This episode of Reasons to Be Chirphal is brought to you by the newsmeeting from Podimo and Tortoise.

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This is reasons to be cheerful, with Edmila Band and Jeff Lyd.

Happy New Year!

Happy real New Year! Did we say it on the last episode?

I think we probably did, but we did, but it was a fake and we admitted it, didn't we?

Yes, how is it going for you? Have you resolved to change anything in your life?

I didn't really go big on the old New Year's resolutions this year.

Did you?

No, not really. I was thinking about making a resolution to spend less time with my family,

but the way lockdowns are now, that doesn't seem likely to happen.

Yeah, I mean, just to sort of complete the various humble brags,

you know, I swam in the ponds on Christmas, my birthday, Christmas Eve.

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