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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

Today is Saturday, so we have a vault episode for you.

This is going to be Sacred Trees of the World.

It originally published 11, 14, 20 2024. Let's jump right in.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick.

And today's episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind is a travel episode. That's, of course, a broad category that we're sometimes asked to consider.

And since we've already done more specific episodes on, say, the psychology of travel, like, why do we travel? What does the travel do to the brain and so forth?

We decided to turn our attention instead to topics that invited travel, you know, that maybe even

sort of summoned an itinerary or a bucket list in the mind of the listener.

Certainly get in touch with an actual travel agent or travel coordinator if you need to book

flights based on anything we discuss here. But yeah, I mean, there are many reasons to travel,

to visit friends and family, to take in culture and cuisine, to visit natural wonders, and, of course, to experience various ecosystems while we still can.

And I was thinking about all of this during recent travels with my family and kind of landed on a focus for this episode.

Sacred trees of the world.

Often old and or ancient trees that instantly set our minds and perhaps our spirits as well into motion.

I don't know if you've had this experience, Joe, when you've been around, you know,

big trees, old trees, novel trees, and so forth.

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