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#080: NO FACE MASKS ON MARS

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NEW EPISODE on this strange night: “No Coughing on the Spaceship.”

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New soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks especially to our patrons.

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. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️

#079: THESE ENCHANTED LANDS

Sedona Meditation Retreat

Tonight on the radio in the High Desert at 10 P.M., hear our new episode: “These Enchanted Lands.”

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New musical atmospheres tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks especially to our patrons. And that’s all we’ve got to say about it. The podcast went out a little early (?!). Sedona is a character in this episode.

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.

#078: BLESS US, SAINT MINERVA

Saint Minerva, Joshua Tree

Have you heard the Good News about St. Minerva, patron goddess of the desert wilderness? Well here’s a fresh episode of Desert Oracle Radio, on that very topic.

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New musical atmospheres tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks especially to our patrons.

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.

#077: THE PRIMAL SURPRISE

Desert Oracle The Damned Thing

Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off in Arizona for a few weeks.

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A strange new suite of recordings by our own RedBlueBlackSilver an on this, our 77th episode. As has become our habit, we encourage you to become a patron of Desert Oracle and we much appreciate the 121 Friends of Desert Oracle who’ve already signed up! We’ve been sending issues of the field guide and weird postcards and secret radio scripts to our patrons.

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. And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube, in case we ever post anything over there!

#076: ODE TO THE OLD GODS

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Here’s a weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago.

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Support Desert Oracle Radio by making a $2-or-more pledge on our Desert Oracle Patreon page. We encourage you to become a patron of Desert Oracle and we much appreciate the 97 Friends of Desert Oracle who’ve already signed up! We’ve been sending issues of the field guide and weird postcards and secret radio scripts to our patrons, and your host is wrapping up some double-custom recordings for a handful of you, so thanks for the support and keep an eye on your various mailboxes and media receptacles.

You can hear a lot more from RedBlueBlackSilver right here, an ever-growing discography of High Desert Soundscapes. (PS—We said last week’s interval music was “by RedBlueBlackSilver and Ben Rovell, and it’s good stuff.” Well it’s still good stuff but that’s RedBlueBlackSilver on the guitar, too.)

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. And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube, in case we ever post anything over there!

#075: TALES FROM WONDER VALLEY

Wonder Valley Desert Oracle

Tonight we bring you strange & terrible tales from Wonder Valley, California: the very edge of Southern California civilization, last outpost of humanity before the vast Mojave Wilderness. It’s a one-hour show recorded at the Wonder Valley Community Center. Interval music is by RedBlueBlackSilver and Ben Rovell, and it’s good stuff.

Support Desert Oracle Radio by making a $2-or-more pledge on our Desert Oracle Patreon page. We encourage you to become a patron of Desert Oracle and we much appreciate the 97 Friends of Desert Oracle who’ve already signed up! We’ve been sending issues of the field guide and weird postcards and secret radio scripts to our patrons, and your host is wrapping up some double-custom recordings for a handful of you, so thanks for the support and keep an eye on your various mailboxes and media receptacles.

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.

Thanks to everybody who came out for last night’s Desert Oracle Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel. It was a real nice evening and it was good to talk with so many of you around the fire.

#074: WHITE SOLSTICE / BURNT DEVIL

DESERT ORACLE KEN LAYNE REDBLUEBLACKSILVER JOSHUA TREE 'BILL GREEN'

PHOTO BY BILL GREEN

Happy Solstice Eve, fellow creatures. Here’s our new holiday episode, take it. We burn the devil, for real, and Jason P. Woodbury joins us to unravel the desert mystery of “White Christmas.” New sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.

Support Desert Oracle Radio by making a $2-or-more pledge on our Desert Oracle Patreon page. We encourage you to become a patron of Desert Oracle and we much appreciate the 88 Friends of Desert Oracle who’ve already signed up! We’ve been sending issues of the field guide and weird postcards and secret radio scripts to our patrons, and your host is wrapping up some double-custom recordings for a handful of you, so thanks for the support and keep an eye on your various mailboxes and media receptacles.

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.

See & hear Desert Oracle tales in Palm Springs this holiday season. At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 26 & Tuesday Jan. 2, join our host Ken Layne around a real campfire outside under the stars. Free to attend; there’s a bar if you desire a drink. Use discount code DESERTORACLE when reserving your room at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club.

#073 THE HUNGRY DEMONS

Burnt Offerings

New show tonight—and the subject matter is appropriate, considering that our host Ken Layne will be appearing (and preaching) at Quema del Diablo on Saturday night, Dec. 7, in downtown Joshua Tree at Taylor Junction. Expect your Desert Oracle set at 6 p.m., right before the Devil burns. And on Sunday, Dec. 8, we will be at The Station Joshua Tree for the holiday flea market, signing Desert Oracle field guides and selling gift subscriptions that we’ll mail for you right from Joshua Tree.

Tonight’s episode features trippy new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. And yes, we do have a Desert Oracle Patreon page, and encourage you to become a patron of Desert Oracle for as little as two bucks a month! We are THANKFUL for the 80+ Friends of Desert Oracle who’ve already signed up!

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. tonight on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, every Fridays at 10 p.m. We’re on Spotify, too.

See & hear Desert Oracle tales in Palm Springs this holiday season. At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 26 & Tuesday Jan. 2, join our host Ken Layne around a real campfire outside under the stars. Free to attend; there’s a bar if you desire a drink. Use discount code DESERTORACLE when reserving your room at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club.

#072 THE FIDDLER KING OF WILLOW SPRINGS

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Happy Thanksgiving to all our desert friends. We’ve got an all-new hourlong episode ready for your feast-digesting ears—as long as you’re in the mood for alleged Roy Rogers’ sex cults, a savage desert murder, Ronald Reagan, and 11,000 people in urban-cowboy outfits, all stomping and dancing on the Santa Monica Pier in the 1940s. With strange archival audio and wondrous new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. ALERT: We now have a Patreon page, and encourage you to become a patron of Desert Oracle for as little as two bucks a month! We are THANKFUL for the 68 Friends of Desert Oracle who’ve already signed up!

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. tonight on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, every Fridays at 10 p.m. Strange new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.
We’re on Spotify, too.
Desert Oracle Campfire Stories

PS—See & hear Desert Oracle tales in Palm Springs this holiday season. At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 26 & Tuesday Jan. 2, join our host Ken Layne around a real campfire outside under the stars. Free to attend; there’s a bar if you desire a drink. Use discount code DESERTORACLE when reserving your room at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club.

#071 HOW TO DEAL WITH OUR WEIRD WORLD

California author/mystic/philosopher Erik Davis delivers a bracing message on the wisdom of engaging with our very weird & sinister modern world, as we return to our Desert Oracle Institute studio and get back to the good old sound you once claimed to love. Plus: desert intuition and recently seen Wonders in the Sky.

Listen to the podcast or listen tonight on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, Fridays at 10 p.m. Strange new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.

PS—Desert Oracle’s Ken Layne will appear on Ancient Aliens tonight, 9 p.m. on the History Channel.