The Mind Unset

055: 1000 Years From Now

I know... we're supposed to be in the in-between, in the season break, but I have to clear the air. I have something to share with you.  But first, a question. If someone said they were going to take a picture of you and a thousand years from now, the photograph will still look as it did the moment the photographer took it, would you feel any pressure?  Would you travel 2,000 miles by car to sit for that photo?  Just listen to the episode, I'll explain everything.   * * * If you like what you're hearing, subscribe, leave a review, and share with your friends because the show doesn't go anywhere without you. Visit us at themindunset.com [https://themindunset.com/], follow us on Instagram @themindunsetpodcast. [https://instagram.com/themindunsetpodcast] Until next time... Be nice. Do good stuff.

054: You Gotta Go To Know

Change is in the air.  Baja Summer is making her graceful exit. October is just around the corner. It’s happening so fast but that seems to be how it works. Once things start to ramp up and the tectonic plates of life start to actually move; it’s only at that point, that I’m able to glance back and say, ah… that’s what that was all about. We all know change is hard and that the transition period before the big change can be fraught with discomfort. Sometimes we cope with this discomfort by overanalyzing and speculating about all the possible outcomes, which then leads to analysis paralysis. Or worse yet, falling back into the easy chair of one of my least favorite words in the English language, someday. We can speculate all day long but speculation is just procrastination disguised as action. Yes, it's difficult but at the end of the day, you gotta go to know.   * * * If you like what you're hearing, subscribe, leave a review, and share with your friends because the show doesn't go anywhere without you. Visit us at themindunset.com [https://themindunset.com/], follow us on Instagram @themindunsetpodcast. [https://instagram.com/themindunsetpodcast] Until next time... Be nice. Do good stuff.

053: Someone Had To Do It

I don’t know why I ended up in that little surf village. It just looked like a cool place on my paper map, stashed way out there on a desolate point of land like the last berry on a branch drooping close to the ground. Oh, the things we discover when we load up the car and drive to a place we've never been.   A place, that weeks before had been nearly wiped off the map by a hurricane.  A place where, if you pause long enough,  the idea you were searching for might just drift across your vision like a small feather from a cactus wren.  * * * If you like what you're hearing, subscribe, leave a review, and share with your friends because the show doesn't go anywhere without you. Visit us at themindunset.com [https://themindunset.com/], follow us on Instagram @themindunsetpodcast. [https://instagram.com/themindunsetpodcast] Until next time... Be nice. Do good stuff.

052: Breaking Bread

Anthony Bourdain said food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those. It may not be the answer to world peace but it’s a start.  But what happens when your love affair with food turns sour? When what used to excite you leaves you cold. When culinary apathy sets in and nothing tastes good anymore.   When you realize you just might know the answer to the question; How many fish tacos are too many? This is me...right now! Maybe the Baja heat has finally gotten to me.  Thankfully, when all else fails, we still have that one thing that set civilization on its path to stardom.  We still have the one thing that has been around since man himself.  Let's talk about that marvelous marriage of flour, yeast, and water. In fact, let's break bread.  * * * If you like what you're hearing, subscribe, leave a review, and share with your friends because the show doesn't go anywhere without you. Visit us at themindunset.com [https://themindunset.com/], follow us on Instagram @themindunsetpodcast. [https://instagram.com/themindunsetpodcast] Until next time... Be nice. Do good stuff.

051: Gods Among Us

How do I even begin to describe this episode? Well, in 1963, Paul Zahl, head guy at National Geographic coined a phrase when referencing the Coast Redwoods and Giant Sequoias in California.  He called them the Mount Everest of living things.  Fossils and seeds from these majestic beauties have been discovered in a place that can't be explained. Some date back 45 million years.  What started as a simple assignment from my acting coach turned into an expansive journey that left me trying to connect the dots using the reintegration of wolves to Yellowstone National and a story about a tree that fell in the woods over one hundred years ago.  Tune in to listen to one of the most difficult episodes I've ever recorded and quite possibly one of my favorites.  * * * If you like what you're hearing, subscribe, leave a review, and share with your friends because the show doesn't go anywhere without you. Visit us at themindunset.com [https://themindunset.com/], follow us on Instagram @themindunsetpodcast. [https://instagram.com/themindunsetpodcast] Until next time... Be nice. Do good stuff.