now that we're getting blindsided. in the aggregate, what do we do? >> well the bottom line is when we make those burgers, neil, what you want to do is take half mushrooms and half burgers and put them together you're right, the price of beef is up 14%, but if you're one of those folks who want organic beef. forget about it! there's no way you're going to be able to afford it. up 30, 40 50% a lot of it has to do with the california drought and a lot of the ranchers have thrown up their hands and walking away from the business. neil: all right i hear bacon is doing a little better. you could fry bacon on the grill and leave it at that, right? >> here's what i'm going do. bacon is down, it's down 25%. neil: why is that? >> combination of vegetables and beef put together. or pork and beef put together and sprinkle bacon on top of it it's going to be flavorful and you're going to save money. neil: when people normally in the past you reminded me in the past when beef prices go up, folks were into chicken. when chicken prices go up they find an alternative turkey. they sit at the barbecues and find a way around the price increase. is it such now it's going to be hard to do? >> yes it's going to be hard to do but you've got to be smart. you've got to go to the dollar store which sells ground beef. you've got to go to costco buy in bulk. plan out what the barbecue is and shop around. don't go to the normal supermarket, look in the circulars look for online sales. do everything you can. bottom line is the prices are going to continue to go up. it's not going to go down. if you can find a great sale, put some in the freezer. neil: good points all. hope you have a good barbecue this weekend. appreciate it. >> thank you, neil. neil: before you do fire up that grill, you might have to rub off the frost. in parts of the northeast this weekend, my buddy joe is telling me it's going to be the cold reality. joe is on the phone with us now. for how long, joe? >> well this coming night neil, very cold across the interior northeast. if you had a record-breaking cold february, the areas the interior of new england new york state into pennsylvania, eastern ohio, chances are tomorrow morning in the low areas there's going to be a frost. the u.s. generating computer model has been forecasting a record-breaking late season freeze. i think its numbers are out of touch with reality. they look five to eight degrees too low. where i am in central pennsylvania, the record low for tonight's 34 is predicting 26. neil: really? >> if 26 happened around here in north jersey into new york state, this would be a disaster for farms and gardens. neil: what's going on? sounds like climate change to me. >> you're going to get flagged for instigation. memorial day weekend you're getting me going on climate change. interesting neil, in 1934 was the benchmark cold month in the northeast part of the united states. eclipsed in many cases this month but you look at may of 1934 was very warm across the entire nation, and so far we've been very warm in may. this san island of cool and a sea of warm weather pattern, it's going to hit 90 next week in new york city. neil: that would be the climate changing, i guess. joseph, always good thank you very much. >> have a great memorial day weekend. neil: to you as well. gas prices an issue ahead of holiday weekend. with gas futures at six month highs, phil flynn says you might want to step back and look at the bright side prices are down about a buck a gallon from last year. perspective is everything right, phil? >> they are exactly. a year ago talking about $5 a gallon. this year down almost 95 cents than a year ago. what's great about that neil over the last year, guess what americans did when gas prices went down? they bought bigger cars. suvs like crazy. and now we're hearing from aaa that over 35 million americans are going to travel this weekend. we're going to see the biggest demand for gasoline in ten years. and most of the drivers are stuck ahead of me in traffic i would assume. neil: i always think, and you remind me of this that price swings are so severe, it's like a geiger chart. bii wonder where longer term it's telling us we're going here. if you look at the last few weeks a couple of months up up up and before that down, down, down, what is the equilibrium, where do you see gas prices settling? >> well, it's good news and bad news. i think gasoline prices are probably going to settle down after the memorial day holiday but i think crude prices could continue to go up. and i think you're going to see a disconnect between the price of crude oil and the price of gasoline. the one bright spot with the gasoline market in this country is u.s. refiners are able to produce more gasoline than they ever have before because we're producing more oil we're producing higher quality oil so even as crude prices go up gasoline prices stay moderate. and the other thing is even though we're driving more driving bigger cars those cars are more fuel-efficient. we're not seeing the type of demand spike that you would see per gallont way that we would. we can drive bigger cars use less gas and pay a bigger price. the best of both worlds. neil: for now for now, mr. flynn, thank you, sir? >> see you later, have a good holiday. neil: word is getting out about my move to daytime. it's got people doing the weirdest things. take a look at this guy. randomly stripped down at an airport. not because he couldn't make his flight. two hours of cavuto is enough to go admit it you were doing the same thing. june 1st is the big day, that's when we move to noon to 2:00 p.m. eastern time. a lot of you asking are you doing your fox news show at 4:00 p.m. eastern. yes, i am. people said neil have you orchestrated a better deal at fox as a result. unfortunately i found out the other anchors are paid it is annoying, i'm here to serve you. two hours in the middle of the day when everything is breaking is our way of helping you make sense of it. we're going to be doing it every single day, lunch is on us. all right. meanwhile did joe biden offer hillary clinton campaign advice for himself? he said the economy is doing just fine and don't let republicans tell you otherwise. i've smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now i use this. the nicoderm cq patch, with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that's why i choose nicoderm cq. 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explain. >> i'm saying that if in october of 2008 neil somebody said to you i've got a candidate who will triple the stock market who will get the auto industry above 21 million cars a year, who will get health care costs down for five straight years historically low and radical slashing of the uninsured, and if you go sector by sector, the wall street people would actually be doing quite well at a time when main street would be secure against another crash. if you went through the list you would say where do i sign up? neil: fair enoughing are fair enough. >> one other thing, compare against europe, going all in on austerity and the u.s. went in for stimulus. which would you rather be in the u.s. or europe? you don't have a controlled experiment very often and we've got one. neil: if you look at numbers then and now, impressive. >> i would change nye passports of what he just said. this is not good. look at the velocity of money which is crap. 30% off its peek. the u.s. debt is 18 trillion dollars much attributed to the current administration. we have unfunded liabilities as 96 trillion dollars, and the labor force participation rate is at the lowest since march of 1978. >> would you argue that -- lot of americans certainly not esoteric stuff. do you think that americans are sensing things are better because we have seen a pop in real estate and retail sales, we've seen indication americans are traveling this memorial weekend. spending money to hold tight. what do you think? >> hold off, the retail sales are not busting out the door. neil: they're off the map. >> the average hourly worker say steady the last four years, people are working more hours. neil: fair enough. >> and a big sign of a low level rumbling in the economy is more crime. neil: all right, all right, we're richer, then it comes back to this. is there a risk bragging with a recovery where we were but is not quite a recovery by typical standards so that you look like or democrats risk looking like their clueless? >> right. look, obviously every one of us can kind of have measure what we've experienced against some fictional universe, but the fact is again, we don't have a controlled permit -- neil: i don't think it's a fictional universe. >> no no no a fiction in this regard. none of the countries in the industrialized world, put china aside we admit it's a little different. but the countries that in the industrialized world, the u.s. economy is a beacon right now. and the fact of the matter is 62 straight months of private sector job growth, sure. >> richard, hold on a second, hold on a second. please. early stages of what japan has gone through. the debt the people not spending, putting money in cash. interest rates at zero and can't get the gdp going. tell me this is great. the policies that have been running that you were just explaining the health care the auto industry. those things, the auto industry basically put a lot of people bankrupt because they lost money on the gm bonds. health care is a major tax on corporate america. what is corporate america doing? they're not taking money and spending it. look at the last reports. they're taking money and buying back their own stock. they're not building an infrastructure, they're not building nonresidential buildings, they're not putting out capital expenditures that's where the velocity is and we have a big problem. neil: a republican president having this type of change, would you say the same thing? >> i don't think a republican would do this kind of a change. neil: fair enough flip it around. do you think the vice president embraced what you got, you go with the one you got to the dance right? that that risks looking like everything is fine and democrats end up looking like what's your problem, and that is a problem. >> it's not going to -- look just like when george h.w. bush succeeded ronald reagan and said we have to do things kinder and gentler. hillary clinton is going to have her version of kinder and gentler, she spoke about ways to assist small business. talked about immigration reform. neil: toppling the 1%. >> no no no listen neil, what she would say is she would concede she's in it and her buds are in it. neil: she's going to topple herself. >> she's not talking about toppling anything. >> no no you heard the exact predictions from people like dan when bill clinton had his economic policy in '93. neil: you guys would say ronald reagan would be financial armageddon both parties play that. >> we have history it. rolled into japan rolled into europe, and it's going to roll into here and bite us in the end. neil: and roll out this segment with the clock ticking away. have a safe and enjoyable weekend. it is called memorial day for a reason. automotive innovation starts... right here. with a control pad that can read your handwriting, a wide-screen multimedia center, and a head-up display for enhanced driver focus. all inside a redesigned cabin of unrivaled style and comfort. the 2015 c-class. at the very touchpoint of performance and innovation. ♪ when we were young we wanted to change the world. so we did. we took a generation that was built on hope... and turned it into a generation that changed lives. and this life that we've built? 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i'm worthless. retired colonel and former congressman alan west says none of these guys expect a thank you. given the headlines lately, i don't think anything says screw you. what do you make of this? >> you are absolutely right. it's a pleasure to be with you. as we go into the memorial day weekend,vy should not be saying happy memorial day. honor memorial day. and think about the service of sacrifice and commitment the willingness to give the last full measure of devotion to the great nation by so many men and women who are seeing their sacrifices be turned into a political sound bite and response is disconcerting. neil: what do you make colonel from bush from marco rubio tripped up on the notion whether in the end, knowing what we know now, was it worth it? and a lot of them are saying no no pretty much at that point. governor chris christie saying no now, definitely not. staying was fairly black and white about it. how do you think that makes them feel? what do you agree and disagree some who lost limbs and lives and their families how do you think that makes them feel? >> makes us feel horrible. look into the eyes of myself or anyone who lost a limb or brother or sister in operation iraqi freedom and tell them they were a mistake. tell them that you think that little of what they have done, and then try to get us to understand why you think you deserve the title of commander in chief? i think that if you had more individuals that had been on the receiving end of an ak-47, a pkm or rpg, they would make a completely different statement. we should be talking about how do we preserve that which so many sacrifice in the abilities and the incredible exertions that they did in iraq? because now we've seen a vacuum that is left. an enemy that was defeated in al qaeda and iraq that has been reconstituted. that was very it's almost disrespectful and disgusting, and i got to tell you anyone who says what we did over there in iraq, they see it now as a mistake. they're not going to get my support. neil: now looking at what's fallen out and fallen apart in the middle east and many blame the president, others blame the environment whatever these guys have got to feel doubly bum out. especially for those who fought ramadi and elsewhere, look what's happening? . >> you are absolutely right. when you are there as a young midshipmen about to become an ensign and the commander in chief tells you the greatest national security threat is climate change if you're a climate change denier you are negligent and derelict in duties. that is unconscionable, especially when there are hostages in iran and we are sitting at a table with iran. four americans who die in benghazi a narrative, a lie was put out there. that's dereliction of duty. we're growth a time we have to have men and women, not just politicians but those who know what it means to be on the 21st century battlefield and to respect the veterans. those bureaucrats in the veterans affairs administration should be fired. what they're doing is unconscionable and appalling. neil: you know what i love about you? you speak your mind. people can agree or disagree with you but you are very, very clear. i like that. i want to thank you for your service, colonel and all of those you represent. thank you very much. >> thank you, neil, a pleasure to be with you. neil: do any of you remember this little gem? 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when the government mandates anything especially entitlement. efficiency goes out window costs go up. and the problem we're seeing with the unaffordable care act, neil, is when you have six people -- i'm sorry if you have sick people that have to be covered at the same rate as healthy people the healthy hard-working people have to pay for the sick people and have to pay for the free health care people are getting in the subsidized health care. neil: these numbers surprised me by the magnitude. i'm always wondering the baseball player who goes as a free agent and i demand double in pay or knowing that he or she could live with a smaller figure. and i'm wondering if it's something like that is going on here, what do you think? >> well i'm sorry, what do you mean by the -- neil: they have to get these approved by states and regulators. >> yeah, they do, exactly. neil: they put on we need 30.4% more first. >> well, sure it's like look it's like the medicare doctors like the medicaid doctors any providers are going to say if you're the federal government, let's say i'm saying we need more, we need more. if the health plans go back to the old model where they could try to spend dollars efficiently. remember under obamacare there's a cap at how much profit these health plans can make. they have to spend over 80 or almost 90% of what they take in on patient care. so the reality is i think the money they're spending might not be on really good care it's just they're following the government guidelines. neil: and the irony in that as you astutely pointed out a long time ago the stipulation was in the law itself is what's jacking up the prices. >> yeah. it's just bad all the way around. neil: crystal great seeing you never willess, appreciate it thank you. you get by with a little help with your friends a new report from the hill saying that several have quietly considered merging hoping that together they can find a way to share the costs that are also getting out of control for them. hill's editor in chief says two wrongs don't necessarily make a merged right. what's going on here? why the rush to merge? >> i tell you very interesting story by our reporter sarah ferris. the states are getting nervous that you have the supreme court decision that would strike down the federal subsidies. the states are scrambling for some kiep of relief and you have the state run plans talking about containing costs. they didn't want to talk to us about this they're just in the preliminary stages. this is allowed under the law. there is in that massive law, it is allowed that the states can come together in any way to contain costs. so whether that's a website, whether that's merging exchanges they are definitely trying to think outside the box because the state run plans they're going to have to be self-sufficient by 2016. so therefore, they're trying to figure out how they can do this. neil: with the supreme court ruling let's go to your astute point that the supreme court the subsidies are a big no-no. going against the constitution can't have them. wouldn't it make things worse and more have to merge and we wouldn't have state mergers and other states looking to pool resources. we might get a rampant come together? >> absolutely. that's why this story came together because the states are nervous about the king v. burwell case and they're trying to think of okay, if we lose, if the obama administration loses what happens? what can we do at the state level? that's why they're touching base with the state run plans. how do you do it? maybe we could merge? how would it work? very complicated but certainly the talk are under way right now and a lot of the sources would not reveal the states, they don't want to get that out there. certainly there are a lot of behind the scenes discussions about what to do if the subsidies are struck down. neil: bob, you would know this certainly better than i. the administration says health care related costs are going down are they talking about health care increases the rate of increases are going down we've seen premiums as we discussed in the prior segment rocketing. we've seen to your point and this exclusive publication that exchanges have to merge to deal with these escalating costs. >> right. neil: which world is right here? >> well, it depends how you count the numbers neil. certainly there have been claims the president saying the families would save $2500. that has been debunked. that's not accurate. administration is saying you're saving money based on what the hour would have gone up. neil: like proving a negative. if we didn't help the banks in the meltdown we would have had dinosaurs fleeing the earth. >> both sides give in and say you were right you were right. they're going to cherry pick stats saying the premiums are going down but the asterisk about going down. neil: now it's just a pain in the asterisk. bob, always a pleasure you bring a lot to the table. appreciate that. have a safe weekend. >> you, too. >> the bitter boomers are back and they're ready to respond to gasparino getting saved. >> i was trying to insult you millennial generations. >> the third grade classrooms i can read so much better than you. 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when i was your age. they paid me five cents to shovel snow, and i had to do it with bare hands. my bare, these hands! there's a new report the best i could do on short notice. a new report saying the flock of millennials will be earning $15 or more an hour on the job this summer! our bitter boomers say the millennials have it way too easy. charlie, brady, steven and charlie gasparino perhaps their most lethal enemy. 15 bucks an hour for a summer job? >> when i washed dishes at the silver moon restaurant in yorktown heights i was making $3 an hour. neil: adjusted for inflation. >> to charlie's point, adjusted for inflation i made $5.50 working at a family-owned supermarket in yonkers that's $20 an hour today. neil: i worked at a fast food place and got two bucks an hour, here's why i ate all the food. spent all this money on me. >> they want minimum wage, too. >> really in the sense this bothers me. neil: charlie? or this? >> charlie i love. i think he's got all the right ideas. i don't agree with him. >> you got to see what the millennials say about him. neil: oh, man! >> neil $15 an hour works out to an annualized wage of about 30 grand a year. that's what somebody in a household makes to support a family! >> these are only summer jobs to recruit the kids. >> what have you to understand is no one is laying off anybody but no one is hiring anybody. i think this is the reason. this is a paradox that people have been waiting for the millennials to come along. they can hire them. let me finish one thing, charlie, it supports you. the white house did a survey, what they found out about the millennials that are making $15 an hour they don't care about advancement they don't care about how well -- neil: they don't care about advancement. >> no. they don't dare about -- neil: i can't imagine they don't care about advancement. >> there are the stereotype that do care. neil: you think that what? >> i think the three young ladies you had on the prior week. >> they have liberal mommies and daddies. >> listen did one of the kids on the panel -- they did have a fine arts degree. i was searching for a millennial who fit stereotype. neil: you keep saying no no no i'm going to embarrass you. you keep talking about how useless the kids are, you learned something from them. this is from my friend's office. listen. i don't know what's going on here. ♪ what the hell are you doing? what is that? is that a seizure? >> brady his office isn't too far. he's as neat as a pin. focused on a couple of things here. there are animals buried under the garbage. neil: what are you doing? >> bench pressing. >> the kids were showing me how they dance to techno music. neil: look at that office, guys, you talk about the young not being able to find their way out. you can't find a file. >> if you notice i have the staples of life there. gatorade, coffee, water. >> something just moved in the back. >> neil, this is an office of a very busy man, a desk of a very busy man. neil: oscar madison on a bender. >> iphone and they have a computer and that's it. >> make a serious point. don't the millennials go to schools where liberals teach them to give back and volunteer. they should work for free. neil: what does that have to do with your office? >> talking about $15 an hour. this is the segment why they have to make money they should be working for free. neil: no one's forcing the money on them. these guys are paying, offering to pay $15 an hour or more. >> for the skill sets they have, it's way too much. they don't have good skill sets. >> getting something for nothing. neil: up to the business they're going to pay in that, okay, if you or any of our kids, they want want to do the dishes for whatever you are doing. all right all right. >> people need -- businesses need people to work that aren't going to hassle them for raises, that aren't going to hassle them for advances and that's the mill enls. that's the millennials. neil: do you think the businesses, a lot in the leash, and you are hospitality industry where pay is higher anyway, this is the only way they can recruit if you pay minimum wage it's not going to cut it. you have to pay the figures to get them off the couch. >> what they're looking for is labor, and labor goes where it's going to be rewarded the best. [ inaudible ] >> they should give them free mollies. >> mollies? >> yeah, that designer drug. that's what they're all into. >> look at what they are. leisure and entertainment. that's what they're good at. >> and mollies. neil: before you became a wall street icon we were all young. >> i was working! i took jobs as a messenger. neil i did! i worked in a highway. i was -- >> being patient doesn't count! >> i'm older than i look i hope, i hope i'm older than i look. i was working i was in the 60s and working in hospitals for almost nothing i volunteered. neil: you all sound bitter to me. you resent this because they have had a softer path. >> yes! >> you are talking to the three people you had on fox news very nice kids but they're soft, aren't they? neil: they are not. they were wonderful kids. >> a little soft. neil: everyone is soft to you. you run about four miles a day you lift 7 h-p pounds. >> serious? >> i lift a lot. >> i'm glad i'm on your side. >> i want to thank you all seriously. and i don't know, folks -- . neil: does playboy know about this? look at that. >> i have my shirt on under that. neil: you look like uncle louie. the moment he snapped. the u.s. military is working on making iron man a reality. that's charlie gasparino. i'm proud to be an american because of our freedom and the brave men and women who put their lives on the line to protect that freedom every day. . neil: iron man is real, looking for a special suit for defense operations. the tactical assault light operator suit featuring advanced armor, cutting edge power sources and integrated display systems. to mashable tech editor samantha murphy kelly what she makes of this apparently it's a reality. >> yeah, part of a major effort that the u.s. military started about two years ago and basically a call to action to create these iron man-like suits. and a lot of technology going into, it and a lot of resources as well. i think they're putting 80 million dollars into this. so just to go through some of the different things they're thinking about is, you know, to protect u.s. military when overseas or in combat about 60% of their body would be covered. and again it looks exactly the way it would be -- >> they would cover an existing human being as much as the actual one in the movies. >> helmet to protect against bullets, things like that. and there's also high-tech being incorporated within like fans to keep whoever is wearing it cool as well as tubes with water flowing through it to regulate body temperature. neil: can the soldiers move comfortably? that's a big issue. >> that is something everybody is taking into account, and yes, it has to be lightweight moving you can move with it quite easily but some of the technology will allow you when taking a step forward to help you make that step forward. neil: i don't know i think i know this a little better than you but in robocop the technology went cab looy times. >> that's one of the things to making sure. these sort of things are to make, to protect military. there's lots of -- neil: not to replace them, everyone dreams of a body of soldiers that would replace soldiers so we don't have to put guys at risk. we're not quite there yet. >> right, they're considering things to putting a little robot out there. almost like a remote control where somebody could control it from behind the scenes or even we've seen robot dogs to carry different weapons. neil: i always thought that was the teaser began with a robotic dog. >> and then go from there to there. neil: a lot of wall street analysts are calling out apple for being a one trick iphone pony. a new report says get ready for another pony. 12 inch ipad. this might help the tablet sales that was one weak part of the company right? a larger tablet changing that? >> right, i think that's the main question. so again with the iphone you know, those sales are up people every few years, wear and tear, people are ready for a new iphone. with the ipad, you sit back and relax, you do need to upgo ahead to a new one. apple is faced with how can we get them to buy large ipads. >> who would use it? i read a lot, as i age, everything has to be bigger, the print and everything. who else would want something like that? >> this would be huge for the office place, basically. ipads for workers and rumblings about maybe even an ipad with a stylus steve jobs once said that whoever is making the tablet with a stylus blew it. i wonder what he would think now with the rumors bubbling up. neil: everyone loses a stylus. >> that's true. if you have a work station and this is something to in meeting rooms or something like that. apple would try to get more involved. neil: maybe the iphone itself is what has hurt the devices because a lot of folks are doing everything on that? >> right, exactly. there's also people who can't live without their tablets and different ways of using it. you're right, with a smartphone it's you on usually at all times. neil: how is the watch doing, the apple watch? >> no specifics yet. but, of course, apple says things are good and optimistic but some people haven't received shipments yet. i think this is coming into june we'll see a lot more people receiving theirs. so and then we'll see consumer adoption from there. neil: you think it's going to go well? >> i've tried it i enjoy it. i think it's a lot of fun and useful. neil: oh, really? oh! >> do you like it? what do you think? neil: it's time for me to stand. but i set it for the minimum amount. 80 calories a day and i set my goal. thank you very much samantha. in the meantime drivers can't text but pilots can? well it's all about speeding things up but i'm telling you at what cost? the technology changes the design evolves the engineering advances. but the passion to drive a mercedes-benz is something that is common... to every generation of enthusiast. the 2015 dream machines, from mercedes-benz. today's icons. tomorrow's legends. visit the dream machine event today for up to $3,500 towards purchase. 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(vo) go national. go like a pro. >> >> as americans are preparing to fly the faa will have a program that uses texting from a control tower to cockpit and my guess is we're practically in fighting that hackers in many respond that this is no way to take off and landing procedure more efficient the and the verbal commands back and forth you say it is not that simple. >> i will tell you right now it is the airlines trying to save money to keep the flight crews that have to listen to the tower to verbally give instructions to reassign a route you have seen that with a plot to the side in the weight they are getting new routing they want to make them all lot up in a taxed full -- and the text format to make all digital. but with the convenience of life also comes the vulnerabilities to hacking. cater imagine the possibility of a hacker getting into a system like that? whether they reroute the plane is a relevant issue down the entire system. so when the disgruntled worker came to burn down though one faa center in chicago that was because of delays and cancellations of flights so imagine globally teas. >> they have been arguing it isn't likely but i hear your concern but it would lead to a reversal of delays. >> said gao has said look at this carefully event allows us to poke into the system. but if you put up any sort of internet or data connection a hacker can get through it. let me go a little bit further down the road even though 800 planes are testing it, it works but nobody has gone after it the second we announce it opens the world to anyone in a whole new fashion. this will globally impact the economy as well. it just takes one hacker. >> it sounded like a good idea until i talk to you. thank you. just a reminder to ours in the middle of the day cavuto coast-to-coast. we hope you look at the news day welcome to the best of the imus in the morning. from the heart of new york city. i'm connell. over the next hour, some of the best interviews he's done. we started off with russell simmons, the author and entrepreneur, known for including meditation, his new book is called "success through stillness." a look at meditation and everybody can benefit from meditati