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Thank you. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Six, nine, four, three, two, five.

Happy New Year.

Well, trust our team to find us the absolute shittest start to the new year they possibly could.

Oh, they do work with us.

Of Big Ben and a blue lit up wheel.

Oh, come on.

Welcome, 26. Sorry, welcome 226. I get my life on. Oh, come on. Welcome 2020.

Sorry, welcome 2026.

I get my life on. We sound so upbeat. Can we just say, Happy New Year? Happy New Year. I hope you have a wonderful, successful, prosperous, blah, blah, blah. Are you on Camillo again? Yeah, yeah, I bet. It's only a matter of time. Isn't it funny how John starts. successful and prosperous.

Like a Vulcan.

Yeah, successful and prosperous.

Yeah, and healthy.

Affluent. No, just healthy. Healthy, okay, in that hierarchy. Well, welcome to this special 2020's first episode of 2026. And we started rowing just as we ended 2025. And it is a special Q&A to start off the new year. And we've got a

first question from Sophia who says, if you had to pick the most unlikely comeback of 2026, who do you think it will be? Oh, Greg Wallace out, presumably. Greg Wallace is out. I would have thought so. Are you putting him out already? I think he's definitely out. I think we're going to a whole list of

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