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

Thank you. 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.

I'm a big fan of trees. I can easily get to thinking of trees as sacred just in their

generic form. Like a forest is a place that feels like a church to me you know i like to be surrounded by

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