Desert Oracle

11/02/2025

Our Halloween ghost stories episode is out now, on the usual podcast systems. Thanks to & & & & everybody who came to the party and shared a creepy tale. 🎃 https://open.spotify.com/episode/22YDviHwE5m4RMcPHt58Zp?si=FPwIdrmET0-Uf2N9y7WH0g

09/21/2025

New episode, for the Autumn Equinox coming up Monday 9/22 at 11:19 a.m.

September 22 is the day and 11:19 a.m. is the hour when Fall finally arrives in the Mojave Desert. Add an hour for Nevada and Utah, which both share a little of the Mojave with California and Arizo…

08/30/2025

New on the radio tonight, Z 107.7 FM at 10 PM: "Monsoon Mood," w/ soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

On a monsoon evening, the sky streaked with golden bands, tropical clouds drawn up from the Sea of Cortez, everything is vibrant, delirious light. No sound but the crunch of boots and dog paws in t…

08/28/2025

Monsoon Sundown.

08/15/2025

Tonight on the radio: Walking the Wild Woods with Henry David Thoreau, plus a centuries-long CONSPIRACY to hide the Ancient Sacred Groves of the Old Testament. KCDZ 107.7 FM in the Mojave Desert, 10-11 p.m.

A centuries-old conspiracy regarding Soothsayers’ Oaks in the Bible, and a long walk in the woods with good old Henry David Thoreau. This is EPISODE #249: WALKING THE WILD LANDS WITH HENRY DA…

08/09/2025

Haunted by the Moon.

07/24/2025

New episode on the radio Friday night at 10. All about the desert surveyor said to have named Old Woman Springs & Twentynine Palms during his survey journeys over the Mojave back in the 1850s. He was the nephew of another well-known surveyor: George Washington. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1QHbtSL4gw8oVCZwt6Hyjc

Desert Oracle Radio · Episode

07/11/2025

People will come to the Mojave on purpose, in summertime, and then get sad because they can’t go outside without bursting into flames. 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.

Listen tonight at 10 on Z107.7 FM or on the Desert Oracle website right now: Episode #247: HIGHWAY 247 REVISITED. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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…

07/09/2025

Moonwalk.

06/17/2025

Listen online now or Friday nights at 10PM, Z107.7 FM in the Morongo Basin & across the Great Mojave Wilderness:

The Mojave gets slow in the summertime, not much going on. So there was much excitement when the word spread on that early summer night: The Marines were shipping out to Los Angeles. Rumors of troo…

06/03/2025

Mystery of the (Low) Desert:

A train derailment in 1986 near Palm Springs may have left a secret buried underground—an entire train car filled with Yugos.

05/31/2025

New episode of Desert Oracle Radio for those of you on the road or hiding underneath the swamp-cooler vent:

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 shr…