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Desert Trivia Night
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
“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
2023-10-27 Laughing Our Way Through Climate Disaster
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Laughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember informatio...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
231027: 2023-10-27 Laughing Our Way Through Climate Disaster, 10/27/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Laughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember informatio...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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
Pass the Ice
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next “Sounds Jewish” for an hour of the coolest Jewish music and comedy.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
01-16: We're All Chimps: Or Are Animals People Too?, 3/1/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Deborah and Roger Fouts
In Western civilization, human beings are considered the exceptional species and uniquely intelligent. Yet science is consistently revealing our in...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
California Buckthorn
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:18
Canyon Tree Frog
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Western Amphibians

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
The Library of Desert Secrets
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What sort of religious nut was John Muir? What was the mystical and spiritual argument for the creation of America's national parks system? Who pla...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • 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
Living Planet 09/10/22
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on Living Planet, we explore a topic that's perfectly natural and something we do every day. Whether you use a squat toilet, a pit latrin...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Down in the Flood
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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An interesting thing about a raging flash flood is how quiet it is, for the most part. Sometimes you’ll hear a pinyon log sort of bonk against a bo...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Owl-Eye's View
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What has horns and flies overhead at night? The Great Horned Owl, that's who. Although they're horn shapes and not actual horn material. As far as ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Real-Estate Scoundrels & Flying Black Triangles
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are back with a new episode, all about the wonders of the High Desert, and the various aerial portents we call Wonders in the Sky. PLUS: If you'...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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
Straight To Hell
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
173: Mushroom Lightning
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There's a long tradition of Japanese folklore around the possible relationship between large mushroom harvests and lightning. Researchers decided t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 2
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
Try Not To Die
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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As we come out of our holes and return to our beloved American Desert, it's time to remember a dozen simple rules to keep your day hike from becomi...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Atmospheric River
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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There's a leak in the studio roof and the only way we know is because an atmospheric river is bearing down upon the American Southwest. So get a bu...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • 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