Adventures in waiting around
I'm waiting for my next live hit (15 minutes from now). I've been training to go live on the air for the past three days. The first part right after you've got your interview is a bit nerve racking. You've got to put it into your comp, edit down the sound bytes, send your best bytes into the system we use (4 good ones), then write and voice a tease, then write a lead, and of course write your story, and have all the tech stuff (sound levels, etc) good to go before you get on the air. But after all that there's a little down time after the first hour (and so here I am). I'm currently parked out in front of the KSL studios in the truck with my equipment. I took some time a bit earlier to lay down for 5 minutes under a nearby tree on the edge of the parking lot. As I lay under that tree I contemplated just how many homeless people may have been in the exact spot I was actually laying in just then. Then a large man dressed in black (probably a waiter for som...
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There's also food in the temple, but you must dust off and take off your shoes. There is ritual and erratic dancing on the upper floor. It is a delirious dance that symbolizes their devotion to their god (which is a golden idol that they make and then keep in the temple along with his god wife which is also an idol and some of his court and concubines, etc). They feed the god and sing praises to his name.
Kinda crazy, but an eye-opening cultural experience. The color part is really, really fun...and all this in Spanish Fork, Utah in a temple that looks like the Taj Mahal, in the middle of nowhere.