Rex Dakota is a Joshua Tree (and Yucca Valley) business owner, and a popular hi-desert musician and songwriter. Area 62's JRod and Ethan Ocampo sit down with Rex for a fun journey through the life and musical roots of Rex Dakota. Watch for the Tiny Cactus Concert featuring Rex Dakota! Rex Dakota on Soundcloud

Area 62 Host/Producer JRod and Executive Producer Steve Brown join popular desert environmental journalist and activist, Chris Clarke, of the 90 Miles From Needles podcast and DAMN, the Desert Advocacy Media Network for a wild ride covering an assortment of topics only JRod come dream up - from protecting Joshua trees to the Annunaki and UFOs. Guess what desert animal pees glitter? Don't know? Guess you'll have to listen! DESERT ADVOCACY MEDIA NETWORK

Area 62 host and producer, Shaunda McKinnon, joins Steve Brown, executive producer, with guests Greg Gilbert and Ruth Nolan. Greg is a writer and poet, actively involved in the hi-desert's writing community, a former English professor and trustee for Copper Mountain College, and the founder of HOWL, the CMC literary and arts magazine. Ruth is a poet, writer, and editor, as well as a freshly retired English professor from College of the Desert, and is the poet laureate for the

He's a Hopi/Tewa singer/songwriter, artist, and edutainer - the front man for Tha 'Yoties, and the fascinating presenter of Alter-Native History. Ed Kabotie has performed three times in Joshua Tree - twice at Copper Mountain College. JRod caught up with Ed for a stimulating musical episode of Area 62. Ed Kabotie on YouTube

Join Miri Hunter and Thom Merrick, the musical duo known as Hunter and the Wick'd, for a rollicking discussion of the creative process in music, art, and more, from Project Sheba to Bach and beyond! Tiny Cactus Concert with Hunter and the Wick'd!