Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Death Valley at 108 Fahrenheit is tolerable.

You can walk around even if it's mostly between the pool and the bar in your hotel room at Furnace Creek.

People pose with the digital temperature display outside the National Park Visitor Center,

and there are plenty of signs warning you not to attempt a midday hike.

Not to leave your kids or dogs or grandma in the car.

The nights are usually or grandma in the car.

The nights are usually dry and reasonably pleasant.

It's a novelty, mostly.

You're in the hottest part of the Mojave Desert surrounded by chocolate-colored mountains you know from television and movies.

Star Wars, especially, because you're on Tatooine, there's even a canteen

full of weird bikers and foreign tourists, and occasional English accent bar brawls.

Black Sabbath bassist Geyser Butler gotten a drunken fight with some Beverly Hills characters

in January 2015, right there in the corkscrew saloon. He woke up in the Inyo County Jail,

the same jail that briefly held Charles Manson and two dozen members of the family after their

1969 arrest at Death Valley's Barker Ranch.

The daily temperature in Furnace Creek on the valley floor is occasionally much hotter than

108.

For more than a century, Furnace Creek Ranch has held the record for the hottest temperature

ever recorded on planet Earth.

134.1 Fahrenheit on July 10, 19133.136.

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