How are you man? Are you experiencing the weather in a very tabloid way? Are you sweltering?

Are you sweltering in the heat? Are you sizzling? You've got a sweltering sizzling, haven't you? There's no other way to experience heat. Are you drenching yourself?

Cooling off? That's another one. When Brits cool off with a pint of beer? I mean, if it's really hot, this is one thing we don't want to admit as Brits because we just like getting pissed.

It's really hot, like an alcoholic drink. It doesn't massively, it doesn't massively help. But you do feel better because alcohol is a wonderful drug.

And this is the kind of thing ladies and gentlemen that you can say when you don't have advertisers. This is a special episode where we talk about how the podcast is funded.

You'll notice that there aren't any adversities on this other than the huge amounts of self-promotion that I do.

It's that every softener I can just do a bonus episode and it is men's mental health week this week. So it's men's health week, right?

We only get a week, right? Pride gets a whole fucking month. This is, but that's fine because as men we don't like to make a fuss, obviously. Some people say, Jeff, you know, there are men in the LGBTQIA plus Wi-Fi password community. I get that. I get that.

But we just need a week. That's all we need. And I was just, you know, it's been a while since we've spoken about men's mental health on the podcast.

It is part of the remit of this podcast, which I appreciate people that have listened for a while, allow me to be incredibly vague about sometimes it's a solo episode, sometimes it's a guest interview, sometimes it's co-hosting, sometimes it's politics sport.

And today it is about men's mental health. So I'll be having a chat with Kenny Marmorella, the cruise, the man whisperer to give him his street name.

He's been on the podcast a couple of times before and he has got some very interesting things to say about particular mental health challenges or mental health challenges that men face today in 2022.

So he's going to be kind of laying out to me what he thinks are key areas people should think about. And I hope, you know, obviously I have male and female listeners to this.

But it might be that you, you know, you take something from this personally or there might be someone that you know that he's just, you know, one of those blows, a good blow, but it's never really.

It's never really wondered why he thinks how he thinks. You know, you know, the kind of bloke that I mean, the kind of bloke that just doesn't cry his whole life. And then, you know, at the age of 50,

which is an episode of you being framed and a person that is, I'm talking about that guy. And I'm not saying, no one really wants men to be crying all day.

This is not, we don't need to overclock as a society, but we do need to just stop sometimes and think about how we feel and why we feel like that.

And just whether we could feel a bit happier. I mean, that's one thing they, they never say about mental health. A lot of people go into it to be fixed when really the truth is, could you just feel a little bit better than you do.

I hope everybody's been watching backstage with Catherine Ryan. As I say, if you, if you've enjoyed that and you tweet about with the hashtag backstage with Catherine Ryan.

But it's just word of mouth. It really, I know it sounds ridiculous, but just when you're with your mates, you go, oh yeah, yeah.

You know, when you, you know, when you recommend the show, there's two reactions. One of the thing is it's so hard to recommend the show because people get weirdly pissed off when you recommend stuff, especially if you're really passionate about it.

I've worked out that if you really think someone should watch it, in terms of the recommendation, you want to be hitting like a 6.5 or a 7, right? You want to be hitting it.

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