MID;LAND/ODESSA!  For all of the latest updates regarding these books, please tune to 1330 AM ("Kickin' Country") KCKM Monahans.  This will be the Permian Basin's broadcast home for everything you want to know about these books. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 28 NOVEMBER 2025: There are no plans to resume in-person events for the foreseeable future.  I acknowledge the brick-and-mortar booksellers, with thanks, who have been kind enough to carry one or more of my titles in their shops.    Matthew Day (the host of this podcast) is the author of 30 books dealing with petroleum history--or, at least, some form of petroleum history.  These books include his latest, Vantage Point I,; Vantage Point II; Border Crude; and Lubbock, Levelland, Baghdad, Washington, as well as - -Refiner on the Rise -Local Roots, Global Prospects -The Sale -Witness to History -What Is Success?-Frank Conselman: A Geologist's Life (books I, II, and III)-Fueling Victory at Home- How to Read Oil History If You're an Average Joe- Accidental Resurgence?-A Cattle King on the Move-SUPERFIELD (Books I and II)-The Oil Empire That Wasn't (books I and II)- The Great and Unheralded George Bean-The Other Mastersons Fueling Victory at Home (shown in picture) won the 2020 Best Indie Book Award--Nonfiction--US History category. With a family heritage of more than half a century on the South Plains, Day lives in--and writes from--Lubbock, Texas. Books are available for purchase at www.amazon.com/author/matthewmday/  and at select brick-and-mortar stores. Here's an interview with me from a couple of years ago: Robert Pratt, Pratt on Texas, Podcast Extra (Lubbock/Abilene, TX) Podcast Extra: Author Matthew Day talks history of oil business in West Texas Don't forget to check out my column in the Seminole Sentinel! Drop me a line: Business inquiries: officialmatthewmdaybooks@gmail.com  (preferred method for discussions with me relating to these books) Press inquiries: matthewmdaybooks.pressinquiries@gmail.commore