Joshua Tree

EPISODE #149: EMPTY CHURCHES FOR FUN & (NON) PROFIT

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I'M GOING TO KILL BILL

Sure are a lot of mostly abandoned churches out here in the California desert. A lot of good community real estate. How do you take over churches? Like the little old run-down church—a religious non-profit—just sitting there. Nobody’s using it. Maybe all you’ve got to do is find the person who runs the joint. Maybe it’s down to the last person, the organist or whoever. The fourth deacon …. Now is the time for EPISODE #149: EMPTY CHURCHES FOR FUN & (NON) PROFIT.

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Tonight at 10 P.M. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert, a new episode plus a weird classic at 10:30 P.M. We appreciate your support of the show on Patreon. New soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver.

EPISODE #132: WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG

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What happens when the perfect solo day hike becomes the ultimate disaster? How do we arrange things better, so that we don’t wind up feeding the vultures? Author Claire Nelson joins us to talk about her harrowing fall and long, long wait for help — a story of fear and bravery and figuring out your life, told in her new memoir, Things I Learned From Falling.

Time for EPISODE #132: WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG.” With trippy new sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver.

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Listen on Joshua Tree’s own KCDZ 107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com and Tune In. To hear Desert Oracle Radio on your community and/or public radio station, contact radio@desertoracle.com or get the show via PRX, Public Radio Exchange. Oh yeah and we’ve got a fancy hardcover book, Desert Oracle, Vol. 1 (MCD/FSG Books.)

#106: THE EIGHTH TOWER

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Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and “military flares” is never a good enough answer for all the odd activity in the skies.

Tonight we bring you a campfire story about a particular strange sight in the sky we experienced a few years ago, and as our special guest we have the interesting and engaging Michael Hacker, narrator of eight audiobooks by the late, great John Keel. This means we will be talking about the superspectrum and VALIS and The Eighth Tower.

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You can find Michael Hacker’s many paranormal-philosophy audiobook performances at Audible.com. And you can listen to this episode as a podcast, on the radio in Joshua Tree (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or Tune In. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks to everybody who supports the show on Patreon.

#087: RETURN OF THE WILD THINGS

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An all-new quarantine episode of Desert Oracle Radio from our secure desert compound, where we are noting the return of the wildlife, the blue skies, the clear air, the happy songbirds, and all the springtime joys of a time when the people have chosen to stay mostly at home, for the sake of human society. New & classic soundscapes by our own RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen on the radio tonight, Z107.7 FM in the High Desert, two episodes back-to-back, 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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You can stream the show from our terrestrial radio station KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree on Friday nights at 10 p.m. Want the show on YOUR community radio station? We are distributed by PRX, and available to radio stations wherever they are. Pre-order the new hardback Desert Oracle Vol. I,, if you’d like! Publication is scheduled for early December 2020. Not far now!

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Subscribe to our podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the good old radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re also on Spotify and Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️


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#085: EMBRACING MORTALITY, WITH ERIK DAVIS

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An appropriate new hourlong episode for these interesting times we are cursed to live within: #085: EMBRACING MORTALITY, with guest Erik Davis, bestselling author of High Weirdness, reader of the new audiobook of the same name, and host of the long-running podcast Expanding Mind. New and classic soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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Hear the show on terrestrial radio station KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree on Friday nights from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Want the show on YOUR community radio station? We are distributed by PRX, and available to radio stations wherever they are. Pre-order Desert Oracle Vol. I,, if you’d like!

Thanks always & especially to our dear & beloved patrons. Join the Desert Oracle Radio private discussion group, if you are so inclined.

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the good old radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️

#081: THE OTHER ROOM

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Not only a new episode 10 p.m. tonight on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, but an hourlong episode: “The Other Room,” in which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation that we need & you need: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the “Conscious Life” expo, gods and monsters, desert ley lines, etc. Our guest is the New Mexico/New York/Los Angeles author and journalist Anna Merlan, who reports from the Land of the Weird.

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New soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks always & especially to our patrons. Turn up the radio

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. Get Anna’s fantastic new book, Republic of Lies, wherever you get the books. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️

#071 HOW TO DEAL WITH OUR WEIRD WORLD

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California author/mystic/philosopher Erik Davis delivers a bracing message on the wisdom of engaging with our very weird & sinister modern world, as we return to our Desert Oracle Institute studio and get back to the good old sound you once claimed to love. Plus: desert intuition and recently seen Wonders in the Sky.

Listen to the podcast or listen tonight on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, Fridays at 10 p.m. Strange new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.

PS—Desert Oracle’s Ken Layne will appear on Ancient Aliens tonight, 9 p.m. on the History Channel.

#066: COYOTE REX

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Here’s our broadcast from Furstwurld in Joshua Tree. What a weird & pleasant scene. If you want to come to our events, take a look at our Events Calendar, and maybe come to our Halloween Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, 7 p.m. sharp at the Commune firepit, Thursday, October 31. (Use the code DESERTORACLE to get a room discount.) And yes we have a Patreon now, which means we are humbly seeking your membership to support Desert Oracle Radio, our Desert Oracle field guide, and all the curious events & performances we do up here in the desert.

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This live show featurs an intriguing assortment of RedBlueBlackSilver soundscapes! (The Band Kokomo performed on this show, too, and we will be including some of those performances in our next broadcasts.)And remember to listen Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Twentynine Palms & across the High Desert, “from Amboy to Zzyzx.”

#067 WHEN GOBLINS GO QUIET

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Our Friday night broadcast is now gussied up and available as a podcast. Weird calls, haunting music from our guests The Band Kokomo, and strange desert tales of coyotes and flying saucers. Plus an intriguing assortment of RedBlueBlackSilver soundscapes!

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Take a look at our new Events Calendar, packed with October live shows and Halloween Campfire Stories and all sorts of stuff. Get the podcast on Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, TuneIn and the rest of the gang.

Thanks to everybody who attended our live performance at FurstWurld. We will have that show ready for you next week, broadcasting this coming Friday at 10 p.m. on Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree.

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#060: PRAYING TO THE ALIENS

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On a lovely spring evening in 2019 we had a little UFO festival here in the High Desert, with a screening of Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers, a Q&A with director Jeremy Corbell, plus your Desert Oracle Radio host preaching to the choir, as it were. RedBlueBlackSilver hosted the event and performed live. It was spooky and beautiful. Tonight’s show will serve as a fine introduction if you want to watch the Lazar movie on Netflix.

Natalie Bahl (@natalie.terese.bahl) was there and snapped some pictures. The one up top has something the others lack: two unidentified flying objects. Your host did attempt to invoke some UFOs, so maybe it worked?

No UFOs here, but that’s RedBlueBlackSilver on the left.

Beautiful sky, no UFOs.

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