MOJAVE

EPISODE #247: HIGHWAY 247 REVISITED

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Photo by Ken Lund: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/8603750124

People will come to the Mojave on purpose, in summertime, and then they get sad because they can’t go outside without bursting into flames. A couple of summers ago, a guy died in Death Valley just from riding his motorcycle outside. Overheated. The 120° heat no less lethal just because it was blowing all over him at cruising speed. He just dehydrated and died.

This is the time of year to stay in the car with the A/C blasting. Do your sightseeing with a seatbelt on. How about a historic and scenic ride on the entirety of SR-247? From Yucca Valley to Barstow! A beautiful drive with stops for good food, through the great Mojave wilderness. Plus, we’ll tell you the history of the highway and many of the sights along the way.

This is EPISODE #247: HIGHWAY 247 REVISITED Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & hosted by Ken Layne. Listen on the radio in Joshua Tree and across the Mojave High Desert on KCDZ 107.7 FM, 10-11 p.m. Fridays. Photo by Ken Lund.

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EPISODE #244: WHO DID THE SNAKE EAT?

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SNAKE MOJAVE SNAKESGIVING DAVID LYNCH WHY

The reality of knowing the wild animals on your land is knowing that they generally live upon an accelerated timeline. Each spring’s new crop of Mojave cottontails and rock squirrels will shrink down to one or two lucky buddies by late summer, with the rest succumbing to reckless road crossings and red-tail hawks and rattlesnakes . . . the local ravens feasting on the remains, if there are any. 

This is EPISODE #244: WHO DID THE SNAKE EAT? with soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & hosted by Ken Layne. Listen on the radio in Joshua Tree and across the Mojave High Desert on Z 107.7 FM, 10-11 p.m. Fridays.

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#106: THE EIGHTH TOWER

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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.

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You can find Michael Hacker’s many paranormal-philosophy audiobook performances at Audible.com. And you can listen to this episode as a podcast, on the radio in Joshua Tree (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or Tune In. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks to everybody who supports the show on Patreon.

#061: THE HAUNTED PETROGLYPH

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Night has fallen on the Mojave and it’s time to turn on the FM, 107.7 in Joshua Tree and the whole High Desert, 10 p.m. with an all-new episode. We’ve got the strange tale of this petroglyph, stolen from the desert outside Ridgecrest days before the monster quakes.

We’ve got seismic conspiracies and we’ve got Brendan Maze, we’ve got it all. All you need on a hot desert night. Watch the skies and hang on to the ground. Also, our host’s mom remembers Apollo 11. Subscribe! It’s all we ask, right now. Subscribe and rate and review and do the whole thing, if you’ve got five minutes. It’s a form of psychic currency and we appreciate you spending some of it on our High Desert jamboree.

And here’s the KLAS I-Team segment we did with George Knapp in the mountains around Area 51:

#056: SNAKESGIVING DAY WEEKEND

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Snakesgiving is the holiday so nice, we celebrate it twice. Once when they come out, once when they go back in the ground.

“The snake giveth, the snake taketh away.”—Elozah 6:16.

Some grooving new spooky soundscapes from You Know Who: RedBlueBlackSilver. And Brendan Maze returns to talk about his backup plan, now that it looks like the evil Cadiz Desert-Killing Scheme is “dead in the water.” Want to read our pocket-sized field guide you hear so much about these days, from those certain people? Well just click here and subscribe, or buy whatever back issues we have left. Want to subscribe to our podcast of our KCDZ FM broadcast? So very easy, and entirely free! iTunes or Stitcher or Spotify or etc.

#049: DOWN AT THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE

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Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host was compelled to entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in Twentynine Palms with a series of Strange & Unusual Facts about our desert lands. Listen on IHeartRadio or Spotify or iTunes. Subscribe if you like it. And if you really like it, leave a review.

Recorded at the museum (and with new ambient tracks by) RedBlueBlackSilver. Photograph by Art of Rune.

This was our final event on the Desert Oracle Performance Schedule. Thanks to everybody who came out to all of our events and live shows and Campfire Stories!

#046: TRAVEL OPTIONS FOR THE COLLAPSE

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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can’t go camping in Joshua Tree, that’s what. The national parks are overrun with cretins of both varieties: the willful & the dumb. Well, maybe there’s somewhere else to go, somewhere without ticket booths and reserved campgrounds. Yes we are going to Mojave Trails National Monument and that means Route 66 and the alphabet-railroad towns.

Listen on the radio, tonight at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree. Subscribe to our at iTunes or wherever/whatever you use for subscribing & listening to podcasts. New soundscapes tonight from our own RedBlueBlackSilver, hand-crafted here in Joshua Tree in a facility that processes nuts.

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#044: A MOJAVE SOLSTICE

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Our Wild & Mysterious Mojave Road Trip Map is here.

We’re back with an all-new holiday episode, including a talk with Brendan Maze regarding his Hi-Desert Christmas Pageant and the controversy regarding his foundation’s non-profit status. Also: strange machinery of times past, and more from our Wild & Mysterious Mojave Map. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Happy Solstice To You All & To All a Good Night.

Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Listen live in the High Desert at 10 p.m. Friday nights, on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree.

#043: HIGHWAYS & ALIENS

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Here’s the map from tonight’s audio road trip, “HIGHWAYS & ALIENS.” Please use wisely.

Also on tonight’s episode of Desert Oracle Radio: Our friend Jeremy Corbell joins us to discuss & debate the strange tale of Bob Lazar, subject of Corbell’s new documentary, Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, we encourage you to attend the premiere of this all-new movie at the Ace Hotel theater in downtown LA. Or order the film on iTunes or Vimeo.

Subscribe to our podcast at Stitcher or iTunes or whatever you use for subscribing to podcasts. New soundscapes tonight from our own RedBlueBlackSilver, hand-crafted here in Joshua Tree.

#041: CULMINATION OF THE PLEIADES

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Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals. Tonight we address the real reason for Halloween (and how you can celebrate it on Nov. 21), tell monster stories around the campfire, and share the glad tidings of Oumuamua, the alien space probe that shot by Earth last year.

EVENT ALERT: Host & DESERT ORACLE editor Ken Layne will be presenting a spooky talk on desert monsters at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m. This is the Morongo Basin Historical Society’s “Second Wednesday Lecture Series.” $5 donation to MBHS at the door, get there early to get a seat!

Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Heights, Wonder Valley—”from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!

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