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Ding ding a ling, ding a ling. It's a listener question special. How many will we get to this time?

Four or five or maybe seven. It depends how much time

I waste, whether I go faster or slow, bing, bong. How am I doing so far? Your timbre is great.

I'm a little fluey, and that complicates matters. But we're going to do our best.

And you are on key.

That's the big part that sometimes people miss.

I made that song my own.

You did.

Yeah.

A Jack Howe original.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast.

I'm Jack Howe listening in our audio producer, Alexis Moore. Hi, Alexis. Hey, Jack.

It's time for listener questions. It's that most wonderful time of year. Give me a sampling of what kind of topics are we going to touch on today. Don't give too much away. Okay. I'll be,

I'll be coy. Very investment focused today. We had a question on...

I would hope it's that automotive repair or this is not going to go well. Go ahead.

There's a question about how you think of your pension when you're thinking about your asset allocation.

We have a question about value versus growth and hedging a downturn. We have a question about options and covered calls versus cash covered puts. And I don't really know what either those means, but you're going to explain it to us, right? It's going to be a delight. It's going to be my pleasure. Well, let's do it. Okay. Now, I'm really going to push the pace this time. I know you think that I'm going to get

sidetracked and going to a bunch of nonsense here. No, no. I'm going to stay very focused. Let's get

right into it. Who's up first? We have Joshua from Ohio who did not send in a voice message, but

we still like you, Joshua. Thank you. We still appreciate you, Josh.

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