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

joining us for episode 248. How's it going, Mark?

Allergies. Oh man, Like literally every single thing that can be high is high. Yeah, so audience, if you're not in the Houston area, thank God. Or just Texas.

Or South Texas for sure. We're unfortunate in that we have every major allergen going off at the same

time. So mold, pollen, ragweed, ragweed, grass, everything. So if you have allergies, this is not a great time. But you know what is a great time for, Paige? Getting into the holiday mood and taking care of your employees and your best customers. Oh. And what if you could do that and write it off on your taxes? What's you got for me, Mark? How about the oil and gaspic charity Christmas ball that we're doing in conjunction of social octane?

That's right.

All the money that's raised is going to the Orphan Well project. You will get slipped to write off your taxes. This could be the premier event for this year. We have an F.R. Clothing Runway Show, a swing, jazz band, a whiskey room, a champagne room, cigar lounge, food,

beverages, blackjack tables, crap tables. And like I said, all the money's going to charity. And we get to do that whole 2030s theme, which is going to be kind of fun. Yeah, yeah. And some of our OGGN people are actually going to be walking the runway. Yeah, that's going to be cool. That's pretty exciting yeah so you heard me talk about this earlier i was selling 20 tickets for 10,000

dollars where page guess what? walk in the runway. Yeah, that's going to be cool. That's pretty exciting. Yeah. So you heard me

talk about this earlier. I was selling 20 tickets for $10,000 where Paige, guess what? What? Now we're going to cut everybody a deal. Oh. Yeah. So instead of $10,000, it's $5,000 for 10 tickets. Don't do too much math there or you'll figure out that I'm not really giving you a deal. but it sounds great, right? So $5,000, get you 10 tickets, bring your

top customers, bring your best employees, bring your whole company, reach out to me directly.

At the same time, we'll put a link in the show notes. If you just want to buy one ticket,

all means you go and buy one ticket. Yeah, I know a couple of people that would probably want one.

Yeah. And so it's, it is going to be one heck of event. If you go, hit me up on Twitter beforehand.

I'll come find you and introduce myself. It's going to be a blast. So sign up. But guess what else is going on page? A lot. Our industry mixer here in Houston on November 17th. Usually their last Thursday of each month. And I'm sorry, audience, we actually had quite a few people reach out and want to know where this one was last Thursday. The holidays have kind of messed everything up. So just pay attention to our social. Once we get through this year, we'll go back to the last Thursday of every month, which is always our intention. But we can't always get things to line up just right. Well, I mean, you know, Thanksgiving is probably, you know, always the last Thursday of November. So I don't think anybody's going to show up for Thanksgiving. So we're not going to do one on Thanksgiving, but I bet if we did some people would show up. We're willing to bet. Maybe like three. And then we got something else to do. What now? OGGM's live stream called Unscripted. OGGN unscripted. It's going to be a handful of us literally talking about what's going on in the oil and gas industry

from a business side, but no filters.

We're going to tell you the truth.

We may get a little riled up on stuff, but it should be a blast. So check us out November 16th. Once again, just pay attention to our social. And we have more. What's that? We're going to be at the Rock Road Automation Fair November 10th to 11 doing panels and live podcasts.

And then the 23rd World Petroleum Congress December 5th through 9th. We're going to be at the Rockwood Automation Fair November 10th to 11, doing panels and live podcasts.

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