Welcome back to the Spin Cycle podcast.

I'm not Kaylee Fretz, I'm joining along.

But nevertheless, today on the show, Simon Philip Yates is retiring.

Derek G. West is not, crucially.

And there's a New on a wrap video.

Who knew?

Let's get to it.

Welcome back to the show, filling in on a Thursday for our fearless, temporarily departed leader, Kaylee Frex.

Kit Nicholson, welcome to the show.

Hello.

And for the first time in the year of Our Lord, 26, Dane Cash.

Hey, how we doing?

I'm a little nervous to be back in this position of two Brits.

Yes. And I have to fly the flag alone. No, no Cayley here. You are always the most determined to point that out. I don't know. I feel like Kaylee's similarly patriotic on this show. Yes, but he gets cajoled by you, Dane, I would say. That's true. Yeah, I'm a cajolar. And don't worry, Kit and I have been, we're taking a long run up to this year,

judging by Monday's episode where we really, it was like a steam train chugging into action after a long layer. I think that's going to be all of us. Because I put it in the wrong fuel in the car. It was. diesel in a 1.2 petrol engine, yes, exactly.

Speaking of 1.2 petrol engine, yes, exactly.

Speaking of 1.2 litre petrols have been chugging along for a while,

Simon Philip Yates is retiring.

I thought that was a good segue.

You know, it's 8th of January, we'll deal with it.

Yes, the shock news that landed on Wednesday morning sprung me from my stupor of these these January blues I I mean

no one saw this coming I think Daniel Freib of the cycling podcast was said there were

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