The Hello and welcome to the Cynic Weekly.

I am your host, Louis McCaffrey, and this week I am joined as ever by Christopher Somani.

Louis, hello.

Hello.

Barry Galaher.

You doing, Louis?

It's good to see you, my man.

Good to, group therapy.

Small ray of sunshine at these dark times and uh graham mackay

pleasure to be here mate you drink the wee german as well graham i am aye there you go

that's there this is a it's in the form of a bottle but it's a cans podcast um, so I thought we would start off.

I mean, see the tone of these podcasts.

Like, I appreciate it helps when you get through to the end of the podcast,

but see knowing that we're going to have to come on and talk today,

like it's getting harder and harder every week.

I try my best to make a rundown and send it out to everybody beforehand,

and it's just difficult to know what to put in it these days and what to say

and without going over the same stuff all the time.

But again, we find ourselves speaking to you at the other side of another disaster

is week, where our season has continued to just fall off of a cliff edge.

It's really tough.

I just wanted to start this week before we get into certainly the statement.

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