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

Thanks for joining us for episode 285.

Hey, Mark, where are we?

We are not in the studio. That's for darn sure. Right. So we are at our four specialties

Christmas party and customer appreciation event. And I want to give a big shout out.

Number one, for the guys and the girls out there cooking the gumbo, it smells delicious.

That bacon rat pickle, that was incredible.

Yes.

And then there's a whole bunch of people that made this happy.

Besides R4, big shout out to DLS, Gator, PWS, Airon, Burner, Performance Energy, Whitgo

Supply, UPCS, A-BGI, Chase Controls, and Accurate. All these people help chip in to make this possible. And then Paige, see what's in the corner? Yes. Toys for Potts. It's a re-for-taught. So thank you, everybody, for contributing to make some little boys, some little girls' Christmas wonderful. Yes. All right. We have reviews. Five-star review.

Can you talk about hydrogen economy and what do you think about Seaman's energy?

I work for a U.S. company now owned by them and I'm not impressed.

We have a huge demand in oil and gas parts, but company won't hire trained people.

Thank you.

That's from surfatic.

You know, it's funny.

They're making fun of my mispronouncing of surfactant. Like, that was a year ago. Yeah. So Siemens is a good company.

Siemens is a very old company. You know, they compete with Honeywell, ABB. And quite frankly,

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