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WEIRD TIMES AT THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE

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Come to the Old Schoolhouse Museum in lovely 29 Palms, Calif., on Friday, Feb. 8 for strange desert tales from Ken Layne, editor, publisher & host of the Desert Oracle family of media & entertainment properties.

From the press release:

Sponsored by the Desert Institute at Joshua Tree National Park and the Twentynine Palms Historical Society, this lecture is held at the Old Schoolhouse Museum, 6760 National Park Drive, Twentynine Palms, on Friday, February 8 at 7 pm. This lecture is open to the public and costs $5 per person at the door. Optional dinner with speaker at 5 pm at the 29 Palms Inn, reservations are limited and attendees are responsible for their own meal. If interested in dinner please RSVP to at 760-367-5539 before Wednesday, February 6.

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For further press information, please see https://desertoracle.com/press or call the Desert Institute at (760) 367-5535.

And do not forget: We’ve got the last scheduled Campfire Stories coming up at the @AceHotel Palm Springs, Thursday the 31st of January, outside around the campfire, guaranteed eerie times for one & all, free to attend. And yes there’s a bar, we do have basic manners.

#047: INTERSTELLAR VISITATIONS

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Tonight at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree: Rainy day episode #047 is all about the Aliens. Mostly. The article in question is here: “Year of the Space Invaders?”—Popula.com

Subscribe to our at iTunes or wherever/whatever you use for subscribing & listening to podcasts. New soundscapes tonight from our own RedBlueBlackSilver, hand-crafted here in Joshua Tree in a facility that processes nuts.

If you like DESERT ORACLE RADIO, tell your friends & leave a nice review on iTunes, etc.

#046: TRAVEL OPTIONS FOR THE COLLAPSE

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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can’t go camping in Joshua Tree, that’s what. The national parks are overrun with cretins of both varieties: the willful & the dumb. Well, maybe there’s somewhere else to go, somewhere without ticket booths and reserved campgrounds. Yes we are going to Mojave Trails National Monument and that means Route 66 and the alphabet-railroad towns.

Listen on the radio, tonight at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree. Subscribe to our at iTunes or wherever/whatever you use for subscribing & listening to podcasts. New soundscapes tonight from our own RedBlueBlackSilver, hand-crafted here in Joshua Tree in a facility that processes nuts.

If you like DESERT ORACLE RADIO, tell your friends, or leave us a nice review on iTunes, etc. (And thanks much to all of you who leave such nice reviews, which are uniformly both literate and poetic.)

#045: SHUTDOWNS & DATE SHAKES

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What a nice holiday present for the High Desert, having the federal government collapse and leaving the Mojave’s national parks unstaffed and abandoned at the busiest time of year. Katherine Spiers, Los Angeles food writer/editor/podcast host, joins us to talk about date shakes. Get our podcast wherever you get the podcasts.

Thanks for listening to the program this year. If you like DESERT ORACLE RADIO, tell your friends, or leave us a nice review on iTunes, etc.

#044: A MOJAVE SOLSTICE

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Our Wild & Mysterious Mojave Road Trip Map is here.

We’re back with an all-new holiday episode, including a talk with Brendan Maze regarding his Hi-Desert Christmas Pageant and the controversy regarding his foundation’s non-profit status. Also: strange machinery of times past, and more from our Wild & Mysterious Mojave Map. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Happy Solstice To You All & To All a Good Night.

Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Listen live in the High Desert at 10 p.m. Friday nights, on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree.

#043: HIGHWAYS & ALIENS

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Here’s the map from tonight’s audio road trip, “HIGHWAYS & ALIENS.” Please use wisely.

Also on tonight’s episode of Desert Oracle Radio: Our friend Jeremy Corbell joins us to discuss & debate the strange tale of Bob Lazar, subject of Corbell’s new documentary, Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, we encourage you to attend the premiere of this all-new movie at the Ace Hotel theater in downtown LA. Or order the film on iTunes or Vimeo.

Subscribe to our podcast at Stitcher or iTunes or whatever you use for subscribing to podcasts. New soundscapes tonight from our own RedBlueBlackSilver, hand-crafted here in Joshua Tree.

#042: OF FIRE AND MONSTERS

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Yucca Man
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.

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, and a visit from our Phoenix friend Jason P. Woodbury.

Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, “from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!

STRANGE TALES AT THE HI-DESERT NATURE MUSEUM

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MBHS Hi-Desert Nature Museum Desert Oracle
DESERT ORACLE editor Ken Layne will be presenting a spooky talk on desert folklore & various monsters at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m. This is the Morongo Basin Historical Society’s “Second Wednesday Lecture Series.” $5 donation to MBHS at the door, get there early to get a seat!

#041: CULMINATION OF THE PLEIADES

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Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals. Tonight we address the real reason for Halloween (and how you can celebrate it on Nov. 21), tell monster stories around the campfire, and share the glad tidings of Oumuamua, the alien space probe that shot by Earth last year.

EVENT ALERT: Host & DESERT ORACLE editor Ken Layne will be presenting a spooky talk on desert monsters at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m. This is the Morongo Basin Historical Society’s “Second Wednesday Lecture Series.” $5 donation to MBHS at the door, get there early to get a seat!

Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Heights, Wonder Valley—”from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!

EPISODE #040: WELCOME TO DIRT-PILE CITY

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Halloween Desert Oracle

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.

The dirt and sand and grit and boulders and dead animals had previously been located in the mountains surrounding town, but one insane all-night thunderstorm managed to move quite a lot of the stuff in the mountains to the middle on Highway 62 through what we charitably call “Downtown Joshua Tree.”

We tell our own version of the local legend of Private Dirt and Sgt. Sand, and we hear from Phoenix schoolteacher Jenny Russell talking about a graveyard she discovered in South Phoenix—from her appearance at our Valley Bar show in Phoenix put on last summer by Aquarium Drunkard.

Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Heights, Wonder Valley—”from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!

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