Hi, Benjy's. Before we get into the show today, I have an extremely exciting announcement,

which is that we are having our first ever Benchtopia live show. The show will be Friday,

March 10th at Dynasty typewriter in Los Angeles, one of our favorite places.

And if you want to come, the link is in our show notes for tickets, and also you can just go to

the Dynasty typewriter website. And if you're waiting for your city, we are coming. We are coming.

Anyway, enjoy the episode.

Welcome to Benchtopia.

We hope you enjoy your stay.

Hi everybody. Welcome back to Benchtopia. Hello and welcome back.

I'm Julia Hava. I'm Eliza McLam. If you would like to support us on Patreon,

you can visit patreon.com slash Benchtopia, where you will get access to our monthly bonus episodes,

our zooms. And now you guys, we tried something different last month. We did an audio reading list,

slash newsletter, and everybody loved it. Yeah, we just kind of talked about what we were

interested in, what we were reading, what we were seeing. And we got a lot of responses. Also,

I think there's confusion about the Patreon because there are different tiers for the Patreon.

So if you just pay, if you pay the $5 a month, then you get access to all of the bonus episodes.

And that's like the main thing that happens on Patreon. But then there's different tiers.

At a higher tier, you can get access to that. I think we're probably going to just transition

over to an audio newsletter because we got the normal newsletters. We're getting like 10 comments.

So I got like 90. It's because the format of Patreon makes it hard to scroll through it.

So it's like, I feel I understand why a huge block of text would be intimidating to people,

to read through. And also, I love talking. I don't want to write things. I want to talk.

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