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Welcome to Mist Apex Podcast.

It's the first show of 2026, and we're kicking it off with a mailbag, finding out what you reckon, and we're answering

some personal questions you've thrown at me and Matt as well. I'm the host Richard Reddy,

but my friends call me Spaners. So let's be friends. Going into 2026, we are still an independent

podcast produced in the podcasting shed with the kind support of our patrons and partners.

We aim to bring you a race review before your Monday morning commute.

We might be wrong, but we're first.

Let's start the year off by introducing Matt to Rumpets.

Hello, Matt.

We were talking about tires, right?

No.

Next year, I heard that tires are going to be irrelevant.

Everyone's going to perform on the tires exactly the same, and all the compounds are very

predictable.

So we might not even need you for 2026.

You probably don't. I will happily

take the year off and let everybody else dig through all the technical regulations. No, no.

It's exciting. It's our first show of the year. And we have a bunch of stuff from our listeners and

patrons to talk about. And I'm telling you, I'm just getting the sense is going to be a wacky season this year. Yeah, I think so. And I think we're going to be in America a fair bit this year. So I do need you. I need you to like vouch for me to even get into the country. So I know an elderly American. It's going to be okay. He can, he's, I've got a piece of paper. I've got it printed out. And we're also joined by Scott, stuffy, toughy, YouTuber and presenter extraordinaire. Hello, Scott. Hello. Happy New Year, everyone. I've really feel honored to be on the first podcast of this year. I think it's the first one of this year. So yeah, happy new year, everyone. Well, you're the only one and not still hungover, I think. So that's how you made the cut. I stayed indoors, yes, with a little one. My New Year's Eve's now are very different to how they were not too long ago. No, but it's good because you've got a 16 month old and you're probably going to have another one at some point. So you've got life so welcome to the road to becoming a middle age parent podcaster so we have got we have got lots of

your reckons from our patron chat today and you can get in touch with us in the patron chat by

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