Hello my friends and welcome to the Robcast. I'm on the back porch today because it just felt right to be outside and

I have a

Special guest here a long time friend who I'm gonna introduce in a moment and then we are gonna go

So just prepare yourself

Anything loose bolt it down to the floor because when this thing gets rolling

I'm just warning you you're gonna pull over by the side of the road and you're gonna roll down the windows

And I don't know what's gonna happen. It's gonna be good. And I don't know why I'm hyping this episode like this other than I'm quite excited about it for a while

Speaking of quite excited a couple more cities on the introduction to Joy tour. I'll be in

Sacramento and Santa Cruz in a few weeks and then the tour ends in LA at the lodge room and then it's done

So of course I would love to see you at any of those tickets and info at my site and then tickets are up for the next round of two days

January February March where we get you unstuck and on your way with whatever it is you're creating and making and

There'll be some magic there and then my beloved friend Elizabeth Gilbert and I next May in the desert for three days and

Of course you

You know, it's more fun when you're there all that info of course at my site as well, but now

I got to set up this episode

properly, okay, so

It's like the early aughts. It's like 2001-ish and

What was happening is lots of people were talking about the HIV AIDS crisis in

sub-Saharan Africa and

I would read these articles about the numbers. It was almost like the data or the statistics were like

I couldn't fathom this level of devastation because that just wouldn't happen in America. Let's be honest. So I was like a early

30s. I'm a pastor trying to do good work, but also like there's this

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