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Desert Oracle Radio

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hosted by editor Ken Layne and featuring a cast of intriguing mystics, oddballs, scientists and artists, Desert Oracle Radio is your soundtrack for a desert night. The program is broadcast on Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the Mojave high desert, with field reports from around and across the desert lands, and is distributed by Public Radio Exchange (PRX).
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Desert Oracle Radio episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Desert Oracle Radio for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Desert Oracle Radio episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Desert Oracle Radio - The Ballad of Mojo Nixon

The Ballad of Mojo Nixon

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02/11/24 • 28 min

Our old friend and mentor Mojo Nixon passed away this week, after playing a blistering set of rock 'n roll for his fans aboard a hillbilly cruise ship. Tonight, we remember the showman, songwriter and deejay who was a towering figure in American underground culture for a long, long time. RIP Mojo Nixon. With soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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Desert Oracle Radio - A Midsummer Night's Desert

A Midsummer Night's Desert

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06/22/24 • 28 min

Tonight we are celebrating the full moon and summer solstice, because it's a midsummer night's dream in the desert. Which means we're halfway to winter solstice, and only three months & change ’til Halloween. Maybe that's why we're talking about Puck of Pook Hill and homemade cranberry sauce. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, who has a Bandcamp site worth your attention! And thanks for supporting this radio program via Patreon.com/desertoracle .

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Desert Oracle Radio - Never the Twain Shall Meet

Never the Twain Shall Meet

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04/10/20 • 28 min

We've all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. Maybe we're just remembering our dreams during this strange time. Maybe we're just spending more time with our brains. But what happens when we all begin dreaming the same dream?

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Desert Oracle Radio - #037: Lycanthropes of the West
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09/22/18 • 28 min

Werebears and skinwalkers and other creatures of our haunted lands. With Jeremy Corbell, director of the new documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker.

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Desert Oracle Radio - The Haunted Mountains

The Haunted Mountains

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01/07/23 • 28 min

Four decades ago, Betty and Barney Hill were driving back from a visit to Niagara Falls when they endured a strange assault in the deeply haunted White Mountains. Ever since their strange story went national in the mid-1960s, we all know the scene: a dark night on a lonesome highway, and something comes out of the sky, or out of the woods, and then it all becomes very hazy.

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Well here's an episode that fits with the past couple of episodes, as your host Ken Layne dredges up some tales from too many decades as a writer & whatever else. We got our newspaper/podcaster pal Matt Welch on the line to talk about the turn-of-the-century sensation that got everybody very excited for a little while: Weblogs! It sort of became a long career for a lot of people, and many have never quite recovered. We'd like to think that we recovered just fine. (Back to the desert on our next episode, don't worry.)

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Desert Oracle Radio - Among the Stately Trees

Among the Stately Trees

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02/17/24 • 28 min

Where's the beautiful part, anyway? Well, start by walking about a mile past the last parking lot or dirt road or residential car-parts dump or informal halfway house or accidental pit-bull breeding farm, and keep going in the direction of the difficult terrain: the hills and the mountains and the boulders. Not the hills covered in radio relay towers, but the ones with nothing up there at all, nothing except more boulders, more spiky yucca trees that slash your arms, gnarled junipers and needle-armed Joshua trees, up to the craggy peak where the stately pinyons stand proud. Keep going that way.

On the second half of the program, Patrick Donnelly — here's his Sand & Sage newsletter — from the Center for Biological Diversity returns to Desert Oracle Radio to talk about an international land grab dreamt up by a local commissioner in Lincoln County, Nevada, along with the nation of Denmark, which plans to destroy centuries-old forests of pinyon and juniper on your public lands to mush into "bio-fuel" for container ships. What?! New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & produced by Ken Layne.

Thanks for supporting this advertising-free show via our Desert Oracle Patreon. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne.

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Desert Oracle Radio - The Spiritual Intoxication of the Wilderness Walk
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10/16/23 • 28 min

One thing people like to do when they’re given some liberties — or when they take the liberty that’s usually there for the taking, if anybody wants it bad enough — is to go on a long walk. Whether you call it a pilgrimage or walkabout or "through-hike" or country ramble, such excursions really take you out of the day-to-day, even as you occasionally rub elbows with other people doing the same thing.

PLUS: Information regarding the October 20 show at Jacumba Hot Springs and the October 29 Campfire Stories at Yucca Valley's Tiny Pony Tavern. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free radio show & podcast via Patreon!

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Desert Oracle Radio - The Old, Weird America: Full of Ghosts & Monsters
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03/29/24 • 28 min

On this Easter weekend, let’s do our best to bring back the ghosts, the supernatural. Let us recognize and respect the mysterious entities that come not from some imagined, distant star system in the cold lifeless vacuum of space, but from right here where we experience them! Backroads, mountains, spooky desert trails at dusk. Jesus loved wilderness and often talked to ghosts, after all. And that's something people of any philosophy can enjoy.

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Desert Oracle Radio - The Voice of the Desert

The Voice of the Desert

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03/08/24 • 28 min

The storms continue, the wildflowers begin to appear, and Chantel our PCT through-hiker probably made it to the Canadian border without any kind of Mountain Monster getting her, which is good. Also: What is the Voice of the Desert? New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and hosted by Ken Layne.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Desert Oracle Radio have?

Desert Oracle Radio currently has 235 episodes available.

What topics does Desert Oracle Radio cover?

The podcast is about Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Podcasts and Philosophy.

What is the most popular episode on Desert Oracle Radio?

The episode title 'Those Mysterious Green Fireballs' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Desert Oracle Radio?

The average episode length on Desert Oracle Radio is 30 minutes.

How often are episodes of Desert Oracle Radio released?

Episodes of Desert Oracle Radio are typically released every 9 days, 5 hours.

When was the first episode of Desert Oracle Radio?

The first episode of Desert Oracle Radio was released on Jun 24, 2017.

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