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#057: NOT THE DAY NOR THE HOUR

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Our favorite magazine writer (and now book author) Rachel Monroe joins us to talk about some weird stuff she’s got going on, back in the sheds, in Marfa. ALSO: What is the situation with the Pentagon and the New York Times and the UFOs? Are we trusting spies and brass now? What a bunch of suckers we are. But there’s something going on, and it’s not just the dicey Pentagon stuff. New sounds from RedBueBlackSilver, everything you want in a single episode of Desert Oracle Radio, right here in the very episode we’re talking about.

Here the broadcast on KCDZ FM 107.7 FM in the High Desert, “From Amboy To Zzyzx,” it’s the Voice of the Desert on your Friday night radio. Get the podcast by throwing your phone about twenty feet while yelling “Subscribe to Desert Oracle Radio.” PS—Our new issue is out and it’s a good one! Click here to subscribe or pick up a copy at your favorite cool place in Joshua Tree, Pioneertown, Yucca Valley, Morongo Valley, 29 Palms and Wonder Valley. Or in Moab, at Back of Beyond Books. Or in a whole bunch of interesting city shops.

#047: INTERSTELLAR VISITATIONS

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Tonight at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree: Rainy day episode #047 is all about the Aliens. Mostly. The article in question is here: “Year of the Space Invaders?”—Popula.com

Subscribe to our at iTunes or wherever/whatever you use for subscribing & listening to podcasts. New soundscapes tonight from our own RedBlueBlackSilver, hand-crafted here in Joshua Tree in a facility that processes nuts.

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#045: SHUTDOWNS & DATE SHAKES

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What a nice holiday present for the High Desert, having the federal government collapse and leaving the Mojave’s national parks unstaffed and abandoned at the busiest time of year. Katherine Spiers, Los Angeles food writer/editor/podcast host, joins us to talk about date shakes. Get our podcast wherever you get the podcasts.

Thanks for listening to the program this year. If you like DESERT ORACLE RADIO, tell your friends, or leave us a nice review on iTunes, etc.

#044: A MOJAVE SOLSTICE

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Our Wild & Mysterious Mojave Road Trip Map is here.

We’re back with an all-new holiday episode, including a talk with Brendan Maze regarding his Hi-Desert Christmas Pageant and the controversy regarding his foundation’s non-profit status. Also: strange machinery of times past, and more from our Wild & Mysterious Mojave Map. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Happy Solstice To You All & To All a Good Night.

Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Listen live in the High Desert at 10 p.m. Friday nights, on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree.

#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.

#042: OF FIRE AND MONSTERS

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Yucca Man
Night has fallen on the desert, and that’s when we like to tell monster stories. Weird tales.

When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well here we encounter fierce things both natural and supernatural.

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, and a visit from our Phoenix friend Jason P. Woodbury.

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 the High Desert, “from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!

#041: CULMINATION OF THE PLEIADES

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Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals. Tonight we address the real reason for Halloween (and how you can celebrate it on Nov. 21), tell monster stories around the campfire, and share the glad tidings of Oumuamua, the alien space probe that shot by Earth last year.

EVENT ALERT: Host & DESERT ORACLE editor Ken Layne will be presenting a spooky talk on desert monsters at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m. This is the Morongo Basin Historical Society’s “Second Wednesday Lecture Series.” $5 donation to MBHS at the door, get there early to get a seat!

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!

EPISODE #040: WELCOME TO DIRT-PILE CITY

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Halloween Desert Oracle

We are still digging out from the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of October 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village “Dirt-Pile City,” in honor of the scenic and massive dirt piles piled alongside every road, as the bulldozers and earth-movers work all day every day to try to patch the hundreds of miles of gullies and ditches and death holes created by the violent storm.

The dirt and sand and grit and boulders and dead animals had previously been located in the mountains surrounding town, but one insane all-night thunderstorm managed to move quite a lot of the stuff in the mountains to the middle on Highway 62 through what we charitably call “Downtown Joshua Tree.”

We tell our own version of the local legend of Private Dirt and Sgt. Sand, and we hear from Phoenix schoolteacher Jenny Russell talking about a graveyard she discovered in South Phoenix—from her appearance at our Valley Bar show in Phoenix put on last summer by Aquarium Drunkard.

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!

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 #037: LYCANTHROPES OF THE WEST

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SKINWALKER RANCH

Now is the time for DESERT ORACLE RADIO, and this time we’re all going to Skinwalker Ranch. And we’re going with Jeremy Corbell, director of the new documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker. Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, or subscribe to the podcast and get new episodes on Friday nights.

The strange sounds you hear tonight are by RedBlueBlackSilver, including sounds from his moody soundtrack to Hunt for the Skinwalker.

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

And speaking of Halloween (?), we will be presenting Halloween Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31.

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