In this lively episode, Joey Hudson steps in for Mike Gallagher to delve into a series of significant topics making headlines today. We start by examining the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have paved the way for President Trump to implement strict deportation measures under the Wartimes Act. As the conversation unfolds, we explore the financial markets’ unpredictable behavior following these political shifts. President Trump’s reassuring messages encourage calm amid the chaos, shedding light on his strategic vision for America’s future. Joey also highlights the implications of Trump’s new tariffs as we witness global leaders rushing to the
He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, from your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel, and broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. Sitting in for Mike today, here’s Joey Hudson.
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Welcome in to today’s show. Where do you want to start? This is one of those days where it’s just kind of hard to… Narrow it down. There’s so much breaking news today. Shall we start with the couple of wins from the U.S. Supreme Court? President Trump winning in a big way. The Supreme Court is paving the way for him to use the Wartimes Act to immediately deport illegals. This in response to the radical, activist, rogue federal judge James Boasberg. Now, Boesberg had a hearing set for today as to whether or not to fine the Trump administration in contempt of court. Not sure if that’s going to proceed after the Supreme Court smacked him down yesterday, basically. So we have that to talk about. A Texas man threatened to, quote, open fire on ICE agents if they come into his neighborhood. That didn’t turn out too well for him either. He’s in a federal prison right now. And, of course, the financial markets. Kind of a rollercoaster ride yesterday. When we finished up the trading day yesterday at 4, it was a mixed bag. It wasn’t as bad. I don’t think it was the Black Monday that had been predicted by the naysayers. The markets still lost some. But I think people are starting to calm down a bit, or at least I hope so. And that’s the message from President Trump today. He posted several things on Truth Social yesterday. And basically his overall message to you and me is don’t panic. Take a deep breath. Calm down. Everything’s going to be okay. In a Monday afternoon post on Truth Social, the president stressed that the, quote, the United States has a chance to do something that should have been done decades ago. And he’s right. He said, don’t be weak, don’t be stupid, don’t be a pannikin. This is his new word, I guess. It’s a new party based on weak and stupid people. He said, be strong, be courageous, be patient, and greatness will result. This is sort of like Donald Trump at his best. He’s an encourager. He’s a cheerleader. He wants people to succeed. That’s why he’s such a great leader. Shortly after that post, the president wrote in another which he affirmed that several countries, and the list is growing, want to come to the negotiation table. They want to invite to the Oval Office, just like Prime Minister from Israel Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday. The President said, countries from all over the world are talking to us. Tough but fair parameters are being set. Trump made it clear in cut number three that, yes, there’s probably going to be some permanent tariffs, but there’s also room for negotiation.
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There have been some mixed messages from your administration. You’re talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying that these tariffs are actually permanent. What is the action?
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Well, they can both be true. There can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs. We need open borders. You know, we almost had a deal with China. where we’re going to open up China. It was almost done. Some of you remember it during my first term. And it was very disappointing. We ended up making a great deal. $50 billion worth of product was sold. $50 billion. You’d like that in Israel. And I made that deal. But it wasn’t the deal that I wanted. The deal that I wanted was that, plus they’re going to open up China so that our companies could go into China and compete with other countries and China for a large number of people. And at the very end, that deal was terminated and we went to a piece of the deal. And so there are a lot of things outside of tariffs, but tariffs are very important. But there are a lot of things like opening up countries that were totally closed. China is essentially a closed country. In fact, it is a closed country. And what they do is they charge tariffs so that if you if you sell cars or if you sell anything outside, nobody’s going to buy it because the price is out of control. But that’s true with a lot of other countries also. So we’re going to get fair deals and good deals with every country. And if we don’t, we’re going to have nothing to do with them. They’re not going to be allowed to participate in the United States.
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President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday. If you’re watching us on the Salem News Channel, you saw Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sitting beside the president in a very crowded Oval Office yesterday as they were meeting, talking about how we go forward with Israel as well. Let me invite you to join us on the Salem News Channel wherever you watch streaming TV. We’re on Pluto TV, Samsung TV, and a lot of others. So join us on the Salem News Channel and, of course, the hundreds of radio stations around the country as well. The president made it very clear that, yes, he wants to talk. He talked about the fact that the Japanese prime minister, he spoke with him, and according to the president, he’s sending a top team to negotiate. He said they’ve treated the U.S. very poorly on trade. They don’t take our cars, but we take millions of theirs. Likewise, agriculture, many other things. And, of course, he talked about how China loves… to send us products, but they’ve gotten kind of upset. They’ve gotten defensive when the president has suggested that we increase the tariffs on their products. Not only suggested, but is going to do it, which is going to affect a lot of products, a lot of things that you and I use. But that’s just part of the process and part of maybe the sacrifice that we have to go through in order to see this through. But I do think we have to listen to President Trump. and those in his administration who make it clear we have to stay the course. We have to be calm. And as I mentioned yesterday and encouraged you yesterday, put the 401K statement, the IRA statement, put those to the side. Don’t look at those over the next few weeks. Unless you’re like Warren Buffett and you’re sitting on a bunch of cash. Buffett is the only billionaire… on the list of Bloomberg’s 500 richest people who has made money this first quarter because last year he made the decision to sit on $300 billion of cash rather than investing it in the market. And that has paid off in a big way. Now, watch Warren Buffett. He’ll start buying. He’ll start buying some of the stocks that have dropped over these past few days, and he’ll make another boatload of money by doing so. It’s all in the timing, isn’t it? I don’t have $300 billion of gas to sit on, so that’s not a problem for me. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453. Hope you’ll join the conversation on this Tuesday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. There’s lots of ways to do so. You can text me on the MyPillow text line. Always use promo code MikeG when you go to MyPillow.com and get the very best price on everything Mike Lindell has to offer. Of course, your phone calls are welcome. Teresa will queue you up. We’ll talk as time permits. You can email me directly, joey at joeyhudson.com. Let me invite you to join me on my weekday podcast, Just the Truth. Just search for Joey Hudson, Just the Truth, wherever you listen to podcasts. Glad to have you in. Appreciate you spending a few minutes of your day. We’ve got a lot to cover on this Tuesday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike today as he’s off this week. I’ll be sitting in with you all week. Hey, let me encourage you to get your daily dose of Dennis Prager at pragertopia.com. Become a Prager Topia member and listen to full episodes of the Dennis Prager Show anytime you want. Just go to pragertopia.com. Be sure and join now. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in the Oval Office yesterday. discussing the latest trade negotiation with the president. And he was the first, of course. After the tariffs were announced last week, the prime minister from Israel was the first foreign head of state to sit down with President Trump to talk about the tariffs. And he made it very clear. He said that he told the president that he will eliminate, that Israel will eliminate any trade deficit With the U.S., this is cut number four.
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We will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it very quickly. We think it’s the right thing to do. And we’re going to also eliminate trade barriers, a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily. And I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same. I recognize the position of the United States. It says, you know, we’re allowing other countries to put tariffs on us, but we don’t put tariffs on them. And, you know, I’m a free trade champion and free trade has to be fair trade. And I think that’s basically the position that you’ve put forward, Mr. President. We are going to eliminate the tariffs and rapidly.
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And I applaud the prime minister for doing that. And I hope and I believe a lot of others will follow suit. But it gets me back to a question that I can’t quite find the answer to. And that is, why now? Why did it take so long? And look, I’m a big supporter of Israel. I love Israel. I pray for Israel. But has it occurred to you that maybe they should have done this a long time ago? I mean, we’re their biggest supporter in the world. Why have they ever charged us tariffs? And the same with all these other countries who are suddenly wanting to negotiate. They’ve been ripping us off for all these years. China, India, Vietnam, the European Union. Suddenly they want to talk. I’m glad they do want to talk. But isn’t it interesting that suddenly they’ve decided, well, we’ll go zero for zero, or we’re not going to charge those tariffs anymore. If they’re wrong now, they were wrong then. Just a thought. Love to get your thoughts on that. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. You can text me on the MyPillow text line. Your call’s… We’ll put you in queue. Teresa, put you in queue. We’ll talk as time permits. Email me, joeyhudson.com. Portions of today’s show made possible by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism on behalf of the government of Israel. There’s simply no other experience in the world. like it than when you travel to Israel. And I’m sorry that we’re not going to be able to make that trip this fall as planned. The Holy Land is a life-changing event that I’ll never forget, and I’ve been blessed to be able to go multiple times. My favorite thing to do when we take these trips is to go out on the Sea of Galilee in those replica wooden boats, just like you would envision Jesus and the disciples doing so many years ago. and just seeing the beauty of the Holy Land. Travel, of course, right now is probably just not a good idea to Israel, and that’s why we had to make the tough decision not to go this fall as planned. But it’ll be back soon, and as soon as it’s safe to travel, I promise you we’ll be putting together a trip because this is just a trip of a lifetime. I look forward to traveling back to Israel and taking some of you with us. Go to GoIsrael.com, GoIsrael.com for additional information. And let’s go ahead and start planning that trip for when it’s safe for us to return. So President Trump getting some good news. Yesterday was a good day for Donald Trump. He got good news from the Supreme Court. He got good news from some of the latest polls. Now, you would think that with some of the chaos that the left has created since the announcements of the tariffs last week and with the stock market plummeting on Friday and it being on a rollercoaster ride yesterday, you would think that the president’s polling numbers would have followed suit, would have followed the stock market down. The Daily Mail reports otherwise. And an exclusive DailyMail.com JL Partners survey of over 1,000 registered voters that was conducted right in the middle of this, up through April the 3rd, found that Donald Trump remains largely popular among American voters. The poll found that his approval rating rose to 53%. You heard that correct. It rose. to 53%, a four-point increase over last week. Went from 49% to 53% in the middle of what some people are calling chaos. And primarily because people agree with the president. People agree that it’s time for fair trade. that if China charges us tariffs, we need to do likewise. We need to charge them tariffs. He saw a six-point increase in favorability among Democrats and independents. I mean, just about every aspect of the demographics of our country increased in support of Donald Trump. Black voters skyrocketed 17 points. I’m Joey Hudson, in for Mike today.
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I’m good. Congratulations on filling a big pair of shoes this morning. It’s good to have the program go on.
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Oh, yes. We’re giving Mr. Gallagher some time off to celebrate his birthday. I’m happy to be with you, Sam.
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To answer your question as to why now, you immediately transitioned to a trip overseas to Israel, and it appears you have a Christian worldview, as do I and many of your listeners. Yes. And the answer to your question as to why now, is because God’s ways are not our ways, and his time is not our time. I agree. So it’s God’s answer. I don’t know that we need to know the specific answer, but it’s in his hands, and it will work out for good. That’s my answer to you.
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Yeah, and Sam, look, you know, I don’t want anyone to misunderstand. I love Israel. I support Israel. I’ve been there. I’ve been blessed to have traveled to Israel five times and was looking forward to number six this fall, but that’s just not going to work. But I did, you know, I paused. And not just Israel. I don’t want to pick on Israel. Other countries who are now rushing to the table to say, okay, we’re going to negotiate. We’re going to do away with our tariffs. If tariffs are not good now, why did they charge us? In a lot of these countries, we were sending money to them as well.
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Well, I don’t have an answer to that. I’m not an economist, but I do invest in the stock market. And this will all blow over, and we’ll be in good hands in a few more weeks.
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That’s for sure, Sam, and I wish everyone had your attitude for sure. Hey, have a blessed day. Appreciate your phone call. 800-655-MIKE. 1-800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation on this Tuesday. William is in Louisville, Kentucky. Welcome, William. You’re on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Hey, how are you doing today? Wonderful.
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Hope you are.
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Yeah, real quick on Israel. I am a Christian. I support Israel. They are our only true ally in the Mideast, I think. But I was astounded to find out that they’ve been taking advantage of us along with a bunch of other countries. And the amount of money and military hardware we supply that country with, I’m at a loss for words.
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Yeah. I mean, I guess that’s a good way to describe my thoughts, too. I was surprised. I never had really thought about tariffs like I have these past few days. And you start looking at the list at a lot of these countries. I mean, Vietnam. They charge us 90% tariffs. You know, it makes me think, why would we even want their products if they’re going to charge us a 90% tariff? Taiwan, 64%. Indonesia, 64%. Cambodia, 97%. Some of the African countries, South Africa, 60%. Some of these countries we send a lot of money to in aid. Of course, I think Doge is about to take care of some of that. And it just occurred to me, well, you know, why are we buying their products? And it really brings home President Trump’s whole thing is, let’s start making these products in America. Let’s let Americans work in American manufacturers and make those products here.
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Yeah, and real quick, take example, for example, Canada. I mean, we buy lumber from Canada. We have trees in the United States. We buy energy from Canada. We can make our own energy. So I just don’t get it why we’ve allowed ourselves to be taken advantage of for so, so many years. I mean, ever since the end of World War II, basically.
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Yeah. Yeah, for 50 years, it appears, in some cases. Yeah, it’s like our leaders, both Republicans and Democrats, were asleep at the wheel.
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They are asleep. Yes, sir. Well, listen, that’s what I wanted to say, and I appreciate the time.
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All right. Appreciate your phone call, William. Thanks for listening. 800-655-6453. One line open. David is in Delaware. Welcome, David.
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Well, thank you very much. First time I’ve ever been able to get through.
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Well, I’m glad to have your call.
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Well, thank you. Two things I wanted to say. One, I think Americans have historically been very spoiled. We’ve had things good. You know, I think there’s a time that One thing that Trump was a great communicator. I think this is time for like a Kennedy type speech to the American public. I mean, I’ve lost a lot in the stock and stocks recently, but, you know, Kennedy made that speech about, you know, us making the sacrifice for the country instead of us just expecting the country to take care of us all the time. And I think this is a time where we people know is going to blow over. Financial people will tell you, hang tough. You’ll get through it. But I don’t think he’s communicating that to the American public. And I think that’s something that he needs to do, Kennedy-type speech. And the other thing is, like the recent caller just said, you know, about us. Oh, my God, my mind just went blank. Oh, why we have never done this before. Because we’ve never had a businessman running the country. We’ve had politicians who just want to dish out the money that’s not theirs because they just want to buy off the votes and keep the people happy. They’re not showing true leadership. And leadership means standing up and taking the shots in the back, taking the shots in the front, and realizing, hey, I’ve got to do this. And if you read any of Trump’s books, he’s like that, too. Oh, yeah. I’m not happy with everything he does, but I’m just saying this is a time where we need someone to stand up and say enough is enough. Yeah. I don’t think that we as a country are used to it, and politicians don’t like it because they’re not making people happy by spending other money.
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Politicians, and I appreciate your phone call, David, all good points. Politicians have a different mindset than a successful business person like Donald Trump. Politicians are always trying to please everybody. They know they can’t, but still they try. Donald Trump is approaching this from the standpoint, just like he’s done business. He doesn’t necessarily have to be your friend, doesn’t necessarily want to be your friend to do business with you. But in the business world, we do business with people we don’t necessarily like. We maybe don’t like the way they do business. But we do it because we all want to make a profit. Same thing with this. Donald Trump has made it clear to these countries, hey, look, if you want to sell your products to the largest market in the world, then fine. But if you charge us tariffs, we’re going to charge you tariffs. Now, maybe you get upset with me. Maybe you don’t like me. That’s okay. You don’t have to like me. But I’m going to charge you a tariff as long as you’re charging us a tariff. And in the past, politicians, I mean, Joe Biden, he wanted these foreign leaders to like him. He wanted them to respect him, a different type of respect. I think that the foreign leaders probably respect Donald Trump very much so, but in a totally different way. And look, yes, we want to be friendly with nations. We want to have those develop those relationships. But at the end of the day, what kind of relationship is it if we’re being nice to, let’s say, for example, Miramar, who charges us 88% tariffs. We’re being nice to Miramar. They like us. And they’re ripping us off. I don’t know how much product comes from Miramar. I don’t know. Sri Lanka, 88%. Syria, 81%. You know, one thing, I think we’re going to do a little research. For example, Syria. And just see, beside that, 81% have the number of how much imports come into the U.S. I have no idea what comes from Syria. But we’ve got to get past the idea that… They have to like us. They can respect us, and we can do business with them, but I don’t care if they like us or not, do you? 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453. I’m Joey Hudson, in for Mike today. Glad to have you aboard.
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Mike Gallagher. Joey Hudson in for Mike today as he continues his birthday week. His birthday yesterday. You sent a lot of birthday wishes, and I copied and pasted and sent him a lot of those. He takes the week off, so I’ll be sitting in with you all week. Glad to have you. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453 is how you… Join today’s conversation. I hope you will. You can email me directly as well, joey at joeyhudson.com. Fortunes of the Day show made possible by Hotel Hartness here in my home area of the upstate of South Carolina. Travel and leisure world rates the Hotel Hartness the number one resort in South Carolina, the third best in the U.S., and number 24 in the world. And, again, it’s right here. in my beloved hometown of Greer in the upstate of South Carolina. You can go there, too. Go to hotelheartness.com. That’s hotelheartness.com. You know, there’s been so much talk about the tariffs and what it has done to the financial markets. Friday was just a beating. Fortunately, yesterday… was not as bad as the doom and gloom sayers. I don’t think we had the Black Monday that was projected. It was down. We never want it to go down, but it does. That’s the nature of the markets. Good news, though. Today, U.S. stocks jumped as the market opened just a little while ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1,238 points, gaining 3.2%. after losing more than 3,500 points since last Wednesday when the tariffs were announced during Trump’s Liberation Day. The S&P has risen today 3.3%, NASDAQ 100 futures up 3.6%. And this is as a result of the markets and the powers that be within the financial markets seeing that the tariffs are working. People are coming to the table. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, no surprise there, but Israel, yesterday, in the Oval Office, he was the first to talk with the President, saying, you know, Israel’s going to do the right thing. We’re going to eliminate a terrorist. These other countries want to come to the table. They’re lighting up, literally, outside of the White House. Vietnam, for example. wanting to do a zero for zero. I don’t know that some of these deals we’re going to accept. President Trump has hinted that he may leave the 10% tariffs in place regardless. And that may be their medicine for ripping us off for all these years. Now, some people like to sit back. The Democrats love to sit back and talk about the rich and how this is just going to help the rich. Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies Well, guess who it hit pretty hard? From a Forbes report, as Trump fired the first shots of the global trade war last week, his net worth, according to Forbes, prior to Liberation Day, his net worth was $4.7 billion. $4.7 billion. Yesterday, That estimate of his net worth was down $4.2 billion. So it appears that President Trump lost $500 million since Liberation Day. We all, if you have anything in the market, if you have a 401k, if you have an IRA, you saw that too. If you looked at your statement. If you ignored my advice and looked at your statement. Because I’m no financial advisor, but that’s my advice to you right now. Don’t look at your 401k statement. I keep telling you. I tell my friends that. Ignore it. You know, I had a caller a minute ago who talked about the money that he had lost in the last few days. You haven’t lost anything. It’s on paper. If you write it out, if you don’t panic and you don’t sell, you haven’t lost anything. It’s going to come back. I predict that by the end of today, you’re going to see some of those earnings regained. And pretty quickly, you’re going to see all of them come back, and then you’re going to start making money again. 800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation today. Let’s go to the phones. Betty is in Lansing, Michigan. Welcome, Betty. You’re on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Tariffs. 58% on China, the highest there was, way high. China’s retaliating by cutting off all shipments, all access of America. to all of the rare earth elements. And you might know what they are. I can’t pronounce any of them.
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They’re cutting it all off, which is going to kill our industry. The things are necessary for solar panels. They’re necessary for jet engines. They’re necessary for all kinds of chemicals. And anything we make has rare earth minerals in it. And China is entirely, supposedly, I’m told, cutting off all, all, all shipments in retaliation for the tariffs on China. And that needs to be publicized, and somebody needs to be dealing with that. And it’s really important, and I hope you’ll put it out there.
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Well, Betty, that’s what China is claiming they’re going to do. That’s part of their posturing on tariffs, and that’s part of the negotiation.
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No, I got an email.
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Betty, we’re just in this a few days. That’s what they’re talking about doing. But that’s why the deal with Ukraine is important, too, because Ukraine has some of those same minerals. And that’s why the president wants this deal with Ukraine not only to get peace between Ukraine and Russia, but our deal with Ukraine would allow us to mine for those same minerals that we get from China.
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I’ve seen the statistics. There are some other sources. First of all, they’re minuscule compared to what Russia has. And Russia has set up an application process where nothing will be shipped to the United States. nothing that we need from computer screens to you name it. Check it out. Check it out.
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Betty, that’s part of the deal, Betty. That’s part of the deal with Ukraine, some of the mineral rights that we would be getting. I know that. But here’s the point, and listen to me for a minute, Betty won’t let me talk. The deal is this. That’s why we have to become less reliant on anybody, whether it’s China, whether it’s Ukraine, Russia, anybody. We have to start finding a source ourselves. Joey Hudson, in for Mike today.
