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

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

Thanks for joining us for episode 271.

What up, Mark?

Hey, I don't sound like a dude.

You feel a better of age? Yeah, for the't sound like a dude. You feeling better of age?

Yeah, for the most part. A little itchy. Got an old rash, but it's slowly going away. And I don't sound like a dude. Yeah, well, you never sound like a dude. But I will say this much, I want to thank all the listeners that reached out would make sure you're okay. Aw, that's sweet. It really is. So she's fine.

She's back to normal.

I'll tell you right now, no COVID virus could take this chick down.

Yeah. Okay. Oh, that's sweet. It really is. So she's fine. She's back to normal.

I'll tell you right now, no COVID virus could take this chick down.

I'm not going to challenge that.

Anyway, it looks like we got reviews, five-star review from New and Loving It.

Hi, Olin guests this week's team.

I wanted to say that I really appreciate all of the effort you put into your shows. I genuinely look forward to your podcast every other week. That's fair. Listening to you both

has done a lot to challenge and change previous misconceptions I had about the industry. That's exactly

what we're trying to do here. 100%. So thanks to Connor M.N. for the review. And if you want to leave a review, we'll read it on the air.

Absolutely. And if you have suggestions for the show, let us know. We'll warn you now, though, that if you do a childish job patrol on me, I'm going to call you out on it. If you do a good job of troll in us, I'll still read on the air, but I won't call you out on it. Okay, that's fair. Okay. Let's get into some news stories. All right. So first one,

we've got a fact check. False claim that the Permian basin oil supply would fuel America

for 200 years. Okay. So this is an article on NSN. And basically what they're saying is that

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