Desert Oracle

03/24/2025

Lockdown Anniversary Episode, spring equinox, Ides of March & other seasonal concerns, all on your podcast player now or Friday nights at 10PM on Z1077FM.

Happy Ides of March, happy St. Patrick’s Day, Spring Equinox, and happy five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown — the beginning of it anyway: 15 days to slow the spread . . . not a great slo…

03/01/2025

New on the radio tonight, 10PM, Z1077 FM in Yucca/JT/29/Etc. Podcast for those out of range:

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 C…

02/15/2025

New episode available now on your podcast player. Or listen here on our website:

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. W…

02/13/2025

A Mojave Prayer: Dear Lord, please send enough rain to give us a nice green springtime, but not enough to remind us of the many leaks in our roof. Amen.

01/28/2025

New episode for very cold, very ominous nights.

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, prepa…

01/12/2025

New episode, regarding the Fires & Chuckwalla National Monument.: https://www.desertoracle.com/episode-235-hills-are-filled-with-fire/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/desert-oracle-radio/id1251197422

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2MbuSRn0EuJB3DzcN4BDgr?si=72546d7894e844a2

12/21/2024

Tonight on the radio, it's our 2024 Christmas episode with seasonal soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Tune in at 10 PM, Z107.7 FM across Yucca Valley/Joshua Tree/29 Palms & beyond.

We’ve heard some weird news about Saint Nicholas that turns out to be a few years old, but that’s all right. Christmas itself is old news, after all. That’s why we love it, because it’s…

11/26/2024

Our Thanksgiving episode is out now, with Turkey Town sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver. https://www.desertoracle.com/episode-233-ravens-quail-and-turkeys/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ravens-quail-turkeys/id1251197422?i=1000678237046

Podcast Episode · Desert Oracle Radio · 11/26/2024 · 28m

11/24/2024

Storm a-comin’ ⛈️

11/07/2024

The Holy Mountain. One of them, anyway.

11/05/2024

Ghost of Halloween Past, impaled on a desert fencepost.

10/29/2024

It's time for a Halloween episode:

Good Hallowtide to you all, on this Halloween week during the three-day festival of the Dead and their various souls & spirits. Tonight we are driving the nocturnal highways, listening to ghos…

10/09/2024

Halloween approaches 🎃💀https://www.desertoracle.com/strange-rituals-of-halloweens-past/

09/16/2024

New episode regarding the planned destruction of Great Basin desert wildlands.

Have you heard what the “green energy” corporations are doing to the Great Basin Desert, with your government’s approval, on your public lands? The plan is to cover the pristine b…

09/02/2024

New episode for your holy-day weekend.

Forest ranger, park ranger, Navy sailor, lumberjack, and cowboy — those were some of the jobs Stanley Jones worked before accidentally becoming a movie actor an

08/31/2024

The end of August.

08/16/2024

New episode available now. 🌞☠️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hot-august-bites/id1251197422?i=1000665572488

08/12/2024

Monsoon nights.