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Welcome back to another episode of Oil and Gas this week. You're listening to episode 176. What's up, Mark?

What's up, Jake, is our marketing pros, Tim and Julie, have just blown it up for us. I've literally had at least a half a dozen CMOs for major oil and gas companies reach out to us and go, to hire an agency. I mean, y'all are just all over the place and it's good content, totally different content on different platforms and it's relevant and useful on how to go, no, it's Tim and Julie doing it. So shout out to our own people who actually don't get behind the microphone too much other than Julie doing the updates, but they've been kicking butt from a marketing point of view. They sure have.

They've been driving a ton of traffic. I know I've gotten a lot of new connections on LinkedIn out of it. So keep the good work, guys. Yep. And speaking of keeping the good work, if you want to support the show, the easiest, quickest, best thing you can do is leave us a review. We got one here from Jen Assis, from the U.S., a fantastic podcast. As I mentioned on LinkedIn, love to

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I'm actually begging for reviews on the long-ass technology podcast. I've yet to get one. Come on, so, Michael, listen to that show. If you like it, give me a review. And if you don't like it, let me know why. But this is not a review show. This is a new show. and Jake, let's get into news stories.

All right, let's start off with something a little bit lighthearted, and we've got a whole bunch of geopolitical craft that we've got to get to, unfortunately.

So starting off, I wanted to do something a little bit of fun. And so there's a self-driving car startup called Aurora Innovation that made headlines earlier this year when Amazon joined with a $530 million funding round to advance its technologies as it aims to revitalize cities

by reducing less traffic.

So how are you going to reduce less traffic?

Autonomous vehicles.

And so one of the less publicized partners who was actually part of that funding round

was actually oiled that shell.

That's cool.

Yeah.

So I thought that was pretty interesting.

So we know that they're investing a lot into, you know, they have their corporate venture capital arm. They're investing a lot into making their operations more efficient and productive, new equipment, new digital technology, stuff like that. But I thought this is also interesting that they're investing in something that is, you know, the article kind of dives into it. It's like you're kind of putting yourself out of business, but not really. I think whoever wrote it didn't quite understand the willing gas industry.

But I just think it's interesting that. The article kind of dives into it. It's like you're kind of putting yourself out of business, but not really. I think whoever wrote it didn't quite understand the willing gas industry.

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