Hello and welcome to Series 2 episode 12 of Out with Susie Ruffle. How are you?

I hope you're having a good day.

Oh guys I feel a lot brighter waking up this morning and watching Joe Biden's acceptance speech

to become the next president of the United States. I mean I appreciate I'm

British but it really feels like a shift towards hope in the world and it's really giving me a spring in my step.

A special hello to all of you that live or are American.

I know that we've got a lot of American listeners.

I assume that you're feeling very happy

if you're listening to this podcast. I assume. What a great day for hope, in my opinion.

It's a very hopeful day. Thank you for listening. Thank you to all of you that got in touch after last week's episode with Rita. I love her. I think she's brilliant and it seems that lots of you do too. Thank you to everyone that's left iTunes reviews

or shared it on Spotify or tweeted or emailed.

Instagramed or any other ways that you can share it

or if you're not sharing it and you're just listening to it

and no one knows that you listen to it. Thank you as well for being here and for

being part of this of this podcast community. I've got a great episode this week.

Amaral Kaddi I loved chatting to them. I think you're going to really enjoy it too

but before as always we have our listener emails and I'm going to start right here.

Hi Susie I know you must be bombarded with emails but I had to get in touch.

I'm constantly listening to a range of different podcasts but none have

affected me anywhere near as much as yours has.

I find your podcast to be incredibly powerful and the messages of hope that it is bestowed upon its

listeners are truly inspiring. I grew up as an only child with wonderful parents who were and still are unbelievably

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