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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 394. It's the end of the year. It is the end of the year. You're not getting ready to take about a week off. Yep. It's going to be great. Yep. We do realize we missed an episode this year or two. Sorry about that.

We'll try to do better in 2026.

Anyway, this will be the last episode for 2025.

And before we get to what we're going to talk about, Paige, our YouTube channel is killing.

A marketing team is going crazy.

We're pressing 25, 26,000 subscribers.

And if any of your listeners, if our listeners want to get something really cool, go to our

YouTube channel, the link will be in the show notes, pick any video you want, leave a comment,

take a screenshot of that comment, and send it to us either on social channels or at

marketing at ogg.com.

And we will send you official OGN hardtop stickers. I'm sorry, hard hat stickers, laptop stickers. And a temporary tattoo. And then when you get your temporary tattoo, if you put that on and take a picture and send that, we'll see you to OGGN's shirt. I didn't know it sounds like a lot of work. We're just trying to get more of you to check out what we're doing at YouTube. There's some cool stuff there. I've responded to some of the

comments on there, so that's been fun. We've gotten a lot of comments from all over the world. I know. It's really cool. Anyway, enough about that. Last episode of the year, and we're going to do my reviews.

So, Paige, I'm just going to jump into it.

Oh, you mean your predictions?

My prediction.

You are on the edge of it's time for a vacation. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, so sorry. 100% my predictions for 2026. I do this every year. I've been doing this for, I think, over a dozen years now. You go back and check out stuff. It's actually funny to go back to see what I got.

And more, it's even funnier than stuff I get wrong.

Anyway, I want to cover the stuff, my predictions for 2025 before I get in my predictions 26. And we'll just go through what I got right and what I got wrong real quick. So for 2025, the first one was IRA Fallout. I nailed that one. And the next one is big tech companies are going to become natural gas companies.

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