WALKING GEORGE SWAIN

EPISODE #022: CAMPFIRE STORIES & CALIFORNIA CITY

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO

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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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!)