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Thanks for joining us for episode 249.

What's going on, Mark?

It's getting toward the end of the year, isn't it?

Oh, man. It's like a million o'clock right now. This time change is really jacked with me. And I'm so sorry for all the parents out there with small children. Because I know those kids are still waking up with like five. Yep. Yeah, all that going on. We got a bunch of cool stuff going on. We've got our oil and Gats charity Christmas ball in a couple weeks, Paige. We do. We have a conference this week that you and Michael are talking at. Yeah, we'll be at the Rockwell Automation Fair, probably by the time you hear this. Yeah, it'll be over. Oops. We also have the World Petroleum Congress on December 5th and 9th. So a lot of stuff going on between now and the end of the year. If you want to have a really good time, you want to take some of your clients to something really elegant at the end of the year,

you want to have a really good time, you want to take some of your clients to something really elegant at the end of the year. You want to take your best employees to something to reward them from a year of hard work. Check out our oil and gas charity Christmas ball. The money goes to the orphan well projects. Your money's going for good cause. It's 1930s, 1940s flapper theme. No, it's 1920s, Mark. 1920ss, 1940s, flapper theme.

No, it's 1920s, Mark. 1920s, 1930s, flapper theme. I'm sorry for everybody that was born in the 40s. That I got missed that. Fair. And we're going to have all kinds of really cool stuff, including the FR fashion show, and guess who we just brought into that FR fashion show to provide the exquisite footwheel for models. Oh, well, if it's footwear, I'm going to take a wild guess and go Red Wing.

Red Wing, welcome and go Red Wing.

Red Wing, welcome back, Red Wing. Woohoo. Yeah. So it's just going to be a blast. There are tickets for sale, individual tickets. If you want to buy a handful of tickets, you can get, I think, 10 tickets for $5,000. All that's on the website, the links in the show,

let's go check it out.

Oh, and don't forget to come see us for our industry mixer on November 17th.

That's right, November 17th. That one's actually looking really cool. So this one's going to be around doing vigil, vigil. Listen to me, that's not even a word. This is what happens when we record in the morning, guys. Our industry mixers can be on digital business and what's going on both in oil and gas industry and energy industry.

So it should be a good time. And then also there, the money goes to Red M to help fight human sex trafficking. So come and help us fund the fight. Yes. Let's get to the news shows. Oh, Paige, something that's noteworthy. We didn't get a review. Oh. We almost never not get a review.

I'm used to it from my other show. So that's just because I'm not putting out all the time. But yeah, no. It happens. It happens. But if you like the show, leave us a review. We'd love to read on the air. I said like the second time this year, maybe? Maybe, yeah. And if you have some room for improvement, if you have some suggestions, we'd also love to hear that as well.

Yep.

All right, let's get in the news stories. All right. Second ship under investigation and connection with the Huntington Beach oil spill. So this was really interesting. So when all this happened about a month ago, you had that container ship that was considered a party of interest that was parked right next to it.

That container ship, the Coast Guard has done the investigation.

They have let them go.

That container ship is no longer a party of interest.

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