The Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly. I'm your host as Ival Lou McCaffreyrey and this week I'm joined by a six and a half out of ten Chris O'Manni. How did I know that Chris?

Spooky. Not rehearsed at all. Recorded live before a studio audience. Mr. 6 out of 10, Mr McAfrey.

Yeah, six out of 10. Listen, I'm not going to hire hire i'm possibly version on a seven out of ten after

this uh this start to the podcast um we were meant to be joined by keith mcginty hard g but uh due to technical

issues and dodgy phone reception he's not been able to make it so hopefully we'll speak to him again

very soon but i'm also joined by the

very handsome. He's looking beautiful tonight in that wee top. I don't, is that Palmyra's. It's

Aaron Connolly. How are you, Ian? Hi, mate. It's good to be back. Three weeks since I recorded

didn't. Took about a time away, so it's good to be back. I'm no more positive than I was back then, but we'll get into that.

Hi, I was hoping for a wee bit of positivity, but hey, it's good to have you back.

And we're also joined by a very special guest.

He's, you know, he's the man who loves to put his wee bits into the chat as we're all

talking and it drives her mani mental

it's uh you know it's our furor it's christopher galler how are you christopher i'm not too bad louis

thanks for having me uh stepping into the breach uh doing a bit of covering i am your vodar riseth

coming in covering for uh somebody who was supposed to start,

I guess, I don't know. Substitute. Hi, they've got injured in the warm-up and you've had to come on,

that's fine. That's it. Is it feel good to be back, Chris? Yeah, I mean, this is obviously the

podcast we started way back when. So yeah, I've not been on

the weekly in quite a while. So I think the last time I was on it, I might have been steaming and maybe

it was a self-imposed. Didn't you, aye, didn't you make a bit of a tit to yourself that night?

I made an absolute arse of it. But hey, listen, it happens. It was pre-lockdown as

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