all right we got a metal monday on a tuesday metal tuesday with my friend brett how you doing man i’m doing good my friend nick that was uh how was labor day it was good man i uh i actually got a couple days where like there was a couple like for two days my phone didn’t work anyway because we were up in the woods with my my parents and my sister and her kids and man we just camp fires and no phones no phones no work for and it was just we got some adult beverages in and some good food and the hung out the kids and i kind of i posted yesterday on linkedin that you know i knew when i got back home yesterday afternoon it was gonna be game on right so it’s like getting stuff ready to go because starting you know last night it’s full speed ahead really for me till the end of the year i mean we’ve got scrap expo next week round tables next week we’ve got sema coming we’ve got i mean i mean i’ve got there’s sports coming out my you know i
got i and plus just our day-to-day doing what we do trying to build these businesses and buy scrap and i mean it’s hectic right now it’s gonna be a busy rest of the year it’s gonna be awesome i’m really excited for the scrap expo um a week from today expo is it’s going to be just a touch on that real quick i’m excited because it’s not going to be just a corporatey like bunch of suits like it’s look that’s kind of the real scrap i’m hopeful because it’s the first one but knowing jim keith like the guy you know and how what he’s kind of the way he’s went about structuring this i’m hopeful that people you know pick up on the fact that it’s like the real day-to-day boots on the ground like scrap industry that is actually taking place out there and so i’m that that’s who’s it’s kind of targeted at and people making decisions on who’s buying equipment and what’s going on you know on the maintenance side which is the day-to-day the labor side so yeah i’m excited i’m excited to see how
it turns out i know there’s an outdoor i got you know demo area which is really cool that’s something that’s different see some equipment work you’ll actually be able to operate some equipment so i’m excited to see there’s a few pieces of equipment i’m excited to look at there’s some people that i’ve met throughout the years i’m excited to see it’s been a you know a little while so i’m just excited in general to be part of the first one too and we’ve taken a lot of our team out there right i mean we’ve got our marketing team like we’re going to be out there we’re going to be doing some podcasts like we’re going to be discussing our nft project out there i mean dude it’s i mean like i said i knew coming home yesterday my wife’s like you know like if i see on my face like i’m starting to get anxious because i’m like oh yeah the the heat wave is coming like and by heatwave i mean the work heat wave so which is good that’s when i do my best when it’s just going eight ways sideways that’s
what it’s going to be like yeah all right how are the markets today they’re decent i mean they’re better than that a little bit you know copper was up you know i think it was 3 45 last time i looked yeah copper’s up about four cents off the you know what it’s a like kind of a low last week um pgms are hanging around you know i think palladium is around 2000 bucks platinum’s at 8.50 13 um a half it’s you know i think the you know nickels kind of showing some weakness but i don’t know i mean it’s going to be an interesting uh you know interesting we did our bowls and bears podcast with chad and he broke down the ferris market pretty well so it’s gonna be an interesting trade you know we’re seeing up money going west yep you know so you know what does that look like going east i don’t know and the reason up money’s going west because you have the export market that’s pushing that going east you know going more towards the mid you know east for us which would be towards the midwest
you know those markets are soft ish so i don’t know man it’s going to be an interesting dynamic for the september ferris market have you locked anything down are you still you’re still waiting i locked the stuff going west down i’m still deciding if how much i want to ship east if any at all okay well i mean we’ll see what it does we’ll see where it goes into the fall and it’s crazy that i’m even saying like it’s gonna be fall because it feels like this here just started you can feel it in the air in the morning though yeah yeah it feels gonna be hot this week but we’re supposed to break some records here in idaho for heat this time of year so but you can still feel just a little nip in the air in the morning so you can tell fall’s coming it’s on its way yeah all right well thanks everybody if you’re going to be at the scrap expo come check out our booth come on say hi to us yeah sign up if you can fill out a form on our website you could do a
podcast with us and it should be great take care have a great week thanks