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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...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "Sure, I'll Join Your Cult" by Maria Bamford
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Comedian Maria Bamford talks about her new book "Sure, I'll Join Your Cult"

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 10:19
Jewish Tango!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Don’t you love an intimate tango? Jewish singers, instrumentalists and songwriters have brought us tangos in Yiddish and Hebrew for more than a cen...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgiving Tunes
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish prepares for Thanksgiving with a global playlist of Jewish songs and shtick about gratitude, blessings, hospitality -- and dinner.

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Warriors, Poets & Ravens
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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...

Bought by KSJE and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Dowsing Rod
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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.

Bought by KFCF FM and KSJE


  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Strange Things Happening Every Day
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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....

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Persistence of Tulare Lake
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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During these many months of heavy rain & thick snowdrifts, we look around the southwest and notice all those playas, those alkaline dry lakes, bles...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 12/20/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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It's the most wonderful time (to think about relationships)

  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
The Old Desert Regular Gnostic Advent Calendar
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The desert is the kind of place you think maybe you might *discover* something. A treasure, maybe. The Lost Ark. Some old glass bottles, some old h...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted 11/08/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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AI is here, and you should use it - science unscripted.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted 10/25/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Having nothing in your head is okay - science unscripted

  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Pinyon Jays Know Why They're Alive
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What is the life philosophy of the pinyon jay? To eat pinyon nuts and somehow make pinyon-jay eggs. The rest is easy, especially with a hundred-and...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Summer Dream, Crooked Rain
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils ou...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Under the Hood with the Wood Rats
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Seasons change in the desert, but it's always Rat Time. Kangaroo rats, wood rats, deer mice full of hantavirus, it's just a feast for the rats all ...

  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
A Desert Christmas
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it's the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlin joins us t...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Desert Plaguesgiving
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What's going on with that mysterious Utah monolith? What's going on with Brendan Maze and his new "plague refugee" Substack newsletter? The small-t...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Mystery Pig
From: Desert Oracle
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What is this weird creature that turned up dead in Yucca Valley, in the Mojave High Desert? Wildlife biologists are baffled, and so are we.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Instance 1
From: Will Hardwick
Series: Brilly Barner Broadcast
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Presenting: the Brilly Barner Broadcast. An interdimensional radio show that tells the stories of bubble 6298 Felis.

  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 10:08
200425 Songs About Johnny
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Teenagers!
Oh the usual dreck followed by the last hour of songs about the most dreamy teenage boy ever!!!! Johnny, Johnny, Johnny!

Bought by WXXI Rochester and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:00:13
  • Purchases: 2
From a P.O. Box
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
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...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • 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.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
190518 Swamp Pop and The Usual Unusual
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but this time with just a Tony Chachere hint of swamp pop.

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:53:14
190406 I Put People to Sleep
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Worse than the title of tonight's show, tonight we feature Pee musicians. I would like to say, "It's complicated" but it's not. It's more like, ...

  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 03:07:00
59: Flatworms
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1