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This is the show for busy oil pros who want to quickly keep their finger on the pulse of the industry.

Thanks for joining us for episode 281.

It is First Friday Q&A, Mark.

How's it going? You know what question I should

ask? What? Where's the allergy medicine? Oh, man. My allergies are killing me. Yeah,

you sound like you're having it rough. Yeah, so if I sound any more gravelly than normal,

that's why. Oh, look at the reviews page. Oh, well, if you listen to the last episode, I hope you guys remember me saying they got colorful.

So I'll let Mark read the five-star one.

Great show.

Been listening a while and really like your show.

Was a little surprised by your comment that Exxon is leaving Texas.

I think maybe you just saw they sold a field in Texas in Barnett Shell. They have

a lot of other stuff going on in Texas. From Parent 2, from the United States, and Parent 2,

you're absolutely right. I went back and looked at an article, and what Exxon said is they were

exiting some fields in Texas, and I just read it the wrong way. So thank God, Exxon staying here in Texas.

And people,

listeners, when I make a mistake and you catch it like that, please let us know. There's plenty of that in this question. Oh, is there? In these questions. Yeah, so it really appreciate the view. It really appreciate you. Reach out and let me know I was wrong. All right. So we have a one star, politicized garbage. First review I've ever left after using Apple products for over a decade,

but after listening to these two for nearly 20 minutes, I feel compelled to do so for further listening may hinder my mental ability to actually read and write.

Firstly, I'm from the UK, so I have no real political bias when it comes to the U.S. politics,

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