Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly on the 9th of January 2024.

First one of the new year.

I'm your host as always, Barry Galaher.

And tonight I'm joined by Stuart Duggan.

Stuart, how are you?

Very well, Barry.

Great to see you again.

I hope you've had a lovely festive period and ready to crack on with 2025 yes thank you very much I hope you have too and also joining us is Scott Fleming Scott how are you good yeah thanks for having me

as you know me and Stuart by complete coincidence bumped into each other recently on the mean streets of Glasgow.

So it's a pleasure to be reunited in pod form for the first time since then.

A Christmas miracle.

Yes.

Hopefully you both lived up to your online persona and it wasn't like a major disappointment.

The nicest compliment I can say to Scott is that I actually stopped and shouted him in the street as opposed to just walking by, which I would do to, well, let's not go there.

Yeah, I was quite, especially giving my grainy picture quality and I've always got my screen at the wrong angle.

I was just impressed that you recognised me in the first place.

Well, name names, we're talking about Alan Edgar. That's why he's not here tonight.

I've got this. Yeah. Just get a visions of Stuart saying

and didn't recognise you without your kitchen behind you.

But, yeah, as we said, it's been a busy festive period

and the games are coming thick and fast.

Scott, just before we get started.

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