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That's slate. I'm your host. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I'm your host, Danny Mlavery, and with me in the studio this week is Jane Rice and Edward Seke. They live in Edinburgh, Scotland, with their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old cat.

Jane is a civil servant, and Ed is a radiographer in the National Health

Service. Jane, Edward, welcome to the show. Thank you for having us, Danny. I am especially

glad to see you both again because I had slightly worried that I had strong-armed you when last we spoke,

which was also the first time that we spoke. Would you mind awfully sharing for our

listeners what that conversation was like? Well, I went up to you and introduced myself and

said I was a big fan of your podcast. And out of the blue, you said, do you want to be a guest on it?

And I thought you were joking because

why would you pick us to be on your podcast? But of course, we said yes. And at that point,

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