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Thru-Hiking With Tahquitz
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Nature of Vision and Color
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The waxing moon is moving through the constellation of Leo, Mars is fading, and Venus hangs heavy in the western sky. Venus seems enormous, especia...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Space Monsters & Other Earthly Demons
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Night has fallen on the desert. The year is still fresh and new. We don’t all have to talk about stoves, all the sudden. We can do better. Let’s d...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
2302: Can Streets Discriminate?, 1/10/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How could urban design better serve the cause of justice?

  • Added: Jan 03, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
The Untold Story of Mississippi River Mayhem with Author and Historian Dean Klinkenberg
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack dives into the Mississippi River and all its mayhem wi...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:27
Desolation Peak
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation P...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Like a Hurricane
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, and if you’re in the Western Mojave around Joshua Tree National Park and all the way out to Kelso and Las Vegas and...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Destination Radio #23 Chippewa By Ways
From: KVSC
Series: Destination North Star State Radio Project
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Destination North Star State Radio Project is an invitation to learn more about and to explore the North Star State, and is produced by Highway 61 ...

Bought by KRPR and WTIP


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 2
Antidote for Despair
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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One good thing about wandering the wilderness is you can escape the despair of society. Walt Whitman did it, as did Georgia O'Keeffe. Did you reali...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Muir in the Wild Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we visit with the friendly ghost of John Muir, specifically regarding his many excursions in the California deserts. New soundscapes by Red...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nasruddin & Other Holy Fools
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Back from our brief convalescence to bring you desert prayers in the night — Ancient Egyptian prayers & psalms, in this case. And some tales of Mul...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Hymn To Sekhmet, Creator of the Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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How long has Sekhmet ruled over humanity? Five-thousand years! That’s when She is first known to us, appearing in something like her current form, ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Light Saw Me
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Jason Boland joins us from Texas to talk about "The Light Saw Me," the tale of a cowboy taken up into the sky—a tale told by Jason Boland and the S...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Canyonlands, Utah
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Canyonlands, Utah.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Run for the Desert Hills
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Like the beaver, we can change parts of our environment. Like the birds, we can move to other lands or at least try. And sometimes those Other Land...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Autumn Beatitudes
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over. It'...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #18: Road Trip
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Cariad Harmon and her partner John Kesling embark on a long-awaited cross-country road trip. Cariad interviews locals and fellow travelers of all k...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:33
  • 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
Owens Valley and the Accidental Miracle
From: Desert Oracle
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What made the Owens Valley the way it is, in our time? An accident of history, of water grabs, of one group of humans using easy money to buy out a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
New book tells the story of Quetico's longest serving interior ranger
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Joe Friedrichs is just out with a book about Janice Matichuk, Quetico’s longest-serving interior ranger. The book is called Her Island. Ann spoke ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 20:01
The Great Conjunction
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Prepare for the Great Conjunction of 2020, which you can watch happen in real time, by watching Saturn and Jupiter grow ever closer together in our...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Betwixt and Between
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In these last days of this cruel summer, as our wilderness burns, what we can we learn from the Other Life, the world of our pandemic dreams and un...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
599-Path to Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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 ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 75: Trying To Get Home
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Michael Benanav studies nomadic people as a writer and photographer. So when he was invited to accompany the Van Gujjar of northern India on their ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:19