You're listening to the Oil and Gas This Week podcast with Mark LeCour and Jake Corley.

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Welcome back to another episode of Oil and Gas this week. You're listening to episode

140. That's a really high number. It is a high number. You know, we kind of didn't do what we

wanted to do with our 100th episode, but we're definitely going to do something for our 200th

episode, which will happen the, I guess what, the beginning of next year. Yeah, sounds about right.

And we have a live event actually coming up. We'll talk about the end of the show. So if you want to learn about

finally, the live event that you can go to, that's very exclusive. You got to listen to the show all the way to the end. Or you can cheat and just read the show notes on the website either way. So we're episode 140 and if you want to support the show, do me a favor. Leave a review. It's the best,

easiest way to support the show. Just go do it. And we got a good review. It says awesome content. And interesting, Jake, this is actually left in Stitcher. We usually get our reviews in iTunes. So we're okay with Stitcher reviews by Trevor Warren. Actually, I talked to Trevor not that longer. awesome content. I've been listening to your podcast about a year now. I was working in the Middle East as an operations manager for the past four years with Trinidad drilling. I've recently been transferred to Texas as a general manager of ops and our recently acquired technology division, which is called Rig Miner. Give them a shout out. There in Woodlands, Texas. I'm excited to be be in the air and hope to get to meet you guys at one of the upcoming events.

Well, we're doing it, Trevor. We'll actually get you in. Looking forward to being a part of the community. Honestly, one of the main reason I got this opportunity with Rig Minder is because I've been listened to your guys, preach about big data analytics and upcoming technology. So big thanks for that. You're welcome. And Jake, isn't that cool that because we're talking about stuff?

Yeah.

So congratulations.

Thanks for leaving us to review.

If you want to be, So big thanks to that. You're welcome. And Jake, isn't that cool? That is awesome.

Yeah.

So congratulations.

Thanks for leaving us to review. If you want to be like Trevor, just go leave us a review real quick anywhere. Get your iTunes, Google Play, whatever. Let's get the news story because we've got this is a big one. We have a lot of articles to go over. Okay. So if you've been watching the news today, or I guess by the time this goes, that'll be a few days.

President Donald Trump has fired Secretary. we go over. Okay, so if you've been watching the news today, or I guess by the time this goes,

that'll be a few days. President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson via Twitter yesterday replacing him with the current CIA director Mike Pompeo. So I think what they're saying

is the main reason that he's being fired is that there's this huge

disagreement over the Iran deal. And so now it's kind of a lot of people are kind of curious as to,

you know, what are the implications for us as it pertains to the Iran deal? So what are your thoughts on that?

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