Part 2 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss life after close to a year in pandemic lockdown.

Show notes:

• Tough to not see friends

• Matt runs Dungeons & Dragons games via Zoom

• Surprising number of people are into D&D

• It's a good escape from the world

• Like a weekly therapy session

• Companies use D&D for corporate retreats

• Games have grown in popularity during the pandemic

• Jay: We started playing a family dominoes game every Saturday

• Jay: Played the board game Pandemic years ago

• The CDC's zombie announcement

• People will run toward the zombies

• Going to movies seems so far away

• Jay: Like going to concerts, don't love going to movies

• Tough time to be a theater actor

• Miss going to bars

• Will masks stick around after the pandemic ends?

• Toilet paper hoarders

• Matt ordered TP last April; it arrived in October

• Waiting for normalcy

• Matt: Look forward to seeing nieces and nephews again

• Want to do activities involving other humans

• We miss traveling

• Jay: Wasn't overly disappointed to not go to a June work conference in Phoenix

• Matt hated getting ready to go places, but liked it once he got there

• When you can't find parking during a pandemic

• Some people don't care about doing the right thing

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.