>> this is not a political game. this is real life. people's lives. they seem to be not worried at

all about how harsh they are on this country. >> now, if i'm going to put money into big, mega-capp tech, it's going to be apple, amazon, microsoft would be the three names i would look at in that space. >> look beyond big tech too. you also need to make sure that you are vigilant of companies that could with the companies of the -- be the companies of the future. >> in the name of content moderation, twitter for years has been smuggling in political viewpoint-based discrimination. >> the fundamentals have started to crack, and the socks have had these deep -- stocks have had these deep fissures in them. when the fundamentals improve, you'll see stocks spike dramatically. ♪ ♪ ♪ stuart: oh. oh, pound the alarm. shouldn't that be sound the

alarm? it's pound the alarm? lauren: i guess when you don't want to wake up in the morning -- stuart: oh, that's what you do. lauren: i have no idea. stuart: it is 11:00 eastern tim- lauren: the questions you ask me. [laughter] stuart: easy to answer. it is friday, october 28th. check those markets. do you like this or don't you? 600 points up for the dow industrials, 200 points up for the nasdaq, 63 for the s&p. that's a rally, folks. how about the 10-year treasury yield? last time we checked -- i'm sorry, big tech, there you go, they're all up except for amazon which is still down 8%. look at apple, up 7%, microsoft, 3%, etc., etc., etc. now, look at the 10-year treasury, we checked it a few minutes ago, it's still below 4%, 3.96 as we speak. all right, folks, now this. tens of millions of people are have a 401(k).

this year almost all of them will have lost a lot of money. big tech has crashed, the bull market has ended. this is not something the biden team wants to see right before the elections. it's a huge red flag for voters. your pension money has taken a big hit. during the trump years, your 40 401(k) performed like the stocking market. even when the country was locked down and the market sold off, it quickly reversed, and the bull run continued. inflation was negligible. trump, with help from our colleague,ly kudlow, was actually closing the income inequality gap. financially, it felt good. the biden years do not feel good. you don't feel financially secure when inflation wipes out wage gains, mortgage rates double and the value of your 401(k) drops by a third or even more. democrats don't pay much attention to the stock market, but right now they should because those tens of millions of people with retirement

savings will be asking that old, telling question, am i better off now than i was two years ago? biden won't like the answer. investors will be a factor in the midterms, and the midterms are 11 days from now. third hour of" varney if" startt now. ♪ ♪ stuart: okay, we just did a quick market check. we're still up almost 600 points on the dow jones industrials. jonathan hoenig with me now. almost everyone with a 401(k) has lost money since biden took office. do you see things getting any better if the republicans take back the house and the senate? >> well, ideas move the world, stuart. there's no assurance of a bull market, but whether it's north korea, south korea, east germany versus west west germany or havana versus miami, the most

prosperous economies and countries are always the most free countries. that's a one to one correlation. you want to talk about are you better off, investors are asking themselves that. and unlike a lot of the democrats who believe that investors are only in, you know, wall street with their caviar and grey poupon, we're all investors, stuart, and we've gotten shellacked this year not just in terms of even stocks, they're down, but the inflation as well. and that is sorely government's responsibility here. if investors and people really cared about the economy, they'd have been voting for free markets, capitalism and, of course, that's what it needs to get itself turned around. stuart: when i first came to america in the 1970s, it was the rich and the wealthy who invested in the stock market. it was an elitist pursuit. but nowadays with 401(k)s, iras, pension funds, etc., etc., there's tens of millions of americans who have a piece of the stock market. so when it goes down like this, it becomes a political factor. i think it's going to -- it's

against the democrats, what the market's doing. >> it's against the democrats, and it's against prosperity, stuart. america's always been about celebrating innovation. even bono gets it from u2, in his latest biography calling business people heros. when they come to a town, they bring jobs, treat people well. ironically, i think a lot of americans, a lot of democrats see america more like, say, europe. they want more of that european model -- stuart: that's exactly right. >> the irony, stuart, is the poorest 20% of all americans are actually rich arer than most european countries. the most free countries, as i said, they're always the most prosperous, and that's what you should be voting for, a free economy, is -- a successful economy, a free america. stuart: real fast, are there any big tech companies that you are buying? i know you usually go for exotic stuff, any big tech the companies you buy today? >> you should want to make

money, stuart. i think this is very much like the environment after the 2001 tech market crash. a lot of areas, emerging markets, foreign stocks, energy, that's where with i'm putting my money right now. microsoft, apple, great companies, not great stocks for the near term. stuart: oh, okay, jonathan -- [laughter] time's up. >> expand your horizons, my friend. stuart: you're right, my friend, i should. you're all right. see you again soon. >> be well, stuart. stuart: back to the elon musk-twitter deal, it is official, and musk says he doesn't want twitter to become a free-for-all hellscape. steve hilton is here. all right, steve, what kind of content moderation do you think twitter will have? there's got to be some. what will it be? >> yes. one end of this is very straightforward, stuart. nobody wants the kind of content that belong, for a long time now people have agreed, should be suppressed whether that's terrorist stuff or child

pornography, you know? that's very easy. the other end is actually very contested. and so you can say i want to make sure it's a good experience for everyone, but actually when you see the politicization of some of these questions now, that is not a straightforward thing to do. now, elon musk says that he also wants to make it a safe space for advertisers. and that, i think, is the really complicated part of this. because, actually, if you talk to some of the executives at places like youtube and elsewhere, they say that a lot of the suppression of speech that we would argue has been totally outrageous, for example, in relation to the pandemic, the people who run these companies say that has been the demand of their advertisers. because the advertisers don't want their content alongside things that they consider to be, in the word of the moment, problematic. and so this relates to the wider question of woke corporations.

stuart: yep. >> because if you've got the marketing teams in these big companies, they're advertising saying, well, with we don't want anything that we don't like next to our'd ads, that becomes a problem. that becomes the real question whether elon musk is going to innovate around the business model for twitter so you're less dependent on these big advertisers and their political views. stuart: are you on twitter? >> oh, yes. @steve hilton x. stuart: okay. did can you know as of today kanye west is back on twitter? how will that go with potential advertisers? >> well, i think it's a perfect example. you've seen these giant companies severing ties, adidas and others, saying we don't want anything to do with him. that's an example of how the mindset and the political views of the companies come to bear, bear a role in relation to what is allowed on these platforms. so i think it's not going to be straightforward at all.

if he continues to rely on advertising as the main source of revenue. now, if he turns to other ways of making money from twitter, for example, paying for services and so on, this that's a different story. stuart: but he's got to change the business model if he really wants to turn the thing around, because it's not a terribly good moment. >> i think so. stuart: steve, we will be watching you sunday night, 9 p.m. eastern on "the next revolution." thanks very much for being with us. >> good to see you, stuart. stuart: lauren's got some movers. lauren: an internet company, the coe main registry for dot dot.com, and they processed 9.9 million new domain name registrations in the third quarter. stuart: t-mobile. lauren: they raised their forecast for wireless subscribers because americans are pulling their 5g service and their cheaper plans compared to their rivals, at&t and verizon.

but look, verizon is also up. almost 5%. we've got a rally. stuart: yeah, the dow's up nearly 600. and then we have davita, they're a dialysis -- lauren: yes. and i have to kill the buzz right now. they've down 25%. we needed a loser. they cut their full-year adjusted profit outlook. they blame labor pressures. there's a shortage of medical workers, so a lot of medical workers that would normally work in one of their dialysis centers are working at the hospitals instead. a lot of people aren't coming in for treatment either. down 25% on a day the market's up 600. stuart: now this, trump held 26 rallies mt. month before the 2018 midterms. biden has only made 4 campaign stops this october. with his low approval numbers, he hasn't been able to help the democrats. we've got a report on that. a former of "saturday night

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from 2021 that shows women were more likely to be in that new gun buyer group. but the interesting thing is that gun sales in general have really peaked in 2020 and continued to soar. ross is the owner of this fss armory. you guys have every day 3-5 people come in to buy a gun that have never if owned a gun before. why are they coming in, and why are they arming themselvesesome is. >> yes, a lot of them are women, and they've taken a good grip on that sport. but it's more about safety. it's more about their personal concern of their safety. the crime is up everywhere whether it's stolen property or physical attacks or burglaries or anything else. they're really trying to protect themselves. >> reporter: i mean, i think this industry that has been seen as a male-dominated industry, to see women leading gun sales, what do you think that says about the consumer and about the current climate? >> well, the current climate is pretty obvious, right? crime is up, so women need to

protect themselves just as much as men and everybody else. so they're looking to do it the legal, right way, and they're doing it. >> reporter: so we've shown some numbers about gun sales over the last couple years. for this year in particular, what is driving, on top of crime, what else is driving people to your store to want to purchase new guns, a first-time gun buyer, or additional guns in. >> the political climate is having a factor. in every election year, people are concerned about losing or changing their rights, and they want to get them while they can. >> reporter: thank you so much. obviously, the election's still not here, stuart, we expect there might be even more gun sales as we move through november and the end of the year. back to you. stuart: in new jersey, no less. former "saturday night live" cast member chris redd was attacked outside a new york city comedy club. the issue of crime in new york city. what happened? lauren: yeah. heft punched mt. face outside of that comedy club, then

hospitalized for treatment of a laceration of the face many what police described as an unprovoked attack as he was getting out of a vehicle in front of the club where he was supposed to perform that night. is anyone safe? stuart: was the suspect arrestedded, do we know? lauren: not that we know of. stuart: a non-provoked attack. one more. rob astorino is with me now. is lee seld zeldin going to win the governor's race on the crime issue? >> yep. very simply, yes. [laughter] and it's not just the crime issue, though that is very important, top of mind and, obviously, there are a lot of examples of just indiscriminate, ran come attacks. but also you -- random attacks. also you add the inflation and the economy, for monday, halloween, people are actually thinking about buying less candy or closing the lights off at their house at 7 so people go past it because they don't have candy, they can't afford it. that's how bad it is right now.

so i think lee zeldin has a huge opportunity here. i think he's going to be win. glenn youngkin, the virginia governor, is coming in on monday for a rally with lee zeldin. so i think it's there on the table, and everyone sees he can win this. and that debate performance by kathy hochul, i don't know who had a worse week, john fetterman, kathy hochul or khan way west. stuart: well, what stuck out to me -- [laughter] good question. what stuck out to me was when governor hochul just dismissed the crime issue, turned to lee zeldin and said i don't know what you're so worried about -- i don't know the exact words, but she dismissed -- >> why is it so important to you. stuart: that was the perfect opening for lee zeldin. >> and he took it. and you know what? that, i'm sure, is going to be a commercial real soon if it's not up already on the air. and that encapsulates -- i remember, stu, when i, you know, earlier this year the two nypd officers who were gunned down, and i was at the funeral mass at

st. patrick's cathedral, and the wives were pleading with governor hochul who was in the front pew and eling her the system is broken can -- telling her the system is broken, that people are dying and getting hurt and to change the no cash bail law. and she just sat there, and then outside the press asked her and sort of, like, coldly just said i'm sticking by my no cash bail law. and i think that's going to be the end of her because, you know, when people don't feel safe, when women are buying guns, as madison just said, you're at a point where enough is enough. stuart: governor hochul wants to keep the mask option for children. in new york city schools. why on earth would she do that? >> again, because i don't know if there's anyone more out of touch than kathy hochul right now. the pandemic is clearly over, but it's a power thing, and she had that vax pendant that she had all the time, although she stopped wearing it now.

parents are completely outraged by all of this nonsense. and to to put kids back in masks which clear wily did not work during the pandemic, and she has indicated very clearly concern and there's bills in the legislature -- that she will force kids to be vaccinated in order to attend school. so that's on the ballot as well. if you want this nonsense to end, you've got to vote republican, you've got to vote for lee zeldin here in new york and state senate candidates. stuart: wouldn't it be something if new york state went republican at the governor's level? big smile. rob, thank you very much for being with us this morning. we do appreciate it, sir. thank you very much. >> thanks, stu. take care. stuart: i want to get back to the markets because you're going to like this, a 600-point rally for the dow industrials and, what's that, 188 points up for the nasdaq. this is a rally. going strong today. eleven days til the midterms and voters are googling their top issues. what are the top issues?

lauren: according to axios, it's jobs, taxes and guns, those are the top three. other republican issues that are important aside from jobs and taxes is immigration and gas prices. and those are down at around number 15. i think people are saying how are these midterms going to affect my life, my job, what are the taxes i'm going to have to pay. and firearms are number three. but i think more broadly, that's violence. people are worried about their finances, and they're scared. stuart: good point. justice amy coney barrett, she's got a new book that's coming out. i believe, though, the publisher is under great pressure to drop the book. why? lauren: this is explosive. 250 public literary figures, they wrote a letter to penguin random house. they don't want them to publish this upcoming book. they say drop it because amy coney barrett, the judge, the supreme court judge, is a devout catholic. and as donald trump's third high

court pick, she helped the supreme court remove the federal right to abortion. the letter says, penguin random house needs to recognize its corporate responsibility, quote: many of us work daily with books we fine disagreeable. rather, this is a case where a corporation has privately funded the destruction of human rights with obscene profits. her book deal is worth $2 million. that's what hay wrote in their open letter. stuart: i think that is absolutely disgusting. lauren: free speech. stuart: 250 people in the literary world? lauren: amy barrett has said repeat repeatedly, i cannot let my personal politics guide the way i rule. stuart: enough of this because my head's exploding. i want to smile a bit more. now this -- [laughter] look at this.

oil protesters, climate people, i guess, just sprayed a rolex store with bright orange paint. this is the same group that's been attacking priceless artwork. chris rue foe calls these stunts organizational suicide. apple just reported record revenue despite disappointing iphone sales. susan li just folk spoke to tim cook about the challenge challenges facing apple. susan li is next. ♪ call me al, call me al ♪

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"stranger things" in their merchandise. they're lauren not just "stranger things, "but a lot of their shows. look at that, i love lite brite. stuart: what because that have to do with it? lauren: it's a 1980s show. it's a way to make more money. another stream of revenue. stuart: what's that? lauren: i've never watched "stranger things." stuart: nor me. lauren: chew us out, folks. [laughter] stuart: we should have never admitted this. lauren: i know! stuart: apple reboundedded nicely this morning. earlier i saw it up 7%. there you go, it's up 75%. now -- 7.5%. now, that's a nice bounce, all right. let's bring in susan li who spoke to tim cook, no less. what did he tell you about iphone sales, susan? susan: and i'm also a "stranger things" fan as well, so i can

give you some briefings on that. tim cook, apple ceo, pretty much echoing what every other technology ceos has told us this earnings season. the strong dollar is impacting the bottom line. inflation is hurting everybody, and there might be a bit of a slowdown heading into the holiday shopping period. let's talk about the u.s. economy and the global economy first, and here's what tim cook told me about what's happening, how it's impacting apple. he says, look, the u.s. economic outlook is a challenging environment. really? there's no doubt about that. and the macroeconomic effect, obviously, is what's driving the strong dollar and, of course, running weakness in currencies in most spots around the world, so so that's big. in the services area, things happening like digital advertising that's clearly macroeconomic, gaming that's clearly macroeconomic. the slowdown in digital advertising which you have heard from google and meta this week and also slowdown in gaming. as for inflation, i asked how that's impacting the company and

that price raise for apple tv+ your apple one bundle and apple music. he told me, look, it's really different reasons for apple tv+ we embraced it when we had very few shows, and now we've got a much greater inventory, so we're just pricing to the value of the service. on music, the cost of licensing has gone up, so you could call that somewhat inflationary. but in terms of other bigger ticket items that are inflationary, wages, logistics and certain silicone components are inflationary. there are constraints on the top of the end, the iphone 14 pro maxes and the pros meaning there are some supply chain clogs, getting those handsets into a lot of those that have ordered brand new iphones. but they're still telling us it's going to be a strong quarter and a lot of record switches in a record september sales quarter. and i think that's exactly what wall street is taking away right now, stu. things are not as bad as feared, and for apple which is a closed,

sticky ecosystem, if you have new losers coming online are, they're going to stick with the company even through slowing economic times. stuart that's absolutely fascinating. you really like apple products, don't you? susan: well -- [laughter] stuart: yes. stu. susan: i use apple products. i've tried other products as well, but i can tell you that the camera system is fantastic compared to the other handsets i've tried and really it's just a seamless system, right? even stu varney can get on an apple and figure out how to use the icloud system and maybe apple tv+. it's easy for you. stuart: come back to new york fast because you know those ear pod things, ear buds -- susan: air pods, yeah. stuart: they've to broken, and i can't get them fixed. i don't know how to do it. come on back, susan, i'll see you on monday --

stuart: susan: i think this is just i.t. support needed. stuart: all good. our next guest has called out woke companies from disney to american express, and if now bloomberg says these woke companies are running scared. the man they're running scared from is chris rue foe, and he joins me now. do you have them running squared concern scared, and if so, what are they doing? >> well, i think what we've done is we've exposed critical race theory anded radical gender theory in about 20 of the upon theture 100 companies. we've driven up negatives on companies like disney which sufferedded a catastrophic reputational loss as it was fighting with ron desan tin os than writer -- ron desantis, and so we've shifted corporate culture. we know this from bloomberg and the "wall street journal." they don't want to get in the crosshairs of the anti-woke movement because it's bad for business. that's exactly what we've intended to do. if you have to declare neutrality in the culture war,

we will come after you, target your reputation, target your ceos in the realm of public i appearance, and we'll drive down your business in a meaningful way. stuart: has anybody tried to silence you? >> they have, of course. i've been doing battle with "the new york times" and "the washington post," they're working together to try to suppress conservative or right-leaning viewpoints. but here's the thing, they can't stop me because i always come with the facts. i always substantiate my reporting with hard evidence, and what's happening in many companies is really against the values of a large majority of the american people. and so as long as we can keep reporting the truth, exposing this cultural malfeasance in our great companies, i think we'll continue to be successful. stuart: anti-oil, i guess they're climate activists, they sprayed bright orange paint all over a rolex store. i think it's in the new york city. this is the typical, we've seen a lot of this recently with

priceless artworks having stuff chucked on 'em. you call this civilizational suicide. do you want to explain that? >> i think it is exactly that on two fronts. symbolically they're going after the great fathers of western civilization in the arts. remember boy, is she cezanne, van gogh, all of the great inheritance we have in the west, and then in a more tangible way they're going after abundant and cheap energy which, of course, fuels the industrialized economy, fuels everything from driving to home heating, to being able to produce goods and services. so they want to both destroy our heritage as an intellectual and aesthetic movement, but also destroy the great economic fortunes we have in the west. these are petulant children in a nihilistic revolt against their fathers, and we have to shut it down immediately. stuart: did can you know that there is a billionaire

somewhere, not sure of the name of this person, who's contributed a huge fund to these protesters to bail 'em out of jail, get 'em lawyers? they'll a pay any fines they have to pay. this is outrageous because there's no sanction an those juveniles that are doing no kind of -- this kind of thing. last word to you. >> if you deface some of the great artworks of western civilization, you should face severe penalties. you should sit in scale for a year and think it over. i think that would stop these spoiled kids quite with quickly. stuart: good. and i bet it was george soros who provided all this money. chris rufo, great work. thanks for joining us, we recenter appreciate it. >> thank you. stuart: it's now official, tom brady and his wife giselle have officially filed for divorce. in her statement gisele said they had grown apart. speaker pelosi's husband has

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♪ ♪ stuart: president biden has made only four campaign stops so far this month. compare that to president trump's 26 rallies in october right before the midterms in 2018. kim strassel with me now from the "wall street journal." why do you think the president is just not getting out and about at a crucial time like, kim? >> i think because people don't want him.

you know, varney, it's interesting, if you look at not only does he not do those kind of big rallies that president trump did, he just doesn't get out as much either. but also when he's been out, he's been going, for instance, to states like oregon, california where he won by huge amounts where he can maybe gin up the base but not really upset anybody, or he's been going to do events, for instance, he was alongside colorado senator michael bennett, but it was at a dedication for a national monument, not a campaign event. and if to me, it seems designed to say the president is out there, but when in reality the democrats don't want him anywhere near them. stuart: seems to me that a his handlers will move heaven and earth to keep him away from events, keep him in his basement, don't let him get out and about. they don't want him out there loose, do they? >> no. because as we've seen again and

again, every time he does, there's usually some clean-up required whether he starts to go off message and says something that the white house has to walk back, we had that interesting interview not long ago where he seemed to become unfocused or some people suggested he went to sleep. so this is -- he's a loose cannon. apparently, there are reports from within the white house, they've seen them reported a number of times, that he resents this and gets very frustrated by it. but it almost seems as though people are doing it for his own good. [laughter] stuart: really. it seems democrats have realized now that abortion is not the winning issue for them they hoped it would be. can they pivot to crime this late in the game? >> yeah, but here's the problem, they do need to pivot, they need to be talking about the things americans care about, but they don't have a record that is helpful. this is why they wanted to talk about other issues in the first place whether it be abortion or the claims of republican extremism. now they look disconnected. but what are you going to say,

right? i mean, right now you've got in places like wisconsin, ron johnson, where he's now getting a fairly comfortable lead, the senator running for re-election, he's just hammering his opponent, mandela barnes, on everything he's said in the past on crime. so the democrats either have to claim they never said any of that and, unfortunately, you can roll the tape the, or they've got to try to come up with an excuse, neither of which is very effective for campaigning. stuart: you've got that right, kim strassel, and that's a fact. thank you very much for being with us. we'll see you soon, i do hope. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: speaker pelosi's husband, paul, paul pelosi, attacked inside the family home in san francisco. jonathan hunt is with us. the police have a suspect in custody. do they have a motive, jonathan? >> reporter: they don't yet. here's what we know, stuart, that 82-year-old paul pelosi was beaten with a hammer in this attack the, suffered blunt force trauma to the head and body. the house, the pelosi house, we

do know, was specifically targeted. but whether that was for political purposes or whether it was an opportunistic attack and the i assailant, perhaps, just wanted to rob that house because he thought the pelosis were out of town, we don't know at this point. the fbi, the u.s. capitol police are now assisting the san francisco police department. and we first heard about this from the spokeman for speaker pelosi who said, quote, early this morning an assailant broke into the pelosi residence in san francisco and violently assaulted mr. pelosi. the assailant is in custody, and the motivation for the attack is urn investigation. mr. pelosi was taken to the hospital where he is receiving excellent medical care and is expected to make a full recovery. now, speaker pelosi was not there at the time, and the motivation is obviously the major investigative point at this point, was this the kind ofically-motivated attack that we have seen around the country against politicians of every

political party over the last couple of years or so. and there have been previous protests at the pelosis' house which is well known in san francisco. so it has, it's not a secret where they live. you can see some of those previous attacks there. that protest on july 1st, 2020, graffiti was also to bed on the house on new year's day 2021. condemnation is coming in from both sides of the political divide. nancy pelosi's opponent in the upcoming midterms, republican john dennis, said it was, quote, an appalling act that deserves condemnation and contempt. no one has the right to violate another's property, nor to initiate harm on min else. the pelosis are neighbors. my family and i wish a speedy recovery for paul and swift justice for the assailant. senate majority leader chuck schumer said what happened to

paul pelosi was a dastardly act. i spoke with speaker pelosi earlier this morning and conveyed my deepest concern and heart-felt wishes to her husband and family, and i wish him a speedy recovery. the president also said he is praying for paul pelosi. we'll learn more in about 45 minutes from the police. stuart? stuart: we'll update at that point. thanks very much, jonathan. all right, we show you the dow 30, give you a sense of the market, we like to say. well, i sense a rally. only two stocks are down, that is chevron and dow inc.. the rest, 28 of them, straight the up. the dow's up 630 points, nearly 2%. please, don't go anywhere. friday feedback is next. ♪ ♪

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okay, friday feed mac -- bead -- feedback, here we go. tom creates -- writes this: would you consider an on-air interview with paul mccartney? i believe it would be a compelling interview. yes, i would definitely do it. i'm in awe of mccartney, brilliant musician. and he gave a 3-hour live set when he was 80 years old. i think that's absolutely terrific. okay. lauren: i saw him a few years ago, and that was my impression too. how is he still going and going and going with that much energy? if i went to the next day. stuart: and he's still got a voice. susan: and stu varney anchors 15 hours of television at 74 each week. how does he do it? stuart: oh, susan, thank very much. come back soon. [laughter] don't stay out there in california -- susan: i'm serious though. lauren: and he doesn't drink coffee. stuart: well, not now. i used to.

donald writes this: wondering if the team has any advice on what would make the perfect stuart varney halloween costume. i'm out of this one. you first, lauren. lauren: there's a meme of a man going around in regular jeans, levis, and it's a conservative man scared to walk in the city. that's the best i've got. save me, susan. susan: okay. i'm thinking of boris johnson. maybe a bit of a frumpy wig we could throw on? stuart: that's good. lauren: she beat me. susan: or we could do the traditional pitchfork and horns if you want. stuart: no, we're not going to do that. i'll do boris, if i do anything. [laughter] this is from jerry. we all have that one thing we look back on and say i wish i'd kept -- mine was a 1970 nova. what was yours? that's easy for me, bell-bottomed jeans. lauren: i don't have an answer to this. [laughter] i don't know. i think i keep everything. it's in the attic.

stuart: susan, bail us out. [laughter] susan: that's called a hoarder. we've "to work on that, lauren. but i would put my original iphone. i would keep it in the box, i would never have used it, auctioned it off for $36,000 like somebody did recently. stuart: that's a good one, although you would never be able to keep it in its box and not use it. you know that. susan: yes, that's true. stuart: i've been watching your informative show for years. if you ever need a catch phrase, i suggest financial sanity for an insane world. i like the sound of that. it's a bit long. just a tad long. you know in not bad though, not bad. we'll take it under consideration. this is from scott and knorr if lean. -- noreen. we were at varney and you. you have the best young, hard working people working with you. you and your entire crew seemed to get along famously -- [laughter] if only you knew. do you think that's the secret

to the success of your show? we had a blast. the secret to the show is very simple, we do have a terrific, hard working, young team that nose all about the things which -- knows all about the things which i know nothing about. lauren: thank you. thank you. i was going to say production failed not putting a picture up of everybody together. stuart: yeah. let's read -- i think we're done, are we not? we're out of time. come back soon to new york, susan, we need you here. lauren: and, lauren, thanks for a great day. to everyone who sent in their feedback -- [laughter] i got you, didn't i? lauren: and you won't even let me respond. stuart: no, of course not. we're out of time. what percentage of households of america own a dog? that's a good one. 30, 35, 40 or 45%? the answer after this. ♪ ♪

♪ stuart: all right. what percentage of households in america own a dog? my guess, i'm going to go for it, 35%. lauren: i think it's 35 president. i'm going to meet you on that. stuart: all right. the answer is, reveal, please. it's 45%. i bet that proportion went up during the pandemic. lauren: i think you're right. stuart: everybody and his brother seems to have a dog these cays. lauren: or two. stuart: that's right. time's ooh up for me. neil, it's yours. neil: stuart, i don't know what you did, but we've got the markets racing ahead, the dow up more than 600 points, but the nasdaq comebac