The Hello and welcome to the Sonic Weekly. I'm your host, Louis McCaffrey. My God, I pronounce my name wrong.

McCaffrey even. And tonight I'm joined by a man making his debut. It's Aaron Connolly.

Hi, Louie. How you doing? Thanks for having me on. It's a pleasure. I'm a long-time fan, long-time listener, very casual contributor to

contributor. That's man, it's good to have you because, you know, these guys have been

churning out the same old shite for years, so it's good to have somebody fresh on.

Speaking of the old shite, it's Chris Lamarie. Thanks, Lurie. As you can see, I'm growing out the tennis ball to get a post-COVID cut.

Also, the lockdowns have a poor effect on my general demeanour.

You've made me feel even more than I already did.

Thanks very much, mate.

Fantastic.

And the man with the most beautiful paintings in his household, we don't know if he painted them or who painted them, but it's Alan Edgar.

How's it going, now? It's a very generic painting. I can confirm I did not paint it. But I'd be happy to amend it if you'd like to be painted into it.

Yeah. Well, you ever watched that episode of The Sopranos

when Tony get the picture painted with a horse

and then Polly changes it and makes him look like a...

I could pop me on the wee bridge then.

Yeah, put me in there, it's fine.

It might be unusual, but I can certainly give it a go.

We could get Frankie.

Anyway, this, well, this time last week, we had the Civic Weekly looking ahead to the Champions

League qualifier.

And I said last week, you know, next week we'll look ahead to the next round, you know,

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