Desert Oracle Radio

By: Ken Layne
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  • Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hosted by editor Ken Layne and featuring a cast of intriguing mystics, oddballs, scientists and artists, Desert Oracle Radio is your soundtrack for a desert night. The program is broadcast on Friday nights at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the Mojave high desert, with field reports from around and across the desert lands, and is distributed by Public Radio Exchange (PRX).
    2025 Ken Layne
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  • The Wonderful, Wonderful Cactus Wren

    The Wonderful, Wonderful Cactus Wren
    Feb 28 2025

    Night has fallen on the desert, the desert spring is here, and that means the bugs are coming back, and that means we’ll be seeing a lot more of our beloved desert friend, the wonderful wonderful Cactus Wren. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

    Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2025

    Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle

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    28 mins
  • Surrounded in the Night

    Surrounded in the Night
    Feb 15 2025

    A winter storm cut loose from the mountains, the cold wind whipping around the creosote, rain dripping down through the swamp-cooler vent: 2025 came in like a Lion and it’s the Year of the Snake. We’ve got both out here, in the Mojave Wilderness. Mountain lions, or cougars. And snakes, too, although it’s still a bit early to see our reptile friends up here at 4,000 feet elevation. (Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by Ken Layne.)

    Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2025 DesertOracle.com

    Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    28 mins
  • One Chants Out Between Two Worlds

    One Chants Out Between Two Worlds
    Jan 25 2025

    It's a cold, cold night in the wind-blasted desert, and we hear there's snow a-comin', can't come soon enough. Listen to the harrowing sounds of the 1961 Bel Air Fire, prepare for Mojo Nixon's anniversary (of death), and join us in remembering our favorite Intermountain West surrealist, the late great David Lynch. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Suitable for some families.

    Desert Oracle Radio (c)(p) 2017-2025 http://DesertOracle.com

    Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    28 mins

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Radio for a night drive on a desert highway.

Sermons and campfire stories from the high desert, harkening to a time when those were one and the same.

A wide variety of topics and moods, with the weird history, lore, and natural world of the Mojave and the greater desert Southwest representing a common thread, not sidebars.

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A Must Listen for all Desert Rats; Humans too

This podcast is such fun! A mix of folklore, Mojave magic, military history, Owens Valley tales and dreams of better, wetter times. As someone who frequents 395 and it’s offshoots as often as possible, listening to Ken reawakens memories of road-trips long passed, and adventures yet to come.

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