Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly. I am your host, Christopher Gallagher. It's the 3rd of July

2025 and I'm delighted to say I'm joined by the regular Cynic Weekly host, but he's in the guest

hot seat today.

Barry Galaher. Hello, Barry. How are you, sir?

Very well, thanks. Thank you for having me alone for this early morning, Synic Weekly, which I'm looking forward to. And as you say, it's nice to be in the guest

seat for once, and I'm currently enjoying my summer holidays

so there's plenty to get into today and I'm looking

forward to it. Great stuff. As you say

yeah we've not done a sanny quickly since the end of the season

we did our end of season awards which were great

again all available if you're listening, are subscribed.

There's plenty to talk about, as you say, opening questions and stuff.

I just want to start by, obviously, some pretty horrendous news about Diogo Jota, Liverpool player, you know, died in a car crash, just devastating.

I think sometimes we put footballers and celebrities like in a sort of bubble

where you don't think normal, horrific things can happen to them.

But just a real tragedy, Barry.

Yeah, it just shows you the fragility of life, doesn't it?

And I suppose the kind of message to take from

that is kind of live life to the fullest, because you don't know what's ahead of you.

So yeah, deepest condolences to all the Liverpool fans and obviously friends and family as well.

Absolutely. A real tragedy. Let's lighten the mood. Let's talk about, well, actually, Barry, how are you

doing? Obviously, you've been on holiday. No, you're on holiday, but you're going on holiday,

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