The Mark Arum Show 6-9-26 HR 1
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80 segmentsWelcome to this dreary, emotionally dreary, weather dreary, Tuesday edition of the Mark Aram show, a ton of stuff to cover today. We've got the big main Senate primary. We've got Greg Bluestein from the Atlanta Journal of Constitution is going to join us live in 30 minutes. We're going to check in with Mike McKee from Bloomberg News on what the Fed might do with the interest rates moving forward with the instability in the economy. Marcus Espinoza from News Nation is going to join us. updating the NBA finals and President Trump there yesterday. I am exhausted. Deborah, it was a game, literally I was a game time decision last night. I said if when I get off of the show, if I can get a nice long nap in with Soba, I'll stay up and watch the game. To me, a nice long nap is like two hours. I got like 30 minutes. And I woke up and I was like, I'm not going to be able to watch the game. I said, Maya, we got to have dinner early so I can go to bed early. And we did. But I was up at tip off. And once I saw the tip off, that was it. I stayed up, watched the Knicks lose to the Spurs in game three. I know you don't want to hear about that. But the big headline there is President Trump was at the game. A couple of quick things. Yes, he was booed. Yes, he caught some Zs in the owner's box. But he was not a jinx. There's no President Trump jinx at the game. The Knicks didn't lose because the president were there. The Knicks lost because the refs wanted this game to go more than four, this series to go more than four games. And the Knicks don't have a Charles Oakley or a Mason on their lineup to put Wembe on his tush once in a while. There's no enforcers. There's no bouncers on this Knicks squad. That's all I have to say about that. Nick should have won that game. No excuses. I really thought it was a great game. I mean, every game has been close. Yes. I thought y'all still had it. I'm going to be honest. I thought so too. I thought so too, Vin. And so I stayed up for naught. I should have not watched the tip off and got some sleep. But anyway. You were the jinx. Yeah. And the one thing I did want to see was, was President Trump sitting courtside or was he sitting in the owner's box? He was in the owner's box. He's 80. He fell asleep. during the game. It's no big deal. It happens. He did get booed during the national anthem, which was kind of awkward, but he was not a jinx. The Knicks did not lose because President Trump was at the game. Anyway, Marcus Espinoza from News Nation is going to join us at 1035 talking about. the president and the NBA finals game, which Knicks in five now. That's the whole Knicks in five. Debra's got tickets to give away today, Melissa Etheridge and Little Big Town. Little Big Town. So two chances to win prizes today on the Mark. I'm show. Let us start, though, with that big Maine primary joining us from ABC News, Jared Kovsky. Jared, Maine is a very big state geographically, but population-wise, it's kind of tiny. Why are we so interested in this Maine Senate? primary, my friend.
Yeah, Mark Good Morning. Maine is really the main event that is happening tonight, in part because of control of the Senate. So even though this is only the primary tonight, it's not the general election, this is the race that could ultimately decide the majority. So could Democrats take back the Senate? And that's what they're hoping to do. Susan Collins is the sitting senator for Maine. She's been in office for decades, 30 years. And Graham Platner, who is an oyster farmer, an army veteran, definitely a different kind of candidate than Democrats have nominated before. he is hoping to be the one who will take on Susan Collins in November, and the results tonight will determine whether he's able to do that. Now, the plant or candidacy looks a lot different today on June 9th than it did three months ago. Controversy after controversy to this former oyster farmer, as you mentioned. Yeah, there's been one controversy after another. Graham Platner has made it clear that, you know, he's not a perfect person, but he has had lots of things that have popped up. It doesn't seem to really be facing the voters, though. I mean, some of the things that have happened, there were reports about a tattoo that he had, that, you know, people said it had ties to a Nazi symbol. Graham Platner has said that, you know, he wasn't familiar with the ties and since had it removed. Then there were reports in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal over the last couple of weeks. There was a report in the New York Times that said that, you know, They interviewed some of his former girlfriends and that while some of them had positive things to say about Graham Platner, others found that his behavior could be intimidating and disturbing. There were other reports that mentioned that he was alleged to have sent sexually explicit texts to women and that it was his own wife who reported that allegation to his campaign. But a lot of voters who have spoken to when I've been there have said, you know, yes, they're concerned by some of the recent reporting that's come out, but they're still planning to vote for Graham Platner. They like his progressive policies and they think he's going to. help flip the Senate. Now, Janet Mills, the current governor of Maine, is also on the ballot. She's suspended her campaign a while back. And since these controversies have brewed up, has she, you know, thrown her hat back in the ring? I know she's still on the ballot, but is there any chance she defeats Graham Platner today? You can never say never. I mean, there's been a lot of talk about, you know, would Governor Mills, you know, formerly hop back on the race? Would she be on the campaign trail? We haven't seen that. But as you mentioned, because she is still on the ballot, she... could, in theory, pull off a victory. All of the polling that we've seen has indicated that that's very unlikely. The most recent poll that came out just before the recent controversies involving Graham Platner had her receiving likely 10% of the vote with Plattenor receiving 76. But one thing that Mills did not do that she could have done under main law, she could have contacted the Secretary of State and said, even though it's too late to remove me from the ballot, I want voters to know, you know, I'm not running for office. And with the Secretary of State, can do in Maine under their law post signs in the polling places saying that this candidate has suspended their campaign and votes and votes that are cast for this candidate will not count. Mills did not opt to do that. So she is on the ballot and I did speak to one voter when I was in Portland last week who said she's planning to vote for her. Interesting. Jared Koski from ABC News joining us here on the Mark Aram Show. I observe a disconnect here with these controversies when it comes to platinum because it wasn't that long ago, Eric Swalwell. got swarmed in controversies, and there was a lot of pressure from Democrats for him to step down and not run for governor in California. Why didn't we see the same pressure from Democrats here in this main race? It's interesting because a lot of Democrats were not the biggest fans of Plattenor until that long ago. I mean, you look at, you know, Chuck Schumer, for instance, was, you know, backing Governor Mills. And a lot of these, you know, prominent Democrats, right after Governor Mills said she was suspending her campaign, they then said, okay, that, you know,
if he's the likely Democratic nominee, we're going to be supporting him. It's interesting because there have been, you know, some Democrats, you know, here and there who have condemned his behavior and have said, you know, they don't think he should be in office. But so far, there have not been too many, you know, prominent Democrats that have said we're calling, you know, for him to drop out of the race and that we feel that, you know, allegations are unqualified of being a politician. So it remains to be seen if there will be, you know, anything that, you know, will prompt people to change their minds. There have been. know some Democrats, like Ro Khanna, for instance, was campaigning with Plattenor in Portland last Friday. And, you know, Ro Khanna had, you know, said that he had disagreements with some of the behaviors that Graham Platner was led to, you know, participated in, but that he still felt that Graham Platner was the best choice to help the Democrats take back the Senate. So we don't know what's going to happen next in terms of Democratic support. Of course, Flattner still has to win the primary tonight. But if he wins, which the polls indicate he is likely to do, you know, we have to. see will Republicans be making the most of these allegations that have been made? We've already seen some campaign ads from Republican PACs that are pointing out some of these allegations about Graham Platner. So will there be more of those? We don't know yet. Jared, are we going to have results this time tomorrow morning? Or is this going to be a slow walk like the California primary results? It would be nice if we have results tomorrow morning. But Maine actually has a very complicated way of doing their elections. So A, they have ranked choice voting. So range choice voting can make it a lot to take a lot longer to calculate. the ballots. I think it's going to be much quicker for getting a result in this race that we're all focusing on involving Plattenor just because there are not a lot of candidates on the ballot. Some of the other races that are happening in Maine today, there's a governor's primary, there's a congressional primary. Those races, it could take many days for us to know who's going to win just because of all the ranked choice ballot process and also because the way that Maine does their elections. Nothing is really done at the state level for a little while. It's the local municipalities that announced the results. That being said, it does seem like the platinum potential victory we're going to know about much sooner than some of the other races. What we know tomorrow morning, hopefully, but it's still up in the air depending on turnout today. Jared, final most important question when you were in Portland, Maine, did you have the lobster roll at Even Tide? That is the worst answer I'm going to give. That is no, I did not. I did have a lobster roll up in Bar Harbor, though, and it was well worth it. Okay, good. Niv, next time you're in Portland, lobster roll, life-changing, life-changing lobster roll. I will tell them, I will tell them Mark sent me. Excellent. Jared Kovsky, ABC. Jared, appreciate your time as always. Thank you for having me. Maine, Senate, primary, today. Back to the lobster roll question. Ashley and the digital desk, Deborah, has never had a lobster roll. I have not had one either. You either? But I don't love seafood. Okay. Well, fish Fridays and land. I don't eat fish, no. Vin, have you ever had a lobster roll? I've had a lobster roll. All right. We've got to hook Ashley up. Okay. With a lobster roll. I feel like I can have a better one. So you know anywhere. Yeah, you can always have a better one. All right, back to the main primary. I can't wrap my head around this at all. It makes no sense to me. There's not one bad mark on... This dude's resume, Graham Platner's resume. There's 40 of them and they're climbing. I don't understand why the Democrats still support him. I understand they want to retake the Senate. But at what cost? Candidates matter. Candidates absolutely matter. Once this started...
bubbling up, why didn't they switch, you know, all the Democratic support to the sitting governor of Maine? She was elected. Like, she's on the ballot. Why not support her than this dude with so many pockmarks on his resume? Now, I understand this is great for Republicans. This is, they're loving this. They're like, all right, Susan Collins is going to hang on. I, I, when I look at a ballot, or the primaries. I take partisan politics out of it. I want the two best candidates to meet. That way, we don't get a grand platinum elected. We don't, and Alabama did that. You know, when the, their Senate race, remember when the Democrat came out of nowhere and won the Senate race in Alabama? Because it was a horrible, horrible Republican candidate for that Senate seat. I want the best candidates on both sides to advance. So that way, even if your guy or your gal doesn't win, you don't get someone like Graham Platner. That is always my hope in any primary. All right, let the best Democratic candidate win. Let the best Republican candidate win. So we have the best two to choose from. Even if your team wins or loses, at least you don't get... Someone like Graham Platner, Nazi tattoo, sexual abuse. I mean, what are they thinking? How is he still in this race? How is he still have? Mokana, Ro Khanna, the guy that was out there with Thomas Massie and the Epstein files, he's still supporting him. How can you support him? If you were like, release all the Epstein files, this is horrible stuff, and then support Graham Platner, who is accused of, Horrible stuff. I don't understand this. I do not understand this. Unless this dude, Graham Platner, is a former CIA agent, and he's got files on Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders. I can't comprehend. I know you want to take the Senate back, but at what cost? At what cost? It's mind bottling. Boggling. My buddy, Pack to the Future, always says mind bottling. Where do you get that from? He's interesting. But now it's stuck in my head because every time you go, oh, that's mind-bottling. I'm like, it's boggling, dude. Anyway, we'll see. And hopefully I have results tomorrow. I don't want Graham Platner to win. I want the sitting governor of Maine to win. She is a better candidate. Let her go up against Susan Collins. Let the best woman win. And at least you'll have two decent people in November on the ballot. I don't understand the fascination with Graham Platner at all. Apache helicopter shot down in Jim Jordan, I believe. The pilots are okay, but we'll get an update on that big story. Gentlemen, my lady. You will always remember this as the day that you almost caught. Captain Jack. Spanner. Happy 63rd birthday actor Johnny Depp. One of the better actors of my generation. Deborah...
Depp, sexy or gross at this point? Oh, you know, I feel like he aged a lot in the last five years sexy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so he was a heartthrob back in the day, but he's... I go back and watch 21 Jump Street. Yeah, he's a little crusty these days. But aren't we all? Welcome back to the Mark Aram Show. I do want to update that breaking news out of Iran. A new U.S. Navy surface drone found and rescued two U.S. crew members after U.S. Army Apache helicopter went down off the coast of Amman while patrolling regional waters. Uh, Let us go to the White House moments ago, Elena Train from CNN. Let me start with what we know about this Apache helicopter. There was a statement out from Suncom this morning saying that at 733 p.m. yesterday on June 8th, two crew members from that U.S. Army, it was an H-64 Apache, were rescued by American forces after their helicopter went down near the coast of Amman. Sencom says that they were patrolling regional waters and that the soldiers were safely rescued within. approximately two hours and are now in stable condition. We heard the president who was taking questions from reporters about this. Early this morning said that none of them were injured and that they are doing fine. I think this line from this CENTCOM statement is important. They say that the cause of the incident is under investigation. We're still learning, of course, what exactly happened here. But to give you a sense, I mean, one, the loss of this aircraft marks the first loss of an Apache since this war began. These helicopters have been previously used to attack Iranian small boats in the strait of Rameuse. Apaches, primarily used for precision strikes, close air support and air reconnaissance. So we're still learning to get more about what exactly happened and how this helicopter was downed. But all of this comes, as we're also hearing from the president, touting his efforts to get Israel and Iran from stopping their exchange of strikes. Also this morning when he was talking about... into reporters, he tried to remain confident in a deal and also argued that perhaps a deal could be struck with Iran in two or three days. Listen to what he said. They were going back and forth, and now they both agreed through me to stop. And we're in the final throws of what will be a very, very good deal that will not allow in any way, shape, perform nuclear weapons, etc. President Trump, Lane, at the White House. The good news, though, that all of the service members are okay. in that Apache helicopter incident. News weather and traffic in less than three minutes. When we come back, all things Georgia politics, the one and only Greg Bluestein from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, joins us live. Social media is up and active through the broadcast at Mark Cameron at WSB Radio.
937 on the Mark Aram's show. How long will you need your umbrella? Christine Edwards' five-day forecast updated every hour here. Back on the state in 2007, Rihanna's umbrella reached number one in the Billboard Top 100. Ella, Ella, Ella, Ella. That was written for Britney Spears and she passed on it. I know, right? That's crazy. Brittany has... Yeah, she's got questionable decision-making. Yeah, decision-making. Joining us live from the Atlanta Journal of Constitution, 2007, Greg was dancing to Umbrella at the Middle School dance in... No, 2007? No, not quite. Not that young, but you are certainly younger. Greg, great to have you, man. Thanks so much for your time. Thanks. I think I was at the Georgia Florida game in Jacksonville dancing to that song at some point. Do you know it's so funny? My cousin went to Florida, and they refer to it as the Florida Georgia game, not the Georgia Florida game, which just sounds bad to my ears. They're just wrong. They are just wrong. All right. We can agree with that. Left, right and center. We can all agree that it's the Georgia, Florida game. Beginning of the show, Greg, we were talking to Jared Kofsky from ABC, big primary day in Maine. And listeners might be like, well, that has no impact on us here in Georgia. But I think it does. With Graham Platner, all his Kevin Warsh, if he does win the Democratic nomination of the primary, I would imagine. the Democrats are going to have to spend a lot of money in Maine that they might have spent in Georgia instead. Yeah, that's one reason why, right? And he's going to, he's almost certainly going to win. And the question is by what margin? And the other reason why it matters in Georgia is, you know, what are Republicans going to do? What would any smart Republican strategies do? They're going to tie Democrats to him. You know, they're going to try to tie Jon Ossoff to him. They're going to try to tie any other Democrat in a really competitive battleground to some of the most controversial party leaders. And that's going to be grand plan there. I can't wrap my mind around this, why the Democrats are still holding tight to Graham Platner with all the stuff that is now coming out. Why not abandoned ship like they did with Eric Swalwell? Yeah, I feel well. One reason is they just don't have any other options, right? The governor, Janet Mills, she already dropped out of the race weeks ago. She never really had that groundswell of support. There's really no other alternative at this point who's been threatening him in the polls, and the party sees him as the best chance of flipping that seat, even with all these wards.
Greg Blustein from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Again, we'll find out. It's not like California. We should find out tomorrow morning who won the main primary. And it will have an impact on all the Senate races, but especially here in Georgia. Let's come back down to the Peach State. Keisha Lance Bottoms out touring with Jon Ossoff. She advanced without a runoff in the Democratic primary. That has to give her a big advantage for a number of reasons. Yeah, huge advantage. One is that she doesn't have to go fight for what has been a month for the nomination against Jason Estes or Michael Thurmond or Jeff Duncan, whoever would have emerged. Instead, she just consolidated her support. She's already out with a new round of ads this morning, kind of showing her strength. She's also able to tap into what we call a leadership committee, which is under Georgia law, once you're the nominee, you get to raise unlimited funds. And so she's already used some of those funds to air these two new ads that are going to be out this morning. So she's already getting an organizational and an advertising and a financial boost. from being the nominee this early. And she didn't really have an ugly primary, right? You know, it was pretty civil on the Democratic side. Not so much on the Republican side. We've heard the ads from both of the parties. And now we're starting, I guess, I don't know if they would call this APO research or not, but you had this in your newsletter yesterday from the Atlanta Journal Constitution concerning leaked audio from Rick Jackson. What's this story all about? Yeah, this was an audio of Rick Jackson interacting with a voter a few weeks ago up in Northeast Georgia, I think it was the Walton County Barbecue, where he was going to getting pressured over where his stance on abortion is. And, you know, of course, he and other Republicans support the 2019 anti-abortion law. But he was being asked in particular where he stands on stricter restrictions, tighter restrictions. And he made some revealing comments that women should quote in his, he said the word, prove rape in order to access an exception to that abortion law because there's exceptions for rape and incest and some other exceptions as well. And so he kind of insinuated that that's how he feels. Did this audio, I mean, first of all, do we know where it came from? But is it, was it from the Jay Jones camp? Was it from Democrats? Who stands to gain in this? Yeah, I mean, I think it's fair to say in general, Democrats are rooting for chaos. And there's no clear favorite. You know, you can poll 20 Democrats and you can get probably 20 different ideas of who could be the easier candidate to beat in November. So at this point, they're trying to weaken both of them. So I'm not exactly sure where the leak came from, but it's fair to say Democrats are promoting this Rift. The Democratic Party of Georgia actually did a whole press release on it yesterday, citing the newsletter.
Jay Jones and Jackson, both, you know, spending a lot on the airwaves. You listen to this program. You're going to hear a lot of commercials from both of the Republican candidates for governor. I'm hearing different ads now that we're in the runoff. And both candidates now including audio and or video clips of Governor Brian Kemp, praising each candidate. But to be clear, the governor has not endorsed anyone to replace him, correct? You're exactly right. And I actually asked the governor about this yesterday at a campaign event just to make sure, because I already had a statement from his campaign. And I already knew he didn't endorse anyone because the only top-level candidate he's endorsed is Derek Dooley, and he's on the campaign trail for him. nonstop. I was with him in Sandy Springs early in the morning yesterday for that very reason. But, you know, we asked him essentially, hey, you know, there are these ads out there purporting, insinuating, signaling that you've endorsed one or another. He said, nope, I am 100% neutral. I like both of them right now. But, I mean, I would assume whoever wins this runoff that we'll get the full throated endorsement of the governor against whoever the, against Keish-Land's Scott Bottoms in November. Yeah, you can bet on that. And, you know, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's close to lieutenant governor, Bert Jay Jones. They, Bert Jay Jones told me that they see eye to eye with each other about 98% of the issues. The two percent of the issues, they don't. We've, we've reported on extensively. That includes the 2020 election and how that was handled. But, you know, the bulk of the rest of things, they get along. And Rick Jackson is. Long been a supporter of the governor. He's helped fundraisers for him. He's been a big donor to him. So they go way back as well. Greg Blustein from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, joining us live here on the Mark Aram show. I asked Eric Erickson about this story that popped yesterday concerning Governor Brian Kemp and his relationship with the Dooley family. I know you folks at the Atlanta Journal Constitution have covered it. Eric seemed to see. make it seem like this was an old story that's just getting recycled now. Do you have any details? Is this going to impact the Senate race at all? Yeah, I mean, so you have to go into this thinking that Jon Ossoff ran a 2020 race, and he won the 2020 race, basically casting Republicans as corrupt. And I think that's how he's going to prosecute his campaign this cycle around, too, just saying Trump administration, whoever emerges at the nominee is corrupt. And so one of the attack lines we're already hearing Democrats say is that that... Governor Brian Kemp and the Dooley family have some sort of illicit scheme over school funding contracts, when in reality, these school funding contracts aren't doled out by the state. They're doled out by local school districts. So there's valid, you know, there's valid reasons to investigate all this, but at the same time, and certainly Democrats aren't going to, you know, back off that line. But we have seen no evidence of anything like that. Is this going to hurt Dooley in the runoff, do you think?
I mean, if Dooley, I don't think it would hurt him in the runoff, but if Dooley makes it as the nominee, certainly we'll see Democrats say that Governor Brian Kemp and his corrupt crony, you know, have benefited from the state public tax-to-payer dollars. Let me ask you that. That brings up a good point. So do the candidates that aren't dealing with the runoffs right now, both Democratic here? Keisha Lance Bottoms and Senator Jon Ossoff. Do they already have ads in the can for whoever wins the Republican runoff? So does Keisha Lance Bottoms Bottom already have ads that go attack Jay Jones and or Jackson ready to go? You better believe it. And the other way around as well, you know, Rick Jackson's already been attacking Kishan's Scott Bottoms. So all he has to do is tweak his ads just a little bit if he becomes the nominee. And same with Lieutenant Governor Bert Jay Jones. And, you know, you know that Jon Ossoff sitting on $31 million plus in his war chest. So he's hardly advertised so far. Right? He's had these big rallies, but he's hardly spent any money on TV or on broadcast or a cable, you name it. some money in digital, but he'll have a whole slew of ads attacking whoever it is. And he uses his word all the time. He says whoever emerges, they're going to be a Trump puppet in his view. So he's going to be casting them as just a Trump lackey. I think that answers my next question. When we get to, I mean, George is going to be a crucial state regardless. But I would imagine the national money. The national Republicans, the national Democrats, care more about the Senate seat than they do the governor's mansion. So I would expect more money is going to be pouring in for the Senate race than the governor's race. Yeah, and that's exactly why in 2020 we saw, you know, essentially a billion dollars being spent on Georgia. A lot of it on the presidential race, but a lot of it on those two Senate races. So we expect this to be one of the costliest Senate races. It might not top that. It should not top that in 2020. But it might be the second most expensive race we've had in Georgia. But the governor's race is going to be really expensive, too. It might not get as much national money and national attention. But we already have Rick Jackson spending $93 million of his own cash. Wow. Insane. Insane. Insane. And a lot of money is going to be. National money is going to go to Texas as well with the close race there. Exactly. Greg, Greg, Bluestein, an invaluable resource. You can find them on social at Bluestein. Go subscribe to AJC.com. One of my key ingredients of show prep every morning. Greg, great stuff, as always, my friend. Go dogs. Go, nicks. Go dogs. And go Braves. And go brave. Yes, indeed. There he is. Greg Blustein. from the atlantic journal constitution it's gonna be i mean we're only it was june 9th the election's not till november how much money is going to be spent spent in the state of georgia how many ads i've i've got a theory about political ads an hypothesis about political ads i'll share it with you
9.54 on the Mark Aram Show. Still to come, Deborah's got two separate prize packs to give away. A pair of tickets to see Melissa Etheridge and Winona Judd. And Melissa is still going to join us live tomorrow on the broadcast? On the schedule, yep. Very excited. She'll be joining us live tomorrow on the Mark Aram show. Welcome back to the broadcast. All right, my hypothesis when it comes to political ads. Vinny Drip is 25. I am 52 and holding steady. My prediction, Deborah, is when Vinny hits my age, Political ads are going to be way different. If you think of the algorithm, like I give credit to Instagram specifically, their algorithm. They know what I don't even know that I want to see this stuff, but Instagram is like, you want to see this stuff. It feeds it to you. So I'm thinking in 30 years from now, you remember the movie Minority Report with Tom Cruise? Colin Farrell. Yes. And it was futuristic. It was a good movie. I liked it. But it was set in the future and people would walk down the sidewalk. And these ads would pop up, right, Deborah? It would scan your eye and be like, you wear this size. This color looks good on you. You want this. I think in 30 years by time Vinny is sitting behind this microphone. that's the way you're going to get most of your political ads. You're going to be walking down the street. You're going to be walking down Peach Tree. And on the sidewalk, they're going to scan your eye. It's going to be like, hey, I'm Rick Jackson. Mark, you know, personalized. Like, I'm running for governor. I'd love for your support. Or, you know, hey, Deborah, I'm Bert Jay Jones. I'm running for governor. You and I both like bunnies. You know, like I think that's, it's not going to happen anytime soon. And I don't think that Minority Report, no spoil alert, but it was like it could predict crimes before they happened. Sort of. Yeah. Anyway. So I don't think we're going to see that in 30 years. But I think that advertising is going to get so granular like that. So much to the point, even if you're listening to WSB Radio in 30 years, you know, whatever your biometric data is sent through the radio and the ads that you're going to get. are going to be so tailored to you. So each, it's not going to be an ad that everyone listens to at the same time. Like geofencing, right, whatever you are? So I'll be driving in, listening to Atlanta's Morning News with Austin Eller in 30 years, right? He'll be the host in 30 years. And it'll be an ad for the Georgia Lottery. And it's going to be tailored to me. It's going to be like, hey, Mark, Georgia Lottery, scratchoffs, you know, now only $500. Because that's what scratchoffs are going to be. Anyway. That's my hypothesis. That by time Vinny's my age, political ads, all ads, are going to be so hyper-specific, whether it's the radio or walking down the street or your social media or whatever. It's going to get so granular that...
And that's kind of scary. It is a little scary if you think about in the future. All right, news weather and traffic in three minutes. When we come back, we're going to go to Australia. Yeah, Australia. We're going to talk to Beth Noble, former Moscow bureau chief for CBS News. Her perspective on this ongoing years-long war between Russia and Ukraine. Beth Noble in Australia next on the Mark Aram Show.