Welcome to Area 62
Area 62 Podcast Seeks Desert Personalities to Join Podcast as Guests
Are you a desert author, musician, documentarian, historian, artist, activist or a creative creator who can’t be pinned down? Are you a skinwalker with a persecution complex? A chupacabra trainer? A misunderstood shape-shifting reptilian? A prospector who actually found Pegleg Smith’s lost gold?
If so, we want to hear from you if you’d like to talk story with our hosts on Area 62.
While Area 62 is based here in Joshua Tree, beaming from our headquarters at Copper Mountain College, home of the Fighting Cacti, we welcome guests from across the California deserts (both Mojave and Colorado, and even a bit o’ Great Basin), and beyond.
Area 62 Podcast Seeks Desert Music to Feature
Area 62 is all about the desert and featuring the creative spirit of the desert. The podcast is seeking original music from desert songwriters and performers that can be featured on the show.
Listen:
On Apple Podcast (transcript available)
On Amazon Music/Audibles
On Spotify
On iHeartRadio
On Art19
Episodes:
EPISODE 1: Welcome to Area 62 and The Cacti Chronicles Crew
Learn what is planned for Area 62, and meet the students who are editorial contributors to CMC’s newspaper, the Cacti Chronicles.
You’ll meet Jeremy “JROD” Quinones-Licea, student reporter and host of the weekly News from the Mountain radio show on KCDZ-FM, Z-107.7; Cacti Chronicles cartoonist, Ethan Ocampo; and, Cacti Chronicles student reporter (and VP of ASCMC), Nayeli Tzitlali Liera. Hear their stories and get to know the Cacti Chronicles Crew!
Episode 2: Singer/Songwriter – and Undertaker – Shawn Mafia
Meet one of the hi-desert’s most talented and versatile singer/songwriters, Shawn Mafia, accompanied by Big Dave Johnson, the Desert Yeti. Enjoy the bonus Tiny Cactus Concert on video!