Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow and Shepstone Management Company joins Work Hard portion of the Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show to discuss the recent merger between Cabot Oil and Gas and Cimarex Energy.

Host Jason Spiess and Shepstone discuss whether the merger is a takeover or an actual merger.

Shepstone, who is geographically located in the Marcellus, gives a

boots on the ground update on the Marcellus activity and Pennsylvania

politics.

Click here for the Shepstone’s Muth and Mouth story mentioned in the interview segment

www.mypillow.com

For sponsorship information on The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard, email [email protected] or click here.

Sponsors, Music and Other Show Notes 

Studio Sponsor: The Industrial Forest

The Industrial Forest is a network of environmentally minded and

socially conscious businesses that are using industrial innovations to

build a network of sustainable forests across the United States.

Click here for the website

Weekly Sponsor:  KBL Complete Services

From AGM Surveys, ILI tool tracking, ILI Lift support, Dig site

Locating, and Equipment Decontamination, to Project Management KBL

Complete Services are ready to make your project a success.

Click here for their website

Weekly Sponsor:  MineralTracker

MineralTracker is the only mineral management software that allows

mineral owners to compare actual royalty payments to expected payments

based on well performance and a proprietary, Bakken-specific reservoir

model built by MineralTracker’s petroleum engineers.

MineralTracker was formed in Watford City, North Dakota, and is a

subsidiary of First International Bank & Trust, a family-owned bank

also based in Watford City.

Click here for website

Looking to Invest in Oil and Gas? Contact Swan Energy Today!

Phone Line Sponsor: 

Alma Cook, Cook Compliance Solutions dives into the interview right away about how the industry still has silos and what they look like from an outside perspective.

The Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show also talks about how Alma, a female environmentally minded professional gravitated to industry. She explains how her brother in Thailand was the catalyst for her journey in oil and gas.

Midland Mayor Patrick Payton’s work on the industry’s image is discussed in detail. Alma, who is also a member of the Permian Basin Pipeliners Association, shares some stories about her interaction with the Mayor and work in the Permian. Ashley Smith from Trucker’s Against Trafficking is also mentioned for her work with the creating awareness in regards to Sex Trafficking.

Alma Cook

Alma also opines about how the industry needs to do more than sponsor

events. They need to engage with people outside the industry.

Climate Tax, oil’s image, ESG, safety and compliance are also topics discussed in the Play Hard segment of the interview.

For sponsorship information on The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard, email [email protected] or click here.

Sponsors, Music and Other Show Notes 

Studio Sponsor: The Industrial Forest

The Industrial Forest is a network of environmentally minded and

socially conscious businesses that are using industrial innovations to

build a network of sustainable forests across the United States.

Click here for the website

Weekly Sponsor:  KBL Complete Services

From AGM Surveys, ILI tool tracking, ILI Lift support, Dig site Locating, and Equipment Decontamination, to Project Management KBL Complete Services are ready to make your project a success.

Click here for their website

Weekly Sponsor:  MineralTracker

MineralTracker is the only mineral management software that allows

mineral owners to compare actual royalty payments to expected payments

based on well performance and a proprietary, Bakken-specific reservoir

model built by MineralTracker’s petroleum engineers.

The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 122

Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling, 4th of July, Recycled Water, EV Vehicles, Bakken BBQ, Oklahoma vs. Nebraska on Fox, ND Suing Biden Administration, The Industrial Forest, Leaders Picking Their Winners and Why Building A Better Mousetrap No Longer Matters

Hour Two Work Hard:  Author, Journalist, and Public Speaker Robert Bryce

The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast:  Franki Osburn, Nighthawk Completion Services

source: tradingeconomics.com

HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling recap the 4th of July Parade activities in Erhardt, MN with The Crude Life and The Industrial Forest.

The two share stories about how accepting the non oil and gas community not only embraced The Crude Life and The Industrial Forest, but asked how they could donate to our mission.

The Earth’s Champion Johnny Green showed up and made a splash by substituting candy with water. The Industrial Forest and The Crude Life took their message of Recycled Water Awareness to the literal streets by spraying people on a 95-degree day.

Some of the information Sterling and Hason were spraying across Lakes Country is that Water Recycling is reusing treated wastewater for beneficial purposes such as agricultural and landscape irrigation, industrial processes, toilet flushing, and replenishing a ground water basin which sometime get called ground water recharge stations.

For select attendees who can benefit and/or care to listen, we even get into that boring talk and explain to them how water recycling offers resource and financial savings.

The Earth’s Champion Johnny Green stand on top of a recycled water tank in the 4th of July Parade in Erhardt, MN.

The Play Hard portion of the Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show continues with Sterling sharing his views on EV Vehicles and layoffs in corporate America.

In the News, Rumors and Newsspeak segment the two discuss North Dakota suing the Biden Administration over their recent federal regulations and executive orders, Line 5’s Celebrity Line Up and why level two of ESG is coming this fall.

In HOUR TWO we WORK HARD with our Newsmaker Interview: Author, Journalist, and Public Speaker Robert Bryce

Bryce gives a recap of his recent testimony before the US Congress’s Climate Change Crisis committee on EV Vehicles. Click here to read his testimony

Bryce’s testimony and research create a context of a 100-year-plus propaganda campaign for the EV Vehicle including newspaper stories from was early as 1901.

* In 1901, the Los Angeles Times declared “The electric automobile will quickly and easily take precedence over all other” types of motor vehicles. “If the claims which Mr. Edison makes for his new battery be not overstated, there is not much doubt that it will make a fortune for somebody.”* In 1911, the New York Timessaid that the electric car “has long been recognized as the ideal solution” because it “is cleaner an...

The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 121

Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by Traveling Donn as he is making his way to Georgia, Energy Transfer Suing Biden Administration, ESG Examples, API’s Climate Tax Template Begins, Leadership Issues and The Buffet-Biden Pollution Profit Express.

Hour Two Work Hard:  Mark A. Stansberry, Energy Expert, Author & Talk Show Host

The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast:  Franki Osburn, Nighthawk Completion Services

source: tradingeconomics.com

HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by Traveling Donn, who is making his way to Georgia. Donn is in his 70’s and joins the Play Hard portion during the News, Rumors and Newsspeak segment of the Morning Show.

The three discuss the Keystone XL Pipeline cancellation and Energy Transfer suing the Biden Administration, the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) new template for a climate tax and Meth Addicted Fish.

Before Donn joins the reindeer games, Jason and Sterling run down a few of the upcoming events and why EV cars will not be used.

Jason announces that Sam Grant, former TE/OL for the Oklahoma Sooners will be one of the special guests interviewed for the Pigskin Petroleum Powered Podcast Party in Norman, OK, on September 18.

The PPPPP will take place before the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. University of Oklahoma Sooners football game, which is scheduled to be their “Game of the Week”.

Anyone interested in the Pigskin Petroleum Powered Podcast Party visit www.oilfieldtailgate.com

In HOUR TWO we WORK HARD with our Newsmaker Interview: Mark A. Stansberry

Mark Stansberry addresses many critical issues in energy today. Here are a few topics of discussion:

* Current State of Industry* Carbon Tax and API’s Role and Influence* ESG Concerns and Examples* Pipelines as Critical Infrastructure* The Digital Transitions * The Big Crew Shift* Industry will not go away but some of the people might

Stansberry is currently the cover story on the Oilman Magazine, click here

Stansberry is an international businessman, energy leader and humanitarian from Edmond, Oklahoma. He is founder and Chairman of The GTD Group, author of “The Braking Point: America’s Energy Dreams and Global Economic Realities,” host of “The Weekly Roundtable” radio show on KFAQ 1170 AM in Tulsa, and Chairman of People to People International.

He has led business

development and federal government relations initiatives in countries

including: Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, China, Japan, Mexico

and Russia.

Stansberry was inducted into the Western Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2009.

He has been invited to testify before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, served a nine year term as chairman of the State Chamber of Oklahoma Energy Council and founded the International Energy Policy Conference, now in its nineteenth year.

Benjamin Holliday , Holliday Energy Law Group was in Bismarck for a speaking gig at a Landman’s Convention and happen to stop by the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference. This impromptu interview turned into an organic discussion on ESG.

The two talk about how industry was already going ESG (Environmental,

Social, Governance) and how there are those within industry leadership

creating issues connecting with the people.

Flaring, public relations, emotional responses and technology are several threads of conversaation throughout the interview.

Holliday says more states should look to North Dakota on how to

regulate and integrate technology. Spiess says industry should look at

embracing the positives on industry and show the world why they are the

leaders in the environmental movement.

Recycled frac water for The Industrial Forest’s Shade Park in the Permian to an update from the Permian Basin.

The interview also dives into the question of whether state’s and

organizations’ oil and gas leadership is afraid of the American

Petroleum Institute.

Ben Holliday (left) and Jason Spiess (right)

Prior to founding Holliday Energy Law Group, Ben entered the oil and

gas industry as a landman in South Texas before moving in-house to join

the Barnett Shale Asset Team of a Midland-based E&P. With the

decline of the Barnett and the rise of the Eagle Ford, Ben became the

project leader in charge of an approximate 30,000 acre Eagle Ford asset

in Karnes and Atascosa Counties, leading all title, leasing, and

curative efforts within the prospect area. Since 2010, Ben has focused

on representing exploration and production companies in their operations

across the United States.

Ben is Board Certified in Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is a member of the State Bar College, is the Immediate Past President of the San Antonio Association of Professional Landmen, is a founding board member of South Texas Landman & Lawyer Clays, and is the current Sponsorship Chair and Immediate Past President for the San Antonio Chapter of Entrepreneur’s Organization. He is licensed to practice law in Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Ohio, and Illinois, and is a member of the local San Antonio, Houston, and Permian Basin Associations of Professional Landmen, as well as the AAPL.

For sponsorship information on The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard, email [email protected] or click here.

Sponsors, Music and Other Show Notes 

Studio Sponsor: 

Kyle Barnoff, Trigger Energy, starts off the interview with describing the positive vibe at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference and how it feels good to be back in the Bakken. He shares a story about cutting his teeth in the Bakken and listening to The Crude Life on the local radio stations.

He also explains what Trigger Energy does and their history. From Frac Cannons to Frac Rails to Wellhead Systems, the processes are discussed.

The three discuss how the Shale Play Revolution is really a technology boom driven by oil and gas, which is creating new jobs and eliminated old ones.

“These guys aren’t slinging chains anymore,” host Jason Spiess said. “More and more are clicking and clacking keys on the computer.”

Barnoff gives an update from the Permian Basin and how COVID impacted their business.

The Hammer Test, Sand Box Era and coexisting with government regulations are also topic in the Work Hard segment of Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show.

Kyle Barnoff (left), Jason Spiess (middle) and Shawn Forbes (right)

For sponsorship information on The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard, email [email protected] or click here.

Sponsors, Music and Other Show Notes 

Studio Sponsor: The Industrial Forest

The Industrial Forest is a network of environmentally minded and

socially conscious businesses that are using industrial innovations to

build a network of sustainable forests across the United States.

Click here for the website

Weekly Sponsor:  Witting Parters

Witting Partners delivers a full range of energy-focused leadership

development services to help companies overcome the unique challenges of

today’s oil & gas industry so that they can successfully regain and

sustain peak performance.From one-on-one executive coaching to

group training programs to powerful speaking engagements, everything

Witting Partners offers reflects an unmatched blend of industry insight,

technical know-how, and relevant experience that has produced

consistent results from the Gulf of Mexico to Appalachia, from service

company to operator, and from drilling rig to downtown boardroom.

Click here for their website

Ron Gusek, President, Liberty Oilfield Services, talks about the recent Fox News report on the North Face Hypocrisy and the push behind Liberty Oilfield Services awareness campaign.

He also talks about the Electric Frac the team at Liberty is integrating into their operations. Economics, natural gas and the ESG benefits are centralized themes in the electric frac discussions.

The difference between wet gas and dry gas are also discussed with an electric frac.

Gusek explains why Liberty Oilfield Services just released and

published their first ESG Report. Jason asked what was the drive behind

this and Gusek responded.

What is next, how to take action and when we Electric Frac is also discussed in conclusion of the Play Hard interview from Texas.

Click here for their ESG Report

Tiffany Wilson (left), Ron Gusek (middle) and Jason Spiess (right)

For sponsorship information on The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard, email [email protected] or click here.

Sponsors, Music and Other Show Notes 

Studio Sponsor: The Industrial Forest

The Industrial Forest is a network of environmentally minded and

socially conscious businesses that are using industrial innovations to

build a network of sustainable forests across the United States.

Click here for the website

Weekly Sponsor:  Witting Parters

Witting Partners delivers a full range of energy-focused leadership

development services to help companies overcome the unique challenges of

today’s oil & gas industry so that they can successfully regain and

sustain peak performance.From one-on-one executive coaching to

group training programs to powerful speaking engagements, everything

Witting Partners offers reflects an unmatched blend of industry insight,

technical know-how, and relevant experience that has produced

consistent results from the Gulf of Mexico to Appalachia, from service

company to operator, and from drilling rig to downtown boardroom.

Click here for their website

Monte Besler, FRACN8R, talks how nice it was to see faces and shake hands again with humans, while it totally has an “old home week” feel at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference.

He also talks about the documentary being filmed on the Bakken oil fields and he was asked to be interviewed as a legacy and icon in the industry.

Monte shares his story about how and why he was banned from LinkedIn. From the post itself to attempts to understand to trying to reach LinkedIn are discussed in the interview. Monte still to this day is banned from LinkedIn and believes it is for life.

The interview transitions into a segment of Monte’s personal life where he and Monte met. Monte has a child with autism and is cared for by Able, Inc. Able, Inc. is a non-profit who offers services to families with children with severe needs and often 24-hour care. The non profit has been a big supporter of oil and gas families through the years.

Monte explains why he takes personal issue with the use of Greta Thunberg and shares his feelings on the political use of children. He ties it back to his post on LinkedIn regarding Climate Change, Greta Thunberg and the use of children in political agendas.

For sponsorship information on The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard, email [email protected] or click here.

Sponsors, Music and Other Show Notes 

Studio Sponsor: The Industrial Forest

The Industrial Forest is a network of environmentally minded and socially conscious businesses that are using industrial innovations to build a network of sustainable forests across the United States.

Click here for the website

Weekly Sponsor:  Witting Parters

Witting Partners delivers a full range of energy-focused leadership

development services to help companies overcome the unique challenges of

today’s oil & gas industry so that they can successfully regain and

sustain peak performance.From one-on-one executive coaching to

group training programs to powerful speaking engagements, everything

Witting Partners offers reflects an unmatched blend of industry insight,

technical know-how, and relevant experience that has produced

consistent results from the Gulf of Mexico to Appalachia, from service

company to operator, and from drilling rig to downtown boardroom.

Click here for their website

The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 120

Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about McDonald’s Shaping Lives, Government Managed Marketplace, ESG, Bobby Bonilla Day, Bankruptcies, Climate Activists Gaining Momentum and Michael Scott Leaders Exist

Hour Two Work Hard:  Dwayne Farris, Black Creek K-9 Pipeline Inspections

The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast:  Midland (TX) Mayor Patrick Payton

source: tradingeconomics.com

HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk ESG, LSD, AARP and other letters of the alphabet. Sterling finds out that My Pillow is now a sponsor of The Crude Life and reads a few emails regarding leadership in oil and gas.

Bobby Bonilla Day, Bankruptcies, Government Recommended Debt and the new Managed Marketplace are discussed as well.

The News, Rumors and Newsspeak portion of the program has a real polarizing piece from MIT on the Boom Bust of COVID, another on Carlsbad waiting for the Feds to tell them how to run their business and Jason questions if this Abandoned Well rhetoric will have an unintended consequence of ushering many companies out of business. Or maybe leadership is aware of that potential.

Jason also shares a story from a recent Tinder date that did not go well.

In HOUR TWO we WORK HARD with our Newsmaker Interview: Dwayne Farris, Black Creek K-9 Pipeline Inspections

Dwayne Farris, Black Creek K-9 Pipeline Inspections, shares the story about his journey from the military to working with K9s to pipeline inspections with Human’s Best Friend.

Farris digs into the science of canine leak detection and how accurate the canine’s nose is. Jason asks about the public relations and ESG angles of his business.

Farris explains some of the unique intangible aspects of canine leak inspections and how oil and gas companies can utilize them

The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast: Midland (TX) Mayor Patrick Payton

Midland (TX) Mayor Patrick Payton talks about why ESG has exploded in oil and gas. Mayor Patrick believes the leadership within the industry has ignored telling positive stories of the industry allowing the negative ones to surface and take hold by climate activists.

Click here for the full length interview

For sponsorship information on The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard, email [email protected] or 

Krista Escamilla, host of Basin Life, The Permian

Perspectives Podcast, co-owner of Rig ID Workwear and Permian FR

Clothing Company

Krista Escamilla joins Jason in the Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners

impromptu mobile studios at the Shale Energy Resources Conference and

Trade Show held at the Midland County Horseshoe Pavilion, Midland, TX.

The two discuss the arts, education and how industry has made

attempts to connect with communities impacted by oil and gas activities.

The conversation veered into how industry can take that awareness to the next level.

Jason asks Krista is she is familiar with ESG and how that is impacting her day-to-day work activities and content.

She dives into the background of Rig ID and how a solution to a problem became much more.

Krista is the Owner of Rig-ID Workwear and Host of the Permian

Perspective Podcast with OGGN. Krista and her husband Al’s goal is to

keep the oil and gas industry safe with their products. As an Associated

Press Award-winning journalist for CBS7 News, Krista woke West Texans

up each weekday morning for ten years with the latest news and weather

to start their day off with a smile.

in 2010, Krista was recognized for fair and balanced reporting by the

Midland Independent School District and honored by the state of Texas

as a member of the Media Honor Roll. She serves the community as an

emcee for many non-profit groups, hosts live town hall specials for

Basin PBS and is a public speaker who loves to help others achieve their

dreams.

Krista grew up in the entertainment world as a singer and dancer. Competing in the Miss America Scholarship program, Krista paid for her own college through money awarded as Miss San Francisco and Miss Napa County.

Krista’s strengths in business are utilizing her 20+ years of

experience in broadcasting by mentoring and helping others promote their

companies. Faith and Family are at the heart of Krista’s life, they are

her “WHY”!

Krista has four kids, Austin is a Junior at Rice University and plays

on the Rice Golf Team, Aspen will be a Freshman at Lubbock Christian

University competing on the Golf Team, Alexandra is a Junior at Trinity

and Alex a sixth-grader at Trinity.

Krista’s hobbies include watching her kids play golf, reading, yoga

and running. Her favorite quote is Dream Big, Believe in Yourself and

Never Give Up. If you do these three things, anything is possible.

Krista is looking forward to inspiring, encourage, empower and inform

people in her podcast Permian Perspective.

“Dream Big, Believe in Yourself and Never Give Up. If you do these three things, anything is possible.”- Krista

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