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

I think about a minute later than we put out on the schedule in about four minutes earlier than the start time in the countdown on the video.

But it is what it is.

It is about 12.30 p.m. Central standard time anyway and it is December the 1st 2025 so with that said it's the first day of December it's Christmas time and Spirico Clause is here yeah we've had

the beard experiment this year I've had a good time doing it. I'll have a

good time for the rest of the month playing around with it. But I promise you, when you see me come

back in January, we'll be back to lean and mean trimmed Jack Spirco. But this has been a fun

little experiment. I started it in July.

Looking at the beard now, I would say that June probably would have been better to get where I wanted to get to, but it's been fun.

What are we going to talk about today, though?

A lot of times on Monday we do like a news day, current events and things like that.

I know a lot of you guys really like that, but we also do something every month.

The first Tuesday of the month, we do a chat, coffee chat, we call it, with Nicole sauce and John Willis.

And we usually cover a lot of that stuff.

So with that in mind, I decided that maybe this Monday it wouldn't be a good idea to go

into all the media bullshit that's gone over the week.

It's also been a somewhat slow media week other than the unfortunate incident with the National Guardmen that were shot in D.C.

One of them passed and keep your thoughts and prayers with their families.

It's a terrible situation.

But, I mean, other than that, and there's not a lot of data really to talk about with that.

And I don't think it really benefits anybody in this audience to spend a lot of time on it.

So I'm sure we'll hit on it some tomorrow and some other things that have been going on tomorrow with John and Nicole.

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