Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

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

Well, night has fallen on the desert. Thanks for coming out, everybody. We are here tonight in Palm Springs,

shaded by these great mountains. And if you're looking for a place to live in the hot, low desert,

being shaded by tall mountains for part of the day is very important.

Water helps too.

Nice to have a source of water when it's 115 degrees, which it's not this evening.

Thankfully, we are not there yet.

Thanks for joining us at the Palm Springs Art Museum tonight.

It's pretty fancy for a radio show from Joshua Tree.

You might be out here thinking, well, how is he going to mix up Andy Warhol?

And desert conservation and desert preservation, I will do it in the usual way haphazardly.

Just sort of feeling my way through the cactus garden.

Well, Andy Warhol grew up in Pittsburgh and he spent his long career in art living and working in New York,

city work, factory work, for many years. He was known for urban art, but he made more than 10,000 works that are flowers. His series of 10 endangered species, screen prints, which are here, was made for the cause

of protecting 10 endangered species.

And there's an American bighorn, an American bighorn sheep among those.

He made posters wishing the people of New York, happy butterfly day and happy

bug day. That's cheerful. And besides his wild 40 acres of beautiful Rocky Mountain land up the road

from Hunter Thompson's Owl Farm in the town of Aspen, Andy Warhol owned 20 acres near the tip of Long Island, Montauk, a rustic

1930s fishing camp settlement on the seashore, surrounded by protected wetlands and cliffs and open

space. It's a raw landscape with 30-foot bluffs and a rocky shoreline below. Trees gnarled by the wind, a place that has been described as extreme. A draw for, quote, the souls of artists, writers, musicians who seek the edge. That's from a 2006 New York Times article about the property, and it sounds a lot like the kind of press we're getting up in Joshua Tree in Pioneer Town today.

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