Desert Oracle Radio

Series produced by Desert Oracle

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO 

A moody road trip through the mysterious American desert. Weekly series hosted by Ken Layne, 28 minutes.

Created by the acclaimed Desert Oracle magazine in Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle Radio deals with the history and mystery of the American Southwest.


168 Pieces

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Capricorn Moon
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Did you know the current (?) president’s Quiet Quitting (via Twitter) on this Sunday in July was foretold by an astrologer on Twitter, two weeks pr...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Dialogue of the Dogs
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What does one do, in these bunker days of summer? Too hot to work, too hot to think, too hot to sleep, and time is running away. When it’s too hot ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
A Midsummer Night's Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are celebrating the full moon and summer solstice, because this is all a dream, and this is EPISODE #225: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DESERT. Which mean...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Slumgullion Stew
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It’s hot as hell and we’re throwing everything in the hobo-stew pot tonight: Desert-animal antics, Wild West extravaganzas, history’s mysteries, Wi...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
The Blue Crow
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Destruction of High Desert forest on public land has led to a 78% drop in pinyon jay populations over the past 50 years. The pinyon jay is the stew...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Funeral for a Raven
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we're talking ravens, fishes & loaves, and the soul-crushing indoor indoctrination of the Empire's State Religion. Sir James George Frazer,...

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  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Materia Medica: On expedition with botanist-surgeon John Milton Bigelow
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Dr. John Milton Bigelow did not shy away from hard work, challenges, or adventure. At the age of 46, he signed on as surgeon and botanist for the M...

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Standing With the Giants at Mariposa Grove
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Mariposa Grove was a sacred grove for millennia before it became part of the Yosemite Grant, lovingly tended by Yosemite Guardian Galen Clark for m...

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  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Old, Weird America
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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 com...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Voice of the Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The storms continue, the wildflowers begin to appear, and Chantel (our mysterious PCT through-hiker) probably made it to the Canadian border withou...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spooky Takes From a Rainy Land
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The pyramids of Guinness 12-packs at our High Desert grocery stores reminded us of St. Patrick’s Day coming up, but the grey cloudy skies and green...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Make It Sacred!
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Nothing is sacred unless we set it aside as sacred. As Americans rapidly abandon organized religion, and the formerly sanctified church and temple ...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Among the Stately Trees
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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 inf...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live From Earth
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight’s episode comes to you live from Los Angeles, where Desert Oracle Radio opened the show for “Seattle’s Slowest,” the legendary group EARTH ...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Desert Trivia Night
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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“Known as the ‘apostle of the cacti,’ this advocate for the creation of desert national parks was named after this ancient Roman goddess ….” If tha...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
Songs of the Doomed
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Looking down the barrel at 2024, from our perch in the High Desert. Mojave thunderstorms, the strange maxims of the ancient temples, Christmas-tree...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
Ode to Harry Oliver, King of the Desert Rats
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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From the World War II years to 1965, the artist and humorist and hugely influential architect Harry Oliver published his Desert Rat Scrap Book from...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
Samhain Stories For All Hallows' Eve
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, and here comes the  ancient festival of Halloween, as the world begins to die again ... as it does at the tail end ...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Spiritual Intoxication of the Wilderness Walk
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Horrors of the Night
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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October is the time for ghost stories, in this season of growing darkness.Tonight we are visited by a mysterious geist, in an ancient old city that...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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