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The Crude Life produces original content that focuses on industry, the people, energy innovations, community building and it’s proactive culture.

Our solution-based journalism and content is non-polarizing, trusted and often news making.

11/11/2025

The oil patch is heading back to the screen. Landman Season 2 premieres November 16, 2025 on Paramount+, continuing Taylor Sheridan’s gritty take on West Texas—where mineral rights, family tension, cartel money, and energy politics collide below the surface of the boom.

Season 1 introduced audiences to landmen, roughnecks, and billionaires who gamble everything on shale. Season 2 raises the stakes: more money, more pressure, deeper fractures between family, industry, and ideology. And this time, it’s not just a story about oil—it’s a story about how America sees the people who produce it.

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The oil patch is heading back to the screen. Landman Season 2 premieres November 16, 2025 on Paramount+, continuing Taylor Sheridan’s gritty take on

10/11/2025

The oil patch used to build boomtowns out of dust and diesel.

Drill a well, build a camp, expand a town.

Schools, diners, ballfields, payrolls — community followed hydrocarbons.

That hasn’t changed.

Only the blueprint has.

Today’s energy innovators aren’t just building pump stations and pipe yards.

They’re building campuses, collectives, policy hubs, and identity engines — and they’re doing it where they started.

Few tell that story better than Cody Campbell, Texas Tech University lineman turned $4 billion shale entrepreneur, turned university regent, stadium investor, and college-sports reformer.

The oil patch used to build boomtowns out of dust and diesel.

30/10/2025

https://thecrudelife.substack.com/p/ohio-just-drew-a-line-in-the-sand

Ohio lawmakers introduced a bill this week declaring natural gas a “clean energy” source — and directing state regulators to prioritize gas projects in siting and approval.

29/10/2025

Real Time Update: On Friday, October 17, 2025, a man who has been living in a shed for more than four years sent a formal letter to the state’s Attorney General asking for help.

By Wednesday, October 22, the response arrived — the system had simply redirected him back into the same bureaucratic loop that started it all.

Real-time proof that while the story of the past is still being documented, the future continues to repeat it.

It’s as if the system itself is alive — looping, recalibrating, and re-creating the same errors that erased one citizen’s life from the grid over four years ago.

This isn’t fiction. This is an ongoing case study — a real person, still trying to get back on his feet while damage from the digital damage keeps pulling him under.

Real Time Update: On Friday, October 17, 2025, a man who has been living in a shed for more than four years sent a formal letter to the state’s Attorney General asking for help.

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Simply put, we are creators of content and distributors of information.

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.