We all know that we have a lovely set of listeners who during the lockdown and in fact beyond

have certainly made me and Ian feel better and lifted up.

So today, listeners, I am asking you to turn your collective loveliness towards

occasional for the many pod presenter, Wes Streeting.

Because this week, of course, Wes announced that he's been diagnosed with kidney cancer and he's going to be having some treatment.

I think it was caught early. He says he thinks the prognosis is good.

But I think what we need to do is to send him a big for the many pod hug and you are the guys to do it quite right when you say occasional

presenter he's actually only done it once but he is part of he's done it twice

isn't he no I don't think so I think he's done it more no no he did my all-tort

podcast as well so but anyway we're splitting hairs or I'm splitting hairs. We love him anyway.

We love him anyway.

And it was really interesting to see the reaction of people.

A friend of mine who's never met him, but sort of knows him through the podcast, said he got really emotional.

I must admit, I did too, which I know is not unusual for me.

But it's something when it's, when cancer affects somebody so young, I mean, you kind of

expect that people who are in an older age group, I mean, what is it, one in one in two, one in

three people get some form of cancer at some point in their lives,

but it tends to be in older age.

But I don't know about you, but I know so many people who have had cancer at a young age and

beating it. Nick Bowles, for example. I know a different form of cancer, actually a much more

aggressive form, I think. Yeah. And he did beat it. So, and people say, well, people say you've got to

have a battle with cancer and fight cancer. Well, I think it is partly psychological. I mean, you could

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