Hello everyone and welcome back to Get Fit Guy. This is Kevin Donne. Firstly, I want to take a moment to thank

everyone that emailed me after last week's episode. I've replied very briefly to some to express my gratitude, but to everyone that emailed me,

I want you to know I got your email and I read it.

And I really can't tell you enough how much it means to me that you took the time to sit down

and write well wishes to a voice on the other end of a podcast. But yes, more than that, I am a human,

one that has ups and downs like everyone else. I'm not a robot. And I also never considered

the number of emails I would have from listeners who are also having a hard time and appreciating

that they're not alone, or from those that just realized that even people that

might appear to have all their ducks in a row may also have problems. Big ones. It can help to know

that we aren't alone and also to know that we can't ever know other minds and it's good to try and be

kind because we don't know the pain

that someone else may be in behind their public facing mask. As far as this podcast goes,

perhaps it's also made me rethink my own style too, in the sense that maybe it's really

useful for both listeners and me to talk more openly,

useful for listeners to connect to a real person, and useful for me because it's cathartic.

So let's see what happens. Maybe my personality and a weekly update on my life might

humanize me more for people and to help people feel more connected. On that front,

this week I did successfully move to the University of Edinburgh. As you know, if you're a regular

listener, I'm studying philosophy. Something that took me by surprise, though, that I hadn't considered

when I was going to uni was ageism. It hadn't occurred to me at all that that would be something I experienced.

And so far I've been challenged three times by the security in my student accommodation about

who I am and asking me to provide my student identification. Whilst I'm happy that they're being

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