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

Hello! Hello, how are you?

I've gone up this morning and looked outside at seven and it was totally dark and I thought, oh.

Do you know who I blame for how depressing this time of year is?

No. The pagans gone.

Because they obviously were aware of the darkest time of year coming, the winter solstice.

Yeah.

And they started building celebration around it and eventually that became Christmas.

But they didn't think about coming out the other side, coming out the dip.

So you've got all this stuff around the winter solstice and building up to it and then nothing after it.

The upswing is the best thing you can say, isn't it?

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