This interview will leave you refreshed.

I spoke with Russell about two years ago when I was exploring ways to learn about the oil and gas industry. He directed me to his podcast, and I've been a subscriber ever since.

Russell's path to the energy sector wasn't typical.

"Somebody always said the best employees in wireline are ex-rangers, farmers, and military," Smith explains. "So I kind of fit the bill." After earning an agronomy degree from Texas A&M, he joined Halliburton in 2008 at age 38, entering during the height of the shale boom.

He's as real as it gets, and we're confident you'll pick up one or two things. from our conversation.

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"I bought a piece of land and it accidentally had a well on it. So I was getting clear and brush and here's this pipe sticking out of the ground and thinking it's sealed... There's no way a person could drill a well and do a school and be profitable, because the money to do that will cost so much. It was drilled in 1968, and that's when I was born. " — Russell Smith