EPISODE #207: DESERT TRIVIA NIGHT

“Known as the ‘apostle of the cacti,’ this advocate for the creation of desert national parks was named after this ancient Roman goddess ….” If that’s a question you can answer, without even thinking about it, then you may enjoy this Thanksgiving Weekend episode featuring DESERT ORACLE TRIVIA NIGHT, something that really happened at the Tiny Pony on Thanksgiving Eve.

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Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #207: DESERT TRIVIA NIGHT.

EPISODE #206: SONGS OF THE DOOMED

Looking down the barrel at 2024, from our perch in the High Desert. Mojave thunderstorms, the strange maxims of the ancient temples, Christmas-tree shopping ideas, and old+new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. This is our 9/11 episode: Season 9, Episode 11. Please consider supporting this show via our Patreon before we go belly up, it’s hard out there. BUT . . . it also also likely time for a change.

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New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #206: SONGS OF THE DOOMED. Listen to the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert.

EPISODE #205: ODE TO HARRY OLIVER, KING OF THE DESERT RATS

From the World War II years to 1965, the artist and humorist and hugely influential architect Harry Oliver published his Desert Rat Scrap Book from a hand-built adobe in the California desert. He called it “the only newspaper you can open in the wind,” because the whole thing was printed on a single sheet of sturdy colored cardstock, folded down to mailing size. UFO & Fortean author and Radio Misterioso host Greg Bishop joins us tonight to talk about our shared fascination with …. not flying saucers, but Harry Oliver!

New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #205: ODE TO HARRY OLIVER, KING OF THE DESERT RATS. Listen to the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert.

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EPISODE #203: SAMHAIN STORIES FOR ALL HALLOWS’ EVE

Here comes the ancient festival of Halloween, as the world begins to die again … as it does at the tail end of every year. The leaves fall and decay, the green things wither, the sun hides away. And we remember the Dead. Tonight: Samhain tales of changelings and fire, and the Holy Mountain along the Mexican-American borderland. New (& classic!) soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & hosted by Ken Layne.

Haunted new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #203: SAMHAIN STORIES FOR ALL HALLOWS’ EVE.

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EPISODE #202: THE SPIRITUAL INTOXICATION OF THE WILDERNESS RAMBLE

One thing people like to do when they’re given some liberties — or when they take the liberty that’s usually there for the taking, if anybody wants it bad enough — is to go on a long walk. Whether you call it a pilgrimage or walkabout or “through-hike” or country ramble, such excursions really take you out of the day-to-day, even as you occasionally rub elbows with other people doing the same thing.

PLUS: Information regarding the October 20 show at Jacumba Hot Springs and the October 29 Campfire Stories at Yucca Valley’s Tiny Pony Tavern.

Haunted new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #202: THE SPIRITUAL INTOXICATION OF THE WILDERNESS RAMBLE.

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EPISODE #201: HORRORS OF THE NIGHT

October is the time for ghost stories, in this season of growing darkness. Tonight we are visited by a mysterious geist, in an ancient old city that is notorious for such restless spirits. ALSO: Details regarding the October 20, 2023, show at Jacumba Hot Springs and the October 29, 2023, edition of Campfire Stories live at the Tiny Pony in Yucca Valley. Haunted new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #201: HORRORS OF THE NIGHT.

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EPISODE #200: THE AUTUMN TINT OF GOLD

Ken Layne at the board, Radio 1 Prague, 1992.

This autumn is getting off to a strange start, as here in the Mojave High Desert there are carpets of little yellow wildflowers thanks to the hurricane, old Hurricane Hilary which soaked us all pretty good a month ago. Never seen so many weeds in late September. Happy Equinox from Desert Oracle Radio, celebrating 200 episodes with tonight’s show.

And that means this is EPISODE #200: THE AUTUMN TINT OF GOLD. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free podcast through our Patreon. Listen to the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert. Musical soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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PHOTO: Ken Layne DJ’ing at Radio 1 Praha, 1992. It’s possible that Sam Chammas took this picture.

EPISODE #199: WARRIORS, POETS & RAVENS

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Early September, Jupiter tucked under the 2/3 moon at midnight, heaviest of La Luna’s many forms and phases: low over the eastern horizon, like the Death Star under construction. The owls are hooting in three different octaves, a whole choir by relay, a choir of the night. The night air has turned cool again, the wind only whispering.This is Episode #199 of Desert Oracle Radio, broadcasting from Joshua Tree.

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EPISODE #198: THE DOWSING ROD

Ever seen a water witch at work? It’s a beautiful thing to behold. We have ancient reserves of great power within us. This is EPISODE #198: THE DOWSING ROD, after the hurricane.

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EPISODE #197: HURRICANE HILARY IN THE HIGH DESERT

You are  / like a hurricane / there's calm / in your eye

When you look at the big red danger zone in the middle of the Weather Service maps this evening, you will see that we are in it, right up at the north end of the highest predicted rainfall and flooding. Maybe that means we don’t get it as bad or for as long as our friends from the border zone up through Coachella Valley to Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs, maybe it means nothing of the sort. Prepare for a lot of rain, maybe a couple of years worth of rain. Prepare for a lot of water in a lot of place we don’t often see it. And up here around Joshua Tree and Yucca Valley and 29 Palms, prepare to hang around for a while. You may not be able to get down the hill for a while.

This is EPISODE #197: HURRICANE HILARY IN THE HIGH DESERT. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free podcast through our Patreon. Listen to the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert. Musical soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. (And here’s the RedBlueBlackSilver Bandcamp page.)

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