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I MISS LOCKDOWN

WHAT IS THIS PODCAST?

As we wrap up Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m starting a new “low-talking” podcast called “I Miss Lockdown” as a way to give back to the introvert community as we all deal with the “re-opening” of society after the lifting of most Covid restrictions.

To be honest, most of us hard-core introverts didn’t really deal with lockdown in the same way our extro friends & relations did. Our experience was rather different. They were busy losing their collective $#!t from not being able to go to Applebee’s on a given Tuesday while we were all catching up on our streaming services or crushing people in some online gaming community like normal. That’s not to say that we weren’t negatively impacted: we certainly were, and frankly, I personally feel that we all have a bit of PTSD from the past three years.

But if I’m being honest, there are things about lockdown that I… miss? The quiet. The slowing down of life. The focus on self-care. The feeling—however brief and fleeting it may have been—that we were all on the same side again. That we were all pulling for each other, hoping the best for each other, giving a $#!t about our fellow humans again.

Now I don’t want you to think this is a podcast exclusively about lockdown life, although that will likely be a touchstone for quite some time. I’m looking at this more as a friendly introvert voice keeping you company, talking at times to other introverts, sharing experiences, and keeping fellow introvert listeners company for a while. In that way, “lockdown” acts as a metaphor for the introvert life, and it’s not something I’m moving on from. It’s a core pillar of who I am.

So I’m here to invite you in, and to ask for your participation in helping me build this into something that will help someone out there feel seen, validated, and at times, less alone, maybe while having a laugh and some insightful conversation along the way.

A few ways you can help:

Email me some thoughts about your life during—or after—lockdown. How are you doing? What are you feeling about the world right now? What—if anything—were positives of this period of cultural isolation? How did it affect you? Email me at [e-mail].

Eventually, I’ll have a system in place -via- SpeechPipe to take voice comment “calls” from the public, and use them on the show, all right from your phone, mobile device, or desktop. That feature will be available on the website (which should be available sometime tomorrow) IMISSLOCKDOWN.COM.

And if you’d like to support the podcast with a financial contribution of any size, you can do so by donating to the NBBN patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/NBBN

I hope you decide to participate in some way, and I’d love to hear ideas on what you as a listener would find fun, enjoyable, entertaining, comforting, or valuable in a podcast like this.

Cheers,

-Andrew

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