Desert Oracle Radio

A UFO sermon from the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater, introducing a screening of Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers, with Jeremy Corbell and 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.

How do we not die in the desert this summer? One way is to stay underneath the swamp cooler, reading and writing letters, to and from various denizens of these arid lands.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.

Author Erik Davis joins us to talk about our favorite subject and his new book, High Weirdness. With 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.

What is known is that there’s something going on, something a little wilder than usual. Plus: Rachel Monroe, writer & author & Marfa volunteer firefighter.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 holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.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.

Every weird story that you almost want to believe is required, by cosmic law, to have a Goofball Factor. What is the Goofball Factor? And how does it end up on the front page of the New York Times?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.

Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet? Also: Why you should know more about our beloved apostle of the cacti, Minerva Hamilton Hoyt.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.

Anna Merlan, Jeremy Corbell and Stephanie Tisza join us for a weird ride down the Conspiracy Highway, which is our main road out here in the desert. Suspicious events and the new book about our paranoid nation, Republic of Lies, are featured along 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.

Did a famous entertainer do something dumb in Joshua Tree? Yes.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.

“I will never forget it.” That’s something you’ll hear, something you’ll hear quite a lot out here.“I know what I saw.” Do they know? Do 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.

Superbloom? Well, probably. We take a walk in our own little devil's garden and report some Instagram people to the local militia.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.

Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host must entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in Twentynine Palms with a series of Strange & Unusual Facts about our desert lands.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.

Who will protect the wilderness and public lands, our national parks and monuments, our nature preserves and conservation areas, our wild rivers and mountains and forests? As the nation slips into chaos and decline, we are going to have to take over the stewardship of the land.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 Oumuamua a scout from another civilization? Aren't we long overdue for some outside assistance?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 a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.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.

Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Smart Mouth, on the desert date shake. PLUS: More air-traffic radio from the UFO invasion of Edwards Air Force Base, 1965.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 winter-holiday desert road trip, your letters about strange machinery, and a very special Joshua Tree Christmas Pageant with Brendan Maze.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 taking a big looping road trip across the Mojave, from Area 51 to the Singing Sand Dunes of Kelso. With guest Jeremy Corbell on his new documentary about Bob Lazar and the reverse-engineered UFOs.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, and that’s when we like to tell monster stories. Weird tales. When there's trouble on the edge of civilization, where the wilderness meets what mankind makes, well here we encounter fierce things both natural and supernatural.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.

Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals.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 still digging out from the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of October 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-Pile City," in honor of the scenic and massive dirt piles piled alongside every road, as the bulldozers and earth-movers work all day every day to try to patch the hundreds of miles of gullies and ditches and death holes created by the violent storm.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.

Secret civilizations beneath the Panamint Mountains, strange tales of ancient giants and the sky-ships of the the Hav-Musuvs.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, in the desert far from prying eyes, the members of the Solar Lodge were building their Ark of the Covenant.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.

Werebears and skinwalkers and other creatures of our haunted lands. With Jeremy Corbell, director of the new documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker.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.

These strange experiences upon the deserts should be studied with an open heart and an open mind, because these events contain a code. 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.

Season 2 begins Friday night, 09/14/2018.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.

Joshua Tree has gone from turkey farmers to elaborately costumed weekenders, but the Old Testament view of the desert always comes true 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.

We do some hard traveling over the Mojave looking for that sweet shortcut to the Land of Milk & Honey. There may be some hardscrabble miners chasing little space aliens from a crashed UFO, knowing the way things go out here.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.

Murder and madness and an estimate of the situation during this merry month of May.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.

People are finding all kinds of strange things on the desert ground: huge sandy circles in the Great Basin, weird three-clawed footprints in the Mojave ....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 was Andy Warhol doing up in the High Desert north of Tucson, at a dude ranch? Also: Brendan Maze calls in from one of his investment properties in Victorville, where tumbleweed drifts have surrounded the development.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 live from the Palm Springs Art Museum, where we celebrate the good times, the cooler times, and the 11 days of Desert Springtime that end with the celebration of Snakesgiving.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 is busy this week. Apparently there's a music festival down in the Low Desert. And: We remember the late, great Art Bell.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.

Springtime in the desert and all the creatures are awake. Plus: We talk UFOs with Jeremy Corbell on a cold night in Pioneertown.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.

Been too long since we got on the road. We are going to get on the road: Twentynine Palms Highway, Adobe Road, Amboy Road, Kelbaker Road, Route 66. Let's go. Get in the car.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 a cold and windy night on the Mojave, and we're up in Flamingo Heights at the Outpost Projects/Curate Joshua Tree art show, "Found!" But what have we found? A lot of trouble in the desert preserve. RedBlueBlackSilver makes his live soundscapes and Brendan Maze invites himself to the program, along with questionable plans for the conservation area.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 over the desert? Why is everybody going nuts about UFOs again, anyway?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.

Who's that glowing lady by the irrigation canal? And why is she wailing in the night?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 taking a trip out to Camp Cady on the Mojave River, whether we’re welcome or not, and regardless of what happened with Mr. Pantages.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.

30-second promo spot for KCDZ 107.7 FM, 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.

30-second promo spot for KCDZ 107.7 FM, 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.

Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire turns 50, and we do remember it, and we read it every year.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 does one summon the Yucca Man? Do you really want to know?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 this Mysterious Mojave we go one about? And what are the labor & ethical violations at Brendan Maze's online-fufillment center in 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.

Parallel dimensions and the mysterious Utah ranch bought by aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow. With guest Jeremy Corbell.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 our first annual Christmas show, and Santa brought proof of the Pentagon's UFO-study group.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.

Satan's breath and the wildfires of California. Guest: High Desert artist Kate McCabe.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.

Everybody loves a news story about a dumb crackpot crashing a rocket in the desert—especially if by "everybody" you mean "news editors in 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.

Our first annual Thanksgiving show, recorded live at the Ace Hotel's Commune Theater in Palm Springs. Guests: UFO documentary director Jeremy Corbell and area businessman Brendan Maze.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.

Recorded live at the Ace Hotel with Doc Daniels of Mojave Phone Booth infamy. He even brought the phone booth!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.