Desert Oracle Radio

Series produced by Desert Oracle

Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
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.


163 Pieces

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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
From: Desert Oracle
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
From: Desert Oracle
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
From: Desert Oracle
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
The Other Room
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
In which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation we need right now: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the "Conscious Life" expo...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Invisible Friend
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When times are strange, shall we gather in the desert? Well that depends. It depends if you're bringing the Invisible Friend.

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
No Face Masks On Mars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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You heard the captain: No coughing on the spaceship.

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
Mystery of the Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Second season premiere: These strange experiences upon the deserts should be studied with an open heart and an open mind, because these events cont...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Battlefield Earth
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Well you'll never guess who joined us all the way from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to talk about the particular desert landscape of SE New Mexico and Eas...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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