Greetings you fetching endess welcome to the blind by podcast. Thank you for the

feedback for last week's podcast. For I had my wonderful guest Adam Cartisan for

a chat to speak about his documentaries. I hope you had a chance to get a look at his

documentary. Can't get you out of my head which is on the BBC eye player. So this

week I want to speak about contemporary issues I want to speak about what's

happening right now which I generally tend to avoid. I tend to prefer doing this

podcast as an active escapism something which allows you to escape from the

current environment. But two things firstly we're kind of coming up to the one

year anniversary of the pandemic more or less what is it now 16th of February.

Shit started getting real around March of 2020 that's when shit started getting

real and we had to start thinking about a pandemic but this time last year you

know we were thinking about the coronavirus we were thinking about it it was

it was at that stage for the World Health Organization had it hadn't declared

of the pandemic yet they were like it might be an epidemic and it was looking

real. So for that reason I wanted to a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a

little mental health episode and check in with mental health around the

pandemic. The other reason I'm doing it is because I did a little interview in

the Sunday independent in Ireland this Sunday which is an Irish Sunday newspaper

and they contacted me I think that the journalist or the editor was listening to

my podcast and they contacted me and said blown by would you do something in the

newspaper which speaks about mental health during the pandemic so I did and I

got I got a huge response for it I got a lot of mails from people who wouldn't

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