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Speaker 1: or iHeartMedia. Who is Mark Weber. He's a self made
Speaker 1: business executive here to help you find your success from
Speaker 1: the New York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris.
Speaker 1: His global success story in the luxury world of fashion
Speaker 1: is inspirational. He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark
Speaker 1: is classic proof that the American dream is alive. And well,
Speaker 1: here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.
Speaker 2: Mark Weber.
Speaker 3: This week, I was a participant. This week, this participant
Speaker 3: was an observer. I do find the world fascinating. Nature
Speaker 3: is beautiful, Humans can be amazing creatures, life is exciting.
Speaker 3: Mix it all together. It's a wonderful world. I don't
Speaker 3: think I'm getting sappy here. Nature is great when the
Speaker 3: sun is out. Raining is clearly a mood runer. Humans
Speaker 3: talk about moon runer. I'm not a fan big egos,
Speaker 3: bead dressers, bead attitudes, entitled, undeserving, classless, and oblivious all
Speaker 3: their way or the highway. Yet they have moments of brilliance,
Speaker 3: particularly in sports. Now there was a lot to do
Speaker 3: and a lot going on, and I did it this week.
Speaker 3: In fact, there was a vacation week, however, a vacation
Speaker 3: with a twist. I took a staycation, a vacation without
Speaker 3: getting on a plane, a staycation based in New York.
Speaker 3: And I took this staycation with my son Jared. We
Speaker 3: hung out for eight days, playing golf, the Yankees, the
Speaker 3: US Open. Lots of talk, life, politics, business, father and son,
Speaker 3: best buddies, always helping each other, always comfortable, always having fun.
Speaker 3: Even talk some politics, although I've been avoiding. This country's
Speaker 3: popularity countes. God forbid. We would talk about the issues
Speaker 3: and the policies, the track records. God forbid. Someone would
Speaker 3: speak the truth. God forbid. Any official would accept responsibility
Speaker 3: for anything. There's mostly failures in this government. I get it,
Speaker 3: But some honesty, please. The spin is everywhere, lying, retelling stories,
Speaker 3: bad results. The story of Raschiman. I don't know if
Speaker 3: I ever told you the story of Raschiman. It's an
Speaker 3: ancient story, a proverb perhaps about three famous Sami warriors.
Speaker 3: Each warrior tells his story of the great battle, and
Speaker 3: each warrior was the one who saved the shogun. The
Speaker 3: problem is only one man saved the shogun. So how
Speaker 3: could three people tell the same story with a different result.
Speaker 3: How because one of them is telling the truth, the
Speaker 3: other lying. This is what's going on here? Who's telling
Speaker 3: the truth? In politics, they hate Trump, but you gotta
Speaker 3: love what he accomplished. They like smiling Kamala, who I
Speaker 3: point out in the primaries for the Democratic election when
Speaker 3: she ran against Biden got one percent of the vote,
Speaker 3: she had to walk away and give up. She was
Speaker 3: the first that was eliminated, of course, until Biden made
Speaker 3: her vice president. Now Biden and company, in my view,
Speaker 3: have failed at about, well just about everything in their
Speaker 3: presidency and vice presidents. They inherited COVID, but they force
Speaker 3: fed in mandated vaccines which are now turning out to
Speaker 3: be a bane of existence. Now I am and was
Speaker 3: still a believer, and I'll still take the shot, but
Speaker 3: it was ugly. They inherited a pent up American demand
Speaker 3: for everything, consumer goods, experience, the wanting to get out
Speaker 3: and live again, and they turned it into a disaster.
Speaker 3: Inflation high course on everything. Trump two dollar gas went
Speaker 3: to Biden four dollar gas. Afghanistan shamed America. They left
Speaker 3: people behind, and eighty billion in weapons. I've read that
Speaker 3: the Taliban has become one of the world's leading arms merchants,
Speaker 3: selling our American weapons. And let's not forget. And the
Speaker 3: way we walked out in the middle of the night,
Speaker 3: thirteen American service people were killed. Who knows how many others.
Speaker 3: The border built a wall, illegal immigration was under control.
Speaker 3: Trump got Guatemala, Mexico and Al Savador to stop the
Speaker 3: trains of people because they were protecting their relationship with
Speaker 3: the Trump administration and they were concerned if they didn't
Speaker 3: behave immigration became legal again. Now, whatever you say, this
Speaker 3: one was on Harris. She was responsible for the border.
Speaker 3: Did nothing made it worse. Let eight million people intenly
Speaker 3: one number, Nope, or you get a spin with they
Speaker 3: the Biden Harris administration had done great with you know what,
Speaker 3: they're really great with, you know what, the rate of
Speaker 3: building crime. Let them argue that one. But politics is
Speaker 3: very funny. If you listen to the Democratic Party, they'll
Speaker 3: tell you there's no crime, it's not growing, it's deceasing,
Speaker 3: it's almost gone. And where are we now? Yes, I'm
Speaker 3: leading towards the presidential candidate that's from the Republican Party.
Speaker 3: While I believe the Democrats have some right ideas when
Speaker 3: it comes to certain social issues, I trust internationally with
Speaker 3: the Republicans, and I trust them with the future of
Speaker 3: the business in the country. And where are we now?
Speaker 3: Politics has become a popularity contest. Are we crazy? The
Speaker 3: next generation is going to pay the price? But forget politics.
Speaker 3: I'm not interested. All I'll leave it was is are
Speaker 3: we crazy? Now? I've said often I'm an acquired taste.
Speaker 3: I'm not easily appreciated. So in order to have friends,
Speaker 3: I made my own two sons who I'm blessed with,
Speaker 3: who like hanging out with their father. My boys and
Speaker 3: I have traveled the world together and apart. This time,
Speaker 3: Jared and I decided to take a vacation and we
Speaker 3: stayed together here, out and about. In our case, we
Speaker 3: took it easy. We traded luggage and air travel for
Speaker 3: car trips, a staycation. Loved living it, loved observing it.
Speaker 3: Now this is usually where I introduced my son, Jesse,
Speaker 3: my son, my co host, my lawyer. He was busy,
Speaker 3: he couldn't get away. He's been very busy until this week.
Speaker 3: He's taking a trip with his wife, going on vacation
Speaker 3: to Europe. Trader, he picked his wife over his brother
Speaker 3: and father. You wus so instead joining me tonight my
Speaker 3: elder son, my number one son, He's here to continue
Speaker 3: are hanging out? Hey, Jared, do you like hanging out
Speaker 3: with me?
Speaker 4: I love hanging out with you, but first and foremost,
Speaker 4: Jared Weber reporting for duty number one son.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Jesse, you know you snooze. You lose. What can
Speaker 3: I say?
Speaker 4: And to be intellectually honest, not only do I love
Speaker 4: hanging out with you, but when I have the opportunity
Speaker 4: to go to sporting events fashion shows, I often choose
Speaker 4: you as my date versus my wife. And thankfully I
Speaker 4: have the world's greatest wife understands our bond together and
Speaker 4: recognizes that our bond's inseparable, and not only does she
Speaker 4: not get jealous or upset, but she appreciates in values
Speaker 4: that special bond we have.
Speaker 3: Together makes me happy, makes me happy. So Jared, let's
Speaker 3: talk a little bit about us staycation.
Speaker 4: Of course, I like spending time with you, and I
Speaker 4: loved our staycation out and about New York, New Jersey
Speaker 4: and let me not forget. Lots of birthdays this month,
Speaker 4: and when there are birthdays, there's lots of shopping, and
Speaker 4: in that this show is called Always in Fashion. I
Speaker 4: know that you want to use this time to tell
Speaker 4: a particular shopping story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do have one. Do you like Madison Avenue?
Speaker 4: I love Madison Avenue, and in particular I love the
Speaker 4: Ralph Lauren store on seventy second in Madison. There is
Speaker 4: no place I enjoy spending my time more when it
Speaker 4: comes to shopping than the Ralph Lauren flagship mansion on
Speaker 4: seventy second in Madison.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a commercial.
Speaker 4: It is when it comes to me, I don't know
Speaker 4: that there's many people in the world that can sell
Speaker 4: Ralph Lauren better than I can. For the last fifteen,
Speaker 4: maybe twenty years, I've been shopping at that store. It
Speaker 4: is merchandise to perfection, the product, the way the floors
Speaker 4: are set up, the merchandise, the music, the mannequins, everything
Speaker 4: everything from tailored clothing, dress shirts, dress furnishings, footwear, sportswear, accessories,
Speaker 4: and all the different labels there, whether it's Ralph Lauren
Speaker 4: Purple label, whether it's Polo, whether it's doublerol. All these
Speaker 4: different lifestyles afforded to you in one store. It's the
Speaker 4: perfect shot.
Speaker 3: I like, I love, and I agree with you completely.
Speaker 3: But what's with the fancy words. What does tailored clothing mean?
Speaker 3: And what does furnishings mean?
Speaker 4: Sharry industry words. So tailor clothing is suits and suit
Speaker 4: separates meaning blazers, sport coach, dress pants. What you'd wear
Speaker 4: when you wear a suit and tie or casual with
Speaker 4: a dress, shirt and dress. Furnishings are shirts and tie,
Speaker 4: and then accessories are belts and cuff links and YadA,
Speaker 4: YadA YadA. But also there's a cool place across the
Speaker 4: street in the women's store. They have a great cafe
Speaker 4: that you can sit outside, you can eat, spend some time,
Speaker 4: catch some sun. It's great, great experience. The men's and
Speaker 4: women's store are kitty cat corner across from each other.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, as I said, it sounds like a commercial,
Speaker 3: but you're right. The issue is maybe they'll get us
Speaker 3: into the Polo Bar. Now, then we go there. All
Speaker 3: they have to do is hear this show and you
Speaker 3: talk about them.
Speaker 4: Are we pretending that we're not connected at.
Speaker 3: The Polo Bar? Well, without getting into it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what we're doing. We're pretending we know no one. But anyway,
Speaker 3: back to Madison Avenue. I raised the issue because we
Speaker 3: went there, we shopped there, and I have a story
Speaker 3: that I want to tell. But Madison Avenue is one
Speaker 3: of my favorite streets in the world. The women on
Speaker 3: Madison Avenue, women young or old, they're put together so well.
Speaker 3: They look so great the stores themselves, whether dress codes
Speaker 3: are called out or just understood, the women look great
Speaker 3: on Madison. Even the men make an effort on Madison.
Speaker 3: The unspoken truth, you're supposed to look the part when
Speaker 3: you live and walk and hang out in that rarefied
Speaker 3: air of the Upper east Side.
Speaker 4: When you're walking, it makes a big difference whether you're
Speaker 4: north or south of sixtieth Street. The men are put
Speaker 4: together particularly well. Whatever brands they're wearing, it looks like
Speaker 4: Italian fashion. It looks like the streets of Milan, and
Speaker 4: the women too. To your point, now, I'm not coming
Speaker 4: from a creepy factor like you are, but I'm coming
Speaker 4: from a pure appreciation of aesthetic. The men and women
Speaker 4: are dressed impeccable, and I believe they're buying a lot
Speaker 4: of their clothes on Madison Avenue.
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting you say that because a lot
Speaker 3: of streets, even in Manhattan, on one end of the
Speaker 3: street is slum and the next it could be a luxury.
Speaker 3: I mean, the streets of Manhattan, the way they're lined
Speaker 3: up are very unusual. But having said that, you're right,
Speaker 3: I think sixty isn't up is a regional barrier, and
Speaker 3: everything above starts to get more luxurious. Which brings me
Speaker 3: to what I wanted to about. Bruno Cucinelli on sixty
Speaker 3: third Street in Madison.
Speaker 4: Or Brunello Cucinelli, depending on whether or not you're exciting
Speaker 4: the brand from Brooklyn or from New York.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the correction. Brunello Cucinelli. They make luxury
Speaker 3: Italian men's and women's clothes. It's amazing. I do have
Speaker 3: a story to tell. First of all, everything is handmade
Speaker 3: in Italy. Secondly, when you read the articles from Kuchinelli himself,
Speaker 3: he tells you he pays his workers more than anywhere
Speaker 3: else in the world because he appreciates the work, understands
Speaker 3: they have lives to lead, and want them to be
Speaker 3: in good position. So they're clothes incredibly special. Jared and
Speaker 3: I were hanging out. We're shopping. It's birthday week in
Speaker 3: the family. There's a lot of things going on, lots
Speaker 3: of birthdays, and we took a walk into Kuchinelli to
Speaker 3: see what was going Jared tied on this jacket incredibly expensive,
Speaker 3: that's important, incredibly expensive. But he tried on a forty
Speaker 3: eight and I said it was it's too big, said
Speaker 3: you can't buy. You need to try on a forty six.
Speaker 3: So I asked the guy who was handling Jared, the seller,
Speaker 3: you have forty six, he says, go in the back.
Speaker 3: He goes in the back and he looks, we don't
Speaker 3: have a forty six, but we can order you one.
Speaker 3: So I said to him, I don't get it. How
Speaker 3: many other stores do you have in New York? He say,
Speaker 3: wh we have a few. Well, why don't you call
Speaker 3: him and see if they have a forty six? So
Speaker 3: he looks at me like I have three heads. I
Speaker 3: said to him, I assume if you sell a forty
Speaker 3: six from the other store, you still get credit as
Speaker 3: the seller. He said yeah, but that's not the issue.
Speaker 3: I said, well, why don't you check? So he comes
Speaker 3: back ten minutes later and he says, we don't have
Speaker 3: it in our stores, but we do have a concession
Speaker 3: shop in Bloomingdale's. Jared, you want to explain what a
Speaker 3: concession shop is.
Speaker 4: First and foremost, I need to give one point of
Speaker 4: clarity for those viewers that don't understand the Italian sizing.
Speaker 4: A forty six is not a forty six in the US.
Speaker 4: It's a thirty six in the US. So I have
Speaker 4: to give that point of clarity before your listeners think
Speaker 4: that based on my height, I'm overweight. So the answer
Speaker 4: is there's a different sizing. So after that point of clarity,
Speaker 4: concession shops are shops run by the brand within a store.
Speaker 4: It's a shop within a shop. Now in this instance
Speaker 4: with Sacks, not Bloomingdale's, one point of correction, but essentially
Speaker 4: Brunello Cucinelli has a mini store within Sacks Fifth Avenue,
Speaker 4: where it's Brunello Cucinelli's own inventory, it's their own employees,
Speaker 4: and they're paying Sax rent for the ability to have
Speaker 4: a small store within a store within Sacks. That is
Speaker 4: what the definition of a concession is.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. So the guy says to us,
Speaker 3: SAX has the forty six there. So I said to him, great,
Speaker 3: why don't you tell Sax to bring it over here?
Speaker 3: So he says, well, we can't do that. I said,
Speaker 3: what do you mean you can't do that? He says, well,
Speaker 3: there are only two people in sacks. I said, unless
Speaker 3: there's a storm going on and the people are flooding
Speaker 3: this department, get one of the people in the shop
Speaker 3: to take an uber over here. We're ten blocks away.
Speaker 3: Let him bring the jacket. We'll buy it. That's it.
Speaker 3: Let him try it on. Because we can't do that,
Speaker 3: I said, what do you mean you can't do it? It
Speaker 3: makes no sense. This is something we don't do. I
Speaker 3: take him aside and I said, in front of him
Speaker 3: and Joy, I said, listen, it's a very expensive jacket.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many of you sellers stay. You
Speaker 3: got one ten blocks away. You got a customer who's
Speaker 3: ready to buy it. He's not going to buy the
Speaker 3: forty eighty, has to try on the forty six first. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do, so I said to one,
Speaker 3: why don't you send someone from this store to do it? Hey,
Speaker 3: you got ten people floating around, nobody's working. All they're
Speaker 3: doing is listen to me. Make a fool of myself,
Speaker 3: but I really don't think they think I'm making a
Speaker 3: fool of myself. He said, let me see what I
Speaker 3: can do. So he goes and makes a phone call,
Speaker 3: and he comes back and says, give me an hour.
Speaker 3: We'll have the jacket here. I said to him, this
Speaker 3: makes no sense. I could walk back and forth from
Speaker 3: here myself and get the jacket back in less than
Speaker 3: an hour. You gotta do better than that. Disappears again.
Speaker 3: He said, we're gonna get the jacket here, but you
Speaker 3: may take forty five minutes. I said, okay, forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: We'll hang out, or we'll go back to the rough store.
Speaker 3: Turns out we were very comfortable in this store. We're
Speaker 3: talking to all the people, having a great time. They
Speaker 3: asked me if I wanted soda water. So I had
Speaker 3: a soda water. Jared had a soda water. We're hanging out.
Speaker 3: I'm entertaining everyone, talking about the radio show, talking about
Speaker 3: the podcast, having a great time. Figuring that the sax
Speaker 3: thing is going to be three minutes. So now I'm
Speaker 3: getting hungry, said them, you got any cookies. The next
Speaker 3: thing we know, we have soda water with ice. We're
Speaker 3: eating cookies and two portions well having the greatest time
Speaker 3: at all. Anyway, it took forty five minutes to an hour.
Speaker 3: It should have taken ten minutes. They finally brought the
Speaker 3: jacket in. Jared tried and on fit him perfectly. He
Speaker 3: wasn't sure. He tried the forty eight, On tried the
Speaker 3: forty six. The very cool seller there, guy who's I
Speaker 3: think also the buyer for the store, came back and said,
Speaker 3: this is the one that fits you. You gotta take the
Speaker 3: forty six. And we got the forty six. But in
Speaker 3: the end, the funny part of the story is it's
Speaker 3: about service when you're working in a store that costs.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you. When I was younger could buy
Speaker 3: a car full at that jacket cost. And in the
Speaker 3: end we were pretty good customer that day because we
Speaker 3: bought it. And the guy says to his boss, yeah,
Speaker 3: they wanted this jacket. I made it happen. I just
Speaker 3: took care of it. And I almost fainted when he
Speaker 3: said it because it was my job. Am I lying
Speaker 3: jarn or telling it the way?
Speaker 4: It is success as many fathers, but failure as an orphan.
Speaker 4: I will tell you, hands down, you made this happen.
Speaker 4: If it was left to this salesman, he would have
Speaker 4: had the jacket delivered the next day or the following week,
Speaker 4: and potentially would have lost the sale because we would
Speaker 4: have gone to some other stores and maybe I lost interest.
Speaker 4: So one, you got the jacket that I loved, and
Speaker 4: thank you. And two a big sale for the Brunello
Speaker 4: Cucinelli team thanks to Mark Phillips Weber.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think to a great extent they all
Speaker 3: learned the lesson. But my favorite part of all we're
Speaker 3: leaving the store. There was this guy there, they must
Speaker 3: have been the bodyguard, and he looks at me and said,
Speaker 3: I had a great time. This was a movie. I
Speaker 3: watched this. I can believe what you guys were doing.
Speaker 3: Thanks for coming in. I'll leave it like that. We'll
Speaker 3: take a break. When we come back, maybe a little
Speaker 3: more about our staycation. I think you'll enjoy hanging there.
Speaker 3: Back in a moment.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to it.
Speaker 1: Always in fashion, here's your host, Mark Webber of.
Speaker 3: All things this summer, I finally took a vacation, but
Speaker 3: I did something different. I took a staycation. What's a staycation?
Speaker 3: We stayed at home and had a great time doing
Speaker 3: whatever it is we would do by staying at home
Speaker 3: rather than getting on a plane, packing our luggage and
Speaker 3: going somewhere exotic. Fortunately my oldest son was free. We
Speaker 3: love hanging out together. We decided to take a staycation
Speaker 3: based in our houses. We would drive to various different things,
Speaker 3: do different things, us opened Yankees and playing a lot
Speaker 3: of golf in different golf courses. And it was a
Speaker 3: remarkable time and we spent eight days doing it. As
Speaker 3: it turns out, Jesse right now is in Italy having
Speaker 3: a great time of it. He can't be here. He
Speaker 3: went and decided not to be with us, that trader.
Speaker 3: He went with his young wife to Italy. So number
Speaker 3: one son, Jared, my firstborn, is here with me. Before
Speaker 3: we get into it, I realized, Jared, I didn't introduce you,
Speaker 3: but I want to do it minute. I want to
Speaker 3: talk about titles. What is your title?
Speaker 4: I am the global president of Sports and Lifestyle at
Speaker 4: Authentic Brands Group.
Speaker 3: That's great. You know you at your age are doing
Speaker 3: better than I did in my age, and I'm very
Speaker 3: very proud of you, and I'm very excited, and you're
Speaker 3: with an amazing company that's involved in so many things,
Speaker 3: and I'm really happy about it. But I was talking
Speaker 3: politics before being re talking presidents and talking about it's
Speaker 3: becoming a popularity contest. It's all about publicity. It isn't
Speaker 3: about anything of substance, which I don't understand. You can
Speaker 3: comment politically of a point of view on it.
Speaker 4: I don't want to comment politically. I have different points
Speaker 4: of view on different issues, whether it's social issues some
Speaker 4: of the great points the Democrats have, or economic issues
Speaker 4: that the Republicans have, So I'd rather not get into it.
Speaker 4: What I will tell you is, if we want to
Speaker 4: talk about golf and which candidate runs a better golf
Speaker 4: facility that we could have a serious conversation.
Speaker 3: About, all right, let's do it. That's what got me
Speaker 3: working on this. We went to Trump golf and Bedminster,
Speaker 3: that's his home base when he's in New Jersey. What
Speaker 3: did you think about it, Jared, Well.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you like this. You and I have
Speaker 4: avid golfers. We've been playing for the last twenty eight
Speaker 4: thirty years. Whatever it is, and I will tell you unequivocally,
Speaker 4: pulling into President Trump's golf facility is a golfer's paradise.
Speaker 4: It's nothing short of spectacular. Every attention to detail. We're
Speaker 4: talking about not only the golf course and the facility
Speaker 4: and the greens and the fairways, but the food that
Speaker 4: they pick for the halfway house or the main dining
Speaker 4: room or the locker room. If there's a golfing paradise,
Speaker 4: so to speak. Trump figured out how to do it,
Speaker 4: and Bedminster is one of those courses. It is executed
Speaker 4: to absolute perfection.
Speaker 3: So you know what it tells me when we're talking
Speaker 3: about these candidates, both of them have records. Why don't
Speaker 3: we just deal with the real issue. Why don't we
Speaker 3: put aside whether Trump is the nice guy or not,
Speaker 3: or whether he could be obnoxious or not. Certainly wasn't
Speaker 3: obnoxious when they shot him in the He was a champion,
Speaker 3: he was a world leader. He was unbelievably American hero.
Speaker 3: But all of that assigned Kamala Harris. She might be
Speaker 3: a wonderful person, but there's a record there. Everything that
Speaker 3: she's ever stood for is the most left left left
Speaker 3: ever of anyone who ever ran for office. Is that
Speaker 3: what we really want? Because she's popular, she's better looking
Speaker 3: than he is, she has a better smile. I like
Speaker 3: a personality better. I also, I wouldn't change for a second.
Speaker 4: I also would say, interestingly enough, a great way to
Speaker 4: tell is how you operate your businesses, how you could
Speaker 4: operate as a president. And I would say it would
Speaker 4: be very difficult feat for Biden or Kamala in this
Speaker 4: instance to put together a better golf facility than Trump.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're looking at Biden and his record,
Speaker 4: just Biden, not the Democrats. I don't even know if
Speaker 4: they could figure out how to put eighteen holes on
Speaker 4: the course, they might have twelve holes, a broken golf cart,
Speaker 4: alcohol wouldn't be able to be certain. Who knows the
Speaker 4: mistakes they'd make. But if you look at it solely
Speaker 4: from a business perspective, I don't know how you trump
Speaker 4: Trump when it comes to golf. And that was a
Speaker 4: good indication for me. If someone could run the country
Speaker 4: the way he runs golf course, it's pretty spectacular. But again,
Speaker 4: I'm not here to talk from a political standpoint. I
Speaker 4: see both sides of the aisle.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't, but right now I've picked a side
Speaker 3: because I want to go back to the days when
Speaker 3: Trump is running the country. Not the things he said
Speaker 3: they gets him self in trouble, not the stupid things.
Speaker 3: But bottom line, he knows how to run a golf course.
Speaker 3: His buildings are all impeccable, They're all quality. And I
Speaker 3: know him. He was my licensee. I borrowed his name
Speaker 3: for dress shirts and sportswear and ties and suits, and
Speaker 3: he was a great guy to work with. So I'm
Speaker 3: not here to endorse Trump, but I am here to say, America,
Speaker 3: why are we making these decisions? I mean, overnight, Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris got seventy million million people on her side just
Speaker 3: because she's a Democrat. Is that how we want to
Speaker 3: run the country going forward? I just don't get it.
Speaker 3: But whatever it is, As I said before, whoever is
Speaker 3: the president is my president. I'll respect them, and I
Speaker 3: will love them, and I will try and do everything
Speaker 3: I personally can to make them successful. I am so
Speaker 3: sick of listening to Fox News talk about all the
Speaker 3: problems in the country and what a rotten candidate Biden
Speaker 3: was and a rotten president, even if it's true, I'm
Speaker 3: sick of it. I want to get to a point
Speaker 3: where we tell the news the way it is. We
Speaker 3: either do things right or we do things wrong. No
Speaker 3: more politics. Wow, I'm getting worked up over this. I
Speaker 3: don't want them. I'm going to stay vacation. I'm still relaxed.
Speaker 3: Which brings me back to your title, Jared, your global
Speaker 3: president of Authentic or Authentic Grand Group. You own a
Speaker 3: million different brands, big company worth about thirty billion dollars
Speaker 3: in retail. Big company, got a big title. How important
Speaker 3: is your title to you?
Speaker 4: The simple answer is, anyone in business, or anyone more
Speaker 4: accurately in business that's successful, has an ego you have
Speaker 4: to and titles play to that ego. But more importantly
Speaker 4: than that is titles are representation internally of the chain
Speaker 4: of command, but even more so important externally. People want
Speaker 4: to know who they're negotiating with. Are they the decision
Speaker 4: maker or are they the ultimate decision maker? And having
Speaker 4: a senior title gives you a very important presence in
Speaker 4: the outside world, whether you're negotiating with retailers, licensees, partners,
Speaker 4: joint venture, interested parties, whatever the case may be, having
Speaker 4: an important title is important as you're consummating deals in
Speaker 4: negotiating in business. Why are you asking about titles? What's
Speaker 4: the curiosity there?
Speaker 3: Interesting enough? You know? When we were on a staycation,
Speaker 3: we played golf a couple of times with one of
Speaker 3: my old friends, great guy who I really admire, I
Speaker 3: love hanging out with and you like him too, Michael Kelly.
Speaker 3: He used to work with me at van Usen. Actually
Speaker 3: he reported to me as the head of Mark and E.
Speaker 3: We got in talking about people and what happened to
Speaker 3: van Usen after I left and after a new CEO
Speaker 3: came in not too long ago, and we started talking
Speaker 3: about it. But it reminded me of a very important
Speaker 3: story about titles. I care about titles. I care about
Speaker 3: them because when I began working, I looked across the
Speaker 3: table at me that the people who were making the
Speaker 3: decisions were so important to the future of the company.
Speaker 3: And there was often times that people sitting across the
Speaker 3: table for me didn't impress me. I didn't agree with
Speaker 3: that they say, and I believe that I would do
Speaker 3: a better job, maybe the right thing, maybe put the
Speaker 3: company in a better direction. I worked incredibly hard, sure
Speaker 3: for compensation, but also for the right to manage the
Speaker 3: company the way I thought it should be managed, and
Speaker 3: I really cared about becoming the president. I really clard.
Speaker 3: I was a young president, thirty four years old. I
Speaker 3: was president of the largest division in the company. And
Speaker 3: fast forward twenty years later, I become the president of
Speaker 3: the Phillips Venues and Corporation, of the public entity. I
Speaker 3: sat on the board. I had a board title. It
Speaker 3: meant the world to me to have that title. And
Speaker 3: there was a period in time that I hadn't gone
Speaker 3: to Asia in quite some time. And at that time
Speaker 3: in the company, we owned Calvin Klein, we owned a
Speaker 3: bunch of other brands, and we were becoming extraordinarily important globally,
Speaker 3: and I was asked to make a trip to China
Speaker 3: to meet with a series of people that were important
Speaker 3: to the future. Landlords, property owners, people that were in
Speaker 3: the public sector that wanted to meet me and hear me.
Speaker 3: And my first night in han Chaw in China, there
Speaker 3: was a banquet dinner held in my honor. I'll never
Speaker 3: forget we went to this dinner. I shook a lot
Speaker 3: of people's hands. I was friendly to all. I was
Speaker 3: mister outside as much as I liked being an introvert,
Speaker 3: much as I liked being a recluse. When I go
Speaker 3: to company functions, I have to be the outside guy,
Speaker 3: and I have to be my charming self when I
Speaker 3: want to be, and I had to hold the rank
Speaker 3: of president with dignity. I wore a gray flannels. I
Speaker 3: wore a gray hoisted suit. I look great. Everyone else
Speaker 3: was dressed casually, but I looked more of the part.
Speaker 3: I wanted to look presidential. I went over to one
Speaker 3: of the delegations from China. They was sitting around the table,
Speaker 3: and I introduced myself. There was about eight of them.
Speaker 3: I shook their hands. They were from the government of China. Frankly,
Speaker 3: I could see when talking to them. We'll call it confusion.
Speaker 3: Something was going on. So I happened to work with
Speaker 3: a great guy. His name was Tony Wong. He was
Speaker 3: the head of our foreign office in Hong Kong. And
Speaker 3: I said, Tony, something doesn't feel right here. What's going on?
Speaker 3: He says, let me talk to them. Takes about five minutes.
Speaker 3: He comes over to me. He says, they're confused. I said,
Speaker 3: what are they confused about? They said, they already met
Speaker 3: the president of Phillips van Usen. They want to know
Speaker 3: who you are, I said, how could that be? He says,
Speaker 3: I don't know, let me go back. So he goes
Speaker 3: back and he starts to talk to them, and then
Speaker 3: he comes back with this woman's business card. Turns out
Speaker 3: the woman's name was Ellen Constantinedis, who was an amazing woman.
Speaker 3: I loved her, but I didn't love what I was
Speaker 3: looking at. And I looked at her business card and
Speaker 3: really what she was. She was the president of the
Speaker 3: dress shirt division of the van Using Company, which was
Speaker 3: one of many many divisions we had in the company.
Speaker 3: There was eyes, there was gant, There was so many
Speaker 3: different entities that we owned, including Calvin Client. She was
Speaker 3: the president of one of them, albeit an important one,
Speaker 3: the Vanels and Dresser. But when I looked at a
Speaker 3: business card, it said Ellen Constantinidis President, and instead of
Speaker 3: saying division president or president van Using Company, it said
Speaker 3: Phillips Vanusen. So in theory, she was passing off a
Speaker 3: card with my title. She presented herself as as she
Speaker 3: was the president of the company. So I explained to Tony,
Speaker 3: please explain to them who Ellen is, and that they're
Speaker 3: mistaken that she doesn't make corporate decisions. She makes decisions
Speaker 3: based on dress shirts and dress shirts alone, and I,
Speaker 3: in fact, I'm the president of corporation and anything they
Speaker 3: want to discuss on a corporate matter now or in
Speaker 3: the future, I'm prepared to meet with them. But they
Speaker 3: were mistaken and he went back. So not only was
Speaker 3: I embarrassed, I was personally affronted. Maybe a little ego,
Speaker 3: but it bothered me that here I am showing up
Speaker 3: on behalf of the company as the corporate president and
Speaker 3: being relegated to who is this guy at the break?
Speaker 3: It's now nine to thirty at night. It's nine thirty
Speaker 3: in the morning. Back in New York. I called the
Speaker 3: head of human resources and I said, I'm about to
Speaker 3: send you a picture of something. I was embarrassed. The
Speaker 3: company was embarrassed. I want you to see it. So
Speaker 3: I took a picture of a card, sent it to
Speaker 3: him and I said, read the card. Does this strike
Speaker 3: you as unusual? And he looks at me and he says,
Speaker 3: help me, here, what am I looking at? I said,
Speaker 3: I was introduced tonight at a banquet dinner as the
Speaker 3: president of Phillips van Using. And they all told me
Speaker 3: they were he met the president that it was Ellen.
Speaker 3: Look at the card he says, you're right, it's not
Speaker 3: in company policy. It doesn't mention the van using company.
Speaker 3: I can't believe her card was done this way. I
Speaker 3: don't know who did it. I don't know why they
Speaker 3: did it. I certainly didn't do it through HR. Let
Speaker 3: me come back to you, I said, I'm not coming
Speaker 3: back to him hanging on the phone. Walk into the
Speaker 3: division and find out who made the card. They come
Speaker 3: back to me and say she made her own card,
Speaker 3: she didn't use us, even though that's company policy. So
Speaker 3: I said, here's what I want you to do. I
Speaker 3: want you to make up her business cards. She said, no,
Speaker 3: we already have them. I said, here's what I want
Speaker 3: you to do. She gets in at nine point fifteen.
Speaker 3: I want you to walk down to her office and
Speaker 3: asked her to take out all her business cards. I
Speaker 3: want you to confiscate all her business cards, and I
Speaker 3: want you to hand her the proper business card and
Speaker 3: tell her that she not only pissed off the president
Speaker 3: of Phillips van using, she created an uncomfortable position and
Speaker 3: a China banquet, did it tonight by representing herself incorrectly
Speaker 3: in the company. And let her know that when I
Speaker 3: come back next week. I expect to see my eye
Speaker 3: office when she comes in that Monday. So yeah, titles matter.
Speaker 3: I know for me, it's important. You know why I
Speaker 3: earned it the hard way I work for it. We'll
Speaker 3: take a break back in a minute.
Speaker 2: Always in Fashion.
Speaker 3: Spent a lifetime of my career building the van Usen brand,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber.
Speaker 3: This week, I did something unconventional. I said, I did something.
Speaker 3: I'm with my son Jared Tonight, my eldest son. We
Speaker 3: did something different. We didn't take a vacation this year.
Speaker 3: We took us staycation. We didn't go anywhere exotic. We
Speaker 3: stayed home. We drove where we needed to go. We
Speaker 3: played a lot of golf, We visited with the Yankees.
Speaker 3: We visited the US Open. We had an amazing time
Speaker 3: taking a vacation from home. This show tonight is called
Speaker 3: Staycation before I Go Anywhere. Hey, Jared, what'd you think
Speaker 3: of the Yankees this year? You enjoying watching them?
Speaker 4: I'm having a great time. More immediately, one of the
Speaker 4: great things Reebok has done this year has done a
Speaker 4: sponsorship with the New York Yankees. And we have a
Speaker 4: billboard over right center field, So every time Aaron Judge
Speaker 4: catches a ball or hits a home run, Reebok's got
Speaker 4: prominent signage right there. And it's been great and we've
Speaker 4: used it as a great means to entertain some retailers
Speaker 4: and clients. So all in all, it's been a fantastic
Speaker 4: run with Reebok and the Yankees, and the Yankees are
Speaker 4: having a good year, so exciting all around.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We also went to the US Open. We saw
Speaker 3: what's his name.
Speaker 4: Play, Carlos Alcarez, the fantastic Spaniard with four, if I
Speaker 4: recall correctly, four major championships. He was the real deal
Speaker 4: and he played fantastic.
Speaker 3: He has some great arms, But I am not a
Speaker 3: fan of the tank tops. That they're playing. In fact,
Speaker 3: I'm shocked at the way tennis players address these days.
Speaker 3: I don't want to sound like an old fuddy duddy,
Speaker 3: but I don't like breaking conventions everywhere. There's some integrity
Speaker 3: involved in these things. Wimbledon is all white. There's something
Speaker 3: about it. There's a way to do things. What do
Speaker 3: you think?
Speaker 4: I agree with you. I think there's dress codes and
Speaker 4: they should be adhere to. You've done a number of
Speaker 4: shows correctly so on black tie and the importance to
Speaker 4: adhering to that. People's own style and fashion can come through,
Speaker 4: but you have to stick within the confines of what
Speaker 4: the dress codes are. And I particularly don't like people
Speaker 4: showing up on the tennis courts at the US Open
Speaker 4: dressed like they're going to a workout class. It's not
Speaker 4: appealing to me, and I think it takes the sport down.
Speaker 4: I believe in bringing things up and not bringing them down,
Speaker 4: and that's one of the disappointments. Now, you're right, Carlos
Speaker 4: is a great shape, looks fantastic, but that's not for
Speaker 4: him to dress that way.
Speaker 3: Not aside. Here's the thing I was thinking about. Because
Speaker 3: we took a staycation, we didn't deal with some of
Speaker 3: the things that people have. We weren't on airplanes, which
Speaker 3: to this day, if I live to be a million
Speaker 3: years old, I'll never understand how airplanes fly or how
Speaker 3: anyone figured that out. We didn't go to any glamorous
Speaker 3: hotels because we stayed at home. But nonetheless, when you
Speaker 3: see how well this country works, it's one of those
Speaker 3: times to count our blessings. I believe in the quote
Speaker 3: one of the hardest arithmetics to master is that a
Speaker 3: rhythmet tic that enables you to count your blessings. And
Speaker 3: I started thinking about the inventions that were in place
Speaker 3: to allow us to take a vacation from home. First
Speaker 3: and foremost, Jared, you were on vacation, but you never
Speaker 3: stop working. You always were in contact. And the whole
Speaker 3: subject of your cell phone computer was amazing. Where would
Speaker 3: you have been without that?
Speaker 4: I think happy?
Speaker 3: Why couldn't you take a vacation and take a vacation.
Speaker 4: You know, It's funny. The higher you grow within a company,
Speaker 4: the more people look to you to make decisions. And
Speaker 4: although companies should be well oiled machines and run without
Speaker 4: key executives, at the end of the day, things still
Speaker 4: continuing you have to be engaged and involved, otherwise it'll
Speaker 4: slow down during that week. And if you have important
Speaker 4: deals going on or important decisions to be made, you
Speaker 4: can't stall the machines. So with that as a backdrop,
Speaker 4: although oh I was on vacation, I couldn't disengage, and
Speaker 4: I had the opportunity or more accurately, had the responsibility
Speaker 4: to make sure that things continued and stayed the course.
Speaker 4: Now with that said, I use my birthday, the one
Speaker 4: day on a Monday, the opportunity to disengage, turn off
Speaker 4: my phone, and it was fantastic being able to just
Speaker 4: look at the trees, the leaves, spend time with my
Speaker 4: little ones, with my wife, and just enjoy nature and
Speaker 4: not although I was thinking about work, not actually engaging
Speaker 4: with work. And that was a rewarding experience for a
Speaker 4: twenty four hour period, and I like to afford myself
Speaker 4: that opportunity if time permits.
Speaker 2: For my birthday.
Speaker 3: We tend to take for granted the iPhone or any
Speaker 3: cell phone, and it's an amazing, amazing adventure. I know
Speaker 3: for me, the ability to use credit card from your
Speaker 3: phone buy anything you want anywhere in the world is
Speaker 3: pretty amazing. But you know. One of my favorite inventions
Speaker 3: was GPS going to and from Bedminston, New Jersey, which
Speaker 3: to me, I'm not sure it's part of the United States.
Speaker 3: It was so far away, it took so long. I
Speaker 3: think it was seventy four miles. But to get there, yeah, unmolested, easy,
Speaker 3: without a thought process. How crazy and amazing is that?
Speaker 4: It's absolutely amazing. Google Maps is a fantastic invention because
Speaker 4: not only do they tell you how to get to
Speaker 4: the destination, but they factor in traffic patterns, They factor
Speaker 4: in whether or not police are there, and to make
Speaker 4: sure you monitor your speed limit. The same time, they're
Speaker 4: factoring in accidents, so they figure out the best possible
Speaker 4: route to not only get you there, but get you
Speaker 4: there in the quickest amount of time possible. That's an
Speaker 4: amazing invention.
Speaker 3: Really amazing because in the past, who knows how anybody
Speaker 3: got anywhere. It's so simple. But you know what else
Speaker 3: is one of my favorite inventions we don't think about.
Speaker 3: We take for granted air conditioning. How hot is it
Speaker 3: the other day it was one hundred and four degrees
Speaker 3: and air conditioning is so cool, which, by the way,
Speaker 3: leads me to ice. I don't know about the rest
Speaker 3: of the world. But I am an expert on the
Speaker 3: ice ratio and drinks. How much liquid you have to
Speaker 3: have to the ice to have the perfect drink. I
Speaker 3: think air conditioning ice are two of the greatest inventions ever.
Speaker 3: And while I'm at it, you think about this country
Speaker 3: every day. The electricity's turned on every day, the senitivation
Speaker 3: works every day, lights come on. Everything works. We have
Speaker 3: food no matter where we went on vacation, delicious food
Speaker 3: and there's plenty of it. You drink, the drinks are safe.
Speaker 3: You can drink anything you want. Everything is great. The
Speaker 3: Internet allows you to connect to anywhere in the world.
Speaker 3: Golf carts is wom you from here to there. I'm
Speaker 3: amazed at these things that took place that I started
Speaker 3: to think about on our staycation. Let alone, Let's not
Speaker 3: forget a car once again. I'll never understand how an
Speaker 3: airplane flies or car drives, but it took us everywhere
Speaker 3: on time, quickly and safely. Amazing adventures. So all said
Speaker 3: and done, Jared and I are staycation, had an incredible
Speaker 3: time and we really enjoyed what we were doing. Now,
Speaker 3: before I leave this conversation, there's a couple of other
Speaker 3: things that I want to point out that I saw.
Speaker 3: We had a birthday dinner one of the nights at
Speaker 3: a restaurant called Porterhouse. Porterhouses in the time war to Center.
Speaker 3: It's one of our favorite restaurants. Who loved the food,
Speaker 3: loved the atmosphere. One of the people for the event
Speaker 3: brought a birthday cake that they had taken to the
Speaker 3: back room that we would cut and serve to everybody there.
Speaker 3: We had a custom made cake. At the end of
Speaker 3: the night, when they handed me the bill, they charged
Speaker 3: us ten dollars for person to cut the cake. Now
Speaker 3: I knew that that was their policy, and I'm okay
Speaker 3: with it, except dinner was fourteen hundred dollars. So for
Speaker 3: a fourteen hundred dollars to charge me ten dollars a
Speaker 3: piece to cut a cake for me and put in
Speaker 3: a plate, shame on you, Porterhouse. I love you, but
Speaker 3: shame on you. Then, while I'm at it, I had
Speaker 3: another problem this week that got by me until I
Speaker 3: listened to the show. I ran a replica show, a
Speaker 3: show that we had run once before because I was
Speaker 3: on vacation, called face to face. People are losing their
Speaker 3: ability to communicate, and I talked about how important it
Speaker 3: is to meet people face to face, look them in
Speaker 3: the eyes, and have negotiation. I turned on the podcast
Speaker 3: and to my shock, someone inserted commercials throughout the show
Speaker 3: that didn't have the right to do it. And not
Speaker 3: only did they shove the commercials in the beginning of
Speaker 3: the show, they shoved them throughout the show, often interrupting
Speaker 3: the dialogue. They didn't even put them in the space
Speaker 3: it was allocated. Nobody in the network knew this happened
Speaker 3: except for me. I called them up, raving at them.
Speaker 3: How could this happen? First of all, nothing happens I
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to it Always in fashion. Here's your host,
Speaker 1: Mark webber.
Speaker 3: Tonight's show is Staycation. I took an unusual twist. On
Speaker 3: a summer vacation with my son Jared. We decided to
Speaker 3: stay home and enjoy the neighborhood, and the neighborhood in
Speaker 3: this case meant Long Island, New York City, the New
Speaker 3: York Yankees in the Bronx, some golf in New Jersey.
Speaker 3: A remarkable time. Give me a chance to count my blessings.
Speaker 3: This is an amazing country. Everything works, everything is good.
Speaker 3: We need to make sure we keep it like that
Speaker 3: by voting hopefully for the right people. And now, as
Speaker 3: I said before, I'll support any president. I just want
Speaker 3: the truth. I want people to make the decisions on
Speaker 3: who to elect, not on personality, not on historic decisions
Speaker 3: on who can be the best president in the years
Speaker 3: to come, who will do the most of the country.
Speaker 3: But that is a backdrop. Before I leave, Jared, how
Speaker 3: did you enjoy the staycation and did you like being
Speaker 3: on the show?
Speaker 4: I love being on the show.
Speaker 1: Jesse.
Speaker 4: If you move your feet, you lose your seat. If
Speaker 4: you keep going at this course and keep taking more vacations,
Speaker 4: I'm going to fill in. I'm getting very comfortable in
Speaker 4: this seat. I had a great staycation with you, Daddy.
Speaker 4: It's always a pleasure, great times all around and great
Speaker 4: memories with that as a backdrop. Number one son sign
Speaker 4: it off, love you.
Speaker 3: What can I say? My children like spending time with
Speaker 3: me priceless. Good Night,