Here's what you said about the podcast. Welcome to walking as fitness. This is a podcast

of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to

yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now. I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

Last month, I asked you to tell me what you thought about the podcast.

And I gave you four specific questions. What do you like?

What do you not like? What would you like me to start doing in the podcast? Something that I'm not

currently doing, but if I started, would bring even more value to you. And then number four,

is there something you would like me to stop doing? In other words,

is there something that's annoying you, getting on your nerves, that if I keep doing it,

you might even stop listening? So those were the four specific questions, and I got a number

of wonderful, thoughtful, kind, encouraging, and helpful responses.

A number of the emails included specific topic suggestions.

So they weren't really broader themes, but would you you cover this and there were a number of topics

wonderful topics that if you suggested something we'll likely hear that in the future there are also

what i would call five themes and so i want to mention those five today. Number one, number of people said, I love how you just

get right into it, that there's no theme music. That, of course, is intentional. I am a podcaster.

I have another podcast called Long Story Short that not only has theme music, but intentional use of music beds throughout

the podcast.

So I am a firm believer in the value of music in a podcast.

But for this one, when I was considering how this was going to sound, it just didn't feel right to have theme music.

Because it's me and you walking more often than not outside.

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