Welcome back to the State Trade podcast, everyone.

We had a week off last week, bunch of travel.

You know, Matt's been traveling the world as always.

Our producer was on the road.

So welcome back this week, everyone.

Glad to have you back.

Kind of interesting, you know, you know, Matt. kind of interesting you know you know matt

matt does you know the hardcore deep dive research uh for pretty much every episode and i commend

him that's why i love having him here um and we kind of had this talking about utilities

which you know we we talked the last episode is a lot of people don't realize one of the best

performing sectors out there.

So we kind of had this topic keyed up already.

And then I'm sure many of you know and many of you were probably affected that, you know,

we had the storm, the hurricane over the weekend.

And, you know, massive outages, massive infrastructure failure.

And, you know, we'll come back to this. But like,

in my opinion, you know, we already needed massive infrastructure investment. Like,

listen, I'm in Michigan and it was a beautiful day, no wind. My power went out twice

yesterday. Like, like now it could be reflected down the line because of the hurricane. But, you know, I like, I hear the generator start. I've got an auto standby. And like, it's like, it's a beautiful day out. No, wind, no nothing. But it's like my, the reason I got that thing is just, you know, little blips all the time, you know. So that anyway, so I was kind of curious about this topic

and excited that Matt had it. And then, you know, I think that the news kind of reinforces that.

And then the other thing that I'd like to start out with for the all the, oh, my true loves out there,

the degenerate penny stockers, okay. You know, many of you've seen the last, all about three,

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