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Alien Corpses of the Great Basin Feb 12, 2021

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You ever drive the "Loneliest Road In America"? That's what they call U.S. 50, across the Great Basin Desert through the middle of Nevada. Not many people out there, not a lot going on. Just as we like it.

The mystery visitors like it, too. They like the quiet, they need the wild mountains and desert valleys of the Basin and Range. And way back in 1952, so the story goes, 15 little alien friends were found dead in the wreckage of a glowing oval craft that smashed into the side of a copper mine. With all-new spacey soundscapes by our own RedBlueBlackSilver.

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Atmospheric River Jan 29, 2021

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There's a leak in the studio roof and the only way we know is because an atmospheric river is bearing down upon the American Southwest. So get a bucket or a cereal bowl or something and we'll all paddle to Hell together . . . . with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver to keep us company.

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Armada of the Dragoon Mountains Jan 22, 2021

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Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times.

New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver as we cover some difficult terrain with the Apache leader Cochise, the strange granite of his stronghold, and the mystery craft seen on many nights around these mysterious 78-million-year-old mountain spires.

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The Local Angle Jan 08, 2021

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Might be a nutty new year on the national news, but here in the desert we are just trying to get along and not got crushed. With guest Brendan Maze and new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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A Desert Christmas Dec 25, 2020

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From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it's the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlan joins us to talk about the winter holidays in Santa Fe. New solstice sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.

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A Million Scorched Joshua Trees Dec 18, 2020

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It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where a million Joshua trees in the world's most dense and most-protected forest of these yucca trees was hit hard by the summer wildfires.

But there is always reason for hope, and we found a lot of it.

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The Secret Desert Dec 11, 2020

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Tonight we share the tale of the Krill Papers, strange legends of Cold War space-alien conspiracies, located right in the very heart of the Nevada desert wilderness.

Speaking of, we are also joined by Patrick Donnelly, Nevada state director of the Center for Biological Diversity, which along with Nevada native tribes and desert lovers everywhere is celebrating a victory. Ever been to the Desert National Wildlife Refuge? Well whether you ever set foot there or not, it's safe again, for the desert bighorn and desert tortoise and a true wonderland of rare wild lands. For now. Let's keep it that way.

And happy book publication week to us! Our new book is available everywhere, please enjoy responsibly.

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The Cold and the Dry Dec 05, 2020

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Wildlife corridors, park rangers, roadrunners & rabbits. Plus: your postcards and letters. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. And guess what's out next week? Our first hardcover collection, Desert Oracle Vol. 1.

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A Desert Plaguesgiving Nov 25, 2020

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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.

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Happy thanksgiving to the bighorn, the bobcats, and maybe even to some of the people.

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Concrete Jesus Nov 14, 2020

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An orphan child from Cincinnati loved the scriptures and lived a life of gold-mine adventure in the Almost-Old West before winding up in a bomber-plane factory in Los Angeles, creating death-delivery systems for the permanent Cold War. Anxious over this atomic nightmare, yet optimistic enough to think humanity could survive it, Frank Antone Martin built an enormous concrete Jesus in his Inglewood driveway.

Such is the tale. Tune in to hear it all, the whole sordid thing. It's Episode #110, soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, snow on the western mountaintops.

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