Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another Cajun night live group chat situation that we have going on here.

I want to thank everybody for taking some time out of their Wednesday night to come and talk with us about all the

things and all the stuff that's going on in the day today. As always, we can go wherever we want

to go with this conversation. We can go geopolitical. We can go religious. We can go historical. We can go

wherever, honestly, as we do, the floor is going to just kind of be whoever's talking at that moment.

So yeah, man, thank you all for joining in.

So right off the rip here, I do, I'm sorry if I'm a little disheveled.

It's been quite an evening here.

And I know I say that every time, but like, oh my goodness, I had a phone call,

a night related phone call that went till

about 15 minutes ago and i realized that it was gone too long i was like ah hey brother i got to go

i got things i got to do got to put the kids to bed got to do this pop pop pop pop thankfully got it all

situation and squared away in time for this to happen. So, you know,

life be throwing them curveballs, but we manage and we catch them and we field them as we

do. Um, so right here, Raven has thrown up at least one thing into the chat from, it's an

Instagram post from the business, the business magnets.

Okay.

Elon Musk's doge wants to get rid of the penny to save taxpayers 179 million a year,

says it costs three cents to produce one.

So that's something that I've actually heard talked about for quite some time.

They've been saying that it costs more than a penny to make a penny.

And if you look at other financial and monetary systems across the world,

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