Hey, everyone, this Kirk here again at Option Alpha and welcome back to the Option Alpha podcast.

This week we have a very special guest because I finally got him in here to do a podcast, and that

is joining me on the podcast is my partner

and the other founder here at Option Alpha, and that is Jack's welcome.

So let's get right into the interview.

All right, Jack, what's going on, man?

Thanks for coming in here.

Hey, Kurt.

Yes, we've been talking about this for a while.

I'm very happy that we're finally getting it. It's good to get you on the podcast. I have invited you 400 times. I think a couple times you said, yeah, I'm going to come on. And then you're like, no, I don't know if I'm going to come on for this one. So we finally got you in here. Commitment to do the podcast interview, to share your story, which I think, I don't think a lot of

people have heard your story. I know there's parts of your story that I probably haven't even heard.

Maybe we'll flush those out a little bit today, but I think the parts that I have heard

have always been pretty fascinating to me. And I've told you this before, because you've

known this before now, but like I think you're on this kind of like parallel journey or transitiony journey, but there's things moving in the

same direction.

And maybe they're going at different speeds at different times, but you're definitely a person

who seems to be moving in a very defined direction, but you're also kind of straddling

the line of being a developer, being a trader, an entrepreneur, a dad, father, all of these different things that you're doing. So I think it's going to be interesting to kind of peel back some of those and go through that today because I know some of these stories, but a lot of people don't know these, which is why I want you on here. Yeah, sounds great. I'm excited to see what comes out.

So I haven't been on the podcast specifically because, you know, there's a lot of parts

to my story.

Maybe I don't want to share always, but I plan to be very open about kind of my story

as an options trader during this podcast.

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