Desert Oracle Radio

In wintertime, in springtime, and in the magic months of late Autumn, the desert is the finest place in the world. But now we are coming to the other part — the “Bad Place,” as they say in the Bible. A time for weeping and a time for gnashing of teeth. While the humans hide in their air-conditioned mechanical prisons, the roadrunners are having the times of their lives. They love the heat of summer, because there's a feast of lizards and snakes in the daytime, and the usual desperate bunnies and rats at night. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, hosted & written by Ken Layne. Find out more at DesertOracle.com, the Voice of the Desert.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight we are joined by Kid Congo Powers, legendary guitarist from the Golden Age of The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and his longtime band Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds. We talk about his new home in the Tucson desert, his 14-minute desert-groove "He Walked In" from 2021, and the importance of Magick & Alchemy. ALSO: Desert Oracle Radio live in Wonder Valley, with Ken Layne and RedBlueBlackSilver. You can pre-order Kid Congo Powers' new memoir, Some New Kind of Kick, which is due out in October.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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're near Wonder Valley tonight, come on by The Palms on Amboy Road, where we are doing a rare live event with RedBlueBlackSilver, 10 p.m. on the outdoor stage, under the stars and whatever else might pass overhead. Thanks to everybody who supports this show on Patreon!Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are meditating upon some various facts and figures here in the Mojave High Desert this week, from the warm weather in Twentynine Palms to which apostle was crucified upside down and is now remembered with an immense phallic monument to the Egyptian sun god, Ra.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happy Earth Day, people of Earth. Here's an episode about the desert in winter, appropriate for our spring blast of rain and snow and cold, cold temperatures. This was recorded live at the Whistle Stop in San Diego, near the end of our November-December 2021 tour. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happened to Army Private Gerry Irwin on a Utah two-lane, way back in February 1959? There was no plane crash. No passengers. Nothing but Pvt. Irwin, unconscious in the Utah night. Strange things happen on the desert highways. PLUS: Interesting facts about Arizona and Utah, from the 1950s.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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-fifty pinyon jays doing your thinking for you. This episode comes to you from Moab, Utah. Recorded in the studios of KZMU-FM, community radio for Moab and the Castle Valley. And this episode is about . . . . well, what is it about? Life, death, pronghorns, etc. Thanks to everybody who supports this show at patreon.com/desertoracle.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In tribute to the Druids who were canceled by Saint Patrick, we will tell some stories. Ghost stories. From those ancient Celtic lands that gave us the Sidhe, the Good People, the Gentry, the leprechauns and banshee, the goddess Brigid and the frightful pooka. Tales from the Dim Kingdom, of the Tuatha de Danaan. And how the Gold Rush of the Sierra Nevada was the birthplace of the "Luck of the Irish."Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 realize we can stop global warming in as little as three years? A few more years to take it down a degree or so, but "stopping" is a pretty big deal! Also, there is no such thing as an alpha male wolf. So much to learn! Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2022 -- https://DesertOracle.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight we visit with the friendly ghost of John Muir, specifically regarding his many excursions in the California deserts. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver for this cold and windy week in the American Southwest. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2022 • http://DesertOracle.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the prettiest time of year in the High Desert, with longer days and the last winter precipitation setting it all up for springtime. What will it look like, in a thousand years? Probably pretty much the same, minus the Airbnbs and vintage shops. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver with some drumming help on the last act by S.W. Lauden. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Back from our brief convalescence to bring you prayers in the night — Ancient Egyptian prayers & psalms, in this case. And some tales of Mullah Nasruddin, the Sufi mystic philosopher & fool who lived early in the last millennium. Now is the time for EPISODE #151: AN OBITUARY FOR WISDOM.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sure are a lot of mostly abandoned churches out here in the California desert. A lot of good community real estate. How do you take over churches? Like the little old run-down church—a religious non-profit—just sitting there. Nobody’s using it. Maybe all you’ve got to do is find the person who runs the joint. Maybe it’s down to the last person, the organist or whoever. The fourth deacon ....Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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, in Upper Egypt, 2,930 B.C., worshipped by the multitudes in her great temples until the coming of the Coptic Christians and then the followers of Allah, when her cult went underground. But it never went away, and now is Her Time. PLUS: Strange tales from the RV parks of the Southwest, as delivered to our friends at Club Congress in Tucson. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2022 • http://DesertOracle.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Take a look around, the void is closing in. 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 Stragglers on their new record, which features some narration from our host Ken Layne. As Hank Williams sang, "I saw the light." But what are those strange illuminations seen from Joplin, Missouri, to Marfa, Texas? And what crashed in Aurora a century ago. And just what did they bury up on Boot Hill? Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2022 http://DesertOracle.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live from the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, here's our final show of the 2021 Tour, with your host Ken Layne and live solstice soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Occultists and mystics, cultists and coyotes, all gathered together in uneasy alliance on this Christmas Eve.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Lands are the arid lands, the American Desert. PLUS: Kendra Atleework, author of the wonderful book about the Owens Valley/Eastern Sierra called Miracle Country, joins us for the second half of the program. AND: New eerie soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Tickets now on sale for our Desert Oracle Radio Live tour: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, (Memphis) Tennessee & (New Orleans) Louisiana.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Looking for God in the world? Watch the coyote. Huehuecoyotl, that’s its Holy name. Old, old coyote. Lord of the arts, god of music and dance, our guide through adolescence and onward to adulthood. King of the Prank, patron of the promiscuous, lord of the Friday night party. Canis latrans is the new name, from the 1800s. Coyotl is the ancient American name. Tickets on sale now for the Desert Oracle Radio 2021 Tour: San Diego, Tucson, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Galveston, New Orleans, Memphis, Norman Okla., Santa Fe, Phoenix/Mesa, and Los Angeles.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here's a bonus episode recorded around the campfire at Halloween a while back, with a new intro & close recorded Halloween 2021 for our local radio station, KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree. Desert Oracle Radio is ON TOUR 11/26-12-17, tickets on sale now for a night of strange tales & weird sounds with Ken Layne. 11/26/2021 • San Diego, CA / Bridges • Buy Tickets 11/27/2021 • Tucson, AZ / Club Congress • Buy Tickets 12/02/2021 • Austin, TX / Stateside Theater • Buy Tickets 12/04/2021 • Dallas, TX / Texas Theatre • Buy Tickets 12/05/2021 • San Antonio, TX / Paper Tiger • Buy Tickets 12/07/2021 • Galveston, TX / Galveston Artist Residency FREE! 12/08/2021 • New Orleans, LA / Gasa Gasa • Buy Tickets 12/11/2021 • Memphis, TN / Growler’s • Buy Tickets 12/12/2021 • Norman, OK / Opolis • Buy Tickets 12/14/2021 • Santa Fe, NM / Jean Cocteau Cinema • Buy Tickets 12/15/2021 • Mesa, AZ / Nesbitt/Elliot Playhouse • Buy Tickets 12/17/2021 • Los Angeles, CA / The Philosophical Research Society Library • Buy TicketsSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Well look at that, it’s Halloween again. Remember when they said on the news or whatever how Halloween was finished, because this was no time for a holiday that, uh, remembers the dead? Tonight we're joined by New York Times-bestselling author Tod Goldberg, who has written such acclaimed desert crime thrillers as The Low Desert, Gangsterland, Gangster Nation, and Living Dead Girl. New spooky soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We release this dubious beast from the Patreon secret tapes of the year past, to celebrate the holy season of Halloween, the time when the veil is thin between the realities. Desert Oracle Campfire Stories, Halloween 2018 C.E., was recorded live around the campfire at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, Calif. The instrumental soundscapes you hear along with the crackling campfire and the murmurs of the assembled campers were recorded by our own RedBlueBlackSilver out of Joshua Tree, Calif. Stories told by Ken Layne.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howled out in the desert air . . . . Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons. Tonight we travel by the power of darkness and disinformation to Archuleta Mesa, in the Jicarilla Apache town of Dulce, New Mexico. We're going down, beneath the mountain, to see if the reptilian aliens and the gray aliens and the Air Force disinfo agents are really having gunfights down there, again. Strange new soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver, plus the first announcement of our November/December tour dates from California to Tennessee and back again.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rain on the ground, a chill in the air, ghosts on the prowl. We're back from the Midwest with strange tales from the desert to the cornfields. Hosted by Ken Layne with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, with some of our Pygmalion Festival appearance for good measure.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're back from the road with a new episode to celebrate the most glorious time of year: October, Autumn, Harvest, Fall, whatever you all it. With new nocturnal gospel music from RedBlueBlackSilver and strange tales phoned in from our listeners, recorded live in Chicago at Illuminated Brew Works Lodge #1.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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's a new episode for a new season, with new soundscapes by you-know-who (RedBlueBlackSilver).Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's officially Autumn, at least if you believe the meteorologists -- Meteorological Fall began this week on September 1. Portents and signs, everywhere we look. But signs of what? Oh, the usual: plague, disaster, but at least we have social media to make it worse. New sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver, hosted by Ken Layne. Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2021http://DesertOracle.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Summer's in the rearview but robots are blocking the road. What kind of world is this? The world of the Future. It's time for Episode #136 of Desert Oracle Radio, with your host Ken Layne and soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight we come to you from Theatre29 in sweltering Twentynine Palms, California. Flash floods, heat domes, weird animals, RedBlueBlackSilver, what else could you want? Other than a livable planet, we mean. Thanks to everyone who came out for the live shows, and everyone who supports the show on Patreon or through magazine subscriptions or however you do it. Stay hydrated but please don't attempt that by getting in the flash flood waters.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils our very thoughts. Plus: A late edition of the Desert Oracle Mailbag, and all you need to know about our July 10-11 2021 live shows at Theatre29 in Twentynine Palms. (Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.)Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many heroes had to get across alive. Or die trying: Moses, Laurence of Arabia, C-3PO and R2D2, Beavis and Butthead, Allan Quartermain, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver and a survival-training presentation by our friends at the U.S. Air Force. And yes we are returning to the stage, July 10-11, that's a hot-as-hell Saturday and Sunday in Twentynine Palms. Tickets are $20 and they are going faster than free water bottle bottles at the visitor center.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens when the perfect solo day hike becomes the ultimate disaster? How do we arrange things better, so that we don't wind up feeding the vultures? Author Claire Nelson joins us to talk about her harrowing fall and long, long wait for help -- a story of fear and bravery and figuring out your life, told in her new memoir, Things I Learned From Falling.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Well it finally happened, just like every year. All the sudden, it’s hot again. A week ago, it was pleasant out. Now, we cry in the frying pan. Or we will cry, in the weeks to come. October's somewhere on the horizon. Unless it's a mirage. Plus: The Legend of Tahoe Tessie, which you can read here in Alta Magazine.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's lots of chatter in the media about some Navy encounters with some sort of mystery drones, but meanwhile in the Western United States we've been having a good old-fashioned flying-saucer flap. Seen by regular people with their own eyes! New sounds from RedBuleBlackSilver. Desert Oracle Radio #130 (c)(p) 2021 — https://DesertOracle.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 year long. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have been sick, and we need the medicine of the show. Campfire stories, tent revivals, Shakespeare in the Park, knife fights at the honky-tonk, etc.  Now that performance is returning to the stage, whether theater or movies or street dancers, we spend some time at the campfire to follow the long thread from ancient-world traveling players to the Old West medicine shows that continued into the 1940s.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 becoming a disaster. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is this episode about Mojave Spaceport? Well, it's a place on the journey, to put in in "hobbit speak." Tonight we get on the road, wander some small desert towns, make some real-estate schemes, and plan for a better future. Which starts now. New tracks by RedBlueBlackSilver and some archival audio from our favorite radio priestess of the Western Airwaves, a century ago.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 another group of humans, that's what preserved the most beautiful place in the world from the fate of the Central Valley. The same sort of accidental miracle that saved so much of the American southwest's mountains and deserts from wide-scale development, agriculture, housing booms, industrialization, speculation. A heretical prayer, is what we offer you tonight. With new (and classic) tracks from RedBlueBlackSilver. Find out more about our book, our periodical, and all the other desert creations we make for you at DesertOracle.com.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What does the cave art of 30,000 years ago have to do with the new Solar Orbiter we sent from Planet Earth to explore our star? Quite a lot, it turns out. Hosted by Ken Layne, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are the mystery drones back? Did they ever leave? We travel from the desert to the sea and back again, chasing those odd manifestations that have lately been surrounding Navy destroyers. And what does any of this have to do with L. Ron Hubbard? New tunes from RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Where there are mountains, there are mysteries. Tonight we visit with some old friends who've long haunted the Indians, the Spaniards and the Americans. They are called the Dark Watchers, and as usual their world is part of ours, tied up in our own recent history of desert mystics such as Aldous Huxley and the ancient culture of the Esselen. Hosted by Ken Layne, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The middle of the country might be frozen solid all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, but here in the Great Mojave Wilderness the weather is fine, the skies are blue, and the first hints of so many little green something-or-others are now apparent on the desert sands. Will we finally come out of our holes? With new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some people like it, some people don't. We are talking about the desert. And this week—challenged by a listener to stop romanticizing the desert southwest—we are joined by Phoenix writer Jason P. Woodbury to give a couple places a real hard time.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You ever drive the "Loneliest Road In America"? That's what they call U.S. 50, across the Great Basin Desert through the middle of Nevada. Not many people out there, not a lot going on. Just as we like it. The mystery visitors like it, too. They like the quiet, they need the wild mountains and desert valleys of the Basin and Range. And way back in 1952, so the story goes, 15 little alien friends were found dead in the wreckage of a glowing oval craft that smashed into the side of a copper mine. With all-new spacey soundscapes by our own RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 bucket or a cereal bowl or something and we'll all paddle to Hell together . . . . with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver to keep us company.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver as we cover some difficult terrain with the Apache leader Cochise, the strange granite of his stronghold, and the mystery craft seen on many nights around these mysterious 78-million-year-old mountain spires.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Might be a nutty new year on the national news, but here in the desert we are just trying to get along and not got crushed. With guest Brendan Maze and new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it's the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlan joins us to talk about the winter holidays in Santa Fe. New solstice sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where a million Joshua trees in the world's most dense and most-protected forest of these yucca trees was hit hard by the summer wildfires. But there is always reason for hope, and we found a lot of it. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight we share the tale of the Krill Papers, strange legends of Cold War space-alien conspiracies, located right in the very heart of the Nevada desert wilderness. Speaking of, we are also joined by Patrick Donnelly, Nevada state director of the Center for Biological Diversity, which along with Nevada native tribes and desert lovers everywhere is celebrating a victory. Ever been to the Desert National Wildlife Refuge? Well whether you ever set foot there or not, it's safe again, for the desert bighorn and desert tortoise and a true wonderland of rare wild lands. For now. Let's keep it that way. And happy book publication week to us! Our new book is available everywhere, please enjoy responsibly.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.