Norway Agricultural Crisis, Rain Stick Ritual
Norway is experiencing an unprecedented heatwave and agricultural crisis with temperatures breaking records for 30 consecutive days. Farmers are reportedly sending cattle to slaughterhouses due to a lack of winter feed, as grass yields have dropped to 30% of normal levels. In response to a listener request from Andromeda in Norway, a ritualistic "rain stick" flip is performed to symbolically encourage rainfall in the region.
norway· agricultural crisis· drought· rain stick· gmo products
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00:43 Man, a lot of grief. I got a lot of grief! I think you could open every show with that. We hit Belgium head-on with the rainsticks just got the lower half of The Netherlands but... We discussed this on Twitter and really have nothing to say You know my position on this. I can hold myself blameless for this mess Well, it gets worse because we have a very serious request from Norway now. So first of all it rained everywhere except in the Netherlands where we wanted to rain and thanks Muslim clerics! A lot of good you're praying did that didn't help much
01:27 Andromeda... I think it's because, you know a lot of this has to do with the speakers in the countries and the volume that they play the show at. And i'm just guessing that in Holland they played the show over earbuds? Yes! It is not loud enough. Well, Andromeda wrote-in from Norway and she and her husband say it's pretty critical In fact we are their last chance Since the beginning of May, there's been an unusual period of beautiful and warm weather in Norway. Unseen in decades maybe ever! Sunshine for days temperature breaking every possible record 30 tropical days so far IN NORWAY! All caps. Wow sounds good That's what I'm saying why would you- What are they complaining about? What is your problem? Is it rain...is this a place on fire no Yes yes numerous forest fires
02:27 But here's the real problem. Because the warm weather began so early this year in April, they have a full-blown agricultural crisis. Yes well that's nothing we can do about that. Grass from first yield was 30% of a normal year so they don't think there'll be any second yield Farmers are sending their cattle to slaughterhouses because they won't have enough feed for the winter, which will lead to a shortage of dairy products next year and possibly the year after that. But a boom in meat! Yeah... I guess they imported hay from the US?
03:09 Even though GMO products are banned which of course everything that we sell is GMO pretty much yeah, so I mean there's a poison the world they're specifically asking for rain stick action and I don't want to deny anyone that but I feel a little gun-shy after I was I admit. I Was it little careless on the stick? But maybe we should just do one shake for Norway? I think you did... You mean, you know, one flip period no more. One flip for Norway And we're gonna do it simultaneously this time Yes yes that you count me in i mean i've clearly got to get my uh My game back on Okay On the count of three two one count all right We flip once All right Three Two One Allllright Norwaayyyy
