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EPISODE #014: LIVE FROM THE ACE HOTEL IN PALM SPRINGS

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO LIVE
Well we went & did it: We recorded two episodes of DESERT ORACLE RADIO with a rowdy audience at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, California.

It’s our 14th episode. live on stage with Doc Daniels and his Mojave Phone Booth posse, Patient Seventeen director Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, and area businessman Brendan Maze discussing his Mojave Mindfulness Institute. Listen live in the High Desert on KCDZ 107.7 FM, or stream the program live from Z107.7 FM, or get the podcast at iTunes & Etc.

Sounds you’ll hear tonight include our theme music, by Pierre Langer, and:

Photo by @lscrane.

EPISODE #013: THE OLD WOMAN METEORITE & TROUBLE ON THE HAUNTED HAYRIDE

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO LIVE!
The lost episode, Lucky #13, has now been found. (Please ignore references to the Full Moon, which was last Friday night. But it’ll come around again, like everything.) Join us for tales of the Old Woman Meteorite and the mysterious warrior-priestesses & priests of the New World, along with a phone call from Brendan Maze, organizer of the Mojave Madness/Holy Harvest Halloween event a week or so back.

Don’t miss our very first live performance of DESERT ORACLE RADIO, at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in downtown Palm Springs. Free reserved seating (only a few seats remain!) is available here.

Sounds heard tonight include the usual desert scavengers recorded in the wild by your host and a new track, “Slumber,” from Joshua Tree’s RedBlueBlackSilver, along with these mysterious sounds:

EPISODE #012: FROM MISSING HIKERS TO ‘MURDER SUICIDE’

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DESERT ORACLE RADIOWhen “missing tourists” become “murder-suicide,” a phone call with our old friend Doc Daniels of Mojave Phone Booth infamy, and the pleasing tale of “Walking George” Swain of Boron, California.

Tune in tonight at 10 p.m. tune: KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and across the Mojave High Desert. If you’re out of range, stream the broadcast live from Z107.7 FM. You can subscribe to the podcast, too: All the episodes. All the mystery.

Tonight we give a “shout out” to Mr. RedBlueBlackSilver, who creates soundscapes like the one we heard tonight, “Normalizer,” at his Joshua Tree lair. Other sounds you’ll hear tonight include the following:

And thanks to funnyfriendsofthefuture for the Desert Oracle Radio artwork! (And remember to get your free reserved-seating tickets for the Nov. 16 live DESERT ORACLE RADIO show in Palm Springs!)

EPISODE #010: DESERT APOCALYPSE & THE LANDERS QUAKE OF 1992

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Our 10th episode re-visits the biggest California earthquake in 65 years: The Landers Quake of 1992. Also: Brendan Maze on plans to market Mojave sparkling water, and what you need for the Apocalypse.

Subscribe to the podcast on whatever podcast system you enjoy! Here’s the iTunes link. And listen live in the High Desert on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree!

Sounds in this episode include the usual ravens and coyotes, along with bits and pieces from the following musical/ambient recordings:

EPISODE #009: THE CASA GRANDE DOMES & JACK PARSONS MAKING MAGICK IN THE MOJAVE

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DESERT ORACLE PODCAST
We are back with the ninth episode of DESERT ORACLE RADIO, just as the first signs of Fall arrive in the Mojave High Desert. Tonight we sing the praises of the Cassini mission to Saturn, spend some time with the ghost of JPL founder Jack Parsons out in the Mojave where he completed his “Babalon Working” ritual, and visit with our friend Jason P. Woodbury—who has an interesting tale about the mysterious Casa Grande Domes in Arizona. (He also has a fine article on the subject in the upcoming issue of DESERT ORACLE, the pocket-sized field guide to the strange American desert.

Desert Oracle RadioJason P. Woodbury talking about the mystery of the Casa Grande Domes.

Sounds in this episode include wild animals, your host’s creaking wooden chair, diesel trucks, and the following musical/ambient recordings:

EPISODE #008: THE GHOST WORLD OF DEATH VALLEY JCT & OTHER TALES

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DESERT ORACLE
IN THIS EPISODE, we take a weird road trip to Death Valley Junction, meeting astronauts, film crews, Czech composers, so-called comedians and other odd characters along the way.

Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and the High Desert on Friday nights, and subscribe to the podcast for free, full episodes. And don’t forget to subscribe to our quarterly pocket-sized print magazine, DESERT ORACLE.

Music and sounds heard in this episode include:

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

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PINE CITY

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:

EPISODE #006: CAMPFIRE STORIES & ELVIS IN THE MOJAVE

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Tonight: A new episode of DESERT ORACLE RADIO with campfire stories recorded at the Ace Hotel and a phone call from Brendan Maze regarding his “UFO experience” plans for the High Desert.

You can subscribe for free at iTunes, TuneIn, Google Play and Stitcher——or listen live at (or around) 10 p.m. Fridays on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree. For a subscription to our pocket-sized field guide, DESERT ORACLE, click here. We are currently finishing up our Autumn 2017 issue, #7, which will be mailed out next month.

Ambient tracks on tonight’s broadcast include:

EPISODE #004: GHOST LIGHTS & THE GRASSHOPPER MOUSE

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Tonight at (or around?) 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and the High Desert: Spook lights on Amboy Road, the conversion of Saul by blinding desert lights over the highway, and recordings of the pilots and tower staff from the night of October 7, 1965, when a dozen UFOs bedeviled Edwards Air Force Base for nearly five hours. (You can hear the entire recording at the Internet Archive, as provided by the U.S. Air Force.)

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Our theme music was composed by Pierre Gerwig Langer, and musical ambience in this episode included the following recordings:

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