Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly on Thursday the 28th of December, 2023.

I'm your host, Barry Galaher.

And today I'm joined, as always, by Christopher Samari.

How are you doing, Chris?

Terrific.

That period in between Christmas and New Year where you don't really know what day it is,

but I remembered to come here. And it's an early kickoff I do I'm about so much but I like it all right uh 2 p.m

gal time um I were recording so let's get right into it good stuff and we're also joined

this week by Lorenzo Begetti Lorenzo how are you are you? I'm good, I'm full, I'm kind of tired, I am ready for the new year just to kind of get

this social week out the way. I feel like my reserves are on zero and that's kind of what you need

for a derby new year week coming up. I feel like I'm kind of at my wits end. I'm thin on the ground

and a bad result could really punish me. Go ahead. Cheers. Happy Christmas everyone. No, I know what you

mean, but I suppose it's a good distraction to have all these things going on and I don't really

feel like the nerves have hit me quite yet, but I dare say the more we talk about Celtic

because that will come like a train. Just for a bit of fun I think we'd start with um a sort of pre-opening question

related to Celtic Christmas presents now Lorenzo is a any of you got I think I know the answer to

this one I did yeah my um my in-laws are not football fans, but they know, you know, it ways people

know like two or three things about you, and that's your entire personality as a whole.

So they've seen me watch the darts since the Royal Chammieship has been on, and they know

I like Celtic, so I received a Celtic dart board, and then from the kids, Celtic darts.

That's amazing, that's a pretty. A full Celtic darts set So I've got a full Celtic dirt set up now at my disposal. That's brilliant.

It's not bad at all, that's good.

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