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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 246.

We've got so much stuff to talk about before we get to the news shows.

So our last episode with IBM takeover. I was not actually tied up and gagged, y'all. Just letting y'all

know. So first thing, thank you for everybody that reached out almost instantly to make sure

we're okay. Maybe we were slightly too real with that. Second thing, once all y'all realized

that it was a bit of a joke, the second wave

of inbound came in. And Paige, it's our highest traffic at episode of all times. I noticed I saw

it hit amazing numbers within the first two days. Yep. So if you look at the podcast stats and

typically you measure the number of downloads over the first seven days, we're in the top 0.05%, so less than half a percent of all podcasts in the world, that one episode.

So a big shout to IBM for doing a good job.

And thanks to all of you all for listening.

For listening, right?

And I just thought it was kind of fun that we did something a little bit different.

Yeah, that was fun.

Speaking of doing things differently, what's you doing for Christmas? A whole lot of nothing. A whole lot of nothing? Anything else for that a whole lot of nothing? Well, I mean, it's the Christmas holidays. Well, we also have the Oiling Gatsby charity Christmas ball. Oh, which is technically before Christmas. Okay. All right. So we're co-sponsoring that with Social Octane.

This is going to be the premier Houston event for the year, not just oil and gas event, but event. It's pretty cool stuff. We're going to have an F.R. Clothing Runway Show and Paige. Our producers are going to be one of the models in there. Oh, yeah. I thought one of our hosts was. Yep. And one of our hosts will be to well is Justin.

This would be a five-piece swing jazz band, a whiskey room, a champagne room, a cigar lounge, food, beverages, crap tables, blackjacks. And all that money goes where? It's a nonprofit. Nonprofit that's helping fight orphan wells. So buy your tickets. We're selling packages. If you're a sales organization and you want to bring your clients to something really cool at the end of the year, let me know we're selling packages of 40 tickets for $10,000. There's actually quite a deal. Also, if you want to bring your team and do something different, let us know. But this is our first time we've ever done anything at this size. And what we're hoping to do is not only raise money for the Orphan Well project, but we want to throw one hell of an end of a year party for everybody. You'll find me in the champagne room, y'all. I don't know where you can find me, but I'll be around. The cool thing is we get to dress up, too. Yeah, I'm going to be a chunky flapper, man. I need to get on the treadmill. Speaking of needing to get on the treadmill, we got a review that I want to read.

I'll let you read this.

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