Mailbag, incl: Real talk from an oil and gas expert. April 26, 2026

**Scott** (0:10)
Welcome to Motley Fool Money, our very special Sunday Morning Edition. Very special, normally for lots of reasons. You know why this one's special, Ram? Because today we are going to party, like it's episode 999, to steal and torture a lion from Prince.
This is the episode before the episode. This is the one that no one will talk about, because the next one is the one. But we're still going to make sure we deliver massive amounts of value in this episode, are we not?

**Andrew Page** (0:36)
That is always the plan. I mean, we'll leave it to the audience to decide how well that is executed on.

**Scott** (0:42)
Really fulfilled.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:42)
But it's a good plan.

**Andrew Page** (0:43)
The plan is good. The plan is rock solid.

**Scott** (0:46)
And sometimes if that's all you've got, that's all you can have, and that's okay too.

**Andrew Page** (0:50)
That's right.

**Scott** (0:50)
Well, they say no plan survives first contact with the enemy.

**Andrew Page** (0:54)
I love that. Or everyone's got to play until they get punched in the face, which is an even better one.

**Scott** (0:59)
That's the nice, the Mike Tyson version. You of course are Andrew Page, the man who 999 episodes ago was silly enough to sit down with me and start to record a podcast that was entirely scripted and probably atrocious and I will never ever ever listen to it. So long as I live on the same absolute. That's how someone will torture me one day. They'll suit me to listen to early episodes of Motley Fool Money.

**Andrew Page** (1:20)
It was a bit more glamorous back in the day.
Well, I felt a little bit more special, put it that way. Because that was at the Triple M Studios.

**Scott** (1:28)
It was, George Street and Sydney.

**Andrew Page** (1:30)
And we were, were we after like the breakfast crew or something like that? Yes, that's right.

**Scott** (1:36)
Occasionally I had to sit outside and wait till I finished with the studio.

**Andrew Page** (1:38)
Yeah, it was like, it felt really cool. I was like, I'm here in my Ugg boots in my disgusting office, speaking into a webcam.

**Scott** (1:47)
I call that progress. I call that progress. We had a live producer too.

**Andrew Page** (1:51)
Yeah, I know.

**Scott** (1:52)
Can I say, he's a bit of a, we shouldn't do too much flashback, we'll do that next week. But Liam Flanagan, who was our very, very first producer in New Orleans, he's now fronting the Bricky Show, I think it is, on Triple M Gold Coast and doing a really fantastic job. Yep. So he's got a bigger and better thing.

**Andrew Page** (2:07)
No surprise there at all.

**Scott** (2:08)
We're still here doing this.

**Andrew Page** (2:10)
Well, and still will be a long time.

**Scott** (2:13)
Exactly.
Just try and get us out of here. Anyway, let's leave these. I know, right?

**Andrew Page** (2:18)
Let's not compare things too closely.

**Scott** (2:20)
Yeah, exactly. Some of us are on an upward trajectory, some of us are just desperately hanging on to what we've got.
That's all I'm saying.

**Andrew Page** (2:26)
So people can make up their own minds again, as to which category.

**Scott** (2:30)
Oh, no, that's a hard.
There's no discretion here. We will leave more of the reminiscences for next week. Next Friday, if you're here now, next Friday is our thousandth episode. I'm sure you've heard us mention it before, but if not, very, very excited to do that one. It'll be nothing particularly special, because we haven't got that much planned, and we're not that sort of podcast. But it'll just be cool to have that milestone ticked, and we will do more about it. And then, of course, next Sunday, episode 1001, and so I don't do this early enough in the pod, regularly enough, info at fool.com.au is the email address. If you got questions, you got comments, you got topics, if you want to disagree with us and let Ram tell you why you're wrong about disagreeing with him, you can do that info at fool.com.au. Also follow us on the socials.
It's a big, wide social world out there. Andrew is at sage underscore simian, where occasionally you'll get mostly Bitcoin memes and monetary policy. Rants.

**Andrew Page** (3:25)
Guilty.

**Scott** (3:26)
Yeah, just mute him before the RBA announcement, then I mute him after, is all I'm saying.

**Andrew Page** (3:30)
That's smart.

**Scott** (3:32)
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