This reminds me of early "Welcome to Night Vale" episodes when it was still revelling in novelty of desert-themed myth creation and delightfully paradoxical wei

This reminds me of early "Welcome to Night Vale" episodes when it was still revelling in novelty of desert-themed myth creation and delightfully paradoxical weirdness -- stories spawned from--but creatively fighting with--previoiusly assumed premises about that world (but with the added bonus of humour.)