Desert Oracle Radio
Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hosted by editor Ken Layne and featuring a cast of intriguing mystics, oddballs, scientists and artists, Desert Oracle Radio is your soundtrack for a desert night. The program is broadcast on Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the Mojave high desert, with field reports from around and across the desert lands, and is...
S11 E1 · Sat, April 19, 2025
The Vanishing Boy of Yavapai County
Here’s how the Channel 12 news in Phoenix began the story, Thursday night on the 10 o’clock news: “God sent that dog to rescue my son.” These words were spoken by the toddler’s father, Corey Allen, outside the family’s home on the west side of rural Seligman, Arizona. Corey Allen says he was working on the roof, Sarah Allen was inside with their youngest. And two-year-old Bodin Allen went outside to play. But when Bodin Allen’s mom called for him, he didn’t answer. He wasn’t there. And after an hour of frantic searching beneath a darkening sky, the Allens called the Yavapai Sheriff’s Department and before long there were dozens of search-of-rescue volunteers and deputies searching the area. Helicopters with spotlights scoured the plateau, the pilots reporting two mountain lions prowling the territory. A rancher named Scotty Dunton discovered the blond-headed toddler, seven long miles away from home, deep into the backcountry to the west. The boy was coming up the driveway, along with Scotty Dunton's big ranch dog, Buford the Anatolian Pyrenees. This is EPISODE #141: THE VANISHING BOY with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & hosted by Ken Layne . Thanks for supporting this advertising-free program on our Patreon.com/DesertOracle page. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E30 · Sun, April 06, 2025
Spring Forward With the Desert Birds
It's a cool & pleasant springtime in the Mojave High Desert. The hummingbirds are lingering on the branches of creosote and catclaw, looking around for the flowers. Where are the flowers? Well, that’s always the guessing game up here, isn’t it? Sometimes they’re evident by the end of March, sometimes it’s the beginning of May. Varies by terrain, by altitude, by a hundred little differences from spring to spring, in this forward motion of our lives. ALSO: Traveling Doc Holliday's West. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E29 · Mon, March 17, 2025
Remembrance of Lost Time: Anniversary of a Lockdown
Happy Ides of March, happy St. Patrick’s Day, and happy five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown — the beginning of it anyway: 15 days to slow the spread . . . not a great slogan, for what it cost, but that’s what we got. Much of the world is much the same as it was five years ago. Same iPhone, same president, same daylight savings time. Where did the lockdown time go? What did it do to us? Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free broadcast at Patreon.com/DesertOracle. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2024 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E28 · Fri, February 28, 2025
The Wonderful, Wonderful Cactus Wren
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert spring is here, and that means the bugs are coming back, and that means we’ll be seeing a lot more of our beloved desert friend, the wonderful wonderful Cactus Wren. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2025 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E27 · Sat, February 15, 2025
Surrounded in the Night
A winter storm cut loose from the mountains, the cold wind whipping around the creosote, rain dripping down through the swamp-cooler vent: 2025 came in like a Lion and it’s the Year of the Snake. We’ve got both out here, in the Mojave Wilderness. Mountain lions, or cougars. And snakes, too, although it’s still a bit early to see our reptile friends up here at 4,000 feet elevation. (Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by Ken Layne.) Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2025 DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E26 · Sat, January 25, 2025
One Chants Out Between Two Worlds
It's a cold, cold night in the wind-blasted desert, and we hear there's snow a-comin', can't come soon enough. Listen to the harrowing sounds of the 1961 Bel Air Fire, prepare for Mojo Nixon's anniversary (of death), and join us in remembering our favorite Intermountain West surrealist, the late great David Lynch. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Suitable for some families. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2025 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E25 · Sun, January 12, 2025
Hills Are Filled With Fire
Another wild and windy night in these first strange days and nights of our new year. We are monitoring the infernos & catastrophes, but also celebrating the creation of Chuckwalla National Monument in the vast weird desert east of Coachella, all the way to the Colorado River. Plus: A phone call from our High Desert pal Herbie Benham, and soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2025 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E24 · Fri, December 20, 2024
Christmas Amongst the Joshua Trees
We've heard some weird news about Saint Nicholas that turns out to be a few years old, but that's all right. Christmas itself is old news, after all. That’s why we love it, because it’s ancient and beautiful, the time for silent walks in the cold night, just the sound of your boots crunching through the snow, the half-moon glowing through the Joshua trees. Plus: Which phrases and words shall be banned in the new year? And: Seasonal soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free show at Patreon.com/DesertOracle . Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2024 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E23 · Tue, November 26, 2024
Ravens, Quail & Turkeys
Is it Thanksgiving time already? Well let's pack up the car and head out to Joshua Tree, everybody's favorite Thanksgiving destination if they live exactly three hours away and don't have anywhere else to go. Plus: What are the ravens up to now? Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2024 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E21 · Mon, October 28, 2024
Up From the Grave
Happy Hallowtide, the three-day festival of the Dead and their various souls & spirits. Tonight we are riding down the nocturnal highway, listening to ghosts of times past crackling through the car-radio speakers. With new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks for supporting this commercial-free show at http://patreon.com/desertoracle . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E20 · Tue, October 08, 2024
Strange Rituals of Halloweens Past
Be not a-feared of our yearly remembrance of the dead, of ghostly visits from our beloved and maybe not-so-beloved relations and ancestors. Know Death as an old friend who always eventually comes around, for you and everyone else. If your belief in the immortality of the soul is secure, do not shudder and sputter over the enjoyment of pumpkins and haystacks and comical gravestones made of scrap wood and whitewash. It's October, as long as you ignore the weather, and that means it's time for spooky tales on Desert Oracle Radio. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E19 · Mon, September 16, 2024
Greenwashing the Great Basin
Have you heard what the "green energy" corporations are doing to the Great Basin Desert, with your government's approval, on your public lands ? The plan is to cover the pristine basin-and-range interior of Nevada with industrial electricity factories over endless thousands of acres of desert woodland. And the people who should be out protesting this, chaining themselves to the desert trees marked for annihilation, etc., well they don't really care. Because they've been told "environmentalism" now means destroying the last wild places in America, the last wild landscapes, so a fly-by-night solar corporation can get free land to scrape clean, free from the U.S. government. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E18 · Sun, September 01, 2024
Ghost Riders and Death Valley Rangers
Forest ranger, park ranger, Navy sailor, lumberjack, and cowboy — those were some of the jobs Stanley Jones worked before accidentally becoming a movie actor and composer of classic western music. PLUS: Weird Annie had a bunch of weird raven children. Deus Pascit Corvus . New sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E17 · Fri, August 16, 2024
Hot August Bites
A summertime tour through "strange and weird places," where they held their annual rituals. This is Episode #228. It's on the level. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E16 · Mon, July 22, 2024
Capricorn Full Moon: When Presidents Quit!
Did you know the current (?) president's Quiet Quitting (via Twitter) on this Sunday in July was foretold by an astrologer on Twitter, two weeks prior? That's no lie, and you can check it for yourself. The same seer predicted, back in August 2020, that the current vice president would be the party's nominee in 2024, because it coincides with the VP's Second Saturn Return. Which is also hitting your Desert Oracle Radio host right about now. This is an Emergency Broadcast about Prophecy & Portents, with astrologically appropriate soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E15 · Sat, July 13, 2024
Dialogue of the Dogs
What does one do , in these bunker days of summer? Too hot to work, too hot to think, too hot to sleep, and time is running away. When it's too hot to walk the dog at night , you know you've made a tactical error in life: You're in the Mojave, in July, in yet another historic heat wave. Well, sit yourself down beneath the swamp cooler vent, and get yourself a cold beverage, and enjoy this mid-July episode with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks for supporting this program on our Patreon.com/desertoracle page. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E14 · Sat, June 22, 2024
A Midsummer Night's Desert
Tonight we are celebrating the full moon and summer solstice, because it's a midsummer night's dream in the desert. Which means we're halfway to winter solstice, and only three months & change ’til Halloween. Maybe that's why we're talking about Puck of Pook Hill and homemade cranberry sauce. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, who has a Bandcamp site worth your attention! And thanks for supporting this radio program via Patreon.com/desertoracle . Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2024 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E13 · Sat, June 08, 2024
Slumgullion Stew
It's hot as hell and we're throwing everything in the hobo stew tonight: Desert-animal antics, Wild West extravaganzas, history's mysteries, William Shatner shot up into space, etc., etc. The soundscapes are by RedBlueBlackSilver and the rest is by your host & underpaid mail-order professional, Ken Layne. This is Episode #224, Slumgullion Stew . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E12 · Fri, May 17, 2024
Call of the Blue Crow
Public-land managers in the US Southwest seem determined to drive the pinyon jay to extinction. A half-century attack on pinyon & juniper high-desert woodland has led to a 78% drop in pinyon jay populations just in the past 50 years. You can take action , and the Pinyon Juniper Alliance is a good place to start. The pinyon jay is the steward of the pinyon forests, for which the forest feeds and houses this crucial blue crow. Of the thousands of pinyon nuts the blue crow puts away for the winter, usually working with its mate and both returning to the spot throughout the year to store or collect, the few pine nuts left behind grow into new pinyons, expanding the reach of the woodland. More woodland means more wildlife, more carbon-breathing conifers, more precious Western water stored in the ground, more wildlife corridors that connect mule deer and desert bighorn and mountain lions along mountain and valley to vast zones of wilderness. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E11 · Fri, May 03, 2024
Funeral for a Raven
Tonight we're talking ravens, fishes & loaves, and the soul-crushing indoor indoctrination of the Empire's State Religion. Sir James George Frazer, Pliny the Elder and the Gospel Mark are all involved, whether they like it or not. (And the "Bible Friends" podcast mentioned on this episode can be found here.) Thanks for listening to the show, and for supporting the show via our Patreon page or at our online store, DesertOracle.com . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E10 · Fri, April 26, 2024
Materia Medica: On expedition with botanist-surgeon John Milton Bigelow
Dr. John Milton Bigelow did not shy away from hard work, challenges, or adventure. At the age of 46, he signed on as surgeon and botanist for the Mexican Boundary Survey, following the U.S.-Mexican War that fulfilled the gold-hungry manifest destiny of the Americans. This adventure took him through the Chihuahuan, Sonoran and Colorado deserts, where he catalogued the great variety of desert plants along with several other botanists on the expedition — including C.C. Parry, namesake of Parry’s Nolina. The work was so pleasing to Bigelow that he readily accepted similar appointments as field botanist in some of America's wildest lands. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2022 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E9 · Fri, April 12, 2024
Standing With the Giants at Mariposa Grove
Mariposa Grove was a sacred grove for millennia before it became part of the Yosemite Grant, lovingly tended by Yosemite Guardian Galen Clark for more than a quarter century. Sacred groves and forests are protected for their spiritual and ecological importance. Such groves are found today throughout India (home of more than a million holy forests), Japan (many thousands of chinju no mori surrounding Shinto temples), and Ethiopia (35,000 primal forests circling Ethiopian Orthodox churches). Sacred groves protect many rare, threatened, and endemic species of plants and animals, and are often the last stand of ancient forest in a community. Biodiversity thrives within these sanctified nature preserves, while festivals dating back to antiquity provide people with a deep and lasting connection to their culture, religious practices, folklore and history. Learn more about Galen Clark from the National Park Service. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E8 · Fri, March 29, 2024
The Old, Weird America: Full of Ghosts & Monsters
On this Easter weekend, let’s do our best to bring back the ghosts , the supernatural. Let us recognize and respect the mysterious entities that come not from some imagined, distant star system in the cold lifeless vacuum of space, but from right here where we experience them! Backroads, mountains, spooky desert trails at dusk. Jesus loved wilderness and often talked to ghosts, after all. And that's something people of any philosophy can enjoy. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E7 · Fri, March 15, 2024
Spooky Tales for the St. Patrick's Storm
The pyramids of Guinness 12-packs at our High Desert grocery stores reminded us of St. Patrick's Day coming up, but the grey cloudy skies and green hillsides of the Mojave Desert this month are reminders that the old pagan tales are with us still, wherever the landscape is haunted and strange. And that supernatural entities always gather in their ancient homes: wild forests, dramatic outcroppings of rock, and any lonesome place whipped by the winter winds. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E6 · Fri, March 08, 2024
The Voice of the Desert
The storms continue, the wildflowers begin to appear, and Chantel our PCT through-hiker probably made it to the Canadian border without any kind of Mountain Monster getting her, which is good. Also: What is the Voice of the Desert? New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and hosted by Ken Layne. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E5 · Fri, February 23, 2024
Make It Sacred
Nothing is sacred unless we set it aside as sacred . As Americans rapidly abandon organized religion — and the formerly sanctified church and temple sites go up for sale as designer homes — where are the places that are truly sacred? The places set aside for contemplation, meditation, festivals, the rituals of life? There ain’t much. Not nearly enough. But that can be fixed. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & hosted by Ken Layne. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free podcast at Patreon.com/desertoracle . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E4 · Sat, February 17, 2024
Among the Stately Trees
Where's the beautiful part, anyway? Well, start by walking about a mile past the last parking lot or dirt road or residential car-parts dump or informal halfway house or accidental pit-bull breeding farm, and keep going in the direction of the difficult terrain: the hills and the mountains and the boulders. Not the hills covered in radio relay towers, but the ones with nothing up there at all, nothing except more boulders, more spiky yucca trees that slash your arms, gnarled junipers and needle-armed Joshua trees, up to the craggy peak where the stately pinyons stand proud. Keep going that way. On the second half of the program, Patrick Donnelly — here's his Sand & Sage newsletter — from the Center for Biological Diversity returns to Desert Oracle Radio to talk about an international land grab dreamt up by a local commissioner in Lincoln County, Nevada, along with the nation of Denmark, which plans to destroy centuries-old forests of pinyon and juniper on your public lands to mush into "bio-fuel" for container ships. What?! New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & produced by Ken Layne. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free show via our Desert Oracle Patreon. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver ; written & produced by Ken Layne. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E3 · Thu, February 15, 2024
The Typing Life: Warren Zevon, 9/11 & the California Bloggers (With Matt Welch)
Well here's an episode that fits with the past couple of episodes, as your host Ken Layne dredges up some tales from too many decades as a writer & whatever else. We got our newspaper/podcaster pal Matt Welch on the line to talk about the turn-of-the-century sensation that got everybody very excited for a little while: Weblogs! It sort of became a long career for a lot of people, and many have never quite recovered. We'd like to think that we recovered just fine. (Back to the desert on our next episode, don't worry.) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E2 · Sun, February 11, 2024
The Ballad of Mojo Nixon
Our old friend and mentor Mojo Nixon passed away this week, after playing a blistering set of rock 'n roll for his fans aboard a hillbilly cruise ship. Tonight, we remember the showman, songwriter and deejay who was a towering figure in American underground culture for a long, long time. RIP Mojo Nixon. With soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S10 E1 · Fri, January 19, 2024
Horror on the California Backroads
Tonight we go back three decades, to the strange time when a California newspaper hired a New England psychic to find a little girl who vanished in North San Diego County. This is a a true tale by your host, Ken Layne, who was one of the newspaper reporters working on this mysterious case, along with crime-solving psychic Johny Monti. PLUS: An Assessment of the Situation, and what's coming next for Desert Oracle Radio. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E14 · Fri, December 29, 2023
The Hermit's Life
The hermit habit has persisted throughout the four-plus centuries of North American colonization and up to the present day, including such storied American names as Henry David Thoreau, Huckleberry Finn, Georgia O’Keefe, Marta Becket, and Ted Kazinsky ... and many lesser known characters, remembered today only in newspaper stories from the past century. Happy new year from Desert Oracle Radio. Do not listen to the Joshua Tree radio station tonight (Friday 12/29) hoping to hear this episode, as they decided to close early, at the last minute, and they don't have the new show. Listen on your podcast player, like people prefer to do these days. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E13 · Fri, December 22, 2023
Gadzooks! It's Solsticetime in the Desert
Night has fallen on the desert, our first big winter storms soaking the mountains and the coastlines, and now we’re getting it pretty good in the southwestern deserts. There may even be a dusting of snow on the Joshua trees and the Yuccas and the junipers at the higher elevations, here and there. But a wet winter is visiting most of the American High Desert this Week of the Winter Solstice ... which used to be the same day as Christmas and New Year's and the Birthday of Dionysus. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E13 · Fri, December 08, 2023
Live From Earth
Tonight's episode comes to you live from Los Angeles, where Desert Oracle Radio opened the show for "Seattle's Slowest," the legendary group EARTH on its 30th Anniversary Tour for the Sub-Pop album EARTH2, at Glendale's Alex Theater. Sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver, words by Ken Layne. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E12 · Sat, November 25, 2023
Trivia Night in the High Desert
What's better on a desert Thanksgiving weekend than 10 questions regarding the natural and human history of the Mojave High Desert? Get your pencil and notepaper, and enjoy Desert Trivia Night from Thanksgiving Eve at the Tiny Pony, with spooky November soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2023 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E11 · Sat, November 18, 2023
Songs of the Doomed
Looking down the barrel at 2024, from our perch in the High Desert. Mojave thunderstorms, the strange maxims of the ancient temples, Christmas-tree shopping ideas, and old+new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. This is our 9/11 episode: Season 9, Episode 11. Please consider supporting this show via our Patreon before we go belly up, it's hard out there. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E10 · Fri, November 10, 2023
Ode to Harry Oliver, King of the Desert Rats
From the World War II years to 1965, the artist and humorist and hugely influential architect Harry Oliver published his Desert Rat Scrap Book from a hand-built adobe in the California desert. He called it "the only newspaper you can read in the wind," because the whole thing was printed on a single sheet of sturdy colored cardstock, folded down to mailing size. UFO & Fortean author and Radio Misterioso host Greg Bishop joins us tonight to talk about our shared fascination with .... not flying saucers, but Harry Oliver! New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #205: ODE TO HARRY OLIVER, KING OF THE DESERT RATS. Listen to the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free podcast through our Patreon. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2023 ~ http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E9 · Fri, October 27, 2023
Samhain Stories For All Hallows' Eve
Night has fallen on the desert, and here comes the ancient festival of Halloween, as the world begins to die again ... as it does at the tail end of every year. The leaves fall and decay, the green things wither, the sun hides away. And we remember the Dead. Tonight: Samhain tales of changelings and fire, and the Holy Mountain along the Mexican-American borderland. New (& classic!) soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & hosted by Ken Layne. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2023 https://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E8 · Mon, October 16, 2023
The Spiritual Intoxication of the Wilderness Walk
One thing people like to do when they’re given some liberties — or when they take the liberty that’s usually there for the taking, if anybody wants it bad enough — is to go on a long walk. Whether you call it a pilgrimage or walkabout or "through-hike" or country ramble, such excursions really take you out of the day-to-day, even as you occasionally rub elbows with other people doing the same thing. PLUS: Information regarding the October 20 show at Jacumba Hot Springs and the October 29 Campfire Stories at Yucca Valley's Tiny Pony Tavern. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free radio show & podcast via Patreon! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E7 · Fri, October 06, 2023
Horrors of the Night
October is the time for ghost stories, in this season of growing darkness. Tonight we are visited by a mysterious geist , in an ancient old city that is notorious for such restless spirits. ALSO: Details regarding the October 20, 2023, show at Jacumba Hot Springs and the October 29, 2023, edition of Campfire Stories live at the Tiny Pony in Yucca Valley. Haunted new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written and produced by Ken Layne. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E6 · Fri, September 22, 2023
The Autumn Tint of Gold
This autumn is getting off to a strange start, as here in the Mojave High Desert there are carpets of little yellow wildflowers thanks to the hurricane , old Hurricane Hilary which soaked us all pretty good a month ago. Never seen so many weeds in late September. Happy Equinox from Desert Oracle Radio, celebrating 200 episodes with tonight's show. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E5 · Fri, September 08, 2023
Warriors, Poets & Ravens
Early September, Jupiter tucked under the 2/3 moon at midnight, heaviest of La Luna’s many forms and phases: low over the eastern horizon, like the Death Star under construction. The owls are hooting in three different octaves, a whole choir by relay, a choir of the night. The night air has turned cool again, the wind only whispering.This is Episode #199 of Desert Oracle Radio, broadcasting from Joshua Tree. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E5 · Fri, August 25, 2023
The Dowsing Rod
Ever seen a water witch at work? It’s a beautiful thing to behold. We have ancient reserves of great power within us. This is Episode #198 of Desert Oracle Radio, after the hurricane. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E4 · Fri, August 18, 2023
Hurricane Hilary in the High Desert
When you look at the big red danger zone in the middle of the Weather Service maps this evening, you will see that we are in it, right up at the north end of the highest predicted rainfall and flooding. Maybe that means we don’t get it as bad or for as long as our friends from the border zone up through Coachella Valley to Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs, maybe it means nothing of the sort. Prepare for a lot of rain, maybe a couple of years worth of rain. Prepare for a lot of water in a lot of place we don’t often see it. And up here around Joshua Tree and Yucca Valley and 29 Palms, prepare to hang around for a while. You may not be able to get down the hill for a while. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E3 · Fri, August 11, 2023
The Wild Beasts
Real gods require no faith , they just are: expressed in the life force of the pronghorn herd racing across the High Desert, the mountain lion traveling hundreds of miles as master of its environment, the invigorating violence of a summer thunderstorm, the lightning strike of a rattler upon its prey, the mourning dove pair bringing up each of their dozen offspring with the same determination and patience and love, one after another, all summer long. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E2 · Fri, August 04, 2023
The Waning Moon: UFOs & Their Pentagon Propagandists
The United States military branches and intelligence agencies do not control what happens around the world all the time, much as they’d like to. The things we call UFOs occur in the backwoods and on backroads, over the lonely desert playas and mountain lakes, eternally floating around the sacred springs and sacred groves and sacred mountains of every culture and continent, for as long as human beings have existed. If you want to see something supernatural, go somewhere quiet, put down your camera-phone, and tune in. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S9 E1 · Fri, July 21, 2023
Where They Built the Bomb
If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet — the high-desert plateau around Los Alamos is real nice, at an elevation of 7,320'. Lots of people have fallen in love with the climate and clean dry air up there, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer & Gore Vidal & William S. Burroughs. Burroughs was supposed to be a War Captain, following orders, but it never quite worked out that way. Instead, he would go to war with Human Language . . . using the weapon of the oppressor. With new war-march soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free podcast on our Patreon page! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E11 · Sat, July 15, 2023
The Witch Beat
Tonight we are talking about witches. And interesting religions, new & old. And especially California's incredible occult countercultures—the esoteric stuff that Los Angeles Times reporter Deborah Netburn covers for her official newspaper beat: "Faith, Spirituality and Joy." Some of the interesting tales we will discuss tonight: The working witches of Los Angeles just want you to be your best self Psychics and astrologers are huge on Instagram. Now scammers are impersonating them This feminist witch introduced California to Goddess worship New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free podcast via our Patreon page! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E10 · Fri, July 07, 2023
Under the Eye of Power
Tonight we are talking about hidden things: secret societies, international conspiracies. Joining us by telephone from New York is the author Colin Dickey, who has written interesting books about a lot of our favorite topics: ghosts, flyings saucers, and especially the many reasons so many of us are drawn to the supernatural, the occult, the paranormal. His latest, in stores next week from Viking Books, is called Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy . Desert Oracle Radio is hosted by Ken Layne, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E9 · Fri, June 23, 2023
Duel in the Desert
Welcome to the American Desert, where we've got a "champagne climate" (nine months of brutal summer), David Hockney's hidden Pearblossom Highway artworks, and wild gunfights in the streets. But springtime is very lovely, if you can catch it. New sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by Ken Layne. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E8 · Fri, June 16, 2023
Strange Things Happening Every Day
We've got it all tonight: UFO calls from listeners, albino animals appearing worldwide, and something about reduced expectations and fried chicken. New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver, and a clip from our morning appearance on Z107.7 FM's Up Close show. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E7 · Fri, June 02, 2023
The Haunted Highway
There are no visitor facilities. Roads are mostly washed-out jeep tracks. There is no water. And there's no way out, unless you come back the way you came in. The state line between Nevada and California is unmarked in the Mojave Wilderness, so it’s up to you to know what’s legal or not. Do not make a mistake. Subscribe to our pocket-sized print periodical and get our brand-new issue, #10! And thanks for supporting this ad-free podcast via our Patreon page. This is Episode #189, "The Haunted Highway," with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E6 · Fri, May 19, 2023
Thru-Hiking With Tahquitz
Where is she, tonight? It has been a month and ten days since she mailed this postcard from Idyllwild to Joshua Tree. All we can do is hope that the monster did not put an early end to her Pacific Crest Trail adventure, as so often happens in those movies with Reese Witherspoon. Because there's a real monster in the mountains around San Jacinto Peak, a real monster who murders people & eats their souls for dessert. It is called the Tahquitz. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E5 · Fri, May 12, 2023
Space Radio (A Broadcast)
Tonight we are joined by Joshua Tree bookseller & publisher Jean-Paul L. Garnier of Space Cowboy Books, along with a transmission from poet & sci-fi author Michael Butterworth. To hear an earlier live broadcast with J-P Garneir and Ken Layne, just call up Episode #065, one of our occasional hour-long shows from 2019. The Micheal Butterworth exhibition at Art Queen opens on June 17, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E4 · Fri, April 28, 2023
The Nature of Color & Vision
The waxing moon is moving through the constellation of Leo, Mars is fading, and Venus hangs heavy in the western sky. Venus seems enormous, especially late at night, low over our western mountains. Meanwhile on the desert floor, and splashed brightly up the desert hillsides, wondrous carpets of yellow and orange and violet wildflowers delight the eye & the soul. This is EPISODE #186 of Desert Oracle Radio , The Nature of Color & Vision , by Ken Layne and with lush new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver . Thanks for supporting this advertising-free radio show via patreon.com/desertoracle . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E3 · Sat, April 15, 2023
Who By Fire, Who By War
It's a beautiful spring in the desert, which naturally makes one dream of heading off to war. Maybe a secret war, a guerrilla war, an unknown soldier, wounded deep in psychic battle, like Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, like Che in Bolivia, like good old Ambrose Bierce headed to the deserts down in Mexico for one last campaign, one final outrage. With moody new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver and a travelogue from ancient Damascus, where Saul/Paul stumbled into town after being blinded by the impossible lights over the backroads. Thanks much to those of you who support this program on our Patreon, and for listening over these many years. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E2 · Fri, April 07, 2023
Hoppy Easter, From the Desert Fathers
On this Good Friday —which wasn't so great for the protagonist — let us be enlightened by the strange koans of the Desert Fathers. These were the 5th Century CE monks who started the whole "move to the desert" trend, leaving their elite lives in the cities for the hardship of a tiny hole dug in a limestone cliff. With new spring soundscapes by our own musical monk, RedBlueBlackSilver, and hosted/written by Ken Layne. We wish you a very somber & festive Snakesgiving, as well. Thanks much for supporting this show on our Patreon page! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S8 E1 · Fri, March 24, 2023
Lost Treasure of Owens Lake
During these many months of heavy rain & thick snowdrifts, we look around the southwest and notice all those playas, those alkaline dry lakes, blessed with a sheen of fresh water . . . and we remember this used to be a land of lakes, not so long ago. As the last Ice Age came to a close, some 12,000 years ago, immense freshwater lakes covered much of what we now call California and Nevada. What a paradise it must’ve been, with people living in pleasant villages on the shorelines, lots of big game for food and fur and leather, everybody zipping around in tule boats made of our famous marshy bullrushes, this was true from the Great Salt Lake to the middle of Nevada to the long valleys on either side of the great mountain ranges. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E15 · Fri, March 10, 2023
Awe & Fear in the Holy Wilderness
Apologies if you hear the wind whipping around on the roof of this little radio shack out here tonight. There’s some strip of metal the previous owners tacked down to cover a weak spot in the roof, and it’s slapping around the swamp cooler. And until your host robs a bank, well it’s going to stay that way because that's the only way to get the ten grand the roofing company wants. It’s all right. It’ll dry up in time. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E14 · Sat, February 25, 2023
Wolf Woman, Wild Woman
Tonight we escape the freezing late-winter West and enjoy some time in the piney forests on the Tennessee River, in the Alabama counties where a strange visitor brought horror & dismay over the long hot summer of 19&69. Thanks for supporting this program via Patreon.com/DesertOracle . Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver , written & hosted by Ken Layne , and broadcasting tonight at 10 in Joshua Tree on KCDZ 107.7 FM. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E13 · Fri, February 03, 2023
The Green Comet
"What could it be? There was no balloon and there were no aeronauts. Some strange phenomenon had occurred in the higher zones of the atmosphere, a phenomenon of which neither the nature nor the cause could be explained. Today it appeared over America . . . ." Tonight we take a look at the life of George Ellery Hale, pioneering astronomer and the father of Palomar Observatory . . . where the mysterious new green comet was discovered, only 11 months ago and visible in the skies this week. Thanks much to our supporters on Patreon for keeping this radio show & podcast on the air! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E12 · Sat, January 28, 2023
Encounters With Coyote-Man
For as long as people have lived in the desert southwest, they have told stories of Coyote, that peculiar personality that's both a common wild canine and the devious trickster god who created the world. Also: A lot of people are seeing coyotes stand up and walk away like a man . This is EPISODE #179 of Desert Oracle Radio. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E11 · Sat, January 14, 2023
Space Monsters & Other Earthly Demons
Night has fallen on the desert. The year is still fresh and new. We don’t all have to talk about stoves, all the sudden. We can do better. Let’s do better. Let’s talk about monsters . Desert Oracle Radio (C)(P) 2017-2023 • http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E10 · Sat, January 07, 2023
The Haunted Mountains
Four decades ago, Betty and Barney Hill were driving back from a visit to Niagara Falls when they endured a strange assault in the deeply haunted White Mountains. Ever since their strange story went national in the mid-1960s, we all know the scene: a dark night on a lonesome highway, and something comes out of the sky, or out of the woods, and then it all becomes very hazy. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2023 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E9 · Fri, December 23, 2022
Christmas In Death Valley (With the Lost '49ers)
"Gentlemen!" yelled their frontier guide, Captain Jefferson Hunt, "All I have to say is that if you take that route, you will all be landed in Hell!" So began the four-month-long "shortcut" that left the starving Lost '49ers in the middle of Death Valley at Christmas. Hopefully your holidays won't be quite so exciting, although it's generally better to have an adventure than just sit around eating pies. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by Ken Layne, and broadcasting tonight in Joshua Tree on KCDZ 107.7 FM at 10 p.m. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E8 · Fri, December 16, 2022
The Return of King Ludd
Winter Solstice is coming and the Luddites are celebrating on their flip-phones. That's all we've got to say about it. Listen on your radio in Joshua Tree or Moab or Fresno or various other community stations. And don't forget to support Desert Oracle Radio when you're filling the Christmas stockings with money! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E7 · Sat, December 03, 2022
The Old Desert Regular Gnostic Advent Calendar
The desert is the kind of place you think maybe you might *discover* something. A treasure, maybe. The Lost Ark. Some old glass bottles, some old human bones. Maybe a secret history of the ancient world, hidden for 1,500 years in a sealed jar buried in a pile of guano. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Hosted by Ken Layne. Supported by fine listeners like yourself, on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E6 · Thu, November 24, 2022
The Grouse and the Goddess
It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and we are taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival of the Northern Flicker mean, in augury? How has the Triple Goddess survived relentless persecution by the patriarchal religions of bureaucracy? And why did Benjamin Franklin adore the wild turkey? Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and hosted by Ken Layne. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E5 · Sat, November 12, 2022
The Library of Desert Secrets
What sort of religious nut was John Muir? What was the mystical and spiritual argument for the creation of America's national parks system? Who planted the tall tales that would become global UFO mythology? And why did the cold voice of recorded robots tell Desert Oracle Radio to immediately leave the Los Angeles Central Library, last night? It's Episode #172 of Desert Oracle Radio, part of our final live-on-stage show, with RedBlueBlackSilver and Ken Layne. Thanks for supporting this program via Patreon.com/DesertOracle, where we'll be posting the full hourlong show. Listen live on the radio in the High Desert: Fridays 10-11 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM, and Saturdays at 9 p.m. on KZMU 90.1 FM & 106.7 FM in Moab, Utah. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E4 · Fri, November 04, 2022
Desolation Peak
We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation Peak. ALSO: Our last stage show, coming up Nov. 10 (next week!) in Los Angeles, with Ken Layne & RedBlueBlackSilver. PLUS: Campfire Stories in the Utah desert, a benefit for KZMU FM in Moab. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2022 • https://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E3 · Tue, October 18, 2022
John Lennon's UFO (Some Time In New York City)
Happy October, friends. This episode comes to you from the West Village, NYC. We'll see you next in Oakland (10/21/2022) and Portland (10/23/2022). Thanks to RedBlueBlackSilver for the magical soundscapes & to you for supporting this independent radio show via our Patreon page. Keep the desert in your hear & your money in your front pocket. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E2 · Fri, September 30, 2022
Famous For Nothingness
It's tourist season in the Mojave again, never mind the lingering heat and $6-a-gallon gasoline. What's the attraction to this dried-up old desert? Did the fad peak in 2020? Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio #169: FAMOUS FOR NOTHINGNESS. Soundscapes and Old Desert Regular haunted-gospel organ by RedBlueBlackSilver. PLUS: Details of our October tour, New York on October 6 [Get Tickets] and the West Coast starting October 21. Thank you for supporting this humble radio ministry in the Mojave Desert by making a donation via Patreon! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S7 E1 · Fri, September 09, 2022
Like a Hurricane
Night has fallen on the desert, and if you’re in the Western Mojave around Joshua Tree National Park and all the way out to Kelso and Las Vegas, you might already have the buckets out for any newly discovered leaks in the roof, because rain is in the forecast for the whole region. Up to 80% chance of heavy rain tonight in Yucca Valley, and really getting soaked along the Mexican border, flood watch in effect from Yuma to Lake Havasu City. All because of Hurricane Kay, our tropical visitor. Our audiobook is out now , and October tour dates have been announced: New York , Oakland, Arcata, Portland, Vancouver BC, Seattle, Boise, SLC! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E24 · Fri, August 19, 2022
Down in the Flood
An interesting thing about a raging flash flood is how quiet it is, for the most part. Sometimes you’ll hear a pinyon log sort of bonk against a boulder, but the silt and the mud absorbs most of the sound. Sometimes, you feel a rumble from the ground below, a pleasing sort of rumble. Like it’s far away, a distant freight train. But it’s right there, ready to pull you down to the Underworld. You can preorder our new audiobook, Desert Oracle Vol. 1, wherever you get audiobooks. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E23 · Fri, August 12, 2022
Death Valley's 1,000-Year-Flood
It sure has been a wild week or two, especially here in the Mojave. Just a few days after massive flash floods washed out a number of roads within Mojave National Preserve — the completely washed-out Baker-Kelso road in particular — Death Valley got it hard. Weather chaos, monsoon deluges, UFOs and the supernatural world of science, all in tonight's new episode of Desert Oracle Radio, hosted by Ken Layne & with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. You can now pre-order the Desert Oracle Vol. 1 audiobook from Macmillan, narrated by Ken Layne. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E22 · Sat, July 23, 2022
Guidestones of the End Times
The Hoover Dam, already dealing with a severe lack of water on the reservoir side, suffered an explosion and fire this week. And somebody predicted the Hoover Dam was "next" after the mysterious Georgia Guidestones were blown up by some anonymous Taliban cosplayers. Welcome to another summer on Earth! At least we have the sanctity of the night, if we allow ourselves the luxury. Being a night owl might even mean you're some kind of tortured genius, so that's good. Maybe. It's Episode #165 of Desert Oracle Radio! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E21 · Fri, July 08, 2022
Owl-Eye's View
What has horns and flies overhead at night? The Great Horned Owl, that's who. Although they're horn shapes and not actual horn material. As far as science knows. Join us at 10 p.m. tonight on KCDZ 107.7 FM or use your phone as the world's most expensive pocket radio, as we examine the bird's-eye view of the world, and what it can do for your state of mind. Hosted by Ken Layne with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E20 · Fri, June 24, 2022
Area 51's Mysterious Petroglyph: Pahranagat Man
Now that it's good & hot outside, let's wander the high desert boulder-strewn hills of Nevada's Lincoln County. Home to Pahranagat Man, a very specific rock-art figure that fits right in with what this land would become in the 20th Century: Area 51, dreamland for the believers in the E.T. mythology. Hosted by Ken Layne, with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E19 · Fri, May 27, 2022
The Time of the Roadrunner
In wintertime, in springtime, and in the magic months of late Autumn, the desert is the finest place in the world. But now we are coming to the other part — the “Bad Place,” as they say in the Bible. A time for weeping and a time for gnashing of teeth. While the humans hide in their air-conditioned mechanical prisons, the roadrunners are having the times of their lives. They love the heat of summer, because there's a feast of lizards and snakes in the daytime, and the usual desperate bunnies and rats at night. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, hosted & written by Ken Layne. Find out more at DesertOracle.com , the Voice of the Desert. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E18 · Fri, May 20, 2022
Some New Kind of Kick
Tonight we are joined by Kid Congo Powers, legendary guitarist from the Golden Age of The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and his longtime band Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds. We talk about his new home in the Tucson desert, his 14-minute desert-groove "He Walked In" from 2021, and the importance of Magick & Alchemy. ALSO: Desert Oracle Radio live in Wonder Valley, with Ken Layne and RedBlueBlackSilver. You can pre-order Kid Congo Powers' new memoir, Some New Kind of Kick , which is due out in October. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E17 · Fri, May 13, 2022
Real-Estate Scoundrels & Flying Black Triangles
We are back with a new episode, all about the wonders of the High Desert, and the various aerial portents we call Wonders in the Sky. PLUS: If you're near Wonder Valley tonight, come on by The Palms on Amboy Road, where we are doing a rare live event with RedBlueBlackSilver, 10 p.m. on the outdoor stage, under the stars and whatever else might pass overhead. Thanks to everybody who supports this show on Patreon! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E16 · Fri, April 29, 2022
That It Will Never Come Again
We are meditating upon some various facts and figures here in the Mojave High Desert this week, from the warm weather in Twentynine Palms to which apostle was crucified upside down and is now remembered with an immense phallic monument to the Egyptian sun god, Ra. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E15 · Fri, April 22, 2022
Last Blast of Winter
Happy Earth Day, people of Earth. Here's an episode about the desert in winter, appropriate for our spring blast of rain and snow and cold, cold temperatures. This was recorded live at the Whistle Stop in San Diego, near the end of our November-December 2021 tour. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E14 · Fri, April 15, 2022
Phantom Plane Crash on a Utah Highway
What happened to Army Private Gerry Irwin on a Utah two-lane, way back in February 1959? There was no plane crash. No passengers. Nothing but Pvt. Irwin, unconscious in the Utah night. Strange things happen on the desert highways. PLUS: Interesting facts about Arizona and Utah, from the 1950s. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E13 · Fri, April 08, 2022
Pinyon Jays Know Why They're Alive
What is the life philosophy of the pinyon jay? To eat pinyon nuts and somehow make pinyon-jay eggs. The rest is easy, especially with a hundred-and-fifty pinyon jays doing your thinking for you. This episode comes to you from Moab, Utah. Recorded in the studios of KZMU-FM, community radio for Moab and the Castle Valley. And this episode is about . . . . well, what is it about? Life, death, pronghorns, etc. Thanks to everybody who supports this show at patreon.com/desertoracle . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E12 · Fri, March 18, 2022
Druid Stories To Ward Off St. Patrick
In tribute to the Druids who were canceled by Saint Patrick, we will tell some stories. Ghost stories. From those ancient Celtic lands that gave us the Sidhe, the Good People, the Gentry, the leprechauns and banshee, the goddess Brigid and the frightful pooka. Tales from the Dim Kingdom, of the Tuatha de Danaan. And how the Gold Rush of the Sierra Nevada was the birthplace of the "Luck of the Irish." Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E11 · Fri, March 11, 2022
Antidote for Despair
One good thing about wandering the wilderness is you can escape the despair of society. Walt Whitman did it, as did Georgia O'Keeffe. Did you realize we can stop global warming in as little as three years? A few more years to take it down a degree or so, but "stopping" is a pretty big deal! Also, there is no such thing as an alpha male wolf. So much to learn! Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2022 -- https://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E10 · Fri, February 25, 2022
John Muir in the Wild Desert
Tonight we visit with the friendly ghost of John Muir, specifically regarding his many excursions in the California deserts. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver for this cold and windy week in the American Southwest. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2022 • http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E9 · Fri, February 18, 2022
Settle Down With Purpose
It's the prettiest time of year in the High Desert, with longer days and the last winter precipitation setting it all up for springtime. What will it look like, in a thousand years? Probably pretty much the same, minus the Airbnbs and vintage shops. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver with some drumming help on the last act by S.W. Lauden. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E8 · Sat, February 12, 2022
An Obituary For Wisdom
Back from our brief convalescence to bring you prayers in the night — Ancient Egyptian prayers & psalms, in this case. And some tales of Mullah Nasruddin, the Sufi mystic philosopher & fool who lived early in the last millennium. Now is the time for EPISODE #151: AN OBITUARY FOR WISDOM. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E6 · Fri, January 21, 2022
Empty Churches For Fun & (Non) Profit
Sure are a lot of mostly abandoned churches out here in the California desert. A lot of good community real estate. How do you take over churches? Like the little old run-down church—a religious non-profit—just sitting there. Nobody’s using it. Maybe all you’ve got to do is find the person who runs the joint. Maybe it’s down to the last person, the organist or whoever. The fourth deacon .... Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E5 · Fri, January 14, 2022
A Hymn To Sekhmet, Creator of the Desert
How long has Sekhmet ruled over humanity? Five-thousand years! That’s when She is first known to us, appearing in something like her current form, in Upper Egypt, 2,930 B.C., worshipped by the multitudes in her great temples until the coming of the Coptic Christians and then the followers of Allah, when her cult went underground. But it never went away, and now is Her Time. PLUS: Strange tales from the RV parks of the Southwest, as delivered to our friends at Club Congress in Tucson. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2022 • http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E4 · Sat, January 08, 2022
The Light Saw Me
Take a look around, the void is closing in. Jason Boland joins us from Texas to talk about The Light Saw Me , the tale of a cowboy taken up into the sky—a tale told by Jason Boland and the Stragglers on their new record, which features some narration from our host Ken Layne. As Hank Williams sang, "I saw the light." But what are those strange illuminations seen from Joplin, Missouri, to Marfa, Texas? And what crashed in Aurora a century ago. And just what did they bury up on Boot Hill? Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2022 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E3 · Fri, December 24, 2021
Wintertime Tales for a Stormy Night
Live from the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, here's our final show of the 2021 Tour, with your host Ken Layne and live solstice soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Occultists and mystics, cultists and coyotes, all gathered together in uneasy alliance on this Christmas Eve. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E2 · Fri, November 19, 2021
Run For the Desert Hills
Like the beaver, we can change parts of our environment. Like the birds, we can move to other lands or at least try. And sometimes those Other Lands are the arid lands, the American Desert. PLUS: Kendra Atleework, author of the wonderful book about the Owens Valley/Eastern Sierra called Miracle Country , joins us for the second half of the program. AND: New eerie soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Tickets now on sale for our Desert Oracle Radio Live tour: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, (Memphis) Tennessee & (New Orleans) Louisiana. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S6 E1 · Sat, November 13, 2021
Huehuecoyotl & the Canine Gods
Looking for God in the world? Watch the coyote. Huehuecoyotl, that’s its Holy name. Old, old coyote. Lord of the arts, god of music and dance, our guide through adolescence and onward to adulthood. King of the Prank, patron of the promiscuous, lord of the Friday night party. Canis latrans is the new name, from the 1800s. Coyotl is the ancient American name. Tickets on sale now for the Desert Oracle Radio 2021 Tour: San Diego, Tucson, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Galveston, New Orleans, Memphis, Norman Okla., Santa Fe, Phoenix/Mesa, and Los Angeles. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E20 · Wed, November 10, 2021
Crimes of the Desert Cultists (Plus: Tour Dates!)
Here's a bonus episode recorded around the campfire at Halloween a while back, with a new intro & close recorded Halloween 2021 for our local radio station, KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree. Desert Oracle Radio is ON TOUR 11/26-12-17, tickets on sale now for a night of strange tales & weird sounds with Ken Layne. 11/26/2021 • San Diego, CA / Bridges • Buy Tickets 11/27/2021 • Tucson, AZ / Club Congress • Buy Tickets 12/02/2021 • Austin, TX / Stateside Theater • Buy Tickets 12/04/2021 • Dallas, TX / Texas Theatre • Buy Tickets 12/05/2021 • San Antonio, TX / Paper Tiger • Buy Tickets 12/07/2021 • Galveston, TX / Galveston Artist Residency FREE! 12/08/2021 • New Orleans, LA / Gasa Gasa • Buy Tickets 12/11/2021 • Memphis, TN / Growler’s • Buy Tickets 12/12/2021 • Norman, OK / Opolis • Buy Tickets 12/14/2021 • Santa Fe, NM / Jean Cocteau Cinema • Buy Tickets 12/15/2021 • Mesa, AZ / Nesbitt/Elliot Playhouse • Buy Tickets 12/17/2021 • Los Angeles, CA / The Philosophical Research Society Library • Buy Tickets Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listen
S5 E19 · Fri, October 29, 2021
The Witching Hour
Well look at that, it’s Halloween again. Remember when they said on the news or whatever how Halloween was finished, because this was no time for a holiday that, uh, remembers the dead? Tonight we're joined by New York Times -bestselling author Tod Goldberg, who has written such acclaimed desert crime thrillers as The Low Desert, Gangsterland, Gangster Nation, and Living Dead Girl. New spooky soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E18 · Mon, October 25, 2021
Halloween Campfire Stories, 2018 A.D.
We release this dubious beast from the Patreon secret tapes of the year past, to celebrate the holy season of Halloween, the time when the veil is thin between the realities. Desert Oracle Campfire Stories, Halloween 2018 C.E., was recorded live around the campfire at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, Calif. The instrumental soundscapes you hear along with the crackling campfire and the murmurs of the assembled campers were recorded by our own RedBlueBlackSilver out of Joshua Tree, Calif. Stories told by Ken Layne. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E17 · Fri, October 15, 2021
The Jaws of Darkness Do Devour
The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howled out in the desert air . . . . Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons. Tonight we travel by the power of darkness and disinformation to Archuleta Mesa, in the Jicarilla Apache town of Dulce, New Mexico. We're going down, beneath the mountain, to see if the reptilian aliens and the gray aliens and the Air Force disinfo agents are really having gunfights down there, again. Strange new soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver, plus the first announcement of our November/December tour dates from California to Tennessee and back again. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E16 · Fri, October 08, 2021
The Time of Mourning
Rain on the ground, a chill in the air, ghosts on the prowl. We're back from the Midwest with strange tales from the desert to the cornfields. Hosted by Ken Layne with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, with some of our Pygmalion Festival appearance for good measure. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E15 · Fri, October 01, 2021
Harvest of Souls
We're back from the road with a new episode to celebrate the most glorious time of year: October, Autumn, Harvest, Fall, whatever you all it. With new nocturnal gospel music from RedBlueBlackSilver and strange tales phoned in from our listeners, recorded live in Chicago at Illuminated Brew Works Lodge #1. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E14 · Fri, September 17, 2021
Blessed are the Doomed
Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over. It's a new episode for a new season, with new soundscapes by you-know-who (RedBlueBlackSilver). Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E13 · Fri, September 03, 2021
Be Like the Birds
It's officially Autumn, at least if you believe the meteorologists -- Meteorological Fall began this week on September 1. Portents and signs, everywhere we look. But signs of what ? Oh, the usual: plague, disaster, but at least we have social media to make it worse. New sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver, hosted by Ken Layne. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2021 http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E12 · Sat, August 21, 2021
Faces in the Windmills
Summer's in the rearview but robots are blocking the road. What kind of world is this? The world of the Future . It's time for Episode #136 of Desert Oracle Radio, with your host Ken Layne and soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E11 · Fri, July 16, 2021
Twentynine Palms, Twelve Dollars & Change
Tonight we come to you from Theatre29 in sweltering Twentynine Palms, California. Flash floods, heat domes, weird animals, RedBlueBlackSilver, what else could you want? Other than a livable planet, we mean. Thanks to everyone who came out for the live shows, and everyone who supports the show on Patreon or through magazine subscriptions or however you do it. Stay hydrated but please don't attempt that by getting in the flash flood waters. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E10 · Fri, July 02, 2021
Crooked Rain, Summer Dream
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils our very thoughts. Plus: A late edition of the Desert Oracle Mailbag, and all you need to know about our July 10-11 2021 live shows at Theatre29 in Twentynine Palms. (Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E9 · Fri, June 18, 2021
Straight To Hell
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many heroes had to get across alive. Or die trying: Moses, Laurence of Arabia, C-3PO and R2D2, Beavis and Butthead, Allan Quartermain, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver and a survival-training presentation by our friends at the U.S. Air Force. And yes we are returning to the stage, July 10-11, that's a hot-as-hell Saturday and Sunday in Twentynine Palms. Tickets are $20 and they are going faster than free water bottle bottles at the visitor center. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E8 · Fri, June 11, 2021
When Everything Goes Wrong
What happens when the perfect solo day hike becomes the ultimate disaster? How do we arrange things better, so that we don't wind up feeding the vultures? Author Claire Nelson joins us to talk about her harrowing fall and long, long wait for help -- a story of fear and bravery and figuring out your life, told in her new memoir, Things I Learned From Falling . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E7 · Fri, June 04, 2021
The Heat Monster
Well it finally happened, just like every year. All the sudden, it’s hot again. A week ago, it was pleasant out. Now, we cry in the frying pan. Or we will cry, in the weeks to come. October's somewhere on the horizon. Unless it's a mirage. Plus: The Legend of Tahoe Tessie, which you can read here in Alta Magazine . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E6 · Fri, May 28, 2021
Watch the Skies
There's lots of chatter in the media about some Navy encounters with some sort of mystery drones, but meanwhile in the Western United States we've been having a good old-fashioned flying-saucer flap. Seen by regular people with their own eyes! New sounds from RedBuleBlackSilver. Desert Oracle Radio #130 (c)(p) 2021 — https://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E5 · Fri, May 21, 2021
Under the Hood with the Wood Rats
Seasons change in the desert, but it's always Rat Time. Kangaroo rats, wood rats, deer mice full of hantavirus, it's just a feast for the rats all year long. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E4 · Fri, May 07, 2021
Medicine Show
We have been sick, and we need the medicine of the show. Campfire stories, tent revivals, Shakespeare in the Park, knife fights at the honky-tonk, etc. Now that performance is returning to the stage, whether theater or movies or street dancers, we spend some time at the campfire to follow the long thread from ancient-world traveling players to the Old West medicine shows that continued into the 1940s. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E3 · Fri, April 30, 2021
Try Not To Die
As we come out of our holes and return to our beloved American Desert, it's time to remember a dozen simple rules to keep your day hike from becoming a disaster. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E2 · Fri, April 23, 2021
Mojave Spaceport
Is this episode about Mojave Spaceport? Well, it's a place on the journey, to put in in "hobbit speak." Tonight we get on the road, wander some small desert towns, make some real-estate schemes, and plan for a better future. Which starts now. New tracks by RedBlueBlackSilver and some archival audio from our favorite radio priestess of the Western Airwaves, a century ago. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5 E1 · Fri, April 16, 2021
Owens Valley and the Accidental Miracle
What made the Owens Valley the way it is, in our time? An accident of history, of water grabs, of one group of humans using easy money to buy out another group of humans, that's what preserved the most beautiful place in the world from the fate of the Central Valley. The same sort of accidental miracle that saved so much of the American southwest's mountains and deserts from wide-scale development, agriculture, housing booms, industrialization, speculation. A heretical prayer, is what we offer you tonight. With new (and classic) tracks from RedBlueBlackSilver. Find out more about our book, our periodical, and all the other desert creations we make for you at DesertOracle.com . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E24 · Fri, April 02, 2021
Charred Bones In the Sunlight
What does the cave art of 30,000 years ago have to do with the new Solar Orbiter we sent from Planet Earth to explore our star? Quite a lot, it turns out. Hosted by Ken Layne, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E23 · Fri, March 26, 2021
Mystery Swarm
Are the mystery drones back? Did they ever leave? We travel from the desert to the sea and back again, chasing those odd manifestations that have lately been surrounding Navy destroyers. And what does any of this have to do with L. Ron Hubbard? New tunes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E22 · Fri, March 19, 2021
The Dark Watchers
Where there are mountains, there are mysteries. Tonight we visit with some old friends who've long haunted the Indians, the Spaniards and the Americans. They are called the Dark Watchers, and as usual their world is part of ours, tied up in our own recent history of desert mystics such as Aldous Huxley and the ancient culture of the Esselen. Hosted by Ken Layne, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E20 · Sat, March 06, 2021
Out of Our Holes
The middle of the country might be frozen solid all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, but here in the Great Mojave Wilderness the weather is fine, the skies are blue, and the first hints of so many little green something-or-others are now apparent on the desert sands. Will we finally come out of our holes? With new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E21 · Sat, March 06, 2021
It's Not For Everyone
Some people like it, some people don't. We are talking about the desert. And this week—challenged by a listener to stop romanticizing the desert southwest—we are joined by Phoenix writer Jason P. Woodbury to give a couple places a real hard time. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E19 · Fri, February 12, 2021
Alien Corpses of the Great Basin
You ever drive the "Loneliest Road In America"? That's what they call U.S. 50, across the Great Basin Desert through the middle of Nevada. Not many people out there, not a lot going on. Just as we like it. The mystery visitors like it, too. They like the quiet, they need the wild mountains and desert valleys of the Basin and Range. And way back in 1952, so the story goes, 15 little alien friends were found dead in the wreckage of a glowing oval craft that smashed into the side of a copper mine. With all-new spacey soundscapes by our own RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E18 · Fri, January 29, 2021
Atmospheric River
There's a leak in the studio roof and the only way we know is because an atmospheric river is bearing down upon the American Southwest. So get a bucket or a cereal bowl or something and we'll all paddle to Hell together . . . . with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver to keep us company. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E17 · Fri, January 22, 2021
Armada of the Dragoon Mountains
Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver as we cover some difficult terrain with the Apache leader Cochise, the strange granite of his stronghold, and the mystery craft seen on many nights around these mysterious 78-million-year-old mountain spires. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E16 · Fri, January 08, 2021
The Local Angle
Might be a nutty new year on the national news, but here in the desert we are just trying to get along and not got crushed. With guest Brendan Maze and new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E15 · Fri, December 25, 2020
A Desert Christmas
From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it's the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlan joins us to talk about the winter holidays in Santa Fe. New solstice sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E14 · Fri, December 18, 2020
A Million Scorched Joshua Trees
It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where a million Joshua trees in the world's most dense and most-protected forest of these yucca trees was hit hard by the summer wildfires. But there is always reason for hope, and we found a lot of it. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E13 · Fri, December 11, 2020
The Secret Desert
Tonight we share the tale of the Krill Papers, strange legends of Cold War space-alien conspiracies, located right in the very heart of the Nevada desert wilderness. Speaking of, we are also joined by Patrick Donnelly, Nevada state director of the Center for Biological Diversity, which along with Nevada native tribes and desert lovers everywhere is celebrating a victory. Ever been to the Desert National Wildlife Refuge? Well whether you ever set foot there or not, it's safe again, for the desert bighorn and desert tortoise and a true wonderland of rare wild lands. For now. Let's keep it that way. And happy book publication week to us ! Our new book is available everywhere, please enjoy responsibly. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E12 · Sat, December 05, 2020
The Cold and the Dry
Wildlife corridors, park rangers, roadrunners & rabbits. Plus: your postcards and letters. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. And guess what's out next week? Our first hardcover collection, Desert Oracle Vol. 1. (c)(p) 2017-2020 Desert Oracle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E11 · Wed, November 25, 2020
A Desert Plaguesgiving
What's going on with that mysterious Utah monolith? What's going on with Brendan Maze and his new "plague refugee" Substack newsletter? The small-town desert real-estate market is hot, for now, and he's got some tips on the sorts of under-appreciated properties you might be able to afford. Especially if 10 or 12 of you go in on it, together. New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Happy thanksgiving to the bighorn, the bobcats, and maybe even to some of the people. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E10 · Sat, November 14, 2020
Concrete Jesus
An orphan child from Cincinnati loved the scriptures and lived a life of gold-mine adventure in the Almost-Old West before winding up in a bomber-plane factory in Los Angeles, creating death-delivery systems for the permanent Cold War. Anxious over this atomic nightmare, yet optimistic enough to think humanity could survive it, Frank Antone Martin built an enormous concrete Jesus in his Inglewood driveway. Such is the tale. Tune in to hear it all, the whole sordid thing. It's Episode #110, soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, snow on the western mountaintops. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E9 · Fri, October 30, 2020
All Hallows' Full Moon and the Great Conjunction
It's almost Halloween and we've been too worried to notice, but now that the good weather is here and the veil is thin, make sure you get out beneath the Halloween Full Moon. Our bird-biologist friend C. Del Desierto joins us for strange tales of the desert eagle spotter. And do prepare yourself for the Great Conjunction of 2020, which you can watch happen in real time, by watching Saturn and Jupiter grow ever closer together in our night sky. When the solstice arrives, December 21, well you'll sure know it. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E8 · Fri, October 16, 2020
Halloween Night, 2035 A.D.
Hey are you going to the big ritual, down in the grove? It's Halloween Night. And while things were pretty bad for a while, lately it has been a little bit better, out here in the High Desert. Strange new sounds from our RedBlueBlackSilver, true crime stories from Joshua Tree, and well just a lot of uneasiness , which is appropriate for the season. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E7 · Fri, October 02, 2020
In the Beginning Was Gaia
You know what time it is: It looks like we sort of infuriated Good Ol' Mother Gaia to the point that Gaia is feeling the need to wipe us off the face of the Earth , the Earth being Gaia. We screwed up pretty good this time! Also: Your postcards and letters from around and across these desert lands. Speaking of such things, our new issue, #9, is out now. You can subscribe at our website — DesertOracle.com — or pick up a copy at fine shops in downtown Joshua Tree. New tracks by JT's own RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E6 · Fri, September 25, 2020
The Eighth Tower
Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and "military flares" is never a good enough answer for all the odd activity in the skies. Tonight we bring you a campfire story about a particular strange sight in the sky we experienced a few years ago, and as our special guest we have the interesting and engaging Michael Hacker, narrator of eight audiobooks by the late, great John Keel. This means we will be talking about the superspectrum and VALIS and The Eighth Tower. You can find Michael Hacker's many paranormal-philosophy audiobook performances at Audible.com. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E5 · Fri, September 18, 2020
Betwixt and Between
In these last days of this cruel summer, as our wilderness burns, what we can we learn from the Other Life, the world of our pandemic dreams and universally traumatized collective consciousness? Sometimes, there are signposts in the rubble of the ongoing disaster. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E4 · Fri, September 11, 2020
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How are we doing out there? Pretty bad? Well nobody likes to hear "the ultraterrestrial entities told you so," but, the ultraterrestrial entities told you so . It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe— that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange, wise entities appeared in their bizarre vessel at the edge of the playground, hovering over the brush the way the White Goddess and the Queen of the Universe and the Virgin of Guadalupe always appear, so often to the relatively pure eyes and hearts of the children. And they had a message. We did not heed the message. Strange new soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, a fitting musical environment for tonight's tales of environmental terror. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E3 · Fri, September 04, 2020
Secrets of the Superspectrum
Burrowed down through another Extreme Heat Event, we send this radio dispatch to you. The world has gone mad, why not join the fun? Join the revolution. Well what happened is we were talking about all the desert creatures coming out of their holes at night—literally, the rabbit holes, in the case of our many Mojave cottontails and jackrabbits—and then all the sudden we went down the rabbit hole, too. At least it's cooler down here! Meade Layne and Edgar Cayce come up, thanks to a shared connection. Fine new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E2 · Fri, August 28, 2020
Dark Psychic Force
Remember last August, a year ago, when the national media found it very funny that presidential candidate Marianne Williamson mentioned the "dark psychic force" that had taken hold of America? Well, here we are. We had better make the best of it. How are you surviving in our New Time? We will talk about some of the ways to make it through, from spiritual revelations to forming little communities with your friends and family. Lots of fine new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, too. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4 E1 · Fri, August 14, 2020
Mountain of the Stars
We are back in the scorching hot radio studio with an all-new episode of the radio show that Palm Springs Life magazine named the "Best Freaky Radio Program." Sure, fine, we'll take it. Tonight, it's all about the mysterious place names of the desert southwest, in particular the 1.6-billion-year-old 30-mile-long slab of rock called Sierra Estrella. The Estrellas. Home of the "Estrella Lights." Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E37 · Fri, July 24, 2020
This is the Border Radio
Thanks to the Time Loop we all seem to be stuck in, our 99th episode is here . . . . directly following our 100th. The border used to be a lot of fun, back before the prison walls went up around our country. And guess what, now we can't leave. PLUS: Jason P. Woodbury joins us with the wild tale of Arizona's own Giant Sand. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E36 · Sat, July 18, 2020
Communiqué 100: The Voice of the Desert
From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and an uncomfortable visit from Brendan Maze, local businessman. http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2020 Desert Oracle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E35 · Fri, July 10, 2020
The Mystery Pig
What is this weird creature that turned up dead in Yucca Valley, in the Mojave High Desert? Wildlife biologists are baffled, and so are we. What sort of cruel god would create such a useless (and dead) animal? Well probably the same one that's behind the coronavirus and police violence and million-dollar hospital bills. Makes the Trickster spirits seem absolutely benign in comparison. http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2020 Desert Oracle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E34 · Fri, July 03, 2020
Omen of the Ravens
Well here we are, still alive, July in the American Desert. Good enough, we guess. Lots of details about our July 17 live event at Pappy & Harriets, plus your letters, and some tales of ravens and omens and ... Iceland? Sure, any port in a storm. Support our program here: Patreon.com/DesertOracle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E33 · Fri, June 19, 2020
Those Mysterious Green Fireballs
Did you hear about the mysterious, silent green fireballs flying low and bright in the skies over Australia last week? Ever seen one yourself? Ever thought they were just some sort of meteor, as that's what the Experts claimed? Well the experts are pulling your leg, they don't know either. Come back to 1947 New Mexico with us, as we visit the strange mystery of the Green Fireballs. And don't forget to throw us a few bucks on Patreon, it's how we keep the studio going, the electricity flowing. http://patreon.com/DesertOracle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E32 · Fri, June 12, 2020
If It's Broke, Fix It
Tonight we look back on a revolutionary campaign to completely remake the sheriff's department in an iconic western town. And while they lost the election, maybe they won the moral battle. Maybe they illuminated the way, for you. http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2020 Desert Oracle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E31 · Fri, May 29, 2020
The Ranger's Life
What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smokey Bear hat—a park-ranger style, by the way, that was introduced by the first generation of national park rangers, the Buffalo Soldiers black Calvary regiment, who began duty as Yosemite's park rangers in 1899. With new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver and a historical look at the Civilian Conservation Corps that was created to serve America's national parks back in the last Great Depression. http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2020 Desert Oracle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E30 · Fri, May 22, 2020
Wizards and Critters
When it's Snakesgiving Time in the Mojave, everybody's just a little more careful. Goes well with these weird new times, being careful. So please make an effort to not run over any tortoises or coyotes or bobcats or gopher snakes when you're racing through the re-opened national park. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E29 · Fri, May 15, 2020
Campfire Nightmares
Remember campfires? We sure do. Standing around a campfire telling stories and socializing used to be a big part of the Desert Oracle "workflow," as they say over in corporate. And it will be again. But while we ride the storm out, here's our most recent Campfire Stories night, from January 2020, with a brand-new RedBlueBlackSilver soundtrack and some other weird stuff. And it's an hourlong special episode, too. Life ain't always empty. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E28 · Fri, May 08, 2020
That Which Is But Isn't
Are they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they can't agree upon. Let's take a last look at this "Pentagon UFO" business and move on, because if ever we needed to move on, that time has come. Plus: What happened over Farmington, New Mexico, in March of 1950? Whatever it was, everybody saw it. It, them, whatever it was, whatever they are. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E27 · Fri, May 01, 2020
Back to the Barrooms
We've about had it with the cabin fever and now we've got the ramblin' fever. So let's pour a couple of drinks and enjoy some saloon time on this fine desert night. Maybe get a beer back, too. And six more for the road. Our Phoenix friend Jason P. Woodbury joins us at the bar. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E26 · Fri, April 24, 2020
From a P.O. Box
A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in the night, keeping our distance, looking for sustenance. It is here we receive your offerings of words and other treasure. Look, all we mean is, tonight is all letters from you, letters from our listening community, letters and their replies. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E25 · Fri, April 17, 2020
Return of the Wild Things
An all-new quarantine episode of Desert Oracle Radio from our secure desert compound, where we are noting the return of the wildlife, the blue skies, the clear air, the happy songbirds, and all the springtime joys of a time when the people have chosen to stay mostly at home, for the sake of human society. New & classic soundscapes by our own RedBlueBlackSilver. Here the terrestrial radio broadcast on our home station, KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Calif., Fridays from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2017-2020 Desert Oracle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E24 · Fri, April 10, 2020
Never the Twain Shall Meet
We've all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. Maybe we're just remembering our dreams during this strange time. Maybe we're just spending more time with our brains. But what happens when we all begin dreaming the same dream? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E23 · Fri, April 03, 2020
Embracing Mortality, With Erik Davis
Well the surprise here is that this is an opportunity, to appreciate this time of silence and to appreciate our fragile mortality. The desert has always offered that to the seekers, to the lunatics, to the prophets. Guest Erik Davis joins us for the full hour, as we talk about the very entertaining and enlightening audiobook he just finished for his best-selling High Weirdness . Be here now, with your desert friends. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen to our Friday night broadcast on KCDZ FM, 107.7 in Joshua Tree. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E22 · Fri, March 27, 2020
Trailed by Twenty Hounds
Hey did you hear we're going to open up the country again for May Day! We'll try, anyway. Try to get it going on Beltane Eve. Jason P. Woodbury joins us for another interesting tale about music made here in the American Desert, this time regarding longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who wrote a number of interesting lyrics about the legends and geography of the Southwest. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E21 · Sun, March 22, 2020
Battlefield Earth
Well you'll never guess who joined us all the way from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to talk about the particular desert landscape of SE New Mexico and East Texas. But we will tell you anyway: Tarence Ray from Trillbilly Workers Party. Oh and we're dealing with the matters at hand, as best we can. Fitting new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E20 · Fri, March 13, 2020
The Invisible Friend
When times are strange, shall we gather in the desert? Well that depends. It depends if you're bringing the Invisible Friend. But we'll get through these tribulations, mostly, eventually. And we will make use of the time at hand. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E19 · Fri, March 06, 2020
The Other Room
New Mexico author and journalist Anna Merlin joins us for just the kind of late-night mind-bending radio conversation you probably need right about now. Mystery schools, prepper shopping, psychedelics, the collective unconscious/consciousness, conspiracy theory and new-age conventions. How do we reach the Other Room? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E18 · Thu, February 27, 2020
Please Don't Cough On the Spaceship
We're hunkering down, like everybody: the tortoises, the rattlesnakes. But they're starting to come out again, while we are just beginning our quarantine. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E17 · Mon, February 17, 2020
These Enchanted Lands
What do they mean by "Land of Enchantment," anyway? The American Desert is a haunted land, that's what it means, haunted by the good and the bad, the weird and the wise. Sometimes you can tune right in, like a human radio attached to an antenna made of boulders. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E16 · Thu, February 06, 2020
Bless Us, Saint Minerva
Oh St. Minerva, Apostle of the Cacti, please continue to bless our High Desert wilderness and keep out the evil-doers and the slobs. And help us protect your sacred plant, the Joshua tree, etc. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E15 · Fri, January 24, 2020
Primal Surprise
The remains of another lost hiker have been found, and we travel to the deserts down in Mexico with the Old Gringo. Special new music by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E14 · Fri, January 10, 2020
Messages From the Old Gods
New year, new decade, time to drop everything and move to the desert . . . . where we can ponder the mystery of the messages from the old gods and old devils. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E13 · Thu, January 02, 2020
Tales From Wonder Valley
We gathered some Wonder Valley characters together, across the road from The Palms, and let the tales loose: military crashes, weird lights, strange residents and interesting ministers. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E12 · Thu, December 19, 2019
White Solstice / Burnt Devil
Well we wound up burning the devil, here in Joshua Tree. It's the kind of winter-holiday fun you can expect up here in the High Desert. And Jason P. Woodbury joins us to investigate a real Low Desert Mystery: Where was "White Christmas" written? There are two answers and they'll both surprise you. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E11 · Fri, December 06, 2019
The Hungry Demons
What's going on with these bizarre and gruesome cattle mutilations all over the west, all over the world? Well there are some ugly new cases up in Eastern Oregon, cattle country north of Burns, and as usual there are no witnesses, suspects, arrests, not even an agreed-upon cause of death. But something was responsible for setting those cleanly mutilated bulls a quarter-mile apart from one another, 15 miles from the road. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E10 · Wed, November 27, 2019
The Willow Springs Killer
He called himself the King of Western Swing and he was building an immense theme park in the Mojave Desert. What does this have to do with claims that Roy Rogers ran a sex cult out of Apple Valley? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E9 · Fri, November 15, 2019
Finding Your Place In Our Weird World
Desert intuition. Desert awareness. Erik Davis joins us and throws down a challenge to engage with our Weird World. Our Weird Time. And why the desert is the eternal landscape for this kind of work. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E8 · Sun, November 03, 2019
Witches & Cowboys
We're hanging on to Halloween with our guests Laura Bolt, who both covers and lives within the California witchcraft scene, and Arizona music journalist Jason P. Woodbury, here to talk about the new re-release of singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan's second record. (Sullivan vanished in the New Mexico desert and no trace of him was ever found.) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E7 · Thu, October 31, 2019
Halloween Treat: Campfire Stories
Live at the Ace Hotel campfire ring on Halloween 2018, here's a bonus episode with our Weird Campfire Stories. Support Desert Oracle Radio on Patreon and you'll get four bonus episodes per year, including longer interviews and live events like this Halloween edition of Desert Oracle Campfire Stories. And come see us at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs tonight, Thursday October 31 (2019), for live Campfire Stories, free & open to all. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E6 · Fri, October 25, 2019
Coyote Rex
From high up in the Joshua Tree foothills, we bring you the sad tale of Coyote Rex. Gabriel Hart, Lauren White from the band Kokomo, and Country Club Dan call in from a haunted payphone. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Recorded live at the Furstwurld theater in Joshua Tree. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E5 · Sun, October 20, 2019
When Goblins Go Silent
It's nearly Halloween in the High Desert and we have spooky tales, spooky phone calls, and a haunting performance by our in-studio guests, the band Kokomo. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E4 · Mon, October 07, 2019
Travels In Time & UFOs Over Joshua Tree
UFO sightings over Joshua Tree National Park and time-travel adventures with Jean-Paul Garnier of Space Cowboy Books. A recording off the radio, because that's all that worked. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E3 · Sat, September 21, 2019
Angels Among Us
Live from Joshua Tree, it's our second episode of the season with best-selling author and Joshua Tree Retreat Center director Terry Taylor Castillo, and the subject is angel consciousness. It's our first hourlong podcast! Thanks for being part of it. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S3 E2 · Sat, September 14, 2019
Beneath This September Moon
Back for our third season, now live on the radio and delivered to you in the form of a podcast. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Trailer · Sat, September 07, 2019
Autumn 2019 Promo KCDZ
We're back on Friday the 13th—September 13, 2019 at 10 p.m. Pacific Time—live from the KCDZ FM studios in downtown Joshua Tree, Calif. Listen live on Z 107.7 FM in the High Desert, or stream the show live on TuneIn . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E26 · Fri, July 12, 2019
The Haunted Petroglyph
Was the organized theft of a 600-pound petroglyph-covered boulder from a canyon near Ridgecrest related to the monster earthquakes that followed? Probably not, but we can't exactly prove otherwise. Brendan Maze calls in from Trona. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E25 · Fri, June 28, 2019
Praying To the Aliens
A UFO sermon from the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater, introducing a screening of Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers , with Jeremy Corbell and RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E24 · Fri, June 14, 2019
Keep Cool Or Die
How do we not die in the desert this summer? One way is to stay underneath the swamp cooler, reading and writing letters, to and from various denizens of these arid lands. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E23 · Fri, June 07, 2019
High Weirdness
Author Erik Davis joins us to talk about our favorite subject and his new book, High Weirdness . With new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E22 · Fri, May 31, 2019
Not the Day Nor the Hour
What is known is that there’s something going on, something a little wilder than usual. Plus: Rachel Monroe, writer & author & Marfa volunteer firefighter. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E21 · Fri, May 24, 2019
Snakesgiving Day Weekend
The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E20 · Fri, May 10, 2019
The Goofball Factor
Every weird story that you almost want to believe is required, by cosmic law, to have a Goofball Factor. What is the Goofball Factor? And how does it end up on the front page of the New York Times? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E19 · Fri, April 26, 2019
Earth Day's Murderer and the Apostle of the Cacti
Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet? Also: Why you should know more about our beloved apostle of the cacti, Minerva Hamilton Hoyt. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E18 · Sat, April 20, 2019
Redacted (by the Aliens)
Anna Merlan, Jeremy Corbell and Stephanie Tisza join us for a weird ride down the Conspiracy Highway, which is our main road out here in the desert. Suspicious events and the new book about our paranoid nation, Republic of Lies , are featured along with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E17 · Fri, April 05, 2019
Sermon For Miley Cyrus
Did a famous entertainer do something dumb in Joshua Tree? Yes. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E16 · Sat, March 23, 2019
I Know What I Saw
“I will never forget it.” That’s something you’ll hear, something you’ll hear quite a lot out here. “I know what I saw.” Do they know? Do you ? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E15 · Fri, March 15, 2019
Wildflowers!
Superbloom? Well, probably. We take a walk in our own little devil's garden and report some Instagram people to the local militia. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E14 · Fri, February 15, 2019
#049: Down At the Old Schoolhouse
Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host must entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in Twentynine Palms with a series of Strange & Unusual Facts about our desert lands. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E13 · Sat, February 02, 2019
#048: The Holy Rangers
Who will protect the wilderness and public lands, our national parks and monuments, our nature preserves and conservation areas, our wild rivers and mountains and forests? As the nation slips into chaos and decline, we are going to have to take over the stewardship of the land. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E12 · Sat, January 19, 2019
#047: Interstellar Visitations
Is Oumuamua a scout from another civilization? Aren't we long overdue for some outside assistance? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E11 · Sat, January 12, 2019
#046: Travel Options for the Apocalypse
What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E10 · Sat, December 29, 2018
#045: Shutdowns & Date Shakes
Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Smart Mouth, on the desert date shake. PLUS: More air-traffic radio from the UFO invasion of Edwards Air Force Base, 1965. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E9 · Fri, December 21, 2018
#044: A Mojave Solstice
A winter-holiday desert road trip, your letters about strange machinery, and a very special Joshua Tree Christmas Pageant with Brendan Maze. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E8 · Sat, December 01, 2018
#043: Highways and Aliens
We're taking a big looping road trip across the Mojave, from Area 51 to the Singing Sand Dunes of Kelso. With guest Jeremy Corbell on his new documentary about Bob Lazar and the reverse-engineered UFOs. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E7 · Fri, November 16, 2018
#042: Of Fire and Monsters
Night has fallen on the desert, and that’s when we like to tell monster stories. Weird tales. When there's trouble on the edge of civilization, where the wilderness meets what mankind makes, well here we encounter fierce things both natural and supernatural. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E6 · Fri, November 09, 2018
#041: Culmination of the Pleiades
Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E5 · Fri, October 26, 2018
#040: Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
We are still digging out from the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of October 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-Pile City," in honor of the scenic and massive dirt piles piled alongside every road, as the bulldozers and earth-movers work all day every day to try to patch the hundreds of miles of gullies and ditches and death holes created by the violent storm. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E4 · Sat, October 20, 2018
#039: Lost Cities of the Desert Giants
Secret civilizations beneath the Panamint Mountains, strange tales of ancient giants and the sky-ships of the the Hav-Musuvs. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E3 · Sat, September 29, 2018
#038 The Horror of Solar Lodge
Here, in the desert far from prying eyes, the members of the Solar Lodge were building their Ark of the Covenant. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E2 · Sat, September 22, 2018
#037: Lycanthropes of the West
Werebears and skinwalkers and other creatures of our haunted lands. With Jeremy Corbell, director of the new documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 E1 · Sat, September 15, 2018
#036: Mystery of the Desert
These strange experiences upon the deserts should be studied with an open heart and an open mind, because these events contain a code. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Trailer · Wed, September 12, 2018
On-air promo #002A
Season 2 begins Friday night, 09/14/2018. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E35 · Sat, June 23, 2018
#035: A Voice Crying In the Wilderness
Joshua Tree has gone from turkey farmers to elaborately costumed weekenders, but the Old Testament view of the desert always comes true again. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E34 · Sat, June 09, 2018
#034: Death Valley Days
We do some hard traveling over the Mojave looking for that sweet shortcut to the Land of Milk & Honey. There may be some hardscrabble miners chasing little space aliens from a crashed UFO, knowing the way things go out here. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E33 · Fri, May 25, 2018
#033: High Desert Death
Murder and madness and an estimate of the situation during this merry month of May. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E32 · Fri, May 11, 2018
#032: Strange Circles & Mysterious Tracks
People are finding all kinds of strange things on the desert ground: huge sandy circles in the Great Basin, weird three-clawed footprints in the Mojave .... Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E31 · Fri, May 04, 2018
#031: Lonesome Cowboys
What was Andy Warhol doing up in the High Desert north of Tucson, at a dude ranch? Also: Brendan Maze calls in from one of his investment properties in Victorville, where tumbleweed drifts have surrounded the development. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E30 · Fri, April 27, 2018
#030: Happy Snakesgiving!
Tonight we come to you live from the Palm Springs Art Museum, where we celebrate the good times, the cooler times, and the 11 days of Desert Springtime that end with the celebration of Snakesgiving. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E29 · Fri, April 20, 2018
#029: The Lost Kingdom of Nye
Sure is busy this week. Apparently there's a music festival down in the Low Desert. And: We remember the late, great Art Bell. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E28 · Fri, April 06, 2018
#028: Coyotes In Springtime
Springtime in the desert and all the creatures are awake. Plus: We talk UFOs with Jeremy Corbell on a cold night in Pioneertown. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E27 · Fri, March 30, 2018
#027: Kelbaker Road
Been too long since we got on the road. We are going to get on the road: Twentynine Palms Highway, Adobe Road, Amboy Road, Kelbaker Road, Route 66. Let's go. Get in the car. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E26 · Fri, March 23, 2018
#026: From a Desert Trailer
It's a cold and windy night on the Mojave, and we're up in Flamingo Heights at the Outpost Projects/Curate Joshua Tree art show, "Found!" But what have we found? A lot of trouble in the desert preserve. RedBlueBlackSilver makes his live soundscapes and Brendan Maze invites himself to the program, along with questionable plans for the conservation area. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E25 · Fri, March 16, 2018
#025: UFOs and the Jungian Desert
What's going on over the desert? Why is everybody going nuts about UFOs again, anyway? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E24 · Fri, March 16, 2018
#024: La Llorona
Who's that glowing lady by the irrigation canal? And why is she wailing in the night? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E23 · Sat, February 24, 2018
#023: Windblown Trash & Beautiful Billboards
We’re taking a trip out to Camp Cady on the Mojave River, whether we’re welcome or not, and regardless of what happened with Mr. Pantages. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Trailer · Sat, February 10, 2018
On-air promo #000C
30-second promo spot for KCDZ 107.7 FM, Joshua Tree. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Trailer · Sat, February 10, 2018
On-air promo #000B
30-second promo spot for KCDZ 107.7 FM, Joshua Tree. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E22 · Sat, February 10, 2018
#022: Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire turns 50, and we do remember it, and we read it every year. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E21 · Sat, February 03, 2018
#021: Yucca Man
How does one summon the Yucca Man? Do you really want to know? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E20 · Sat, January 13, 2018
#020: What Is the Mojave?
What is this Mysterious Mojave we go one about? And what are the labor & ethical violations at Brendan Maze's online-fufillment center in the desert? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E19 · Sat, January 06, 2018
#019: Skinwalker Ranch
Parallel dimensions and the mysterious Utah ranch bought by aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow. With guest Jeremy Corbell. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E18 · Sat, December 23, 2017
#018: High Desert Holidays
It's our first annual Christmas show, and Santa brought proof of the Pentagon's UFO-study group. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E17 · Sat, December 09, 2017
#017: Wildfires & Weird Times
Satan's breath and the wildfires of California. Guest: High Desert artist Kate McCabe. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E16 · Sat, December 02, 2017
#016: Desert Crackpots & the Rocket of Amboy
Everybody loves a news story about a dumb crackpot crashing a rocket in the desert—especially if by "everybody" you mean "news editors in Los Angeles." Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E15 · Sat, November 25, 2017
#015: Aliens, Marijuana & Other Monsters
Our first annual Thanksgiving show, recorded live at the Ace Hotel's Commune Theater in Palm Springs. Guests: UFO documentary director Jeremy Corbell and area businessman Brendan Maze. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E14 · Sat, November 18, 2017
#014: Return of the Mojave Phone Booth
Recorded live at the Ace Hotel with Doc Daniels of Mojave Phone Booth infamy. He even brought the phone booth! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E13 · Sat, November 04, 2017
#013: Mojave Madness/Holy Harvest
What happens when you combine a Joshua Tree EDM festival with an anti-Halloween church's harvest fair? Nothing good, as Brendan Maze finds out. Also: The strange true tale of the Old Woman Meteorite. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E12 · Sat, October 28, 2017
#012: From Missing Hikers To Murder-Suicide
The dark side of the romantic story of two missing hikers who died in each other's arms, sort of ... and with the help of a handgun. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E11 · Sat, October 14, 2017
#011: Those Sinister Black Triangles
Menacing manta-rays hovering over the Mojave Desert ... what does it mean and where are they from? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E10 · Sat, September 30, 2017
#010: The Landers Earthquake of 1992
Apocalypse in the desert, plus an interview with local businessman Brendan Maze about his plans to market Mojave Mirage sparkling water from the Cadiz aquifer. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E9 · Sat, September 16, 2017
#009: Jack Parsons & the Babalon Working
JPL founder Jack Parsons and his sex-magick buddy L. Ron Hubbard opened up a stargate to Hell in the Mojave Desert. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E8 · Sat, August 26, 2017
#008: Death Valley Junction
We take a weird road trip to Death Valley Junction, meeting astronauts, film crews, a Czech composer & other odd characters along the desert highway. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E7 · Sat, August 19, 2017
#007: Charles Manson At Barker Ranch
The Manson Family had a plan, once the Helter-Skelter race-war apocalypse was underway: They'd ride it out in Death Valley, hidden away at a dirty little ranch in the Panamint Mountains. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E6 · Sat, August 12, 2017
#006: The UFO Experience (Now Safe For Tourists)
Brendan Maze is developing a new, completely safe tourist attraction for millennials visiting Joshua Tree: an underground bunker for the secure viewing of desert UFOs. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E5 · Sat, August 05, 2017
#005: Missing Tourists In Monsoon Season
It's August and that means tourists are disappearing in Joshua Tree National Park. Couldn't pick worse weather for it, either! Plus: The Old Ranger. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E4 · Sat, July 15, 2017
#004: Encounter At Edwards AFB
October 7, 1965: All through the night, baffling lights and unknown craft bedeviled pilots and control-tower crew at the famed Mojave Desert "Right Stuff" Air Force base. And it's all on tape. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E3 · Sat, July 08, 2017
#003: Gram Parsons & the Phoenix Lights
We revisit the baffling mass sighting over Arizona and Gram Parsons' sad death in Joshua Tree. Guest: Nicole Holland from the beloved Cactus Mart in Morongo Valley. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E2 · Sat, July 01, 2017
#002: Jesus Tree National Park
The Mormons named Joshua trees for the Old Testament war hero Joshua. But Jesus is named for the same guy. So why aren't they called Jesus trees ? Plus, Jeremy Corbell on his weird new documentary, Patient Seventeen. #jesustree Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 E1 · Sat, June 24, 2017
#001: The Voice of the Desert
Our premiere episode, broadcast across the Mojave Wilderness on KCDZ 107.7 FM and direct to your ear-holes via the Internet. With Brendan Maze on his new high-density desert Air BnB rentals and Jeremy Corbell, Pioneertown's UFO documentary director. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Trailer · Sat, June 24, 2017
On-air promo #000A: Desert Oracle Radio
First promo for KCDZ FM, Joshua Tree. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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