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Webberber. Everyone is annoying except me. I'm perfect. No one else.
You're all annoying. You're setting your ways and you're opinionated. You're arrogant,
you're often wrong, never in doubt. You watch the news. You're a
world leader. Now. Now, don't get me wrong. If I don't
know you, I don't care. If I don't interact with you, so
be it. Enjoy yourself. It's just that it seems every human I talk
to or talks to me annoying. You never notice in every walk of life
every endeavor, every phone call, every encounter, every service person, every
TV comment to every news correspondent, actor, actress, podcaster. They're being
interviewed annoying. Uber drivers, cab drivers, pedestrians are annoying. The worst
in New York City, the bicycles. They're all freaking annoying. Used to
be able to look left and see where the cars were coming, all right,
Now you got to look like three heads. You have to look behind
you everywhere. They're so freaking annoying. Don't get me started. Everyone you
work with is annoying. They're unhappy. They're waiting for anyone to offend them
so they could step up and be outraged. They're angry. They have to
be there. I can't take it. The world has become annoying. Let's
see who's annoying. This week, Fouci went from saint to sinner. By
the way, if you listen to this rhetoric, this stuff, COVID was
a figment of our imagination. Now it was nothing so easy to say that.
Now got hit with a plague was spreading rapidly the world. The US
government how to figure out what to do anyway. This week, Fouci went
from Saint to Sinner annoying? And then, oh, my goodness, have
you watched our president? Have you listened to Kamala? Have you listened to
the Hunter stuff? Jean Pierre and what everything she has to say is crazy
crazy? Everything he's going on is normal, is crazy speaking crazy? Ravan
F. Kennedy Junior this week has either got the facts right or he's insane.
How annoying? Everyone is annoying? How in the world could anyone criticize
put America first? And they do what country does and put itself first?
What business doesn't put itself first. I've never met a supplier, a retailer,
a manufacturer in my career who gave me favorable terms at their expense.
Every penny is hard fought over. It's annoying that we have this attitude.
Everything I heard this week was annoying. That became tonight's show. Everyone is
annoying now speaking annoying, my lawyer, my co host, and my son
Jesse Webber. Hey, Jess, you're calling me annoying. Now, No,
I just brought you in at the appropriate time. Don't be annoying.
What would you say if I said you were annoying? How would you feel
all right, don't get your back up, mister Jesse Webber. It's not
about us. Okay, Well, what a second you want to talk about
annoying? Mister? I can't make a decision on anything you don't think that's
annoying? And what does that mean? By the way, I don't make
decisions. I bet you can't even give me an example. I don't think
you want to go there. Why don't we just move on? No,
you made him statement. Give me an example. You can't. All right,
I'm sure the audience already knows that you have trouble making decisions, but
this is a recent one. I asked you last week what time do you
want to play golf this weekend? And you said to me, quote,
you decide anytime works for me. So I made a tea time of nine
fifteen in the morning and you write me that's too early. It is,
okay? So then what do I do? I make eleven forty five and
then you write me that's too late. You want to talk about annoying.
That's annoying. For the purpose of this discussion, let's get into what got
me thinking about this right now? Your wife? Wait, where is this
going? Now? I don't like this. Your wife was incredibly annoying the
other night at Dinna. Okay, first you attack me, now you attack
my wife. I didn't attack you. You're annoying. I just mentioned I
brought you in. You assumed its attacking here. I can't wait to hear
this. You share it to the whole audience. How my wife is annoying?
I just hope she's not listening live tonight. That's what I hope.
Too bad. I don't debate style with your new missus, let alone anyone
in the world for that matter. What are you talking about Friday night?
What you do? I hosted Dan Abrams show on News Nation. I love
that. That's one of my favorite things to do. I thought it went
absolutely terrific. You get good feedback, excellent feedback. People love the show.
They said to me, they want me to do it more often.
I love seeing you on that show major news network. I'm loving it.
You're there in the beginning and developing. I love it. And you look
so professional on screen. Okay, where we were going with this? Yeah,
your hair is long, it was silky. It looked amazing. You
look different from all those other guys. You just have your own look,
and I told you that at Dinah. I appreciate that. But are we
talking about my hair now? No, Conceptionally you said it was too long,
you needed a haircut. I do, I do. I think it's
a little outrageous. But you said I don't know what I'm talking about.
That's what you said exactly. And then the new wife pops in and said,
I like Jesse with shorter hair. She's entitled to her opinion, not
one with discussing the business, or if that business fashion in this case,
always in fashion, to ceo, jobs, to books, radio podcast.
I don't debate packaging yourself with anyone, let alone your wife. Well,
I will tell you people in the industry have said my hair is too long,
and they said it's better short. She's not wrong. If you want
to talk about business, a lot of people say anchor should have shorter hair.
You know, if Chris Como says it to you, Dan Abrams says
it to you, you know what. I'll listen, but I won't listen
to anybody else. Okay, even if they say it, I'm going to
argue with you. You have a look. It was amazing, You're so
handsome with the blue eyes. You just look great. And here we are
debating at dinner with your wife. All right, I'll tell you what.
In the interest of let's call it common sense, happy wife, happy life.
So let's move on from this. Where did you get the idea for
tonight's show from your wife? At dinner? She's annoying? Ever think that
maybe you're annoying? No? All right, okay, now that that's settled,
the truth be known. She said, everyone's annoying, and that got
me thinking, and it got me into this week, which drove me crazy.
Someone, not just your wife, who shall remain nameless, has been
chasing me to meet them and me, I'm not agreeing to set a meeting.
I've been avoiding humans as most people these days. It got heated,
started yelling at me. I couldn't believe this person's yelling at me. He
called to mind the show we did in March. I sent it to them
just to make a point. And here's what it said on the show.
I opened up with this. I loved it. They'll try and pin me
down. Don't even think about trying to make plans with me. I won't
meet you anywhere at any time. You have better chance bumping into me.
I'm gonna point in my life that I want to be free for you to
do what I want, with whom I want, when I want. I
can't be forced, threatened, pushed into anything. I refuse to make decisions.
It's impossible for me to make up my mind. I wasn't always this
way, but this is the way I am now. So this person trying
to pin me down and set up a business meeting, I just couldn't do
it. And that got me thinking. And from that on, between your
wife saying everybody's annoying and this person trying to tie me down, boom,
that's where the show came from. You know, they would look at you
and say you're annoying because they can't commit you to anything. Everyone's annoying except
me, of course, only you are perfect. Don't be annoying. We'll
take a break, we'll come back, and we'll explore this subject in great
detailing. Now any of you turn away, You're annoying anyone who's not enjoying
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look great. Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark
Webber. This week tough week. Everyone's annoying. Everybody drives me crazy.
Everyone is annoying. But nothing in this country is more annoying than the political
situation we find ourselves in. We can't agree on anything, and the only
thing that seems to get people excited is Donald Trump. You either hate them
or you love them, And by the way, yeah, that's people on
both sides, and then they get excited to hate him or they get excited
to love him. Yeah, it's crazy. Let's say, Karnan talk about
Trump, and let's talk about annoying. Jesse, you find an annoying that
everyone was trying to indict Trump. I hate the idea that our former president,
current frontrunner for the Republican nomination is facing this. I think it's terrible
for the country. But at the same token, what he did is really
bad. Can't just ignore it. He can't just say this is all political.
And I could get into all the reasons why I don't think it's political.
Which indictment are we talking about right now? Forget about New York?
Okay, let's just talk about the documents investigation for a second. Okay,
So, first of all, this guy brings this charges against him, And
it wasn't that Trump had documents. That wasn't the bad part. It's that
he refused to turn them over. It's that he had his lawyers lie on
his behalf. Big freaking deal. We got politicians who's still holding documents.
So they rated his house in Moral Lago and they took his stuff. End
of subject. They got it. It's a crime. What do you want
me to say? It's not a crime, which is the crime that they
had to raid him, or the fact that he had the documents? Spiden
has documents, but he never refused to turn him back over. But they
got him. See, you want to put him in prison. I don't
want our former president in prison. I don't want the optics of it.
But what do you want me to say? Just turn a blind eye.
I don't want you to say anything. I'm saying what I want to say.
Like them, hate him, love him, whatever the case may be.
They wanted the documents he tried to hold them. They got him,
end of subject. If this was anyone else, would they be going to
trial on this? Would they be indicted? No way you say that.
But I don't know, okay. In the history of the United States,
what are we two hundred and forty years old? Does anyone ever president ever
been indicted multiple times? Has anyone ever got in trouble for holding documents?
I mean, I don't want to get into it. I don't know what
happened to thirty three thousand documents Hillary Clinton had? She destroyed them. Where
is the marching her off to indictment? They looked into that and they said
that there was no criminal intent behind You could disagree or not, but at
least they gave an answer. What happened to the washing and the bleaching and
the hammers and this and that? It seems a little excessive. Don't you
think that was the name of a software that was used. It wasn't like
it was actually whitewashing. There's a lot of miscommunication about what actually happened there.
You can't just erase things from your computer that easy. They don't disappear,
okay, And why erase them? It is annoying But what you can't
do is just say, oh, just forget about it the next one,
okay, whatever summer it was twenty twenty one where all the riding was going
on, stores being burnt down, people being hurt or killed. People got
arrested for that? Oh please, they did. They got arrested and charged.
Please. Did we arrest the mayor of Portland for allowing it to go
on and them occupy the city? Did we arrest them, did we indict
them? Did we do anything to fight back? Or we just allowed it
to go on? You could say that's a dereliction of duty, but it's
not like he did something illegal dereliction of duties. So were they removed from
office? Was there a discussion of a grand jury? By the way,
there have been high profile Democrats who have been criminally charged, who have been
investigated by the FBI. So it's not like it's just all against people on
the right or conservatives of Republicans. It doesn't work that way. Look,
there's a lot of problems in government, it's sure, But I'm talking right
now about rioters in these cities, things going crazy. Do you remember what
it was like in New York? Every single store had to be boarded up
and locked down. I was living through it. It was terrible. It
was like mad Max. I hated every second of it. Okay, So
was the mayor convicted? Was he put under trial? No? No,
you're you're saying his defense should be Well, a lot of people there were
all those riots, so Trump should be we should just forget about what he
did. It doesn't work so simple. Look, will he be found guilty?
I have no idea, but I'll tell you. You can't ignore what
the facts are. He had an aid of his deliberately moved boxes to hide
it from the government. That's what he's accused of doing. He could defend
himself say it didn't happen. But that's a big that's a serious allegation.
They got all the documents. This is so annoying. What can I say?
And you know, people accuse me of liking Trump. This is not
about liking Trump. It's about watching what's going on, and the optics of
it are terrible. Everyone who is a Trump feels he's being unfairly treated.
Wait a minute, if they come out tomorrow and they want to bring charges
against Biden for documents, you'd have no issue with it. If they came
out and said we want to consider indicting him for holding documents far back is
when he was a senator, when he was a vice president, etc,
Etc. Etc. Why not. Don't get me wrong, I don't like
it. I don't like them doing it to Trump. I wouldn't like them
doing it to Biden. I'd believe they ought to change the rules when it
comes to documents and say that if you're going to talk about it being treason,
then you ought to have some very clear understanding of what needs to be
done or don't. But I wouldn't start now. If you got to start
on Trump, then you have to handle all of them. It wasn't that
he had the documents, it was holding onto them when he shouldn't, and
it was obstructing an investigation. Oh blowney, So what I'm just making the
point. And then in terms of January six and these other charges, the
idea was is that he was instrumental in having fake electors being inserted, trying
to have him be the president, having Mike Pennce step in to make sure
the votes weren't certified. These are serious allegations here about what happened, Okay,
and if he really believed as president in the United States, the election
was rigged. It wasn't fair, there was wrongdoing going on, and trying
to figure it out. I have no problem with that. So your defense
was that he thought the election was stolen. He had every right to investigate,
He had every right to see what was going on. Everybody was telling
him categorically, there's nothing here. There's no election fraud. Every one of
his cases was losing. He just didn't want to accept it. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. When you're an executive and you're a CEO, you get
input from all kinds of people before you make a decisions. But in the
and you believe what you believe, and if you are good at what you
do, you're going to pursue your beliefs and enforce your will if you can,
until you are comfortable that you get the right answer. You want to
play that game. Okay, So you head of a big public company,
all right, the share price is in the tubes, but you're gonna go
out and say no, no, no, no, no, no,
it's great. No, that's different. No, because he lost the election
and didn't accept it and then goes out and say the numbers are false.
Wall Street's false. I mean, like that's what you're saying. It's the
same thing. No, if you take it at face value. He believed
that the election was rigged, and therefore, as American as the president,
he was going to find out one way or another if it was, and
he was going to push conjole and see whether he can get an answer.
You ask me about a ceo. If his stock is tanking, if his
company's not doing well, he has an obligation to search his own soul and
ask himself was it because of him? Does he have the answers to fix
it? And if not, step down. But you have to accept that
the stock price isn't doing well. He didn't even accept that he lost.
He lived in reality where he thought he won in the election was stolen,
even there was no evidence to back it up. Then put him in a
sane asylum, not try him for treason. I want to talk about this
a little bit more. Okay, this week Trump had a town hall with
Sean Hannity. Did you get to see it? I didn't. Actually.
Now, look, Sean Hannity is a Trump advocate supporter. I don't know
what you would call it, but you can clearly know that he believes everything
that Trump does is right, and he's really all Trump all the way.
Okay, I get it. And their audience was probably one hundred percent Trump
bias. I get it. Those are town halls that are rigged because you
don't have enough of the other side. It's one way. It kind of
reminds me of another party. But I don't want to go there. He
was so lucid, and when he talks about issues, hate him. Go
right ahead. There's so much stuff that comes out of his mouth that I
hate. He makes me cringe. There's so many things I think make me
uncomfortable. I wish I could whisper his ear and Shay, shut the hell
up. Don't you know how to talk? Don't you know how to defend
yourself? But he has something Mark Levin, he said to him, as
the president, you had an outstanding presidency. But it doesn't appear so because
those people in Washington. You rock the boat, you shook up the system.
You said what no one else would say, and it didn't work,
and they will not let it stand. But over the test of time,
your history will prove that you have the right answers. And That's where I'm
at On the subject of annoying. I believed in his policies. Now you
might think Trump is despicable. I get it, But let's change the subject
slightly. Is that okay with you? Unless you want to say something,
I want to change it slightly. By the way, this has nothing to
do with his policies. Whether he did great things for the country and made
us stronger. That's a perfectly fine, reasonable conversation to have about politics.
And I don't disagree with you. Tell me one Democratic person who stood up
and said Trump's ideas many of them are great. Oh this is not saying
Democrats are good, not at all. They're terrible. They're worse things than
even people on the right. That's not what it is. They're never going
to give Trump credit for anything. Do you think people have faith in our
government right now? Do you think people have faith in the FBI? Now?
Do you think people have faith in the Supreme Court? Now? Do
you think the institutions of our country are protected and respected the way they should
be? Well? No, because everybody is making arguments based on emotion without
fact. If they listen carefully and without saying, oh my goodness, the
FBI is corrupt, Oh my goodness. The Supreme Court is corrupt without actually
looking at each decision and what they've done. Of course, that's why people
don't have faith. But that's why it's a good thing to have an honest
conversation about what's really happened. And I rest my case. Everyone is annoying.
Now before I leave anywhere, I just want to change the dialogue a
little bit. Cocaine in the White House. Is there anyone who believes that
there's not a camera and there's not fingerprints associated with that cocaine? Now,
I have no idea how it got there. I have no idea whose it
is. I do not believe it's Hunter Biden. But how convenient is it?
It's open hunting season on Hunter Biden and be talking about open hunting season.
You know, it drives me crazy when these people talk. There's politicians
get up. The American people won't stand for that. How do they speak
for the American people when the American people are three hundred million plus all over
the country. We know it's divided. It drives me crazy. I'm loving
this say the American people are in favor of our war with Ukraine? Are
we in favor of this war? Are we voting in the United States here
that we want this war to continue? Was there a way to avoid it?
Was there another way to conduct it or end it? Where is it
saying the American people are okay that guess has not seen anything below four dollars
and twenty cents and who knows how long. Now, don't get me wrong,
it's a noble effort to try and keep Ukraine free. Where are the
Europeans? Where is their money? Why are we involved? Why is it
our war? I don't believe we should have Russia as our enemy. Have
said it all along on the subject of this inflation? Is there an American
that these politicians are speaking for us? Americans understand inflation. We understand why
everything is through the roof. We understand why there's supply issues. We understand
the American people know the American people are understanding this. I never heard anyone
say that is you're paying that fair share. Nope, it's our debt,
our, bombs, death and destruction. I don't think the American people lear
in favor of this. Biden one annoying. I have something I want to
point out. Are we forgetting that in order to avoid either a two cent
or ten cent gas hike when it's already over foot dollars a gallon. That
the Biden administration. President Biden depleted our national oil reserves. They used up
on going us our oil. I heard the other day, and it's been
reported by many reliable sources that we're running out of bullets, that the United
States doesn't have enough bullets to wage war. God forbid it should happen because
we've put them all in the Ukraine. Forget the death and destruction. So
we depleted our oil reserves. Now we depleted our bullet supply and bomb supply.
Is this crazy? We're allowing illegal immigrants to flood the country at crazy
rates. We're parking them in cities with no place to go. We have
some governors sending immigrants to other cities, sanctuary cities. This is a disaster.
Our education is declining where I think twenty third in the world now we
used to be number one or two. So I have a question. If
there was a spy in the United States trying to influence policy or ruin the
country, could he do a better job than this administration is doing. And
all I have to ask you, and they're trying Trump for treason. This
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back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber. Tonight,
i'm talking annoying to me. Everyone's annoying except May of course, but everyone's
annoying. I want to talk a little bit about a business example. One
of my expertise is licensing. It's the concept of renting your name to a
company who is experienced in a particular industry. Know how they use your name,
and they expand your brand. So, for instance, if I believed
sunglasses would be good for my brand, If I can find a great sunglass
maker that would put my brand on sunglasses and they would make the right quality
in the right distribute, you shouldn't it with enhance the value of my company
and pay me money because I'm renting the brand. I do this, and
I make a deal, and I've done them all over the world in every
place, And you have to be lucky, like you are with life.
You have to be lucky. Sometimes you meet the right people, sometimes you
don't. And licensing it's very much the same. You have to be lucky
with the people you meet and the companies they run, because licensing is a
two edged sword. On the blunt edge, they're paying you money like you're
a bank. You're paying you money like you have a building and they're borrowing
real estate and they're paying you for it. It's simple. You don't have
the risk. You're not designing, you're not taking the inventory, you're not
chipping, you don't have the accounts payable. It's easy. You're making money.
On the sharp side of the sword, decide you can cut you You've
lent them your brand, and very often they take shortcuts, maybe make lesser
quality to make more margin, maybe sell to people they're not supposed to say.
Because when you have a brand, when you think about it, you
are who you hang with. It's like you as an individual, if you
stay with smart friends you're in a smart crowd. If you stay with people
who are honest and have integrity, you too will have honest and integrity.
You are who you live with and who you hang with. But in our
business, in fashion and a lot of business, a Ferrari, you buy
a Ferrari, you sign a document that you're not going to resell it.
Ferrari doesn't believe in reselling vehicles. You buy a Ferrari, they make you
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you have to sell it back to them because they don't want the people
reselling it and bringing down the image or gouging consumers because they're on a waiting
list. They got a car and they're going to turn it over. Very
very very real. Rolls Royce just incorporated the same process. You do it,
you're blacklisted forever. You can never buy a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari
in this case direct from the real and in the or luxury business, same
thing with watches, there's a gray market. You sell gray market for Rolex
catches, you'll never get a watch again. So in fashion and luxury there
is a balance between what we would call regular price and off price. You
know regular prices freestanding stores on Fifth Avenue, but off rice might be considered
outlet stores or TJ Max or Roth Stores or Burlington. And while many companies
sell into this channel, you'll never find luxury goods there. But by many
companies will sell into this channel. They have surplus, they have to get
rid of it, they'll sell it there. Some companies go even further and
make goods for the channel, make products directly to the channel to earn more
money. So be it. You monitor it. In a licensey agreement,
you have terms and conditions for the amount that you could sell in the off
price channel. You have agreements on what that price will be. If you
sell it, and if God forbid you go over it, you're going to
pay a penalty or you're going to lose the license. And this is monitored
very closely by companies everywhere. In my case, I have a great story
to tell you. You want to talk annoying tonight. I had a wonderful
guy I did business within Europe. I'm not going to mention his name right
now because he's a friend, but he could be annoying. And I've told
you great stories about him at other times, and I supported him. And
one day the head of licensing comes to me. We're going through our financial
projections at this time, and she said, something is not making sense with
this guy's particular company. I said, what is it? She said,
we know all of his customers and he's supposed to be behind in sales,
and in fact he's way ahead. So I said, well, what's wrong
with that? She's wearing his way ahead? Doesn't make sense. She said,
there's one door, a name of which we don't recognize, an address
that we've checked out isn't really a retail store. It's not Harrod's in London,
it's not Selfridges, it's not Harvey Nichols, it's not the house of
Frasier, it's not at Deneminghams. And it's doing ten million dollars. You
know how much business you have to do to sell ten million dollars. And
it's a door we can't find it. I said, I don't understand.
She said, we think he's selling to discounters and he's not admitting it.
I said, he wouldn't do that to us, He wouldn't risk the license.
He certainly wouldn't do it to me. He's a friend. Said,
well, I can't explain it, can you. I said no, but
I will check. So I called him. I said, there's something going
on here. We have a problem. We found shipments to this particular door
that is doing ten million dollars and it makes no sense. Who are they?
And he said, it's impossible. I don't know what that is.
We got it from your information. Is it can't impossible. Let me check
it out. So a week goes by here nothing, Two weeks go by.
I forgot about it, actually, but I got reminded by my head
of licensing, and I'm on my way to London. And I go to
London and I hang out with this guy and I go through his product.
I approved all this product before he shipped in. It was great product,
really great design. I was very excited about it, and I listed his
distribution. I walked the stores, and we're all the best stores in London
at that particular trip, and I asked them about the door. I said,
look, I'm still checking. It might have been someone diverted the goods.
I don't know that now. What is diverted? Somebody buys it sells
it to someone else. Like I said about Ferrari or Rolls Roy and they
take the shipments. I said, but the problem is it looks like you're
selling them direct. Can't be mark. Something's not right. So that night
I was flying home to New York and for whatever reasons, I got the
lad I had to be with Thomas Pink, one of the other brands I
ran the following day. It was an emergency they needed to see, so
I extended my day one more day and I was sleep over in London another
night, and because I was free up having dinner with this guy, I
said, you know, I'm not going do you want to hang out?
He says, you know what, I have dinner with another guy. Well,
why don't you come along. You'll have a great time. So I'm
sitting there and having dinner. I meet him. They're friends. They're very
friendly and apparently this guy was a very successful business man. And as he
talked, he was explaining to me he's really in the warehouse and distribution business.
And I said, oh, really, where do you have He says,
I have a huge warehouse, million five square feet outside London. I
turn over a lot of product and I'm in the business of selling clothesouts.
Really and who do you sell them all to? He says to everyone,
I have a huge clothes out business. My business is in excess of one
hundred billion dollars a year. And I looked at it. I said,
do you do a business with you know? I pointed to my friend there.
I said sure, I said, watching your biggest business with him?
Decan Why. So he got caught and he looked at his friend like his
friend was an idiot. But the friend was being honest. And the point
is, when I say everyone's annoying, that's a great story. Here's a
guy I trust, I like, I vouch for a stand up for.
He tells me that he doesn't know where his goods are going. This is
a mistake. And sure enough, here I am sitting with the guy who
bought it from it and I found out that way, and that was annoying.
I'll take a break back in a minute. Always in fashion, I've
been shopping for fun lately, and while I'm out, I always look at
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in Decam Why because of their sponsorship of the show. I went downstairs at
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I promise you, ladies, it is sensational, from the sports bras to
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engines, and the stuff looks incredible and right now the colors and the styles
is so exciting that I feel great about the company. I always do.
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gone to big events and been interviewed in TV or the radio, and someone
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sports bar and I said to myself, this is amazing. Actually went to
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dot com. Welcome back, Joe Always in Fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber. Hi, I'm really having fun being annoyed. I find everyone
annoying. No matter what anyone says, it seems to always be annoying.
Now maybe I'm at the point where just leave me alone. But no,
it's not just that I want to talk about some annoying things this week.
You ever get on the phone with some of the cell phone and either they
don't hear you or you don't hear them well, and you start arguing,
who's the problem? I had that with your brother this week. There's something
wrong with your phone. How do you know it's my phone? I'm hearing
you perfectly, it's your phone. It can't be my phone. Well,
in all honesty, it is your phone. Because I've had a problem talking
to you as well, So why don't you say so? Because I knew
you'd be annoying about it. Very funny, by the way, speaking of
that, you know what the worst one is is when you're talking to somebody
and you're laying out an important point and you make your point and then you
don't hear anything because the phone hung up. You know, it's interesting.
Technology is extraordinary. Go think that you'll be walking around someday with a computer
in your hand that allows you to stay connected to everyone in the world,
anywhere in the world. It's amazing. But the truth be known, I've
seen no one invest in the sound quality of cell phones ever. You never
hear them talking about we did this, we did this, strip them making
the cameras better, but never the voices. You ever noticed that? Yeah,
it's I think that that's not even about the phone, that's more about
the phone lines and the connection. I don't agree with you. I don't
know that they have the best microphones, the best speakers, the best everything.
If they did, they talk about it. I never heard one cell
phone say our service is better than anyone, our clarity is better than anyone.
Never, But I'll move on. I find that annoying. You know
what else I find annoying. I saw Mission Impossible. Oh, I thought
it was great. What do you think? Why did you think it was
great? Amazing action, good story, never board adventure Tom Cruise is amazing.
Was it my favorite? Mission Impossible? Maybe not? But I thought
it was very entertaining in a great time. Okay, I agree with you
on one point. I thought it was amazing and I had a great time
in that regard. I thought the women were interesting and they were beautiful,
and they were fun and they had very very good parts. But here's what
bothered me about the movie. Pretty much, we've seen all the action before
that whole train thing. We saw it on Wolverine, we saw it in
Tom Cruise's first movie with the train. It didn't feel new to me.
And then you get to the car chases. Car chase is a ruin.
Now, there's nothing that goes on in car chases that hasn't been done before.
It's beautiful, it's fun to watch, but it bothered me that it
seemed like repetitive. Tell me I'm wrong. What about the jump? The
jump? Big deal? One jump? And you know what bothered me with
the jump? The actual culmination bothered me because it reminded me of James Bond
movie with either Pierce Press and you at Jamore. It was too comical.
It wasn't as seriousness I would think the show deserved. I disagree. I
don't want to give it away. But he had to figure out a way
how to get somewhere, and it was pretty thrilling how it happened. And
look, the only criticism I have is they showed way too much of the
jump and like behind the scenes and commercials. It took away from it a
little bit, but it still was amazing to say. You know what else
makes me crazy? Annoying? Well, I want to give one? I
want to give one? Okay, great? You know what is super annoying
when you're in a store and the sales associate follows you like they're just all
over you, looking at everything that you're doing, or like, oh,
that's a good choice. Oh can I help you with anything? Like just
leave me alone, like back up a little bit. You don't know how
to blow them off. I said, I'm good right now, thanks,
And then they keep following you like, oh that's a good selection. That
is annoying. You know, it's also annoying when they clean up. If
you look at it an item and you pick it up and then you put
it down, you fold it lightly. It's not perfect. Right after you
do it, they fold it. How annoying is that? That is annoying?
But you know what the most annoying one for me this week is,
And if that's not considering all the honking driving into city and in the city,
it's the traffic driving me crazy. It's so annoying. Not that you
know what really drove me crazy? TV commercials. Do you know what the
TV commercial other than the five hundred drugs that are being offered to baby boomers
for whatever the elements are, you know what the most conspicuous TV commercial this
week was diet coke. I haven't seen a coke a diet coke commercial in
years. And every time I turned on the TV, diet coke commercials were
on and considering the who or the portion of the who has just said,
diet coke make cause cancer. Now they come out with TV commercials and no
one's saying anything. I'm saying it. I mean they're doing it because they
have to regain confidence in their brand. Yeah, drink a soda that gives
you cancer or may give you cancer. I think that's perfect for commercials,
don't you. The other thing, I went to Costco this week. I
hadn't been in Costco in a while, and of all things, I needed
batteries, and I know I get them there relatively fair prices in a large
quantity of them. But after getting into Costco and staying online for twenty minutes,
watching people unload four hundred items and having to wait there and then realizing
they don't give your bags you take them out in your wheelie caught. The
whole experience of Costco drove me crazy. It wasn't enjoyable, although I would
I would say the price makes it worthwhile. Do you want to hear something
that really annoys me. It's very specific. I'm listening. You ever go
to a restaurant and it's somebody's birthday, and you make the effort to tell
the restaurant before, or you sneak away from the table and you tell the
waitress or the major day, Hey, can you bring this CaCO? Can
you bring a dessert over surprise the person whose birthday it is? And they
say sure. The meal wraps up, and instead of just bringing the cake
with the candles and surprising the person, somebody thinks it's a good idea to
take plates and forks and knives and put them out before the cake comes,
and it ruins the surprise that annoys me so much, and all the time
I feel the urge to speak to the person, like, what's your thought
process here? Why do you think this was a good idea? Ruins the
soul surprise that annoys me. Yeah, you're a hundred percent right. I'll
give you another annoying one, because you know, I'm shot out of a
cannon. I had a million this week Optimum. I've been talking for a
year about the problems I had with Optimum, my service being out for weeks
on end and holding it together patchwork, and fortunately about a month ago they
sent this guy. His name was Anthony, and he was brilliant, and
he overrode the guy who was here a week earlier who told me all my
boxes are obsolete. They all have to be returned, optimen replaced with others,
and when they're done, you have to bring in a computer guy to
get the whole thing all done. And I was distroyed, and I asked
them to send me a genius. The guy figured it out and it's been
brilliant. Knock on wood, knock on wood, knock on wood, brilliant.
But I've been trying to collect now for six months the money they owe
me for all the time that my system was out, and I can't get
anywhere, and it's so annoying. It's driving me crazy. Now the money's
not going to change anything. I don't care, and it's working now and
I'm it's a godsend, but I can't get to anywhere on first base with
that. I also get really annoyed. Do you ever notice when people just
have the urge to make obnoxious comments, like they all try to be wise
guys and funny, and it just doesn't make sense. I give you an
example. Playing golf a few weeks ago, I didn't hit the best shot.
Guy standing nearby a golfer goes, that was a bad shot. Why
do you have to say that? What's it is? Business? Yeah?
Why does he have to be a wise guy about that? Everybody's annoying.
This has been annoying. Not to show I've had a great time. The
world is annoying. I don't know about you, but everyone I talked to
is annoying. The only person in the world I can think of is not
annoying. That's me. I'm perfect, But I will say the government agencies
lately I want to call out. They deserve the credit. I don't dread
going into the Motor Vehicle Bureau any longer. I actually enjoy going to the
post office. Speaking post office, they finally raised their prices on their forever
stamps way to Go, and they made a sizeable increase. Why I don't
like paying it? As a consumer? I got to give them credit.
It's time you want to laugh at Trump and call him annoying for a night
without going annoying. I gotta tell you he was right. How could the
post office possibly lose money? They have a monopoly on the mail. You
want to give me a job and pay me a percentage of whatever I save.
I want to go run the post office. I guarantee you within a
year they'll be the most profitable division. I also want to give a shout
out to US Passport Agencies. I went there to renew my passport. They
were great, and they told me it's going to take up to eleven weeks.
Three weeks, I got a passport, and I gotta tell you it's
beautiful. If you haven't seen the new passport, it's beautiful. I'm proud
to hold it and I was excited to get it. But in the night
we're talking, you know, I want to talk a little about coming attractions.
I don't know about you, but sometimes an idea today planned for months
later just doesn't feel as good. I accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from Mr.
Magazine, and next week I'm actually getting the award. You know,
I thought the wonder, why am I doing this? Do I need authentication?
Do I need validation that I had a career, that I made a
contribution I did good. No. But on the other side, my whole
family is going to be there. Jesse and Jared, my sons, are
going to give me the award. So that's priceless. My whole family,
we have a table. It's going to be a nice thing, and I
suppose I'm accepting it on their behalf. I don't need accolades. I know
who I am. On the other side, I'm going to see an industry
that's three one hundred and fifty people sold out. I helped the fact that
my name was used. We got extra ads in the magazines, and there's
some very nice tributes played out to me that you could see I posted on
Always in Fashion Instagram or if you look up Mmmer's magazine July issue you might
see it very nice. And the people who turned out for me, I
really appreciate all the sponsors showed up and it's really really nice and it's going
to be meaningful. And why am I telling you this on a night that's
annoying. I think I'm a little annoyed that I have to deal with this.
But on the other hand, I'm very excited because it is for the
family priceless, and I want to tell you from upcoming attraction point of view.
Next week's show, we're going to talk about lifetime achievement. With that,
I hope you enjoyed the show I did. If you didn't, it's
because you're annoying. Good Night,