Yes, here we are. Hello my friends and welcome to the Robcast. This is episode 313 and

this episode is called fantasy death and the internet.

So a couple weeks ago we went out and I did the first two shows of my new everything a spiritual tour, Seattle and Portland and

I don't know about you

but I thought and I remember having conversations with people about this

that when this pandemic started to end whatever that means honestly when when we began to go back out I

had pictured it like an explosion of life like a giant street party. Is that sound familiar? Like oh when this thing is over

there's gonna be all this pent up energy and excitement and there's just gonna be like this explosive

joy that's gonna it isn't like that is it feels less

like a street party and more like coming out of a movie theater in the middle of the day. You know that

squinty feeling when your eyes are trying to adjust. Kristen and Violet and I went to a

film premiere just a couple weeks ago and

we parked the car and we were walking

through this studio tour the theater is and we were saying to each other like there's gonna be people there

we're gonna see people this is like gonna be social

we were literally like adjusting because we're rusty and it was so interesting because I saw friends there that I haven't seen

in you know two years year and a half and it was so wonderful to see everybody but it also

it was like saying oh it's so good to see you this is weird isn't it it's like everybody's rusty

and I noticed this right away um going back out and doing shows there's something in the air like a

words like tender

vulnerable it's like there's an ache

in the air like we've all been through something and

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