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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Back to the Barrooms
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We’ve about had it with the cabin fever and now we’ve got the ramblin’ fever. So let’s pour a couple of drinks and enjoy some saloon time on this f...

  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
From a P.O. Box
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
No Face Masks On Mars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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There will be no coughing on the spaceship. The quarantine lasts for many months. If everyone's healthy, well then the spaceship may be allowed to ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
These Enchanted Lands
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Are places such as Sedona, Arizona, truly "magical"? Is the desert enchanted? Well it can't be proven one way or another, but from Moses to Jesus t...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bless Us, St. Minerva
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Have you heard the Good News about St. Minerva, patron goddess of the desert wilderness? Maybe she is Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, mother of Joshua Tree ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Primal Surprise
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ode to the Old Gods
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago—f...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Tales From Wonder Valley
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we bring you strange & terrible tales from Wonder Valley, California: the very edge of Southern California civilization, last outpost of hu...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Lycanthropes of the West
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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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  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Horror of the Solar Lodge
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Here in the desert far from prying eyes, the members of the Solar Lodge awaited the apocalypse and built their own grim Ark of the Covenant.

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Cities of the Desert Giants
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Strange and unusual tales from Death Valley, where the Mojave meets the Great Basin and mysterious subterranean cities of gold were supposedly foun...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culmination of the Pleiades
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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.

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Of Fire and Monsters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well, here we encounter fierce things both natural a...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Highways & Aliens
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We're taking a big looping road trip across the Mojave, from Area 51 to the Singing Sand Dunes of Kelso. With guest Jeremy Corbell on his new docum...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Mojave Solstice
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Winter holidays in the High Desert, and problems with the 29 Palms Christmas Pageant. Guest: Brendan Maze.

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shutdowns & Date Shakes
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Sma...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Travel Options for the Collapse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interstellar Visitations
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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If Oumuamua is a "scout," then for what cosmic army? And other dealings with strange things in the skies.

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Holy Rangers
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In the chaos of a dysfunctional government, who will protect the wilderness and public lands, our national parks and monuments, our nature preserve...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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