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karine jean pierre just to show up. hang a sign on the podium that says i would refer you elsewhere. we're not learning anything. from these appearances, united states has ignored the rise of socialism. four decades. increasing socialism in our hemisphere is driving poverty, which is driving immigration like it or not, as tech goes, so goes the market right now with amazon disappoints, really, i think you're gonna see another pull down with the rest of the tech stocks. earnings have been this big question mark as we headed into 2023. certainly things are cooling off here today. this happens to be seemingly one of the more optimistic times. we're going to ultimately see where jerome powell goes here in this next week. okay like a melody in my head that i can't keep singing like every day's like my eyeball. how do you pronounce that? that that nice y a z? what is that? i, as catch can help find this silence on the set. heard of that. you've heard of this before. long long group just

looking at the boats outside. one hit wonder. let's put it that way. there are both pretty cool. baby in the middle man. here it is. 11 o'clock, everyone and it's wednesday, january 25th if you check the market yourself, lot of reading left hand side of the screen down 3 60 nasdaq down to 15 big tech. oh getting hammered today , especially microsoft. look at that meta platforms down 1.5% apple back to 1 39. amazon's down over to microsoft over three alphabet. google down three and two thirds percent. where's the yield? on the 10 year treasury? he asks. it is under 3.5% 3.46 to be precise, mark tepper with me this wednesday morning. we gotta sell off on her hands. would you say that? this is the microsoft effect? 100% i mean, i think what what investors are realizing is that this is a reality. check those companies that everyone thought we're invincible. they're actually vulnerable and you look at

microsoft microsoft. they had very gloomy and weak guidance. but we heard this. like, two weeks ago from microsoft. we heard that things are going to be tough for the next two years. they're not immune to it and what investors need to realize is layoffs are not bullish. you don't let go of key talent. unless things are getting worse. okay so i think it's kind of a dose of reality do see some kind of analogy between investing and football way to t that one up for me, buddy. thank you. because you do i know you, you know not too far from the super bowl. we got a fc nfc championship games. upcoming obviously, but, yeah, i mean, if you want to be a great investor, you have to approach the game like a quarterback approaches the game. the quarterback walks up to the line of scrimmage. looks at the defense as the defensive scheme changes. they changed the play. they call an audible boom touchdown. so that's that's how good quarterbacks do it. i'm not a quarterback myself, but when it comes to investments, investments have to survey the scene. they have to see what the market is giving them and then pivot as

appropriate, telling me that by holding onto microsoft at 20 years i'm a lousy football strategist. is that basically just keep running the ball right up the middle. fortunately you've got nick chubb is you're running back, and it's worked. well, you probably don't know who that is. a soccer fan. nick chubb. just let that one go. yeah. cleveland browns running back best running back in the game. you're with me for the hour. so at some point, maybe you can explain that one to me, all right? thanks very much, nat. now this, everybody the school choice movement just took a leap forward. the teachers union is not happy, but parents should be. reynolds is the republican governor of iowa. she's just signed a bill that allows any student to use public money for private school tuition. translation parents are not locked into public schools. iowa has given them school choice and it's a wide variety of choice to the money goes into a parent's education savings account and can be used for charter schools, tutors textbooks, voucher systems special needs therapy. governor reynolds says this movement

began in her state during the pandemic lockdown, parents saw what the public schools were offering and they didn't like it. they want an alternative. what better way is there to end the teachers union hold over the public schools. that's why the unions pulling out all the stops to hobble school choice. the incoming governor of arizona, for example, wants to gut the state's existing school choice program. prodded by the unions, that is, she says it's too costly, but arizona is really flying against the wind. elsewhere school choice is powering ahead. 21 states have programs and now iowa joins the club martha maccallum with me this wednesday morning. i love school choice. i think it's a really big political thing that's going on right now. and i think you do 200% stuart. this is but you know what this has been in the making for decades, right? the bushes. both president bush's talked about school choice jeb bush talked about school choice. it has taken decades to move this ball, but it is moving. it is

breaking the backs of the unions. it has giving parents choice and it's a political winner. yes if you go back to his first governor's race in florida, largely wanted on the issue of school choice because minority families in florida wanted it, and his opponent, andrew gillum, was not offering it. he sided with the unions, and that was an early indicator that this would be a cute political win. look at governor duncan look at kim reynolds in iowa. they are smart politicians. i believe they're dedicated to this issue in a genuine way, but they understand that this is going to peel off independent voters as well. i think when you look ahead in politics, you know, you see the impact that the abortion decision had that was helpful to democrats. this is a very potent issue, and politicians who want to gain independent voters should follow the example of kim reynolds and others who are giving parents the opportunity. say this is your money anyway? you're $7600. so why don't you spend it how you'd like to because we're failing you in the public school system. you deserve to take that money and

use it. how you want a top adviser for stacey abrams defended the violent protests in atlanta. i'm going to put this on the screen. this is what she said. you cannot commit violence against a window or a car killing a human now that that is violence, shame on atlanta's leaders who fall into the same tired path of protecting property while our people are murdered by the police. you know, we've seen the video. that's that's obviously violence. what are they trying to do here? just talk around that i don't get it. violence is violence, whether it's just ducting a human being, which is obviously a more serious form of violence , but property when you start, you know to torch a police car. you're putting people's lives in danger by what you're doing. none of this can be excused. we respect peaceful protests in this country. when you go beyond that it is against the law. you're breaking the law. we've seen what's happened in our cities, whether it's atlanta or new york or chicago all across the country. i can't

understand why a politician thinks that this is a this is a winning take for them. nobody likes this point should be made. i believe of the people arrested four of them. well rich white kids from someplace else. of course. what the hell's going? you know what really bothers me about that that same group of people back during the vietnam war and other protests. they were protesting things that, um you know, we're sort of in a different category in many ways now granted if someone is unjustifiably killed by the police, and we see that the story that's playing out right now that may go in that direction. obviously that's something that needs to be addressed were for humanity were for people not suffering undue violence. but when people see what's happening in their cities, they hate it and it's making them move out of those cities. so these politicians are acting not and there, you know, in the best interests of themselves or the people in their cities can't bring the city's back the life if you get this kind of thing, absolutely accept what it's violent. martha maccallum. we will be watching you definitely on the

story. three p.m. eastern on fox. thank you, martha. back to the markets. lawrence looking at the movers. amazon is moving big time today, and i'm pretty sure i know why. but can i add to this slowdown story that was signaled by microsoft. first out of the gate and big tech earnings. there is a strike in great britain. the first one workers walked out about 300 out of 1000 in the main factory. there they say, look, we get wages on average 5, but that is not keeping up with the cost of living. so this is another headache for amazon. another headache for amazon is that their cloud business microsoft's cloud business is slowing down. amazon is king of the crowd cloud business if they slow down, and that's what they're looking at. that's why the stock is down. 2% 2.5% then we've got philip morris what you got there. goldman takes them up to a by 1.5% move is nice on a day when the market is down so much the price target. they say they're going to 1 20. and they believe they can reach 10% market share in the smoke free market in the

next couple of years. how about that tobacco company doing well , i guess people smoke in recessions do right. what about amazon? um amazon obviously has its its set of challenges. when you look at the consumer overall, i mean, we see that, you know, right now, credit card delinquencies are spiking so that consumers challenge but you know, you mentioned cloud. um amazon has been losing market share in the cloud space to microsoft for quite some time because microsoft has the edge in hybrid cloud. so you know amazon has its challenges . but i mean, look, it's getting it's getting cheap. i mean, it's at some point, you got to pull the trigger. that's the thing. the n nasdaq is the outperformer this year. it's up 8% so a lot of people were hoping that the dogs of 2022 would be the winners of 2023. i guess that's not the case. there's more room to sell so far, some of these big players that are cutting thousands of jobs and investing in a i pretty penny can i see please affirm. down big percent down.

big guy now pay later company. they do have a deal with kayak to give travelers greater pricing power. that doesn't necessarily explain to me why the stock is down. 8% marks. look i think this has to deal with with with delinquency. so we just heard from capital one and we've been hearing from capital one over the last few months that they're delinquencies are spiking faster than than they normally would spike. we heard from discover recently that they're delinquencies are on the rise. so you're looking at two credit card companies that deal with typically lower income consumers and buy now pay later is, you know, kind of the more trendy equivalent of a payday loan right recession indicator next to say so, yes, without a doubt. thanks everyone. take a look at this for the first time ever. rocket lab's launches an electron booster from the united states took off in virginia and set satellites into space again. then there's the symbolic doomsday clock now

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stuart: the fentanyl crisis at the border is worsening and house republicans call it the war and the cartels are winning. matt finn in eagle pass, texas. come on in with the latest,

matt. reporter: well, stu, here at the southern border on nearly a daily basis we're reporting on the fentanyl bus in arizona, new mexico and now in texas and the republican leaders are slamming president biden saying on his visit here just a few weeks ago, also on his visit meeting with president of mexico, he did not focus on the mexican cartels and he did not focus on fentanyl, which kills tens of thousands of americans every year. >> earlier this month, we know president biden met with the president of mexico, and it was an opportunity for them to finally reverse course on the terrible policies at our southern boarder and do something to address the humanitarian and security crisis, but what commitments did they publish immediately following that meeting? topping the list: diversity, equity, and inclusion; climate change; and integrating gender perspectives into disaster response. reporter: we have brand you video to show you just another

day at the boarder and this large group of migrants crossing here into the united states shortly after sunrise as we see so often, they're organized into single files, placed on a bus, and taken to a processing center and some will be released into the united states and some sent back to mexico, which is something we're seeing right now via title 42. back to you. stuart: all right, got it. thanks very much, matt. we hear you. got it. okay. 38 people on the terror watch list have been arrested on the southern border just since october. former acting dhs secretary chad wolf joins me. is there any evidence of terror activity from the people now in our country? >> well, i haven't seen any specific intelligence that says that, but just the number of people that they are apprehending along the borders that are on those watch lists that are that known or suspected terrorist is concerning. you have 17 in the month of december, 39 just this fiscal

year alone and 98 last fiscal year, and that number is increasing. these are numbers we've never seen along the southern border and it's just representative of the number of nationalities and the types of individuals that are now coming across that border, trying to come into the country illegally because they see what the rest of the world knows that that border is wide open unfortunately. stuart: if there were a terror incident in america, related to someone that came across the border illegally, that would be a political kansas city chiefs toosh fio for the admin strategies -- catastrophe for the administration, wouldn't it? reporter: sorry can't hear you. stuart: we have to get back to the markets while we fix that audio problem. down 370 for the dow industrials and we've been saying all day -- i've been saying all day and guests have largely agreed with me this is the microsoft effect.

still feel that way? >> 100%, yeah. look, i mean the market has been acting kind of oddly over the course of the last several weeks. lauren kind of mentioned this; right. we've seen some of the worst performing stocks from last year kind of taking the lead and leading the charge this year and when you looked under the surface, despite the fact the market was up, it didn't look like a healthy rally, and i think investors are starting to realize that, you know what, things are not so pretty in the near future. stuart: that was excellent and you bailed me out. >> i do what i have to do. i'm here to help. stuart: our guest's audio went down and had to bond that and you step -- abandon that had and you stepped in and did very well. chad wolf, i believe you can hear me; is that correct? >> i can. sorry about that. stuart: i'll repeat the second question, if there were a terror incident in america related directly to a terrorist that came across our southern border illegally, that would be a

political catastrophe for the administration, wouldn't it? >> without a doubt. 100%. the unfortunate thing here is this is obviously all preventable and there's policies you can put in place to prevent the number of known and suspected terrorists you're apprehending along the border and it's important to remember the numbers we're citing, these are just the individuals that are being apprehended by border patrol agents and another 50 to 60,000 got aways every single month that never come across a border patrol agent and the question is how many known or suspected terrorists and bad individuals are embedded in that flow and the answer is i don't know. unfortunately the department of homeland security doesn't know that either. there are some real national security consequences to what we see for the past two years of what's going on on that border. stuart: yeah. the other side of the coin, the administration has been giving left wing groups hundreds of millions of dollars to help illegal immigranted fight

deportation. immigrants fight deportation. the department of justice collected $350 million to keep the illegals in the country. that's government money spend keeping immigrants in the country. chad, what about money spent to keep them out? >> you're exactly right and mainly department of justice grant money going to the nongovernmental organizations that are actually trying to fight u.s. law. i mean, there's an immigration and nationality act that talks about how you deport individuals. making sure that they go through their immigration proceedings and go before immigration judge. they do all these things and at the end of the day if they're found not to have a valid claim and need to be deported, they need to be deported and yet you have groups that are being funded by the federal government and american taxpayers fighting that very system so the idea that american taxpayer moneys are going to individual groups that are now trying to counsel

or advise illegal immigrants on fighting u.s. law. it's crazy. it absolutely should not be occurring and that money should be spent on other things. stuart: we've been discussing precisely this for the last couple years but nothing ever changes, nothing is done. do you think something will be done at some point in the near future? any hope of that whatsoever? >> well, i'm hopeful. it takes leadership and will. this is knowable. you cited the numbers and is it a it's icks and money is out there -- statistics and the money is out there and these things are advertised by the federal government but it takes leadership either from an executive branch or presidential, or it takes that type of leadership from congress and so -- stuart: nothing happens till the democrats realize they're in a political catastrophe letting it continue. chad wolf, a pleasure, always. thanks for being with us, sir. >> yes, sir. stuart: no trust in this story whatsoever, the doomsday clock.

it's just symbolic time piece that shows how close humans are to self-destruction and moved closer to midnight. okay, lauren. it's nonsense. lauren: it is. stuart: thank you. lauren: but here is the reason. the reason was the topic with several of your gleeses -- delawaress, particularly at 9 9:0 -- guests, particularly at 9:00. what happened last year, the war in ukraine, which is the reason why we're ticking closer to destruction is starting in february. this is the first evaluation since then and they're worried about nuclear warfare should putin do something extreme and that would be cataclysmic for the world. stuart: are you worried, mark tepper? >> could be talking about the environmental cult and oceans boiling and extraterrestrials getting involved and could be the climate change call.

when in doubt blame it on them. stuart: lauren is not with us. lauren: we yes, that's been cited in the past but they specifically mentioned ukraine and nuclear warfare, that does have me concerned and has the world concerned, which is why you've seen this you can have a tank in seven months and you can have a weapon in -- stuart: i'll back off. lauren: i'm not saying be scared but i understand where it's coming from. oh, geez. >> super accurate. stuart: democrats want to ban gas stoves but realtors are saying not so fast. gas stoves have become a premium in real estate listings and could boost your home's value. i'm sure you want to hear about that. i have concern. senators quote taylor swift grilling live nation for the ticketing fiasco, watch this. >> i believe that ticket master ought to look in the mirror and say i'm the problem. it's me. stuart: okay. lauren: so walk ward.

stuart: who knew there were -- awkward. stuart: who knew there were so many swifties in the senate, that's next. ♪ ♪

stuart: this was one of my favorite songs from john lennon. not a sad song but unique for the time and day. you're looking at mount pleasant in south carolina 67 degrees and looks a little foggy and not a very nice day there. on the markets, not a very nice day either. susan is back with the movers and start with microsoft, please. susan: i like digging in a bit more for stu. i was just checking the price target and we've seen the best start for tech stocks and nasdaq since 2001 and microsoft, yes, taking down sentment today and earnings not that bad but the guidance have wall street disappoappoappointed and callina deceleration in cloud growth by 4 to 5% and calling for seven brokerages to cut their price targets down to 265 at jp morgan

and most calling for 280 and could get 50 or so in upside for the stock. now, i want to show you this. they signed up 156,000 new subscribers and spending 5g and cutting cost by $6 billion a year and at&t euphoria that's a free cash flow is spreading to t-mobile. look at the stock as well. verizon had impressive signups yesterday and means the telco space not bad to end last year. the counter trade coming to the skies, boeing versus the airline and had a surprise loss of boeing orders in demand is strong and the fact that boeing can't make the planes fast enough with their supply chain issues and labor issues but, you know, we have revenge travel and as you heard from the airlines, business is booming even better

than 2019. stuart: revenge travel, give me some of that revenge travel. i want some. thanks, susan. see you later. now this, as democrats push to ban gas stoves, real estate agents argue there's a big draw on home listings. jeff flock back with me in new york. does a gas stove really increase a home's value? really? >> i have a gas stove i must say and i kind of like it. i don't know that it increases the value, but it's in demand. gas stoves, you know the wolf ranges, those are in huge demand. so the beautiful blue flame, restaurants all use gas stoves. stuart: never seen a restaurant with a electric stove. >> because the reason is it cooks better and even eric adams said gas stoves cook better and we talked to real estate agents, listen right now. this guy says, yeah, it's huge demand, listen. >> it is definitely a value to have a gas line and a gas meter

at the home. most buyers do value having a gas stove over an electric with the way technology has been in the re-crept past. stuart: did you go to texas for this report? >> i don't know where we dug that fella up but hope he's not watching. at any rate, i've lost my train of thought here. what was i going to say? i was going to tell you about the research on the emissions of gas stoves. stuart: can't wait. >> i just saved this for you. now know, 40 million gas stoves, that's how many there are in the u.s., translate to 50,000 cars in terms of -- 500,000 cars in terms of emissions. you should be concerned maybe. here's the last one i'll give you. they did a poll, who owns gas stoves? stuart: who? >> democrats own 49% of the gas stoves, republicans own 42% of the gas stoves so the democrats may be trying to ban them but they're the ones that have them. stuart: that's fascinating.

>> you have a gas stove too, don't you? stuart: i do. >> are you a democrat? stuart: not recently. lauren: have you ever turned it on? does it work? stuart: yes, i have turned it on. just the other day. just the other day. i can boil water. >> boiling water. stuart: i have to move on, i'm in trouble here but i'm not moving away from gas stoves entirely. we have deroy murdock with and yous he's fired up about the ban and has an op-ed and reads, a modest proposal on where democrat tyrants can stick their gas stove ban. fill us in there, deroy. >> well, i won't say exactly where they can go. i'll let the viewers imagine that. let's start with this comment, which is i support a women's right to choose whether or not to use a gas stove. it's amazing the democrats talking about choice, choice and letting people decide. on this, it's shut up and listen to us because we know better than you and it's been attacked on many levels and one is the real estate aspect of the value of your home and the fact that

electricity, electric stoves are more expensive to use and one aspect is safety. that is if you're at home during a hurricane or polar vortex or something like that and your power goes out, if you only have electric stove, guess what, you're not eating or making soup, you're not able to put pots of water to boil and heat up your house. i went through hurricane sandy and everything was knocked out south of 40th here in manhattan and no electric power and had beautiful gas stove and i could make food, make tea. getting cold i put pots of water on the stove, steam up the house and i was fine. just in buffalo, just a few weeks ago during that massive snow tomorrow -- storm there, nine people froze to death in their house and if they had natural gas, they might have been able to heat things up and stay alive. and now the governor kathy hochul saying let's ban gas stoves. unbelievable and none of her damn business. stuart: if we get rid of gas stoves and we go all electric, everything is electric. doesn't that give the government

centralized control over everything? >> yeah. stuart: they can turn off the jojuice if they don't like you r a group or region they don't like or don't like the food you're cooking. that's centralized control. in this day and age, that is dangerous. >> it is dangerous. they could just have that sort of floating out there and people will like, we better behave ourselves or the power will go out. if we shift from gas to electric grid, we need to get the electric grid capable of handling all the extra demand and it's shaky now and everyone wants to plug in your car and electric stove and all that, where are we going to get all the extra capacity on the electric grid that's very, very wobbly? stuart: i'm buying generac and coals is a good one. thank you, deroy. >> you bet, sir. stuart: senators got creative when grilling live nation about taylor swift ticket fiasco. i don't really care much about this story and i'm off this one but they used song liar icks.

lauren: -- lyrics? lauren: my job is making you care. i would say taylor swift is the one person right now that can bring lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and constituents together, watch. it's a bit awkward. >> ode to taylor swift i will say we know all too well. >> to be honest, i had hoped as of a few months ago to get the gavel back, but once again she's cheer captain and i'm on the bleachers. >> nice of taylor swift to have written a song about this very situation. >> she was failing to do too many concerts and may i suggest respectfully that ticketmaster look in the mirror and say i'm the problem, it's me. lauren: they're all lyrics from her many, many songs. being used by lawmakers on capitol hill. one more, there's bad blood, get it, between swift, swift fans and lawmakers and those running ticketmaster that merged 12 years ago with live nation. aisle call them a monopoly because they control 70% of the

market. that's huge; right? 27% of that ticket that taylor swift ticket goes to fees, what exactly are the fees and who sets them? we don't know. and bots are a major issue so when the taylor swift tickets went on sale a few months ago, they wanted the verified fan process and wanted to get the bots out of the system, it didn't work. it didn't work at all and that's why people are so mad and now lawmakers are being called to do something about this. but what do they do? are they going to break up live nation and ticketmaster 1 years later? likely not. 12 years later. likely not. stuart: you're concerned about this? lauren: yeah, needs to be more options for fans looking to buy tickets and artists -- stuart: did you get a ticket? lauren: no. did you get caught in the fiasco? stuart: no, we got five tickets. lauren: i thought it was ten? five in the end? stuart: i have to move on. one company wants to pay you $1,000 just to eat cheese before

bed. there's a rather change reason why, we'll tell you what that reason is. home insurance companies leaving the south after years of devastating hurricanes and natural disasters. that means higher premiums or live without insurance entirely. ashley webster has the report from florida, next. ♪ stuart: that's clear

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76 degrees. oh, that's a nice temperature. over the last few years devastating storms are back in the south and some insurance companies are gone under or left the area completely. ashley webster is in florida. how are homeowners doing with this? ashley: it's not easy to find policies and paying a lot of money for it, stu. sun kissed beaches here in indian rocks beach and and people love to live there and some of the national averages around $1899. in florida that jump up to $2,442 and in louisiana is having the same problem just over $2500 and by the way, an estimated 12% of homeowners if florida have no home insurance at all, which is quite frightening, but a big part of the problem in this state is litigation, lawsuits. look at this, florida accounts for about 9% of all claims in

the u.s., but 79% of all lawsuits over home insurance. and the state says many of those lawsuits are fraudulent. we spoke with one local resident who was simply just dropped by his insurance company and he says he's been forced to sign up with a state-backed insurer of last resort and that's not cheap. listen. >> it remains a problem and the cost then goes up because it's not only the $5,000 it's costing me in non-flat zone, i need flat insurance -- flood insurance in the event there's a flood and $760 and it's almost $6,000. reporter: almost $6,000, that's a lot of money. florida governor ron desantis said the state is not in the insurance business and last month he encouraged and urged private companies to step up. take a listen. >> but you got to have a solvent private market.

you can't dump everybody on citizens property insurance. it's not solve vent so it would be a massive -- solvent and would be a massive financial liability and a market that's actuarially sound. reporter: the governor signed bills to try and stabilize the market but it's not going to be easy and they're assessing the impact of hurricane ian, the second largest insurance loss behind katrina back in 2005 and they're still assessing the damage from that. of course now there's another hurricane season coming up this year. hopefully a lot quieter. in the meantime, stu, i'm going to grab a beach chair and contemplate life. stuart: i can't see you coming back to new york any time soon. ashley webster in florida, thanks, ash. now we spent most of the morn talking about the microsoft effect. that's why we've got so much selling on wall street at the moment. this afternoon we get a report from tesla and might also have some kind of effect on the market tomorrow morning. mark tepper with me, what are you looking forward to with

tesla? >> tesla is a fan favorite and has a cult following and a lot love to talk tesla stock and they own it and what's really in focus with tesla is margins, margins, margins and they're ramping up hiring, they're ramping up investment right now. at the same time where they're actually lowering prices on their vehicles so margins are under pressure and i think long term for tesla, that's probably a good move and will help them to take market share from the competition and short term, investors are not going to like to see that. stuart: okay. just like yesterday. i'll be following it and i'll hope that elon musk gets on the call. >> that would be fantastic. fan. stuart: would make it entertaining. show me stocks of the dow industrial average and almost all of them in the red and they're down but they do have merck, wynn -- what's that one say? lauren: chevron? stuart: mcdonalds? >> walgreens. had to squint to see that one.

stuart: they're all down and three are up. after spending eight years in the classroom, a teacher quits her job to work at c costco and doesn't miss teaching at all and never been happier than at costume toe. the former teach -- costco and the former teacher is next. ♪

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>> there's a group called -- stuart: there's a group called sleep junky and they'll pay people $5,000 to eat cheese before bedtime and the participants eat several different cheesing every week between march and may and record dreams or nightmares and all cheese costs will be covered. no time for questions. a former teacher left the classroom after eight years. >> i used to be a teacher for eight years and this is my first year not having a winter break.

i even worked christmas eve and it was fine. as a teacher i felt like i was surviving every moment. by the time i got to winter break, i was so exhausted that i was literally sick. feels pretty good not to be a teacher at this time. stuart: that was on tiktok and got 4 million views. the teacher is maggie perkins and she joins me now. right from the start, maggie, welcome to the show. what is it -- or what was it about teaching that you really didn't like? >> hi. i did love teaching and being a teacher was great, but it's the other parts of the job that began to be overwhelming and caused my burnout and many other people to experience the same thing. stuart: like what? >> so there's a term called job creep which is additional duties are slowly assigned to you and they're never relieved from you and overtime it causes you to be burned out from the first reason you became a teacher, which is loving the students, loving teaching. and then they, you know, remind

you, remember your why and passion, but my passion couldn't pay my bills or help me sleep at night when i was always waiting for the other shoe to drop. stuart: how about costco, what is it that you like about it? >> i mean, everything. so i was a member of c costco since a kid and know the employees were being treated well and a new way of life and when it was built in my town, i applied and more than 3,000 applications for 300 jobs and i was lucky enough to get one of the jobs. stuart: as i understand it, have you got 4.3 million is that followers on tiktok? followers? is that what you call them? >> sort of. on that video more than 4 million people that watched it and overall for my account though, there's about 80,000 followers. stuart: and how come it's so popular? i mean, are people just

surprised you went from teaching high end profession to working at -- by the way, what do you do at costco? >> so currently i work at the front end, i'm a cashier and i started at membership so signing people up for memberships. stuart: there's no burn out from that? >> i have not experienced burnout from that. stuart: i was at a costco store right before christmas where the computers went down and -- excuse my french but all hell broke loose. that would be a burnout sign for some people, wouldn't it? >> well, as a teacher hi to pivot with technology -- i had to pivot when technology broke all the time and i have not encountered a scenario in costco that i wasn't prepared for as a teacher. stuart: you've got all the answers and thank you very much for being on the show. maggie perkins, come back and tell us how you're doing at costco in the future. >> i'd l love to. stuart: see you soon. even root beer is not safe from the woke police. a w added blue jeans to their

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