Non-Fiction Audiobook Sample
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Welcome toe, Oklahoma City. It's been a long day. You've taken two flights to get here, possibly three. You've eaten unfortunate foods. You fell asleep at the Memphis airport. Somehow with your head leaning hard against the wall. You slept so deeply that the woman working at the gate and actually come shake you awake just before the plane took off. Don't be embarrassed. It's all part of the long, unglamorous process of getting yourself toe a minor airport out in the middle of the country. But now you've made it Welcome. Come along. Stretch your legs. The O. K. C. Airport is small, so you'll have no trouble finding your way around. First, get yourself a car, you won't be able to survive here without one. Go to the rental desk. The clerk will be curious to know why you are here all the way from wherever you have. Come. Tell him if the conversation lulls you can talk about the thunder. He will be a fan. He might ask you about the James Harden crisis. Will harden, stay or really go tell him that. No one knows for sure, obviously, but that if you had to bet, you'd bet he'll stay. The young man will encourage you to pay an extra $10 per day to upgrade to a Mustang. A special deal, he'll tell you. But do your best to resist the temptation, because when you get out to the parking garage, you'll remember what a Mustang looks like. Like a shark with a fat snout, Bullet nosed and swaggering. Politely refuse and collect the keys to some kind of nondescript sedan. Walk out of the terminal. On your way out, you'll see a statue. Will Rogers, the folksy sage of the Great Plains, cast in bronze, wearing a bronze cowboy hat, writing a bronze horse with a bronze last Sue frozen in the air beside him. The whole airport is named after him. Will Rogers World Airport World is meaningless here because there are actually no international flights. It's just another example of one of Oklahoma City's defining behaviors. Trying to make itself seem bigger than it is. The city conducts itself whenever possible, like a hiker threatened by a bear in the woods, hysterically exaggerating its size Before you move on, take a moment to stop and look at the statue. Now is perhaps not the time to think about the fact that Will Rogers died in a plane crash. Here is another peculiarity of arriving in Oklahoma City. The statue will always be the same, but the sky over it will always be different. Most places have one sky. Oklahoma City has about 12. There seem to be many different vectors up there, completely unrelated to one another happening all at once. Sometimes you'll see lightning blinking very high in one region, while smooth white cloud slide around low behind you. Will Rogers last Sue? If you look through it might be holding. The son might be holding some ragged cirrus clouds. Might be holding a volcanic piece of dusk. Once you've come to grips with sky, move on from the statue. Walk into the bargain garage, pick up your rental car, steer it out onto the streets. Congratulations, you are now driving in Oklahoma City.