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EPISODE #177: THE HAUNTED MOUNTAINS

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Never get out of the car.

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.

This is EPISODE #177: THE HAUNTED MOUNTAINS. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by Ken Layne, and broadcasting tonight at 10 in Joshua Tree on KCDZ 107.7 FM, and Saturdays at 9 p.m. on KZMU 90.1 FM & 106.7 FM in Moab, Utah.

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EPISODE #176: A DEATH VALLEY CHRISTMAS (WITH THE LOST ’49ers)

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San Francisco Call, 1889, via NPS Death Valley

“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 at 10 in Joshua Tree on KCDZ 107.7 FM, and Saturdays at 9 p.m. on KZMU 90.1 FM & 106.7 FM in Moab, Utah.

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EPISODE #175: NED LUDD’S RETURN

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Winter Solstice is coming and the Luddites are celebrating on their flip-phones. Now is the time for EPISODE #175: NED LUDD’S RETURN. Listen on your radio in Joshua Tree or Moab or Fresno or various other community stations. With soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and hosted by Ken Layne — which tonight includes a piece originally written for Popula.

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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.

EPISODE #174: THE OLD DESERT REGULAR GNOSTIC ADVENT CALENDAR

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The desert is the kind of place where 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. It’s EPISODE #174, with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and hosted by Ken Layne. Thanks for supporting this program via Patreon.com/DesertOracle.

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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.

EPISODE #173: THE GROUSE AND THE GODDESS

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Greater sage-grouse, our High Desert Wild Turkey. Photo credit: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

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? It’s EPISODE #173: THE GROUSE AND THE GODDESS. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and hosted by Ken Layne.

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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.

Photo credit: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

EPISODE #172: THE LIBRARY OF DESERT SECRETS

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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.

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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.

Our audiobook is out now, read by Ken Layne and with chapter-title sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.

EPISODE #171: DESOLATION PEAK

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Desolation Peak fire lookout cabin

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. That’s the old U.S. Forest Service fire-lookout cabin atop Desolation Peak, in the photograph above.

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Thanks for supporting this commercial-free independent radio show provided free to the world. Click here to support Desert Oracle! Listen on the radio tonight, 10-11 PM, on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, from Amboy to Zzyzx! (And that’s our notorious “Holy Rangers” episode in the second half tonight.)

Our audiobook is out now, read by Ken Layne and with chapter-title sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.

EPISODE #170: JOHN LENNON’S UFO (SOME TIME IN NEW YORK CITY)

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"I sawr a UFO! Right there!"

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.

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EPISODE #169: FAMOUS FOR NOTHINGNESS

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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. Listen at 10 p.m. Fridays on Joshua Tree’s Z107.7 FM.)

PLUS: Details of our October tour, New York on October 6 [Get Tickets] and the West Coast starting October 21.

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EPISODE #168: LIKE A HURRICANE

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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 and Yuma, 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. This is EPISODE #168: LIKE A HURRICANE, with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

Our audiobook is out now, and October tour dates have been announced: New York, Oakland, Arcata, Portland, Vancouver BC, Seattle, Boise, SLC!

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