all right we’re officially in august it’s time to put our phones down and actually get something done today there you go um i mean this is a very powerful tool yes yes but um we’re in august copper’s looking strong ferrous like you know rumblings of it going down a little bit is what everything i read last week what are you hearing on that same i’m feeling like you know they’re gonna the steel mills you know they’re gonna try you know shredders are gonna try and push it down this month the export pricing had softened up a little bit um towards the last week two weeks of all of july so the price of new steel isn’t coming down you know the supplies is the chain issues are still there but i do feel like i mean it’s like an auction you’re not going to pay it a dollar more than you have to to buy the material and if the export market is is soft then the steel mills are going to lick their chops and and buy iron cheaper you know i had was having this conversation last night um with the guy

and and and you know he’s like this he said this is and i while i do agree it’s also one of those deals that you know what are you gonna do i mean either you either sell you’re a seller or you’re not yeah that’s what amounts to right you sell it and you sit on it sell it or sit but make it make a decision don’t be a flat squirrel yeah sit there good left right next thing you know boom they can run right over the top so i don’t know i it’ll be interesting to see how it shakes down but i anticipate them trying to take some gas out of it gotcha and we’ll know next week um matt copper though continues to be north of 450. yeah 448 this morning on the comex yeah and then i mean it looks strong aluminum looks strong nickel looks strong everything looks strong there so i think that’s a good sign overall where we’re gonna head into this third quarter of the year yep and then um you know the pgms i mean they haven’t moved a lot you know they’re at least a little

bit green this morning which uh um which was good that’s always a uh that’s always a bonus um you know i think there’s a lot of room for that to run too i mean back to being optimistic but you know i think that the pgms the last i was just reading an article here this morning in the last probably month or two the dollar is just i mean it got exponentially stronger which then makes it you know the chinese market is softened up and and i think that that’s that’s what’s pushing the pgms around so i mean we’re obviously big investors in the pgm business so we we watch that deal pretty carefully because there’s some big swings that can happen positively and negatively but i feel like there’s a lot of room in there for that for that to push higher if we can get some relief and the strength of the dollar and it kind of starts to soften up i think you’re going to see it reflect back on the pgms yep yep and i saw on your linkedin post that you made a comment you know five dollar copper is

coming yeah and someone went over the top bunny i said six dollar cop boy my boy uh the man chris prohler down in texas yeah he’s been saying that for a while and uh but then then he followed that back up with now i said three which i mean i don’t i think it’ll see five before it sees three and i really believe that um but uh i feel like there’s a lot of there’s a lot of room in there still and i also put as a side note i’m not even though i’m cheering hoping thinking feeling like five dollar copper is a real is a real option here in the next little bit that’s not like i’m sitting on a million pounds of copper banking on it to happen no i mean i see the loads going out every other day i’m going to try and sell into strength if i can sometimes i sell early sometimes i feel like if i sell a load early it helps the market come up so then i can sell some more so everyone should thank you there you go the reason the market came out

was i sold i sold the load early or two well cool well with a real quick shout out this weekend my daughter took that that money you gave her when you she dogs at yeah so she took it out she’s been wanting to go to the mall for a long time so she brought her own money and yesterday that’s what we did she just bought all these little things with her all the time she wanted and she but she felt such a good because i didn’t pay anything you know she felt like oh like i earned this and she bought me like orange julius nice you know so like it was just a quick shout out to you and her and like it’s just good to see that from younger people like that you know that that drive for to earn it themselves you know you hear a lot about the workforce right now and people not working you know and i’m a you know hopeless uh positive guy and i just always think i bounce back out promise and i preach it parenting you got strong parents that they have a strong work

ethic and they and they you can have a strong work ethic but if you don’t if you don’t if you just give still give your kids whatever they want even though you have a strong work ethic that’s not something that i don’t think just kind of naturally flows into dna you got a t-shirt not like brown hair and blue eyes but like you have to teach them that strong work ethic you can’t just go well i was i grew up broke and now that i’ve made it i’m gonna give my kids whatever they want well you’re ruining them i think like you still have to kind of teach them even though you you’re not growing up as broke as i was when i was a kid you’re growing up you got a lot better you know situation yeah i did it still comes back to parenting and saying here let me show you what it’s going to take well even yesterday she was so excited to go to the mall i’m like all right let’s wake up early let’s get there kind of when they open and then but before i was like

hey we got to go to grandpa’s she’s like i wow like we got to sweep his roof off yeah so she got up there with brooms we sweeped his roof off because it’s just something he’s older because i don’t feel real comfortable with him up there so we did it so even then she didn’t complain at all you know and she didn’t make any money either you know it’s just something we did so so i just want to bring that up because you hear a lot of negative things about people and workforce and they just like look in the mirror like the people that raised all those people in the workforce now are the ones complaining which makes me laugh look in the mirror boys and girls have a great day all right thanks everybody