sometimes you get lucky in television lit, exxon might be taking over d denbury. are you surprised by the headline itself. >> yeah, not surprised as you said, i think we see activity picking up. gas companies are building war chests of cash with the free cash flow they're generating there's only so many dividends and buybacks they can do they can certainly put it in the ground to drill and grow so theft to look at acquisitions at attractive prices i think with the volatility in the markets, they will find attractive markets. >> i'm going to ask you to weigh in on politics i think there's some members of congress, and maybe 1600 pennsylvania avenue, who would say, don't do deals. use any extra money to expand production hard to believe, but basically drill more oil, which sounds ridiculous, but that's what we're hearing, and oil and gas companies are saying we can't. so it sounds like deals are the only way to grow production. there's just no people, no labor, no steel. >> yeah, brian, that's a great point. i am going to try to stay out of the politics, but the rea