Desert Oracle Radio

Desert Oracle Radio

Hosted by Ken Layne · Ken Layne

4.9from 1,196 ratings

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71Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
271
Episodes
60
Transcribed
1,196
Ratings
Daily
Cadence
2017
First episode

About Desert Oracle Radio

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).

Publisher
Ken Layne
Category
society & culture
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
24 Jun 2017
Latest episode
3 Sept 2026
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60 of 271 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The Gold Hill Sandman

  2. 10 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Island of the Dead

  3. 1 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Petrified Forests and Ghostly Goblins

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The Gold Hill Sandman

Published 3 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The sighting was just south of the old American Flats mill site, below the new mill and mill pond. So the man knew his great basin desert and riparian ravine ecosystems. He describes too a sort of lost world. When girls and boys would go down to the creek on a late summer afternoon with neither phone nor chaperone, I make harmless mischief in the cool creek lined with bright green cottonwood and dense desert willow. Paradise lost. For a little while, anyway. The arc of history is long, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through. And in further describing the setting, the witness said that it was, quote, an area filled with caves, mines, tunnels, and the like. […]

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Who has been a guest on Desert Oracle Radio

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  • Herb Benham IV
  • Matt Welch
  • Nicholas Lowry
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Colonel Henry Washington

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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.9 / 5
836 ratings
Spotify
4.9 / 5
360 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

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Social presence
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YouTube
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Engagement
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Who hosts Desert Oracle Radio?

Ken Layne host the show. Published by Ken Layne.

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