You are listening to the cycling

podcast and thus providing short-lived respite from the

incessant reruns of that festive movie featuring a young Yonus Vingugar defending his suburban Chicago home from an invasion by a pair of robbers after his family accidentally forgets to take him.

There are 11 other kids on a Yultai jaunt to Paris.

Yes, the middle classes had more disposable income in the 90s.

My name is Daniel Freba and I over the next hour or so will play the role of McAllister

parent to the unruly crash of familiar names and voices that we have assembled for this episode, or slightly

boosy rabble. Hopefully we're visiting some of the 2023 professional cycling season and hopefully not leaving anyone to fend off the wet bandits in Illinois.

Now we have a starting lineup already on the field of play, others may stumble into our midst over the course of the next hour or so or indeed I may send one or two of the

assembled cast back to the stands and I'm gonna say welcome and Merry Christmas immediately to Mitch Docker.

Hey, how are you? Yeah, good for here.

Mitch, I think the only one who answered the call to dress

fastively, vaguely festively, there might be one other,

I can see looking fairly sheepish in his Christmas

jumper but Mitch good to have you with us.

Great to be here I can feel the Christmas spirit through the lens here.

Polcing through the lensier. Pulsing through the airwaves.

Um, to welcome and Mary Christmas as well,

to a rather tired looking Motown Maestro, Larry Warbus.

Hey, yeah, good to be here.

We've already established that Mitch and Larry do know each other.

And they don't have long-standing animosity,

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