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>> so the idea of higher for longer should probably be replaced with normal for longer. i don't think we're going to get those rate cuts. >> taking criticism from, what i view, is the right kind of people. bring it. in new case, i'm representing the people of this country. i don't report to any of them, i report to the people. >> my floss any -- philosophy is winners e keep winning. is really you find the best company, get 'em as cheap as possible and just hang on. enjoy the ride. >> and now with all of this finally being revealed, why would he retreat into being a private citizen? if there's more risk? they still seem to be trying to protect the president or at least the biden family. ♪ ♪ let me be your teddy bear ♪ stuart: what's this? the lauren they're elvis. stuart oh, elvis. this is for you. you're the elvis fan amongst us. s this is teddy bear.

cute. all right. good morning, everyone. it is 11:00 eastern. it is friday, he's the 8th. we'll go straight to the market markets because the dow is up about 120 points. we had a strong the consumer confidence report early this morning, and the markets seemed to like it. show me big tech, we've got all of them up except for amazon and apple, which are down. microsoft is up $1.83. the 10-year treasury yield, where's that, please? up to 4.23%. there you have it. now this. the president of harvard, claudine gay, has apolo squeezed for what she said during congressional testimony. she had been asked if calling for the general side of jews violates harvard's rules on bullying and harassment. it can be, she said, depending on the context. that did not sit well at all. lawyers tried, but professors' answers were described as hesitant, forbe laic and

bizarrely vasive. there were calls for her resignation and threats to cut funding. ms. gay has told harvard's newspaper, i'm sorry, words matter. end quote. this is not the end of it. anti-semitism on campus has exposed a raft of problems. the faculty lounge is almost universally liberal, socialist or flat out marxist. apparently, you can buy your way in these days. make a big donation, and your kid is accepted -- accepted. and if you're conservative, don't expect the make a speech on campus. colleges invented cancel culture, and that is the exact opposite of intellectual development which is what universities are supposed to be all about. it's time to cleanous -- clean house. third hour of "varney" just warming up. ♪ finish. ♪ ♪ ♪ stuart: steve hilton with us this morning. steve, i think it's time to chien house, but i don't know how to do it. -- clean house.

do you? >> yes, i do. i'd like to add to what you said by saying not so much clean house, but build a new house. that is the american way. these disgusting anti-semites and racist, not just this woman from harvard, but the others, mit and penn and that testimony, they are absolutely despicable, clearly. the awe polly is ridiculous. it's not an apolo entry, she's just trying to save her skin there is not a real apology. she had multiple opportunities, elise testify nick gave her many, many chances to give the right answer, and she refused. so, no, she's not to be taken seriously. actually, she's done us all a favor because she's revealed our so-called elite universities are rotten to the core. the answer is to build something new. and that is happening. and that's the on the mythic thing i want to -- optimistic thing i want to leave you with, stu, and our audience which is some friends of mine in terms on

lonsdale, neil ferguson, barry weiss, a bunch of other people, they have got together and they have started a new university in austin. it's called the university of austin. it's just started taking undergraduates. it's committed to the ideals of what a university should be; open inquiry, academic freedom. it is absolutely fantastic. their aim is to get there the to be one of the real elite universities in america, and anyone who wants to see this kind of nonsense swept away, they should support the university of austin. stuart: i'll see what my grandchildren have to say about that because they're almost of college age. good stuff, steve. as you know, president biden's headed to california for a weekend of star-studded fund raising. wait a minute, steve, i think the hunter news is going to hangover his head whilst he's in california. it's dramatic nudes on hunter's -- news on hunter's indictment. >> yes. of course. i mean, of course, in los angeles literally are where he's going, and it just reminds

everyone or these people who are going to be trouping in to give their money to the biden re-election campaign of his massive vulnerabilities. the hunter biden story, as we've said all along, it's another example where you can say, well, that's just him and his personal failings, and he'll do the sob story about standing by his son, all the rest of it. but actually, what has been are revealed in all these cases is information that ends up implicating joe biden and the rest of the family. because what you see all along is that this family has been basically kept afloat by profiting from joe biden's public service, so-called. it's private gain. that's what it's been all about. and it just reminds everyone of the deep corruption at the heart of this family. since he's in hollywood, maybe he's hoping that some of the hollywood friends can help him with the other big problem dog his campaign which is, of course, the fact that he so clearly is not in the condition you'd want for the presidency.

maybe they can give him some of that de-aging technology that was applied in the indiana a jones movie for harrison ford. maybe that can-him with his campaign if -- that can-him with his campaign. stuart: you got all these scandal as, the anal, the polls, the issues, he's underwater. is it possible it comes to a head with a hunter indictment, it's just too much and close friends and relatives, senior democrats go to him and say time to move aside? do you think it could happen? >> it will never, it will never come from him. he is absolutely -- he's a total narcissist, joe biden. he has plotted and schemed to get this job since his 20s he's been trying to come president. it's in a biobiography of him. and july bind, by the way -- jill biden, the person how'd expect to say time to go, she's desperate to stay there as well. she was the one that i read who when he first had to pull out in

19 # 8, the first presidential campaign, he was the last one saying don't do it, joe, you've got to stay in there. they're desperate to stay in this position. they're not going to go volunteer tearily, no way. stuart: i just don't believe this president can be president for another five years. i just can't see it. >> i agree with that. stuart: we better leave it there, steve hilton. thanks for being here: you got it. >> thank you. stuart: now it's that time where we check the market. dow up 80, nasdaq up 43. and look who's here, jonathan hoenig, the man who brings us got you can stock picks every friday at this time. you say invest in miracle makers. okay, give me the names of some miracle merricks in the market. >> well, actually it's a whole industry, stuart. isn't it interesting the whole year long we've been talking about the mag magnificent seven, so-called. there's no health-related stocks, no biotech-related stocks. and believe me, if you have a health issue which we we all will have, you know, the a chat

bot or social media isn't going to help you. i'm looking at biotechnology, the systems that keep us alive. they're down about 17% over the last 2 years, so i think they're a relative bargain, and i'm looking for names to add to my portfolio. stuart: i'm looking at xbi, that's biotech etf, right in. >> yeah, yeah, it's a biotech etf, and they're historically cheap. trading about 16 times earnings, it was double 20 years ago, and it's cheaper than sectors like beverages, sectors hike travel. what you're seeing is a lot of tax loss selling. these have been losers this year. a lot of people are selling them towards the end of the year, and if history is any guide, you could see a big pop back in january when new money starts flowing in once again. stuart: do you have a particular biotech company in mind? >> well, the risk, stuart, actually is government more than anything when it comes to biotech. think about it, the fda makes one ruling, and you could see an

individual company drop 20-30%. so i think playing it sector basically -- basis is the best. so to diversify against that single-stock risk, i think you own a sec ---- sector and play it for the long hall. -- long haul. stuart: bitcoin has been going up recently. have you bought into it? >> no, i haven't, stuart. i don't own it, although i own a lot of other assets that are going up. look, or i've been impressed with bitcoin, and i think we're seeing, actually, diversification out of the dollar. the dollar's falling, and bitcoin is going up. think people are looking for a hedge. they see the debt that's been piling up especially in government and looking for a way to diversify. sky's the limit at this point. stuart: but you're not touching it. >> look, i've got a lot of investments on the line here, stuart, so i can't own anything. you've got to pick your top spot. bitcoin isn't for me, but i own biotech and a lot of emerging markets right now as well. stuart suit yes, you do.

jonathan, see you again soon. >> be well, thanks. stuart: equifax is moving. lauren: they do credit monitoring, identity theft prevention. they have insight into the health of the customer who applies for loans, right? deutsche bank says, buy them, and they increased the price target to $267. and they're pinning their call, their upgrade on mortgage rates falling from 7 to 5.5% with recession, any kind of recession, mild, severe, doesn't matter. so i guess they think the consumer will be getting stronger as we get through this? i'm having trouble making that infor instance. i am. stuart: first solar. lauren: morgan stanley says buy them, and they think the stock is going up 65%. they've had a 20% selloff in the past 3 months, they think the stock got too cheap. stuart: all right, thanks, lauren. coming up, saudi arabia with claims solar and wind energy pose a risk to the environment, but they're also the world's

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stuart: republicans blocked the ukraine package over border security, and now lawmakers are back at the negotiating table as of today. aishah hasnie on capitol hill. any progress today? >> reporter: i hey, stuart, good morning to you.

well, the progress really is the two sides are now negotiating again, the two chief negotiators are talking again. they will continue to talk over the weekend. that is a great sign. but we're told it's not likely, highly unlikely that a we're going to see any sort of bill text by monday. the thing is though the two sides are not willing to talk publicly about what the impasse is, stuart, what the issues are. but we are being told by republican negotiator, senator lankford, that a one of his top issues here is to address the asylum sum. >> we're working through some of the most basic things. we can't have catch and release are. people should not be able to game the system, be released in the country because they say i have fear in my country and then get in lewin five years to wait for a hearing. >> reporter: i would say a lot of americans think that's pretty reasonable. some lawmakers say it is time for president biden to get directly involved in these talks, but the white house says it cannot negotiate in good

faith with house republicans who are demanding provisions like expanding the border wall. so really all eyes are now on the senate here to strike a bipartisan deal. leader schumer has already told senators to get ready to stay beyond next week as he sort of begrudgingly allows these talks to continue, stuart. institute indeed. senator roger marshall is with me right now. he's in new york city, as a matter of fact. senator, specifically, what do you want to do at the border? >> well, stu, isn't it ironic that we have to beg the white house to secure our own border? i think that's what the irony here is. the president wants funding for ukraine, republicans want to secure the border. it's my number one priority right now. 10 million people crossed the border illegally last year, over these last three years, excuse me, but we have a once in a generation opportunity to fix the border. this is the time that we have leverage to do that, so specifically there's policy changes, we do need some type of a physical structure. we need more border patrol

officers, we need more border technology as a well. from the policy standpoint, we need to change the asylum rules. stuart right. >> and go back to remain in mexico. if you pass through a third country, you need to -- you can't come into this country asking for asylum. policy alone would impact up to throe- three-fourths of the number of the undone counters -- encounters at the border. stuart: can you get all that? >> well, if we don't, i think you're going to see a change in the white house. at some point in time, joe biden has to own this problem. stuart: do you think he's going to play a political -- pay a political price for this? because so far he hasn't. >> you're seeing his numbers go down and down and down. not sure how much lore you can go, but this is the number one issue. people are numb to inflation, they're numb to interest rates. but in kansas, kansas is now a border state that we are fearful of our own lives. the car a tell is alive and well in the -- cartel is alive and well in the state of kansas passing out fentanyl and human

trafficking. stuart: half a million have come in since october the 1st. that's an enormous -- that's almost an invasion. it seems like any measures we take now are too late. you've already got these folks here, and they're not going to go back, right in. >> this is why fbi director wray was on capitol hill saying he's never scene a situation like this where he's so concerned about a possible terrorist event. but really, again, once in a lifetime opportunity. we're not going to negotiate on ukraine until we secure the border. and, yes, we have to have all of those. without all of them, there's not meaningful border security. the president poured -- 1.5 million if people since he's been here as well, and we do need a border because of the 1.5 million gotaways out there. stuart: are we've really going to send them back, deport 5, 6, 7 million people? i just can't see it. >> yeah. what we have to do is turn off this magnet that joe biden has created.

he's given everybody asylum and parole, but at some point in time we have to turn off the magnet. we've got a huge pop here that joe biden's created. it'll be tough. by the way, they're consuming about $500 billion a year of taxpayer dollar dollars the take care of this huge number of migrants in this country illegally. stuart: i think you made your point very well there, sir. you've endorsed president trump for president, and you're calling for the end of what you're calling political primary charade. what's the political primary charade? what is it? >> right. well, i think that here we have president trump 50, 60 points ahead in every poll, and the people, republicans have made their choice already. it's time the set both barrels on target at joe biden and fox on him. you know, look, again, there's 10 million reasons why people should vote for president trump, those 10 million people that have crossed the border illegally. i think it is a great place to start. stuart: hunter biden indicted on tax charges california. that's going to hangover the president, isn't it? >> absolutely. i think the smoking gun is

through these suspicious activity reports, following that money trail from one of hunter's puppet companies, sending it to the big guy, that comer released a report on monday showing, or indeed, this monthly payment going to the big guy. indeed, there appears to be the biden crime operation going on. it will hang if over him but not as much as this border issue is. stuart: we've floated this idea throughout the show today the that the situation is so bad for the president with hunter's indictment and the possible impeachment coming up that his close friends and associates and top democrats would get together and go to him and say now's the moment, mr. president, to step aside. do you think that could happen? >> you know, i don't think so. i think the people that are controlling the puppet strings in the white house and his family like this power and control that they do have. and and, by the i way, we want him to be the candidate, so let's not push him out too soon here. we want joe biden on that ticket. stuart: but you talked a lot about national security. i suspect there's a national security threat here because if

the president is incapacitated, we have president harris. now, that's not something which many americans are looking forward to. that's a security issue. if she becomes the president all of a sudden, what's china going to do? what's putin going to do? do you see where i'm coming from? >> yes, sir. and this is in the going to change until we get a new person in the white house. when we have a person that the rest of the world, like him or not, the rest of the world has to respect this person. and right now joe biden, vice president harris, they do not have the respect for the of the rest of the world. there's no red line. instead they're going to keep sending biden and obama blankets over to our enemies. stuart: trump beats biden hands town? >> oh, gosh. i'm not a political scientist. i think it'll be close, that's why we play the game. stuart: his legal troubles are not going to get in the way? >> it's interesting that they just make people more emboldened to support him. many republicans and moderates feel like they're not applying the law equally, and we see that, you know? if any of us had done what haunter biden -- hunter biden

had done years ago, we'd be in jail. stuart: his base is solid, isn't it? >> yes, sir, it is solid. stuart: senator marshall, we appreciate it, always. come and see us again. some senate democrats are working to add conditions to the israel e package. ashley, do we have any idea what conditions are being added? ashley: well, how about as a condition of this military assistance, more than a dozen mostly progressive democrat senators want israel to abide by u.s. and international law, to prioritize the protection of civilians and assure the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in gaza. this proposed amendment directs the president to report to congress within 30 days on whether countries receiving military aid are fully cooperating with u.s. efforts to provide that humanitarian assistance. it also calls for any country using u.s.-funded military equipment to do so with you are their intended purposes -- their

intended purposes under humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict. we should point out president biden has generally rejected any conditions on aid to israel, though he has recently been sending out some mixed messages. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. coming up, a new poll says people are already cutting back on their holiday shopping because of inflation. we'll bring you the full story. the biden administration is pushing new regulations on i emissions from oil and gas wells. what would be the impact of that? we'll ask a former epa official right after this. ♪

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stuart: two hours' worth of business on a friday morning. there's a little bit of green on the left-hand side of your screen. dow's up 14, nasdaq up 20, s&p up 2. big tech, they're all -- well, meta, microsoft and apple up. amazon, alphabet down. in serious price movement there. the 10-year treasury yield, some movement there, all right. it's up. the yield is up to 4.24%. that has probably capped the rally in stocks. look at bitcoin, close to $44,000. $43,8, still your quote.

saudi arabia says wind and solar power are a threat to our climate. that's interesting speculation from if an oil-rich country. tell me more about this, ash. ashley: that was my first line, ironic, isn't it, from an oil-rich saudi arabia, but it is expressing concern about the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. in a document obtained by "politico," the saudi government contends that carbon removal is also needed the address climate pollution from wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy hardware. now, advocates for more aggressive climate action say they worry the kingdom is promoting efforts the manage carbon while at the same time undercutting renewables in order to weaken support for replacing fossil fuels. of course they are. the saudi energy minister says he would oppose any calls for reducing global fossil fuel

consumption. not gonna happen, he says. stuart: the administration continues its green energy push. a new rule would cut e methane emissions from oil and gas wells. former epa chief of staff joins many now. does this just raise the cost of drilling for oil and gas? >> yeah, it does. it raises the cost, and it puts a lot of small businesses out of business. and the haas thing we need right now, stu, is for energy praises to continue to skyrocket. if you read through the rule, you get probably page 100-150, the epa makes some really alarming admissions. one of them is the fact that by 2038 because of the cost of energy going up, because of this rule, this will be 41 million barrels of oil produced less per day. and so it just with shows you how much of a future of energy scarcity this administration has been building from day one. remember, president biden on the campaign trail promised to end all fossil fuels -- stuart: he id decide.

>> and he's coming through on that. he did. stuart: i thought it had to do with cows and cow flatulence. it does have something to do with that, doesn't it? this is an attack, in a way, on farming. >> yeah. no, absolutely. there's the combined animal feeding operations, the u.s. epa has been trying to go into these operations and improve their efficiencies. that's not a bad mission, but the problem with this administration is they want to take a good idea and they want to turn the it boo a means for control. is they're going after farming, they're going after our oil and gas operators, the people who create the economy so that it works the way that we all get to enjoy the relative benefits. stuart: why are we going along with all of this in this stuff? the end of the world is nigh, and we keep believing it. >> yeah, we shouldn't. it's time for folks to speak up and push back because this agenda is running this country into the ground, and it's not necessary. what i we proved during the trump administration is you can cut emissions, grow the economy and deliver cost savings in the form of reliable, affordable

energy to the american people, and you can also do away with all the doom and gloom. it's really not necessary. stuart: it's all doom and gloom all the time. in this the cop28 that ends on december the 12th, coming towards its closure, have they accomplished anything? in your mind, have they accomplished one solid thing? >> no. i think they're per fetch waiting a lot of alarmist rhetoric that is counterproductive to environmental improvements. they have -- stuart: they're not going to meet the standards, are they? the targets? they're not going to do that. >> no, it's set up to fail, and purposefully so. you can always come back and ask for rich countries like the united states to do more, just happened over your i -- keys to the economy to the united nations. stuart: can this be reversed? if there was a second trump administration in 2025, can you reverse all this? >> yeah, absolutely. stuart: you can? >> yeah. i'm working with a team called project 2025 at the heritage foundation. we're coming up not only with a

plan, but the personnel who will be deployed on day one. and it'll take a leader like president trump who has the backbone to stand up against these well-funded, sophisticated and aggressive globalist organizations like the united nations and the climate change derivatives -- stuart: can you reverse the push for electric vehicles? turn that around? >> well, what you can do is you can take off regulatory thumb on the pulse that has been applied by this administration, and you can let the market dictate the outcomes, which is a much better way to go about in anyway. stuart: will we ever return to energy independencing? >> we will if president trump's elected. [laughter] i foresee a very bright fern energy future. we need to get back on that path to energy prosperity. stuart: what was it like working in the epa in the trump administration? you were chief of staff, i think. >> yeah. stuart: you must have been attacked all the time. >> it's the hardest job i've ever had a, but it was also fulfilling. you're working for someone like president trump doing the right thing, trying to improve the environment but make sure you don't shackle the economy through up necessary regulations

on energy. so it was a lot of fun, a lot of hard work -- stuart: but did it get to you? >> oh, yeah, it did. stuart: they really hate you. >> i think about it, and i have this vision of the walls caving in on me. it was the really tough. you walked into a room, and you never knew who was your friend and who was trying to stab you in the back. stuart: well, welcome back to -- [laughter] to new york. good to see you. thanks for being here, we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. stuart: sure thing. ashley, i have a question. ashley: yep? stuart: what's vladimir putin doing while cop28's going on? ashley: you know what? he's been hanging out in abu dhabi with, in the uae, negotiating russia's oil exports down the road. he quickly paid a visit to mohamed bin salmon. yes, putin's timing certainly seemed designed to thumb his nose at those global talks happening less than a 90-minute drive away. russia's oil has been keeping moscow afloat since putin launched his full scale invasion

of ukraine last year. but as we know, oil prices have been slipping, leaving russia basically in a standoff with opec if on how to manage output. and as for cop28, putin is persona non grata. he's condemned by a vast majority of the u.n. he's also, by the way, wanted in the hague for war crimes. so don't expect him to cop28, stu. stuart: thanks, ash. coming up, wage growth not keeping up with the rate of inflation for many workers, particularly bad for restaurant workers. interesting. we'll explain that. everyone knows the classic mcdonald's golden or arches. now it's launching a spin-off restaurant that's meant to take on starbucks and cup kinful we'll is a report -- dunkin. we'll have a report from the new cosmics location next. ♪ 'cuz i know i got some good friending that live down the desperate. ♪ got a good looking woman with her arms round me ♪

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stuart: where are we -- oh, we've turned south. we had all green on the left-hand side of the screen a few minutes ago, now it's all a red. not much red, down 12 on the dow, down 8 on the nasdaq. wage growth for restaurant workers has not kept up with inflation. ashley, i need to know, why is it particularly bad for restaurant workers? ashley: well, the number of people going to eat has gone with down and also they, too, are paying higher costs for their goods. inflation has taken a painful bite out of spending power, wages don't go as far. also, as i said, restaurant ises no longer quite as a desperate for workers as they were during the late pandemic era, so high wages no longer e needed to

entice new hires. that's on the upside for restaurants. but for restaurant the workers, wages grew 4.9% year-over-year in october this year. that's down from a peak growth of 10.5% in december, 2021, when the average base wage, by the way, was $12.60 and average hourly earnings totaled $15.85. but that's not all. according to square, most of america's downtowns still have not fully recovered from the pandemic meaning there are fewer people visiting bars and restaurants, and so fewer bills and tips. not good for waiters. also a very quickly, compared to january of 2019, downtown neighborhoods in american cities have flatlined at roughly 72% of their pre-pandemic activity. it just hasn't been the same. stu. stuart: they just haven't come back, have they in that's it. thanks, ash. how about this one? mcdonald's opening a new spin-off chain call called cosmics. kelly saberi at the first

cosmics in illinois. they're trying to take on starbucks and dunkin. what are they doing? >> reporter: stuart, they're calling this beverage exploration. so they're going to tap more into the different types of coffees, lattes, frozen drinks that you can get as well as breakfast items such as doughnut holes and two different breakfast sandwiches that you won't find on the original mcdonald's minnesota you. some of these drinks include a cold brew, a churro frappe and an island pick me up punch. we've been waiting 55 minutes to get to the front to put our order in. some people have come from the surrounding sub you shoulds, we're in the suburb of chicago right now, but other e people have come from far or or and wide including one fan from london. take a listen. [no audio] >> the second i found out that mcdonald's were launching their new biggest thing, i had to get a flight here. us londoners, we lo

mcdonald's, and this is -- we love mcdonald's, and this is really cool. it's great. >> i think this is a great opportunity. it's a lot of nearby suburbs that could have been a good fit, so the fact that they chose us is pretty great. >> it's kind of got the cool colors and all the bright lights. i mean, you look at the menu, and it'sic, like, wow. it's good. >> reporter: the island pick me up punch is supposed to be about $5.89. stuart, that feels a little pricey to me, i think it would be cheaper at a starbucks if or a dunkin, so we'll see when we order. we're going to try the try it all, and we'll give you a review later. stuart? stuart: i wish you luck. a new poll shows how inflation is affecting people's shopping this holiday season is. i take it, ashley, that people are cutting back? ashley: they are. according to a poll from monmouth university, 55% of respondents said, yeah, we're going to cut back a little on our holiday shopping lists. that's up from 46% last year and

40% in 2021. and it also holds true a. >>s all denial graphic groups especially among those making less than 50,000 a year where two-thirds of that group reported holiday shopping cutback withs. it's not all gloom and doom though. the majority of americans are still planning on participating in holiday activities. about a 76% say they plan to play christmas music, why not? 65% say they will decorate their home. 69% say they will make christmas candy, cookies, desserts. merry christmas. stu. stuart: i hear you it's that time, 11:44 eastern time, that is, when we show you the dow 30. and we always say the same thing, we'll give you a sense of the market. here you go. half up, half down. and the market -- the dow, actually, is ted flat. dead flat. don't go anywhere, friday feedback is next. ♪ one night, then one more --

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♪ here comes santa claus, here comes santa claus -- ♪ right down santa claus lane ♪ stuart: the disney -- [laughter] okay. let's move on. prove department, rhode island. [laughter] with -- providence. are we going to hear more of this in the next two weeks? i'm sure we are. [laughter] time for friday feedback. ash, lauren, all ready to go. ashley: yeah. stuart: this is from jan. curious to know what secret talent each of you have. you're first, lauren. lauren: i can wrap christmas presents like no other. my bows are impeccable, my lines are perth. i use practically no tape. stuart: that's really cool. [laughter] very good response. ash, what you got? ashley: well, nothing quite as

good as that, lauren. i can juggle a soccer ball. ever since i was a young kid, can still do that, and i love crosswords, i do that every day to keep the old nothing begin sharp. stuart: really? i'm a very good whistler. i've got perfect pitch as a whistler, and i like to whistle. up lauren let's hear it. stuart: my relatives don't like the hear me relative. no, no. there's a pretty good mix. this is from terry. if you look at the definition of riz dis, it's pretty clear it's a crazy person's use of the word charisma. much like rad for radical. no dictionary should be expanded to include these lazy terms. instead, we should demand the proper use of the english language. i do that every single day. i demand proper gram or on this program. doesn't always work with. should we have that word, riz dis, in the dictionary? lauren. lauren: i'm fine with it. it's cloak y'all.

stuart: ash? ashley: i'm old school is. i'm kind of old school, i like using, as my english teacher would say, use proper english, webster. [laughter] stuart: that's right. in english schools they always talked the to you by your last name. so i was varney. never stuart -- lauren: oh, i was thinking merriam-webster like the dictionary -- ashley: oh. it's not. stuart: moving on. greg writes this: dear stuart, what are some of your favorite holiday dishes? then he says you have the best ties and ashley too. so let's ignore the tie part of it. best of favorite holiday dishes. ashley, what you got? ashley: well, i love the traditional turkey with all the a trimmings. i love christmas puddings, especially the ones that light on fire. in the old days you used to put six -- [inaudible] in it which led e to an emergency call to the e.r.. [laughter] and also i love fruit fruitcake. i do like fruit cake. i know a lot of people in this country hate it. i love it.

stuart: i like paxo stuffing, sage and onion stuffing, and my turkey. that's what i like. what is yours, lauren? lauren lauren we searched far and wide for the first press of wine that someone makes who put a pare in it -- pear in it, cook it overnight, and then we make these cookies, and you make bows and fry them in the lime. i'll bring you some. it's amazing. it takes forever. stuart: very good. lauren: i don't know the name of them. something eyal italian -- italian. stuart: this is from scott. tipping to indiana sure -- insure good service is absurd is. if it's begin prior to service provided, there is zero motivation to perform well. oh, and i love your show. what do you say to that? [laughter] lauren? lauren: thank you, scott. that's what i said a few weeks ago. stuart: and i -- did i contradict you? lauren: you kid. stuart: i thought i did. [laughter] if you've got it, spread it around. that's america.

and, you know, that is america, isn't it? if america's extremely generous people. so if you've got it -- lauren: and they're extremely hard working people. so when you go into a restaurant, you don't tip your server before you eat your meal. stuart: okay. what have you got to say, ash? ashley: well, i can see both sides of the argument, but i agree with you, stu -- lauren: what? ashley: sorry, lauren. you know, hey, spread the wealth. stuart: yeah. ashley and i are not cheap. we're just not cheap. that's the way it is. ashley: no. stuart: i think this is for you, ashley. if you had are a million dollars to invest in a sports franchise -- i know exactly what you're going to say. ashley, it's yours. ashley: currently eighth in the english premier league, i would buy them, buy all the best players and, hopefully, win the title and the champions league. it's my dream. stuart: indeed. you used the play for brighton, didn't you? ashley: well, i had trials for brighton. didn't quite make it. those were the days.

lauren: i cede my time to you. [laughter] stuart: probably manchester city in the premier if league english soccer. why not? ashley: yeah. stuart: you ceded your time? okay, all right. do you know what? we're actually out of time. lauren: no? stuart: yes, we are with. i think we are, or aren't we? hey, producers, we're out of time, aren't we? okay. [laughter] lauren: you're getting in trouble. stuart: i know. i'm really confused here. i've got to go to the trivia question. here it is. [laughter] man, this is a tough show to do. [laughter] it's friday, and i'm getting tired. that's what it is. how many people were in attendance at rod stewart's 194 new year's eve concert? 32.5, 3 million, if 3796 -- 3.6 million, 4.2. that's one of the most obscure people. how do you get millions? was this in brazil? i think it was, was this in brazil? no answer on that one. okay. the correct answer when we come back. ♪

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ashley: i can't be leave any of them. let's go with number 2, 3 million. stuart: what have you got? i will go with 2.5 million. it is the highest number. let me read the blurb. stewart held the event at copacabana beach in rio. the fireworks display at midnight. we are almost out of time. great week. the numbers were terrific. oh great weekend coming up. coast-to-coast will start now. adam: ably 20 iv does not mean brainy. if you