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EPISODE #257: ED ABBEY’S 99TH BIRTHDAY & THE TREES OF MYSTERY

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Edward Abbey at Arches National Park.

Celebrating Ed Abbey’s 99th Birthday with a road trip to Arches National Park, setting of his beloved 1968 book, Desert Solitaire. AND: What’s going on within the federal government’s “experimental forests” in Sasquatch Country? New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

This is EPISODE #257: ED ABBEY’S 99TH BIRTHDAY & THE TREES OF MYSTERY. Listen to the podcast now and on the radio Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree/Yucca Valley/29 Palms/Pioneertown/Wonder Valley … from Amboy to Zzyzx!

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EPISODE #173: THE GROUSE AND THE GODDESS

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Greater sage-grouse, our High Desert Wild Turkey. Photo credit: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

It’s Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and we are taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival of the Northern Flicker mean, in augury? How has the Triple Goddess survived relentless persecution by the patriarchal religions of bureaucracy? And why did Benjamin Franklin adore the wild turkey? It’s EPISODE #173: THE GROUSE AND THE GODDESS. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and hosted by Ken Layne.

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Listen live on the radio in the High Desert: Fridays 10-11 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM, and Saturdays at 9 p.m. on KZMU 90.1 FM & 106.7 FM in Moab, Utah.

Photo credit: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

EPISODE #157: PHANTOM CRASH ON A UTAH HIGHWAY

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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. It’s EPISODE #157: PHANTOM CRASH ON A UTAH HIGHWAY.

PS — If you turn on KZMU-FM in Moab (or steam online) tomorrow night, there will be some special Desert Oracle audio playing. It’s the KZMU spring Radiothon!

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Listen Fridays 10PM-11PM on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & across the Mojave High Desert, on Saturdays at 9PM on KZMU 90.1/106.7 FM Moab/Castle Valley, Sundays at 8PM on KAPY Valley 104.9 FM in King County, Washington, and on KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno at 2:30PM Wednesdays. Written & hosted by Ken Layne, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

EPISODE #156: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PINYON JAY

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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. It’s EPISODE #156: PHILOSOPHY OF THE PINYON JAY. Thanks to everybody who supports this show at patreon.com/desertoracle.

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Listen Fridays 10PM-11PM on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & across the Mojave High Desert, on Saturdays at 9PM on KZMU 90.1/106.7 FM Moab/Castle Valley, Sundays at 8PM on KAPY Valley 104.9 FM in King County, Washington, and on KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno at 2:30PM Wednesdays. Written & hosted by Ken Layne, with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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#111: THE UTAH MONOLITH

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UTAH MONOLITH - UTAH DPS

Photo by Utah DPS.


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.

This is Episode #111.

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver, and don’t forget to check out his new album, Five Flora. You might recognize some of the tracks.

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EPISODE #019: PARALLEL DIMENSIONS & THE DESERT COMMUNITY NEWS ROUNDUP

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DESERT ORACLE RADIOUpon further consideration, the Pentagon UFO office’s involvement at Skinwalker Ranch is at least twice as weird as originally reported. Who is watching what, or vice versa? Also: Our occasional desert-community news-reading service. Listen live on the real-life radio in the High Desert: KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, or stream it online, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and Google Play and Podbay and the rest: DESERT ORACLE RADIO.

Two new tracks by Joshua Tree’s RedBlueBlackSilver will be heard on tonight’s program——”Comet Tail” and “Project Blue Book”——along with the following Kojak kind of sounds to soothe your nerves on a nervous desert highway:

EPISODE #018: HIGH-DESERT HOLIDAYS & PROOF OF UFOS

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Desert Oracle
It’s our first annual holiday show, with plenty of Christmas cheer (more or less) from our studios in downtown Joshua Tree. Were you good this year? Well then maybe Santa will bring you Pentagon proof of UFOs and maybe Santa is an alien too, why not? Why not gather ’round the festive Joshua tree with all the colorful insects and whatever else is hidden in the dead needle-tipped branches and join us, this one last time before the new year? Why not??

We’ve got our friend and Pioneertown neighbor Jeremy Corbell of ExtraordinaryBeliefs.com aboard the Desert Oracle Combat Training Center and he has just come back from Skinwalker Ranch, again, and yes that is the very “Utah ranch” discussed in the shocking (?) New York Times reports of a UFO program within the Department of Defense, a program that also involved Nevada billionaire Robert Bigelow and a secret warehouse full of mystery. And our high-desert soundscape wizard RedBlueBlackSilver cooked up a special soundtrack called “Amber” for this haunted conversation. (more…)