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Back to episode — Episode 3006 CWSA 11/01/25

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a boot on your work but they have to say it if they are going to get you to change something. So this is from the earliest days where my editor was welcome to tell me that something worked or didn't work because I, you know, that was useful to me. But how do you tell somebody who's an artist that they worked all day on something and it's bad and it's not worthy of being published? Have you ever t…

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o we? I'm going to say you could have asked me how that would have gone and I could have saved you a lot of time and money.

Here's a weird thing. Exxon and Chevron are both boosting oil output or gas I guess from the oil. No, oil. What is it? Financial Times is reporting that the two biggest US oil majors are going to increase production in the third quarter. Now, if you're following the oil business, you know that prices are not as high as they used to be. I mean, anything could be less, but 60 bucks a barrel is generally considered a pretty healthy place to be. It's not super expensive, but i

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t allows all the oil companies enough incentive to do stuff. But how do you explain that there seems to be a worldwide glut or increase in the supply of oil and it's not much changing the price? What does that mean? It's not because the demand is suddenly matching the supply. There's just more oil than there used to be. Shouldn't the price go down? Is this telling us that there is some kind of mo…

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