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Speaker 1: wor or iHeartMedia. Who is Mark Weber. He's a self
Speaker 1: made business executive here to help you find your success
Speaker 1: from the New York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne
Speaker 1: in Paris. His global success story in the luxury world
Speaker 1: of fashion is inspirational. He's gone from.
Speaker 2: Clerk to CEO twice.
Speaker 1: Mark is classic proof that the American dream is alive.
Speaker 1: And well, here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.
Speaker 3: Mark Weber, We live in interesting times. We live in
Speaker 3: a time where everything's changing now. Everyone loves change, Everyone
Speaker 3: embraces change until, of course, we ask them to change,
Speaker 3: and then they either can't or they won't. We do
Speaker 3: live in exciting times. We live in confusing times, a
Speaker 3: time where we can't navigate clearly because we don't know
Speaker 3: just where we're going. But at the moment, with the
Speaker 3: government in place, maybe we're getting a better idea of
Speaker 3: where we're going. You never really know. With the advent
Speaker 3: of AI with a change in all our communication habits
Speaker 3: with UAPs, unidentified anomalist phenomenon or unidentified aerial phenomenon. Are
Speaker 3: we alone? Do we know? Are we going to learn
Speaker 3: something soon? It's a question. And then, of course Trump
Speaker 3: not Trump watchers or sneakers, Trump change, elon musk change.
Speaker 3: We're living in interesting times. Feels like the best of times,
Speaker 3: not the worst of times. I'm often happiest though, when
Speaker 3: I'm observing, and there's much to observe right now. Well,
Speaker 3: I would say the Super Bowl reminded us of the Goat,
Speaker 3: the greatest of all time. That it can't be hyped,
Speaker 3: it must be earned. A time for shopping habits to
Speaker 3: change everything Amazon versus everything that was in the malls.
Speaker 3: Women are dressing up, men are dressing down. What's the
Speaker 3: future of mankind went out in sync? Women look their best,
Speaker 3: men look their worst. Is our species doomed? What's going on?
Speaker 3: I often said I don't mind spending money, I hate
Speaker 3: wasting it. I hate wasting a penny, even though penny's
Speaker 3: not worth a penny any longer. I always looked up
Speaker 3: to the government. I trusted it to do the right thing.
Speaker 3: Now in the world, it's clear that everything the government
Speaker 3: has done proved their best at throwing away our money.
Speaker 3: There's no oversight, no preparation, no common sense, hidden funds
Speaker 3: for causes that don't help America, no care at all
Speaker 3: for where our money goes, where has been spent. We're
Speaker 3: a wasteland for money. We're stupid. We live in interesting times,
Speaker 3: the time to enjoy time, the time to understand, to explore,
Speaker 3: a time to question. I've had great times. I've had
Speaker 3: good times. I've had annoying times. We all have. But
Speaker 3: in my case tonight, I want to talk about the
Speaker 3: state we find ourselves in. And I don't mean New
Speaker 3: York State, I mean our state of affairs. We have
Speaker 3: a new president. He's sninking outside the box. Actually, he's
Speaker 3: snaking outside this world. He's being forward at every turn.
Speaker 3: Forget the fact that what he says is making sense.
Speaker 3: Forget the fact that he's assembled a brilliant and loyal team.
Speaker 3: He's applying lessons he learned from the last time he
Speaker 3: was president. Forget the facts, even though they're right in
Speaker 3: our face. Somehow or another. We can't accept change, any change. Listen, Democrats,
Speaker 3: did you see Schumer and Maxine Waters dancing the other day?
Speaker 3: We will win. We will. You had to be embarrassed
Speaker 3: for them. The Democratic oversight, let's be honest, has been
Speaker 3: a disass America voted You're out, Sit down, Think before
Speaker 3: you talk, Think before you talk. Now. I have a
Speaker 3: Democratic history in my family. I come from a working
Speaker 3: class family. Although today the Republicans are now the common
Speaker 3: sense party for everyone. The Democrats, they have to ties
Speaker 3: to this nonsense, no woke, no champions in illegal anything,
Speaker 3: hold politicians aliable for incompetence, Please keep us safe. Can
Speaker 3: you handle the truth? The truth is we all need
Speaker 3: to be observant. Common sense is not so common. We
Speaker 3: need to talk about doing what's right. Which brings me
Speaker 3: to Trump. And with Trump comes my lawyer, my co host,
Speaker 3: my son, Jesse Webber.
Speaker 2: Hey, Jesse, I like it here.
Speaker 4: I like it here you talking politics. I always love
Speaker 4: when you talk politics. I always tell you to talk
Speaker 4: about politics. It's relevant, it's every day. It's a nice
Speaker 4: little get away from the business. And I like when
Speaker 4: you jump into this field.
Speaker 3: Well, Cez, because I have no idea what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Who does?
Speaker 4: Who does know what they're talking about when it comes
Speaker 4: to politics, And it's not true, it's not true. Just
Speaker 4: because you're not a politician doesn't mean you don't have
Speaker 4: a good perspective on the world, especially when we're talking
Speaker 4: about the economy, trade imbalance, where goods are coming from.
Speaker 4: He did a whole episode last week on China. I
Speaker 4: think your insight is probably more beneficial than you know.
Speaker 2: Joe Schmoe.
Speaker 4: Joe Schmoe's insight about it. I mean, who knows what
Speaker 4: to talk about with politics. I thought you have a
Speaker 4: different business perspective on it. I enjoy it at least.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for that. I did get a lot
Speaker 3: of comments on last week's show in China in the
Speaker 3: way I looked at it, But you know, forgetting the
Speaker 3: news for me, Dan Abrams leaves News Nation. You were
Speaker 3: an important part of that show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's it's sad on one end.
Speaker 4: I had been filling in for Dan, who I work
Speaker 4: with at Long Crime. I had been filling in for
Speaker 4: him since twenty twenty two. I've been on that show
Speaker 4: since twenty twenty one. I can't blame Dan for leaving
Speaker 4: News Nation. The guy's busier than anybody ever saw. He's
Speaker 4: like the Ryan Seacrest of media. But for me, that
Speaker 4: was one of my prime anchoring spots. I would fill
Speaker 4: in for him multiple times, sometimes a week, sometimes a month,
Speaker 4: and it's something I really enjoyed.
Speaker 2: Look, I also fill in for other talent.
Speaker 4: I fill in for Elizabeth Vargas, I fell in for
Speaker 4: Chris Cuomo, feel I fell in for Ashley Banfield. I've
Speaker 4: done a weekend work for them, weekend anchoring. But there
Speaker 4: was something very very special about Dan show. It was
Speaker 4: an opinion show. I could give my legal perspective, my
Speaker 4: legal opinion. It wasn't just straight up news. An incredible
Speaker 4: team that I worked with, and I just liked it
Speaker 4: because you talked about so many different topics, sports, entertainment, politics, law.
Speaker 2: I worked very well.
Speaker 4: With the different people. It was one of my favorite
Speaker 4: things to do. I felt very comfortable and natural up there.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you what I actually did something I
Speaker 4: brought it with me. I'll play it for everybody on
Speaker 4: the show. So Dan finished his last show on a
Speaker 4: Thursday night, and I actually did his last show on Friday.
Speaker 4: He couldn't make that night, So I did his last
Speaker 4: official show of Dan Abrams Live and I did a
Speaker 4: sign off.
Speaker 2: I was able to do a sign.
Speaker 4: Off for the my last time filling in and I'll
Speaker 4: play it for you.
Speaker 2: Now, let's play it before we wrap things up.
Speaker 4: Tonight is officially the last episode of Dan Abram's Live.
Speaker 4: Dan signed off last night, look and Leland's going to
Speaker 4: be taken over next week. He's going to do an
Speaker 4: incredible job. But I'm said, you know, I actually was
Speaker 4: with Dan interress rehearsals for this show back in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one. That's how far back I go with appearing
Speaker 4: on this program. But I just wanted to say that
Speaker 4: it was a privilege to be able to guest anchor
Speaker 4: this show. So thank you to management, this incredible team, staff,
Speaker 4: and of course Dan for giving me the opportunity. And
Speaker 4: I want to thank all of you for tuning in,
Speaker 4: allowing us into your homes, allowing me into your home.
Speaker 3: Well, klass Jess, very well done. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: I'm glad they gave me a little bit of time
Speaker 4: to say that. I think people were expecting it. A
Speaker 4: lot of people online were wondering if I was going
Speaker 4: to be taking over the show. A lot of people
Speaker 4: wanted me to take over the show, and I thought
Speaker 4: it was really interesting that I was great that I
Speaker 4: had the opportunity to do that because people were wondering
Speaker 4: about my placement there. I'm glad I had an opportunity.
Speaker 4: He was a great opportunity for the company to be
Speaker 4: able all class, all class.
Speaker 3: Now, let me ask you a question. Let's talk Trump.
Speaker 3: What have you got on your mind? You've been all
Speaker 3: over TV with that stuff. You got anything you want
Speaker 3: to talk about?
Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
Speaker 4: I think there's a difference between him trying to do
Speaker 4: the right thing with doge right there, no one could doubt,
Speaker 4: no one can deny that we have a major, major
Speaker 4: trade deficit, we have a major debt problem. How do
Speaker 4: we get out of it? It's not good, have to
Speaker 4: address it. I gotta give him credit in what three weeks,
Speaker 4: four weeks, how much he's been doing. There's something to
Speaker 4: be said about cutting this, cutting that slashing that.
Speaker 2: A part of me loves it. But then I'm also
Speaker 2: the lawyer, and I think.
Speaker 4: About it, and I say to myself, legally, does he
Speaker 4: have the right to do this?
Speaker 2: And from a legal point of.
Speaker 4: View, there is a reason that so many courts are
Speaker 4: stopping him from doing this. There's a reason because look,
Speaker 4: executive orders, executive actions, which is what you've seen a
Speaker 4: lot of this happening. They have the force of law,
Speaker 4: but they're not an actual law. Congress didn't pass it.
Speaker 4: And when an executive action directs an agency to do something,
Speaker 4: you have to make sure that that agency has the
Speaker 4: authority to do it. And unfortunately, what I think was
Speaker 4: happening for Donald Trump is he's running into a lot
Speaker 4: of the roadblocks Congress never approved them to do that
Speaker 4: Congress has the right to do, to move around funds
Speaker 4: that Congress never appropriated, And I think that's the major concern.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a balance between he's the head of
Speaker 4: the executive branch. He has a right to direct and
Speaker 4: manage the executive branch, but at the same time he
Speaker 4: has to follow the law and there's a separation of powers.
Speaker 4: I think there was a big concern at the beginning
Speaker 4: of the week. It seemed to temper a little bit,
Speaker 4: but based on Vice President jd Vance's comments that the
Speaker 4: courts are getting in the way, questioning the court's authority
Speaker 4: to stop Donald Trump from doing this. The worst case
Speaker 4: scenario is if Donald Trump's administration just doesn't follow court orders. Now,
Speaker 4: he seemed to sugges he is going to follow the
Speaker 4: court orders. He's going to appeal it, which is his
Speaker 4: right to do. But that was the biggest concern from
Speaker 4: this week is that while his intentions might be noble
Speaker 4: and right, how he's going about it and what he's
Speaker 4: going to do if he's challenged, that's what we're all
Speaker 4: waiting out to say.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not waiting. I hope you just as what
Speaker 3: he wants to do. You know what I want to
Speaker 3: talk about. Do you like what he's doing in.
Speaker 4: Gaza, Mara Gaza, that's the one that I've seen a
Speaker 4: lot of Maragaza.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 4: Look, on one hand, he's trying to offer a solution
Speaker 4: to what's going on there. I think what really woke
Speaker 4: him up was the idea of how devastated that area is, and.
Speaker 2: I think he's trying to figure out how to rebuild it.
Speaker 4: But it's also a little bit of a simplistic way
Speaker 4: of going about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you do with the millions of
Speaker 2: people there? What do you do? This is not a
Speaker 2: strip of land in Reno, Nevada. This is the Gaza strip.
Speaker 4: And I think he's looking at it in a way
Speaker 4: that I don't know if he's fully accounted all the
Speaker 4: different circumstances, they're all the different factors. I think Israel
Speaker 4: was taken off guard. I think the people of Gaza
Speaker 4: were taken off guard. I think the Middle East has
Speaker 4: been taken off guard. I think his own constituents and
Speaker 4: the Republican Party have been taken off guard by it.
Speaker 4: It's a very bold statement to make where you're going
Speaker 4: to say, you know, you want to increase investment in there,
Speaker 4: you want people to build in there. That might be
Speaker 4: a way to get you know, the area back. But again,
Speaker 4: I think there's so many things he hasn't thought of
Speaker 4: that it almost felt like a little bit of an
Speaker 4: off the cuff statement.
Speaker 3: Now, I'll tell you what I think. I think Trump
Speaker 3: has said it very well. For the last fifty sixty years,
Speaker 3: this has been a problem. People get getting killed, they
Speaker 3: build it back, They wasted to the ground, they build
Speaker 3: it back. It's a repeating occurrence. It's never going to
Speaker 3: get better for those people if this keeps going on.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love the idea. What I don't
Speaker 3: love is I think he lost a tremendous opportunity here.
Speaker 3: This was the opportunity to bring the international community together.
Speaker 3: And while he is trying to bring the Arab community together.
Speaker 3: I thought what he should have done is split the
Speaker 3: Gaza into regions, all lined up with the same purpose.
Speaker 3: It's on the water. It could be great resort, great places,
Speaker 3: division for conventions, bring people together, turn it into something special.
Speaker 3: But I believe what he should have done, or could do,
Speaker 3: is take a section of it. Give it to the
Speaker 3: Russians to build their hotels, their view of what this
Speaker 3: looks like. Give to the Chinese a section to build
Speaker 3: what they think is their view, what their hotels, what
Speaker 3: they want to bring to the table. Give the Europeans,
Speaker 3: the European Union a section to build, and the Americas
Speaker 3: will build a section. In the Arab community will build
Speaker 3: a section. Call it five different sections, all on the
Speaker 3: same strip, making a statement, all working together to build
Speaker 3: it up. Make it amazing, give everyone a chance of prosperity,
Speaker 3: and I think that would alleviate a lot of the
Speaker 3: future problems going forward. In fact, you know what, think
Speaker 3: about Disneyland with all the theme parks. Do the same
Speaker 3: thing in the Gaza strip, involving the international community. I
Speaker 3: think it would be great.
Speaker 4: Which your solution is to turn Gaza into EPCOT.
Speaker 2: I don't know that's your solution.
Speaker 3: Well, you called it Maro Gaza, turn it. You said
Speaker 3: you wanted to turn it to Marrow Gaza.
Speaker 2: I have to be honest, it wasn't my my term.
Speaker 4: Somebody I saw online used it, but I think it
Speaker 4: was Michael Rappaport. But no, look, it's it's it's I
Speaker 4: don't think that's ever going to work for a number
Speaker 4: of different reasons.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, what do you do with all
Speaker 2: the people? Where do they wait?
Speaker 4: There's not a motel six that they all hang out
Speaker 4: and they're going to go back.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not clear what to do with the people.
Speaker 3: I know he's talking to Egypt. We know he's talking
Speaker 3: to Jordan. That whole region is never found a home
Speaker 3: for the Palestinees. Either they need a place to live temporarily,
Speaker 3: they need places to rebuild for them so they could
Speaker 3: have normal lives, or this facility generates enough money to
Speaker 3: support them going forward with new startups and businesses. Whatever.
Speaker 3: It's a great idea to save people. We speaking of
Speaker 3: save people. I love what's going on with the Ukraine.
Speaker 3: Before I give you my input that you say you like,
Speaker 3: do you have something you'd like to say about the Ukraine.
Speaker 4: I think they're being least a bit transparent about what
Speaker 4: can and can happen. So Pete Hegseth, who's the Defense secretary,
Speaker 4: said I don't think we can live in reality. Essentially,
Speaker 4: in paraphrasing, we can't live in a reality where we're going.
Speaker 2: Back to before the war.
Speaker 4: And he also said that he doesn't see a situation
Speaker 4: where Ukraine is going to be a part of NATO.
Speaker 4: They're being honest about what the situation is, and Donald
Speaker 4: Trump's apparently speaking with Putin is a step forward. I
Speaker 4: think he really wants to end this. It's going to
Speaker 4: be a negotiation and I don't think both sides are
Speaker 4: going to be incredibly happy with it, but hopefully they
Speaker 4: meet a middle ground because I think we all agree
Speaker 4: the fighting has to stop.
Speaker 3: Now we're on the same page on this one. Look,
Speaker 3: Donald Trump said from day one, people are dying. They're
Speaker 3: killing thousands of people, hundreds of thousands, they're losing check
Speaker 3: narrations of men, they're dying. I wanted to stop. And
Speaker 3: I think it's only right that we understand that Russia
Speaker 3: didn't get this, didn't get in this for nothing. Whether
Speaker 3: they're the aggressive, whether they're right, whether they're wrong, at
Speaker 3: this point, it doesn't matter. Stop the dying. Let people
Speaker 3: get on with their lives. And it means succeeding some territory.
Speaker 3: It was going to happen. Russia's not going to lose
Speaker 3: to the Ukraine, no matter how many weapons we send in,
Speaker 3: and whodo wants to be sending in weapons from here
Speaker 3: to help kill people. I know the Europeans have questions.
Speaker 3: We have to stop Putin, we have to stop Ukraine.
Speaker 3: It's a terrible situation that can go on forever, and
Speaker 3: it's enough killing. Having said that, a little territory to
Speaker 3: save a lot of lives I think will make a
Speaker 3: lot of headway. Now as far as Putin goes. I've
Speaker 3: said this in the past, they'll say it again. There
Speaker 3: was a time two thousand and eight. I remember I
Speaker 3: was at LVMH. We had an amazing run with the Russians.
Speaker 3: They were all coming to New York, they were all
Speaker 3: coming to this country, they were all doing business, they
Speaker 3: were all coming together, and it became the successful entrepreneurism
Speaker 3: of the world, bringing our two countries together, and Russia
Speaker 3: was in a very good place. Putin was proud of
Speaker 3: the country. He was proud of what was going on,
Speaker 3: and then we alienated him everything anti Russia, anti Russia,
Speaker 3: anti Russia. This is a man, It's like anyone else.
Speaker 3: If everybody keeps hammer on you and saying you're a
Speaker 3: bad guy and you're a dictator, and you're a Nazi
Speaker 3: and you're this, of course he's gonna not like it.
Speaker 3: We need to bring him back into the community of men.
Speaker 3: We need to bring Russia back into the community. We
Speaker 3: want them as our friends. We don't need enemies. We
Speaker 3: have to let buy guns be byguns. I know a
Speaker 3: million people are gonna tell me I'm foolish, but what
Speaker 3: else is the alternative. Let this war go on forever,
Speaker 3: Let it lead to World War three. Let Trump make
Speaker 3: a deal, let him be the broker. Let this happen.
Speaker 3: I think we're in a great place. You know, this
Speaker 3: is such a patriotic time for our country. Those of
Speaker 3: you don't like Don Trump. Every time he shows up,
Speaker 3: people are chanting USSA, USA, USA, make America great again,
Speaker 3: Put America first. It's a wonderful time. The conversations on Canada,
Speaker 3: I never thought about it. Should Canada be our fifty
Speaker 3: first state? When did we make Alaska our fifty fiftieth state.
Speaker 3: There was a reason should Canada become our fifty first state.
Speaker 3: I think it's a great dialogue that we're having, and
Speaker 3: let the geniuses figure out as that are plus or
Speaker 3: minus for both countries. The subject of Greenland, it's natural resources.
Speaker 3: If we could buy it, why wouldn't we. The population
Speaker 3: is successful, they're happy. Maybe this is a nice addition
Speaker 3: again to the continental United States. And then of course
Speaker 3: this Panama. We gave the Panama Canal away for nothing.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter gave it because he thought it was right
Speaker 3: that the Panamanians should own the canal. But he didn't
Speaker 3: consider that America built it, all the work, all the sacrifices,
Speaker 3: and now they're taking advantage of us. They're holding up
Speaker 3: our ships. No good. I think it's right that we're
Speaker 3: talking about and Gulf of America. I love it. So
Speaker 3: I hope all this turns out to something international and
Speaker 3: if we can. We want to be neutral in this world.
Speaker 3: We want to have a nice time. We don't want
Speaker 3: people dying. Get on board, Democrats, what he's doing is right.
Speaker 3: You want we are a nation of immigrants, not illegals, immigrants.
Speaker 3: We don't want to be woke anymore that we've all
Speaker 3: voted for and what are we fighting for now? We're
Speaker 3: fighting to get America on a solid foundation. To say
Speaker 3: anything before I close this segment.
Speaker 4: We love Greenland, not very green, Frankly, Frankly, we always
Speaker 4: think it's going to be green, but it's not.
Speaker 2: We love it.
Speaker 4: Denmark is going to send it to us. We're gonna
Speaker 4: do it. They're gonna love it. We're gonna love it.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 4: I actually do think, by the way, that they don't
Speaker 4: want to sell it. I don't think they want to
Speaker 4: give it to us. But I do think what's interesting
Speaker 4: is Greenland. You mentioned the resources. I think they strategic.
Speaker 4: It's important to be there because of Russia and China.
Speaker 4: It's important to us for us to have a position there,
Speaker 4: and I think that that's why one of the reasons
Speaker 4: why he's been pushing for it.
Speaker 2: But unprecedented times. We shall see what happens.
Speaker 3: Well, they offer everyone in Greenland a million dollars, We'll
Speaker 3: see what they say. And with that as a backdrop, tonight,
Speaker 3: we live in interesting times. I'm going to take a
Speaker 3: break and come back and we're going to talk about
Speaker 3: a week in the Interesting Life of Mark Webber back
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Speaker 5: Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's your host,
Speaker 5: Mark Webber.
Speaker 3: We live in interesting times. What an interesting world? You know.
Speaker 3: Every night, when I have a minute and I finally
Speaker 3: get a chance to relax, I sit down to watch
Speaker 3: television with the idea that I'm gonna watch a movie,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna watch a series, and I can't turn away
Speaker 3: from the news. I'm riveted by it, every part of it.
Speaker 3: There's so much excitement going on, all of this action,
Speaker 3: all the change, really catches my attention. I think it's
Speaker 3: wonderful time. And tonight's show, frankly is we live in
Speaker 3: interesting times. And with that as a backdrop, I want
Speaker 3: to talk a little bit about life in general. I
Speaker 3: have been very active, seasons changing. I love to go shopping,
Speaker 3: look at new clothes, sees what's going on. And I've
Speaker 3: spent some time in Bloomingdale's and I want to tell
Speaker 3: you about it. Yeah, Bloomingdale's is an exciting store. Women's
Speaker 3: wear is interesting. It's always had an entertainment factor theater
Speaker 3: to Bloomingdale's. But that's not why I want to talk
Speaker 3: about it. What I want to talk about is there
Speaker 3: was a sighting in Bloomingdale's this week. I well, i'll
Speaker 3: tell you what happened. I went into Bloomingdale's in Manhattan
Speaker 3: and I bought a Armani stretched shirt, a white one.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 3: You know again, I'm a stirt guy, so I know.
Speaker 3: And the material I'm not getting into the details was
Speaker 3: so luxurious and fit me so well. I loved and
Speaker 3: I bought a white one, and I got concerned that
Speaker 3: I only owned one of them, because if I ruined it,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have it. I wanted to have this for
Speaker 3: a while, so I went and bought another one. I
Speaker 3: brought it home. I get home, the guy didn't take
Speaker 3: the security tag off. I was so pissed off. You know,
Speaker 3: you go to this effort to buy something, you gotta
Speaker 3: figure the guy at the sales counter has only one job,
Speaker 3: well two, well maybe not. Let's be fair. He has
Speaker 3: to greet me, he has to take my money, he
Speaker 3: has to put my shirt in a bag, take off
Speaker 3: the security tag, and say thank you goodbye. Well, if
Speaker 3: I got to take off the security tag, which ended
Speaker 3: up turning into a good thing because I had to
Speaker 3: go back. I went back and I went to buy.
Speaker 3: I returned the shirt, I had them take off the tag,
Speaker 3: and I ended up buying an Armani short puffy jacket.
Speaker 3: Have a really cool one right now, and I wanted
Speaker 3: to buy it, and I bought it. Once again. I'm
Speaker 3: standing around and I go to pay for it, and
Speaker 3: I give the guy my credit card and he looks
Speaker 3: at me and he says, are you Mark Weber? I said, yes,
Speaker 3: I'm Mark Weber. You have the card. He says, no, no,
Speaker 3: are you the Mark Weber? I start to laugh the
Speaker 3: Mark Webber? He said, yeah, the radio guy, the podcast guy.
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, that's me, and he goes, oh, this
Speaker 3: is crazy. I can't believe it. I listened to you
Speaker 3: every Sunday. I listened to you every Saturday and Sunday
Speaker 3: night driving home. I love your show. My wife loves
Speaker 3: your show. I'm so happy to meet you. I said,
Speaker 3: that's great. You know I was laughing. It was night.
Speaker 3: Not the first time it's happened, but it's always fun
Speaker 3: when someone recognized you in this case, which is amazing,
Speaker 3: either from my voice or from my name. It's not
Speaker 3: like they know my face. So anyway, he says, he says,
Speaker 3: but he goes, You're gonna hate me. I said, why
Speaker 3: would I hate you? He says, I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 3: And it comes from around the counter where he the
Speaker 3: desk where he took the money, and he's wearing a
Speaker 3: suit with brown sneakers with white souls. He says, I
Speaker 3: know you hate these shoes. I know you're gonna give
Speaker 3: me grief. I looked at him. I said, I like you,
Speaker 3: but I hate your shoes. I'm looking at this outfit.
Speaker 3: You look like a I said, I apologize. You look
Speaker 3: like a schmuck. You wear in a nice suit of
Speaker 3: white shirt and these shoes with the soles. You look ridiculous.
Speaker 3: What are you thinking? He says, I know, I know,
Speaker 3: I can't wait to tell my wife. He tells it
Speaker 3: it takes a thing to his wife and sends her
Speaker 3: a note. And anyway, he wraps the coat and I
Speaker 3: go home. I get home and once again blooming Dell's.
Speaker 3: I bought an Almani jacket. I went to try it on.
Speaker 3: I put my hand in the pocket. In the pocket,
Speaker 3: there's a snap that holds the pocket in place when
Speaker 3: you wear it, and one of the snaps was broken.
Speaker 3: So now I have to bring the coat back. So
Speaker 3: the next day I go to bring the coat back.
Speaker 3: I go to see him again. He said, oh, I
Speaker 3: can't believe you're back. He's so excited. But I told
Speaker 3: my wife she really wanted to know. Well, she says
Speaker 3: not and he goes, let me show you what she
Speaker 3: wrote me. And he shows me his phone and the
Speaker 3: fife says one word, one question? Was he obnoxious? Now
Speaker 3: I don't know why the guy needed to show me this.
Speaker 3: And you know, did it make me feel bad? No,
Speaker 3: I mean most humans might feel bad. I wouldn't feel bad.
Speaker 3: I just said to myself, here, I am trying to
Speaker 3: do the right thing in life, trying to entertain people,
Speaker 3: bring them knowledge, create a show that they could learn
Speaker 3: from enjoy. Am I obnoxious? Now? I think about this
Speaker 3: set a lot of times in various different degrees. I
Speaker 3: try my best to be humble. It's hard when you're
Speaker 3: talking about a career that has spanned the length of
Speaker 3: mind and has the success that I had and the
Speaker 3: financial wherewithal that the show the career has brought me.
Speaker 3: But I recognize, and that's why I often talk about
Speaker 3: the fact I'm a man of the people. I began
Speaker 3: my career in the city projects. I never expected to
Speaker 3: be successful. I'm not important now. I used to be important.
Speaker 3: I do all of that to try and offset the
Speaker 3: fact that here I am, having been the CEO of
Speaker 3: two major companies, and obviously I did well financially. I
Speaker 3: try to offset it by being, as I said, the
Speaker 3: coming man, and the best she has for me was
Speaker 3: he obnoxious. Hey, Jesse, am I obnoxious?
Speaker 4: Obnoxious is a strong word. I think you have a
Speaker 4: very strong personality. I think you're hilarious, but look I obnoxious.
Speaker 4: You can maybe at times maybe at times, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think that you're I think that you are an
Speaker 4: acquired taste, and I think sometimes you think you're funnier
Speaker 4: than you are Is that fair?
Speaker 3: Do you think the listeners think I'm obnoxious?
Speaker 4: I can't speak for all the listeners, but look, it's
Speaker 4: a popular show. I imagine some people probably do anything you
Speaker 4: do in media, people are gonna hate it. I'm sure
Speaker 4: if we took a poll, some people would think you're obnoxious.
Speaker 3: Thanks. I like that vote of confidence. What I would
Speaker 3: have liked to heard that person's nuts. You're a great guy.
Speaker 3: You try and be humble, You try and give both
Speaker 3: of you. You know, I expect a little bit more
Speaker 3: from my son.
Speaker 2: I'm your son. I'd like to tell you like it is.
Speaker 2: What am I going to lie to you? I'm telling
Speaker 2: you the truth. You never lie to me. I'm not
Speaker 2: lying to you.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll move on from there anyway. If I'm obnoxious,
Speaker 3: get over it. You know what? Can I tell you?
Speaker 3: What more important? Though? Talking about life, I'm going through magazines.
Speaker 3: I'm a golfer. I read about golf magazines a lot
Speaker 3: about what's going on, and I have to admit the
Speaker 3: death of taste continues. Men. If it wasn't for bad taste,
Speaker 3: there'd be no taste at all. And I'm wondering as
Speaker 3: we go forward, what happened to class? Where did we
Speaker 3: lose our way? Where did we lose our way in
Speaker 3: the way we're supposed to carry ourselves. Say thank you,
Speaker 3: appreciate what's done for you, dress appropriately, talk appropriately. You
Speaker 3: know you can't buy class. I don't care how much
Speaker 3: money a person has. You can't buy class anyway. I'm
Speaker 3: watching what's going on and minding my own business. And
Speaker 3: I turned the page Golf magazine and there are two photographs,
Speaker 3: one of Ricky Fowler and the other of Jason Day
Speaker 3: Ricky Fowl American, Jason Day Australian, and they were both
Speaker 3: dressed so poorly it almost blew my mind. Ricky Fowler
Speaker 3: is the hot streets. Everybody loved him. He's the guy
Speaker 3: from who always wore the orange with the long hair,
Speaker 3: and he started his own clothing line. He was so
Speaker 3: attractive and so interesting. And Jason Dave, for a good
Speaker 3: looking guy from Australia, was a bigger winner a few
Speaker 3: years back. But they were wearing the worst stowes. I'll
Speaker 3: come back to it. You know what I remember about golf.
Speaker 3: When I was a young man, I would always go
Speaker 3: into someone's house, and if I went to someone who's
Speaker 3: affluent and the guy the father was home on the
Speaker 3: weekend Saturday Sunday. He'd always be by the TV watching golf,
Speaker 3: and they invite me to sit down. I'm a date
Speaker 3: a girl. He'd be watching golf and I watch it
Speaker 3: and I said, this is a game for old people.
Speaker 3: When I played it, I realize it's not because if
Speaker 3: you want to play golf, every part of your body
Speaker 3: has to work. You need your legs, you need your arms,
Speaker 3: you need your back, you need your shoulders. You have
Speaker 3: to be in good shape in order to play golf.
Speaker 3: Now that doesn't mean you don't see fatsos. You don't
Speaker 3: see people who are not in the best of shape playing.
Speaker 3: With all due respect to the fatsos, I have a
Speaker 3: right to call him that. I was fat for a
Speaker 3: large part of my life, so get over it. But
Speaker 3: the point is I watch it on TV and there
Speaker 3: would be Bobby Jones. They would show you historical pictures
Speaker 3: of Bobby Jones. He was always dressed elegantly, pleated pants,
Speaker 3: beautiful belt. In those days they wore dress shirts and
Speaker 3: ties to play golf, and he looked brilliant. I grew
Speaker 3: up at the end of Arnold Palmer's career. The man
Speaker 3: was always elegant, beautifully dressed. He would wear beautiful pants,
Speaker 3: beautiful golf shoes, gray slacks, black golf shoes. He would
Speaker 3: wear a light yellow golf shirt with a beautiful Lynx
Speaker 3: cardig in V neck sweater. He looked brilliant, he looked elegant.
Speaker 3: Arnold Palmer was a measter in dressing. And then it
Speaker 3: went on to Sevi Ballisterais always wore a beautiful golf shirt,
Speaker 3: beautiful matching pants, nice golf shoes that matched. This outfit
Speaker 3: with a golf shirt and a V neck sweater. Elegant.
Speaker 3: Jack Nicholas, he showed up. They started wearing plaid pants
Speaker 3: and a little outrageous, but once you got into it,
Speaker 3: you could see a lot of time effort went into
Speaker 3: just being elegant. Even their rain suits were amazing. Then
Speaker 3: liv Golf came this outshoot of golf, this rogue golf
Speaker 3: that the Saudi family, the Saudi what's that called the
Speaker 3: Saudi Sovereign Fund built put in to golf as a
Speaker 3: threat to the PGA. They're at war with each other.
Speaker 3: They're going to make a compromise, but they have an
Speaker 3: offshoot golf organization and they play, and they got some
Speaker 3: of the best players in the world to come because
Speaker 3: they offered them a lot of money. And I loved
Speaker 3: it until they went to shorts. If you ask me,
Speaker 3: shorts is a signal of the end of society. I
Speaker 3: hate seeing men in shorts makes no sense. First of all,
Speaker 3: ninety nine point nine percent of America has ugly legs,
Speaker 3: and who wants to see him anyway. I don't want
Speaker 3: to look at your legs, Guys, I want to look
Speaker 3: at you. If you have to look at you at all,
Speaker 3: you're inelegant in pants. I don't want to look at
Speaker 3: your legs. And shorts I hate them. Anybody wears the shorts.
Speaker 3: I'm with all the respect, I think it's a buffoon.
Speaker 3: Those of you who see me are gonna tell me
Speaker 3: how wrong I am. It keeps you cool, balooney, beloney,
Speaker 3: you wes shorts when it's hot out the sun is
Speaker 3: beating down on your legs. It's not making you feel cool,
Speaker 3: it's making you hotter. Look at the Arab nations. They're
Speaker 3: all dressed in all those heavy garb from their head
Speaker 3: to toe to keep the sun out because it keeps
Speaker 3: you cooler. Don't tell me all I know it's the
Speaker 3: end of society. I don't want to read about Phil
Speaker 3: Mickelson's calves, which I did when they saw him in
Speaker 3: shorts for the first time. We had to listen to
Speaker 3: three weeks of that, which brings me back to Ricky Fowler.
Speaker 3: He's wearing a hunting golf suit. Hunting you you had
Speaker 3: to go out and shoot pheasants or hunt bear. That's
Speaker 3: what he was wearing in golf matching shirt and pants.
Speaker 3: Disaster disaster. Even the hat was a hunting hat. What
Speaker 3: are you doing? What kind of statement? Where is the control?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have let him play that day if I
Speaker 3: was the commissioner. And then if that wasn't bad enough,
Speaker 3: Jason Day comes out in Melbourne, m alb o n.
Speaker 3: I have one of his shirts. Very cool. He came
Speaker 3: out in a sweatsuit, sweatpants and a sweatshirt to play golf.
Speaker 3: All the elegance is gone. It was terrible and I
Speaker 3: really really start to feel that men have lost their way.
Speaker 3: I know it. You hear me talk about her all
Speaker 3: the time, but now it's come on the golf course,
Speaker 3: which was the final bastions of elegance in America. In
Speaker 3: my view. You want to go to the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3: Tell a Swift shows up to all the games. She's dressed, beautifully, dresses,
Speaker 3: she makeup, she looks great, and then her boyfriend Jason
Speaker 3: Kelsey comes out into your tracksuit. What's happening, America? We
Speaker 3: are ruining the world. No, I would tell you. When
Speaker 3: it comes to fashion, he who seeks attention loses. He
Speaker 3: just lose. That's not what it's about. I remember back
Speaker 3: to golf for a second. Harvey Wintraub, who's hyve Win Trump?
Speaker 3: Harvey Ron Trout is a famous director and deal maker
Speaker 3: in Hollywood, and Elvis is finally years. He took Elvis
Speaker 3: on his final tour, convinced the captain to allow him
Speaker 3: to take Elvis out. He's also responsibil as he directed,
Speaker 3: and he brought the team together to do Earth Oceans eleven,
Speaker 3: twelve and thirteen. He was the producer. Amazing guy. I
Speaker 3: go to the golf course and I see him there
Speaker 3: and I go, wow, look at this guy. I knew
Speaker 3: who he was right away. He was wearing bright purple
Speaker 3: golf shoes, bright purple pants, bright purple shirt, bright purple
Speaker 3: cardigan sweater. And there he is on the golf course
Speaker 3: looking like an egg plant. I don't know whatever's purple,
Speaker 3: and it looked terrible. One of those I've talked about
Speaker 3: this before. Wow, look at you. And I went over
Speaker 3: to the low told them I fan. I believe that
Speaker 3: the appropriate way to then dress would be black golf shoes,
Speaker 3: gray slacks, a light purple, a light purple shirt, and
Speaker 3: a light purple sweater. If you want to took purple
Speaker 3: that is wow, that looks nice. I've talked about this,
Speaker 3: maybe even last week. I don't remember. He who seeks
Speaker 3: attention loses. You know, I love to fly. I love
Speaker 3: to fly on planes because no one in the back
Speaker 3: in the day could find me. There were no cell phones,
Speaker 3: no texting. Nobody knew where you were. You're on the plane.
Speaker 3: You were left alone. I used to love golf fashion.
Speaker 3: Both now are classes because first class versus schmuck class.
Speaker 3: That's still the case. There's only two glasses on a plane,
Speaker 3: first class of schmuck class. I've flown the boat. But
Speaker 3: class does matter. If you're getting in first class. There's
Speaker 3: a way for you to behave. You should dress well,
Speaker 3: You should behave, You should be grateful, you should be patient,
Speaker 3: you should appreciate. Money doesn't buy your class, and we
Speaker 3: see this all the time. Manners and upbringing derives class.
Speaker 3: So before we remove men from the fashion dockets of
Speaker 3: the world, before you continue to ruin it. If you
Speaker 3: keep looking like crap, women won't want to be with
Speaker 3: you anymore. If they won't want to be with you anymore,
Speaker 3: we won't procreate the species, and we'll all be gone.
Speaker 3: Please remember class and dressing well still manners in this
Speaker 3: world and business. Removal the jacket and tie doesn't say
Speaker 3: you could wear anything you want. You're still in a
Speaker 3: competitive environment. You still have to look your best. I
Speaker 3: feel i'm talking on deafias because on top of everything else,
Speaker 3: all these trends that are coming from men, from wearing
Speaker 3: dresses to kilts, the brown shoes to shoes with sneakers,
Speaker 3: with suits with white bottoms. I'm getting really frustrated, but
Speaker 3: I'm going to leave it to this. We live in
Speaker 3: interesting times. You're allowed to do whatever you want, You're
Speaker 3: allowed to mess up, you're allowed to be wow, but
Speaker 3: it doesn't mean it's right. I'll take a break. We're
Speaker 3: back in a minute. Some more interesting times.
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Speaker 5: Here's your host, Mark Webber.
Speaker 3: I've started to wonder about success. We live in interesting
Speaker 3: times and it's interesting to watch what goes on. I
Speaker 3: really love what I've been watching with Tom Brady on
Speaker 3: Internet and everywhere else for that matter. As the goat,
Speaker 3: the greatest of all time. He's always been elegant, He's
Speaker 3: always been simple to the point. He might be a
Speaker 3: little more showy than most people should be. After all,
Speaker 3: he's lived a big life. But when you hear him
Speaker 3: talk about football. He talks about it irreverently, how much
Speaker 3: he respects the game, how much work he put in,
Speaker 3: how hard he did it, how it never gave up,
Speaker 3: how he had a vision of how to conduct himself.
Speaker 3: And for that regard, it's fascinating to watch. I often
Speaker 3: think about my style and how I behaved when I
Speaker 3: came in. You know, I had a big personality, and
Speaker 3: you know I looked a certain way, and because of that,
Speaker 3: I tried to downplay who I was. I always wore very,
Speaker 3: very conservative but elegant clothes. My wardrobe, as your listeners
Speaker 3: you know now, navy blue suit, white shirt, black tails
Speaker 3: of the loafers, navy tie, sterling, silver cofflinks, day in
Speaker 3: day out. I had a simple look that tried to
Speaker 3: play down or complimented a personality. I didn't want to
Speaker 3: be big personality, big clothes. I didn't want to make statements.
Speaker 3: I wanted to be under the radar. Although it was
Speaker 3: someone impossible for me to be under the radar, I
Speaker 3: did my best to do it. My style was elegant, classic, sophisticated.
Speaker 3: I didn't brag, I didn't share my plans, I didn't
Speaker 3: talk goals. I just did my job. And I just
Speaker 3: did my job better than my peers, often better than
Speaker 3: who I was reporting to. Now, I didn't engage in
Speaker 3: conversations of corporate politics. I left the powers to be
Speaker 3: to kill each other off. And while everyone else was
Speaker 3: killing each other off, I put my head down and
Speaker 3: I slipped through the doors of opportunity like a powerful
Speaker 3: running back, cutting through the line where the opening was
Speaker 3: made by the line back where the opening was made
Speaker 3: by the offensive tackles. I was downfield before anyone even
Speaker 3: knew it. I have a story. There's a guy named
Speaker 3: Danny Kiseman. He may rest and please. He owed the
Speaker 3: factory and I think it was Danville, Illinois. Don't hold
Speaker 3: me too, but it was an Illinois and I and
Speaker 3: my boss went to see him. One day. They were
Speaker 3: making windbreaker jackets and someone in the company, the CEO,
Speaker 3: the founder of the company, said I want you to
Speaker 3: go down there and see if you could buy those
Speaker 3: windbreaker jackets. Put it in your sportswear line. Change the
Speaker 3: label from windbreaking the van using at the time. I
Speaker 3: want him to sell more jackets. I come to sell
Speaker 3: to us in the company, and you internalill go. When
Speaker 3: we went down to visit with Danny and his brother,
Speaker 3: and we walked the factory, We talked questions, we had dinner.
Speaker 3: We had a great time together. And up until that
Speaker 3: point I never really met him. I would see him
Speaker 3: in the hallway say hello, And at one point he
Speaker 3: took us aside and he said, to my boss, you're
Speaker 3: going to be the CEO of this company some day.
Speaker 3: I have no doubt about it. Not only that the founder,
Speaker 3: Larry Phillips, the founder's grandson, had told Bruce he was
Speaker 3: going to be the CEO someday. But me, I was
Speaker 3: an anomaly. Said you know, Mark, I've seen you around.
Speaker 3: You always look great, You're always smiling. But I gotta
Speaker 3: tell you, I always thought you were just a good
Speaker 3: looking guy in a suit. I had no idea who
Speaker 3: you are, he said. I just spent the day with
Speaker 3: you here, having dinner with you. I had no idea
Speaker 3: how serious you were, how interested in the business you are,
Speaker 3: and how much you know about what's going on. And
Speaker 3: I would never have given you the credit for it.
Speaker 3: In fact, I think that's your greatest difficulty to overcome,
Speaker 3: and it's your greatest asset, because when time comes, nobody's
Speaker 3: going to see you coming. You're going to come out
Speaker 3: of left field and run this place. You're going to
Speaker 3: be the man. Now. I am just proud knowing I
Speaker 3: know you, because I know that's going to happen. And
Speaker 3: sure enough he was right, and I loved hearing it then,
Speaker 3: and I appreciated that the way I was carrying myself,
Speaker 3: even though I had when I thought was too big
Speaker 3: of a personality, worked. I tried to be humble and
Speaker 3: I tried to do my job. And as I've often
Speaker 3: said for my buddy Ben Franklin, well done is better
Speaker 3: than well said. So I say that to all of you.
Speaker 3: Think about your personality, think about what you're doing, think
Speaker 3: about how your clothes compliment you, think about what you're
Speaker 3: trying to achieve. And my advice to you, don't brag,
Speaker 3: be humble, do your job, and things will come well.
Speaker 3: On another note, can't help but think about money this week.
Speaker 3: With all we're finding out from Elon Musk and the
Speaker 3: government about the wasteful spending of money, it is incredible,
Speaker 3: sad and making me angry how people don't respect money.
Speaker 3: My treatise on money is I don't mind spending money,
Speaker 3: I hate wasting it. I'll buy anything that makes sense,
Speaker 3: But I don't like wasting money. I don't like buying something,
Speaker 3: bringing it home and hating it without returning it. I
Speaker 3: hate it. It's wasteful. I don't like it. Doesn't matter
Speaker 3: how much I have, how much I want, how much
Speaker 3: I spend, as long as I don't waste money. And
Speaker 3: recently I heard a statement from a former executive at PVH.
Speaker 3: Someone told my son. Someone in the industry told my
Speaker 3: son at a luncheon, is your father toughest guy I
Speaker 3: ever met, fairest guy I ever met. And everybody knows
Speaker 3: that he has the first dollar he ever made. His
Speaker 3: reputation for making sure money wasn't wasted was legendary. And
Speaker 3: I know he hasn't spent money, he has saved it.
Speaker 3: He's provided for future. I don't know if I could
Speaker 3: do that. I don't want to do I don't know
Speaker 3: if I want to do it. But I know your
Speaker 3: father saved his money. And I started to laugh myself.
Speaker 3: It's a lot better than the woman who called me obnoxious.
Speaker 3: I worked to succeed at work. I didn't work for
Speaker 3: the money. I knew the money would take care of itself.
Speaker 3: You know now that I said, I've told the story again.
Speaker 3: I apologize, but the new listeners. My first interview, when
Speaker 3: I got prepped by the guy sending me on the interview,
Speaker 3: he asked me how much money I wanted to make,
Speaker 3: and at the time, going back all those years, I
Speaker 3: was fifty thousand dollars. He goes, what are you talking about.
Speaker 3: That's the stupidest answer I ever heard. First of all,
Speaker 3: you're not going to get a first job at fifty
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. It's just graduate to college. But I'm going
Speaker 3: to tell you what you're going to say when he
Speaker 3: asks you how much money you want to earn, You're
Speaker 3: going to say money doesn't matter to me right now.
Speaker 3: What matters to me is working for a great company
Speaker 3: like this, with people who are willing to train me.
Speaker 3: I will work hard, I will learn, and money will
Speaker 3: take care of itself. I never worked for money. I
Speaker 3: always worked to do the job. Money is a means
Speaker 3: of keeping score as you go along. If you're doing well,
Speaker 3: you make more money. If you're doing very well, you
Speaker 3: make even more money, And that's one of the ways
Speaker 3: that you recognize you're doing a good job. Sometimes I
Speaker 3: accepted what they paid me. Sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I
Speaker 3: either felt my worth was more and I fought back
Speaker 3: and I negotiated with them. It also makes sense if
Speaker 3: you have the leverage. If they're twelve people like you
Speaker 3: lined up behind, you might not be a good time
Speaker 3: to fight. But if you know for a fact that
Speaker 3: you are not being treated what you believe is fairly
Speaker 3: right way, with the right words, you have an opportunity
Speaker 3: to talk and get your point across. You might not
Speaker 3: get the money right then and there, but you might
Speaker 3: get it down the road. You put in someone's head
Speaker 3: that hey, I'm no fool, and if you do it right,
Speaker 3: you might not get it, but they might respect you
Speaker 3: the powers to be you might just respect you for
Speaker 3: the way you negotiated, for what you had to say,
Speaker 3: for the fact you weren't afraid to talk what you
Speaker 3: believe was honest. Now, I grant you, that's a tough
Speaker 3: balancing act, but it's one that I've lived through and
Speaker 3: done many times managing money. Now, one of the greatest
Speaker 3: things I want to take a little bit of money
Speaker 3: I ever heard in my life was a clip I
Speaker 3: never forgot it from a movie called Gentlemen Preferred Blondes.
Speaker 3: Marilyn Monroe and I want to play that for you now,
Speaker 3: because I love it.
Speaker 7: You got the nerve to stand there and expect me
Speaker 7: to believe that you don't want to marry my son
Speaker 7: for his money. It's true, then what do you want
Speaker 7: to marry him for?
Speaker 6: I want to marry him for your money?
Speaker 4: Fair?
Speaker 7: Oh, laural I do you see?
Speaker 6: That's why we have to have his consent? Silly?
Speaker 7: Well, at least we're getting down to brass tacks. You
Speaker 7: admit that all you're after is money?
Speaker 6: No, I don't, aren't you funny? Don't you know that
Speaker 6: a man being rich is like a girl being pretty.
Speaker 6: You might not marry a girl just because she's pretty,
Speaker 6: but my goodness, doesn't it help? And if you had
Speaker 6: a daughter, wouldn't you rather she didn't marry a poor man?
Speaker 6: But you'd wanted to have the most wonderful things in
Speaker 6: the world and to be very happy. Oh why is
Speaker 6: it wrong for me to want those things?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: I conceive that. Say they told me you were stupid.
Speaker 7: You don't sound stupid to me.
Speaker 6: I can be smart when it's important, but most men
Speaker 6: don't like it.
Speaker 3: I applaud Marilyn's honesty. I applaud the writers who wrote it.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny, cute and clever, and it made
Speaker 3: a lot of business sense, particularly coming from someone who
Speaker 3: was a movie actress. I thought they made it look great.
Speaker 3: I loved it, and I talk about money and spending money.
Speaker 3: You know, here's a thought for you. You always have
Speaker 3: to know where you stand always. I had a conversation
Speaker 3: the other day. What was it like being so successful?
Speaker 3: Someone asked me. I said, it wasn't what you think.
Speaker 3: I said. My career had ups and downs. I never
Speaker 3: knew where I was standing, and I was sitting in
Speaker 3: a chair, and I said, let me tell you. When
Speaker 3: someone came into my office meeting me for the first
Speaker 3: time or wanted advice, they would ask me, what is
Speaker 3: success like? I said, First of all, you see this
Speaker 3: chair I'm sitting in. I don't own this chair, and
Speaker 3: I never forget that for a minute. I don't own
Speaker 3: this chair. I'm being paid to do a job. There's
Speaker 3: no guarantee that I will have this chair tomorrow. In fact,
Speaker 3: what I would do is I would be sitting in
Speaker 3: my suit. I would open my legs a little, and
Speaker 3: I said, let me draw an imaginary line between each leg.
Speaker 3: I pat my left leg and I say this leg
Speaker 3: is getting promoted tomorrow, and then I'd pat my right
Speaker 3: leg and say this leg is getting fired tomorrow. And
Speaker 3: to tell you the truth, I never know which will
Speaker 3: be the case. So I live my life humbly. I
Speaker 3: keep my mind on doing the job, and I recognize
Speaker 3: that politics plays a role, and I do my best
Speaker 3: to navigate for that in mind. We live in interesting times,
Speaker 3: and that's what I wanted to talk to you about tonight.
Speaker 3: I love what's going on in a country. I love
Speaker 3: the enthusiasm, I love the energy. I love the fact
Speaker 3: that a president walks into the super Bowl stadium and
Speaker 3: the crowd goes wild. Forget for a moment it's Donald
Speaker 3: Trump if you don't like him, But that patriotism, that
Speaker 3: respect for Aleida, that good feeling that we used to
Speaker 3: have with all our leaders, needs to come back. And
Speaker 3: why not let it start with Trump. Democrats support him,
Speaker 3: Republicans keep him in treck. Let's do the right thing.
Speaker 3: We live in interesting times. Good Night,