Welcome to the Behind a Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing. And this week, I have an

extremely unusual and unique episode for you. I have done almost a thousand episodes now, and each one

of those is with a guest. But after really trying to be one of the voices to push the 2472

Firefighter Work Week as the industry standard, I have been inundated with messages, which is a

beautiful thing. So rather than keep answering the same questions over and over and over again,

I wanted to create a free resource collating all of the great minds that have had on the show

talking about this so you can then use it as an open source

document to give to your fellow firefighters, your union, your city, your county, your civilians,

whoever needs to hear it to understand that there are absolutely fixable solutions to the

physical and mental health crisis and the recruitment crisis that we are

enduring in the fire service.

What I'm also going to do if you go to the YouTube channel or the web page for this on

James Gearing.com, I'm going to list all of the resources that I talk about on here.

So there will be hyperlinks.

So you want to listen to Professor Russell Foster, the man who literally discovered the

chrono receptors in the eye, then you'll be able to just click on that link and you'll take

you straight to that episode.

So before we get to this, I would say, conversation.

It's a monologue this time.

I want to add one more thing.

I was responding to questions that you will see if you go to the video side.

Most of us, I think, listen to podcasts.

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