I need to tell you, the idea of this episode has been such a joy for me to just think about.

And the fact that I'm going to make some music around it and just guide you through this

whole experience where I hope to, it makes me really happy.

So that you may have the closest to my experience that I can make you have.

Because you're not me, you're, you haven't taken the streams that I've taken.

You aren't in the Yuka Valley at this date and time and in this body.

But all that I can do as a human being is to use what is at my disposal and what makes

sense to me, which for me is music and is sound and is for this sort of collage of, this

audio collage that I'm envisioning, that's the closest I can get for you.

And that's what I want.

And I'm fucking here to do.

Hello and welcome back to Binge Topia.

I'm your host, Eliza McLam, and this is a very special bonus episode.

You just heard me on my calm down for my psychedelic journey and I'm coming to you now from my place

back in the real world, Kate and I went to the desert guys as a desert episode.

So throughout this, you'll hear some field recordings from our time there, original music

composed by me as well as a more, shall we say, coherent narrative, to guide you through

it all.

I have so many things to tell you, so many things to show you about my strange journey.

But first, I have to make you acquainted if you've not met her already, allow me to

introduce you to Miss Joshua Tree National Park.

There's the triad of desert aesthetics and it is Bible cars, the movie, and why isn't

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