You're listening to the oil and gas this week podcast with Mark LeCore and Paige Wilson.

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

Thanks for joining us for episode 22.

222.

Sure sounds like a holiday episode to me. Oh, must be. Well,

before we get into that, let me read this week's reviews. If you like oil and guests, listen to this

one, five-star review. Highly recommended. I love these guys and Paige was the perfect edition. Thank you.

Highly informative yet laid back. Side note,

sound quality and production quality is awesome too. Hey, it took a long time for you to get here because

whenever Jake was on it, he would forget to put the default mic on and sounded like he was in a pipe.

Yeah, we had for years, we had issues with audio quality, but thanks to Emin, we've solved those issues. That's actually, the first time I can remember, somebody compliment us on our audio quality, that actually makes me feel good. If you're a podcast, audio quality is important to you. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I won't listen to anything. If somebody doesn't have a DSR on, I'm just like, okay, that's enough. Bye. All right. So this is our Thanksgiving episode.

It sure is. And so I thought for something different, we would talk about things that were grateful for for Thanksgiving. I didn't contribute to this. I'm just kidding. You always contribute this. So a couple of things, right? This has been a doom and gloom year from a bunch of points of view, but there's stuff. There's lights of sunshine out there.

He's got to find them and be okay to say, you know what?

That's a cool thing. So one of the ones is retail sales. Retail sales are starting to climb in the U.S. even during the pandemic. It looks like one of our fastest growth years in September, and the fact that retail climbed 2% is just showing that the U.S. economy is starting

to pick back up again.

Clothing and accessories led the increase rise by about 11%.

But sporting goods, music, books also jump close to 6%.

Now, things like appliances, of course, took a decrease, but even that only took like a one

and a half percent level drop.

Oh, that's not bad.

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