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EPISODE #212: THE TYPING LIFE, w/ GUEST MATT WELCH

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We are releasing this beast from the Patreon Archives — where you can find many more Patreon-only/Patreon-first episodes. A month ago, our old friend & collaborator Matt Welch joined us by telephone from New York City to talk about a magical time in California. Between 1999 and 2002, a wave of “news bloggers” washed over the calcified Los Angeles media landscape, and the effects were both surprising and long-lasting. Your host Ken Layne was part of that strange time, along with Mr. Welch and a cast of dozens.

We ain’t whining about it, nor excessively celebrating it. Just telling funny stories from the turn of the century. This episode wasn’t on the radio, which it why it runs 35 minutes instead of the usual 28 minutes. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free podcast on our Patreon Desert Oracle page. EPISODE #212: THE TYPING LIFE, WITH GUEST MATT WELCH

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EPISODE #213: THE BALLAD OF MOJO NIXON

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Mojo Forever!

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.

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Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne. This is: EPISODE #213: THE BALLAD OF MOJO NIXON. Listen to the podcast now or the radio broadcast Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the entire Mojave High Desert.

EPISODE #210: THE HERMIT’S LIFE

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THE HERMIT

For some of us, the only peace of mind comes in absolute solitude, in those still numerous places where the calamitous noise of our civilization is mostly kept at bay. Ask anybody who completed a long hike — such as the PCT up the Western Spine of America — what they loved most, what made it such an unforgettable time. The solitude, they will often say. The quiet. Not the absence of sound, that’s rarely what anyone means, but the absence of the sounds of civilization. That awful, unending racket.

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Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne. This is: EPISODE #210: THE HERMIT’S LIFE. Listen to the podcast now or the radio broadcast Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the entire Mojave High Desert.

EPISODE #211: HORROR ON THE CALIFORNIA BACKROADS

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Trouble Bound

The first new Desert Oracle Radio of the year: The strange true tale of a missing child, a newspaper that hired a talk-show psychic to find that child, and the cops reporter who covered the grim & baffling end of the case.

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Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne. This is: EPISODE #211: HORROR ON THE CALIFORNIA BACKROADS Listen to the podcast now or the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert.

EPISODE #209: GADZOOKS, IT’S SOLSTICE-TIME!

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A wet winter is visiting 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, until Big Government caused the chaos and disorder of the present. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free show via our Desert Oracle Patreon.

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Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #209: GADZOOKS, IT’S SOLSTICE-TIME! Listen to the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert.

EPISODE #208: LIVE FROM EARTH

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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.

Thanks for supporting this advertising-free show via our Desert Oracle Patreon. PS — SPOTIFY HAS REMOVED THIS EPISODE, SAYING OUR SOUNDSCAPE BACKGROUNDS USED IN EVERY EPISODE FOR SEVEN YEARS IS NOW A “CONTENT VIOLATION.” PLEASE DON’T USE SPOTIFY TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST, IF YOU WANT TO HEAR NEW EPISODES. [And now it’s back, after an “appeals process.”]

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Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #208: LIVE FROM EARTH.

EPISODE #207: DESERT TRIVIA NIGHT

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“Known as the ‘apostle of the cacti,’ this advocate for the creation of desert national parks was named after this ancient Roman goddess ….” If that’s a question you can answer, without even thinking about it, then you may enjoy this Thanksgiving Weekend episode featuring DESERT ORACLE TRIVIA NIGHT, something that really happened at the Tiny Pony on Thanksgiving Eve.

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Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #207: DESERT TRIVIA NIGHT.

EPISODE #206: 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. BUT . . . it also also likely time for a change.

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New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #206: SONGS OF THE DOOMED. Listen to the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert.

EPISODE #205: ODE TO HARRY OLIVER, KING OF THE DESERT RATS

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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 open 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.

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EPISODE #203: SAMHAIN STORIES FOR ALL HALLOWS’ EVE

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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.

Haunted new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #203: SAMHAIN STORIES FOR ALL HALLOWS’ EVE.

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