Radio mano, papà c'ango

Hey Chris, Ben here

Do you hear all that?

If you can, it's the sound of the Amazon jungle at night

I'm sitting out here looking over in this small pond

There are water lilies blooming on it just like they do every night white against the darkness

I'm here at the Siowasca Center in the jungle

I've been here for almost six weeks now and tomorrow will be my final ceremony of

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I've been listening to you since before you had an actual podcast. It was actually your first

podcast where you came on the trussles where I found you

But since then I've been with you in Oregon and Chiang Mai in Dapanga and Holland and of course in the van and

You've been with me in Prague

and in Buenos Aires

on trains and style-calls and trails in Washington state and buses across Paraguay

And on my flight here

I'm super grateful to have you and all of the tangentially speaking community with me on my various journeys

But until now I've always been afraid to send you an intro. I was always afraid you'd

Recognize my name or my voice because four years ago

You generously agreed to let me interview you for this article that I was writing about psychedelic medicine and podcasts and

At that point I'd barely written any articles or had any published that were all music journalism

And even though I got great interviews from you and Duncan and Danielle E. Bolloli and others

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