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Paramount+ just added a major “plus” for fans of mixed martial arts. Come Saturday, January 24, 2026, the streaming serv...
08/01/2026

Paramount+ just added a major “plus” for fans of mixed martial arts. Come Saturday, January 24, 2026, the streaming service will be the exclusive home of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events in the United States and Latin America. Now, instead of paying to watch each bout on pay-per-view television, UFC devotees can subscribe to Paramount+ to see every marquee numbered event and all Fight Nights.

The new arrangement comes after TKO Group Holdings, UFC’s parent company, announced a $7.7 billion deal with Paramount, a Skydance corporation, this August. That deal, which will run through 2033, “will unlock greater accessibility and discoverability for sports fans and provide an important catalyst for driving engagement and further subscriber growth for Paramount+,” according to a press release.

Paramount+ just added a major “plus” for fans of mixed martial arts.

The first offer didn’t arrive with excitement. It arrived with patience.I remember that clearly now—not because I unders...
07/01/2026

The first offer didn’t arrive with excitement. It arrived with patience.

I remember that clearly now—not because I understood it at four, but because I understand it too well as an adult. Money doesn’t rush when it’s confident. It waits. It watches. It lets silence do the work first.

The envelope showed up on a Tuesday. No overnight label. No urgency. Just thick paper, clean edges, and a return address that meant someone had taken the time to do things properly. Dad didn’t open it right away. He set it on the counter and washed his hands first, like you do before touching something that might change you.

The first offer didn’t arrive with excitement.

Wars don’t distribute consequences evenly. They never have. Whether fought with tanks or trade routes, the outcome is al...
07/01/2026

Wars don’t distribute consequences evenly. They never have. Whether fought with tanks or trade routes, the outcome is always the same: some players gain leverage, others lose footing, and most absorb costs they never agreed to carry.

The sudden re-entry of Venezuelan oil into U.S. strategic and commercial conversations is not a market correction — it is a geopolitical event. It follows force, leverage, and power realignment, not supply-and-demand spreadsheets. And like every energy conflict before it, the effects ripple unevenly across producers, refiners, governments, and workers.

Here’s who stands to gain — and who pays the price — as this energy war unfolds.

Wars don’t distribute consequences evenly.

CES Unveiled always feels like you slipped into the future through a side door. Not the polished, keynote future with ch...
07/01/2026

CES Unveiled always feels like you slipped into the future through a side door. Not the polished, keynote future with choreographed demos and celebrity hosts — the other future. The one built by small teams, half-finished prototypes, and founders who still have that look in their eyes like they haven’t slept since October.

And this year, a pattern is hard to ignore:

The hottest category isn’t “smart.” It’s present.
Devices that listen, watch, remember, nudge, and quietly intervene — not as a phone replacement, but as a new layer that sits on top of your life like invisible infrastructure.

Below are all 11 devices from your CES Unveiled run-through — and what they signal about where consumer tech is going next.

CES Unveiled always feels like you slipped into the future through a side door.

Did you buy your first car?I did.A 1974 Mercury Cougar — and it came with character baked in.The clock ran backwards.Not...
05/01/2026

Did you buy your first car?
I did.

A 1974 Mercury Cougar — and it came with character baked in.

The clock ran backwards.
Not metaphorically. Literally.
An old-school line clock that ticked in reverse like it was daring you to notice time differently.

The tape deck?
That didn’t work unless you knew the trick.
You needed a matchbook — not for fire, but for leverage.
Jam it just right and the tape would finally catch, like the car was testing whether you deserved music that day.

Did you buy your first car?

By Episode 8, Landman has stopped pretending it’s only about oil, gas, or corporate brinkmanship. This hour is about wha...
04/01/2026

By Episode 8, Landman has stopped pretending it’s only about oil, gas, or corporate brinkmanship. This hour is about what happens when people who live by risk finally have to feel it—in their bodies, their relationships, and their sense of control.

On paper, this is a “decision episode.” Drill or litigate. Push forward or pull back. But the strength of Episode 8 is that it understands something most business dramas miss: people don’t choose risk because the odds are good; they choose it because walking away would mean admitting something broke inside them.

By Episode 8, Landman has stopped pretending it’s only about oil, gas, or corporate brinkmanship.

When Donald Trump told reporters that America’s largest oil companies were ready to spend “billions and billions of doll...
04/01/2026

When Donald Trump told reporters that America’s largest oil companies were ready to spend “billions and billions of dollars” rebuilding Venezuela’s oil industry, the statement landed with a thud—not because it lacked ambition, but because it lacked confirmation.

Weeks later, the silence from corporate America has been louder than the rhetoric.

Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips—companies with deep scars from Venezuela’s nationalization era—have offered no public endorsements of Trump’s vision. And that quiet tells a far more revealing story about how global oil markets actually work than any press conference ever could.

This is not a story about ideology.

It is a story about risk memory, capital discipline, and whether political declarations can realign systems that have been broken for decades.

When Donald Trump told reporters that America’s largest oil companies were ready to spend “billions and billions of dollars” rebuilding Venezuela’s oil industry, the statement landed with a thud—not because it lacked ambition, but because it lacked confirmation.

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The Crude Life began when entrepreneur and media personality Jason Spiess began covering the Bakken oil boom full time in March 2012. The first nine months, Spiess operated The Crude Life while living and operating the business in an RV. The method-journalism approach not only allowed Spiess to embed all the idiosyncracies of the Bakken Boom, but interview once-in-a-lifetime newsmakers and personalities.

Ever since Spiess, the principal owner, spent his childhood delivering newspapers for The Forum of Fargo Moorhead, he understood the importance of a quality and effective distribution system. Because of this committment to a balanced distribution system, The Crude Life is constantly searching for opportunities in both new and existing features repurposing content – both domestically and internationally.