{"id":390814,"date":"2026-01-04T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390814\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:54:10","slug":"thepodcast-mmas-2026-forecast-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390814\/","title":{"rendered":"thePodcast: MMA&#8217;s 2026 Forecast Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the week of Jan. 4, 2026:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Happy New Year from theBreaker.news!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">thePodcast host Bob Mackin welcomes back Mario Canseco, president of Research Co, and Andy Yan, director of the Simon Fraser University City Program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On this special 2026 forecast edition, Mackin, Mario and Andy \u2014 the MMA Panel \u2014 offer political, economic, sports and cultural predictions for the coming 12 months. <\/p>\n<p>CLICK BELOW to listen.\u00a0Or go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/News--Politics-Podcasts\/theBreakernews-Podcast-p1065476\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TuneIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/thebreaker-news-podcast\/id1362852547?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Podcasts or\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2AEb4uLEXpMZTdHuEzxysr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you missed an edition of theBreaker.news Podcast?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thebreaker.news\/tag\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Go to the archive.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subscribe to\u00a0theBreaker.news\u00a0on Substack.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bobmackin.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Find out how: Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-breaker-news-socialmedia-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"theBreaker.news Podcast\" title=\"theBreaker.news Podcast\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttheBreaker.news Podcast\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>thePodcast: MMA&#8217;s 2026 Forecast Special<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPlay Episode<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPause Episode<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thebreaker.news\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/css\/images\/player\/images\/icon-loader.svg\" alt=\"Loading\" class=\"ssp-loader hide\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMute\/Unmute Episode<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRewind 10 Seconds<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1x<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFast Forward 30 seconds<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00:00<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00:30:34\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the week of Jan. 4, 2026:\u00a0 Happy New Year from theBreaker.news! thePodcast host Bob Mackin welcomes back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-390814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}