the warden in shawshank, but i think that brinker -- okay.the conference call. >> you should. >> because you know that's what i do, david. >> i do know who you do it. typically, you've already done it. >> it hasn't happened. but carl, this is the -- >> now you have your a.i. bot do it for you, don't you? >> how do you know that's not who you're speaking to right now? i don't want -- sometimes a guy like kevin hochman has turned this thing around, so we got to spend some time before we throw him under the m-104. that's a bus. just in case you didn't -- >> thank you. actually, i know that. i know that line pretty well. >> the m-104? >> it runs up broadway. >> i didn't know you had -- >> the backdrop remains the same, and they are going to have to adjust some pricing if they want to drive traffic. >> and you know, they have the cheapest margarita in the country. they did switch. they have a lesser tequila. the largest server of margis. i found this hard because i know they've got prices that were -- almost converged with mcdonald's and this is s

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>> operation brinker. >> operation brinker. >> operation brinker is the is arresting people who've just their minds. they're supposedly so basically they want to free up all this space in the prisons for people who've sent mean tweets, write 100, 1000 of them, whatever. i mean, the prison system is so minuscule in this country. i think it's 89,000 places, maybe 100,000. in america, they've got 2.5 million, but they make money off of it. >> why don't they just put all the people who've sent mean tweets on an island or something, like that? >> yeah, call that island britain and say there's freedom, but they're not. >> they're not going to do that, louis. they're not mad. nick, are you troubled by this? >> i'm very troubled by it. i mean, maybe if you want to solve the prison problem, don't have political prisoners would be a good start. i remember a while ago, i made a i said a phrase that became famous on the show. the apotheosis of anarcho tyranny. but i spoke too soon because we've reached whole new levels of tyranny. what starmer is doing, as we all know, he's putting enemies of the r

. ♪♪ >>> what the heck happened to brinker stop today?s one of the few restaurant change that worked in the world consumers were going against high prices but the stock plunged more than 10%. what went wrong? not clear. they were originally getting hit because the company is investing heavily in labor and sicilies, your ordering a guest experience. they don't have a pressing problem, traffic is actually up big at chili's, sales are amazing. i think this is a stock that was up big going into the quarter where shareholders were looking to an excuse to even register. of the new investors can keep feeling the company's growth, that sounds good to me. let's check in with the president and ceo of brink international. welcome back to "mad money." we do need your help because i see someone who has made a tremendous success of a chain that i really did not think that much of, with the most important metric. what you want to do is continue that momentum going but in order to do that you need to spend a little money. what is the matter with that ana

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the parent company of chilis getting the cold shoulder and brinker international on pace for the worsthan two years after posting a profit miss for the fourth quarter along with down beat earnings guidance for 2025. disappointing earnings figures overshadowing the better than expected rise in sales to $1.21 billion and ticker symbol eat losing about 10.25%. off the lows of the session. shares of victoria secret getting super sized jumping 16% and lingerie brand on pace for the largest percentage increase in three years after appointing hillary super as its new ceo. hillary super most recently served as ceo of savage fenti and the brand of rendition of rl have her work cut out for her because victoria's secret expects shares to fall and shares fall about year-to-date. actor investor elliot ramping up proxy fight at southwest airlines and elliot announced today that it plans to nominate 10 independent candidates to southwest's 15 member board. okay. everybody out; right? we shall see. the nominees that they're putting forth reportedly include david kush, the former ceo of virgin america

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let's talk brinker. we talked about the decline in the stock yesterday after earnings.eo joined you on "mad money" last evening. what do we make of this? >> he had the best comp store sales number of anyone. and one of the things that kevin hochman is trying to do is get away from the episodic nature of good times for chili's. what he's saying is, i'm going to spend a lot more than people think in order to create -- and he used this word -- a dynasty, and in order to get a dynasty, you got to hire more people. you got to refurbish. i want him to put up many more stores. he won't do that yet. he said if he just kept things the same, he would not be able to handle all the people who come in, and it would start being one of those problems where -- not a yogi berra problem where it's so crowded that nobody goes, but he said he didn't care that wall street didn't care for the fact that he's spending. that's what you do in order to become a great company. he put me through a clinic of what to do when you have a successful restaurant chain, which is, you've got to take a hit a

chili's introduced a smash hit, customers are paying more, but their parent company, brinker internationalpectations and, like i said, they cut for the year. ashley: that's enough food stories for now. pharmaceutical distributer cardinal if health apparently just announced a big increase to their share buyback program. how much? lauren: a $250 million increase to $750 tomillion. this is a huge company. this is a drug distributer, a device maker. they serve9 0 90% of hospitals and 600,000 -- 60,000 pharmacies. really strong demand for some of their drugs like cancer drugs and drugs for diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, so the stock is up3.5%. lauren: very good. great run-through, lauren -- lauren: and now we're hungry. [laughter] stuart: ashley: yes. the dow up 20 points, a whopping not even one-tenths of a percent. some of the dow winners, of which there are some, of course. home depot, some familiar if names up there, walt disney, american express, caterpillar. some big names all moving higher, or anywhere from a half to 1%. take a look at the s&p 500, kellanova, we just talked about th

don't need to look further than restaurants, housing, auto, or visa to get data points >> for every brinker there's a cake or, you know, there's another stock. >> for every mcdonald's there's a shake sha ck. >> the agagregate consumer in dollars has slowed my view is the world changed every growth manager in the world would say i use momentum every value manager would say i look at me in reversion. i think it's going to be the opposite for the rest of the year they're going to buy these things up, when they get to some level, they're going to sell them i don't think people are walking in today as a growth manager saying i love nvidia more than i've ever loved it before, and i think it's blasting to the moon. >> but you're not -- you're not moved in any sense by the fact that where we were a week ago monday to where we are today. >> no, i think it's been a strong rally >> and the inflation data and now the economic data. this is not a warped view of what's happening with the consumer i mean, i understand there are obviously two ends to the consumer. >> sure, you don't get 100 consecutive dat

on the lunch side of things, brinker falling over 13% on an earnings miss.n almost 6% jump in traffic. and then shares turning lower by 1% after seeing its biggest gain on its ipo day, starbucks here, down by about 1%. seeing a number of analyst upgrades this morning, hoping that the ceo switch-up will reverse course for the company as activist investors starboard and elliott kind of move into that stock and circle around it. state of texas down 1%. andrew, back to you. >> thank you for that, dom. >>> meantime, want to talk tech. joining us with a closer look at some of the biggest names in the sector, constellation research principal analyst. good morning to you. i don't know how much the cpi matters to the tech world, really, but help us through what you're thinking about as it relates to some of these big names, including nvidia. >> yeah, it's a great point. tech is a flight to safety and also a flight to growth and that's why it's been a stalwart. last week was just a -- august 8th was an anomaly, but everything has come back. amazon is back. nvidia is b