Desert Oracle Radio

By Ken Layne

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Subscribers: 377
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 234

KiwCoup
 Sep 20, 2023
Good, weird, reminiscent of middle-of-the-night road trip radio, pre-internet. Easy on the ears and well done. One of my faves.

rick
 Oct 4, 2018
simply the best podcast. meditative and extremely well produced

Description

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).

Episode Date
Christmas Amongst the Joshua Trees
Dec 20, 2024
Ravens, Quail & Turkeys
Nov 26, 2024
Up From the Grave
Oct 28, 2024
Strange Rituals of Halloweens Past
Oct 08, 2024
Greenwashing the Great Basin
Sep 16, 2024
Ghost Riders and Death Valley Rangers
Sep 01, 2024
Hot August Bites
Aug 16, 2024
Capricorn Full Moon: When Presidents Quit!
Jul 22, 2024
Dialogue of the Dogs
Jul 13, 2024
A Midsummer Night's Desert
Jun 22, 2024
Slumgullion Stew
Jun 08, 2024
Call of the Blue Crow
May 17, 2024
Funeral for a Raven
May 03, 2024
Materia Medica: On expedition with botanist-surgeon John Milton Bigelow
Apr 26, 2024
Standing With the Giants at Mariposa Grove
Apr 12, 2024
The Old, Weird America: Full of Ghosts & Monsters
Mar 29, 2024
Spooky Tales for the St. Patrick's Storm
Mar 15, 2024
The Voice of the Desert
Mar 08, 2024
Make It Sacred
Feb 23, 2024
Among the Stately Trees
Feb 17, 2024
The Typing Life: Warren Zevon, 9/11 & the California Bloggers (With Matt Welch)
Feb 15, 2024
The Ballad of Mojo Nixon
Feb 11, 2024
Horror on the California Backroads
Jan 19, 2024
The Hermit's Life
Dec 29, 2023
Gadzooks! It's Solsticetime in the Desert
Dec 22, 2023
Live From Earth
Dec 08, 2023
Trivia Night in the High Desert
Nov 25, 2023
Songs of the Doomed
Nov 18, 2023
Ode to Harry Oliver, King of the Desert Rats
Nov 10, 2023
Samhain Stories For All Hallows' Eve
Oct 27, 2023
The Spiritual Intoxication of the Wilderness Walk
Oct 16, 2023
Horrors of the Night
Oct 06, 2023
The Autumn Tint of Gold
Sep 22, 2023
Warriors, Poets & Ravens
Sep 08, 2023
The Dowsing Rod
Aug 25, 2023
Hurricane Hilary in the High Desert
Aug 18, 2023
The Wild Beasts
Aug 11, 2023
The Waning Moon: UFOs & Their Pentagon Propagandists
Aug 04, 2023
Where They Built the Bomb
Jul 21, 2023
The Witch Beat
Jul 15, 2023
Under the Eye of Power
Jul 07, 2023
Duel in the Desert
Jun 23, 2023
Strange Things Happening Every Day
Jun 16, 2023
The Haunted Highway
Jun 02, 2023
Thru-Hiking With Tahquitz
May 19, 2023
Space Radio (A Broadcast)
May 12, 2023
The Nature of Color & Vision
Apr 28, 2023
Who By Fire, Who By War
Apr 15, 2023
Hoppy Easter, From the Desert Fathers
Apr 07, 2023
Lost Treasure of Owens Lake
Mar 24, 2023
Awe & Fear in the Holy Wilderness
Mar 10, 2023
Wolf Woman, Wild Woman
Feb 25, 2023
The Green Comet
Feb 03, 2023
Encounters With Coyote-Man
Jan 28, 2023
Space Monsters & Other Earthly Demons
Jan 14, 2023
The Haunted Mountains
Jan 07, 2023
Christmas In Death Valley (With the Lost '49ers)
Dec 23, 2022
The Return of King Ludd
Dec 16, 2022
The Old Desert Regular Gnostic Advent Calendar
Dec 03, 2022
The Grouse and the Goddess
Nov 24, 2022
The Library of Desert Secrets
Nov 12, 2022
Desolation Peak
Nov 04, 2022
John Lennon's UFO (Some Time In New York City)
Oct 18, 2022
Famous For Nothingness
Sep 30, 2022
Like a Hurricane
Sep 09, 2022
Down in the Flood
Aug 19, 2022
Death Valley's 1,000-Year-Flood
Aug 12, 2022
Guidestones of the End Times
Jul 23, 2022
Owl-Eye's View
Jul 08, 2022
Area 51's Mysterious Petroglyph: Pahranagat Man
Jun 24, 2022
The Time of the Roadrunner
May 27, 2022
Some New Kind of Kick
May 20, 2022
Real-Estate Scoundrels & Flying Black Triangles
May 13, 2022
That It Will Never Come Again
Apr 29, 2022
Last Blast of Winter
Apr 22, 2022
Phantom Plane Crash on a Utah Highway
Apr 15, 2022
Pinyon Jays Know Why They're Alive
Apr 08, 2022
Druid Stories To Ward Off St. Patrick
Mar 18, 2022
Antidote for Despair
Mar 11, 2022
John Muir in the Wild Desert
Feb 25, 2022
Settle Down With Purpose
Feb 18, 2022
An Obituary For Wisdom
Feb 12, 2022
Empty Churches For Fun & (Non) Profit
Jan 21, 2022
A Hymn To Sekhmet, Creator of the Desert
Jan 14, 2022
The Light Saw Me
Jan 08, 2022
Wintertime Tales for a Stormy Night
Dec 24, 2021
Run For the Desert Hills
Nov 19, 2021
Huehuecoyotl & the Canine Gods
Nov 13, 2021
Crimes of the Desert Cultists (Plus: Tour Dates!)
Nov 10, 2021
The Witching Hour
Oct 29, 2021
Halloween Campfire Stories, 2018 A.D.
Oct 25, 2021
The Jaws of Darkness Do Devour
Oct 15, 2021
The Time of Mourning
Oct 08, 2021
Harvest of Souls
Oct 01, 2021
Blessed are the Doomed
Sep 17, 2021
Be Like the Birds
Sep 03, 2021
Faces in the Windmills
Aug 21, 2021
Twentynine Palms, Twelve Dollars & Change
Jul 16, 2021
Crooked Rain, Summer Dream
Jul 02, 2021
Straight To Hell
Jun 18, 2021
When Everything Goes Wrong
Jun 11, 2021
The Heat Monster
Jun 04, 2021
Watch the Skies
May 28, 2021
Under the Hood with the Wood Rats
May 21, 2021
Medicine Show
May 07, 2021
Try Not To Die
Apr 30, 2021
Mojave Spaceport
Apr 23, 2021
Owens Valley and the Accidental Miracle
Apr 16, 2021
Charred Bones In the Sunlight
Apr 02, 2021
Mystery Swarm
Mar 26, 2021
The Dark Watchers
Mar 19, 2021
Out of Our Holes
Mar 06, 2021
It's Not For Everyone
Mar 06, 2021
Alien Corpses of the Great Basin
Feb 12, 2021
Atmospheric River
Jan 29, 2021
Armada of the Dragoon Mountains
Jan 22, 2021
The Local Angle
Jan 08, 2021
A Desert Christmas
Dec 25, 2020
A Million Scorched Joshua Trees
Dec 18, 2020
The Secret Desert
Dec 11, 2020
The Cold and the Dry
Dec 05, 2020
A Desert Plaguesgiving
Nov 25, 2020
Concrete Jesus
Nov 14, 2020
All Hallows' Full Moon and the Great Conjunction
Oct 30, 2020
Halloween Night, 2035 A.D.
Oct 16, 2020
In the Beginning Was Gaia
Oct 02, 2020
The Eighth Tower
Sep 25, 2020
Betwixt and Between
Sep 18, 2020
Message Deleted
Sep 11, 2020
Secrets of the Superspectrum
Sep 04, 2020
Dark Psychic Force
Aug 28, 2020
Mountain of the Stars
Aug 14, 2020
This is the Border Radio
Jul 24, 2020
Communiqué 100: The Voice of the Desert
Jul 18, 2020
The Mystery Pig
Jul 10, 2020
Omen of the Ravens
Jul 03, 2020
Those Mysterious Green Fireballs
Jun 19, 2020
If It's Broke, Fix It
Jun 12, 2020
The Ranger's Life
May 29, 2020
Wizards and Critters
May 22, 2020
Campfire Nightmares
May 15, 2020
That Which Is But Isn't
May 08, 2020
Back to the Barrooms
May 01, 2020
From a P.O. Box
Apr 24, 2020
Return of the Wild Things
Apr 17, 2020
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Apr 10, 2020
Embracing Mortality, With Erik Davis
Apr 03, 2020
Trailed by Twenty Hounds
Mar 27, 2020
Battlefield Earth
Mar 22, 2020
The Invisible Friend
Mar 13, 2020
The Other Room
Mar 06, 2020
Please Don't Cough On the Spaceship
Feb 27, 2020
These Enchanted Lands
Feb 17, 2020
Bless Us, Saint Minerva
Feb 06, 2020
Primal Surprise
Jan 24, 2020
Messages From the Old Gods
Jan 10, 2020
Tales From Wonder Valley
Jan 02, 2020
White Solstice / Burnt Devil
Dec 19, 2019
The Hungry Demons
Dec 06, 2019
The Willow Springs Killer
Nov 27, 2019
Finding Your Place In Our Weird World
Nov 15, 2019
Witches & Cowboys
Nov 03, 2019
Halloween Treat: Campfire Stories
Oct 31, 2019
Coyote Rex
Oct 25, 2019
When Goblins Go Silent
Oct 20, 2019
Travels In Time & UFOs Over Joshua Tree
Oct 07, 2019
Angels Among Us
Sep 21, 2019
Beneath This September Moon
Sep 14, 2019
Autumn 2019 Promo KCDZ
Sep 07, 2019
The Haunted Petroglyph
Jul 12, 2019
Praying To the Aliens
Jun 28, 2019
Keep Cool Or Die
Jun 14, 2019
High Weirdness
Jun 07, 2019
Not the Day Nor the Hour
May 31, 2019
Snakesgiving Day Weekend
May 24, 2019
The Goofball Factor
May 10, 2019
Earth Day's Murderer and the Apostle of the Cacti
Apr 26, 2019
Redacted (by the Aliens)
Apr 20, 2019
Sermon For Miley Cyrus
Apr 05, 2019
I Know What I Saw
Mar 23, 2019
Wildflowers!
Mar 15, 2019
#049: Down At the Old Schoolhouse
Feb 15, 2019
#048: The Holy Rangers
Feb 02, 2019
#047: Interstellar Visitations
Jan 19, 2019
#046: Travel Options for the Apocalypse
Jan 12, 2019
#045: Shutdowns & Date Shakes
Dec 29, 2018
#044: A Mojave Solstice
Dec 21, 2018
#043: Highways and Aliens
Dec 01, 2018
#042: Of Fire and Monsters
Nov 16, 2018
#041: Culmination of the Pleiades
Nov 09, 2018
#040: Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
Oct 26, 2018
#039: Lost Cities of the Desert Giants
Oct 20, 2018
#038 The Horror of Solar Lodge
Sep 29, 2018
#037: Lycanthropes of the West
Sep 22, 2018
#036: Mystery of the Desert
Sep 15, 2018
On-air promo #002A
Sep 12, 2018
#035: A Voice Crying In the Wilderness
Jun 23, 2018
#034: Death Valley Days
Jun 09, 2018
#033: High Desert Death
May 25, 2018
#032: Strange Circles & Mysterious Tracks
May 11, 2018
#031: Lonesome Cowboys
May 04, 2018
#030: Happy Snakesgiving!
Apr 27, 2018
#029: The Lost Kingdom of Nye
Apr 20, 2018
#028: Coyotes In Springtime
Apr 06, 2018
#027: Kelbaker Road
Mar 30, 2018
#026: From a Desert Trailer
Mar 23, 2018
#025: UFOs and the Jungian Desert
Mar 16, 2018
#024: La Llorona
Mar 16, 2018
#023: Windblown Trash & Beautiful Billboards
Feb 24, 2018
On-air promo #000C
Feb 10, 2018
On-air promo #000B
Feb 10, 2018
#022: Desert Solitaire
Feb 10, 2018
#021: Yucca Man
Feb 03, 2018
#020: What Is the Mojave?
Jan 13, 2018
#019: Skinwalker Ranch
Jan 06, 2018
#018: High Desert Holidays
Dec 23, 2017
#017: Wildfires & Weird Times
Dec 09, 2017
#016: Desert Crackpots & the Rocket of Amboy
Dec 02, 2017
#015: Aliens, Marijuana & Other Monsters
Nov 25, 2017
#014: Return of the Mojave Phone Booth
Nov 18, 2017
#013: Mojave Madness/Holy Harvest
Nov 04, 2017
#012: From Missing Hikers To Murder-Suicide
Oct 28, 2017
#011: Those Sinister Black Triangles
Oct 14, 2017
#010: The Landers Earthquake of 1992
Sep 30, 2017
#009: Jack Parsons & the Babalon Working
Sep 16, 2017
#008: Death Valley Junction
Aug 26, 2017
#007: Charles Manson At Barker Ranch
Aug 19, 2017
#006: The UFO Experience (Now Safe For Tourists)
Aug 12, 2017
#005: Missing Tourists In Monsoon Season
Aug 05, 2017
#004: Encounter At Edwards AFB
Jul 15, 2017
#003: Gram Parsons & the Phoenix Lights
Jul 08, 2017
#002: Jesus Tree National Park
Jul 01, 2017
#001: The Voice of the Desert
Jun 24, 2017
On-air promo #000A: Desert Oracle Radio
Jun 24, 2017