stuff they have, want, or need or need to give away. Callers share their stuff/needs, and give their own phone numbers, and other listeners can connect directly if they want to.

It is ridiculously entertaining. It was fortunate for us that our drive up to Mendocino coincided with the broadcast and we got to hear almost the entire show. And we were losing our shit. We loved it so much we kept the radio on and the doors open while we stopped to take photos among the redwoods.

According to Andrea, this was a mild show. I can't wait for a Saturday morning when I can sit and stream the show via the interwebs.

Best Call Ever: A guy calls in looking to buy an old refrigerator. It needs to be of [these kinds] of models, and can't be any newer than [not anytime soon]. It doesn't have to work, and broken is better as it's probably cheaper.

We in the car enjoyed discussing the call, and all agreed that he wanted to buy old refrigerators because he was a small appliance repair guy and needed it for the parts.

Oh, city folk. How oblivious are we? No sir, this man was looking for a good condition, old, possibly broken refrigerator— with"no sauna or hot tub" (which we figured out means "no bells and whistles")— because he needs to build a new possum smoker.

Second Best Call Ever: The woman who called to sell an unrelated item, but took time to attest to possums being, and these are her words, "good eatin'" and wanted the guy's number so she could call him and share recipes.

Trading Time. Stream it from KZYX.

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