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Episode Date: June 22, 2026#872: Apple’s CEO Tim Cook admits the high demand of memory and storage will likely raise prices on Apple products. Midjourney, the startup known for AI image-generation, is venturing into the healt...hcare sector with a full-body ultrasound scanner and spa concept. Creators are expected to have a large presence at Cannes Lions, the advertising world’s Super Bowl. World Cup fans from all over are enjoying American cheap eats. Finally, what you need to know in the upcoming week ahead. To learn more visit https://www.servicenow.com Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow This experience may not be representative of other Wealthfront clients, and there is no guarantee of future performance or success. Experiences will vary. Neal Fryman and Toby Howell, are clients of Wealthfront, receive cash compensation from Wealthfront Brokerage for paid testimonials in this podcast, creating a conflict of interest. More details available via the referral link. https://wealthfron.com/morningbrew New clients get 3.30% base APY from program banks + additional 0.75% boost for 3 months on your uninvested cash (max $150k balance). Terms and conditions apply. The Cash Account, which is not a deposit account, is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC ("Wealthfront Brokerage"), Member FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. The Annual Percentage Yield ("APY") on cash deposits as of January 30, 2026, is representative, requires no minimum, and may change at any time. References to the APY for the Wealthfront Cash Account, including any APY increase, are to the APY paid by insured depository institutions that participate in our cash sweep program (the "Program Banks”). Wealthfront Brokerage sweeps cash balances to Program Banks, where they earn the variable APY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I'm Neil Fryman.
And I'm Toby Howell.
Today, iPhone $1,800.
Apple is raising prices on tablets, computers, and phones.
Then Mid Journey is a company that generates AI images.
Now it's moving into full-body medical scans.
It's Monday, June 22nd.
Let's ride.
Good morning and happy Monday.
Kier Starrmer has given his two weeks, or should I say, two months.
Just a few hours ago, the UK Prime Minister announced he will resign by
September after facing a rebellion within his own party.
Pressure has been growing on Starmer to step aside after failing to kickstart the economy
and scandals like appointing a friend of Jeffrey Epstein to be the ambassador to the U.S.
The most likely successor to Starmer is Andy Burnham, the left-wing former mayor of Greater
Manchester.
But even if Burnham gets a position, I would not bank on him staying that long.
Toby, this might be the job with the highest turnover in the world.
Yeah, six-leader in the last seven years.
To put that in perspective, the Cleveland Browns have also burned.
burned through six head coaches in the last seven years.
And how many quarterbacks?
Right.
So there you go, UK.
You got the same organizational stability as the Browns.
The average time in office of a UK prime minister since Brexit will be just two years.
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The longest is Boris Johnson actually at 1,140 in 40 days.
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As for one of the reasons, he stepped down.
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In a surprise announcement, CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal that upcoming price hikes are unavoidable.
Quote, we're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we've been trying to share.
to our customers from the increases, but the situation has become unsustainable.
And what situation is this?
Memory and storage.
Key ingredients and the tech gadgets use every day from phones to video game consoles.
The problem is they're also key ingredients for artificial intelligence, and AI giants
have been hoarding all the memories supply to run their models, leaving peanuts to consumer
electronics companies.
Costs have surged as a result, with prices for memory and storage chips quadrupling,
Cook says he has no choice but to start passing on those extra costs to consumers.
shows the scale of the problem. Historically, Apple does not raise prices without adding new features.
But then again, we've never experienced this kind of commodity price swing in modern tech history.
Tim Cook, who spent decades working in the tech supply chain, called it a hundred-year flood.
I've never seen anything like it in any area in over 40 years.
Toby, my iPhone screen is cracked to pieces, but looks like I'll just have to live with it for now.
This Apple price hike is maybe the first vivid example of us consumers paying for the AI boom.
And Apple is not used to this.
They are not used to being second or third in line when it comes to their input cost
because they spend tens of billions in dollars on these memory chips, on these storage.
And usually they can use the fact that, hey, we're Apple, we have really big orders to push suppliers
into giving them better deals.
But their hands have been tied at this point because AI companies are also coming in and saying,
hey, we will give you those multi-year contracts.
We will give you these huge prepayments up front to get our hands on these chips.
So suddenly Apple's like, gosh, dang it.
I'm not like the big fish in the pond anymore.
There's a lot of fish in this pond, and they all want memory chips.
So that is a interesting position for them to be in because even Apple isn't safe from this.
And usually Apple is the safest when it comes to managing supply chains.
Let's talk about what we're actually talking about here when it comes to memory and storage.
So memory, this type of memory that everyone's clamoring for is called DRAM, which is dynamic random access.
memory, and then the storage is called NAND, NAND, which stands for just not and. And the Wall Street
Journal had a good explanation, a good metaphor to kind of wrap your head around why these are
important for both AI and for these consumer electronics companies like Apple. So their metaphor is that
memory is a desk that holds all the, imagine you're in a 20th century office, just for a second,
if you know what that was like. But the memory of the desk that holds all the papers, a worker
needs to perform a particular task at that moment. So that's DRAM memory is basically they're running
the apps that you're currently using on your phone. Storage is the filing cabinet that holds
everything else that you have in your office that you're maybe not using right at the moment,
but you want to keep like photos in videos. So there are only a couple of companies out there. There's
those three that make DRAM, the memory, and there's only five, which includes those three,
that make NAND. And memory and storage is now at a premium because these companies just can't ramp up
production to match the insatiable demand. I mean, those companies that you mentioned, Micron shares are up
over 800% since its memory gold rush started. SK. Heynix, which is a Korean company, their shares are up
800% as well. Sandisk, which we've talked about on this show before, which you think makes the little tiny
USB drives that go on your computer, those shares are up 4,600% because all of this memory's in
such demand. But you mentioned that maybe this is the first time we're really seeing the impacts of
the AI boom on, you know, consumer electronics.
But if you're not an Applehead, you've been feeling it for a while.
Microsoft raised their Surface tablet prices.
Nintendo rates their switch two prices by $50 based off this memory crunch.
The PS5 Pro jump from $750 to $900.
Basically, anything that requires these input costs are going to go up in a price as well.
So it's not just Apple.
It is pretty much anything with an on-off button that, you know, requires it to remember
anything is getting more expensive. What price likes are we looking at? Well, we don't actually know yet.
Apple hasn't announced it, but analysts have speculated. It looks like they're going to, first of all,
boost the price of Max and the iPad for sure. And then when it comes to the iPhone, it looks like
they're going to possibly, according to analysts, jack up the price by $100 for the iPhone
pro and the iPhone Pro Max. And then the iPhone 18 Pro, which is coming this fall, they're going to
announce it. The Wall Street General speculates that it could come with a price tag of $1,300.
Moving on, Silicon Valley has spent the last few years trying to smush AI into everything,
and now it's coming for the spa. This past week, the AI Image Generation Company Mid Journey
announced a very strange pivot from AI images to AI health. The new division is called Mid Journey
Medical and is set to open a futuristic wellness center by 2027, with a unique take on medical
imaging. Rather than a claustrophobic MRI tube or an expensive CT scan, customers will descend
into a water-filled tank and pass through rings of underwater sensors. The scanners use ultrasound
technology, sort of like a dolphin uses echolocation, to produce a full-body 3D image insides
and all in about a minute. Proponents say the technology could eventually make full-body
imaging as routine as getting a massage. Critics say it could also make anxiety and false positives more
routine too. Plus, it remains to be seen if AI algorithms and unproven technology can produce
truly medical grade results. The pitch goes beyond the medical, though, since you're already
wet after a scan, the company's first flagship location in San Francisco's Union Square will also
come with hot tub, saunas, and cold plunges, and be open 24 hours a day. Neil, I am not above
climbing into a fish tank to figure out what's wrong with my quad that I pulled in a co-ed soccer game
last week. I'm going to ship you out to San Francisco because we got to get this thing fixed ahead of a
couple big sporting events we have coming up this summer. What I find very interesting about this
is actually it's the first instance of maybe a company pivoting away from AI. We had all birds
pivot to AI and any number of companies saying that they do AI stuff now. But this is mid-jurney,
which makes AI images that you've no doubt seen online saying, okay, we're just getting into
the medical device business. And David Holtz, who's the CEO, said they're not currently using
any AI in the scanner. So it's an interesting business pivot because often when a company makes a pivot
or extends into new areas, they use technology or know-how that they have to make one product
to make another product. And Mid Journey is just completely doing a 180 here and just getting
saying, we're going to make spas. The pros and cons of this are numerous on both sides. So the pros are
obviously if whole body scans can become cheap, if they can become fast, if they don't have to
involve radiation or, you know, the awful experience of being in an MRI machine, why not scan
everyone regularly. You could catch cancers earlier. You could spot disease symptoms before they
appear. You could turn it into a preventative medical environment, which a lot of people have
been trying to do for a while now. But people on the doctor's side of the argument, if you will,
say that more detection doesn't necessarily mean better outcomes. The medical industry has repeatedly
shown that finding more abnormalities doesn't necessarily lead to better outcomes. The classic example
is South Korea absolutely had this thyroid cancer screening boom where diagnoses surge roughly 15-fold,
but thyroid cancer mortality barely changed. And what actually just happened is you have more biopsies,
you have more anxiety, you have more people going in to check out, you know, this lump or this bump
that aren't necessarily things that needed to be checked in on. So that's kind of both sides of it,
is that just because you can make medical imaging a lot cheaper and faster,
doesn't necessarily mean it's going to lead to better patient outcomes.
Well, maybe the biggest breakthrough here or the biggest concept breakthrough is
pairing a doctor's office, so to speak, with a spa.
So these dual purpose retail locations.
And the communications from Mid Journey and its proponents have really hammered the fact
that they want to make this a super pleasant place to go to.
David Holtz, the CEO said, I don't want to feel like I'm going to a doctor's office.
I want to feel like I'm going somewhere that's nice.
And they had this idea that basically you're going to get,
wet anyway by going into their underwater scanning device that might as well just, hey, put some
bass and put a spa in there. He said, you're going to have to get wet, but there are a lot of
nice situations to get wet, which, you know, I'm always saying. But maybe you'll see other
instances of retail locations that maybe don't offer the sexiest service, whether it's the DMV
or a bank sort of operate. I don't know, maybe a cafe on their premises or you see EV charging stations
do this as well with a dual purpose. So maybe others.
will take the baton. Wait, what are they going to add to the DMV that's going to make it?
They're going to add a spot of the DMV? They could add anything to the DMV. How about some,
how about some coffee and cookies? I'm really just not sure this could exist anywhere outside of
San Francisco though, because it is combining just so many very SF things, AI, longevity, wellness,
biohacking, charging people, a lot of money probably for things that they don't necessarily need.
That is the perfect nexus of everything that is San Francisco. So will this work in Detroit? Who knows?
But if you, again, like zooming out again, a 60-second body scan is something that is actually revolutionary in a lot of spaces.
So maybe it is a widespread thing.
The CEO said, I want to have 50,000 of these things up and running by 2030 or so.
So he has very large ambitions here.
And the big question is, you know, will it fulfill the medical aspirations that it's seeking out?
Okay, welcome to Winners of the weekend, the segment where Toby and I picked two things that had a little more fan support than Wyndham Clark.
I won the pre-show game of Tag, so you're it, and I get to go first.
My winner is creators who've replaced the Don Draper type as the new power brokers in the world of advertising.
Starting today, all your marketer friends will be in Cannes, the annual advertising
sullery taking place this week on the south coast of France.
While the mountains of oysters and leaders of champagne haven't changed since years past,
the advertising world has.
Thanks to the rise of Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, individual creators now rival agency bigwigs
at the top of the marketing food chain.
According to Insider, more than 250 creators are expected to be in Cannes,
including Collar Daddy, host Alex Cooper, TikTok stars like Keith Lee,
and YouTubers, including Eleanor and Colin and Samir.
Their presence and prominent role at the festival reflects the transformation of how
brands speak to audiences.
Nearly 9 in 10 established U.S. companies will invest in influencer marketing this year,
up from less than 40% a decade ago, e-marketer estimates,
adding that influencer marketing spend will rise to 12.1.4.
$1.4 billion this year. Bain partner, Schwedda Bardwaj, told insider that creators have upended
marketing strategy moving from the margins to the epicenter. Many of the CMOs I talked to say the marketing
of yesterday was us talking about our brand, she said. The marketing of today is consumers talking about
our brands. And our role as CMOs is to enable that conversation as authentically as possible.
Toby, as an influencer yourself, are you feeling a little phomo?
Well, there's two no-d-duh moments here for me.
The first no-da is, yeah, obviously no-da, I'd like to be there, Neil.
It's the south of France in the summer.
But then the second no-d-d-duh is that, of course,
creators should be a bigger conversation of the advertising industry right now.
It almost feels like boomery to say is like, hey, you know what the new thing in marketing is?
What if we gave money to these creators to talk about our brand?
But it is kind of a big shift for this rather slow-moving industry some times.
And I think Darman who, you know, creates, has a massive YouTube channel.
You've definitely seen his shorts around.
He put it well is that creators receive constant audience feedback and understand what drives engagement.
And he says, he criticized the traditional advertising timeline where you have decks, you have months of meetings and then you go through approval process.
Imagine somebody who's posting every single day on social media.
They are way more read up on what is actually playing with audiences right now than any sort of, you know, marketing deck could hope to do.
So that's my no-dove moment.
It's like, yes, creators know what's going on.
They're more tapped in.
Of course, companies should lean on their expertise more so than the other way around.
Right, because companies, I mean, what's happening in Ken is a lot of networking and speeches and all and all that.
But there's deals being worked out as well.
But at the same time, I think what companies want from creators is just like to learn from them.
They don't want to necessarily hire Alex Earle or they don't want to hire other YouTubers for their, for their particular campaign.
They may want that.
But more so than that, they just want to look.
at their own campaigns through a more creator-friendly lens because clearly creators know social media
more than these huge brands like P&G or McDonald's. So I think they just want some face time with
them to just kind of learn. And I had this experience. We were at Davos in February and I was at
this like marketing advertising dinner. And there were a couple of YouTubers and Instagram people there.
And there were a bunch of CMOs at huge companies. And all of those people wanted to know is from the
creators. Like, don't just tell me.
everything. They were so desperate to learn. I think that's what's going to happen at camp.
Yeah, it has definitely moved from, can you just make a TikTok for us about our product to sitting down at
dinners with them and saying, do you want to have an advisory role in our company? Do you want to do a more
strategic partnership? Do you want to be involved in the process of building this campaign from the
ground up, not just coming in and slapping a hashtag sponsor post in at the end? That's probably been
the biggest shift as the creator economy has matured over the last couple of years or so, is that it's not
just a single post. It's about longer campaigns, longer relationships, and just being more involved
from the ground up in the ideation process and the execution of a advertising campaign.
All right, we're going to take a quick break and come back with my winner of the weekend.
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My winner of the weekend is Alexis de Tocqueville because tourists in town for the World Cup are doing the Frenchmen proud and how wholeheartedly they are embracing America.
While FIFA brought the world to America, America has returned the favor by bringing the world Buckees and Rance dressing.
For months leading up to the start of the tournament, no one was quite sure what would happen when millions of soccer fans descended on the United States for a World Cup.
The answer apparently is that they would become obsessed with anything that embodies ordinary America.
Buckees has become a tourist attraction with the Texas-based mega gas station chain
drawing crowds of foreign visitors.
One British fan posted enthusiastically about driving a RAM pickup truck while listening to country music,
living out his American road trip fantasy.
Rant's dressing has become such a popular souvenir that the TSA recently reminded travelers,
you can't transport bottles larger than 3.4 ounces in your carry-on.
In short, it's the exact kind of exposure countries splash out billions of dollars on mega events
to try and drum up.
Millions of people are seeing America
not through political headlines,
but through Boston getting out-drinked
by Scottish fans,
Ecuadorians housing Philly cheese steaks,
and Japanese filling up on bottomless chips in salsa.
Neil, it is soft power like you dream about.
It has been a perhaps unexpected win
for the USA,
considering the negative feeling
surrounding the event in the lead-up.
Yeah, if you haven't been to the United States
and you live in a foreign country,
the way that you have viewed American culture
is probably through movie.
because that's one of the biggest cultural exports of the United States.
And then they're coming to the United States and they're saying, actually, like, this is exactly
like it is in the movies.
I'm driving on a huge highway with huge trucks.
There's cowboy boots and cowboy hats.
If I'm in Texas, there's fast food everywhere.
There's beautiful spots like the Florida Keys and the Everglades.
So you have a Japanese tourist named Sato saying it felt like the quintessential America, the kind
you see in movies wherever I went.
And food is definitely kind of the unifying theme here because a lot of fans spent a lot of money on getting to the tournament, you know, tickets, flights, hotels. That is where all the money is going. So they're left with like, what do I eat? And there are a lot of options. There are a lot of options. America excels at, you know, cheap eats. And so, you know, we've seen cheese steaks be embraced. New York pizza slices have been like a godsend for some of these people watching games. And they go to the Times Square like a $1.50 for a slice of pizza. That's great.
Chick-fil-A, bodegas, street tacos, hot dogs.
These are all, like, one guy was marveling about Shake Shack and just saying, wow, it's
pretty dang good burger.
Actually, he marveled about Shake-Shack.
Me too.
He was actually from France, and he's like, actually, it wasn't as good as I was expecting.
But it is very funny that food has emerged as kind of this thing that a lot of these Europeans
are losing their mind out.
And actually, everyone from all parts of the world are losing their mind out because
you don't want to spend money on, like, nice meals.
You want to spend money on like the cheap things that embody America.
Speaking of the things that United States says, well, it is a fast food pioneer.
It was in Paris a few years ago.
We had talked about it on the show, actually.
Crispy Cream was opening its first location in France, and there was lines out the door for this one donut chain that's kind of everywhere in the United States.
My favorite quote might be about the cheesecake factory.
So Sammy Bell of the UK went to Florida to root for England.
And she told The Washington Post that she was at the cheesecake factory.
and she said, we've said it was probably one of the best meals we've had in terms of just the variety,
which you were talking about no-dove moments.
I mean, for the United States people listening, we're like, yeah, obviously it's known for its massive menus,
but for people coming here, it's kind of a novelty.
It is funny, though, because culturally this has been a massive success for the U.S., especially
that it's like the 250th anniversary.
You could not have, you know, asked for a better embracing of American culture,
but financially it still hasn't quite been the windfall.
We have reported on this a lot, is that.
hotel rates have actually fallen in some cities.
International travel numbers have come in a little bit weaker than expected,
which, again, you wouldn't see just from based off of social media,
but the hotel industry is not exactly saying we got the boon times that we thought we were going to get here.
So maybe economically it hasn't lived up to the cultural win that this tournament has been for the United States.
It's Monday.
So here's what you need to know to stay ahead in the week ahead.
All eyes are on Bergenstock, Switzerland, where the U.S. and Iran are now.
negotiating a permanent end to the war that began in late February.
While a temporary deal has been signed that reopened the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S.
delegation led by Vice President J.D. Vance will tackle much thornier topics like the future
of Iran's nuclear program and sanctions relief.
A key wedge point in the talks will be Lebanon, where Iranian proxy Hezbollah and Israel
continue to exchange fire.
Yesterday, President Trump threatened to strike Iran again if they didn't stop
Hezbollah from, quote, cause in trouble.
Let's get a little straight update, too.
So the top line number shows traffic through the street.
Strait of Hormuz has recovered slightly 21 ships transited on Saturday, which isn't bad.
But what is bad is that number dwindled to 12 ships yesterday.
Plus, according to an analysis from windward, the current traffic profile of these ships is
dark, sanctioned Iranian linked ships who travel with their automatic identification systems off.
So even though there are more ships going through the straight, it still feels closer to that
blockaded straight rather than a truly open one.
Moving to Western Europe, things are about to get historically toasty as a brutal heatwave bears down.
It's expected to be one of the worst in the continent's history.
Today and tomorrow, France could see temps of 113 degrees, London 102, Berlin 100, and Amsterdam 93.
Famously, Europe does not have nearly as many air conditioners as in the U.S., so we hope you all stay cool.
And that is Fahrenheit temperatures we should add because we're talking about Europe.
So here's how you know it's serious, though.
the French government has banned public drinking in certain, quote, red alert zones with the worst of the heat to try to allow medics to concentrate on taking care of the most vulnerable, not, you know, people who are oversterved outside.
So Spain, Italy, Germany, France, stay safe over there, everyone.
Returning to the World Cup, the group stage wraps up with games all this week before the round of 32 kicks off on Sunday.
After convincing wins in their first two matches, the U.S. has already clinched their group.
So their game against Turkey on Thursday is a mere formality.
But given the U.S.'s impressive play so far, the question that is starting to creep in,
you want to push it out, but it is creeping into your mind is, can we actually win this thing?
I believe that we can win, as the United States fans like to say,
Tim Howard, who, you know, is an American hero for his performances in the World Cup as a U.S.
goalie, has said there's no chance in heck that the U.S. can win this thing.
I don't know why you would say that, because there is a chance in heck.
The top teams have looked pretty vulnerable, honestly.
Like Spain, France, at least for one half, have looked decently, you know, getable for a little bit.
England looked okay, but historically speaking, we tend to win against them.
I'm talking very historically speaking.
So why not us?
Why not us?
Yeah, I totally think we can win.
And might as well believe.
So, yeah, Thursday game doesn't really matter.
So hopefully our best players can get some rest.
But the story of the tournament so far probably has to be Cape Verde.
They are a tiny country, 500,000 people, mid-sized American city, and they tied Spain,
and then last night they tied Uruguay, so it's possible that they could go into the round
of 32, just an inspired play from them.
Moving on, there is new TV to watch other than soccer.
The Bears' final season comes to Hulu on Thursday for those still watching, and Larry David
is back on Friday with Life Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, an HBO sketch show
produced by the Obamas about the history of the United States.
Pretty, pretty, pretty fine.
I don't know.
The trailer didn't look great.
I'm the biggest Larry fan there is.
I know.
You are actually my go-to with any of these things.
I'm like, is it going to be good?
Is it going to be bad?
And I trust your word implicitly there.
You know what I actually did want to watch,
but is now in limbo, is this movie called Artificial,
which features Andrew Garfield as Sam Alman.
I don't even know this movie is being worked on,
but apparently it was almost done in Ambo.
Amazon, who was, you know, the studio behind it, dropped it at the last minute.
I saw some picks of Garfield as Altman on set, and it was remarkably good.
I mean, he was mostly just wearing, like, the typical vests and glasses that, say,
Altman does, but it looked like he nailed it.
So hopefully some other studio picks that up because that would be fun to have that, see the light
of day.
It's like the social network for Open AI.
All right.
Speaking of Amazon, they're open.
You're in the mood to shop because it's holding their annual prime day sales event
starting tomorrow. I should say prime days. It's four days long and coming earlier in the summer than
typical. It's usually in July. Every year, I don't know what to buy when these sales events hit.
And every year, I just land on socks. And I always say this on the pot, I'm like, if you have any good
sock recommendations, send them my way. Because somehow in the interim between last prime day and
this prime day, I've lost every single one of my socks. Where do they go? Does the dryer eat them?
So send me your sock recommendation. In the interim between June 1st and June 22nd, I've lost all the socks that I've
Popperia.
Priusely, I don't know where they go.
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Let's roll the credits.
Emily Milliron is our supervising producer.
Raymond Lue is our senior producer.
Our producer is Olivia Graham and our associate producer is Olivia Lake.
Technical direction by Nina Miller.
Hair and makeup is still trying to figure out their order from the Cheesecake Factory.
Devin Emery is our president and our show is a production of Morning Brew.
Great.
So did Daniel.
Let's run it back tomorrow.
