Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells. Good morning everybody, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year a little bit early. Well, if you'd like your experience today to go up to levels that even Santa Claus couldn't understand, all you need for that is a coffee mug or a glass, a tankard, a chalice, a stein, or a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now.

Go. It's too early for eggnog. Much too early.

Well, should I read the news in a funny and not too serious way? All right, all right, we don't want to get too serious today, do we?

Before we start I should call your attention to the Dilbert Reborn comic available to local subscribers and also subscribers on X. And I just want to let you