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

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Down at the Old Schoolhouse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host was compelled to entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in 29 Palms.

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Voice Crying In the Wilderness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A harsh visit to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Death Valley Days
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Two weird trips to Death Valley: 1849 and 1949. Giants, aliens, underground cities of gold!

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Estimate of the Situation
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Bloodshed on the desert highway.

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
UFOs and the Jungian Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What's going on over the desert? Why is everybody going nuts about UFOs again, anyway?

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Skinwalker Ranch
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Parallel dimensions and the mysterious Utah ranch bought by aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow. With guest Jeremy Corbell.

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Parsons & the Babalon Working
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Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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JPL founder Jack Parsons and his fellow magician L. Ron Hubbard opened up a stargate to Hell in the Mojave Desert. Nothing has ever been quite the ...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wildflowers!
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The superbloom is upon us, as is the superbloom mob. St. Minerva help us all!

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Know What I Saw
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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“I will never forget it.” That’s something you’ll hear, something you’ll hear quite a lot out here. “I know what I saw.” Do they know? Do you?

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sermon For Miley Cyrus
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Miley Cyrus climbed up a Joshua tree. For social media, of course. It's a crime to do such a thing in Joshua Tree National Park.

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Redacted (by the Aliens)
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Anna Merlan, author of Republic of Lies, joins us for a weird ride down the Conspiracy Highway, which is our main road out here in the desert.

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Earth Day's Murderer and the Apostle of the Cacti
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Goofball Factor
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Every weird story that you almost want to believe is required, by cosmic law, to have a Goofball Factor.

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  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Snakesgiving Day Weekend
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Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.

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  • Added: May 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Not the Day Nor the Hour
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What is known is that there’s something going on, something a little wilder than usual. Plus: Rachel Monroe, writer & author & Marfa volunteer fire...

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  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
High Weirdness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Keep Cool Or Die Trying
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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How do we not die in the desert this summer? One way is to stay underneath the swamp cooler, reading and writing letters, to and from various deniz...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Praying To the Aliens
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Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A UFO sermon from the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater, with Jeremy Corbell and RedBlueBlackSilver.

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Haunted Petroglyph
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Was the organized theft of a 600-pound petroglyph-covered boulder from a canyon near Ridgecrest related to the monster earthquakes that followed? P...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
White Solstice / Burnt Devil
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Well we wound up burning the devil, here in Joshua Tree. It's the kind of winter-holiday fun you can expect up here in the High Desert. And Jason P...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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