Desert Oracle Radio

Wildlife corridors, park rangers, roadrunners & rabbits. Plus: your postcards and letters. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. And guess what's out next week? Our first hardcover collection, Desert Oracle Vol. 1. (c)(p) 2017-2020 Desert OracleSupport 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's going on with that mysterious Utah monolith? What's going on with Brendan Maze and his new "plague refugee" Substack newsletter? The small-town desert real-estate market is hot, for now, and he's got some tips on the sorts of under-appreciated properties you might be able to afford. Especially if 10 or 12 of you go in on it, together. New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Happy thanksgiving to the bighorn, the bobcats, and maybe even to some of the people.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.

An orphan child from Cincinnati loved the scriptures and lived a life of gold-mine adventure in the Almost-Old West before winding up in a bomber-plane factory in Los Angeles, creating death-delivery systems for the permanent Cold War. Anxious over this atomic nightmare, yet optimistic enough to think humanity could survive it, Frank Antone Martin built an enormous concrete Jesus in his Inglewood driveway. Such is the tale. Tune in to hear it all, the whole sordid thing. It's Episode #110, soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, snow on the western mountaintops.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 almost Halloween and we've been too worried to notice, but now that the good weather is here and the veil is thin, make sure you get out beneath the Halloween Full Moon. Our bird-biologist friend C. Del Desierto joins us for strange tales of the desert eagle spotter. And do prepare yourself for the Great Conjunction of 2020, which you can watch happen in real time, by watching Saturn and Jupiter grow ever closer together in our night sky. When the solstice arrives, December 21, well you'll sure know 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.

Hey are you going to the big ritual, down in the grove? It's Halloween Night. And while things were pretty bad for a while, lately it has been a little bit better, out here in the High Desert. Strange new sounds from our RedBlueBlackSilver, true crime stories from Joshua Tree, and well just a lot of uneasiness, which is appropriate for the season.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 know what time it is: It looks like we sort of infuriated Good Ol' Mother Gaia to the point that Gaia is feeling the need to wipe us off the face of the Earth, the Earth being Gaia. We screwed up pretty good this time! Also: Your postcards and letters from around and across these desert lands. Speaking of such things, our new issue, #9, is out now. You can subscribe at our website — DesertOracle.com — or pick up a copy at fine shops in downtown Joshua Tree. New tracks by JT's 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.

Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and "military flares" is never a good enough answer for all the odd activity in the skies. Tonight we bring you a campfire story about a particular strange sight in the sky we experienced a few years ago, and as our special guest we have the interesting and engaging Michael Hacker, narrator of eight audiobooks by the late, great John Keel. This means we will be talking about the superspectrum and VALIS and The Eighth Tower. You can find Michael Hacker's many paranormal-philosophy audiobook performances at Audible.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.

In these last days of this cruel summer, as our wilderness burns, what we can we learn from the Other Life, the world of our pandemic dreams and universally traumatized collective consciousness? Sometimes, there are signposts in the rubble of the ongoing 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.

How are we doing out there? Pretty bad? Well nobody likes to hear "the ultraterrestrial entities told you so," but, the ultraterrestrial entities told you so. It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe—that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange, wise entities appeared in their bizarre vessel at the edge of the playground, hovering over the brush the way the White Goddess and the Queen of the Universe and the Virgin of Guadalupe always appear, so often to the relatively pure eyes and hearts of the children. And they had a message. We did not heed the message. Strange new soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, a fitting musical environment for tonight's tales of environmental terror.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.

Burrowed down through another Extreme Heat Event, we send this radio dispatch to you. The world has gone mad, why not join the fun? Join the revolution. Well what happened is we were talking about all the desert creatures coming out of their holes at night—literally, the rabbit holes, in the case of our many Mojave cottontails and jackrabbits—and then all the sudden we went down the rabbit hole, too. At least it's cooler down here! Meade Layne and Edgar Cayce come up, thanks to a shared connection. Fine new 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.

Remember last August, a year ago, when the national media found it very funny that presidential candidate Marianne Williamson mentioned the "dark psychic force" that had taken hold of America? Well, here we are. We had better make the best of it. How are you surviving in our New Time? We will talk about some of the ways to make it through, from spiritual revelations to forming little communities with your friends and family. Lots of fine new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, too.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 in the scorching hot radio studio with an all-new episode of the radio show that Palm Springs Life magazine named the "Best Freaky Radio Program." Sure, fine, we'll take it. Tonight, it's all about the mysterious place names of the desert southwest, in particular the 1.6-billion-year-old 30-mile-long slab of rock called Sierra Estrella. The Estrellas. Home of the "Estrella Lights."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.

Thanks to the Time Loop we all seem to be stuck in, our 99th episode is here . . . . directly following our 100th. The border used to be a lot of fun, back before the prison walls went up around our country. And guess what, now we can't leave. PLUS: Jason P. Woodbury joins us with the wild tale of Arizona's own Giant Sand.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 our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and an uncomfortable visit from Brendan Maze, local businessman. http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2020 Desert OracleSupport 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 this weird creature that turned up dead in Yucca Valley, in the Mojave High Desert? Wildlife biologists are baffled, and so are we.  What sort of cruel god would create such a useless (and dead) animal? Well probably the same one that's behind the coronavirus and police violence and million-dollar hospital bills. Makes the Trickster spirits seem absolutely benign in comparison. http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2020 Desert OracleSupport 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 here we are, still alive, July in the American Desert. Good enough, we guess. Lots of details about our July 17 live event at Pappy & Harriets, plus your letters, and some tales of ravens and omens and ... Iceland? Sure, any port in a storm. Support our program here: Patreon.com/DesertOracleSupport 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.

Did you hear about the mysterious, silent green fireballs flying low and bright in the skies over Australia last week? Ever seen one yourself? Ever thought they were just some sort of meteor, as that's what the Experts claimed? Well the experts are pulling your leg, they don't know either.  Come back to 1947 New Mexico with us, as we visit the strange mystery of the Green Fireballs. And don't forget to throw us a few bucks on Patreon, it's how we keep the studio going, the electricity flowing. http://patreon.com/DesertOracleSupport 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 look back on a revolutionary campaign to completely remake the sheriff's department in an iconic western town. And while they lost the election, maybe they won the moral battle. Maybe they illuminated the way, for you. http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2020 Desert OracleSupport 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 it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smokey Bear hat—a park-ranger style, by the way, that was introduced by the first generation of national park rangers, the Buffalo Soldiers black Calvary regiment, who began duty as Yosemite's park rangers in 1899. With new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver and a historical look at the Civilian Conservation Corps that was created to serve America's national parks back in the last Great Depression.http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2020 Desert OracleSupport 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.

When it's Snakesgiving Time in the Mojave, everybody's just a little more careful. Goes well with these weird new times, being careful. So please make an effort to not run over any tortoises or coyotes or bobcats or gopher snakes when you're racing through the re-opened national park.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.

Remember campfires? We sure do. Standing around a campfire telling stories and socializing used to be a big part of the Desert Oracle "workflow," as they say over in corporate. And it will be again. But while we ride the storm out, here's our most recent Campfire Stories night, from January 2020, with a brand-new RedBlueBlackSilver soundtrack and some other weird stuff. And it's an hourlong special episode, too. Life ain't always empty.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 they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they can't agree upon. Let's take a last look at this "Pentagon UFO" business and move on, because if ever we needed to move on, that time has come. Plus: What happened over Farmington, New Mexico, in March of 1950? Whatever it was, everybody saw it. It, them, whatever it was, whatever they are.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've about had it with the cabin fever and now we've got the ramblin' fever. So let's pour a couple of drinks and enjoy some saloon time on this fine desert night. Maybe get a beer back, too. And six more for the road. Our Phoenix friend Jason P. Woodbury joins us at the bar.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.

A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in the night, keeping our distance, looking for sustenance. It is here we receive your offerings of words and other treasure. Look, all we mean is, tonight is all letters from you, letters from our listening community, letters and their replies.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.

An all-new quarantine episode of Desert Oracle Radio from our secure desert compound, where we are noting the return of the wildlife, the blue skies, the clear air, the happy songbirds, and all the springtime joys of a time when the people have chosen to stay mostly at home, for the sake of human society. New & classic soundscapes by our own RedBlueBlackSilver. Here the terrestrial radio broadcast on our home station, KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Calif., Fridays from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. http://DesertOracle.com (c)(p) 2017-2020 Desert OracleSupport 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've all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. Maybe we're just remembering our dreams during this strange time. Maybe we're just spending more time with our brains. But what happens when we all begin dreaming the same dream?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 the surprise here is that this is an opportunity, to appreciate this time of silence and to appreciate our fragile mortality. The desert has always offered that to the seekers, to the lunatics, to the prophets. Guest Erik Davis joins us for the full hour, as we talk about the very entertaining and enlightening audiobook he just finished for his best-selling High Weirdness. Be here now, with your desert friends. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen to our Friday night broadcast on KCDZ FM, 107.7 in Joshua Tree.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.

Hey did you hear we're going to open up the country again for May Day! We'll try, anyway. Try to get it going on Beltane Eve. Jason P. Woodbury joins us for another interesting tale about music made here in the American Desert, this time regarding longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who wrote a number of interesting lyrics about the legends and geography of the Southwest.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 you'll never guess who joined us all the way from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to talk about the particular desert landscape of SE New Mexico and East Texas. But we will tell you anyway: Tarence Ray from Trillbilly Workers Party. Oh and we're dealing with the matters at hand, as best we can. Fitting 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.

When times are strange, shall we gather in the desert? Well that depends. It depends if you're bringing the Invisible Friend. But we'll get through these tribulations, mostly, eventually. And we will make use of the time at hand.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.

New Mexico author and journalist Anna Merlin joins us for just the kind of late-night mind-bending radio conversation you probably need right about now. Mystery schools, prepper shopping, psychedelics, the collective unconscious/consciousness, conspiracy theory and new-age conventions. How do we reach the Other Room?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 hunkering down, like everybody: the tortoises, the rattlesnakes. But they're starting to come out again, while we are just beginning our quarantine. 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 do they mean by "Land of Enchantment," anyway? The American Desert is a haunted land, that's what it means, haunted by the good and the bad, the weird and the wise. Sometimes you can tune right in, like a human radio attached to an antenna made of boulders.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.

Oh St. Minerva, Apostle of the Cacti, please continue to bless our High Desert wilderness and keep out the evil-doers and the slobs. And help us protect your sacred plant, the Joshua tree, etc.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 remains of another lost hiker have been found, and we travel to the deserts down in Mexico with the Old Gringo. Special new music 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.

New year, new decade, time to drop everything and move to the desert . . . . where we can ponder the mystery of the messages from the old gods and old devils.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 gathered some Wonder Valley characters together, across the road from The Palms, and let the tales loose: military crashes, weird lights, strange residents and interesting ministers.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 we wound up burning the devil, here in Joshua Tree. It's the kind of winter-holiday fun you can expect up here in the High Desert. And Jason P. Woodbury joins us to investigate a real Low Desert Mystery: Where was "White Christmas" written? There are two answers and they'll both surprise you.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's going on with these bizarre and gruesome cattle mutilations all over the west, all over the world? Well there are some ugly new cases up in Eastern Oregon, cattle country north of Burns, and as usual there are no witnesses, suspects, arrests, not even an agreed-upon cause of death. But something was responsible for setting those cleanly mutilated bulls a quarter-mile apart from one another, 15 miles from the road.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.

He called himself the King of Western Swing and he was building an immense theme park in the Mojave Desert. What does this have to do with claims that Roy Rogers ran a sex cult out of Apple Valley?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.

Desert intuition. Desert awareness. Erik Davis joins us and throws down a challenge to engage with our Weird World. Our Weird Time. And why the desert is the eternal landscape for this kind of work.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 hanging on to Halloween with our guests Laura Bolt, who both covers and lives within the California witchcraft scene, and Arizona music journalist Jason P. Woodbury, here to talk about the new re-release of singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan's second record. (Sullivan vanished in the New Mexico desert and no trace of him was ever found.)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.

Live at the Ace Hotel campfire ring on Halloween 2018, here's a bonus episode with our Weird Campfire Stories. Support Desert Oracle Radio on Patreon and you'll get four bonus episodes per year, including longer interviews and live events like this Halloween edition of Desert Oracle Campfire Stories. And come see us at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs tonight, Thursday October 31 (2019), for live Campfire Stories, free & open to all.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 high up in the Joshua Tree foothills, we bring you the sad tale of Coyote Rex. Gabriel Hart, Lauren White from the band Kokomo, and Country Club Dan call in from a haunted payphone. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.Recorded live at the Furstwurld theater in Joshua Tree.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 nearly Halloween in the High Desert and we have spooky tales, spooky phone calls, and a haunting performance by our in-studio guests, the band Kokomo.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.

UFO sightings over Joshua Tree National Park and time-travel adventures with Jean-Paul Garnier of Space Cowboy Books. A recording off the radio, because that's all that worked.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.

Live from Joshua Tree, it's our second episode of the season with best-selling author and Joshua Tree Retreat Center director Terry Taylor Castillo, and the subject is angel consciousness. It's our first hourlong podcast! Thanks for being part 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.

Back for our third season, now live on the radio and delivered to you in the form of a podcast.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 on Friday the 13th—September 13, 2019 at 10 p.m. Pacific Time—live from the KCDZ FM studios in downtown Joshua Tree, Calif. Listen live on Z 107.7 FM in the High Desert, or stream the show live on TuneIn.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.

Was the organized theft of a 600-pound petroglyph-covered boulder from a canyon near Ridgecrest related to the monster earthquakes that followed? Probably not, but we can't exactly prove otherwise. Brendan Maze calls in from Trona.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.