WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.000 This is a noncore performance of Always in Fashion. This show is produced and 2 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.519 hosted by Mark Webber. The show is sponsored by G three Aparol. I 3 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:12.720 view is expressed in the following program are those of the sponsor and not necessarily 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:19.600 the opinion of seven ten wor or iHeartMedia. Who is Mark Weber. He's 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:23.839 a self made business executive here to help you find your success, from the 6 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:29.079 New York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. His global success story 7 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:34.799 in the luxury world of fashion is inspirational. He's gone from clerk to CEO 8 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:40.600 twice. Mark is classic proof that the American dream is alive. And well, 9 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:45.039 here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber. Mark Weber, 10 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:52.280 did you miss me? Did you realize I wasn't here? That's the issue. 11 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:56.359 I took a vacation, repeated a former show last week, but no 12 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:00.520 one reached out and said, we miss you, Mark, unless what's bothering 13 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.879 me? Something's been bothering me. I keep talking about it. I feel 14 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:07.879 it every day in one form or another. I know it's not my imagination. 15 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:12.200 The feeling is too strong. I'm intuitive, I can read people, 16 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:19.680 and humans have decided I'm no longer important. I'm not relevant as I'm matured. 17 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:22.959 My hair has gotten grayer, but it's come with some wisdom. A 18 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.280 keen sense of the world has provided me with a new degree of clarity. 19 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.040 I see the world for what it is, not what it professes to be. 20 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.040 I used to see people. Now I see right through them. I 21 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:38.280 know what you're thinking. I've become more diverse in my interests. And while 22 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.319 I've always known a little of a myriad of subjects, I now know a 23 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:46.799 great deal. I have a point of view, I have insights. I'm 24 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:52.560 older, but I promise in many respects I'm sharper, smarter, and funnier. 25 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.599 Yeah, I still like myself. I've noticed, though, a new 26 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:00.719 creativity in everything that crosses my path, particular those things that interest me. 27 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.359 Look in many respects, I'm not the same I have. I was going 28 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:08.599 to say less patience, but in complete honesty, I have no patience. 29 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:14.080 The drive to win never goes away. But I recall a well known men's 30 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.520 model on set in California. You're telling me Mark, you won one what 31 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:23.439 Tyler the game of life? So I don't need to prove anything, and 32 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:27.159 I don't need anything. Therefore, the hunger is just not there as it 33 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:30.599 was. I'm not in the city projects any longer. My reality in many 34 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:35.800 respects. The clarity has made me better, but I've mellowed with age. 35 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.759 Age brings wisdom and experience. There's not much I miss, but I miss 36 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:44.560 being important. I'm in this culture, but people don't see you when your 37 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:47.159 hair is gray. It's like, I guess you're not there. Maybe I 38 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:52.080 should Rob Banks. The camera would pick me up. I'm invisible like Pierce 39 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:57.879 Brosnan's Aston Martin. I deal with a lot, but being relevant not so 40 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:02.520 easy now. Having said this many times, my children go to great lens 41 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:06.439 to tell me, you're not thinking straight that you're important to us. Your 42 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.960 family thinks you're important. We need you. I'm blessed. My children want 43 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:13.680 to spend time with me. They like hanging out with me, They want 44 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:16.639 to they appreciate me, in spite of being an acquired taste. They like 45 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:22.439 me. They want to go on vacations with me. I'm thinking it's not 46 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:27.439 because I pay for everything, but hmm, I know they love me, 47 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.159 that's for sure, and that's priceless, and helping them is priceless. Now 48 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:38.800 forgetting this touchy feely stuff. There's another side to this coin. Once you 49 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.319 breathe the clean air at the top of the mountain, it's difficult to breathe 50 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:47.560 the polluted air down below. Consequently, I think the fact that I used 51 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:52.719 to be important is weighing heavy ar on me. Then it ordinarily would anyone 52 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:58.039 else. You have to raise the question should we be judged by what we 53 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:01.840 do rather than who we are. That's not smart, that's not fair, 54 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.639 that's not enough smart out there and fair. As for kids, fair is 55 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:11.280 a nebulous concept. They say you are what you eat. Interesting and clever 56 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.719 and probably true. But in this life you're defined by what is your vocation. 57 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:21.279 Titles matter, Being the decision maker matters more. Recognition for those decisions 58 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:30.680 perhaps matters most. Inclose you are evaluated for results. However, I'm Mark 59 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.040 Weber, CEO of Louis Viton mohed Hennessy is quite different from my Mark Weber 60 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:38.759 radio broadcast host. Just the way it is, it is what it is. 61 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:43.240 I'm not embarrassed. This is chapter three of an incredible run. CEO 62 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.759 of fashion and retail, CEO of luxury and now producer write a talk show 63 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:53.600 host. But I used to be important Okay, I'm not complaining. I'm 64 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.759 stating the facts. And if I could put substance to this statement, this 65 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:01.000 will be a great show. And whether I feel important or not, I 66 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:04.879 strive for great good. Isn't good enough and I know that. And here's 67 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:10.319 the plan I intend to share with you my thoughts. Starting out, I'll 68 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.920 explain the triumphs and rewards. I'll make the comparisons. You get to be 69 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:19.079 the judge, I should point out being important and tasks with important requirements and 70 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:23.319 not delivering is no fun. So if you want to be important, it 71 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.319 comes with a catch responsibility. Unlike me, who used to be important, 72 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:33.680 the very important, relevant political and legal commentator, my son, my lawyer, 73 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:38.639 my co host, Jesse Weber. Now Jesse, just to stay focused 74 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.639 because you are important. Let's start with the most important, if not important, 75 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:46.519 controversial Roe versus Wade. Before we even get to Roe v Wade, 76 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:48.720 did you miss me? Did you miss me? Because let me tell you 77 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:53.560 something, the repeat show we did last week, I wasn't even on that 78 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:57.399 show. And I'm not complaining. You don't see me saying hey, audience, 79 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:59.959 I don't feel loved and I wasn't even on the show last week. 80 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.279 You're such a cry baby. I like to make an impact. Okay, 81 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.199 I'm invisible. I get it. Let's go to Roe versus Wade. I 82 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:11.639 don't understand why in God's name, and that's what they're using. I think, 83 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:17.000 without saying it, they decided to overturn the right for women to get 84 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:24.160 an abortion. It was fifty years of an uneasy piece, but there was 85 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:30.879 peace. And furthermore, when all these new Supreme Court justices, in fact, 86 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:35.040 when any Supreme Court justice is named, they're asked their opinion on Roe 87 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:41.720 versus Wade, and the newest crop of judges seem to have said they do 88 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:46.879 not anticipate dealing with this, and they would not or they didn't agree in 89 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:50.560 any way send any signal that they would overturn it. What is going on, 90 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.040 all right? So let's break it down in a very simple way. 91 00:06:55.399 --> 00:07:00.560 First, let's be very clear, although these justices, these conservative justices, 92 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:05.240 are quite religious and have certain religious backgrounds, there's nothing in their decision that 93 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:10.519 says they made this decision on religious grounds. So let's be clear about that. 94 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.879 People suspect that's why they did it, but they didn't say anything about 95 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:18.720 religion. What they said was is that abortion, unlike other rights that are 96 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:25.600 protected, is not that kind of fundamental right that's been protected in America for 97 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:30.680 as long as we remember. You may like freedom of speech and due process, 98 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.319 your innocentence will proven guilty. Some things have been around and it's always 99 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:39.800 been protected and it's always understood to be protected. Abortion. Back when the 100 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.800 and I'll explain this in a second, back when everything was going on, 101 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:46.480 they said, Look, abortion was always a divisive issue. It was criminalized 102 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:50.879 in certain states. Unlike other rights, it's dealing with human life. It's 103 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:56.519 different, they said, it's different, and it's different because of the interpretation 104 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:03.279 of what is life. Is life created a conception, or's life after a 105 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:05.879 certain period of time, when the baby's cooking. That's what this is about. 106 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.240 Correct, Well, they didn't even address the answer to that in their 107 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.879 decision. They didn't make an answer as to when life starts. That's a 108 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:18.600 separate question that's going to be now up to the states to determine how they 109 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:22.199 want to regulate it, how they interpret that. They base their decision on 110 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:26.160 a legal interpretation of the Constitution. And the way they did that was back 111 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:30.959 in the day in nineteen seventy three when Roe v. Wade came about the 112 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:35.679 Supreme Court said that under the Fourteenth Amendment, and the fourteenth Amendment says that 113 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:41.879 the government can't restrict your life, liberty, or property without due process, 114 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:48.240 that you have certain protections under the law, and you have certain procedural safeguards 115 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.879 put in place that the government can't intervene in your life without certain things that 116 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:54.840 are done. You could just look at that language and say, Okay, 117 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.799 I get it, that makes sense. But the Supreme Court over the years 118 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:03.639 looked at that language and said, you know what, the Fourteenth Amendment actually 119 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:09.679 protects other rights that aren't even in the Constitution, that weren't even originally foreseen 120 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:15.080 in the Constitution. These are fundamental rights, things that are not black and 121 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.399 white on the Constitution, that are not written there, but they're protected nonetheless. 122 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:22.960 That this Fourteenth Amendment protects things like your right to privacy, your right 123 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:28.320 to private decisions, personal decisions over your body, things like a right to 124 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:33.519 an abortion, right to same sex marriage, right to use contraception in married 125 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:37.399 couples. And we've seen a number of different cases over the years that have 126 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:41.960 protected these rights. And then all of a sudden, this decision comes out 127 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.120 last week. And the Supreme Court said, nope, abortion is not a 128 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.639 fundamental right. Sorry, we're going to kick it back to the states. 129 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:54.159 They're going to decide whether or not to ban abortion, to regulate abortion. 130 00:09:54.320 --> 00:10:00.440 It's not a federally constitutionally protected right. And the problem with that interpretation is 131 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:05.679 now, and particularly after Justice Clarence Thomas wrote this in his concurring opinion, 132 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:09.279 Well, can't they now look at all of these other rights that were protected 133 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:11.840 by the fourteenth Amendment, like same sex marriage, and say let's throw that 134 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:16.399 out too. Let's leave that to the states to decide. They open the 135 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.559 door. Now, what are they going to do next? And although the 136 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.399 majority of the Court in their opinions said, don't worry, we're not talking 137 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.320 about those other rights right now. This has no effect on them. Well, 138 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:28.879 how can you trust them on that exactly? And you know what the 139 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.320 liberal justices and their dissenting opinions said, we don't believe you. After you 140 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.279 did this, what's next? And so everybody's very concerned with what this opinion 141 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:41.799 means moving forward. Well, that's pretty clear and unclear at the same time. 142 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:48.679 I just don't understand why they're involved with us in our bedrooms well, 143 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:52.600 state governments believe they have a right to get involved. So with abortion right, 144 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.039 they say, we have a right to get involved because you're dealing with 145 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:01.559 human life, ending human life, and sometimes these terrible we have to step 146 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:03.480 in. We can't just let people do what they want. It's the same 147 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.039 thing back in the day when the government wanted to restrict same sex marriage, 148 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.600 they said, we have a right as a moral duty to get involved here. 149 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.639 We have to protect what it means the sanctity of marriage in this country, 150 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.559 in this state. And so they get involved in these decisions. They 151 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:20.720 think they have a right to get involved. So the federal government and the 152 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:26.679 Supreme Court determines what an overall point of view would be for the country, 153 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:33.320 and that supersedes what a state might think. But in this case, the 154 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:39.559 giving the rights back to the states. Why because the Supreme Court is saying 155 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:46.519 there is no federal right protection to abortion. This goes back to the states 156 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:50.279 who have already had laws in their books about abortion. They already have regulations 157 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:54.000 put in place about abortion. This is going to be a state issue, 158 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:58.879 so it's being treated no differently than a speed limit. The speed limit in 159 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:03.080 Virginia might be seventy miles an hour, and in New York it might be 160 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.000 sixty. The federal government doesn't get involved, but the states do. Yeah. 161 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.039 I mean, look, when you're dealing with speed limits, you're dealing 162 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.600 with local government, not really state government. But yeah, think about it 163 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:16.159 like that. It goes back to each individual state within their borders about how 164 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:22.240 they want to interpret abortion. It's very confusing, it's very concerning. This 165 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.639 was, as I said, it an easy piece. And I don't see 166 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:30.320 why they had to get involved now and do this and create havoc in our 167 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:35.480 country. I just don't see it. I've said it. I'm a stocked 168 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:39.600 Republican when it comes to international affairs and monetary affairs, but I lean left 169 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:45.639 unless when the left gets crazy. But I am not in favor of telling 170 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.399 a woman what to do with her body, just not. And I'm troubled 171 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.799 by this whole thing and where it can go from here. And having said 172 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.120 that, on a night we're talking about it used to be important. The 173 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:01.200 question really is is the Supreme Court important any longer? I think that's the 174 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:05.879 wrong question. It's not if they're important anymore, it's did they used to 175 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.480 be trusted? And are they now, Wow, of all the things, 176 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:15.840 all the institutions in this country, in the world that were Sancho sacked that 177 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:22.679 no one would ever question, that people believed was apolitical, that the rights 178 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:30.080 of individuals were protected, that we could sleep well at night knowing that the 179 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:35.320 Supreme Court would always do the right thing. We go to sleep tonight wondering 180 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.519 why the Supreme Court did this and whether or not they'll be important any longer. 181 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:45.440 Take a break, We'll be back in a minute. 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Listen, 231 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:22.920 guys, Isod's a great brand. It's energetic, it's fun to be around, 232 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:27.200 and it makes you feel and look your best. And now there's a 233 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:32.759 color palette change and you get to change with it. ISOD. Come take 234 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:38.000 a look JC Penny Cohal's and online. ISID What a history, how much. 235 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:42.720 I enjoy this brand. Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's 236 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:48.400 your host, Mark Webber. Something's been bothering me. I keep talking about 237 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.839 it. I feel it every day in one form or another, and that 238 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:56.640 feeling is really strong. And I've decided that humans no longer think I'm important. 239 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:00.039 They don't think I'm relevant, and it's something I've been struck with and 240 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.359 I've been thinking about a great deal and that's what I've been broaching tonight. 241 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.480 And one of the subjects is is if you're not important, is it possible 242 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:11.599 to be important. I can't be what I was. I was a master 243 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:15.440 of the universe. I was one of those guys that everybody was listening to 244 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:22.519 that couldn't make many decisions. Until I showed up, I was identified as 245 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:26.720 who I was. But I'm not any longer. And I've realized that I 246 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:32.640 live a life that I can be important where I want to be and I 247 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:37.160 should be. And part has to do with the way I behave at home 248 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.319 with everything I do. A great story, and that's where I want to 249 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.680 talk to you about my other son, my eldest son, and I have 250 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:51.039 an ongoing debate at home, and it's about do you negotiate with everyone providing 251 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:55.200 goods and services? Where do you accept the prices they offer and sleep well 252 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:59.720 at night knowing they'll come and they'll treat you with a priority. Now'll hold 253 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:06.039 it for second. I've always been good at putting a scene together. I've 254 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:11.319 always been good at understanding who I really need, what I really need, 255 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:17.119 and making sure to those people I'm recognized and I'm important. We have a 256 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:18.440 local mechanic at home. I'm a car guy. I have a bunch of 257 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.119 cars. Even if I wasn't a car guy. You need tires, you 258 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.240 need a inspection, you need to get things done. And I have a 259 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:30.079 bunch of cars, and I have this guy and he is extraordinarily to me, 260 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.359 and on top of that, to Jesse, to my other son, 261 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:37.599 the whole family. Anytime we call him up, he takes care of us. 262 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.039 One day I was with him and I said to him, am I 263 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:45.720 your best customer? And he laughed and he said, you're one of them? 264 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:47.920 I said, why is that? Because I have so many cars? 265 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:52.160 He's know. He says, you never question me on the price. He 266 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:55.799 asked me to do something. I'm always there. Whenever it is I'm there 267 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.920 and You never once ask me what it costs. You always accept that. 268 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.440 I can't tell you what that means to me. I once was in a 269 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:08.400 gas station about three miles from where his offices, where his building is, 270 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:12.480 where they do the work, and my car the battery died right at the 271 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:17.480 pump. I called him up five minutes later, who was at the pump 272 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:19.759 with his tow truck and a charger, And they started me up and brought 273 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:23.519 me right into his place. And I believe it's what he said which brings 274 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:27.680 me back to my son and I are always arguing and debating about whether or 275 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:33.640 not you should negotiate with everyone who shows up to do work in your house. 276 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.839 My son lives down the street and we have this debate. And in 277 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:42.319 business, the lesson here is money flows to where the opportunity is. If 278 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:47.440 you can earn a higher profit on Madison Avenue than Fifth Avenue, where would 279 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:52.640 you put your store. If your profits are higher at Macy's than Coal's and 280 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:56.880 you have limited inventory, who will you ship that inventory to? Stan The 281 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:02.319 reason business goes where the money is used to be important into some I am. 282 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:04.799 I'm still important to my favorite restaurant in New York city, or I'm 283 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:08.240 still important to the where I live because I go a lot, they know 284 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:11.880 when I walk in. I became a fan of Ralph Laura, and after 285 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.519 I semi retired, I went into radio. I could never wear it before, 286 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:19.799 because in the past I should always be wearing my own brands from the 287 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:23.119 companies I work into, and Ralph very often as logos. I could wear 288 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:27.000 somebody else's logo, I wouldn't want to. But I've come and buyer of 289 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.640 the company, and now when I walk into the mansion, they know who 290 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.079 I am. Or my walk into my local store where there's a Ralph Lauren 291 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:37.400 store, they know who I am, which reminds me by the way of 292 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:41.200 a great American Express commercial that used to be out there. Do you know 293 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:45.079 me? Would you believe I'm Bugs Bunny? I'm also the voice of many 294 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:48.720 other cartoon characters put in here. They don't care if I'm Elm or Fudd. 295 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:52.240 So I carry you an American Express card, the one card I need 296 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.200 for travel and entertaining, for business and pleasure. But without this, the 297 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:03.160 only way I'd get any attention is by saying the it's all so to be 298 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:06.480 important, you can be and you have to know where you want to be 299 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:10.039 important. You want to fish where a fish is swimming. And while I'm 300 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:14.319 at it. Once you're a customer online from our brand, they'll focus on 301 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:18.960 you. Stands the reason your time is best spent with people are inclined to 302 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.000 buy your product. That's common sense. But here I am with my son. 303 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:26.839 Were negotiated and how to negotiate for good services. We live in the 304 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:30.599 same neighborhood. But I want to hold that thought. My wife lover, 305 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:37.200 she believed in tipping generously. She would say that money means more important to 306 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:41.240 the people they're tipping than it does to you. And she would tell me, 307 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:44.319 you just give them the right tip, or I will. So when 308 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:45.799 we went out to dinner and the check came, I always told her I 309 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:49.160 gave her more than I should have, which is what she wanted. But 310 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:52.920 I actually gave less than what I thought was fair. But I have a 311 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:57.480 great story. We traveled a lot, and my wife believed in being important 312 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:02.920 to certain people we try now. I stopped traveling with my wife because I 313 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:06.240 didn't think it was smart. We had two small children. We shouldn't be 314 00:23:06.279 --> 00:23:10.640 on the same plane. One day, I'm dropping my wife off at Delta, 315 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:15.079 and as we get there, it's packed with a million cars dropping off. 316 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.119 I didn't even know how I would get over to get a baggage guy 317 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.799 for her. And there were only four guys on baggage checking and we're one 318 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.559 of a thousand people. And she says, don't worry. My guy Carlos 319 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.200 is there. He'll take care of me. And I looked at it. 320 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:32.920 I said, you have a guy, Carlos who's a bag checking guy. 321 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:36.599 Now I'm listening to this, I don't believe a word she's saying. So 322 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:41.079 I pull in. We're surrounded by a million people, and there's my wife. 323 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.640 She gets out of the car. I'm almost not even stopped yet. 324 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:48.400 She stands on the ledge of the car where it's a jeep, and she 325 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:53.000 waves her hand and signals this guy who literally drops the suitcase he's carrying for 326 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.680 another couple and comes running over to my wife and he goes, hi, 327 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:02.880 missus Webber and takes a luggage incredulously. I almost faint. I can't believe 328 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:07.119 what I'm saying. My wife kisses me goodbye, says he's taking me to 329 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:10.640 the gate and dropping the luggage right inside, so I don't have to worry 330 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:12.519 where it is. It doesn't stay on the street. I'm going to guess 331 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:17.799 that wasn't a dollar a bag situation. Now when I get to Vegas the 332 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:19.680 next night, I asked my wife about the tip. She goes, it's 333 00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:22.720 none of your business. She's looked at me, and she says, by 334 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:26.279 the way, what was it worth to you? She asked me. I 335 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:30.759 said twenty dollars. She gives me one of those. You know, you're 336 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:34.240 an idiot. It'd still be In New York. Steve Martin has a movie 337 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:37.880 called My Blue Heaven. It's one of his best movies in my opinion, 338 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:41.200 and he has a line in there, I want to play for you. 339 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:45.680 It'll be twelve dollars, okay, and keep the change please. Oh we're 340 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.720 not allowed to accept tips. Not allowed to accept tips. Oh your change 341 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:56.839 is eight, Thank you, thank you, bye you tip a flight attendant. 342 00:24:56.119 --> 00:25:02.079 I dip everybody. That's my philosophy. See, actually it's not tipping. 343 00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:04.519 I believe in it's overtipping. I love it. I don't believe in 344 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:08.039 tipping. I believe in overtipping. Now back to my son. This all 345 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:14.160 started this week with my son negotiating with a service provider. Now, negotiating 346 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:19.000 is a nice word, this time for an all out big argument, because 347 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:26.640 what happened was the guy did a thousand dollars work around my son's house and 348 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:29.839 told his wife it's one thousand dollars. He wasn't home and never explained it 349 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:33.119 and never told him what it would cost, and he got crazy. Now, 350 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.359 to protect the innocent, I want to make sure I say this clearly. 351 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:47.200 This is not necessarily the gardener not necessarily, the pool man not necessarily, 352 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:52.319 the phone company not necessarily, the security company not necessarily, the garage 353 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:59.960 man not necessarily, the sprinkless service not necessarily, the burglar alarm not necessarily, 354 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.440 pest control, water electric, blah blah blah. It doesn't matter. 355 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:07.039 But they charged him a thousand dollars. They told the wife one thousand dollars. 356 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:08.680 They didn't explain what it would cost. And my son called them and 357 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:14.759 had a big argument. And right away the guy says to my son, 358 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:19.480 I hate doing business with you people, Jesse. What do you think you 359 00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:23.039 people sounds like to you? That's never a good phrase to use. It 360 00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:30.200 could be a religious slight, It could be wealth slight, could be anything, 361 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:33.240 could be race. I don't know what it means, but when anybody 362 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.440 uses that, it's not good. So my son says to him, you 363 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:40.039 people. Now you're right. In a political correct world, you don't say 364 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:44.720 you people. So the guy turned out he's self corrected right away. He 365 00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:48.279 says, I can't stand rich people in this rich neighborhood. My son's saying, 366 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:52.440 don't come here. Then my son, during the so called negotiation, 367 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:57.680 got him to admit that for the same work in another neighborhood, he charged 368 00:26:57.759 --> 00:27:03.240 significantly less. And let's just say they agreed to move forward. So there's 369 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:07.839 a story in all of that about tipping. There's a story there about negotiating. 370 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:11.279 There's a story there about life, but a funny thing about negotiation. 371 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:15.119 I want to share it with you. From a business point of view, 372 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:21.559 I was an expert in buying manufactured products in Asia, whether it was textiles 373 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:25.599 or finished garments like shirts or sweaters or suits, whatever, I was an 374 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:30.319 expert. I was an expert because well, not because I was smarter than 375 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:36.079 the guy across the table, not because I was purchasing vast quantities of product, 376 00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:40.720 not because it was prestigious to have our brands in their factory. So 377 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:44.599 when other customers came in, they saw my brands and they would do business 378 00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:48.079 with them. Not because our company paid its bills on time, which we 379 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:52.519 did. I was an expert because I understood every component of the coursting structure 380 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:57.319 in the manufacturing process. When you understand the cost of labor, when you 381 00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:02.119 understand the cost of raw material, when you understand the cost of oil, 382 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:06.240 the cost of cotton and the cotton crop, when you understand the strength or 383 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:11.680 weakness in the marketplace, you understand supply and demand, you are a great 384 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:17.440 negotiated because you know what you can pay for a garment manufactured by those people. 385 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:22.359 However, from a business point of view, the guys or gallons across 386 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.200 the table are also smart people. They should be. They're the one manufacturing 387 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:33.079 the products. They too know their cost that's their lifeblood. But they also 388 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.839 know who they're selling. They knew what the buyer from Kmart could afford to 389 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.400 pay. They knew what the buyer from Macy's could afford to pay. They 390 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:47.880 knew what they could ask Sachs Fifth Avenue to pay. I'm a DKY, 391 00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:51.440 I'm a big shot, I'm important CEO, but they knew what I could 392 00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:55.960 afford to pay. So there's a lesson here for the same item. No 393 00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:00.160 matter how great a negotiator you are, if you work for Macy's, you're 394 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.880 gonna pay less than sex. And your job is to get the best price 395 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:07.960 in your zone. So back to my son and the lesson here. When 396 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.319 you're in your neighborhood, you need people to come pay them whatever they want. 397 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.119 So they come like my guy and the coming to me and the guests. 398 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:17.720 They should have charge my car when the battery died. But wait, 399 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.599 I want to just counter that. Okay, Sure, the opposite argument is 400 00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:25.480 you're gonna get taken advantage of No. You know, you're gonna pay what 401 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:29.200 you have to pay living in this neighborhood or whatever neighborhood you're living in. 402 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:33.640 You live in Manhattan, you're gonna pay more for goods and services than if 403 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.720 you live in Brooklyn. I thought everything was open for negotiation. Wasn't that 404 00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:41.440 the rule? Yeah, but you're not supposed to fight about it. What's 405 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:47.519 the difference between negotiating and fighting? Okay? Last year in the winter, 406 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:49.960 my son's pipes froze. Remember they left the garage. They're open in their 407 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.000 pipes froze. They would pay anything to get someone to come in here and 408 00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:59.119 change those pipes. You want to negotiate that. My point of view is 409 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:03.960 like my she believes not in tipping, but in overtipping, like Steve Martin, 410 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:07.400 I don't believe in tipping. I believe in overtipping when it comes to 411 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.319 service. When it comes to people who are making a living the hard way, 412 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:15.440 pay them what they're worth. That's how you're important in this world. 413 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:21.279 I'll take a break. We'll come back in a minute. Always in fashions, 414 00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:26.279 spent a lifetime of my career building the van Usen Brand, and I 415 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:32.359 am so pleased that they're back with us now talking about suits. Men were 416 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:36.480 dressing up again and it's become cool to wear a suit. 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You should go look at them. Welcome back 434 00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:02.079 to it always in fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber. I used 435 00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:07.839 to be important. I used to be a master of the universe. I 436 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:12.440 know what that feeling was like. I also know what it feels like now 437 00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:16.319 not to be important. Nobody cares what I have to say, maybe on 438 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:19.599 the radio, you do, we'll talk about that in a little bit, 439 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:23.519 But certainly my everyday, day to day life, nobody cares what I have 440 00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:27.440 to say. Now, if I sat alone at home all the time and 441 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.519 I didn't go to various different places, it wouldn't matter. If I wasn't 442 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.559 involved with my elder son in the fashion business, or I wasn't talking about 443 00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.279 it in some shape matter of home, maybe I wouldn't care as much, 444 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:42.359 but sort of related. We all get to find by what we do and 445 00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.279 what do I do talk on the radio. It eggs at me. The 446 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:50.160 debates I get into. No longer is my word final. Everything is a 447 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:55.079 conversation. I could say, maybe it's ego, but money aside. I 448 00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:58.720 used to ask myself, why do I want to be important? Why does 449 00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:00.920 anyone want to be important? And I know for me, I used to 450 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:06.359 sit across the desk from other people. I used to listen to them present, 451 00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:09.759 I used to watch what they do. I used to be taught by 452 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:15.599 them. And I said, uncategorically, with two exceptions, in my entire 453 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:21.240 life, I can do better than these people. I could be better at 454 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:23.839 what we need to accomplish. I have the talent, I have the wherewithal 455 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:28.519 I have the drive, I know what needs to be done. I'm working 456 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:30.599 for companies. I could make them better. And it didn't matter whether I 457 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:35.319 was at my desk or in the boardroom or on a podium making a speech. 458 00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:42.440 I thought perhaps I was smarter, but I knew that my results would 459 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:49.119 be great. And I often thought about what it felt like being important, 460 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:53.039 walking into seven hundred restale stores around the country and having my picture in the 461 00:33:53.079 --> 00:33:55.680 back, and knowing that when I walked in they would find out who I 462 00:33:55.799 --> 00:34:00.680 was or k who I was. Coming big feeling to the various different offices 463 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:06.799 around the world, making speeches, whether it's in China or in Hong Kong 464 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.719 or in the New York Times Building, people sitting there waiting to hear what 465 00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:14.199 I had to say. That was a great life. By the way, 466 00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:16.679 you know what I'm gonna do now, what I'm gonna pay people at like 467 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:23.519 Starbucks when you walk in to be like mister Webber welcome. That's funny. 468 00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:27.559 You know, maybe I'm whining too much, and maybe that's what I'm up 469 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:30.960 to, but I promise I'll even talk about that when the time comes. 470 00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:38.119 So I guess The issue is is what is it like not being important to 471 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:43.440 a certain degree, It's not as much fun. But here I am, 472 00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:49.079 I'm on the radio. I get a chance to try and talk about things 473 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:53.760 that are important to you and important to me. And I wanted to talk 474 00:34:53.800 --> 00:35:00.800 about inflation. I filled up my car yesterday one hundred dollars. It used 475 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:04.960 to be a struggle to fill my car up. It was thirty dollars, 476 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.920 maybe one hundred dollars. Inflation is crazy. Wait, you want to hear 477 00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:15.679 something really crazy? Yeah, I was in Montalk this past weekend. Seven 478 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.920 dollars for what a gallon of gas? Oh? Yeah, they got you. 479 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.199 You can't go anywhere else. How are you going to get home unless 480 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:24.800 you pay for the gas prices? But that's what I want to talk about, 481 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:31.360 actually, supply and demand. Prior to COVID, businesses were doing extraordinarily 482 00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:37.960 well, and people were vying for workers. You couldn't get workers why because 483 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.960 everyone was willing to pay more for them than you were. And this whole 484 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:46.880 conversation about a fifteen dollars minimum wage, which I do not believe should be 485 00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:52.320 regulated from the central government. I think it should occur naturally. You have 486 00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:58.079 people in Walmart making fifteen dollars an hour. You have people in Amazon and 487 00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:01.920 the warehouse is making far more than that. Why, Because it's supply and 488 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:07.199 demand. You want workers, you're going to pay for them. And now 489 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:14.480 inflation comes. What is inflation? The technical definition is the gross national product 490 00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:19.599 is down for two quarters in a row. And whether that is a good 491 00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.320 definition or not, we're going into a recession. That's what the definition is. 492 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:27.840 And inflation. Everything is expensive, and there are a lot of reasons 493 00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:36.159 why everything's expensive, but the number one reason is mismanagement at the federal level. 494 00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:42.079 And that is all about excuses and it's being sand blasted. Now, 495 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:45.000 this is not the first time I'm going to refer to my book Always in 496 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:50.440 Fashion. The opening page in my book, the prologue, is called human 497 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:53.079 Nature, and I talk about the fact that I went on a trip with 498 00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:57.679 my wife to Egypt, and during that trip we went to all the different 499 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:02.360 monuments that survived three thousand and five thousand years whatever it is, and one 500 00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:08.920 astute tourist asked the tour guide, why is the name on all these monuments 501 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:14.800 of the same pharaoh? And the tour guide laughed and he said human nature, 502 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:21.320 and he said, all the prior pharaoh's names were sand blasted when the 503 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:25.719 new pharaoh came into power, and the last pharaoh's name therefore is on everything. 504 00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:31.039 And in modern times, I would tell you that John Kennedy said, 505 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:37.360 success as many fathers, and failure is an Often the federal government, the 506 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:44.559 current administration is sand blasting. What's going on. They messed up where energy 507 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:49.679 independent, They gave it away, business had less regulations, gave it away, 508 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:55.000 tax breaks, gave it away. Nobody could trust where the government's going 509 00:37:55.320 --> 00:38:01.559 based on their behavior. And all you hear is excuses, and the rhetoric 510 00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:09.760 is being changed from the reality. And this inflation. Everything is more expensive. 511 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:15.519 And here's the problem. When you're a CEO of a company, when 512 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:20.039 you're the president of a company, when you have your own company, when 513 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:25.239 you have promises out there. Public companies have promised this shareholders that if you 514 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:30.159 invest in me, I will make money and get you a good return and 515 00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:34.679 the price in the stock will go up. You don't invest in a public 516 00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:37.920 company to feel good. You want to feel good, you invest in something 517 00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:40.519 like your bank. They pay you interest rates. By the way, a 518 00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:45.679 lot of money now in the banks and interest rates and in federal securities, 519 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:50.599 Treasury doubts, But you invest in stock because you believe that the company's going 520 00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:54.280 to do well, and you believe that the chairman and president and chief financial 521 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:58.119 officer of those companies, when they tell you they're going to do something, 522 00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:02.840 they're going to do it. And the only way you stay employed when you 523 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:07.360 are a CEO, or you're a president, or you're a chief financial officer, 524 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:15.039 is if you deliver on those promises. Now we have inflation. So 525 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:22.880 what happens. Products become more expensive, and what products become more expensive, 526 00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:29.440 you sell less of them. Let me make it simple. I like shirts. 527 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:31.880 I grow up in the shirt business. I need a black shirt. 528 00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:36.119 I need a navy shirt. I have a new black suit, a navy 529 00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:39.119 suit. I like matching shirts. But you know the truth is I already 530 00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:44.840 have a few black shirts, so much more expensive. Maybe I'll just stay 531 00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:47.000 with the black shirts I have because I really can't afford to buy a new 532 00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:51.559 black shirt. I'll just buy the navy one. I'm going to buy less 533 00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:55.639 because before I buy shirts, I need to spend money on gas. Food 534 00:39:55.719 --> 00:40:00.599 is more expensive, and everything is going more and more, and the government 535 00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:04.440 step sentences. Wait a minute, inflation. This is no good. We 536 00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:08.920 have to slow down these price increases, and in order to do that, 537 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:14.880 we're going to raise the price that people pay to borrow money, and in 538 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:21.079 so doing that will slow down to demand. So those people who buying houses 539 00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:24.599 the mortgages going up will sell less houses, will sell less of everything. 540 00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:32.960 The problem is companies can't make less money. And that's where you and I 541 00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:38.039 come in to play. The first thing that happens when profits are under attack, 542 00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:43.719 company looks at their expense structure and they say, what can I afford 543 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:47.159 and what can I not afford? There are things if I could afford, 544 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:52.119 I would have. There are things that I could afford I should have, 545 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.039 and there are things that if I could afford, would be nice to have. 546 00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:00.800 All of a sudden, you're getting rid of the nice, You're getting 547 00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:04.159 the rid of the wood, and all you're doing is dealing with the things 548 00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:07.440 that you should have. So very often people cut back on advertising. You 549 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:14.119 cut back on advertising saves money, You start to weaken your product, and 550 00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:17.239 all the people in the advertising industry start to falter. But I'm not worried 551 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:22.400 about them, because I'm worried about you. I'm worried about me, because 552 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:27.960 the biggest expense to any company is people. Now you have rent, you 553 00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:31.119 can go to your landlord. The landlord will never give a rent reduction. 554 00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:35.960 Ever, you're going to have to pay your rent. The government's not going 555 00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:37.559 to tell you you don't have to pay your water. Then I gonna tell 556 00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:40.679 you you don't have to pay electricity. Then I can tell you you don't 557 00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:45.400 have to pay your heating. People are commodities when times get tough, and 558 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:50.920 those people getting fifteen to twenty dollars an hour, they're not going to get 559 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:54.320 it anymore. Now let's say you have a slow down in business. The 560 00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:59.000 first thing that happens, you're gonna have a slow down in people. Either 561 00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.400 gonna put a hiring freeze on immediately so the work market gets tougher. We 562 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:07.320 we're gonna start letting people go. People are gonna lose their jobs because of 563 00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:12.199 inflation. I'll tell you what else is gonna happen. Raisers are put on 564 00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:17.239 hiatus. Nobody pays raises like they were paying. When the government gets in 565 00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:22.960 and the economy doesn't work, we're gonna go from fighting to get workers to 566 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:27.480 fighting to pay for workers. We're gonna be dealing with workers without work. 567 00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.800 When there's a slow down in growth, there is no slow down in company 568 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:37.119 earnings. It's not allowed. I'm already hearing in the fashion and retail luxury 569 00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:45.679 business inventories building. Therefore, cancelations are taking place. People are canceling orders 570 00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:51.599 overseas, people are canceling orders for manufacturers. Inventory is starting to come a 571 00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:53.960 problem. Now. The good thing about it is you're gonna be able to 572 00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:59.599 buy more stuff cheap if you had money to buy with, Prices will go 573 00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:05.119 down. Now. What's not going down are delays. What's not going down 574 00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:09.800 are the shortages. Nobody can help with that. But what is happening across 575 00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:16.280 the board with inflation thanks to our management and the Democrats management, frankly of 576 00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:21.679 our economy, which I said, social issues. I'm with you guys, 577 00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:25.880 except when you get really crazy. But I trust the Republicans when it comes 578 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:32.199 to managing the economy. But inflation is here. It's getting worse. Interest 579 00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:37.320 rates are going through the roof. This is the way the Fed believes they 580 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:43.880 can control inflation. Make it more expensive to get everything. Therefore you'll need 581 00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:47.159 less, people will buy less, and therefore this will all come around and 582 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:52.639 it's not a good time now. If I was important, I know how 583 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.519 to manage this, but I don't have a chance to say it. I 584 00:43:55.559 --> 00:43:59.800 know how to run a company when times are tough. I know what to 585 00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.639 do when times are tough, and people are doing it now. Cutting back 586 00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:07.519 on people, cutting back on expenses, cutting back on inventory, cutting back, 587 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:12.599 cutting back, cutting back, make more money with less. That's what 588 00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:19.079 we're confronting going forward. So this is not a happy time for our economy. 589 00:44:19.639 --> 00:44:22.119 The only people that will do well are the people who have money to 590 00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:27.360 invest in treasury bills in the banks. But these are the people had money 591 00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.320 in stock market who lost a fortune. I got a question for you. 592 00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:36.159 Yeah, people who were laid off as part of a giant corporate restructuring or 593 00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:40.000 a giant corporate layoff, given what's going on, how should they be thinking 594 00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:44.480 about it? Because it's not as if they were called into an office individually 595 00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:46.639 and said, your work products is not paying off, you're not doing a 596 00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:51.920 great job, we have to let you go. If they're one of hundreds 597 00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:53.960 of thousands of people who are laid off, how should they be thinking about 598 00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:58.880 it? How should they think about it? It's good in this sense that 599 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:02.400 they didn't do anything. It wasn't their performance, that they were earn't up 600 00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:07.320 to snuff and doing their job, and that gives them some consolation. But 601 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:14.079 people need to make money, and there is a safety net in social security, 602 00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:19.159 and there's a safety net in social programs, including unemployment insurance, but 603 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:24.159 you can't match unemployment of people's wages. It's a scary, scary time in 604 00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:30.719 the country and it's only beginning, and hopefully the federalill get it under control, 605 00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:34.400 because the one thing companies won't do is make less money. They just 606 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:38.079 won't and if they do, they're in trouble. And the more under attack 607 00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:42.079 they offer earnings, they're going to take it out on us because it's the 608 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.119 only place they can come and take it out of. Look when COVID came 609 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:49.400 out, there were layoffs, people deferred, They were told that they may 610 00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:52.719 get their jobs back, and there were people that completely let go and never 611 00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:57.679 got their jobs back. Companies took that opportunity to streamline their workforce. I 612 00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:00.920 answered your question, you got another one for me. While we're if a 613 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:05.320 recession hits, is there anything people could do now to protect themselves. I 614 00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:08.960 think it was Jack Welsh, the famous businessman who said, I plan for 615 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:14.639 the worst and hope for the best. People should not have credit card debt. 616 00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:16.880 Those are you who do? They should pay it off. I happen 617 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:22.920 to believe that is a safety net. Every single individual out there should have 618 00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:28.480 at least a year's worth of savings for just this reason that if they get 619 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.280 laid off, they don't have a job, something goes wrong, they could 620 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.400 live for a year on what they have saved. Hopefully it never comes to 621 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:37.719 that, but that's what I would think. But from a business point of 622 00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:42.199 view, you're going to make all the ugly, nasty decisions you have to 623 00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.960 make, which begins with stopping and advertising I said before, But then it 624 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:50.400 gets into cutting muscle, not fat, and people, unfortunately, are the 625 00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:52.960 biggest expenses I said, in companies. So I'm not happy with this. 626 00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:58.679 I used to be important, I suppose right now I'm glad I'm not important 627 00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:01.480 because I don't have to contend with what's confronting us. I am hoping there's 628 00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:05.599 a lot of smart people in business that can fight their way through this. 629 00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:12.480 But more than anything else, challenge your elected officials and don't forget to vote 630 00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.360 for the right reasons. Take a break, we'll talk some more about not 631 00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:22.119 being important always in fashions. I've been shopping for fun lately and while I'm 632 00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:24.760 out, I always look at men's and I look at women's. What's going 633 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:30.519 on? And I was particularly interested in dk Y because of their sponsorship of 634 00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:34.920 the show. I went downstairs at Macy's thirty fourth Street to look around and 635 00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.679 I saw DKY active Wear, And I promise you, ladies, it is 636 00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:43.440 sensational. From the sports bras to the crop tops, to the leggings and 637 00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:46.239 the sweats, it really is a great look. And dk Y had begun 638 00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:52.679 as an all American brand dressing casual clothes engines, and the stuff looks incredible 639 00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:57.960 and right now, the colors and the styles is so exciting that I feel 640 00:47:57.960 --> 00:48:00.639 great about the company. I always do. I wear the men's were all 641 00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:06.239 the time. I've had situations where I've gone to big events and been interviewed 642 00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:09.239 and TV or the radio, and someone comes up to me in a microphone 643 00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:12.920 and like they always do, who you wearing? And here I am, 644 00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:15.440 this big shot with big company and they say, well, I'm wearing a 645 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:17.519 DKY and they laugh and say, no, you're not. I actually have 646 00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:22.000 one on the internet where you could see me. They asked me what suit 647 00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:23.159 I'm wearing, and I say, DK and why and open it up and 648 00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:28.440 there's the DKY label. Great fashion, it fits well, it looks right. 649 00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:31.679 It's designed to make you comfortable in the city. It goes from day 650 00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:34.679 and tonight. You could wear it in the morning, you wear it in 651 00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:37.159 the afternoon, and you look cool at night as well. It's great for 652 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.519 the office, it's a great for leisure. But I'm talking about the DKY 653 00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:43.920 activewear. The first time I really became aware of that, Jesse and I 654 00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:47.440 were up at Sirius Radio. He was doing a job for Serious He does 655 00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:52.880 Dan Abrams show he fills in on the Potus Network, and we were in 656 00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:58.800 the lobby and this hip hop group came up with this really great looking Latino 657 00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:02.920 singer girl Young beautiful, and she was wearing a DKY sports bar and I 658 00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:07.280 said to myself, this is amazing. Actually went to Macy's to see it, 659 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:09.719 and I'm excited about the brand. And I tell you what, ladies, 660 00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:15.920 DKY always has great fashion for work, always wonderful dresses and things that 661 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.960 you'd wear. Their accessories are great. The shoes are always very cool, 662 00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:23.400 but active wear in particular right now looks sensational and being that everyone's at leisure 663 00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:28.280 and active wear, it's a great time DKY go take a look. As 664 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:31.880 one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers, Carl Lagafeld was renowned for his 665 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:37.920 aspirational and cutting edge approach to style. His unique vision of Parisian shit comes 666 00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:43.239 to America through car Lagofeld Paris. He has women's collections, men's collections, 667 00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.920 ready to wear, accessories, shoes and bags. The fashion house car Lagafeld 668 00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:50.960 also offers a range of watches, I wear and premium fragrances. You can 669 00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:55.239 explore the car lagofl collection at car Lagofelparis dot com. But it's more than 670 00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:59.360 that. I have for one, love to shop. I love going around 671 00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:02.440 and seeing what happening and what catches my attention, what would make me feel 672 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:06.800 good to wear now. I don't wear the women's wear obviously, but I 673 00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:09.480 can appreciate it and they look amazing. If you want to look right, 674 00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:13.760 you want to have clothes that fits you well. You want to look like 675 00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:19.719 you're wearing something that's very expensive, that's exclusive for you and yours. You 676 00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:24.000 can find it at very affordable prices. At Macy's Orcarlagofel dot Comparis, the 677 00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:28.760 women's ready to wear fashion is extraordinary, as well as the handbigs and the 678 00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.800 shoes. I, for one, wear men's clothes, unlike my appreciation of 679 00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:37.599 women's clothes. I'm a modern guy. I want to look current, I 680 00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:39.239 want to look the way I want to feel. I go out at night, 681 00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:44.199 I'm in black and carlago Felt is my buddy. Clothes are great, 682 00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.079 they fit great, and they have little tweaks and touches, whether it's a 683 00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:50.760 stripe on the sleeve or button at the neck or on the shoulder. There's 684 00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:53.719 a lot of details that go into carlago Fel because he's always been, he 685 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:59.119 always had been one of the world's great designers, and this legacy and goes 686 00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:01.480 on and on. I can't speak enough about it except to say to you, 687 00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:05.119 you want to feel good about yourself. You want to know that you're 688 00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:08.920 dressing properly. You want clothes that fits you well. Carl Lagafel, Paris 689 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:15.840 at Macy's Orcarl Lagafel dot com. Welcome back to it Always in fashion. 690 00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:22.320 Here's your host, Mark Webber. Well. If you're just joining us. 691 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:27.519 I'm talking about I used to be important, and for whatever it's worth, 692 00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:32.360 I'm not. And I am finding it difficult to cope with that. What 693 00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:37.159 you really are is a cry baby. That's what you are. After this 694 00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:42.559 whole hour show, I still am left with you just whining and whining about 695 00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:45.880 not being important, even though you really are important. You started the show 696 00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:47.679 by saying you're important to your family, which, at the end of the 697 00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:52.400 day, what's more important than that? So people don't call you every day, 698 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:54.400 you don't walk into stores and they don't know where you are. Who 699 00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:58.360 cares? First of all, I don't want anybody calling me. I don't 700 00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:00.679 like people. I'm a reckless and when I walk into the stores, they 701 00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:04.400 take my money, don't they. So there you go. It's better for 702 00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:07.119 you. Yeah. I love, by the way, when stores call their 703 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:09.679 clients their customers' guests. If I was a guest, they wouldn't charge me, 704 00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:14.280 would they. I love when companies call their people family. If they 705 00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:16.280 were family, they would never get fired. You'd make as much as you 706 00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:20.960 want, you'd come in and go as you please. Hey Dad, Hey 707 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:22.960 Mom, I'm gonna come today. I'm taking off It's Friday. Yeah. 708 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:27.559 Family, well, the nonsense. Look, I used to be important. 709 00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:30.280 I was a big shot. I had lots of power, lots of responsibility. 710 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:34.639 I got all of that the hard way. I earned it. But 711 00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:38.400 the truth is, when I went through the toll booth into Manhattan, they 712 00:52:38.440 --> 00:52:43.559 still made me pay. I still need a reservation to get into a restaurant. 713 00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:47.320 I still wait in line to get in the movie theater. Everything I 714 00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:51.559 do gets charged money to me. I paid all my taxes. No matter 715 00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:55.079 how important I was, my ac count charged me plenty amount to do my 716 00:52:55.239 --> 00:53:00.199 taxes. So how important in reality is important? Jesse said it. My 717 00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:05.079 family loves me. My children want me to spend time with them. They 718 00:53:05.079 --> 00:53:07.880 want to spend time with me. They want to go on vacation with me. 719 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:12.639 I have one son here shares a radio showing podcast with me. Now 720 00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:16.519 I'm told this show breaks through. I know my book Always in Fashion broke 721 00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:21.360 through. I can't tell you how many people told me that. After they 722 00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:23.960 read it, they gave it to their children as a bible on how to 723 00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:29.239 get successful. Things you should think about. I know this show breaks through. 724 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.960 I know that it entertains, and at the same Todd teaches. So 725 00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:39.639 all said and done, just maybe maybe I'm still important but in a different 726 00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:44.079 way, and that's priceless. Good Night,