>> key is, look at by any measure, the polls, the thurm one candidate for president.

so he says we're going with jordan? guess what, they're going to go with jordan. it's basically all done by the crying at this point. >> because the white house says, no, he has to take it back, now they're taking action because the border issue is going to affect the next election. this is about math. trying to do something to save their butts in the election. >> when it comes to the democratic party, the party has not been messaging to black males when it relates to crime and the border and all these other issues, and the economy as well. >> inflation is still a positive number. you can tell me it's decreasing when it actually goes negative, then i'll believe it's actually decreasing. ♪ you can stand under my umbrella ♪ stuart: all right. good morning, everyone. yes, it is 11:00 on the east coast. this is friday all day. on the markets, up and down and down and and up, all over the

place. strong employment report this morning, the market went down, then came back, down again, now your dow is down 45, and the nasdaq's up 21 points. where's big tech? it was harp lu lower across the board -- sharply lower across the board, now it's higher almost across the board. only loser there is amazon at 125. check the 10-year treasury yield. that keeps moving up. quite some move up there, you're up 10 basis points. i keep saying this, doesn't sound like much, but in the bond market that's a lot. 4.82, is the yield. that means that mortgage rates could be edging higher again fairly soon. that's the markets friday morning. now this. let there be no doubt, donald trump nows how to cam pane. he's very -- campaign. he's very good at campaign politics. he's just thrown himself into the speaker election. he's playing the role of kingmaker. that's my opinion. trump is enthusiastically backing jim jordan. he wrote, quote: he will be a

great speaker and has my complete and total endorsement. trump sensed the opportunity to jump into a a highly charged political moment. he's going to d.c. next tuesday, the day before the speaker vote. he tells fox, i've been asked to speak as unifier. they've asked me if i would consider taking the speakership until they got someone longer term. i'll do it if necessary. is so next week it's all trump and the speaker vote. will begin concern anyone give much thought to the other candidates in the gop? they're all desperate to break out. but trump commands all the attention. there are two declared candidates for speaker, jim jordan, steve scalise. they face off tuesday in a candidate forum. the vote is wednesday, and trump will be at the center of it. scalise is very well liked and a prolific fund undergoing chemotherapy for blood cancer.

jordan says he will unite conservatives. if jordan wins, trump is the kingmaker. if he loses, trump will have grabbed the headlines as he usually does. third hour of "varney" starts right now. ♪ ♪ stuart: brian -- is my mic open? no, it is open. i can see the camera swinging around the studio, but e my mic is open. this kauai is brian brenberg. >> hi. stuart: is trump the kingmakersome. >> he's sure playing like it right now. this is fascinating, to me. this whole primary race, you've had these debates, and trump says, no, i'm not going to get in, but the point is, should he get out there and and defend himself. all of a sudden that goes away because you've to got a speaker of the house crisis, and everyone's hair is on fire. and donald trump says, guess what? if you need me to step in, i'll do that.

[laughter] everyone says, oh, good. and, by the way, here is my preferred candidate. everyone says, a a health care, we've got it. talk about -- a health care, we've got it. trump as the odder order maker here, yet that's what he's doing, and it looks really, really presidential. it looks like a leader. stuart: he's the man. he walks in -- >> look, t t not over -- stuart: steals the show. >> this is the sort of the off the script thing that changes the whole thing. stuart: i've got another one for you. this is just for you. joe biden, a former espn hostagr espn host, sage steele, is talking about her experience interviewing president biden. it wasn't a good experience. watch this. >> he said, you know, i used to play football. and so he started to tell football stories of his greatness. and then i said, oh, so you were a receiver? and he started to explain it, and here's the sadst thing, his

voice just trailed off. i thought it was so sad because i realized that's why he was in his basement during the whole election cycle. because even then he couldn't finish his sentences. he struggled. but, so forget about politics, i don't care, i didn't vote for him. however, that made me sad. stuart: i don't want to pile on here, but that was before the last election we're two and a half years on from there. >> and if you go back and look at video, that actually looks like a much more vivid joe biden than he because now, actually. i don't want to pile on either, but what she's saying there is what america's been watching for several years. we've seen the trailed-off sentences, the inability to finish a thought. it's one thing if somebody in your personal life, you feel bad. it's another thing if your depending on -- lauren: i know. when we were rolling the border wall video from yesterday, biden in the basement saying no wall, he looked a lot better with than he does now. he really did, when we rolled that to old video yesterday, the

flashback video. stuart: i haven't met anybody who seriously believes that joe biden, president biden, can be president for another five years. lauren: does joe biden believe it? stuart: perhaps the first lady -- i don't know. >> i haven't met him, but i know a lot of people this d.c., in power on the left who would be just fine with another president like him through whom you can get done every left-wing priority that you want to get done. and i think it's those folks -- if there's anyone in america who wants it, it's those folks because it has worked for them. stuart: here's another one for you, professor. president biden kicks off his third investing this in america tour, kicks it off today. look, there are strikes happening all over the can country. not a great time to try to attract investment to america with this kind of tour. i mean, it's unfortunate in the timing, but the timing's bad. >> you're a company looking at america, you're saying i want to go to america now and build, you've got 75,000 health care workers, thousands and thousands

of autoworkers, and they're all striking because with life is unaffordable. and that's when strikes happen. look back through history. and the administration if has no solution for it. they've got yellen saying, oh, things are pretty good. are they? are they really? if you've got this many industries right now, i don't think that's a sign of things being all right. stuart: he's got to get out there and try to sell bidenomics because that's a main feature of his re-election campaign. the fact that people are not buying it is a problem for it -- >> he just can't sell this though, stuart. stuart: what can he sell? what's he got to sell? >> he can't sell anything which is why gavin newsom is out there looking like he's running for president. what he's saying is the president can't sell what he's doing, like it or not, at least i'm the guy that can get out there and mistake if it sound somewhat plausible. lauren: and the industries that align with the democratic candidate for president are striking. stuart: that's right. decaf, young man. [laughter] >> come on, stuart.

stuart: you're staying with me for the hour. >> if you want. stuart: all right. jonathan hoenig, oh, it's a friday morning, of course. and we all expect on a friday morning from jonathan hoenig exotic stock the picks. you've brought some with you. first one, managed futures etf. >> yeah, stuart, look, the market overall, stocks are pretty weak. you've got a majority of stocks below their 50 and 200-day moving average, so we look for stocks that can do well, so cta, that's the etf. and basically, this is one that follows on trend following in commodities futures. it's done quite well even as the rest of the market has broken down in recent weeks. this is one that's on my will list, stuart. and with all these exotic names, you always want to make it one part of an overall portfolio. if the markets continue to fall or flatline, these exotic names could can really outperform. stuart: we call them exotic, i guess to a guy hike you it's

perfectly normal, isn't it? >> it's about making money. war you can find -- wherever you can find opportunities. stuart: next one, the ticker symbol is bil. what's this? >> this is called safety, stuart. i mean, look, banks are really running into some trouble here. bank of america's down 25% in just the last year, citigroup is trading where it was in 1992, and i'm really worried about the bank, stuart -- banks, stuart. i mean, three years ago the 10-year yield was under 1%. now it's almost 5 president. 5%. that's a massive increase, and it's going to put a lot of these banks under even more treasure. -- pressure. it's an text etf that just owns treasure ily bills. it's the safest one you can find, you can sleep at night. stuart: bil. i shall remember that one. one more for you, merger arbitrage the etf. >> yeah. the headline number this

morning, employment number, stuart, news about exxonmobil and perhaps a takeover of pioneer resources. is so there's still a lot of merrier and arbitrage going on. arb is one that we like at capitalist pig.com and, basically, this is a strategy that buys the acquirer and sell the acquire'. so they basically bet on these mergers going through. it tends to be a steady -- not spectacular, but steady return: the risk here, stuart, is government. if government starts breaking up these mergers, this stock will suffer, but i like it for the long term. stuart: jonathan hoenig, good stuff. >> be well. stuart: see you next week. the billionaire investor ray dalio does not think that politics will settle down anytime soon. watch this. >> so we are going to have a great political conflict over the next year, two and three. we are going to have, in my opinion -- i may be wrong -- we are going to have debt and economic issues that will play

into that. stuart: okay. ray dalio will be on "coast to coast" on this network, 12 noon today. bring back lauren. looking at the movers, pioneer natural resources -- lauren: you can't ignore it with a 10% gain. reports that exxonmobil in advanced talks to buy this shale producer in a deal valued at about $60 billion. that would be exxon's biggest since the late '90s, and it solidifies its position, if it happens, in the permian basin. how much cash exxonmobil sitting on? $30 billion. is so put it to work. and take a look at pioneer's peers in the permian basin like devon energy, occidental, they're all up on this report. stuart: think about that, exxon's got $30 billion cash, apple's got $200 billion -- lauren: okay, when you put it like that. stuart: isn't that that something? amc, oh, or this is about taylor swift. lauren: yeah. the movie about her concerts is, like, selling out like it's, you know, "star wars" franchise.

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♪ ♪ stuart: backlash for the white house over plans to restart the border wall construction. the president simply said, look, i've got no choice. roll tape. no, we don't roll tape. [laughter] we bring in -- lucas tomlinson has the story. okay, lucas, did the president backtrack after he said i've got no choice? >> reporter: that's what a lot of people are saying, stuart. remember, as a presidential candidate joe biden vowed to not build, quote, 1 foot of border

wall, now he's going to oversee the construction of more than to miles of it -- 20 miles of it. >> one question on the border wall. the money was appropriated for the border or wall. i tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money. they didn't, they wouldn't. and in the meantime, there's nothing under the law other than we have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. i can't stop that. >> reporter: do you believe a border wall works in. >> no. >> reporter: aoc pushing back hard on the president saying, quote, the biden administration was not required to expand construction of the border wall, and they certainly were not required to waive several environmental laws to expedite the building. the president needs to take responsibility for this decision and reverse the course. while visiting mexico, biden's dhs chief says congress is to blame, not the white house. mayorkas did an about face on the border wall after saying there is a, quote, immediate need to build one. the white house comms team rushing into high gear saying, quote, the funds were about 20

miles of border reinforcements and were appropriated in 2019 before the president took office. he called on congress to reappropriate the funds for smarter, more fetive enforcement uses -- more effective enforcement uses. congress failed to do so. it's only a few months from now. now, of course, in the past when the white house had some problems with some laws in this country or perhaps a judge's ruling, they had no problem saying they were going to fight that in court. we've not seen that here, of course, and as we've seen with abortion, student loans and other issues, stuart. stuart: lucas, thank you very much, indeed. we have a related issue which i really want to report on this morning. i want to bring in todd benson. todd, texas rangers seized control of this 170-acre island in the rio grande river. it was complete, i believe, with cartels, gang mens, sniper nest- nests, weapons. take us through what you saw

when you went on this i'm going to call it a raid with these texas rangers. >> right. well, these were special operations units of the texas rangers and also texas military forces. this island had been occupied for 15 years by cartels, two different cartels are fighting over it, extremely dangerous territory especially right on the other side of the river. and we went in with atvs, convoys of atv iss. there was, there were, you know, security folks that were in the brush in advance, and we went in and we took the island and spread out throughout it and made sure that the other side understood that everybody on our side was extremely well armed and that there would be a lot of problems if anybody opened fire. thankfully, they did not. stuart: what do you think in this island was used for by the

cartel? >> right. this is a notorious with island in the region of fronton and roma that has been used to smuggle hard drugs north into the united states and also human beings more recently and cash ask weapons south -- and weapons south. it's also a place where cartel -- yes, sir. stuart: i just want to know what kind of weapons did the people on the island have? did they leave pretty fast when you showed up with really big weapons? >> well, the troopers, the troops that i was with thought that maybe the day or two before they had vacated that island. but on the other side of the river, they have sniper nests on a height. they have the strategic heights over there. they have buildings that clearly mark the names of their cartels and also the gulf cartel both

over there, their buildings say their names, have their names on it. and and they still occupy that area. that is not mexican territory, that's cartel territory over there. and this operation is very different than all other operations on the border for texas because this is totally hostile territory, and they have really put an aggressive foot forward to tell the cartels we're taking this from you, and you're not going to be using this anymore. stuart: todd, i want to thank you very much for coming on the show and explaining this, because this is a real eye-opener for a lot of people. todd bensman, thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. stuart: coming up for you, the women's swim team at roanoke college in virginia say they were forced to compete with a biological male and now feel abandoned by their school. what's this? -- watch this.

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stuart: well, this is a very changeable market, isn't it? we opened up at 9:30 eastern time this morning, everything was in the red, every stock group was down significantly. two hours later they're all up. the dow is up 118, and the nasdaq is up 54 points and rising. in a market like this, with we've got a few movers. lauren's got them, and we're going to start with, yeah, you've got to start with microsoft. lauren: up they go. they're aiming to close their $69 billion deal to buy activision blizzard, call of duty publisher, in a week, on friday, october 13th.

that according to the verge. if hay get approval from all the authorities. stuart: excellent. i think that's superb news. microsoft has provided me with a retirement. okay. disney -- [laughter] lauren: two brokerages say buy disney stock. it's at $8 # and change after a 1% gain. they say, look, linear tv's declining, subscriber growth slowing, we got that, but they are well positioned. stuart: what have you got on eli lilly? lauren: just for you with. this it is expected to get fda approval for not just diabetes, which it has, but also for weight loss. bank of america says this stock is going to $700. stuart: whoa! now that's, that should have come first. lauren: well, i wanted to give you microsoft -- can oh, you mean in telling of the eli lilly. stuart: you buried the lead. all right, now this, the women's

swim squad at roanoke college in virginia is fighting to keep a transgender athlete, a biological male, from joining their team. david spunt has the story. all right. this trans-athlete recently competed for the men's team, didn't they? >> reporter: that's exactly right. and several of the women's swim member few that team member. members of the women's swim team are upset, they're calling on the ncaa to make changes and do it now. according to the team, the trans swimmer originally on the men's team. some of those swimmers knew they were on the men's team. now, former college swimmer or riley gaines, an advocate for keeping women's sports teams made up of biological women, joined the team at roanoke college yesterday to state their concerns to the public. >> this was a mediocre man who is vying to compete with the women's team and then turns into this record smasher. it's a abysmal, and i think it's nothing short of criminal, to be

totally frank with you. >> reporter: virginia governor glenn youngkin said we're committed to fairness in women's sports, i stand with roanoke college swimmers, their request is reasonable. it's common sense. the school released a statement because roanoke college can is committed to the success and well-ing being of every student and because this was the first time roanoke if college had encountered this situation, the administration launched a process to help inform our decision on transgender student athlete participation in all sports at the college. now, stuart, that process included a meeting of the board of trustees who ultimately decided to follow ncaa guidelines which call for influence collusion of transgender athletes -- inclusion to be determined by the national governing body of that short. -- sport. the ncaa reiterated the position but did not give more specifics about this case. stuart? stuart: thank you very much, indeed. tomi lahren with us this morning.

what's your reaction to this, but my real feeling is this just keeps on going, going and going. it's it's obviously not fair. >> it's not fair, and here is the bright spot of this: americans actually agree on this issue overwhelmingly. republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, independents agree that women's sports needs to be protected. you know, i work over at outkick as welsh we've been covering this story, paying a lot of attention to this because this is really important to us. riley gaines, of course, on outkick as well. listen, this is common sense. and i'm sick and tired -- and i represent a lot of americans, by the way, not just conservatives -- sick and tired of an entire team of women having to sacrifice their accomplishments, their achievements, their titles because one person feels entitled to take that away from them. why are 99% of americans bowing to the 1% who feel that their feelings and their identity should be coddled? it's enough of this. americans agree, let's have a consistent policy. if you want another category, that's fine.

but protect women's sports. it'd be nice if feminists were having this battle, but they have been so far silent. stuart: the world swim meet in berlin, i think, berlin, germany, they put aside a special category for trans-athletes. nobody showed up. >> right. stuart: what does that tell you? that tells me that a man transitioning to a woman doesn't want to compete with other trans people, they want to compete with women so they can win. >> right. stuart: where am i going wrong? >> and you don't see theerer reverse of this. i'm sure there are places, but you don't see a lot of women trying to compete against men, right? because they know they don't have the advantage. a lot of this feels like attention-seeking. we can be sympathetic to the trans cause without saying women's sports has to be the sacrificial lam for all of i it -- lamb. protect women's sports, spaces, safety. it's also a safety issue. americans agree, let's put this to bed. stuart: did you see what the

prime minister of great britain said? a man is a man, a woman and a -- a woman is a woman, it's just common sense. >> breaking news, a man's a man, a woman is a woman. stuart: the prime minister of britain says it. one more, the media with is whining about students having to pay back their loans. it could dip into their fun budgets. oh, the horror. [laughter] okay, the media's whining. what about the students? >> oh, it's safe to say students are also whining. not all students, but a lot of students who don't want to dip into that. when this was all going on, there were poll after poll showing that the vast majority that were getting this forgiveness, they were spending this extra cash on vacations, on designer clothes, on eating out. they were having a good old time, and they think that the american taxpayer should foot that bill? i don't think so. it's time for some conservativism to come back to the younger generation. if you don't have the money, you don't get a fun budget. i'm sorry, that's the way life works. tour constituter what about your fun budget there, brian? >> i think paying your loans is

fun. becoming an adult is fun. capitalism, building wealth is fun. let's have some fun and pay our loans, stuart. stuart: i'm with you. you've got to pay it back. the idea that you're with whining because you can't go on that vacation any longer, that just doesn't work, does it? you've got to pay. >> it doesn't work. and, you know, i don't think paying bills is fun, but paying other people's bills, brian -- lauren: that's less fun. >> not my fun budget. >> and i would also argue in the words of riley gaines, criminal. stuart: that was a very strong word that riley gaines used there, criminal. and and she's talking about biological men competing with women. that's what she was saying, that's criminal. now, that's a bit strong, isn't it? >> i understand her passion for this. think about how this is going to impact those female athletes this though. this might take up their spot, it might mean scholarship money, it might mean accolades, achievement, nil money for them. there's a lot of things on the

line for women, so i don't think she's going too far by calling it criminal because you're robbing people of something that they've earned. stuart: okay. is there anywhere, any sport where the rule is written down men compete with men? women compete with women? if that's it. where is that happening? >> there have been some sports groups that have tried to make that dictate and that mandate, but it just varies so widely when you add in all the colleges and now the high schools. pretty soon this is going to go all the way down into, what, elementary school? i'm not sure where we go from here, but we have to reverse this trend now because it's getting worse. there has to be a discussion about this, and there has to be people that are doing this for the attention. they have to realize the attention you're going to get isn't going to be positive, so don't try the it. stuart: gotta go. tomi lahren, always appreciate it. we toll you earlier in the week that nancy pelosi was removed or asked to leave her private office in the capitol. but, ashley, i don't think that's going down well with liberals, is it?

ashley: that's an understatement, stu. they are outraged, calling it petty, mean and authoritarian. and an infuriated joy reid, she always is, she let rip on "the view" about this. watch. >> gavel abuser patrick mchenry immediately victimmed pelosi from her offices in the capitol. that on the loony tunes side of the capitol. former democratic majority leader steny hoyer was also evict victimmed, and guess who's moving into pelosi's old office? kevin mccarthy. ashley: oh, dear. as for pelosi? well, she did take a swipe at republicans saying with all the important decisions the newry -- new republican leadership must address, one of their first actions was to issue me a vacate order. she also noted she received that vacate notice while she was in california mourning the loss of her friend dianne feinstein. so, no, she's not happy. liberals not happy. stu. stuart: ashley, thank you. just have a look at the bottom

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stuart: markets total turn-around. we're now up 200 on the dow, 115 on the nasdaq, up 28 on the s&p and rising. and then there's this, major airlines grounding some planes after discovering their jet engines were equipped with fake parts. uh-oh. ashley webster's with us. how many planes have fake parts, ashley? ashley: well, that is the disturbing, frightening thing, stu, or we don't know. we do know that so far these questionable parts including everything from screws is the and boltses to more vital units have been found in 126 engines across several airlines, american, united, delta and southwest airlines have all pulled jets from their fleets for further inspection. how did this happen? well, a little known broker of airline parts, a u.k.-based company called ark og, is accused of forging safety certificates to sell its engine parts to airlines. they're supposed to undergo stringent safety tests to insure they are airworthy.

fair enough. each part comes with a certificate that can be used to trace the component's origins and inspection records. but even more disturbing is the revelation that the most affected engine model in all of this, the cfm-56, holds the record for the most engines ever sold to airlines, so it's common. it is currently in numerous jets across the world, most notably boeing's predecessor to the 737-max and the original air bus of the, both very common in flights across the world every day. those engines, by the way, were unwittingly made by ge in a joint venture with saffron. both of those companies suing this parts maker. aog also faces allegations that it faked employees and was using tock photographs for fictitious -- stock photographs on linkedin, it gets worse. airlines say they are quickly identifying the affected engines which they say may cover only a fraction of their total number, and they claim that safety,

passenger safety has not been compromisedded. we did receive a number of statements, this one from delta airlines who told us in part, quote, working with the overhaul provider, we are in the process of replacing those parts and remaining in compliance with all faa guidelines because safety is always our priority. stu, bottom line, the shocking act sayings raising serious questions about the effectiveness of safety oversight measures in the air aviation industry with so many people asking how on earth could this happen. how could someone make parts, allegedly give it a fake certificate and on you go. very disturbing. stuart: got that right. thanks, ashley. now this. i've got something else for you. a fedex plane landed at chattanooga airport. take us through it. lauren: there's an investigation underway after a fedex express cargo plane crash landed just before midnight last night in chattanooga, tennessee. there was an issue with its landing gear. if you watch video of this, it

literally doesn't deploy, and the plane skids off the runway and lands safely, here you go, into a patch of grass. everybody onboard was okay, i think there were three crew members onboard, but how does the landing gear just not deploy correctly? stuart: good question. i've got a story for brian. the kansas city chiefs may take on your team which i believe is the -- >> they will take them on. stuart: sunday at 4:25 p.m. eastern time, there is speculation that taylor swift will be in attendance. would you be happy to see taylor swift take over the whole nfl? >> no, i don't want her to take over the nfl, but she's been dating kelce for a few weeks now? they've only won ball games. i want to see them take a loss and see how they deal with that. i think that could be the first of the storm clouds in this relationship. lauren: that's true. stuart: then she'll write a song about it. >> yes, yes. stuart: brian, thanks very much for being with us for the hour.

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♪ ♪ let's give 'em something to talk about ♪ stuart: i do love this song. i do absolutely adore this song. lauren: watch the 995 movie about it this weekend. stuart: okay, this weekend that's for me. bonnie raitt, let's give them something to talk about. that was newburn, north carolina. let's get on with this. friday feedback. here we go, sports fans. this comes from granny -- i was shocked to hear what a taylor swift ticket cost. i thought you might enjoy what i paid for seeing the beatles. a ticket from 1965 cost only $7 to see the beatles in california. what do you think of that, ash? dud you ever see the beatles in england? ashley: oh, ibish we're. no, never -- i wish. i had a beatles haircut as a

child. i was a mop top. yeah, i mean, $7. i looked that up, actually, it's about $65 this today's money, so that's incredibly reasonable to see the beatles. stuart: yes, definitely. moving on, this comes from a. woodman . enough with the boring taylor swift already. [laughter] what is the big deal? do not care how much money or attention she attracts. wait a minute, are you sick of taylor swift news? lauren: a little bit. this taylor swift/travis kelce trailer news, the moniker, look, she's a role model and she's successful. i really can't say anything bad about her. stuart: let me tell you why we put her on the show as many times as we can, she rates. lauren: how do you know that? stuart: i follow the ratings very, very carefully. whenever we mention her name or to a story about her, up she goes. you can't beat that -- ashley: why don't we do three hours on her?

stuart: listen to this. this is from robert. i will tip stuart very well if you'll stop mentioning taylor swift's name. [laughter] please stop. no. you don't mess with the ratings on this show, david, let me tell you. joe writes this one: tips to insure proper is service, what happened to receiving proper service? i tip wait staff, i do not tip fast food servers, repair people or others that earn a livable wage. any auto tip kiosk i automatically put in 0, a computer will not tell me to tip. lauren, do you tip anybody other than wait staff? >> lauren: recently i've been tipping because i feel bad. it's annoying, but i do it. stuart: well, you're rich and famous. ashley, anybody other than wait staff? ashley: i do. but to lauren's point, it's almost shaming you into it, isn't it? the person's there holding this thing in front of you, okay, i'll give you a tip even though you may not want to. you do. stuart: as a matter of fact, i

do. i started off life in america as a waiter, so i know about tipping and how to extract money from customers. next one from michael. hello, stuart. i know that you do some farming in new jersey. can you tell us what kind of tractors you use on your farm? okay, two points. i don't farm in new jersey, i farm in new york state, and my tractors are john deere. american made and they're the best. julian writes this: i heard you mention yesterday you were in the wine business and wine on the whole is not selling great. as a 43-year-old ex-pat from worst shire, what is the name of your wine and where to buy it in southern new jersey. p.s., i listen to you constantly on sirius. okay, that does it. it's varney wines. varney wines.com or -- i think that's it. lauren: that's your son. >> yeah, and that's in australia. lauren: you pay for your wine, and you never gave me a bottle. stuart: not yet. ashley: still waiting for mine.

stuart: oh, jeez. varney wines. just are ebb that, australia. all right. stu, lauren, ashley, what's your favorite thing to eat for lunch after the show? down here in the south like texas, we like biscuits with chocolate gravy almost anytime. have you ever had it -- what? lauren: chocolate gravy? stuart: have you ever had that, ashley? ashley: no, i have not. although i'm a huge chocolate fan, so i'm willing to give it a go. stuart: so i like a bowl of french onion soup at my favorite restaurant after the show. ashley: yes, beautiful. stuart: lauren? >> lauren: can key bars. [laughter] stuart: ashley? ashley: just some sandwich or soup is normal. stuart: okay, that wraps it up for the friday feedback. the trivia question, the answer when we come back.

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ashley: i have no idea but i went with number 4. stuart: what about you? lauren: i thought yorks too. stuart: it cannot possibly be crisps, that's what we call chips in england and melons, apples are rather small. winter bananas doesn't make sense so it's got to be yorks. winter bananas. are you kidding me? those in which colonists i tell you. ashley: oh my goodness. stuart: never heard that before. time is up for us, thanks very much, all great stuff, see you next week. "varney and company" is winding down, 10 seconds to go. i will make the most of this. i never throw my time away on television, it's too precious, coast-to-coast starts now.