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#043: HIGHWAYS & ALIENS

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Here’s the map from tonight’s audio road trip, “HIGHWAYS & ALIENS.” Please use wisely.

Also on tonight’s episode of Desert Oracle Radio: Our friend Jeremy Corbell joins us to discuss & debate the strange tale of Bob Lazar, subject of Corbell’s new documentary, Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, we encourage you to attend the premiere of this all-new movie at the Ace Hotel theater in downtown LA. Or order the film on iTunes or Vimeo.

Subscribe to our podcast at Stitcher or iTunes or whatever you use for subscribing to podcasts. New soundscapes tonight from our own RedBlueBlackSilver, hand-crafted here in Joshua Tree.

EPISODE #039: LOST CITIES OF THE DESERT GIANTS

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We are back with strange & unusual tales from Death Valley, where the Mojave meets the Great Basin and mysterious subterranean cities of gold were supposedly found by various explorers. Did giant beings travel the skies over our deserts in sky-ships? Some Shoshone legends say Yes.

Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Heights, Wonder Valley—”from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!

New soundscapes tonight by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver.

EVENT NOTICE: Our host & editor Ken Layne will be presenting Halloween Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31.

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You can get Desert Oracle Radio on your community radio station. We’re distributed through Public Radio Exchange (PRX). Write to us at radio@desertoracle.com for details.

EPISODE #038: HORRORS OF THE SOLAR LODGE

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What if Crowleyan magick is bad? The Solar Lodge outpost in the California Desert is what we’re talking about. Also: Brendan Maze calling in from Arizona on a bad line. And: A very short desert-noir collaboration via Twitter with John Lurie.

Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Heights, Wonder Valley—”from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!

Deep new soundscapes tonight by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver. (Have you heard his moody soundtrack to Hunt for the Skinwalker?

EPISODE #036: MYSTERY OF THE DESERT

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Season 2 premiere, 10 p.m. tonight in the California desert. Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and across the Mojave High Desert—from Amboy to Zzyzx and everywhere via podcast. Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts.


New soundscapes tonight by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver.

What is DESERT ORACLE? You might find out from this article in Palm Springs Life magazine.

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And don’t forget: Desert Oracle Campfire Stories with Ken Layne at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club on Halloween Night, starting at 7 p.m, Wednesday October 31 around the campfire.

EPISODE #016: SCRAP-METAL ROCKETS & THE FLAT EARTH

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flat-earth-rocket-personPhoto by Laura Crane.

We are back in the Desert Oracle studio high atop Antenna Hill, with a new episode all about that crackpot parked off the highway near Amboy while he tries to launch a steam-powered rocket 1,800 feet high to … prove the Earth is flat?

Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and the High Desert, or stream live at 10 p.m. California time at Z1077FM.com or subscribe and listen on your favorite podcast system. And come to our Desert Oracle Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs next week, Thursday Dec. 7 at 7 p.m., everybody’s welcome, free to attend. (Camp bar on hand, plus get a 10% room discount if you’re staying the night: Just say “CAMPFIRE” when you make your reservation!)

New ambient tracks tonight from Joshua Tree’s RedBlueBlackSilver—”Ellipse” and “Sighting”—with additional sounds from:

EPISODE #007: CHARLES MANSON AT BARKER RANCH & OTHER RAVEN STORIES

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Have you heard the one about Charles Manson “growing up in Amboy”? Or maybe the one about Charles Manson “killing a lot of his victims at Amboy Crater.” We’ve heard these stories, and they’re nonsense. But the true story of the Manson Family in the California Desert is as strange and threatening as the world can get.

We also talk to some ravens, because somebody has got to do it.

Get the episode on iTunes & other such podcast-delivery systems, or listen live on the radio in Joshua Tree and the Mojave High Desert, 10 o’clock Friday nights.

Sounds and music heard on this broadcast include: