Episode 7: Special Guest - Listener Feedback on the Midlife Crises Podcast (including vampires)

On today’s episode we have on as a special guest Mike Miller. He is a long time friend of Alvin and a loyal follower of the podcast. Mike is a fellow graduate of the University of North Carolina, has been an educator for 25 years and is currently an administrator at a private K-8 school in Asheville, NC, and his listener submitted stories have been twice nominated for a poddy award on the Carolina Insider podcast. Mike is (hopefully) starting the upward trend on the life happiness curve as he turns 50 in a couple of weeks, and as a practicing Catholic he is here to provide some alternative perspectives on death and the search for happiness, which are heavily influenced by his faith. Mike is also a parent who has recently seen his youngest child enter adulthood, so after some initial discussion about terrorists and vampires, Mike gives us some general critiques on the podcast, and we get his views on helicopter parenting, student resiliency, and his general take on midlife issues. Finally, we introduce a new segment called You’ve Got Mail, and we end with a Where were you when segment on the 1996 Olympic Park bomging. We hope you enjoy the conversation.