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.


156 Pieces

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This autumn is getting off to a strange start, as here in the Mojave High Desert there are carpets of little yellow wildflowers thanks to the hurri...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Early September, Jupiter tucked under the 2/3 moon at midnight, heaviest of La Luna’s many forms and phases: low over the eastern horizon, like the...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Ever seen a water witch at work? It’s a beautiful thing to behold. We have ancient reserves of great power within us.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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When you look at the big red danger zone in the middle of the Weather Service maps this evening, you will see that we are in it, right up at the no...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet up — the high-desert plateau around Lo...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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The United States military branches and intelligence agencies do not control what happens around the world all the time, much as they’d like to. T...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Real gods require no faith, they just are: expressed in the life force of the pronghorn herd racing across the High Desert, the mountain lion trave...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Tonight we are talking about witches. And interesting religions, new & old. And especially California’s incredible occult countercultures—the esote...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Tonight we are talking about hidden things: secret societies, international conspiracies. Joining us by telephone from New York is the author Colin...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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We've got it all tonight: UFO calls from listeners, albino animals appearing worldwide, and something about reduced expectations and fried chicken....

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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There are no visitor facilities. Roads are mostly washed-out jeep tracks. There is no water. And there's no way out, unless you come back the way y...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Where is she, tonight? It has been a month and ten days since she mailed this postcard from Idyllwild to Joshua Tree. All we can do is hope that th...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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