Finding the Line

Mike gives some advice after going through more than half a year of being unemployed, what to do, what to avoid, and how to stay sane through it all.  Hopefully this can help someone in a similar sit…

What does it mean to be a man and what does it mean to be one in 2023?  Mike steps through key moments from childhood to fatherhood to find the defining moments that allowed him to determine what it …

Mike is in Nashville, doing a remote recording.  Today we cover some interesting questions: When should someone get your respect, how to weigh your feelings and when to share them, and then when you …

Picking up on a subject that was touched on in the previous episode on sacrifice and suffering, parenting can be difficult but let's dive into some perspectives that can help navigate some tough ever…

Kicking the new year off with a hopefully uplifting podcast about scrifice and suffering.  Posing the question, would I be able to take up the task of some of the biggest sacrifice decisions in histo…

Loneliness is something that has come up a lot in the past year and recently listening to a couple recent podcasts theat delved into the subject made me reflect on a few key points in my own life tha…

There have been some violent attacks recently in a city including right at his doorstep.  Mike talks about past experiences and explores possible ways to cope with the presense of so much lack of emp…

Mike takes a shallow dive into addiction and where it appears in his own life.   

Mike talks about his experience of serving on a jury last week and how it relates to a few readings he had recently completed including the Encyclical, Spe Salvi (Saved in Hope) and the book Executio…

Mike talks through the thought process behind what would be the framework of a possible Legend of Zelda movie series.  

Mike rants about the recent Star Trek TV shows.  What goes wrong, what goes right...and then more about what goes wrong. 

Mike goes into how Religion has shaped and been a part of his life since he was young, why he departed from it, and why he has now returned with a few caveats.

Mike covers his podcasting history and expands on the concept behind the Finding the Line Podcast.  Why such a long break?  Why now?  What are his plans for the podcast? Recorded 8/19/2022