Hey guys, it's the way I heard it and what we have for you today is what you call a very

special episode of the way I heard it. It's called A Farmer is Fixing It. Chuck, tell us all about it.

I knew you were going to do that. Well, you see, Mike, the thing about this one is that I wasn't there when you recorded this so I don't know a whole lot about it as yet.

Well when I say it's a very special episode I mean it's very special for that reason in part, but also the timing is just something

I couldn't ignore.

Microworks will be 16 years old on Labor Day and in real time that's just about a week from now.

So this would be our Labor Day episode.

I think it's episode 400. Is right shot that is wrong but I'll tell you what it is it is episode

401 for oh one, file it under who cares what number it is. But it's a conversation that I

absolutely love to have in part because I had no idea I was going to have it. The

backstory is this. I was in Oklahoma filming a new tranche of materials with my friends over at OERB, the Oklahoma Energy Resource Board.

And in the course of this year's campaign, we are tying in a lot of the messages to trade schools.

Because, you know, there's a ton of opportunity in the energy industry and the people who are pursuing those

opportunities need to learn a trade. So it's a great thing for our foundation, but it's also a really fun way to combine forces

with some people who are on our side in this whole conversation about skills

training.

So anyway, I'm in the middle of the state at a tech college that I had never heard of before called

Central Tech. Central Tech, yes.

And I'm just getting a tour and I'm getting kind of agitated as the tour goes on because I'm just meeting

example after example of what I think ought to be going

on right now all over the country.

Men and women, young men and women, getting trained in a super hands-on practical way for virtually every job in the energy industry, but also the construction industry.

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