Welcome to Energy 101
0:00 Welcome to Energy 101, where we ask the dumb questions, so you don't have to. I guess this is our first official episode, we just came up with this idea, thanks to Julie, hopped in the podcast
0:14 studio, and here we are, five minutes in the making.
0:20 The best ideas come from that. Exactly. We were just talking about how there isn't a good resource for people who may work in energy or oil and gas, but not necessarily in the depths, in the field,
0:32 boots on the ground. So what I want to know from you guys is what's your background? What do you know about energy? What are we hoping to deliver with the podcast? Yeah, I'll go first. I'm Julie,
0:46 and I'm a co-founder here at Digital Wildcatters. I
0:50 am from Midland, Texas. My dad worked in the industry for almost 40 years. He works at at Halliburton. So I feel like I grew up in oil and gas, but I totally took it all for granted, and it was
1:01 all just kind of there my entire life. I didn't really realize that people didn't know what Roughnecks were and what a pump jack was. So, all of that was kind of just ingrained in me, but that
1:14 does not mean that I know any of the technical side of things, and it intrigues me to, you know, how does an offshore rig work, or even like the other verticals, I'm really, really interested in
1:27 nuclear and hydro. Like I think all of those things are very interesting, and I'm excited to dive deeper on these topics, especially like when things are in the news,
1:41 and they kind of don't explain it well, but as someone who doesn't know enough about energy, I don't know that it's not explained well, until I have someone like Colin who is,
1:56 you know, like, that was really stupid that they Yeah, that was really stupid. So I'm excited to dive down deep and just ask the dumb questions. So no one else has to you. Missy, what about you?
2:10 Hi, my name is Misty. I am an executive assistant here at Digital Wildcatters. I've been here for about a year now.
2:20 My family is originally from West Texas. My grandfather worked for Hal Burton for all his life And my dad also worked for various oil fields out there
2:32 that moved my family to a college station where I was born. But we would continue to travel back like two or three times a year. So I'm very familiar with the area, definitely familiar with the
2:46 smell. I always knew we were getting closer to my grandparents' house when you would start smelling that Sweet, sweet, Texas tea smell
2:59 Um, my job now and my previous job both have to do with energy, but I still feel like I don't know that much about it. So that's why I'm here. I want to raise my IQ and the energy and so yeah,
3:14 passing it to you, Jules. Yeah. Hey, everyone. I'm Jules. Um, I am from Houston, but I moved to New York to go to fashion school back in 2017. Um, I just finished school back in January And
3:28 then started here at Digital Wildcatters. Um, I think it's really, really important that we talk about energy, educate the Gen Zers like myself, because I think we don't realize what a big role
3:40 the oil and gas industry and energy as a whole plays and things like the fashion industry and just everything we do in our daily lives. So I think that's really important. And that's why I'm here to
3:52 learn more and educate the Gen Zers amongst myself Said. Jules I'm in the same boat as you. I'm Sydney. I am the event manager at digital wildcatters. I am not even from Texas. So energy oil and
4:08 gas is Still fairly foreign to me growing up in Florida. It's just not something that's talked about I think you get a lot of it in Texas Louisiana some of these energy-heavy states, but I don't
4:24 think until I moved here Seven years ago, I didn't even realize how big the energy sector really was some of my clients were energy oil and gas But I was just helping with them with I was helping
4:37 them. I'm gonna start that over
4:41 So when I moved here a lot of my clients I was working with were an energy and oil and gas But I was just helping them with their events. I again wasn't boots on the ground still didn't know Really
4:53 what their companies even did other than I knew Oh, they make gasoline. I can see their name, like when I go to fill up gas. So along with the rest of you and kind of one of our missions here at
5:05 Digital Wildcatters is to raise the world energy IQ. So we're gonna ask the dumb questions. So you don't have to everything from those specific topics to really the basics 'cause I feel like I know
5:17 nothing. And I'm learning every day and I'm still grateful for all of you to help me, help me learn and not laugh at me when I do ask the dumb questions. I agree. It's really nice to be in a place
5:29 where it's okay to ask questions and actually say, no, I don't get it. Can you please wipe with that? We're meeting. Draw that out. What does that actually
5:36 mean? So
5:40 I'm excited. I think that each week, yeah, it won't be all of us, but one of us or two of us will dive in with an expert and make them teach us Yeah, I have a little funny story, so. I also
5:56 forgot to mention that I am a marketing coordinator here at Digital Wildcatters. But when I first started, it's so funny 'cause everyone's walking around talking about ESG. And for the longest time,
6:06 I just pretended to know what it meant. So every time someone will talk about it, I'm like, Oh yeah, ESG, I know what that means. I have no idea what it means. What is ESG?
6:18 It is environmental, social governance. I believe, Julie, can you back me on that? Yeah, but also, I didn't know it, ESG. You know how many times I have to pretend I know what something is?
6:29 I do it all the time. Google is my best friend, but even then, it doesn't like, engrain deep in your mind because you're not doing it, you're not in the field. That's why I always say, like,
6:39 it's, if you are in the field and you're able to apply the knowledge you're learning, it's so much easier to learn. Which, side note, this is really cool, but I think eventually that we'll be
6:52 able to go on rigs in Midland or wherever. on little field trips. I love a field trip. With our team here in different wall caters. And we will definitely take a long video and ask what every
7:05 piece of machinery is. But I think it's just cool that we can, we're able to, we will be able to go and see that in action and be like, oh, I actually know what that means. Yeah. Or what it is.
7:20 Definitely. Yeah, I'm excited. I never thought I would say like, I'm excited to go on a field trip to an oil rig, but here I am.
7:28 So it's exciting. I have a similar story. I don't think I told you guys this yet. I should have said it as soon as I got back. When I was in Chicago, a couple of weekends ago, one of our ubers
7:38 was a Tesla. And so I was like talking to the driver. I think my friends were getting annoyed with me 'cause I asked, I was like, so like, do you drive a Tesla because you're worried about
7:47 emissions or whatever. And basically I was trolling him 'cause I was like, you know that when you plug your Tesla in. that energy is coming from oil and gas. And he like under his breath, I was
7:60 like, no, it's not. I'm like, sir, you should do your research. I work in energy.
8:07 That's so funny. I love, yeah, like working here, we all just have a new love for oil and gas and energy, like stuff I really didn't care about. And now I'm the one out like wrong or did you
8:18 know? So it's funny, but it's good. I think that's kind of it for this first episode Can we plug our event coming up Sydney? Yes,
8:28 we have our first fuse conference. It is our kind of inaugural energy tech in person conference. The conference itself is two days, October 26th and 27th. 8th wonder is our home base, but we have
8:42 multiple venues and kind of a four black radius. Streets will be shut down, think South by Southwest, festival, super fun. that digital Wildcat or vibe energy that everyone loves, please do not
8:56 come in a suit, come comfortable. There's also a kickoff party at Truckyard. So that's something I guess new that we're adding, a little more of a party element to kick everything off. It'll be
9:08 two days full of energy tech, content, speakers, keynotes. There's also a pitch competition, which I'm super stoked about. Jules, do you wanna talk about some of the speakers we have coming?
9:19 Yes, so we have Toby Rice from EQT on the lineup. Leslie Byer from the Energy Workforce and Technology Council. Dan Pickering, we have a long list of really awesome energy tech innovators in this
9:33 space that are gonna be joining us. So it's gonna be an event you don't wanna miss. We're trying to get Elon Musk. Just throwing that out there if we have any connects. Anybody wants to talk to us?
9:45 Well, we'll pay for a referral Exactly, there's also free beer. For a couple hours each day, lots of fun things, exhibitors, I also have it on good authority that
9:56 there may be an electric frack pump. Ooh, I know. I'm really excited to honestly learn more about energy before this conference, so I can actually learn - Right. About energy tech and why it's so
10:13 needed. Yes. 'Cause as we say, it's not an energy transition, it's an energy addition.
10:22 We're so smart. We're doing it.
10:27 Is that it? Yeah. All right. Thanks for listening. Catch us next time. Bye. Bye. Look at that.
