• 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.

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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • 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.

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    28 mins
  • 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.

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    28 mins
  • Greenwashing the Great Basin
    Sep 16 2024

    Have you heard what the "green energy" corporations are doing to the Great Basin Desert, with your government's approval, on your public lands? The plan is to cover the pristine basin-and-range interior of Nevada with industrial electricity factories over endless thousands of acres of desert woodland. And the people who should be out protesting this, chaining themselves to the desert trees marked for annihilation, etc., well they don't really care. Because they've been told "environmentalism" now means destroying the last wild places in America, the last wild landscapes, so a fly-by-night solar corporation can get free land to scrape clean, free from the U.S. government. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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    28 mins
  • Ghost Riders and Death Valley Rangers
    Sep 1 2024

    Forest ranger, park ranger, Navy sailor, lumberjack, and cowboy — those were some of the jobs Stanley Jones worked before accidentally becoming a movie actor and composer of classic western music. PLUS: Weird Annie had a bunch of weird raven children. Deus Pascit Corvus. New sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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    28 mins
  • Hot August Bites
    Aug 16 2024

    A summertime tour through "strange and weird places," where they held their annual rituals. This is Episode #228. It's on the level.

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    28 mins
  • Capricorn Full Moon: When Presidents Quit!
    Jul 22 2024

    Did you know the current (?) president's Quiet Quitting (via Twitter) on this Sunday in July was foretold by an astrologer on Twitter, two weeks prior? That's no lie, and you can check it for yourself. The same seer predicted, back in August 2020, that the current vice president would be the party's nominee in 2024, because it coincides with the VP's Second Saturn Return. Which is also hitting your Desert Oracle Radio host right about now. This is an Emergency Broadcast about Prophecy & Portents, with astrologically appropriate soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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    28 mins
  • Dialogue of the Dogs
    Jul 13 2024

    What does one do, in these bunker days of summer? Too hot to work, too hot to think, too hot to sleep, and time is running away. When it's too hot to walk the dog at night, you know you've made a tactical error in life: You're in the Mojave, in July, in yet another historic heat wave.

    Well, sit yourself down beneath the swamp cooler vent, and get yourself a cold beverage, and enjoy this mid-July episode with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks for supporting this program on our Patreon.com/desertoracle page.

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    28 mins