“this app is the bees. I am very grateful for it.” (a chomper, end of show, Irving, 4/25) Goose Spring ‘26 just wrapped. The run started March 28 in Athens and closed out Saturday night in Irving. Fourteen shows. One festival lead-in. Fourteen live chats running in parallel with each show, with 40 people sending 3,737 messages to each other across the tour. Most of them sent from couches. For the second half of tour I had a weird but perfect setup. Goose was on Eastern time. I was couch-touring most of those shows from a hotel room in Vegas. Then Phish was at Sphere (six nights across two runs, 4/16-18 and 4/23-25), and I was at all of them. Pacific time. The two shows overlapped by about an hour every night: the back end of the Goose set ran into the front end of Phish at Sphere. Which meant at any given moment in that hour I had two live chats open and two iOS Live Activities going on the lock screen. One for the show I was actually at, one for the show I was following along with…
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