EPISODE #234: CHRISTMAS AMONGST THE JOSHUA TREES

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We’ve heard some weird news about Saint Nicholas that turns out to be a few years old, but that’s all right. Christmas itself is old news, after all. That’s why we love it, because it’s ancient and beautiful, the time for silent walks in the cold night, just the sound of your boots crunching through the snow, the half-moon glowing through the Joshua trees.

Plus: Which phrases and words shall be banned in the new year? And: Christmas poems, from the pen of Frost & Longfellow.

This is EPISODE #234: CHRISTMAS AMONGST THE JOSHUA TREES with seasonal soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen on the radio tonight in Joshua Tree, Z107.7 FM, 10 p.m.

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EPISODE #233: RAVENS, QUAIL AND TURKEYS

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Is it Thanksgiving time already? Well let’s pack up the car and head out to Joshua Tree, everybody’s favorite Thanksgiving destination if they live exactly three hours away and don’t have anywhere else to go. Plus: What are the ravens up to now? This is EPISODE #233: RAVENS, QUAIL AND TURKEYS with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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EPISODE #232: UP FROM THE GRAVE

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Good Hallowtide to you all, on this Halloween week during the three-day festival of the Dead and their various souls & spirits. Tonight we are driving the nocturnal highways, listening to ghosts of times past crackling through the car-radio speakers. With new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver and some classic Desert Oracle Halloween calls in the second half. This is EPISODE #232: UP FROM THE GRAVE, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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STRANGE RITUALS OF HALLOWEENS PAST

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Be not a-feared of our yearly remembrance of the dead, of ghostly visits from our beloved and maybe not-so-beloved relations and ancestors. Know ye Death as an old friend who eventually comes around, for you and everyone else. If your belief in the immortality of the soul is secure, do not shudder and sputter over the enjoyment of pumpkins and haystacks and comical gravestones made of scrap wood and whitewash. It’s October, as long as you ignore the weather, and that means it’s time for EPISODE #231: STRANGE RITUALS OF HALLOWEENS PAST, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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EPISODE #230: GREENWASHING THE GREAT BASIN

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Have you heard what the “green energy” corporations are doing to the Great Basin Desert, with your government’s approval, on your public lands? The plan is to cover the pristine basin-and-range interior of Nevada with industrial electricity factories over endless thousands of acres of desert woodland. And the people who should be out protesting this, chaining themselves to the desert trees marked for annihilation, etc., well they don’t really care. Because they’ve been told  “environmentalism” now means destroying the last wild places in America, the last wild landscapes, so a fly-by-night solar corporation can get free land to scrape clean of all living things.

This is EPISODE #230: GREENWASHING THE GREAT BASIN, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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EPISODE #229: GHOST RIDERS & DEATH VALLEY RANGERS

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Forest ranger, park ranger, Navy sailor, lumberjack, and cowboy — these were some of the jobs Stanley Jones worked before accidentally becoming a movie actor and acclaimed composer of classic western music. PLUS: Weird Annie had a bunch of weird raven children. Deus Pascit Corvus. This is EPISODE #229: GHOST RIDERS & DEATH VALLEY RANGERS, with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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EPISODE #227: CAPRICORN MOON

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Did you know the current (?) president’s Quiet Quitting (via Twitter) on this Sunday in July was foretold by an astrologer on Twitter, two weeks prior? That’s no lie, and you can check it for yourself. The same seer predicted, back in August 2020, that the current vice president would be the party’s nominee in 2024, because it coincides with the VP’s Second Saturn Return. Which is also hitting your Desert Oracle Radio host right about now. This is an Emergency Broadcast about Prophecy & Portents, with astrologically appropriate soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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EPISODE #226: DIALOGUE OF THE DOGS

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What does one do, in these bunker days of summer? Too hot to work, too hot to think, too hot to sleep, and time is running away. When it’s too hot to walk the dog at night, you know you’ve made a tactical error in life: You’re in the Mojave, in July, in yet another historic heat wave.

Well, sit yourself down beneath the swamp cooler vent, and get yourself a cold beverage, and enjoy our July 12 episode about the strange & historic times we are within. Thanks for supporting this program on our Patreon.com/desertoracle page.

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EPISODE #225: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DESERT

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Tonight we are celebrating the full moon and summer solstice, because this is all a dream, and this is EPISODE #225: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DESERT. Which means we’re halfway to winter solstice, and only three months & change ’til Halloween. Maybe that’s why we’re talking about Puck of Pook Hill and homemade cranberry sauce. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, who has a Bandcamp site worth your attention!

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