The Mark Arum Show 06-01-26 HR 2

Welcome back to the show and a good Monday morning to you. Mark Aram here, you there. It's 10.05, 5 minutes after 10 o'clock. This is the Mark Aram show live Monday through Friday 9 a.m. noon on 955. W.S.B. The whole gang with us today. Gracie Award winning Deborah, executive producer of the program. Brooke is on the phones down south Vinny. Her. on the other side of the takeout window. Coming up in seven minutes, I'm going to give you a keyword in our Grand for Gas promotion, seven minutes away to win a grand for gas right here on 95-5. WSB. 30 minutes from now, Eric Erickson is going to join us live talking all things politics, and we're going to check in with Tyler Kepner from Bloomberg News. A lot of developments on the Iran War negotiations. In case you're just joining us, reporting from CNN's Ilana Trin, Iranian media has suspended U.S. talks over Israeli strikes in Lebanon. This after a back and forth with that one-page agreement to get a 60-day ceasefire, President Trump said he received it on Friday and then sent his changes to it back to Tehran. for their approval agreement or any changes. But now they're saying talks are off because Israel keeps going after Hezbollah in Lebanon. That is a big, big development. And Sabrina just recapped the markets, Debra. Dow's down a little, NASDAQ's down a little. What is up is oil. Not great. 7.5%. Oil is up today after we get that breaking news that Iran has. So all of my enthusiasm in the 9 o'clock hour is now gone at 10.06 a.m. And it's sad because we've been seeing fuel prices drop. I think it's like 12 cents in the last week at the pump. We might see a big jump in oil prices or gas prices here unless I missed it. Today is the end of the gas tax. Relief holiday that Governor Brian Kemp, I think it expires today. So we'll see if the governor decides to extend it with this new news that things aren't going well with Iranian negotiations. But again, Tyler Kepner from Bloomberg News is going to join us in this hour to get the latest on the ongoing Iranian negotiations or lack thereof. Right now, though, this is, I love this. thinking outside of the box, trying to find a solution and no one can. Joining us from ABC News, our good buddy, Jim Ryan. This outside the box is trying to curb invasive species here in the United States. We've got a ton of them in Georgia, you know, whether it's animal, vegetable, or insects that come in here, not native to the area. This specific invasive species now offered like a $500,000 reward if someone can come up with a solution. What is the invasive species we're talking about here, Jim? Muscles.

Yeah, the zebra muscle, the golden muscle, the muscles that found their way into our lakes and our ponds and then into public water supply systems and gumming up the machinery. It's a billion dollar problem in some places, California specifically. And so, yeah, the Bureau of Reclamation, which falls under the Department of the Interior, is offering a $550,000 prize to the person who comes up with the best solution to knock out those muscles in California, in one county, Kern County. California, over the course of one year, they found that they suddenly were getting these golden muscles inside the equipment that moves water around inside the water storage and treatment plants. Now, well, they're not dangerous. I mean, if they're in the water that you have to drink, they tend to clog up the machinery. And so Kern County has actually declared a state of emergency to try to stop these creatures. Now, these zebra muscles aren't a new problem, right? They've been around and been invasive for a long time. They have. four decades, I suspect. And they're commonly carried on the Scott Bottoms of boats or the bilge water, the ballast water that you find in boats. So you pull your boat out of one lake and you take it to a different lake sometime later. You just introduced whatever creatures were in your ballast water into that new lake. That's a problem. So that's why so many places, lakes specifically have rules that require you to clean out your boat, clean the bottom of the boat, the propeller, clean out the ballast water so that you're not carried. varying one problem into another lake. Jim, as a seafood lover, my solution is, well, let's just eat them. Are these muscles edible, or is that just a, you know, a different type of species that we can't serve them over Linguini? I don't think so. I mean, they're small, and they're smaller than clams. The actual meat inside the stage. But the goal right now is just a Kelimol. And so, you know, Kern County has been dumping chemicals into its water supply system to try to kill these things. And it works to some degree. But really, I mean, the Bureau of Reclamation has cast this big net. So let's say that 100 people in the inside the Bureau are trying to come up with a solution. They thought, well, wait a minute. Let's see if we can get a cast the net out to 330 million people and maybe get some kind of answer to this whole thing. I mean, Georgia, of course, has its own problems. You know, the Argentine black and white tagu. Have you ever seen one of these things, Mark? No. I have not, thankfully. It made its way into Georgia from Florida, as so often is the case. The creatures. thrived in Georgia, in Florida, and made their way up north. The fallow deer is another one that Georgia is dealing with. Japanese spilt grass. And the problem with these creatures and these plants is that they tend to muscle out the other ones, if you will, the other creatures in that habitat, eating their food, taking their resources, and the native species then are on the decline. Yeah, I know the Goro spire here, a spider here in Georgia was a big invasive species and a scary-looking arachnid to stumble. upon if you're if you're outside um jim real quick going back to the this bounty this reward offered if there is a listener that says oh i've got a great idea to get rid of the zebra muscles what's the process is their website who do they need to contact with their solution well going to the bureau of reclamation is a good way to do it and again it falls under the interior department and so yeah work your way through there and and you'll find a page that then launches you off to this this um

specific, you know, contest, if you will, or call for answers. It's being run by a private company, but through the Bureau of Reclamation. They're calling it Halt the Hitchhiker. I love it. And I like to expand it. You know, let's, you know, crowdsource other solutions to get rid of other invasive species here in the U.S. Because it's, I mean, how many species, invasive species are we battling here in the States? 15,000 across the United States. 15,000 different animals and plants. It includes the mussels. It includes the fallow deer. in Georgia, and it includes some fungi that are causing a problem in the environment here in the U.S. Unbelievable. Jim Ryan, ABC News, always interesting stuff. Jim, thanks for your time. Have a great day, my friend. All right. Thanks, Mark. Deborah, I'm going to give you homework, you and Vinny, but it could net you $550,000. You use AI, chat GPT, right? See what happens if you type it in? Yeah, have AI come up with a solution to the zebra muscle problem, and you could, I'll just want 10%. Okay, Mommy Dad. If you can't, like the zebra, they're too small to eat. I knew that. But they've been around for like 20, 30 years clogging up drain pipes and all this. So listen, if AI can do what it can do, someone should just go to AI and be like, hey, how do we take care of this zebra muscle invasive species problem? There you go. Listeners, go ahead and do it. It says it depends on the environment. Thanks, AI. It depends. Say an underwater environment, AI. Yeah, AI do something for once. I do want to update the Iran War. I pulled this off of social media. Sentcom? U.S. Central Command, they tweeted out, posted X, whatever. Last night at 11 p.m. Eastern Time, U.S. forces successfully intercepted to Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces based in Kuwait. These missiles were immediately defeated and no American personnel were harmed. U.S. Central Command reigns vigilant and will continue to protect our forces from Iranian aggression while supporting the ongoing ceasefire. I mean, with all the, can we still call it a ceasefire at this point? With everything that's going on militarily, yeah, the latest from CENTCOM. Again, we're going to go live to D.C. with Bloomberg News later this hour. Get the latest on what appears to be the breakoff of negotiations with Iran and perhaps the end of the so fragile seafire. I should mention. So Iranian state media said that negotiations are off because of what Israel has been doing in Lebanon against Hezbollah. Ian Pinell was on the ABC Start Here podcast talking about the Israeli military operation that's targeting Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, still complicating those talks to achieve a permanent ceasefire with Iran. It hasn't been a watertight ceasefire ever since it was agreed because the terms of the ceasefire agreement means, for example, IDF forces can attack Hezbollah positions if they think they're moving munitions or doing any of those kinds of things. And Hezbollah has been responding. We've seen quite heavy Hezbollah attacks into Israel over the weekend. I mean, Israel has now gone deeper into Lebanon than it has in 26 years. It's taken over the Crusader Castle, Beaufort Castle, built in the 12th century, rather magnificent building.

Ian Pinell, before that news broke that Iran allegedly is breaking off negotiations again, updates on the Iran War throughout the day here on 95-5. WSB, I just want to go back to the markets and see how they are reacting to the news. Dow and NASDAQ down a scotch, not too big, but oil is now up 7.76 percent, $94, 14 cents a barrel. If you're close to retirement age, I know you've been checking out the markets to see how they, by the way, the Dow down a little today, it's still over 50,000. 50,919, the current mark for the Dow, which is great for retirement funds. Maybe not great news for retirees or upcoming retirees. Has there been a change in the retirement age, Deborah? It looks like they've moved the goalposts one more time for us. So now the current age of retirement will be 67 years old before you can start collecting your full benefits. Like you can retire whenever you want, right? But if you want the best benefits, you're supposed to wait as long as possible. Yeah. 67 is now the age that they're saying. So for us, it'll be. be 70 for Vinny, it'll be 80. So what, but if I want to retire at 62, I get benefits, but they're not just. They're not going to be the full benefits. That's Social Security. We had this conversation yesterday. Went to Dim Sum with Karen and Mark, friends of ours. And they said, when are you retiring? And I looked at mine. I was like, whenever you can retire, she said eight years. So if I have eight years, I'll retire. It's, you know, knock on wood. I'd be 60. So I... Clark Howard says don't do it that early. Yeah, that's not up to me. It's up to the listeners and our boss. But, isn't that great? Maya is eight years from retirement? That's awesome. Good for you, Maya. Yeah, exactly. Very proud of her. I'm going to be living off of her pension for many, many years, hopefully. All right, so that's not great news, though. If you want the full benefits, it's now 67 years. I don't know when I have a pension, but I don't know when I'm going to be able to. Withdrawal. Tap into it. I have no idea. I need to talk to Tracy John Roberts. Whose birthday is today? Happy birthday, Tracy. She's like my liaison because we're both hyper alert of the pension. Sorry, guys. Sorry for the pensionless. In studio. That's all right. Vinnie's going to win the lotto and ghost his parents.

Chao! 1023 on the Mark Aram Show. Charge is your Grand for Gas keyword. C-H-A-R-G, charge. Enter that into the W-S-B-R-B-R-R-A-R-R-A-R-R-B-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-G. You're like, yeah. I didn't play that at all sporting events. Oh, do they really? All right. To me, it's a baseball thing. But I am a baseball nerd. I haven't even brought up the Knicks. Finals appearance. The boss texted me, Deborah, because we're going up to New York for your Gracie Awards. Are you going to be able to look at that game? He might. The cheapest ticket is now $4,500. Not a chance. Not a chance at hell. Not even if you sell some baseball cards? No, no. Maya would kill me if I spent $4,500 on a Knicks playoff ticket. No, I'm happy to go to New York and celebrate your victory. I will not be in attendance for the Knicks victory. Quick update, Debra. Let's update. Oh, we talked about Chinese vehicles last year. And I was like, oh, there's no Chinese imports of vehicles. Someone corrected me on social media and said, no, this is made in China. Apparently we could be looking at a Mercedes-Benz ban because of something related to China. Yeah. So it's kind of strange. It's called the Bipartisan Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026. And it would keep vehicles made by Mercedes out of the United States, even though it's a German automaker because their largest shareholder is China. you know, there's just been back and forth with China and trying to keep Chinese products out of the United States. Yeah. They want to ban Chinese-made Mercedes. But are there actually Mercedes-made in China or are they using Chinese parts or I don't know? That's where it gets a little muddy. And it hasn't necessarily been past yet either. That's the act they want to do. That's got to freak out some automotive makers. Mercedes, right? They're like, wait, where's Germanode? What is this? Speaking of freaking out, the airline industry, I don't have time to go in depth on this story, but Markwayne Mullin, who's the now head of the DHS, replaced Kristi Noem. He apparently is threatening to cease international flights into American cities that are, quote, sanctuary cities. So like New York, Chicago, L.A. I did not see Atlanta on the list. Like banning flights, international flights to New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Can you do that? I don't know if you can do that. But I would imagine the CEOs of Delta American are like knocking on his door, like, are you crazy? Yeah, there's plenty of people going there for no other reason. It has nothing to do with Sanctuary. That would absolutely. That would cripple Delta, our hometown airline. What were we talking about? Oh, Chinese Mercedes-Benz band. Yeah. Interesting. That is a story worth following. I don't have an update on that. All right. Coming up after News Weather and Traffic, Eric Erickson's going to join us live. A lot to talk about. We had the...

runoff, the Senate GOP runoff debate this weekend. A lot of Georgia politics to talk with Eric. And then I want to start actually with him on that crazy Maine Senate race. And what's going on with Graham Platner's candidacy? More and more stuff coming out of the woodwork. So Erickson's going to join us live right after news weather and traffic. You have three minutes. Three and a half minutes to enter the grant for gas keyword. It is charge. C-H-A-R-G-E charge. Enter charge into the W-S-B-Radio app or online at WSBradio.com slash gas. You got three minutes to enter charge. One $1,000. Don't forget if you get a call after 1030 from an 833 number, answer it. Could be us telling you you want $1,000 for gas promotion only here on 955.WSB. 1037 on the Mark Aram Show coming up in 10 minutes or so. We're going to go live to the nation's capital. Checking with Bloomberg News on what appears to be a snag in the U.S.-Iran negotiations. Obviously updates on the war and the negotiations throughout the day here on 95-5 WSP. But very excited having us join us as he does every Monday this time, our good friend and colleague, Eric Erickson. Eric, good morning. Hope you had a great weekend, brother. I did. Hope you did. I had a better weekend than Graham Platner. Holy smokes. Only play a little audio. Amy and I have a very loving and very happy marriage. They would very much like... to try to rip that apart. We're going to come after us in every awful way that they possibly can. All right. So that's the Democratic Senate candidate for Maine. Listen, you're doing a good job ripping your marriage apart on your own, Mr. Graham Platner. Get us caught up today on the latest scandal of the oyster farmer. Yeah. So, well, the latest scandal actually just hit. He says he's the harbor master for his town. And it turns out he filled out the paperwork and never took the job. So surprise. He's also lying about that. So he. was sexting explicit text messages with up to a dozen women. The campaign's responses, it was no more than six, came out in the original opposition research. What is the fall line? Eight, ten, twelve? I don't know. No more than six. I mean, literally, so the original reporting was that it was up to a dozen women in the Graham Platner campaign, and I'm not making this up, said no more than six. And it was a long time ago. But they've only been married for three years. Wow. And it happened during their marriage and before marriage. So here's the thing. I can tip you off to this. This is the lead up to really bad allegations. And by the way, this is all Democratic opposition research. It's not Republicans. It's the Democrats doing it. They want to soften him up enough because they have discovered there is a July 13th deadline where they can force someone off the ballot. Oh. And the party can name their replacement without having another primary. So he will win next week. He will be roughed up enough. And then they can drop the really bad allegations to get him out of the race. And from what I am told by multiple reporters and Republicans, it involves directly things.

did with women in a school that forced him out of his fancy private school. Wow. All right. So for those that haven't been paying as close attention to the Maine Senate race that as Eric and I have, he was up against the Democratic governor of Maine, you know, an established politician. She bowed out of the race because it seemed like all the Democratic enthusiasm was with Mr. Oyster farmer Nazi tattoo guy. Are you saying that there could be a chance for Mainers to replace Graham Platner on the ballot come general election time? Bennett Mills is, she's on the ballot next week. She dropped out of the race, but her name is on the ballot. So they're hoping they can shift enough people to her and get her high enough that shows he's dead man walking. So by July, when the serious allegations drop against him, they can say, okay, you've got to get out of the race. I don't actually think he's going to get out of the race. Well, he only texted six women, Eric. Come on. I mean, that's unbelievable. Now, here's the backstory. I used to summer in Maine. That sounds really boozy, but, you know, we'd go up for a... I don't know that I trust people who use summer as a bird. Yeah, no. We'd go on vacation. My parents would rent a house in Maine. It was great. I loved Maine. But Mainers are odd birds, man. They're just... I love them. I love Maine. I got married in Maine. But... Mainers are weird, but they're not odd enough, I think, to look past this flurry of alleged dastardly deeds by Graham Platner. I think they're smart enough to be like, no, this can't be the guy that represents us in the Senate. Yeah, so 59% of Maine identifies as independent. It actually is the largest grouping of any state to consider themselves independent. They've been voting for Susan Collins for decades. She's got a history of bringing home the bacon. She's highly regarded. By the way, she always loses in the polling in Maine and always win. She's never actually been ahead in any public opinion poll, even though she's won every race. And listen, she is one of the few. Republican senators that doesn't always tow the Maga line, right? She is, her and Lisa Murkowski will often buck what President Trump wants. But she's an established candidate there. I know, you know, Republicans hate her and Democrats hate her, which actually could be a good thing for a senator. Yeah. Again, this is one of the Republicans who voted to convict Donald Trump in his impeachment trial. And the fact that the Democrats are going all in to try to defeat her or some sort of existence. threat who is propping up Donald Trump. They're hitching their wagon to a guy who is probably going to be accused of abuse towards women, not just sexting women, if the allegations and rumors are true of what's coming. And, I mean, they were fine with him when he was just had a Nazi tattoo, fine with him when he was just sexting women, fine with him when he was writing about fantasizing about raping women, and fine with him when he was saying women who get raped deserve part of the blame for it. It's, I mean, they're picking a weird departure point from rallying around Graham Platner. Eric, briefly explain to our Atlanta listeners why this race is so important, the Maine Senate race. It's all about control of the Senate. Republicans have a, they've got a six-seat majority in the Senate. Democrats have got to pick off a number of them. They're probably going to win in North Carolina, which will reduce them. They're probably going to win in Georgia with Jon Ossoff. They've got to pick up Texas. They've got to pick up Maine. They've got to pick up Michigan and Ohio.

and Nebraska and Alaska, and I don't think they can sweep. And the Graham Platner situation in Maine is something that can be put all other Democrats on defense when reporters shove microphones in their faces and say, what do you think of this guy in Maine? And it just makes it more awkward for Democrats to be able to run the board. Let's bring it back to the Peach State, Eric. We had the Senate runoff debate this weekend between Susan Collins and Dooley. Any headlines that came out of that debate? No, not really. Other than Dooley, as much as I say I would vote for him and think others should because of Susan Collins' baggage, he's not an impressive guy on the campaign trail. Assolf, however, had a great line this weekend that he's the senator and the Republicans have put up a congressman who's a congressman because his daddy's a congressman and a coach who's a coach because his daddy's a coach. And I saw Susan Collins reply to that on social media and Jon Ossoff's a senator because of his dad's trust fund or something. Yeah, which, I mean, maybe so, but Jon Ossoff was able to get it in large part. I think the better response was Jon Ossoff got up because 527,000 Republicans chose not to vote in a runoff. So, I mean, Jon Ossoff is on defense. He's considered the most vulnerable Democrat, but he's running a very polished campaign while the Republicans are still beating each other up. And the baggage that keeps coming out on Susan Collins and his staff just continues to be worse. That being said, is Jon Ossoff rooting for Susan Collins or Dooley? Do we have any indication? Jon Ossoff very much wants Susan Collins. with Susan Collins as his current chief of staff has been on a white nationalist thread trying to get a Holocaust denier out of prison. Yeah, not great. I saw that story and I was like, oh, well, he's not associated with the campaign anymore, right? He's officially gone. No, no, no, that's the old chief of staff who was had a multiple. Oh, this is the replacement. This is the replacement. Yes. Oh, sweet hazes. The current existing chief of staff is on the white nationalist thread trying to get the Holocaust denial. That guy used to be Matt Bill Gates' chief of staff. The old chief of staff became the campaign manager and only got fired after the tweet about Matt Lauer's sloppy seconds to the rape victim's husband. So he was on a text thread with Nick Fuentes, which right there is enough. think too. Wow. All right. I did. Yeah, I mean, listen, if personnel is policy, the amount of, this is the thing people keep asking you. Why would you support Dooley if you say he's not a good candidate? Because he's a blank slate so you can force the whole campaign on Jon Ossoff's record as opposed to Mike Collins' personnel picks. What one final Jon Ossoff note he is going to be campaigning with former Atlanta mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, which I think will help her. But. Could Jon Ossoff catch shrapnel, you know, doing a statewide tour with a mayor with, you know, the baggage that she has? Keisha underperformed Metro Atlanta compared to the other Democratic candidates. She's not a good candidate, and I do think that Jon Ossoff is making a mistake running as a ticket with Keisha. But what he's trying to do is the polling shows black voters are not enthusiastic about Jon Ossoff, and he's trying to ride. Keisha Lance Bottoms coattails, the problem is black voters in Atlanta are not enthusiastic about Keisha. Interesting. All right. Well, hey, it's midterm season, Eric. Yes, it is. What's coming up on the show today, brother?

Talking more about Graham Platner, we've also got the Iran situation, and Democrats are furious with Jill Biden and her book coming out. Oh, she thought he had a stroke, but he'd never acted like that before or after. Had a stroke, so let's go to Waffle House to watch the Biden. And Marietta, that's right. They went to the Waffle House after he had the quote stroke in the debate. Eric, nude to three. I'll be listening to my friend. Thanks so much for your time. Thank you. All right. Hey, congrats to Tyler. Tyler won. A grand for gas. Your next chance to win a grand for gas right before the Eric Harrison show right after the new news. When we come back, going live to the nation's capital, Tyler Kendall from Bloomberg News, the latest on the Iran War right now. 1053 on the Mark Aram show, continue our team coverage of the Iran War, joining us live from Bloomberg News, Tyler Kendall. Tyler, good morning. Hope you had a great weekend, my friend. Thanks, Mark, you too. The big headline, so I am seeing from my chair in Atlanta that we're hearing that Iran has suspended talks with the United States because of Israel's action in Lebanon. Is that what you're hearing in the nation's capital? Right. Well, Iranian state media reported earlier today that Iran will stop. changing messages with the U.S. in protest of what really was escalation in Lebanon. We saw over the weekend the broadest incursion into Lebanon by Israel in more than two decades. But this is after Hezbollah stepped up its attacks against the country firing what Israel says were 300 projectiles over the weekend. Now we should say Iran has threatened this before. And we have seen the U.S. maintain that this is a totally separate front, that this has nothing to do with the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. Israel is not a party to those talks, but we've also seen this White House perhaps put up a little bit of pressure on Israel to scale back its attacks when it comes to Lebanon in a bid to make sure that the diplomatic efforts between the U.S. and Iran continue. It's also probably worth mentioning that the U.S. has said before that they would like to see Iran stop supporting these proxy militant groups like Hezbollah as part of any more final deal. And perhaps Iran coming out saying that they're going to stop this exchange of messages. further shows us that there's still a pretty wide gap, at least publicly, on some of these key demands. While the proxying militia groups isn't the main demands in this potential memorandum of understanding, it is something that the U.S. would like to see done. Now, before that news broke, that they were ceasing communications. President Trump had sent his counter-proposal back to the Iranians through the negotiating team. Do we know what the demands that President Trump wanted from the Iranian regime? Well, the U.S. has long maintained that there are a few different red lines, including that the Strait of Hormuz needs to be opened, as well as that Iran must commit to never having a nuclear weapon. Now, we should say Iran's longstanding negotiating stance publicly has been that they are not pursuing a nuclear weapon despite Western intelligence assessments to the contrary. Our reporting indicated that we were looking at a phased approach, that you would see every opening of the strait, and in exchange, the U.S. would start to list that naval blockade.

Once those components are in place, then you would start to see some of the formal, more tougher discussions around what curbs to Iran's nuclear program will look like. But Mark, earlier this morning, Iranian state media reported... that in this memorandum of understanding, one, Iran would still have the exclusive authority, in their words, to control the Strait of Pramuz. That's a non-starter for the U.S., and two, Iran's highly enriched stockpile of uranium, the disposal or the transfer of it, would not be in this memorandum of understanding. We weren't expecting from details around anything related to nuclear, but we were expecting that it would be explicitly in writing that the two sides would discuss what happens to that stockpile. And in the meantime, I guess with communications cut off, We're in limbo. We're waiting for President Trump to post on truth social to get any reaction from the administration. Yeah. At this point, he's urging patience. We saw on truth social late last night after President Trump had said he was going to go into the situation room on Friday. We didn't get any updates. And then late last night. He was urging patience. He said that constant speculation about what is going to happen isn't helping him do his job and that everybody should, quote, sit back and relax. It is worth mentioning that both sides have indicated that they were engaged in diplomatic efforts over the weekend. Iranian officials said that the two sides continue to trade updated amendments. But also, Mark, they said that there's still a risk that the talks could collapse. Tyler, Kendall, Bloomberg News. Great insight, as always. Thanks so much for your time, Tyler. Yeah, thank you. All right. Any developments? Yeah, we're going to wait and see. When is President Trump set to address the nation today? Is it going to be in front of cameras? We'll find out in a second. When we come back after news, weather and traffic, White House correspondent John Decker is going to join us with an update there. So we're going to go back to D.C. But, hey, man, Deborah, I was... If you go back, rewind on the WSB radio app at 907, I was like, this is, I'm optimistic. We're going to get a deal done 60 days. And now at 1057, like, Dagnab it. Markets are saying Dagnav, at least the oil market. Oil now up 8.15% today on the news, the breaking news, that Iran has cut off talks with the United States because of Israel's attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon. All right, news weather, traffic, and two. Social media is active at Mark Airman at WSB Radio.