Desert Oracle Radio

By: Ken Layne
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  • Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hosted by editor Ken Layne and featuring a cast of intriguing mystics, oddballs, scientists and artists, Desert Oracle Radio is your soundtrack for a desert night. The program is broadcast on Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the Mojave high desert, with field reports from around and across the desert lands, and is distributed by Public Radio Exchange (PRX).
    2024 Ken Layne
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Episodes
  • Halloween Campfire Stories, Live From Yucca Valley

    Halloween Campfire Stories, Live From Yucca Valley
    Oct 31 2024

    We are releasing this Halloween 2023 Patreon-only episode from the vaults on this All Hallows Eve 2024: Nearly two hours of live campfire stories from the Mojave High Desert's neighborhood saloon, The Tiny Pony, told around the fire on a cold, cold October night.

    For more bonus episodes, a growing library of radio scripts, and general support for this advertising-free storytelling radio show from Joshua Tree, please join us at Patreon.com/DesertOracle.

    Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • Up From the Grave

    Up From the Grave
    Oct 28 2024

    Happy Hallowtide, the three-day festival of the Dead and their various souls & spirits. Tonight we are riding down the nocturnal highway, listening to ghosts of times past crackling through the car-radio speakers. With new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks for supporting this commercial-free show at http://patreon.com/desertoracle.

    Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    28 mins
  • Strange Rituals of Halloweens Past

    Strange Rituals of Halloweens Past
    Oct 8 2024

    Be not a-feared of our yearly remembrance of the dead, of ghostly visits from our beloved and maybe not-so-beloved relations and ancestors. Know Death as an old friend who always eventually comes around, for you and everyone else. If your belief in the immortality of the soul is secure, do not shudder and sputter over the enjoyment of pumpkins and haystacks and comical gravestones made of scrap wood and whitewash. It's October, as long as you ignore the weather, and that means it's time for spooky tales on Desert Oracle Radio.

    Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    28 mins

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Radio for a night drive on a desert highway.

Sermons and campfire stories from the high desert, harkening to a time when those were one and the same.

A wide variety of topics and moods, with the weird history, lore, and natural world of the Mojave and the greater desert Southwest representing a common thread, not sidebars.

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A Must Listen for all Desert Rats; Humans too

This podcast is such fun! A mix of folklore, Mojave magic, military history, Owens Valley tales and dreams of better, wetter times. As someone who frequents 395 and it’s offshoots as often as possible, listening to Ken reawakens memories of road-trips long passed, and adventures yet to come.

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