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Webber Weber. I'm nauseous being nice. I'm sick of being sweet. Yeah,
I've been nice and sweet for too long a period of time and extended
time over the last few weeks. I'm disgusted with myself. There's been too
much talk about family, fatherhood, doing the right thing. Not only can
I take it any more, I'm exhausted making believe I'm one with the human
race. Even got criticism from it this week. Who are you? This
is not we expect on the show. I've made it clear I don't like
humans. But I have to get back to center, where the real world
is. I've tried nice, it doesn't work for me. I've tried to
give advice, but I get angry eyes and response. I've been criticized.
I've been told I lost my way. Imagine taking crap for being a good
guy. I've been surrounded by a wonderful month of events. I got to
be the man, a father, a family man, a friend to old
friends or friends, to family friends or just people I like. I made
three speeches from the heart. Big mistake, thinking an audience as a heart
let alone heart felt. What an idiot. Once again, I'm a fool.
Now. I have reasons, many for the sweet version of Mark Webber.
The last few weeks beautiful occasions, wonderful times, places, events,
but it's spilled over into beyond the family speeches to whomever. I'm speeched out,
talked out, explained out, reasoned out. It's a nice guy over
and out. I'm done. I'm finished. I'm back. The radio show
and the podcast is a chronology of these times and events. But terrible being
the good Swede Mark Webber. Yeah, I'm nauseous with myself. Truth is
what adds to the revulsion I'm feeling. There's people the reaction to me.
One person I was told I don't know who it was said thirty two minutes
of talking. I hated from beginning to end. That was the reaction to
my wedding speech. I know, if you don't know someone personally, you
don't take it personally. But the feedback from workers, the lack of sense
of humor, the stupidity, the backup morons and text to the studio to
LinkedIn complaining I have to get back on point now. If you're not interested
in this stuff, I guess I should leave it to Joel Olstein or Billy
Graham Junior. I got soft. What a waste of time expecting appreciation for
taking a moment in time. I'm a month to focus on sweet success.
What kind of fool am I? Who am I kidding? Now? I
suppose the exception of those that get it, there are some good people,
few and far between, I must say. But yet even within the type
family ranks there is some mutiny. But to be fair, there have been
beautiful moments, emotional thank you, tremendous showing of appreciation, thank you so,
and some missing thank yous. But I'm not done. I'm back.
I'm through it. Nice sweet, politically correct appreciation for mankind on search of
kindness from the human race. I'm back, effort. I'm back on the
dock side. I knew I was right all along. I had a brain
freeze and I forgot about human nature. Humans don't like them, and it's
for a reason why bother with good? When war is accepted, illegal is
legal, crime is everywhere, lying is the norm. The current administration spins
everything, even if the timing for sharing disasters is orchestrated. Outrageous politicians are
outraged when they're caught. Scandal everywhere, No leadership, no answers, no
solutions. F you to all of you that make jokes about the submarine imploding
because it was those rich guys dyeing. I don't like humans. I do
find some good people amongst you, few and far between. But why was
I thinking? How can I possibly have forgotten that where we are a society
doesn't applaud the good. We worship the stupider. Yeah, I'm back and
now I'm comfortable again. Tonight, Let's talk to talk, walk to war,
complain about everything this. Everyone be mean arrogant and nasty. Impossible,
that's the plan. Now joining me on the dark side my lawyer, my
son, and my co host Jesse Webber. I don't think I agreed to
go on the dark side, but for purposes of this exercise, let me
just say I like the softer side of you. Oh gosh, no,
No, they're not throwing anybody under the bus. Some people just commented on
some things that you have been saying in the last few weeks. I think
that's fair to comment on you. No, of course it's fair. However,
it never surprises me when people just don't get it. They don't get
me. Now you know. The truth is no, it's not okay.
I do good. A little thanks is in order, and certainly you don't
like the show, get your own. Let's see what you can do.
What I will flat out agree with it's time to move back to the real
world, because sweet and kind is just not who I am. One of
the shows that you did while I was out, I thought this is interesting.
It was in search of good news and you said only nice stories are
fluff pieces. I think that is so right. It's nonsense. Nonsense is
sometimes what sells. You don't really want to hear it. But that's it.
That's the only nice stories they actually put together on the news. I
think the last time I actually heard of not necessarily nonsense and not really a
fluff piece, but something that people were so fascinated with that wasn't politics or
war or the economy. It was the Johnny Depp amber heard trial. People
were like fascinated with that. They were fascinated with learning more about the Hollywood
lifestyle, learning about this couple. Yeah, because it's bad. It's the
dark side, two Hollywood types fighting it out in court. You've got three
billion viewers on the Lorn Crime Network on YouTube. Yeah, that's the dark
side. Yeah, the dirty laundry. It was a nasty case. And
then look, you talk about my profession. People love true crime. They
love murder, They love learning about these murder stories. I mean, it's
an attraction there. I sometimes don't get it. You know, there's some
stories that are compelling. Maybe it's a search for a missing person, maybe
it's a search to find out who did something. But there's like this fascination
with true crime. I think it's happened the last twenty years or so,
and it's just gotten even more with podcasts and TV shows. It's like good
versus evil. You're making the point humans want the dark side. By the
way, talking about your wedding speech and how everybody hated it, just for
the record, your speech at my wedding was for me and my wife right
because we loved it. What else does that matter? Great? Thank you?
Okay, So the Hilton comment not my favorite. You basically got up
there and told people how to dress and said if they don't know how to
dress, the Hilton's down the block. A little harsh considering that many of
the people at the wedding, these out of towners, were staying at the
Hilton. I think they should have a sense of human I frequent the Conrad.
It's a Hilton property. Nobody knows that you stay at the Conrad.
They thought you were making fun of them. They thought you were like above
them. What did I have a list of people with they stayed? It
was funny. Nobody gets it. Okay. Put aside the Hilton comment,
what about your comments on fat activists. You were talking about them. I
don't think that one any friends at the wedding, amongst those that night that
it might have been a little bit overweight. Hey, maybe I'm too hard
on myself. Maybe I've been on the dock side. Listen f them.
Also, I struggled with way throughout my life. I have a right to
comment, and I have a right to tell him the best exercises, pushing
away from the table, get a sense of humor, go on a diet
while you're certainly back the old Mark Webber's back. You know what pissed me
off more than anything. I was talking about being a father, okay,
and how important it was and my responsibilities. And I talked about Don Coleone
talking to Johnny Fontaine, and he goes, do you spend time with your
family? Of course I do. Well, that's good because any man that
doesn't spend time with his family can't be a real man. Crickets, no
lefts, no plause, nothing in just shows you that people are morons,
humans and morons. I'm not happy about it. That's what you're angry about
that you didn't get an applause for your Don Corleone impression. I'm upset.
I spent the last three weeks being a good guy, standing up for fatherhood,
standing up for doing the right thing, and all I got is criticism
and comments, no sense of human I'm nauseous with myself. That's tonight show.
I'm nauseous with being nice. But now I want to get back on
to the real world and make sure everybody knows that I haven't changed, that
I have no use for humans. By and large. Let's start with okay
with you. You want to get into this sol you want to be nice
tonight? Oh no, I find this interesting. Let's go okay. The
political situation i'd like to callest part of our conversation. I wish I was
a Democrat. I've said it before. I'm left on social issues, but
the Democrats, the Wolkes are taking to a point of view that's crazy.
Now all of a sudden, pizza is ruining the world. Don't charge your
car at night? What am I supposed to charge it in New York during
the day when there are no charging stations? I support climate change legislation,
but what about all these guys who are saying it and they're in their private
jets. Look, I have no problem flying private. I love it.
But I think you just should shut the up. If you're going to do
that, you know you have no right to talk about climate change. And
by the way, hooray for for Bill Maher pointing it out. The pizza
thing is ridiculous. Oh my goodness, the coal burning ovens pepperoni is going
to be the end of the world. I do not believe that this is
going to go down without a fight. I think people are going to protest.
I think this is gonna get ugly. No way, you're taking away
our pizzas from New York City. Not gonna happen. Yeah, No more
regular cars, only electric cars with no place to charge them, and no
plans for what to do with batteries and all the waste that's caused. Now
they're putting a tax on New York for anyone who drives into the city below
sixtieth Street. They're gonna do with that money. They think they're gonna stop
people coming from the city. The people who drive into the city can afford
to him. By the way, what about all the lubers, and what
about all the taxis and what about all this? What is this nonsense?
It's not bad enough that they closed off half the lanes of Manhattan. These
people don't know what they're doing. I can't believe it. Yeah, I
wish I was a Democrat. The Democrats the evil They're street fighters. Go
figure, they lie with no conscience. Nancy Pelosi is so tough, so
arrogant. I respect her. I love what she did to Trump during the
State of the Union address. What a street fighter. The only problem is
it's not a single thing she stands for that I agree with. But what
a woman. And Adam Shift Shift, the Adam Shift strange looking guys whatever
he is congressman wants to be a Senator. During the Ukraine problem for Trump,
he stood up and read a letter that supposedly came from a whistleblower,
and he changed used the whole letter around. This was a letter that I
believe, I'm not mistaken, was a transcript from the phone call. And
he took poetic license in what he said during the reading of that letter to
the entire world. And he got caught. And over the course of the
last few years as the member of the CIA Intelligence Committee, he talked about
how they had all the details, all the documents to prove Trump was a
conspirer with the Russians, that he was a trader, and then when time
came, he had nothing. So he gets censored, not impeached, censored,
and he uses it a badge of honor to stand up and say what
a righteous guy he is. There's so much nonsense in lying on the Democratic
side, it's unbelievable. Now I respect him for it. This idea that
if it hurts Trump, it's okay. And the whole presidency of Trump three
years, he's fighting to say I did nothing wrong, and he didn't.
Biden did what he accused Trump of doing. He interfered in the politics of
the foreign nation because they were investigating the Sun's company that it was being paid
by. He insisted they fire the Prosecruda. That's one of the reasons they
impeached Trump. The Democrats, the masters of deny, deny, deny.
When they get caught with their pants down, they say, that wasn't me,
that's somebody else. Your pictures wrong. They are crazy, smart,
just not smart on any decisions they make. They're crazy and they're great at
making Republicans look like fools and ruining our government. Look they destroyed the economy,
they gave away our energy independence. They put us at risk a global
war with Russia and China. I respect them. They have no conscience.
They're not afraid of anything, and when they do wrong, they don't admit
it. They plass the blame to everyone else. They're tough, but never
right. Republicans a morons. They have the answers, but they can't convince
the electorate or anyone else. They have the worst reputations. They're not good
guys, even though they are the Republicans. They bring knives to a gunfight.
They just don't know how to communicate. A former president. The Trump
may go to jail. The current president may get impeached and put in jail
with his son. Hey, Trump, your choice. There's plenty to dislike.
I have to agree call him a racist, although I've never seen a
policy put in place to demonstrate that the opposites. In fact, anything goes
against Trump. But you want the dark side, Everything he done makes sense.
He brought us a vaccine, but he gave us a choice of whether
to take it or not. The Democrats got to the vaccine and mandated that
they forced everyone to take it. I took it. I was glad to
take it, but let's face it, Democrats forced it. Now everybody's finding
out it didn't have a plan. Didn't that work? Right? Now?
Trump the only one talking sense on a Ukraine. He's the only one who
came right out and said it, give me one day and I'll end the
war in Ukraine. People are dying just for the moment put Us signed the
ruination of civilians and their culture. The soldiers are dying every day. The
entire political system behaves like that's okay. It's okay for soldiers to die because
they signed up to serve. Yes, they signed up to protect their country,
but not to die needlessly. These soldiers, their sons, their fathers,
their brothers, their lives are lost to their families. They're gone.
It's a runation, it's a travistan. All the civilians that are dying.
Trump is the only one who said clearly they're dying. You'll have to stop
this. There's no leadership in this country. Both parties are disgusting. And
once again you gotta give it to Democrats for the credit for their degree of
evil. To Democrats are all party line, no independent thought. That's their
way or the highway. Their Republicans let their hearts get in the way.
Romney, I don't know whether I'm a fan or not of him, but
he does act independently. He does what he thinks is right. He should
be applauded for that. On each issue he votes what he thinks is right,
and he's vilified. Rand Paul is always right. There's a guy with
common sense. Nobody supports them. They turn him into a buffoon. But
he was right with everything. They made him look foolish with his arguments with
Fauci, and everything he said was right. Our government is on the wrong
side of everything. You want to talk to dark side China, I have
to say it. I'm a fan of China. I spend so much time
there when I was younger. They're well made and they're inexpensive. That's a
pretty powerful position, don't you think. Yeah. I spent a lot of
time doing business, developing products, teaching the Chinese our know how, handing
him our technology. I demand anyone to show the gun that was put to
their head to willingly give them our technology. And now we're angry with China
for being smarter than we are. We should be angry at all politicians for
this stupidity, for not holding the Chinese feet to the fire, for making
sure they bought as much from us as we bought from them, and made
sure they stop stealing our intellectual properties. What about TikTok and stealing our private
information. We don't have an issue with that. Close it down. If
that's what it's doing, close it down. Clearly, haven't seen how good
the dance videos are. Well, then don't complain. We're doing stupidity.
You can't be made of China for being smart on us for being a wealthy
nation investing in technology and finding training partners around the world who evaluated to them.
They started investing in Africa. Nobody understood why they invested in Africa.
Africa has all the minerals we need as a forward society to make computers and
computer chips, and they have the franchise on all its stupid Hillary Clinton settled
them are nuclear uranium. Their friends with Russia. They get energy from Russia.
China is a million times smarter than us. They have no enemies.
They exist and let others exist. We give and get nothing. Once again,
Trump said it with NATO. There's a war in Europe right now with
Ukraine fending off the Russians. Who's funding it, who's there? We are?
We have no strategy. We have strategicy. That's a fake word,
like the fake things we get for being American fools. We have no leadership.
Where are geniuses politicians? Where we give away essential skills and manufactory,
where we're are dopey politicians. When we allowed Taiwan to be the only one
to make computer chips, where we allow China to make all of our medicines,
all our penicillin, all our antibiotics. They control our hell through medicine.
They don't ever need to fire a shot to win us over. We'll
I'll be speaking Chinese someday. Tay China. I'm a fan. Oh and
the big guy. You know who the big guy is? He sends Blincoln,
the Secretary of State, to try and reset our relationship with China.
We told he had an excellent meeting, and right at the same time,
our president, the big Guy at the same time quojia dictator. That went
over. Well. You know you can't make this up. We have zero
leadership. We're in a divided nation. We're in trouble. Welcome back,
Mark, No more missed the nice guy. Tonight I'm on the dark side.
I'm nauseous for the way I behave for the last month. I was
a good guy, a sweet guy, a nice guy, stood up and
made speeches that people should admire because I gave faith to humans no more.
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Mark Webber Lou. Come to the dock side. I'm on the dock side
now, just like in Star Wars. Last few weeks, I had some
beautiful occasions, anniversary's, weddings, nice things. You got to speak three
times mate speeches. And what did I get from being a nice guy?
Criticism? People don't get me. I'm actually nauseous from being nice and sweet,
and thinking about it, this week, I decided to go back to
the dark side, which is where I am. I get to complain,
I get to be angry, I get to be pissed off, and that's
kind of where I am tonight. I'm trying to temper it down. You
like being the bad guy, Say hello to the bad guy. Actors always
say they prefer playing the villain. It's more fun, isn't Well, it's
not so much that I want to be a villain. It's my view on
humans and people in general that there are some really nice people, and over
time I've talked on the show about they show up at the strangest places and
when you need them, they're there for you. But generally speaking, I
don't like humans. For someone to say, whoever, that was thirty two
minutes of my speech at your wedding was terrible, It's not that they thought
it was terrible, it's that they were offended by what you said. I
don't know who the person is, and I hope I never know, and
I don't care if I should ever meet them again, and if they or
any of their friends or listening to the show person has no brains, I
don't want to know them. How about that morons anyway? What I want
to talk about now, of all things, this fashion. What a shotka
right for a show that's called always in Fashion, I have to talk about
fashion because it's making me crazy. What a respect in fashion is conviction.
What I don't respect is compromise, and compromise is rooting the fashion system.
Compromise is a fine idea until it compromises your principles. You have to remember,
we're in the business. What do people need what can you sell a
lot of? What do people want? Or what can you sell a lot
of without compromising your principles. I'll also remind you that in this world,
in order to make money, you have to sell a lot of what you
make. Think about Tesla has to sell a lot of cars. Think about
Apple has to sell a lot of phones. On fashion, you have to
sell a lot of key items basics. We all wear basics when we admit
or not. We wear T shirts, we wear sweaters, we wear sweatshirts.
Companies have to sell a lot of them. But the best companies disguise
these basic as fashion. They have to be comfortable and they make you look
current and better. Now I work between two worlds. One world I grew
up working for Man of the People products fan using shirts isod sports where even
Calvin Klein, when you think about how much underwear genes sports where they sell,
is very affordable. Donna Karen decan y tremendously affordable products that would sell
a ton of them. Decany sold three hundred million dollars worth of jeans over
a fifteen year period at Popular Prize. So I lived in that world.
The other world I walked into is the luxury world at lvmh Luis Vutan Moet
Hennessey. The luxury world talks about what do I put in to my product
to make it better rather than what I take out of it to make it
less expensive. So let's take a stroll to those worlds. Have any of
you seen the recent men's wear collections for Spring twenty four. It's been men's
fashion week around the globe. Product vetone, Gucci disaster. Ladies, keep
wearing your naked dresses. I don't know what signal you're trying to send,
but I'll look at you. But men, I can't believe what I'm seeing.
The genius Raft Simmons is now at Product and the clothes are in sanely
sick and terrible. Raf Simmons is famous, I'm not Raf Simmons did a
movie called Dior and Me. He was the creative director at Dior. He
was sensational. He was unbelievable because everything he did at Diyor was in keeping
with being a luxury company, to being out in front of it like no
one else, and someone the merchant said to or tempered a lot of what
he was doing in order to make it salable. Now salable at Dior is
very different. It's salable at some of these other companies I mentioned because at
the or you're talking about very very expensive handbag, shoes, sunglasses, dresses.
But within it, he was brilliant. Now I want to tell you
the other side. I did a show back in June, I think of
last year, probably a year ago, about my former company Van Jusen,
when they saw hold off their assets of venues in and isod to evolve people,
my son's company where he works, and I did a show called you
Failed. There's no other way to spin it, and the responsibility of keeping
the founding brand of Phillips venues in pH as seen on the stock exchange was
a failure of the highest proportions. Drove me crazy. Now on LinkedIn every
week I get comments from anywhere from a thousand to when my wife passed away
twelve thousand people to the show that you failed eighty eight hundred people, the
second largest response I ever had. Because people were invested and they are invested
in brands and PVH selling off their namesake brand was a failure of the greatest
proportions. I spent thirty years of my life doing everything I can to make
that brand great, as did so many other of my associates, and they
gave it a way. And then pH who owned Calvin Klein, which is
amazing success during my tenure, even more amazing after I left. Calvin Klein
is one of the truly great brands in the world between underwear, Calvin Klein,
Jeens, Calvin Klein Sports, where Calvin Klein, Fragrances, eternity c
K one what a company. They hired Raf Simmons to be the creative director,
not just for the collection, they gave him the whole company. And
what did he do. He went out and started making strange things, couturier
ideas that a handful of people would be interesting. Remember before I said I
don't like compromise, Well, I have to give it to Raf Simmons because
he never compromised. He went ahead and started making the same things he'd made
for everyone else and literally destroyed Calvin Klein. The collection closed, every one
of their business suffered. The CEO of the company had, I want to
say, had to leave, but it was a blot on his career.
He was a great guy who did well for I think eleven twelve years.
He retired at his own choosing. But he took a hit for that.
And all the people associated with Ralf Simmons, Calvin Klean company, the president,
the executive, they're all gone. They had to start all over.
They had to get rid of Ralph Simmons, and they did. And now
I watched him at Product. I'm a Product fan. You want to talk
about the dark side, I'm on the dark side now. I saw the
men's run my show. There were more skirts than pants. There are more
dresses than pants. They're more shorts than pants. There are more skin on
men's weban I've ever seen in my life. How can you wear this?
What are you doing to fashion? I watch what's going on and I say
to myself, who's allowing this to happen? What's going on in fashion?
I have a question for you, Pharrell. What is he known for.
He's a musician and a producer, a genius at it right. He's amazing,
He's incredible, and he's a cool guy, cool guy that never ages.
He like looks the same for the past twenty years. And I knew
him Farrell because of his music. From a fashion point of view, I'm
asking myself, what are his credentials. I know he wore a smokey the
bear hat. I know he likes sunglasses. I know he's a cool guy.
But he was just named creative director of Vitone. The way that I
would look at that is you say, okay, he is a creative artist,
and creative artists sometimes that can translate into fashion, can it? Absolutely?
Why is Kanye West grating clothes? Because he could maybe Farrell could as
well. I'm not arguing. I just saw the Runway show and it's strange,
vite. They're all about the next thing. They're all about fashion,
and I gotta tell you, Farrelle in Paris brought out the big guns.
Jay Z was there. He and jay Z sung at the show. I
mean then or then and after whatever. But I'm watching what's going on.
I'm thinking about my former company, Viton. I'm wondering what this guy's fashion
credits are. I haven't read the reviews, but why, baba. They're
applauding brown shoes with navy suits. They're applauding all these white soul shoes.
They're pluting all these things. They're putting Billy Porter from wearing a dress to
the oscars. All of this is okay all of a sudden, what's going
on in fashion? I don't understand. Look, I wish him luck.
I like the idea that he's a person who is noticed, that he draws
people to anything he does, and he will draw a new audience to LV.
I just have my fingers cross that the fashion will be more sensible.
But I never dream of the nightmare then I'm looking at right now? How
could this statement possibly help anyone? And why are we embracing in his industry
this lack of clarity, this lack of common sense, this lack of style.
Where can this lead? I know nowhere to you? Wow? Look
at what you're wearing behind your back? Also? Wow? Wow? Shouldn't
be your goal? You deserve to be seen, You deserve to be appreciated,
deserve to be respected, you deserve to be taken. Seriously, we
can't do it with the fashion I'm seeing on the run rays right now.
And I might be the only one saying it, but that's the way it
is. I'm not a nice guy tonight. With that, I'll be back
in a minute. Always in fashion spent a lifetime of my career building the
van Usen Brand, and I am so pleased that they're back with us now
talking about suits. Men, We're dressing up again and it's become cool to
wear a suit. Suits can be one on multiplecasions in multiple ways. You
could wear a suit formally to go out at night or to an event,
to wear a suit to the office with or without a tie. If you
look closely, now fashion trends, suits are being worn with turtlenecks or mocknecks.
The choices are endless, and every one of them looks right. You
could really really look the part. I believe that packaging yourself this is important.
Does the products you package and wearing a suit is one of those things
that make men look their best. Venues and invented a new idea. It's
called the cool flex suit. It's been engineered with stretched technology, giving you
the most comfortable fit and mobility. It's wrinkle resistant fabric, it's cool moisture
wicking. It makes it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed just now,
this new style of looking shop while feeling cool and comfortable is amazing,
and I'm so excited that the Venusing company is involved in this new technology and
is embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget van Uson made
its name with dress shirts. It's only proper that the suit business follows strongly
in its way. You can find van Uson cool flex men's stretched suits at
jac Penney or online at jcpenny dot com. Guys, they're great. You
should go look at them. Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your
host, Mark Webber. I have been nauseous with myself. I can't look
in the mirror. I've spent the last month being a nice guy a place
I'm not familiar with. I'm used to being tough to the point, but
fair. Maybe I don't know even what that means, but I've been different
because I've been in these situations, and now that I have been doing it,
I've gotten criticized for my behavior. Some for the show. I'm just
getting angry. I'm on the dock side. Now that's this week's show.
I'm not being nice. I'm complaining, and I think Jesse evens enjoying it.
I am. As much as I like the sweet Mark Webber, You're
much more fun as the dark Mark Webber, as the bad guy. You
know, before your wedding, we took a bunch of guys out for dinner
the night before, and I got up and spoke extemporaneously, no notes,
no plan whatever, and I was talking about gripes and stuff, and I
was funny as hell. I was my best speech of the last month.
I think that's the most fun you had of the wedding weekend. Maybe.
Yeah, I'm angry and I'm feeling better. Though, Wait, wait before
you get into it. It seems you're getting angry and angry as we go
forward in the show. That's funny, but I would say, no,
my angerer is equally proportionate. I thought, you don't care what people think.
I know, do you to an extent? Not like I'll change my
behavior, but I'm conscious of how people respond to what I do. Yeah,
one person watches you on TV makes a comment about your hair or something
you said you get a little nose out of joint or note so funny you
should say that. I'll tell you this. I'll be like, you know,
somebody said something about my hair, or somebody said something about this.
Instead of saying me, ah, forget it, who cares what they saying?
You side with them. You go, huh, maybe your hair is
a little too long. Maybe you do have to give it a second thought.
I'm shocked. I'm shocked for the guy who doesn't care what people think.
Anytime somebody gives me a critique, you're like, oh, maybe you
have to think about that. Well. One of the people who wrote me
a letter this week commented, I am tough on you, are demeaning on
you on the show, and I'm really other than fooling around saying I can't
believe you took a honeymoon and you stay here and you know you didn't take
your recording good man, which I would think is a joke. Do you
feel I'm tough on you on air? Well, first of all, I
wrote it anonymously, No, you didn't. It happen to be from a
guy who I know very well. And let me just say to the person
that wrote you, I appreciate you defending me, But at the same time,
I really don't think I needed any defense. I feel like you and
I are always just joking around. It's never really serious. Yeah, that
was one comment the stand. Then there was comments he made a comment that
you know which really part of the would triggered this show, which is I'm
grateful in that regard because he was saying that always in fashion is not on
point, which is really what I want to talk about. For the moment.
Everything on this show is a life lesson. I've always said you should
listen, but more importantly, you should hear what I'm saying on focusing this
audience on what's important. Business. You can't do it alone. You need
people. For me, considering that this entire night have been talking so far
about how I don't like humans, I want to make the point you can't
be successful in business without people. No one can do it all themselves.
But I have a concept that I hire or I will only tolerate inherited people
that work directly for me, who make me struggle to be value added.
I don't want to do anything. I want their ideas. I want the
brilliant, so I want their expertise to lead the way, and I want
to struggle to make a contribution. And then when you think about that,
you might say it makes no sense, But it makes all the sense in
the world because I then have to work to figure out what we're missing,
what to do to make us better, what to do to make us more
unusual. I want to work with the smarter people. The better you are,
the more excited I will get. I'm never fearful than anyone who would
report to me might be better than me. If you're better than me,
more power to you. I'll come work for you. There's always an opportunity
in companies for all of us. There's always room. You better than me.
I have to accept you as a key player, but I'll tell you
I'm tough to beat. My exact quote goes like this, I want to
work with people who make me struggle to be value ended. I'll find a
way to contribute. I'll add a perspective, make your ideas special. I'll
make you more confident. But no question, I'm a tough guy in business.
Tough but fair. It means I'm demanding. I don't suffer fools well,
but I'm also understanding and try and bring fools along. Have you come
to me, ask me a question, or you present an idea. I
expect you to be prepared. I expect you to be thorough, to consider
all the options. I expect you to look for an ounce should you need
one, Because if your idea or your plans don't work, what are you
gonna do? H you need to have a backup. I expect people to
think through the unintended consequences. Look, I don't believe we should ever make
the same mistake twice. We have to have some class. We have to
give credit where it's due. You got to remember to appreciate and say thank
you. You have to remember anither to take credit for other people's work.
And I will tell you if you always agree with me, one of us
is needed. So you better have some ideas that are different from mine.
I don't need kissing my ring to make me nice. This whole idea of
sweet and nice is platform for me to talk to you tonight about different subjects.
Like the show always is, I look for something that might trigger a
response. I look for something that's saying. In this case, me being
nice didn't pay off. Allows me to talk about things that are annoying me.
That allows me to be tough but fair. You know, when I
talk about once in my life, I was brilliant, it was designed to
challenge you to think outside the box, to realize that it's okay to think
differently. When I talk about I used to be important, I understand that
time's change, in life's changes, you have to be self aware. For
me, it's fun to see the reality of it. What I'm complaining that
nobody sees me anymore, and what it feels like to no longer be relevant.
That's real. It gets me to see humans that they're best and the
worst. And I love it. I'm not unhappy. I'm a realist.
I had my aunts in business. I was important, I was a CEO.
Now I'm not. Now I do radio, I do podcasts. I'm
sure I'm relevant to those who not only listen, but here. I believe
it's great that I get your comments. I want you to keep them coming.
I don't mind those friends who've written me are concerned you're being honest with
me, No, don't worry about. All it does is trigger more ideas
for me. I wonder whether you get the impact. One of these folks
who I've mentioned now a couple of things he said, said, I'm losing
the spirit of always in fashion. I couldn't disagree more. This show began
as a business show. I tried every time I came out there this is
mark where, but this is always in fashion, this is business. And
with spite of all that talk about business, Apple Spotify categorized us as culture
and lifestyle. That's who we are. Any subject is game, any subject
is relevant, and I love the freedom at off it. I love the
opportunity to expand beyond the walls of fashion. So I welcome put. I'm
not sorry in the least for you reawakening the tiger in me. Well,
I think you should continue to be mean to me because I like getting the
fan mail. I like people defending me. I mean, I gotta tell
you, people defending me at the wedding, people defending me on air.
My goodness, I haven't seen so much Jesse love in quite some time.
Give me one example where I gave you a tough time. Well, I
mean, it's light humor, it's light. But you gave me a hard
time about certain decisions that I made. No, I want to hear that's
psychobabble. You didn't give me a little bit of a hard time about going
to Greece. No, I questioned whether I need to go to the other
ends of the world. There were so many other places to choose from.
I was talking to you as your dad, your father. I was concerned
you being so far from home and a place that has all kinds of problems.
Never seems to meet their budgets. I don't know what's going on in
Greece. That was a hard time. You gotta do better than that.
Keep going. Let me hear what else. The truth is, I can't
think of anything that you did bad at me, because nothing stood out.
You tease me here and there, but I don't think of anything that bad
in particular. I know you can't. And just to put things in perspective,
do you tease me? Yeah, I tease you, but rightfully so
someone's got to hold your feet to the fire a little bit. You give
me all kinds of stuff no matter what show we're doing. That's true.
Oh you gave me a hard time and out bringing my equipment to Grace to
do the show. Yeah. Was it a hard time or it was a
joke? Do I expect you to work on your honeymoon? Yeah? I
do. But hey, I have a different question for you. While we're
just rambling here. I don't want to mention names. I don't want to
mention brands, but one of the former brands that I used to work at
it is looking for some help. I had a conversation with the principles of
the company about coming in there and helping them get back on track. Should
I go back to semi something work or not? Yes? First of all,
your mind always has to be active. You wouldn't be good just sitting
around. And yes, the radio show takes a lot of time. It's
a great thing that you do. But I think you would love to be
part of a company working in that industry again, being value added. I
think you would love it. I think it would make your life interesting.
So you want to put your forefather back to work after he retired, I'm
not telling you to work in a sweatshop from six am until midnight. So
how many hours should I work every day? Should I travel over the world
all over again? No? No, no, no, no more light
work? You said semi semi, So I don't know. Two hours a
day, three hours a day every day? So I shouldn't have days off
to play golf or hang out and just do nothing. I should have a
schedule every day. If it's taking a phone call for an hour and a
half, is that the worst? The funniest thing is I used to be
a consultant, you know. I have this practice, and I would take
phone calls and fall asleep on them. That was terrible. You know,
you probably shouldn't say that on air because they're probably listening to this, and
by the way, your future potential employer might be listening to this. You
don't have any urge to be back in the industry, that's a great question,
But the real question is why would I. I'm concerned that it's my
ego. I'm concerned that, you know, being back in some form gives
me a platform. I walk in I stand tall, people respect me.
I can't tell you how many times the folks I was involved with talking about
this that it was an honor for me to be there. I haven't heard
that, you know, maybe ever. But I'm concerned it's my ego.
Number one and number two, it is another mountain to climb, to go
back to some degree in the fashion luxury business. But is that where I
should be climbing mountains or should be finding new mountains to climb like we did
with radio, like I did with books. While is there some other career
that you haven't told me about that you want to do. I want to
be a whole fighter. If you think about it, there's a part of
you you're still reading about the industry. You always tell me, what's going
on? We talk about it here. You're not interested in building a company,
up, building a brand? Well, I'd be lying if I didn't
say I wasn't considering it. You're like the in the movies, the assassin
who comes back for that one job they need him out of retirement. Yeah,
and that's the one he gets killed in. Okay, maybe bad example.
I'm just saying you're still value added. Look, I'm not money motivated.
Whatever they would pay me is not going to be enough to change my
life, So the money doesn't mean anything in this regard. I am very
protective of my time and the fact that you know, what's our favorite trips.
Our favorite trips are the ones where we have nothing planned. And what's
our favorite days where we have nothing to do when we figure it out on
the day of Okay, now, what if I told you your whole life
now you have to have nothing planned and you could just do whatever you want.
I mean, it's amazing. I wish I had that. So why
you're telling me to go back to work. I was in Greece for two
and a half weeks. I kind of still have that mentality of looking at
the ocean and eating Greek salads. So I'm kind of like still in that
mentality. Maybe if you ask me into a couple of weeks. I think
it's time to summarize tonight's show. Half the time I'm self deprecating. I'm
making fun of myself so that when I want to brag about myself, I
can do it. You know, I used to be important. Nobody sees
me anymore. People don't like me. This that I do that all the
time, and I'm part of it is so I have the right to brag.
I am a smart guy. I do a radio show that's unique,
and it's smart, and it's clever. And if you take the time to
listen, but more importantly to hear, if you take the time to look,
but more important to see, you'll be better for it. This show.
If you listen to the it bits lost in a sentence, there are
gems. So when I get your comments, all of you out there,
friends and foes, think about what you're saying. Did you miss the point
you're getting what I'm saying. Do you enjoy the show for the purity of
it, for the diverse set of subjects. Do I open your minds to
sometimes thinking about things you might not have thought about. Did you learn something?
Well, if you did, stop criticizing me. I don't want to
hear it. I'm on the dark side. Go bother someone else, or
go get your own show. Good night,