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#090: 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. It’s Episode #090, and you just love to see it.

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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. AND: Lots of real good new RedBlueBlackSilver space jams.

As per usual. Tune in tonight on Z107.7FM at 10 p.m. for an hourlong block of Desert Oracle Radio. Every Friday night on KCDZ Joshua Tree/Yucca Valley/29 Palms.

#089 BACK TO THE BARROOMS

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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, with Episode #089, “Back to the Barrooms.” Maybe get a beer back, too. And six more for the road. Our Phoenix friend Jason P. Woodbury joins us at the bar. Hey and here’s some radio news you can use: You can hear Jason P. Woodbury’s weekly radio program Range & Basin Wednesday nights at 9 PM PT and midnight eastern on Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard. Click that link to tune into the stream that fits your device & your mind.

There’s not enough RedBlueBlackSilver on this bar’s jukebox, but rest assured there’s a whole suite of new stuff ready for our next episode. We just lingered in the saloon too long, it’s the bartender’s fault. As per usual. Tune in tonight on Z107.7FM at 10 p.m. for an hourlong block of Desert Oracle Radio. Every Friday night on KCDZ Joshua Tree/Yucca Valley/29 Palms.

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#088 FROM A P.O. BOX

Desert Oracle, PO Box 1735, Joshua Tree CA 92252

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. All we mean is this: Tonight’s show is all about the letters from you, letters from our listening community, letters and their replies.

Weird new soundscapes tonight from our own RedBlueBlackSilver.

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#087: RETURN OF THE WILD THINGS


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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. Listen on the radio tonight, Z107.7 FM in the High Desert, two episodes back-to-back, 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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You can stream the show from our terrestrial radio station KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree on Friday nights at 10 p.m. Want the show on YOUR community radio station? We are distributed by PRX, and available to radio stations wherever they are. Pre-order the new hardback Desert Oracle Vol. I,, if you’d like! Publication is scheduled for early December 2020. Not far now!

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Subscribe to our podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the good old radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re also on Spotify and Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️


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#086: NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET


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We’ve all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. But what happens when we all begin dreaming the same dream? #086: NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET, a new 28-minute episode, with a new soundscape track by RedBlueBlackSilver. Sounds best on the radio at night but you can listen now, because it goes well with a rainy desert day, too.

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Hear the show on terrestrial radio station KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree on Friday nights at 10 p.m. Want the show on YOUR community radio station? We are distributed by PRX, and available to radio stations wherever they are. Pre-order the new hardback Desert Oracle Vol. I,, if you’d like!

Thanks always & especially to our dear & beloved patrons. Join the Desert Oracle Radio private discussion group, if you are so inclined.

Subscribe to our podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the good old radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re also on Spotify and Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️

#085: EMBRACING MORTALITY, WITH ERIK DAVIS


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An appropriate new hourlong episode for these interesting times we are cursed to live within: #085: EMBRACING MORTALITY, with guest Erik Davis, bestselling author of High Weirdness, reader of the new audiobook of the same name, and host of the long-running podcast Expanding Mind. New and classic soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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Hear the show on terrestrial radio station KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree on Friday nights from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Want the show on YOUR community radio station? We are distributed by PRX, and available to radio stations wherever they are. Pre-order Desert Oracle Vol. I,, if you’d like!

Thanks always & especially to our dear & beloved patrons. Join the Desert Oracle Radio private discussion group, if you are so inclined.

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the good old radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️

#084: TRAILED BY TWENTY HOUNDS


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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.

#084: TRAILED BY TWENTY HOUNDS with our good friend Jason P. Woodbury from Aquarium Drunkard & Zia Records in Arizona/Nevada. Soundscapes are new tonight, too, by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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Arthur Magazine, mentioned by Jason in this episode, was an important and influential music/culture nationally distributed magazine edited by Joshua Tree’s own Jay Babcock. The blog archives are well worth perusing!

Hear the show on terrestrial radio station KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree on Friday nights from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Want the show on YOUR community radio station? We are distributed by PRX, and available to radio stations wherever they are. Pre-order Desert Oracle Vol. I,, if you’d like!

Thanks always & especially to our dear & beloved patrons.

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the good old radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️

#083: BATTLEFIELD EARTH


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Please don’t come to Joshua Tree and the Mojave High Desert. Everything is closed and you aren’t welcome right now. Enjoy the desert via podcast and radio! From deep within our desert bunker, it’s a brand-new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. Tarence Ray from the Trillbillies joins us in the second half. Soundscapes are new tonight, too, by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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Hear the show on terrestrial radio station KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree on Friday nights from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Want the show on YOUR community radio station? We are distributed by PRX, and available to radio stations wherever they are. (The book mentioned on Friday’s broadcast is Dignity, currently only available in this Amazon paperback or Kindle edition. More versions on the way! And if you’re looking to pre-order the new hardback Desert Oracle Vol. I, just click that title.)

Thanks always & especially to our dear & beloved patrons.

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the good old radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️

#082: THE INVISIBLE FRIEND

The Invisible Friend
When times are strange, shall we gather in the desert? Well that depends. It depends on whether you’re bringing the Invisible Friend. This is Episode #082, with eerie new soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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New tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree: “The Invisible Friend,” and you know who that is. The book mentioned on Friday’s broadcast is Dignity, currently only available in this Amazon paperback or Kindle edition. More versions on the way! And if you’re looking to pre-order the new hardback Desert Oracle Vol. I, just click that title. (Not an endorsement of Amazon; more booksellers will be linked soon as they’ve got the book.)

Thanks always & especially to our patrons. Turn up the radio tonight in the High Desert, or stream on TuneIn.

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the good old radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️

#081: THE OTHER ROOM

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Not only a new episode 10 p.m. tonight on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, but an hourlong episode: “The Other Room,” in which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation that we need & you need: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the “Conscious Life” expo, gods and monsters, desert ley lines, etc. Our guest is the New Mexico/New York/Los Angeles author and journalist Anna Merlan, who reports from the Land of the Weird.

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New soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks always & especially to our patrons. Turn up the radio

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. Get Anna’s fantastic new book, Republic of Lies, wherever you get the books. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️