Hi, Benji's. This week we're releasing an exclusive episode from our Patreon to the main feed.

Our Patreon episodes let us experiment with other formats and guests and things that you might not normally hear on the main feed.

So I am so happy to release this episode for all of you. I'm very proud of it.

And if you want more Benchtopia in your life, subscribe at patreon.com slash Benchtopia.

Enjoy the episode!

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 gonna 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 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 that's what I'm fucking here to do.

Hello and welcome back to Benchtopia. I'm your host Eliza McLam and this is a very special bonus episode.

You've just heard me on my calm down from 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. It's a desert episode.

So throughout this you'll hear some field recordings from my 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.

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