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  • Iran Talks Collapse, $100 Oil Rips & Ro Khanna's Windfall Tax Disaster | BDE 04.14.26
    Apr 14 2026

    Chuck's back, freshly upgraded to co-founder, and Kirk and Mark have plenty to catch up on. This week the guys dig into the Iran nuclear standoff, JD Vance's Islamabad trip, what $100 oil actually means for US producers, Ro Khanna's windfall profits tax proposal, the case for moving BP to Houston, and a proper sendoff for Astros legend Phil Garner.

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    00:00 - Chuck returns as co-founder
    03:30 - Iran, Strait of Hormuz, and nuclear talks
    09:00 - US oil production and export capacity
    23:40 - Windfall profits tax debate
    30:30 - Tesla, autonomous driving, and gas prices
    32:30 - OJ Simpson and Fox News tangent
    38:35 - BP, activists, and the case for Houston
    46:00 - Remembering Phil Garner

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  • $100 Oil & Drillers Still Won't Drill, Fertilizer Crash & Harold Hamm's Bet | BDE 03.31.26
    Mar 31 2026

    Oil markets are under siege and Kirk and Mark aren't sugarcoating it. From the Iran supply shock draining global inventories to the fertilizer fallout quietly heading for your grocery bill this fall, no topic is off limits. They also break down why US producers aren't just drilling on command, the capital discipline story behind the rig count, and Continental Resources' Mercury Pecos Power project proving Harold Hamm still runs circles around everyone.

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    00:00 Welcome and Mark's big news
    02:07 Iran supply shock and global oil markets
    10:20 US producers and the drilling pressure debate
    20:17 Fertilizer prices and food supply fallout
    22:38 Energy policy critics and the IEA
    29:52 EU energy vulnerability
    31:02 Retail gas prices and demand destruction
    37:31 Continental and Mercury's Pecos Power project
    45:08 ERCOT opportunity and molecule-to-megawatt plays
    47:31 Wrap up

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  • Big Tech's Dirty Energy Secret, Avatar's O&G Shark Tank & The AI Divide | BDE 03.27.26
    Mar 27 2026

    Kevin Krausert, CEO and Co-Founder of Avatar Innovations Inc., brings a story that starts with a vegan roughneck and ends with a venture studio that's quietly changing how oil and gas companies innovate from the inside out. Chuck and Kevin get into the Avatar model, some clever bets that actually paid off, the coolest ideas that flopped, and why Kevin thinks AI early adopters in energy are about to leave everyone else in the dust.

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    00:00 - Vegan Roughneck Origins
    03:16 - Big Tech's Energy Wake-Up Call
    07:14 - What Avatar Innovations Actually Is
    08:33 - How the Program Works
    11:10 - Bragging Rights: Production Optimization Win
    14:25 - Turning Oilfield Emissions Into Beer CO2
    15:13 - Smart Grid Splice Monitoring Tech
    18:26 - How to Get Into the Avatar Program
    22:00 - AI-Optimizing Condensate Stabilizers
    24:05 - The Shale Revolution and Suspending Convention
    27:14 - Who Drives Innovation in Oil and Gas
    30:03 - AI as the Single Source of Truth
    35:38 - Building AI Sandboxes for the Oilfield
    38:09 - Open CLAW and Observations from Nvidia GTC
    39:51 - What a VC Legend Taught Chuck About Markets
    42:04 - The Best Ideas That Didn't Work
    45:58 - Know Your Loss Point Before You Start
    49:30 - How to Connect With Kevin and Avatar

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  • Qatar LNG Wiped Out, $200 Oil in Asia & Iran's Endgame | BDE 03.20.26
    Mar 20 2026

    Chuck and Mark are back and wasting no time getting into it. Qatar's LNG infrastructure is heavily damaged, a Red Sea refinery just got hit, and oil markets are absorbing a shock that the IEA apparently never saw coming (surprise). The guys break down regime adjustment vs. regime change, what a prolonged Strait of Hormuz disruption could mean for a global recession, and why gas prices matter more politically than anyone wants to admit. Then somehow they land on Mean Joe Green, Chuck Norris, and Astros opening day.

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    0:00 - Intro and catching up
    2:00 - Iran conflict and energy infrastructure strikes
    5:00 - Qatar LNG damage and supply disruption
    10:00 - Regime change vs. regime adjustment
    12:00 - Oil price predictions and IEA criticism
    14:00 - Europe energy security concerns
    17:30 - Strait of Hormuz and recession risk
    18:30 - Gas prices and US political reality
    23:30 - US military effectiveness
    25:00 - RIP Mean Joe Green and Chuck Norris
    28:00 - Astros opening day and the WBC
    32:30 - Wrap up

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  • "Robinhood for Oil & Gas": Tokenized Energy, Blockchain Deals & Permian Access | BDE 03.17.26
    Mar 17 2026

    Oil and gas deals have always been a handshake-and-know-the-right-guy kind of business, but Tokenized Energy is changing that. Chip Simmons and Adrian Macias, co-founders of Tokenized Energy, along with Tim Pawul, President of Minerals and Royalties Authority LLC, join Chuck to break down how blockchain is turning exclusive oil and gas investments into something anyone can access from their phone for as little as 500 bucks.

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    0:00 - Intro and what Tokenized Energy actually does
    3:01 - Breaking down the barriers to oil and gas investing
    6:00 - Inside the platform: data rooms, deal structure, and SPVs
    9:05 - Building your own personal oil and gas portfolio
    10:11 - Deals on the platform and how they launched
    12:23 - Buyer minimums, price setting, and the CarMax model
    14:07 - How sellers get assets on the platform
    17:14 - Early beta results and what surprised them
    21:34 - Chuck's soapbox: making oil and gas sexy again
    25:37 - 5-year vision: stablecoins, yield tokens, and secondary markets
    31:44 - Why the US is behind on tokenization adoption
    38:17 - WTI tokens, commodity-backed digital assets, and optionality
    46:19 - Overcoming the "vaporware crypto" misconception
    49:09 - Robinhood for oil and gas and where digital investing is heading
    52:50 - How to access the platform and get in touch

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  • Iran Goes Hot, Oil Spikes & Sells Off, IEA Eyes the SPR | BDE 03.09.26
    Mar 10 2026

    Oil prices swung wild overnight and the BD War Chronicles rolls on. David Pursell joins Kirk and Mark to break down the SPR numbers, the Jones Act waiver, and why the IEA's emergency reserve is starting to look more like a price cap than a crisis tool. They also get into Iran's mosaic defense, Strait of Hormuz shipping chaos, and why reservoir damage fears are mostly noise.

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    0:00 Oil prices and SPR breakdown
    7:00 IEA history and emergency reserve mission creep
    10:00 Iran conflict update and Khamenei succession
    17:00 Mosaic defense and Strait of Hormuz
    22:00 Floating storage and curtailments
    25:00 US crude exports and diesel prices
    29:00 Reservoir damage myths debunked
    35:00 Market predictions and wrap up

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  • US Bombs Iran, Oil Barely Flinches, OPEC Ramps & the Regime Change Gamble | BDE 03.03.26
    Mar 3 2026

    The Persian Gulf just became a live fire zone and crude is barely flinching. What does that tell you about where oil markets really stand? David Pursell, EVP Planning Reserves and Fundamentals at Apache Corporation, joins Kirk and Mark to break down the US strikes on Iran, why this is nothing like Operation Midnight Hammer, what OPEC is actually capable of producing, how strategic reserves are everyone's insurance policy, and whether the real story here is regime change, not barrels.

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    0:00 US strikes on Iran and initial oil market reaction
    2:50 Shipping disruptions and Strait of Hormuz concerns
    5:30 Weeks not days and the case for regime change
    7:26 Who actually cares and global market impact
    11:35 Iranian oil on tankers and strategic reserves
    14:54 OPEC production increases and spare capacity questions
    18:48 Strait of Hormuz as a chokepoint
    21:03 The regime change problem and keeping the lights on
    29:19 Sunni-Shia dynamics and what comes next
    34:14 Structurally bearish factors and why the market yawns
    41:50 US oil demand growth and fundamentals check
    44:04 The IEA critique corner

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  • Texas Railroad Commission Candidate on Zombie Wells, Injection Crisis & CCS Scam | 02.23.26
    Feb 23 2026

    Hawk Dunlap, 2026 Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commission, pulls no punches on zombie wells, produced water injection, and why carbon capture is a taxpayer funded scam. From 27 years of international well control across 100 countries to excavating 150 leaking wells on a Texas ranch, Hawk brings the kind of boots on the ground credibility this conversation demands. The primary is March 3rd.

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    0:00 - Intro and Hawk Dunlap origin story
    4:46 - Well Control Management and international career
    8:19 - The Container Ranch and zombie wells
    13:43 - Excavating 150 wells and what they found
    18:20 - Litigation, Railroad Commission, and accountability
    27:18 - Produced water injection as the defining issue
    28:53 - Water recycling and the orphan well fund
    36:21 - Orphan well plugging program problems
    45:01 - Carbon capture and why Hawk opposes it
    56:28 - Railroad Commission name change
    1:01:11 - AI and risk assessment for orphan wells
    1:12:21 - Campaign trail and closing thoughts

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