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the republican party needs to get their head back in the game. especially after that special election in new york the other day. they can't just be content to have the border issue make the case for themselves. >> some of the folks you indicated are violent individuals but there's no accounting of where they go. we don't really do the necessary checks and law enforcement interviews at the border because there's too many coming across. >> the country is divided and see it in e lockerbie bombers and look how close the majority is. that's a reflection of where the country is. there's a nation that's divided and that's reflected surely here in the house. >> there's no big linkerring for kamala harris to be the president and it's a national security issue to have someone whose memory losses are so severe. stuart: johnmy be good. this is a classic. one of the great class ibrams.

well done, producers. getting it done at the 11:00 hour. yes, it's thursday, february 15th. to the markets, dow up 172 points. three dow stocks accounting for a chunk of the gain. nasdaq though on the downside. down 32 points. show he big tech. the problem is all are down except for meta and powering ahead 481 on meta right now but microsoft, apple, amazon, alphabet, they're all down. yield is going down and 423 to be precise. now this, a couple in massachusetts open their house to a migrant family colin and jessica stokes volunteers to take them in and one hour after signing up, oofamily of four originally from chili knocked on the -- chile knocked on the door. the stokes didn't know how many they were going to get or where they were coming from. jessica told the boston tv station she was worried about

getting sheets on the bed and food in the fridge. now she says the family is lovely. they're so appreciative and it has been wonderful. the stokes did this because as colin says it boggles their mind there's so many people in such stressful traumatic transition. we don't know how long the family will stay or which school the family children will attend or what the neighbors will say. you sign up for something like this and take a very big risk. after all, there's plenty of stories about criminal migrants but the stokes took the risk and opened their home to people in need. you can say they're encouraging illegals, you can say they're overloading local services like education, healthcare, just say -- say it's just plain wrong to harbor people who are here illegally. say all of the above but i take my hat off to colin and jessica stokes. they're engaged in act of charity. they're good samaritans. makes you think, doesn't it?

what could we, what should we do as generous americans? third hour of varney starts now. stuart: i think we should bring in brian brenberg for this and happens he's here. what should we do as individuals and generous americans for them? >> as individuals, we are called to be compassionate and charitable and helpful person in our midst in need. but we are also voters who think systematically about policies that are humanitarian or not. in is not humanitarian and does not work on a large scale. the stokes are wonderful people, but not everyone can do that or should do that and that's the problem here. we have to think about morality at a individual level and a

systemic level, and the problem right now with the sanctuary city folks, open border folks is they're thinking at the individual level but they are not integrating at the level that citizens and voters have to integrate to run a free republic. stuart: that's a fair point. lauren, what do you think? lauren: i was touched by this story this morning and spent time listening to local interviews that this couple did. they're wonderful people but the shock was not lost on me. there was no demand to help these migrants staying at their local airport that they raised their hand and less handout an hour later this family shows up. they knew nothing. what does that say about we the american people, where the voter is in terms of being fed up with what is going on? now this family is on the front lines of a dysfunctional government and border policy. they're great people, good samaritans but this could be disastrous and there's not a lot of folks like this good family.

stuart: it's a massachusetts program and i don't know if you can refuse to take people that arrive on your doorstep and sign up and four minutes later there's some gang member banging on your door, are you allowed to say sorry, not today. not you. can you do that or not? >> weave seen squatters have rights that we can't believe in houses right now. what happens on day two it's good and day 20 they said we can't do this and then the state says you signed up, you take them. now where re-with? >> it's like adoption. individuals can step in the gap. you can't solve the bigger problem of kids being up for adoption. i agree 100%. the stokes family is doing so much but at a broader policy level, we have to vote and change this. stuart: the level is different from the collective policy level. we'll get a lot of e-mails on this i believe and read about it tomorrow morning on the friday

feed back. new york times sat down with group of independent vetters and found 11 of 13 people said they'd vote for trump over biden if the election were held today. if biden loses independence, he loses the owe election. >> he does that's not a big sample size. with careful about the conclusions we draw. what was interesting is they said we think biden is unfit, we think tram subpoena a narcissist, we're going to go with the narcissist. to me, decide what you think about trump, unfit disqualifies you. if you're a pilot. i don't care if you're a narcissist, just make returns. if we're locking for a passer, different question. we're not looking for a pastor. we're looking for a commander in chief. i don't care how narrow angle cystic he is if -- narcissistic he is if he's fit to serve and does a good job. that's what voters are looking at right now. stuart: two good points made by you. well done, young man.

therefore i'll make sure to watch you on the big money show at 1 planned parenthood. 1:00 p. >> every day, stuart. stuart: brian, thank you very much. back to the markets, please. green for the dow and red for the nasdaq. lou basenese with us today. we've had a recent rally in the market. highs for the s&p and dow. is it going to continue? >> we talked last week and could the markets rally if the fed doesn't cut rates and i told you yes and yesterday and today we're seeing that. investors had to adjust to the new reality and no rate cut in march, may, maybe not june or july but maybe. the data is overwhelming here. if there's a 20% rally in a preelection year, it's a positive thing for the markets so it's undies pure tone averaged and happens. the fed does not like to interfere we election years. stuart: do i need to sell microsoft or big tech? hold on? >> haven't sold in 27 years, what would make you do it now? stuart: good point.

ragaini lily in bitcoin is the resurgence of greed. >> i'm a socialist and it's a greed index. bitcoin has no other utility but block coin has utility. people speculate and people get afraid and bet on the vicks, sol 'tilty, that's the fear index. bitcoin is a greed index. seeing open access veejay etfs and people speculate easier and rally in bitcoin speculate with other areas. stuart: it's a greed index, does that mean don't touch with a ten foot pole? >> or brian or lauren or anyone's money. i'd rather go to vegas and bet on black on the roulette table. stuart: stay there. lauren, we want to look at a mover and one is john deere. deer is the proper name. lauren: pricing power diminished and demand for farm equipment and construction equipment it sells is drying up because interest rates are high and crop prices are falling. deer cut profit outlook for 2024. stuart: pity. i got a couple of john deere tractors and i love them.

intuitive machines. lauren: what a story. aerospace company. what happened this morning. their moon lander, look at stock, up 21%, their moon lander launched on spacex's falcon 9 rocket. this officially begins the im1 mission to the moon. it's going to take about eight days before it returns. if successful, first lunar touchdown in more than half a century. stuart: first privately operated lunar module touchdown ever? lauren: yes. stuart: private. okay. sound hound. love that name. lauren: voice ai for business. stock's up 45%. nvidia took a stake in sound hound and a bunch of other small ai firms you never heard of. lou might have heard of some. >> we mentioned sound hound on the show not long ago. voice ai based and they've landed and expanded and landed leadership position in ai and more. stuart: what's it do? >> voice ai and go up to drive-thru and it functions as taking your orders and automated

call systems so it's in the voice activation and recognition space. lauren: nvidia has a stake in arm, c3ai and reconsideration form suit cals, drug developments using artificial intelligence and israeli company using artificial intelligence in x-ray and this is nvidia take over every industry with $20,000+ chips. stuart: maybe i should get into nvidia even though it's late in the game. lauren: 700 is cheap, to the moon it goes with intuitive aerospace. stuart: coming up, new york governor hochul finally has a plan to take on retail creamery sis and what that man -- crisis, what that plan is, maybe too little too late. we'll see. biden pushing a new plan to make the wealthy pay their fair share. sounds like another version of the wealth tax. lauren: bonus rooms for you as well. stuart: stop it. tony robbins is life and business coach has a new book out, holy grail of investing. what's his number one piece of financial advice? he will tell us next.

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they don't think they're all paying every dollar and dime they owe to the irs and this is going to crack down on what they call wealthy tax cheats but it was really interesting and the irs commissioner is here on capitol hill today and democrats have really been fawning over him and called haim breath of fresh air at one point and one lawmaker compared him to abe lincoln and part is because he's carrying out the mission of democrats and president biden to make people who make a lot of money pay a lot more in taxes he said today it's the irs's mission to target high-income earners for audits to collect taxes they think they owe but are not paying but the rich are paying a big chunk of taxes and irs data finding top 1% of taxpayers paid a record high 45% of all federal income taxes

versus the lower tax that paid a record low of 34% of the taxes in 2021. today the commissioner explained what the irs is doing with all that money congress gave them. >> 100 million and that buys you 700 audits of millionaires and billionaires and 200 audits of complex partnerships, 100 audits of large corporations. before the innation reduction act, there was a fayetteville mus bibbingture of the -- fayetteville mus picture of cafeteria in austin, texas filled with returns of paraphernalia and that cafeteria is clean and people are eating than us storing tax returns. reporter: one upside of all the funding is getting the refund checks out to everybody, the middle and lower class that are

expecting them 3 now they're not storing the tax returns on the cafeteria, there's no mustard stains on the returns. stuart: hillary, very good. check the market and same situation, green for dow industrials up 160 and red for nasdaq down 63. a split market. tony ribbens is with us -- robbins with us and has a new book called holy grail of investing and he joins me now. tony, what's your top financial advice for this economy? >> well, everyone want as good grade of returns and most are behind and high rate of returns, take bigger risks. right now there's a formula that when i asked about the ultimate way of investing and the most important principle and the holy grail is understanding how to find 8-12 uncorrelated investments and that reduces risk 80% and uses same upside or

more. as you know, it's hard to find things uncorrelated in the public markets. when you go into alternative investments, i had the chance to interview 13 of the masters of the universe in that area. guys that have businesses with 20-100 billion in funds and growing at 20% compounded for decades, some 30%, stuart. the average person doesn't know bast it's all to private pension funds and ultra wealth jim jordan and rule haves change -- wealthy and rules have changed and people can tap in and reduce their disk. become the person not paying the 2 in 20 but be an owner and not try to fight that into the funds and purchase part of the general partnership and everyone the investments and charge the other people and they're charging you. stuart: okay, would you mind giving me financial advice if you don't mind. i know you chose that. >> i'd be happy to. stuart: you charge a fortune but

give it to me for free. i'm 75 years old, i'm comfortably off financially. where should i put the money? stocks, bonds, bitcoin? what's the spread? what do you make? >> well, i don't tell people what they should do with their asset allocation directly and have professionals share with them. if you're looking at that stage of life and comfortable, you'll want to make sure you have just the income you want. really that's it and income after taxes to give the quality of life want long term. what i'd look at is a mix, and ultra wealthy has private credit and private real estate and 29% in the public market and that might give you a bit of direction how you want to look but everyone is different and i'm not telling people individually what to co. they have to make their own choices and i've tried to give them education of what's possible. stuart, today, private credit, 2021 a few years ago, people getting nothing on bonds and

willing to spend junk bonds at 3.9% and we were get 9% at that time and banks tightened and private equity firms and valuing these companies and loan the money again and again and less than a 1% failure rate and any bank would die for that. spores teams that had to be a multi, multibillionaire and i have a piece of utah jazz and golden state warriors and dodgers and these are businesses growing 18% compounded over the last 11 years versus 11% in the stock market and they're not coordinated. you're in a position where the market, don't worry about the market inflation happens, these teams do extremely well. it's an amazing opportunity and most people are un-aware of it. stuart: send me the bill for that fine advice, tony, please, that was inspiring and i do appreciate it. thanks a lot. you're all right, tony, and we appreciate you being with us and good luck with the book. see you later. >> thank you, by the way, if they get a book, 100% of profits

go to feeding america. we fed a billion people in the last eight year withs these books. help yourself and help others as well. stuart: i did not know that, tony. thanks for filling us in and that's a good thing. tony robbins. great man. thank you. lou, i got financial advice from the great tony robbins. >> he's coaching out of the same play book and my parent company is made to make venture investing easy and successful and talking about private investment and venture capital. i'm c conflicted and the compani work for i own shares and tony is right. whether private equity or access to venture capital through mdbh and every day american needs more access to what the ultra wealthy have been using for years to compound wealth and that's happening because of efforts of tony and firms like ours and it's out there. it's positive development. stuart: lou, thank you. woe told you how a celebrity

chef guy fierri will not leave his fortune to his children. one of his sons is speaking out. what is he saying? ashley: what did i do wrong? hunter, his 27-year-old son says you know what, his father always preached self-sufficiency in education and certainly no free rides. despite a celebrity lifestyle, always been about hard work and perseverance and keeping your head up. the father says he tells his three sons the same thing that his father told him "when i die, you can expect that i'm going to die broke and you're going to be paying for the funeral". fieri also likes to "former nba star shaq who tells his children if you want any of this cheese, you've got to give me two degrees. fieri uses that same mantra and one son is graduating high school, one in the masters program at university of miami and another in the law program

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stuart: all right, the dow industrials holding onto a solid lead and stocks in the dow 30 giving all the momentum to the upside and nasdaq on the downside losing 37 points. big tech not doing well. lou basenese with me for the hour and starting with equinek. >> mwdbh and do your own reservice connected and have assess the risk. i don't want to get in trouble. >> this is urge largest data

play in the world and best way to play ai without the names like nvidia. stuart: data center. do they build them? >> and own them and play on data centers and doesn't matter the tech trend. today it's ai, a couple years ago it was the move to cloud computing during the pandemic and equinix benefits for that. stuart: cognition therapeutics. >> yeah, last week talking about bio-tech and more speculative assets and there's drugs targeting alzheimer and a large unmet need and i suffer through that with my grandmother for 17 years and definite need and cognition is trading for less than cash. $60 million market cap and grants from nih and this is one of the net net bio-techs and liquidate today and it's worth more than it is now. stuart: do they work on --

>> alzheimer. stuart: specifically? >> yeah, two trials underway right now and readout in middle of the year and end of the year. stuart: come up with a treatment for that and it works, you make a fortune. >> absolutely. stuart: to the crime crisis. police searching for a motive after the deadly shooting at the kansas city chiefs super bowl parade. ashley, how many people in custody this morning? ashley: last report, three people in custody and authorities trying to find a motive all though they do not believe terrorism was involved and eight children being reported to have been hit by the gunfire at the shooting that happened at the end of the parade to celebrate the kansas city chiefs super bowl win and one person killed in the hail of bullets and being identified as 27-year-old lisa lopez, mother of two and known as local radio dj. very sad indeed. fbi set up a website asking for tips, photos, or any video of

the shooting that might provide clues. by the way, president joe biden saying the shooting cuts deep in the american soul and calling on congressional lawmakers again to back gun control measures. stu. stuart: ashley, thank you very much indeed. staying on crime. lawmakers in washington dc and virginia at odds over plans to move sports teams out of the capitol. the state's attorney general of the state of virginia is joining me now here in new york city. are the teams leaving dc because of crime, and that's it? >> in my mind, that's one of the factors. virginia under gloverrer youngkin is open for business and the arena they're looking to move to is only 5 miles from where they play and we've seen a very different approach to crime in dc than just right across the water in virginia. 23 you look and average arrest record according to former dc police chief and someone picked up on homicide charge in washington dc is 11 prior arrests.

they've developed a criminal first, victim last mindset revolving door and people don't feel comfortable going to the district and tragically dc crime problems becoming virginia crime problem because of the number of commuters and it's hurting our businesses and restaurant scene in washington dc. people are fleeing and this is our nation's capitol and people are afraid to visit our nation's capitol because of crime and spend entertainment dollars and they'll spend it where they feel safe. stuart: basic problem is soros-barked district attorneys, isn't it? there's a soros-backed guy in california. >> that's one of the left wing social juice tis prosecutors and bottom line is 3-5% of felons commit over 50% of violent crime n. virginia, governor youngkin and i launched ceasefire on violent repeat offenders and crime goes down. if you want to lower crime, go over the small subset of violent repeat offenders and seems like common sense. common sense is not very common

these days and social justice prosecutors that have criminal first and victim last catch and release mindset and view the defendant, criminal defendant is the one that's actually the victim. your first role as a public official official is keep your citizens safe and the politicians are failing. if if you look at trend line between 1992 and 2018, overall crime including gun violence in america dropped almost every year between 1992 and 2018 and overall gun ownership in america dramatically increased. what was the change? there was truth and sentencing and pro abolition and common sense policy that went after the small subset of repeat violent offenders and that's the proven meth method to lower crime. you want to lower crime, go after repeat violent offenders and get them off the street.

in 2001, average arrest record of somebody picked up on homicide charge in washington dc was five prior arrests and dramatic change between 2001 and now today in washington dc and seen this all around the country. these violent repeat offenders that some of the prosecutors view themselves more as social workers than prosecutors. >> well, we're limited and support begging local officials not to support the soap box deals and we've have members of congress from virginia that voted for some of the measures that put forth that make it easier for the catch and release program. it's really tragic. what we're doing in virginia with operation ceasefire and others, we're going after the repeat violent offenders and some of our -- when we came in office, richmond, norfolk, we've seen great results going after the subset of repeat violent offenders and crime is down when

you have prosecutors that go after these repeat offenders. stuart: we'll leave it right there. that's a good place to end it i think. jason, virginia attorney general. thank you so much. >> appreciate it. stuart: governor of new york state, kathy hochul, has a plan to crack down on retail theft. ashley, what does she want to do? ashley: well, the governor is proposing $25 million for a new state-wide smash and grab enforcement unit to build cases against organized theft rings and hochul wants to expand a affidavit initiative that will allow for arrest of someone that's been repeatedly banned from a store. all part of a multipronged approach that the governor hopes state lawmakers will pass into law and the governor also pushing for judges to increase their discretion in setting bail for suspects charged for shoplifting and hochul says people deserve to walk their streets, go to their shops, go to stores safely and purchase products without an incident.

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>> stu, some of the money going towards repairing aircraft control towers, but sounds like the bulk of nearly $1 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law will be used to make airports more comfortable, improve the flying experience, that kind of thing. here's one example from pete buttigieg. >> we're investing at hubs like chicago o' o'hare national airpt and bathrooms wider and baggage system better. reporter: this investment for 100 airplanes in 44 states comes a at a precarious time for air travel as you know, stu. a recent survey from travel booking app hopper finds half of travelers planning spring break get aways are concerned about delays and cancellations, even as secretary buttigieg touts holding airlines accountable. add to that worries over the rise of near misses on runways at airports across the country

caused partly by the shortage of air traffic controllers and of course the problems with the boeing 737 max 9 after that plug flew off a plane in midair last month. to that end, faa administrator mike whitaker toured boeing 737 production line in the seattle area this week and met with boeing senior leadership and faa inspectors on the ground there. in a statement whitaker says we're aggressively expanding oversight of new aircraft with increased floor presence at all boeing facilities to ensure boeing is delivering safe airplanes. secretary buttigieg, stu, is expected to hold a press conference in the next hour or so to discuss those airport investments we mentioned at the top. we'll see if he'll address these safety concern z as well, stu. stuart: we shall see, grady trimble, thank you. lou, airport makeovers is that enough to make you invest in

airport stock s? >> not even close. i travel all the time and never thought about investing. airline stocks can be hazardous to your investment health and not a booed business to be in. stuart: doesn't seem to work on long term basis. >> never does and think it should. there's constant demand anded a vas nor prices on the fly. doesn't pan out. stuart: thank you, lou. president biden reportedly slashing the number of f-35 fighter defense in the defense budget request. why is he doing that, ashley? ashley: to meet a cap. put in place by congress on the size of the upcoming defense budget. now defense spending accounts for about half of the u.s. dis-correction natural rights approach budget and the 2024 budget including $886 billion for national security still has not passed congress. biden administration wants to reduce the number of f35 jets buying from lockheed martin from 83-70 and that'll be an 18% cut that would save an estimated

1.6 billion. biden's overall defense of national security budget request is about $895 billion, that would force by the way deep cuts in a wide range of programs and delays to existing programs and would also slow down the effort to rebuild weapon stocks depleted by wars in ukraine and israel. stu. stuart: ashley, update on shooting of the kansas city chiefs parade. what do you have? ashley: yeah, talking to media right now as we speak. the police chief saying they believe the shooting happened because of a dispute between individuals. two juveniles are being detained and half the victims are under the age of 16 and reading some of the latest headlines. there's three people currently in custody. they've not been charged yet. they believe the shooting was confined to one area but again, we've been searching or asking for a motive and seems to be a

dispute between individuals that decided to use guns. stu. stuart: look at impact on that city and future parades. awful. ashley: awful. stuart: thank you, ash. show me the dow 30. a sense of the market as we always say. i've got a sense there's plenty of buying and only 4 losing issues out of the 30 and the rest are in the green. the dow is up 200 points in the paints. bill brock was ncaa official for eight years and announced resignation. what sparked his departure? we'll find out because he's going to join us next. ♪ (fisher investments) it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same, but at fisher investments we're clearly different. (other money manager) different how? you sell high commission investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must earn commissions on trades. (fisher investments) never at fisher investments. (other money manager) ok, then you probably sneak in some hidden and layered fees.

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and invite shannon barnes. dream do come true. xfinity gives you reliable wifi with wall-to-wall coverage on all your devices, even when everyone is online. maybe we'll even get married one day. i wonder what i will be doing? probably still living here with mom and dad. fast reliable speeds right where you need them. that's wall-to-wall wifi on the xfinity 10g network. ashley: well, three academics institutions, university of florida state international and colorado state are going to receive a share of the money to research the claim that biology courses often inaccurately categorize sex and gender as binary. the national science foundation is spearheading the study into

sex gender narratives and undergraduate biology and impacts on transgender nonbinary and gender nonconforming students. in part, by denying the fact that sex is binary. the foundation calls the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda a high priority and boasts it has multiple identity-based employee resource groups including one for lgbtq+. critics say just another example of taxpayer funds being repeatedly used to push extreme left wing agendas on the issue of gender. stu. stuart: thanks, ashley. ncaa official resigned to protest transgender policies within that organization. that former board member is bill brock and he joins me now. bill, why exactly did you resign? state of america well, stuart, a bottom line nonnegotiable for any sports organization must be

fair competition for women. in business terms, ncaa lost sight of its bottom line. stuart: you've been called anti-trans for that statement. >> i'm pro women and pro fair competition and spent 14 years for the anti-doping agency and had the focus with experts on protecting a fair level playing field in u.s. sport and sport around the globe, and i understand what increases sport performance in male biology and female biology are incompatible in terms of a fair sport category. i'm not against anybody but for fair sports category. stuart: the sports caster is speaking out against trans

athletes in women's sports. he said i'm not trans-phobic but it's common sense. is it common sense, bill? >> it's common sense, it's apparent to everybody u and unfortunately the dialogue has gotten interrupted with a lot of false claims about the science. i've worked with scientists including dr. tommy lundburg from stockholm, sweden, and they've had decades of research related to the fundamental question, which is can a male meet as a woman or at a women's level through hormone suppression? the answer is peer review published scientific studies is unequivocally no, that can't happen. so what common sense tells people is absolutely confirmed by the science. stuart: what about a separate category for trans athletes?

>> well, that would certainly be a lot more fair than making women bear the brunt of the idea of inclusion of trans individuals. i think that there are a number of sports organizations on the international level that proposed that. that is the only thing that would be fair if you're going to have a another category. what's important to protect women and their opportunities and those are being lost. stuart: what do you think of transgender athletes in the olympics beginning if five months time. what are the rules laid down now? >> you know, we've seen it and saw it in the last olympic games in tokyo and trans athletes competed in the women's category. again, those opportunities

should be biological females. there's only one kind of female in terms of sport. the categories in sport ought to be divided by sex because in sport we ought to be about fair competition safe competition so the olympics goes sport by sport, they've got different rules depending on the sport, but those sports organizations again that are not focused on fair competition and are focused on something else are doing a great disservice to women and they're discriminating against women by giving more males opportunities. stuart: thanks for being with us today, bill. this is very important souct. we're glad you're here to cover it for us or help us through it. bill, thank you very much indeed, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you so much, stuart. stuart: here it comes, thursday trivia question: where was america's first organized ski

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stuart: we asked an interesting question. where was america's first organized ski patrol formed? lou baseand aas he is a skier. lou:i have no idea. stuart: you are in all kinds of sports. what's your guess? ashley: i haven't been skiing in a while especially florida. i would go with stone mountain. stuart: i am going to go with the gore mountain because i never heard of it. thank you, people. the patrol was formed in 1934 by volunteers their motto was be careful and think while you ski. that is what they do. thanks for sticking around. coast to coast starts now.