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joining us for episode 232. Hey Mark. How's it going? Hey, Paige. You feeling better? Getting there. But the pollining has occurred. Yeah, but at least you're not running a fever and all that other stuff. Yeah, no kidding. I'm just hacking up stuff. So. And speaking of hacking up stuff, you know what? What? Robert, I don't pronounce Roberts last Lee. Latimer? Yeah. Robert said, Mark, keep up the great segue work.

Oh, great.

Thank you, Robert.

I'm glad you appreciate my segways.

Nobody else seems to appreciate my segways around here.

That's what he needs encouragement.

The other thing is Apple made an announcement actually yesterday page where they're

now going to have a subscriber or creator content behind a bit of a

paywall.

So I want to kind of ask our listeners, you know, would you like us to do something very special

for Olling Gas this week and actually let us put it behind the Apple Paywall?

What could we do that you'd be interested in hearing about us?

Would it be behind the scenes?

Would it be more, say,

First Friday Q&A? Would it be some of the outtakes that you don't ever get to hear between me and Paige when she's mad at me and she's throwing stuff? You know, what would be worth? They're going to have to beep out. There's going to be a lot of beeping in that one. So, audience, if you'd like to hear something unique and made just for you out there and you don't mind spending a few dollars

let us know because i want to actually kind of experiment with this. You know, it's the same thing that Spotify does, the same way that a lot of the market, Netflix, they're trying to find the right creators, find the really good content, and then monetize it. And we're going to play around with it. So stay tuned. We'll let you know how that works on what that looks like. But for now, it's time to get the news stories.

What we got going on, Paige? All right. So the first article is the oil industry receives an unexpected boost from Biden. Yeah, this is really interesting. And it's I didn't think this through. So we have a big infrastructure bill trying to be pushed through the houses right now. It's Biden's way to try to spur the economy. It's a bunch of school upgrades, roads being built, rail, airports. But one of the things that I didn't think of is when you do that type of work, one of the things that you're going to need page is asphalt. And if you don't know, asphalt comes from crude. Right. Now, here's the funny thing.

Asphalt is some of the heaviest parts of the barrel of crude. And so the heavier weight crude,

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