Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast. I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this has become an annual thing. It is our 2025 year-in-review, although in the process we will be looking ahead to 2026. We're recording this in mid-January of 26, and I have the honor and pleasure of being joined by friend, colleague,

Scott Hickenlooper, who will be in the interviewer seat.

And I've asked Scott to help us go through our traditional list of questions at the end

of the year, beginning of the new one.

And also as needed to ask follow-ups or clarifying questions or, you know, noting points

of interest that, uh, that y'all might be curious for us to dive into further.

Um, I'm trying to think, what else? Yeah, we're in, we're in our studio here in, uh, in Salt

Lake City, Utah. And our production quality quality as you can see is very much ramped up thanks to

scott i think last year i recorded this directly into our riverside app on my desktop

and i think the audio the video was so bad i didn't even publish something to youtube

i just did the audio to the video was so bad. I didn't even publish something to YouTube.

I just did the audio to our RSS feed.

So we're getting this one on YouTube this year too.

That's one of our big novelties.

But Scott, great to have you here.

How are you doing today?

Doing great.

It's always an honor to join the single trap pod. I, as I'm sure, one people know, I've listened to

the pod for years since I started running years ago. And we, I think, what was the 2024, we kind of

traveled around the country, filming a whole bunch of stuff together. So it's always fun to, I think, come back and be able to

work together again and produce some, some tent to sling some tent out on the internet. And

I think this will be fun. Yeah, I think just to kind of throw one more thing in there, for people

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