there's a better way to do this let me show you a better way and we are live welcome folks episode folks, episode 3,779.

And, you know, it'll be a long time before I get this to rhyme again.

Welcome to the last live of 2025.

We'd have to still be going, I guess, in 2035 for that to ever happen again.

It rhymed that way. That's kind of cool, isn't it? Anyway, if you're looking at me and going, Spirgo Clause looks a little rough, you're not wrong. There is some kind of crud going around this year. At least they didn't try to convince us it's some deadly virus that will kill us all and log us down in our homes again. But apparently it's pretty gnarly. And I had several people reach out to me from various, you know, inside this community, people I just know in the other part of the world. And I'll say, hey, man, I don't recommend this. Who am I to take somebody's advice, though, of course? So I came down with this. It's probably from my daughter-in-law who works in a medical office every day. And I lovingly joke and call her typhoid Tiffany. And she's like, but I'm not sick. I'm like, of course you're not sick. You're exposed all the time. You're a vector. You're a disease vector. Anyway, Spircle Claus was down for the last five days. Pretty hard. I am actually feeling a lot better today. I was very in and out on whether I'd be able to do a final episode for you guys today because my voice was absolute dog shit yesterday. Right. So it's all worked out. And Spircle Clause will be fully recovered and ready to jump in his pickup truck and deliver AR parts kits and reloading equipment and ammo and MREs to all the good little boys out there that are homesteaders and preppers on the 25th.

I can promise you.

But if you like the Santa Jack look, the Spircle Clause look, enjoy it today or watch old videos

because when I come back in January and our first day back in January is going to be,

let me be accurate with this.

I think it's the fifth because of when the new year lands.

It will be, yes, the fifth of January is when we'll be back.

This will be gone.

Will it happen on the first or the second?

I can't tell you, but I can tell you by the fifth when I come back and go,

welcome to our first show of 2026, which should be episode 3,781, because we will have

the Christmas special tomorrow as a normally numbered show, not as a rewind.

It will be gone.

It will be gone, and I'll look 10 years younger, I think.

I've been asked a lot how I like this and I don't really like it or dislike it.

I just think when I look at myself, I look like I'm in my 60s.

And I think I look like when I don't look like this, if people ask me how old I am and I tell them I'm 53,

they're like, wow, you look good for 53. So there is that. Anyway, he says, second life farces, I'm going to miss Hobo Santa Jack. That's another good name. I think I didn't really sell the Santa look, though, because I didn't grow the hair out. I didn't really realize that until I was like halfway in. like Santa usually has a pretty good head of hair going too

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