Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S52E10 Awe: thank you for listening
Walking around my local streets, excited to be wrapping up Series 52 on awe, but sad to say toodle pip for 2024! I’ll be back in 2025 with a brand new series in January. Thank you for walking with me!
(upbeat music) - Hello and welcome to Walk the Pod, your daily walking show where I take my podcast for a walk because I don't have a dog. You're very welcome along. This is episode 10, series 52 of the daily walking podcast that tempts you out of the office, away from your desk, and into nature for a 10 minute stroll, every day. And once you've been doing it for a little while, you realize how gosh darned good for your mental and physical health, a daily amble is. So thank you for joining me. This is actually the last episode of the year, last official episode of the year. We're gonna wrap up Walk the Pod for 2024 today, finishing our theme of awe. And whilst there might be one or two little bits over the festive break, we are broadly speaking, coming back in January. Welcome to Walk the Pod. (upbeat music) It's been brilliant talking about awe, this series with you. Thank you so much for all your contributions, for walking with me, for discussing this really rather difficult to nail down emotion, if you can call it emotion. I've learned a lot as usual, and going to try to build ways to incorporate every day or into my life, because apparently people who experience or do so two or three times a week, wow, that's a lot, isn't it? So I want to spend today's episode, just thanking the members of the Walk the Pod, Lunchtime Walk Club. The Lunchtime Walk Club is like a virtual walking club with members all around the world who walk in their own local area apart, but together. And then we meet on the Discord server to chat about our walking, our explorations of topics and themes, and updates of our lives and our families. And these are the people who get the behind the scenes peaks into the world of walk the pod away from the podcast. So I usually thank everybody overseas first, but today I'm going to do it in the other order. So a very, very big thank you. Two, Catherine in Ealing, Nick in Worcester, Jim in Manchester, Hannah, Sam and Katie in Southwest London, Helen in Crystal Palace, John in Muswell Hill, Hillary from Trundle, Mom in the Beautiful, Mulvin Hills, Dad in rural Norfolk. Rear Admiral Tim in the Independent People's Republic of Croydon and outside of the UK Rob in New Zealand, Marcel in the Netherlands and Cindy in Nebraska, in the US of A. Once send a big shout out to my friend Ian, who's recovering from hospital treatment at home. I want to send a big shout out to the gorgeous and wonderful Hills from Trundle, who's also recovering from surgery at home. I want to send a big shout out to my stepdad, Jeff, who's also recovering, having been into hospital recently. Lots of my loved ones have been into hospital recently and it's been a stressful time actually, but everybody so far is out and in recovery. So lots of love to all of them. For listening and supporting some people's support via BuyMeACoffee.com, some people's support, via sub-stack, some people's support. On the quiet tears of the Walk the Pod lunchtime Walk Club, so don't get a name check, but do get my thanks from the bottom of my heart. And of course to everyone who's contributed, creative, brilliant to Walk the Pod. Tristan Mitchell of the Bigfoot Studio, Lawrence Owen, who created the music for Walk the Pod. And my marketing, as usual, is by word of mouth, apart from a tenor here and there, spent trying to get the podcast in front of more people on Facebook, so if you can talk to anyone who you think might be trying to build walking into their life, about the pod, I'd be very grateful. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - What can I see directly in front of me? Well, it's the most beautiful day in the world, very nearly December, but the sky is absolutely beautiful, blue, not a cloud in it. Some like glinting off the, what are those things called? Like television antennas, aerials, TV aerials, a bar for the houses, I just couldn't work out what those are called there for a minute, wasn't so much that I'd forgotten the word, I just was like, gosh, I haven't actually thought about one of those for years. The sun is beaming down on the rooftops all around in southwest London. And everything's looking quite, quite jolly and quite bright and shiny today, which is lovely. If you're enjoying Walk the Pod and are thinking, how can I get more of this good stuff in my life? Almost everywhere, actually, there's a Facebook group, there's a Instagram page, and there is a sub-stack, there is, well, there's obviously the Discord server, if you join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime Walk Club, but the great thing about Patreon is, you can join my Patreon as a free member and see that behind the scenes photos, even without paying for the privilege. So, there is lots that I'm sort of sneaking out there so that it can mostly be free for everybody. Thank you so much for listening, dear friends. It's difficult to explain to you how much of an oasis Walk the Pod is in my work day, because I sort of escaped to it, you know. I'm at work and then, suddenly, I'm in my lunch break in my own little world with you. And it has been enormously, enormously reassuring over the years to be able to do so. I wish you a very happy festive season. I am looking forward to coming back with episode, sorry, series, keep saying that. Series 53 in the new year. And I'm really excited to see where Walk the Pod will go next year, because I think we've done some good work this year, I think it's been brilliant. So, I'm very proud to know you, very proud to record the podcast for you. I hope it's been helpful in some way. And I will see you and speak to you in 2025. In 2025. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)