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This is Reasons to Be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Light.

Hello! Hello! Now it's our last episode before our summer break. The podcast will continue.

You'll be able to hear various live episodes that we've recorded in recent weeks and months.

Really good ones. Yeah, but it's our show before we break up our little break.

And I have good news for you. Before you got here this morning, I fixed the Japanese toilet.

Oh my god! So if you want to go and indulge yourself after we finish, there's a little

pre-holiday treat for you. That's amazing! Yeah! That it's been out of action for

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