Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly. I'm Christopher Galaher and I'm here to just drop in a note

before the podcast commences. We've had four power cuts here at Cynic HQ. The local area has been

through the ringer over the last couple hours. But what that's meant is unfortunately we've

lost a chunk of the

podcast itself. We were about 15 minutes into the podcast when the first power cut happened,

but things seem to be okay. We seem to be able to recover those files. But then about the 35 minute mark, the same thing happened

again. So between the 10 minute mark and the 35 minutes mark, about 25 minutes to podcast,

we've lost. We've got fail safes. We've got various recording fail safes, but when there's

a power cut like that, there's kind of nothing we can do so apologies

for that but we did get through the recording it comes out about 45 minutes 50 minutes so you're

getting your your value but we've got plenty of other stuff at the cynic.com if you're interested

and get involved in that. And if not,

we'll be back next week. So thank you for your patience because we've been out a little bit

later. And we'll see you next week. The

The Hello, listener. My name is Louie McAfrey. This is the Cynic Weekly.

And this week I am joined by, as always, Christopher Somani. How are you, Christopher?

I think Louis, just saying the old lockdowns no being kind

and put on a couple of pounds and that.

But other than that, I'm a jolly fat man.

That's all I'm going to say.

There's just more of us to enjoy.

That's the way I'm looking at it.

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