Coming Home Changed: Travel, Perspective & Talking It Through with Sean Mort

Fresh off a long European trip, Brickey sits down with Sean Mort to unpack what it actually feels like to come home changed. The episode opens with stories from the road, travel anxiety, unexpected conflict, and the mental weight of keeping everything moving while away. It’s an honest look at the emotional toll of travel when your livelihood depends on momentum, not rest.

From there, the conversation widens into something deeper. Mark and Sean talk candidly about perspective, what it’s like to step outside the U.S. at a moment when the country feels loud, tense, and unrecognizable, and how distance can sharpen both gratitude and discomfort. They wrestle with American identity, public behavior, media culture, and the slow normalization of anger, all while trying to make sense of where creativity fits inside that chaos.

This is not a polished debate or a tidy conclusion, it’s two close friends thinking out loud, challenging each other, and inviting the audience into a real, unfiltered conversation. A reflective, heavy, and deeply human episode about travel, fear, culture, and what it means to come back home with new eyes.