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Hello, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming of Hollywood and Westminster.

This is a bonus episode we're recording off the back of the Festival of Politics, which has taken place at Holyrood over the weekend.

I'm Phil Sim. I'm a BBC reporter at the Scottish Parliament, and today I'm being joined by.

I'm Lindsay Bues, a journalist also based here at the Scottish Parliament.

I'm Ronan Chast. I'm a GP author and a podcast host. So, welcome to Podlitical. Welcome to Podlitical.

We're very excited to have you. I'm excited to be back here. I was actually a student here at Edinburgh.

I lived there for eight years. So it's just a trip down memory lane coming in the cab through all the streets and coming through the cow gate and the grass market. A lot of memories coming back to me.

Right, now you're going to revisit all the pubs you used to go to.

After my speaking event tonight, I am actually catching up with two of my best mates who still live here.

So, yeah, looking forward to that for sure.

Ah, very nice.

Very nice.

Very nice.

So we've brought you in because we're recording this.

It's World Mental Health Day. So it feels like there's a big thing in politics just now.

You always hear people saying, like, I'm so sick of hearing about Brexit or they're kind of overwhelmed by politics.

They find, you know, the news from Hollywood and Western Western Australia can be kind of tiring

for people sometimes.

I mean, even for us, like as journalists, I mean, we get sick of this stuff sometimes, too.

Yeah, we get sick of this stuff sometimes too. Yeah, we do. And I think we, you know, are working and existing in the political bubble, if you like,

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