. >> an why should i pay you, mary pop ins. i already got 9 receipts me. >> who gave you the recipe? >> i must have gotten it from mr. bates. i told you unreliable. >> but i never gave bates the recipe. >> no, wait. (cheers and applause) >> congratulations, my lord. are you now the key kingpin of your chair. >> yes, but it's a mixed blessing. as byron once said, mo money, mo quandaries. >> carson you dropped something. >> i can explain, my lord. >> you mother [bleep] (laughter) >> stephen: all for you, nation, all for you. and tune in next time when brian cranston will reenact scenes from malcolm in the middle. that going to be crazy! >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you so much. nation, you know as we say good-bye to 2012 i'm going to take a moment here to bid a fon fair well to someone we lost this year. ham rove, ham was chief strategist and principal lunch metaphor colbert super pac. then last month tragedy struck when he fell repeatedly on to a knife that i was holding. before we could get him to a took tore he w

in store baby formula and also a lack of new otc launches next year. mandy back to you. >> mary thank you so much for that. in the meantime posh pawn shops are poppinge of the swankiest areas of los angeles. jane las been out there scoping them out. jane, what are they hawking these days. >> everything. jeffrey says the growth in pawn fees is slowing. it is booming in mexico. but the pawn association tells me it is seeing growth in the high end. he wealthy have been turning to pawn for quick bridge funding now and some want to avoid credit checks. who are these people in mark friedman is a real estate investor and bail bondsman to the wealthy. he often uses collateral, including his wife's ring. >> this is my wife's ring. so my partner, she said, i need 50 or a hundred, she's right there. >> is it her engagement ring? >> diamond ring. wedding ring. i'm in the real estate business and sometimes you need 50 or a hundred thousand on the spot. can't take the family jewels to bank of america when you need money that day. so come to beverly loan and this particular case, i had to put up a hundred grand quickly, and beverly loan was here to accommodate me

stock getting a pop in the afterhours session. melissa? >> thank you, mary. this is one of the stocks that had been left for dead, thinking it would be the death of the hard drive because of the cloud. when actually, you need hard drives. >> the stock's actually now performed -- i wouldn't go racing -- i know the stock is up here. i wouldn't go racing into this thing. i would wait because the tape looks a little squishy here. but both seagate and western digital have been interesting performers. >> let's go back to this clearwire story that we brought to you. clearwire shares halted. it has gotten an unsolicited proposal from dish net work for $3.30 a share. mike, you've been looking at the options activity, which has been unusual here? >> it's interesting. this is a stock that's all but left for dead. there was some activity in the two-strike calls today. i think this is kind of interesting for them to step in here. we know that dish, you know, the broadband story, fairly interesting. i think the $3.30 bid looks come peopling. this is a company that hemorrha