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.
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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!
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Join us at 10 p.m. tonight on KCDZ FM, that’s 107.7 on your FM dial or Z1077fm.com on your computerized device, for strange tales and other travel tips. This is our piece on the 50th anniversary of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, the important and very enjoyable book we discuss on this program. Someone is going to California City. What should they do? We have ideas about this. We have a lot of ideas. Hear a new track by RedBlueBlackSilver, who built an especially hypnotic soundscape for tonight’s program.
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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:
