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Thanks for joining us for episode 335 and I have a upper respiratory infection.

There could be worse infections for you have. Yeah, that's true. That is true. Yeah, we had a great time at NAPE. Got a chance to spend a little bit of time with my son who is in the U.S. Army. And, of course, he gave us the gift that keeps on giving back, which is this upper respiratory infection. Page, you got it first. I got it second. But we're doing fine. And we have our next mixer coming up in March. What's the date? I think it's 28. It'll be last Thursday in March. We sold out the last one. This one's already looking like it's going to sell out as well. If you're a listener in Houston area, go get your tickets now. If you follow us on LinkedIn, which I've been asking you do for years, you've already seen the links to click on. We'll stick in the show notes as well. But great time, great people, a way to give back to our local community and also fight human sex trafficking. So like I said, if in the Houston area, come join us last Thursday in March. If you come, come find me. I'll probably be in jeans

in a black t-shirt. Come to introduce yourself. And probably we'll have a water burger cup, right?

Don't tell people my secrets. I will be have a water burger cup in my hand, but it will have an

adult beverage in it. I'm hiding from everybody. So now I just told everybody our secrets.

I tell you what, though, we haven't gotten a review in a little while. I do need to check, make sure the technology isn't broken. But if it's not, come on, people, leave us a review. Just go to the show notes. There's a link you click on. It's called Love the Podcast.com forward slash OGTW. Easy, easy, easy way to give us a review. love to hear from you.

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All right, so now while I'm over here, sounding like a dude, let's get into the news

stories. We'll start off with Exxon pursues the lawsuit despite activist investor climbed

down. I absolutely love this. So you heard me report on this a while back, the two activists

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