Don Minimists

Hello everybody welcome to the Minimists podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less my name is Joshua Phil's Millburn and I'm Ryan

Nicodemus and together we are the minimalist today we're gonna talk about fear we're gonna talk about anxiety we're gonna talk about worry and

discomfort and of course paranoia comes along with it all well who better to have in here to talk about paranoia than someone who made an entire album

about paranoia or truly outstanding album by the way leader wise is here thank you we thank you for being here yeah man I'm a fan of your show and I like how you guys just get into stuff and

you know it's my it's my vibe for sure so well you know we we're both big fans of your music I didn't know a whole lot about you until I

start preparing for this episode the only thing I knew is I feel like you've made two classic albums and I don't I don't use that

word lightly like I feel like you've made just I mean you've made quite a few albums and I'm a fan of your music but you have your

frames and then in paranoia and we're here today to celebrate a new EP that you have castles yeah I just put out a new EP castles a week ago or so and yeah it's

it's each album is definitely you know I write different stages of your life different things going on you want to make

different music I try not to get to you know boring for myself you know I I try to change it up as much as I can but

paranoia was definitely one of those albums for me where I was in a different place that I can say I was versus the others

uh-huh it's probably the darkest album I made I mean even with the titles like out of the gate but it was one of those things I feel like I needed to do I

needed to make like that album in order to kind of get to this one and I always feel that way with the music I feel like

once I can get this chunk this puzzle piece then I can go to the next one you know and and um yeah paranoia was uh

interesting you say it's dark but there are moments of light like I think that's the thing with with hope and despair and

we're gonna talk a bit about these topics today with paranoia or maybe lesser states of paranoia whether it's

fear and worry and we've got some questions from our audience so I want to talk to you more about your music but let's

dive into some of these questions first Emily and Oklahoma City has a question

Hi this is Emily from Oklahoma City I had a question surrounding the relationship between physical preferences and resilience

My husband had the mindset that continually disregarding physical preference will build strength and allow you the ability to

thrive physically under any circumstance I was wondering do you think these two are correlated and if so where's the

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