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Speaker 3: people working in the service sector not trying. I just
Speaker 3: can't stand robots who aren't trying properly. I can't stand anything.
Speaker 3: And with that as a backdrop, I want to go
Speaker 3: tonight to the art of trying. From no dys from
Speaker 3: not to doing life, business, whatever, it is. You cannot
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Speaker 3: Anything making you crazy this week? Jesse?
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, it is. Can we talk about tariffs? Let
Speaker 4: me tell you.
Speaker 3: Something right out of the box, huh.
Speaker 4: I have to tell you this is the biggest story
Speaker 4: that is taking not just the media world but all
Speaker 4: of us by storm. You know you have been a
Speaker 4: chief cheerleader for the Donald Trump administration. Okay, this is
Speaker 4: one I don't quite understand. And I tell you, the
Speaker 4: responses we're getting from the White House and Republicans doesn't
Speaker 4: reassure us. I can't tell whether or not this is
Speaker 4: still being used as a negotiating tool that is only
Speaker 4: going to be temporarily used, or really they believe this
Speaker 4: is in the best interest of the country as a
Speaker 4: way to spur innovation in the American market and bring
Speaker 4: jobs back here and buy American maid when that may
Speaker 4: take several years to actually go into work. When it
Speaker 4: seems all we're doing is creating trade wars with their
Speaker 4: allies and Americans are they're a cost of living is
Speaker 4: going to go up and people are freaking out. I
Speaker 4: need you somebody who's not a politician, Somebody is not
Speaker 4: a mediahead, not a political pundit, somebody who knows business,
Speaker 4: knows the economy, knows finance. Explain to me any silver lining,
Speaker 4: any benefit of this idea of tariffs, because all that
Speaker 4: I can see with the markets going crazy is this
Speaker 4: is a disaster and there's pot that Trump is going
Speaker 4: to implode his presidency by doing this. Can you tell
Speaker 4: me I'm not to jump off the ledge right now?
Speaker 3: Wow, that's quite a responsibility of putting on my shoulders.
Speaker 3: I do understand. I think where we are right now,
Speaker 3: and let's get into it a moment. Now, you're the lawyer.
Speaker 3: Do you know under what trade position the government has
Speaker 3: for him to enable all of these tariffs.
Speaker 4: Like, what's the legal ability for it? I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Well, let me stop by teaching you. Okay, it's under
Speaker 3: the auspices of national security in any way that it's
Speaker 3: jeopardizing the national security of the United States. The president
Speaker 3: has the ability to step in and levy tariffs on
Speaker 3: anyone in anywhere he wants, So let's just put that
Speaker 3: off to his side. And I would say to you
Speaker 3: that the first thing we have to consider is COVID.
Speaker 3: Do you remember what we learned during COVID.
Speaker 4: That the world can be go from one to eighty
Speaker 4: in a second, and that we didn't know what was
Speaker 4: going on and we were all based on misinformation. No,
Speaker 4: I guess that the world could shut down. The world
Speaker 4: can shut down in a second.
Speaker 3: No, I guess what I'm referring to is the issue
Speaker 3: of tariffs. And that's where we want to begin this
Speaker 3: conversation by saying to you, during COVID, we learned that
Speaker 3: we couldn't provide antibiotics to our country, that all the
Speaker 3: antibiotics needed in this country are imported. So therefore, if
Speaker 3: we were at war, we were the country that didn't
Speaker 3: want to supply us antibiotics anymore. We get sick and die.
Speaker 3: So it was learned in COVID, and the discussions became
Speaker 3: more rigorous that there are many things that we don't
Speaker 3: have that we need and why because our executives and
Speaker 3: our politicians allowed us to outsource these categories in the
Speaker 3: want of simplicity, lower prices, and without having the headaches
Speaker 3: of manufacturing these things. It's crazy to find out that
Speaker 3: we can't control our own destiny. Now, having said it,
Speaker 3: take a moment to think how important computers are. My
Speaker 3: WiFi went down to my house. I talked about a
Speaker 3: little while I was lost darkness. I was in the
Speaker 3: Middle Ages. All the chips are being made in Taiwan.
Speaker 3: We used to be the chip maker of the world
Speaker 3: Silicon Valley. Besides ideas, we were manufacturers. We made everything.
Speaker 3: We no longer do we let it become outsourced. So
Speaker 3: I would say to you those two things alone. But
Speaker 3: being that the name of the show is always in fashion,
Speaker 3: if we didn't import fashion clothes, we'd all be walking
Speaker 3: around naked. There's not enough capacity in the United States
Speaker 3: to put clothes on all our people. So the first
Speaker 3: thing you'll have to say is that during the period
Speaker 3: of COVID, we learned that we're no longer prepared as
Speaker 3: a country. And Donald Trump and everyone else tried to
Speaker 3: get back into manufacturing those things that are essential to
Speaker 3: the United States. We're not there yet. And if if
Speaker 3: we deployed tariffs in order to build industry back here
Speaker 3: or to courage those people advisor all these companies we
Speaker 3: have here to manufacture these things in the United States
Speaker 3: to protect national security, directly, I'd applaud it. I think
Speaker 3: it's the right thing to do, and I think America
Speaker 3: would understand. And if we had to subsidize these industries
Speaker 3: because they couldn't even make money making and manufacturing antibiotics,
Speaker 3: then I would think it'd be a good idea to
Speaker 3: take some of that money. Then Elon Musk, thank god,
Speaker 3: Elon Musk, is finding it and use it to supplement
Speaker 3: whatever is needed to make drugs, to make clothes, to
Speaker 3: make chips. So that's where I start. Then the question
Speaker 3: how am I doing so far? Jess are you following?
Speaker 4: Well, well I do, But when is I get where
Speaker 4: you're going with that? I get it? But how again,
Speaker 4: do you think that tariffs right now are going to
Speaker 4: create fix that problem in the immediate future, in the
Speaker 4: next five years? I get, I'm going, I'm going okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: I wanted to take the broad view and say those
Speaker 3: things because every tariff that's being deployed right now is
Speaker 3: under the auspices of national security. Okay, putting taxes on
Speaker 3: shoes is not national security. So I wanted to put
Speaker 3: that in perspective. If in fact, by leveraging these taxes
Speaker 3: by forcing Taiwan or any of these outside bakers or
Speaker 3: helping us drug makers to make those essentials that we
Speaker 3: need as a country. I'm imploding and agreeing with taxation,
Speaker 3: whether this is the best way to do it. There
Speaker 3: are other people who need to tell us that. Now,
Speaker 3: having said that, here's the second part of all of this.
Speaker 3: I'd like to believe that those people in Washington who
Speaker 3: are advising the President to levy taxes on all these
Speaker 3: people understand the issue of unintended consequences. This is something
Speaker 3: we've talked about before. You've mentioned it. I think recently
Speaker 3: one of the shows picture a body of water. You're
Speaker 3: standing there and you throw a pebble in the water.
Speaker 3: The minute of the pebble hits the water, it starts
Speaker 3: making ripples. But at the same time the pebble disappears,
Speaker 3: but the ripples go on and on and on. The
Speaker 3: question is raising taxes have we thought through the ripples?
Speaker 3: Have we thought to what we're really creating here? And
Speaker 3: I'll give you an example. I can tell you uncategorically
Speaker 3: right now that all the taxes that are being levied
Speaker 3: on shoes and foot wear from people overseas, on all
Speaker 3: the apparel products and T shirts and sweaters and suits
Speaker 3: is crazy because we do not have the capacity to
Speaker 3: make those things here now if you really want to
Speaker 3: do it, and I wouldn't support it because we're a
Speaker 3: we're not a low wage country. I'd rather see our
Speaker 3: workers making automobiles where we can afford to pay them
Speaker 3: fifteen or twenty dollars an hour, not seven dollars an hour.
Speaker 3: I want to see industries like chip making or phone
Speaker 3: making where we can play American people because our standard
Speaker 3: of living is better than the rest of the world.
Speaker 3: What we pay them in a minimum wage, what we
Speaker 3: pay for all the necessary side effects, what do we
Speaker 3: call them? Government additives, Medicare, social Security, healthcare, et cetera,
Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. These things cost money, and the
Speaker 3: apparel sector does not have the ability to support this.
Speaker 3: I was in the shirt business twenty years ago. A
Speaker 3: designer shirt out the door would sell at twenty five
Speaker 3: ninety nine. If you ask me right now what a
Speaker 3: designer shirt would sell out the door. Out the door
Speaker 3: means on sale, it's twenty five ninety nine. There is
Speaker 3: no inflation, there's no room to take it up. The
Speaker 3: parel sector has always been limited except to the greats.
Speaker 3: If you want to be Dior, you want to be Fendi,
Speaker 3: or you want to be any of these great luxury compans,
Speaker 3: they can sell it whatever they want. So why are
Speaker 3: we protecting everything across the board? And I'm going there
Speaker 3: right now. There are three things that I think the president. Well,
Speaker 3: before I go, Jesse, you want to ask me a question?
Speaker 3: Am I doing?
Speaker 1: Okay for you?
Speaker 4: So just so we all are clear, you think this
Speaker 4: is a good thing.
Speaker 3: No, I just said it doesn't make sense in.
Speaker 4: Apparel, Okay, Okay, keep going.
Speaker 3: First of all, there's a trade imbalance. Okay, So if
Speaker 3: you want to levy tariffs because of a trade imbalance,
Speaker 3: I think I understand it. If I'm buying five hundred
Speaker 3: billion dollars from Indonesia to import goods, I would like
Speaker 3: Indonesia to buy five hundred billion dollars worth of goods
Speaker 3: from US. I've talked about this ad infinitem. There's a
Speaker 3: question that comes. We are a huge country, We're a
Speaker 3: wealthy country. We could afford to buy tons and tons
Speaker 3: of products five hundred billion from Indonesia. One country, Indonesia,
Speaker 3: while it's very populous, it's a poorer country. They might
Speaker 3: not have the ability to buy five hundred billion dollars
Speaker 3: a year from US. So the question is, has anybody
Speaker 3: looked at how much they're buying and asked does it
Speaker 3: make sense? Has anyone sat down with the government in
Speaker 3: Indonesia and said, we have a trade imbalance, and here
Speaker 3: are those things that we think you should buy from us,
Speaker 3: And before we le taxes on them, give them a
Speaker 3: chance to say, I'm looking at your lists on here.
Speaker 3: You have buses. You know I've been making my own
Speaker 3: buses or I've been buying my own buses from Korea.
Speaker 3: So before you level a tax on Indonesia because of
Speaker 3: trade imbalance, somebody really has to look at the numbers
Speaker 3: and see if they're realistic. Then present them with a
Speaker 3: plan and saying this is what we want from you,
Speaker 3: and way after they have a chance to study the plan,
Speaker 3: they come back and say yes or no. And if
Speaker 3: you're not happy and you understand either that they can
Speaker 3: do what we want or they can't, then you determine
Speaker 3: whether he's a tariff. So I'm worried about unintended consequences
Speaker 3: in that regard. When you talk to the first issue
Speaker 3: trade and balance, let me.
Speaker 4: Cas stop you right there. Sure do you think that
Speaker 4: this is Trump calling the bluff? I'm really going to
Speaker 4: do this. You know I'm not messing around.
Speaker 3: So you want to go to the end.
Speaker 4: You don't want the details, I will reserve all my
Speaker 4: questions for the No.
Speaker 3: I just think trying to make a pointy of tariff thing.
Speaker 3: So the first was trade and balance we talked about.
Speaker 3: Then Donald Trump is talking about reciprocal. Reciprocal is if
Speaker 3: you tax me on my exports to you, if you're
Speaker 3: making those products I'm shipping to you more expensive in
Speaker 3: your country because you're putting a tax on it, then
Speaker 3: I'm going to do it to you. Now before we
Speaker 3: go there, Jesse, if I wanted to buy white shirts
Speaker 3: made of cotton from China or any country in the world,
Speaker 3: do I import them here free of charge, no taxes?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: What it was that because you have to pay a duty?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Why? Because because we're already protecting our local industries. If
Speaker 3: you want to buy white cotton shirts and men's dress shirts,
Speaker 3: nineteen point seven percent duty is already on those products.
Speaker 3: If you want to buy mostly synthetic yoga pants for women,
Speaker 3: there's a forty nine percent tax rate. So we are
Speaker 3: already taxing. But the question is when you look at
Speaker 3: the reciprocal taxes, and I have it here, you look
Speaker 3: at these other countries. While we're imposing now with China,
Speaker 3: overall discount of reciprocal tariff, China is at sixty seven
Speaker 3: percent across the board, and we're only a thirty four percent.
Speaker 3: In the case of European Union, they're taxing us at
Speaker 3: thirty nine percent. We're only taxing them average twenty percent.
Speaker 3: In the case of Vietnam, which is an alternative now
Speaker 3: to China for production, they're taxing our products at ninety percent,
Speaker 3: while we with a new tax level is only at
Speaker 3: forty six. So if you deal with the subject of
Speaker 3: reciprocal tax there is a specific message there. Reduce the
Speaker 3: taxes that you're forcing American makers to have on products
Speaker 3: that you import in your country unfairly. We want to
Speaker 3: be able to compete fairly. So either reduce it, make
Speaker 3: it meet what we're doing, or we're going to tax
Speaker 3: you and tax you in tax and that goes under
Speaker 3: the law, not of an unintended consequences. That goes under
Speaker 3: the law. The only argument I want to be in
Speaker 3: is when the other person has an indefensal position. They
Speaker 3: can't support it. Those people can't support that. We used
Speaker 3: to try and do business in Brazil. You know what
Speaker 3: the tax on American products shipped to Brazil was at
Speaker 3: the time two hundred percent. So if I wanted to
Speaker 3: sell them sweaters or dress shirts made at van Us,
Speaker 3: they would put a two hundred percent duty on it.
Speaker 3: Why they wanted all the manufacturing for their products made
Speaker 3: in their own country. So this idea of reciprocal trade
Speaker 3: agreements is real, and Donald Trump is right. He was
Speaker 3: right on trade and balance and he's now right on
Speaker 3: reciprocal The question remains unintended consequences. This is going to
Speaker 3: raise all our prices in the United States like crazy. Now,
Speaker 3: before I go to that, I want to make a point.
Speaker 3: Did they sit down with Vietnam, Did they sit down
Speaker 3: with China? Did they sit down with the European Union
Speaker 3: and said, before I raise all my taxes on you
Speaker 3: twenty five percent, which is still less than you're charging me,
Speaker 3: I want you to look at what you're doing, and
Speaker 3: I want you to lower your trade restrictions on our
Speaker 3: government products. I don't want to be at a disadvantage.
Speaker 3: I want your consumers. I want your people making decisions
Speaker 3: to be able to buy my product. Even Steven with
Speaker 3: what you're doing, I don't know if they did that.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of countries that hasn't been a
Speaker 3: lot of time, and it really really bothers me. So
Speaker 3: I've already given you a bit of a plan. And
Speaker 3: the third part, the one I thought about that I
Speaker 3: know nobody else has said. Why I am a genius
Speaker 3: sitting here right now. And if you know Donald Trump
Speaker 3: or you know Donald Trump Junior, or anyone in government,
Speaker 3: somebody allder to call them and give them this idea.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question. I facture more automobiles here,
Speaker 3: and Donald Trump and his team are talking about the
Speaker 3: long game. What is the long game in putting up
Speaker 3: a manufacturing facility? How long are they actually making here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is there any way to do it faster? It's yours?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know the problem I have with the long game.
Speaker 3: Do you remember when Biden was justifying the support of
Speaker 3: the Ukraine at the war with Russia, whether it was
Speaker 3: right or wrong at the time. Do you remember what
Speaker 3: he said about gasoline?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: Ah, you don't.
Speaker 3: What he said was that we're going to it for
Speaker 3: a time. Have hardship because the price of oil is
Speaker 3: going to go up. I last look at the pump.
Speaker 3: I buy high test gasoline for the cars I drive.
Speaker 3: When I was under Donald Trump's presidency in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: guess was less than two fifty a gallon. It's still
Speaker 3: for a gallon all these years later. So do we
Speaker 3: have time and patience for the long game? I worry
Speaker 3: about this now. I bring you back to the question.
Speaker 3: Is there any way to make automobiles for High and
Speaker 3: Die without waiting three hundred years, three years, five years,
Speaker 3: ten years for them to put up a plan?
Speaker 4: No, I don't see it. I don't get it.
Speaker 3: Now I'm going to give you the genius of my plan.
Speaker 3: All right, private label?
Speaker 4: What do you mean private label?
Speaker 3: There's a big part of this world that's called private label.
Speaker 3: Rather than put up a factory and wait for all
Speaker 3: of that to come, here's an answer. High and Hi
Speaker 3: should come to the United States and say to General Motors,
Speaker 3: I make this truck, I make this suv, I make
Speaker 3: this car. I want you and your General Motors facility
Speaker 3: to make this for me. One hundred percent of my
Speaker 3: production is made in Korea. We're a Korean company, but
Speaker 3: because it's important to you. I want you to make
Speaker 3: twenty five percent of my automobiles for me, not with
Speaker 3: your GM nabel. I will give you orders, I will
Speaker 3: give you tech packs. I will give you everything you
Speaker 3: need to do to manufacture the same exact vehicles I am.
Speaker 3: And inside. We'll put a label manufacture joint venture between
Speaker 3: High and die in General Motors, and let's just make
Speaker 3: automobiles for them, and we will keep our own factories running.
Speaker 3: They'll land manufacturing lines. We have all the people, we
Speaker 3: have factories that are in place. We could get that
Speaker 3: up and running instantaneously. They give us the patents for
Speaker 3: the chassis, They give us the supply so they can
Speaker 3: supply the parts they're currently supplying. We can make our
Speaker 3: own and we will be making those cars overnight. We
Speaker 3: don't have to wait three and five years. We're making
Speaker 3: it with their brand for them. This happens all the time.
Speaker 3: Every time you see a pair of eyeglasses, it's licensed
Speaker 3: to an eyewear company. You're seeing Dior, Fendi, all these
Speaker 3: designer brands. Calvin Klein name it with designer sunglasses that
Speaker 3: are made by other peer it's private label. They're renting
Speaker 3: the brand let's buy and make products for them to
Speaker 3: get this trade and balance going in our favor. You
Speaker 3: need airplanes, we'll make your Korean airplanes with your name
Speaker 3: on them for you. Doesn't have to be put up
Speaker 3: a plant that it can be immediate. Now, you asked
Speaker 3: me an important question. Can we afford this what's going
Speaker 3: on right? Absolutely not. It's wrecking havoc with everyone. It's
Speaker 3: affecting every industry. Everyone is plotting to figure out how
Speaker 3: they can afford this or not. For this, there are
Speaker 3: people talking about canceling contracts, rethinking their things. Retailers don't
Speaker 3: know where to go. As I said to you twenty
Speaker 3: five years ago when I was in the shirt business,
Speaker 3: t shirts with nine to ninety nine, a men's cotton
Speaker 3: T shirt to wear, you know, under your shirt nine
Speaker 3: ninety nine. Twenty five years later, it's still nine ninety nine.
Speaker 3: There is no ability to raise prices in these commodity items. Therefore,
Speaker 3: what are we protecting this? You United States?
Speaker 1: Nothing?
Speaker 3: So we should stop and look at what it makes
Speaker 3: sense to manufacture here as the fourth part of this
Speaker 3: deal and not tax those people. So, to make a
Speaker 3: long story short, the title of tonight's show is I
Speaker 3: can't accept not trying. I applaud Trump for what he's doing.
Speaker 3: What I am scared, terrified and wondering is what is
Speaker 3: the plan? Is there a voice of reason of explaining
Speaker 3: the issues the way I'm explaining to you, are we
Speaker 3: looking at it country by country, item by item. The
Speaker 3: three or four things that I outline for you that
Speaker 3: need to be done, trade and balance, reciprocal tariffs, and
Speaker 3: a plan that we can make in a manufacturer here
Speaker 3: immediately to supply other things, not just our brands and
Speaker 3: our products. I bet you, if you really put your
Speaker 3: mind to it, American GM could make Ferraris. Look they
Speaker 3: made the movie Ferrari versus Ford. Ford could probably make
Speaker 3: Ferraris in a joint venture. Give us the tech packs,
Speaker 3: tell us what the details are, what you need to
Speaker 3: be made. We'll make some for you. Do you know
Speaker 3: that all of BMW's SUVs and made in the United
Speaker 3: States already? So I know there's reasons I think Trump
Speaker 3: trying to bring back industry here. Okay, on those essentials
Speaker 3: that are really national security oriented immediately, please.
Speaker 4: You're talking like medicines.
Speaker 3: Yes, military uniforms. Do we make allur military uniforms here?
Speaker 3: I don't even know anymore. Are all our jets and
Speaker 3: boats and planes and all the things we need for war,
Speaker 3: are they all made here? Or we're buying parts from
Speaker 3: pumpturees that we don't trust. Somebody needs to think this
Speaker 3: all through. This is wrecking havoc right now with the economy.
Speaker 3: It's wrecking havoc with the stock market, with the consumers.
Speaker 3: Nobody knows what to think. I'm talking to people in
Speaker 3: industry and they're all panic. They're talking about people going
Speaker 3: out of business, they're talking about not being able to
Speaker 3: sustain it. They're talking about some big companies, we'll have
Speaker 3: to do it. When will they interlam in it? But
Speaker 3: they're going to have to because they can't eat these
Speaker 3: price increases. The question is is it being thought out?
Speaker 3: And I hope I was giving you a clear example.
Speaker 3: Now I take your questions.
Speaker 4: This was a good idea for you about the comment.
Speaker 3: Do you believe in the Republican Party and the people
Speaker 3: that Trump has brought into.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. I hear them on
Speaker 4: the circuits in the last twelve hours. They don't even
Speaker 4: know how much the tariffs are that are being implemented
Speaker 4: right now. They just keeped. When asked questions about how
Speaker 4: much the American people are going to fuel, They're like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is going to be good for the Americans in
Speaker 4: the long run, They're not it does it. You're not
Speaker 4: getting a straight answer, So I don't know what it's
Speaker 4: going to be like.
Speaker 3: So that's psychobabble to put it in another way, and
Speaker 3: I am concerned that they have not thought through the
Speaker 3: plan of action. I don't think they had enough time.
Speaker 3: I don't think they could have implemented properly. I thought
Speaker 3: they could have been one on one discussions with countries
Speaker 3: before anything happened. I as a negotiate it as a
Speaker 3: guy who used to travel overseas and negotiated prices, were
Speaker 3: always impressed with the other side knowing what they had
Speaker 3: to do in order to sell me. You know, if
Speaker 3: I walked in and I was working for TJ Max
Speaker 3: and I wanted to buy white shirts, the suppliers across
Speaker 3: the table knew what price they'd had to offer me.
Speaker 3: When I came in representing van Ues and accountn client,
Speaker 3: I paid more than TJ Max. It didn't matter that
Speaker 3: I had all the information I knew more than TJ
Speaker 3: Max would ever know about making a shirt. I knew
Speaker 3: at every operation cost to manufacture. I knew what the
Speaker 3: fabric court, I knew what the utilization of the fabric.
Speaker 3: I knew everything there was to know, and I knew
Speaker 3: exactly everything. Nobody would train their buyers. TJ Max was
Speaker 3: more interested in being a retailer than a sourcing person
Speaker 3: like I was. Didn't matter though they knew I could
Speaker 3: pay more, They made me pay more. These people across
Speaker 3: the cities, they're not dumb, they're brilliant. All of this
Speaker 3: information is there if someone would take the time to
Speaker 3: ask the questions. The way it's being initiated and implemented
Speaker 3: looks to be a disaster of massive proportions. Now back
Speaker 3: to your earliest question, is Trump using this as a
Speaker 3: Machiavelian scheme to negotiate? Maybe? I hope so, because this
Speaker 3: shouldn't be the way it is. There's a way in
Speaker 3: a rationale.
Speaker 4: Do you think that he was advised that the stock
Speaker 4: markets across the world are going to tank? There's going
Speaker 4: to be uncertainty. He is going to get blowback. You
Speaker 4: have to imagine in any decision they give the counter argument.
Speaker 4: They can't just say this is going to be great.
Speaker 4: This is going to be great. They have to say
Speaker 4: what the realistic outcomes are going to be at a
Speaker 4: short term and long term level.
Speaker 3: Right I hope they're not surprised with the outcome of
Speaker 3: what's going on right now. I thought Trump did a
Speaker 3: great yah ya rah ross speech the other day and
Speaker 3: make America great again, and you know we're back. I
Speaker 3: forgot what he called it, independence, stay or whatever it was.
Speaker 3: It was great. The question is does he understand Do
Speaker 3: they understand, as they said, the unintended consequence you lay
Speaker 3: twenty five thirty percent increase in taxes on parrel products
Speaker 3: or shoes, prices are going to go up dramatically. And
Speaker 3: what I hate to see happening is the money that
Speaker 3: we make from saving through doge, making taxes off of
Speaker 3: overtime or tips or whatever. Increasing social security isn't getting
Speaker 3: eaten up. That the supposable income might go up, but
Speaker 3: it's causing less. They're seeing less money because everything else
Speaker 3: costs more. I don't feel good about it right now,
Speaker 3: to make a long story short, because I don't have
Speaker 3: enough details. This seems to me to be an unforced eerrar,
Speaker 3: what's an unforced era? Just to be clear, two guys
Speaker 3: are playing tennis in the US Open. One hits an
Speaker 3: easy shot to the other guy, and the other guy
Speaker 3: tries to do something and hits the net. In a
Speaker 3: million years his lifetime, he's hit a million shots like
Speaker 3: that easily over the net, and here hits the net
Speaker 3: for a reason, made a mistake. It was an unforced eerror.
Speaker 3: Trump presidency came in unbelievable. The world was happy, not
Speaker 3: just this country. Everybody was crazed excited about change and
Speaker 3: the idea that he would deliver it. He was the messiah.
Speaker 3: This is an unforced error with three months into his
Speaker 3: presidency and now everybody less than three months and everybody's
Speaker 3: wondering whether it's the biggest disaster in the history of
Speaker 3: the world. So this whole thing about tariffs needs to
Speaker 3: be explained again, needs to be thought out. I have
Speaker 3: my fingers crossed. I have my hopes that somebody understands
Speaker 3: how to really implement it and go back to Vietnam,
Speaker 3: or to China or to Rusher any of these other
Speaker 3: countries that we have a trade in balance, that we
Speaker 3: have the need for reciprocal tariffs. You can't tell me.
Speaker 3: I can't ship you shirts into your country because you're
Speaker 3: going to put a tariff on it for me, and
Speaker 3: then you want me to let you ship here without
Speaker 3: a cost.
Speaker 1: No way.
Speaker 3: So he's right, and I plawed him because he's trying,
Speaker 3: and I can't scept anyone not trying back in a moment.
Speaker 1: Always in fashion, I.
Speaker 3: Spent a lifetime of my career building the van Usen brand,
Speaker 3: and I am so pleased that they're back with us
Speaker 3: now talking about suits. Men were dressing up again and
Speaker 3: it's become cool to wear a suit. Suits can be
Speaker 3: won on multiplcasions in multiple ways. You could wear a
Speaker 3: suit formally to go out at night or to an event,
Speaker 3: to wear a suit to the office with or without
Speaker 3: a tie. If you look closely, now fashion trends, suits
Speaker 3: are being worn with turtlenecks or mack next, the choices
Speaker 3: are endless and every one of them looks right. You
Speaker 3: could really really look the part. I believe that packaging
Speaker 3: yourself this is important. Does the products you package and
Speaker 3: wearing a suit is one of those things that make
Speaker 3: men look their best. Venues In invented a new idea.
Speaker 3: It's called the cool flex suit. It's been engineered with
Speaker 3: stretched technology giving you the most comfortable fit and mobility.
Speaker 3: Its wrinkle resistant fabric, it's cool moisture wiki. It makes
Speaker 3: it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed just now,
Speaker 3: this new style of looking sharp while feeling cool and
Speaker 3: comfortable is amazing and I'm so excited that the ven
Speaker 3: using company is involved in this new technology and is
Speaker 3: embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget
Speaker 3: venues and made it's name with dresser. It's only proper
Speaker 3: that the suit business follows strongly in its way. You
Speaker 3: can find van Us and cool Flex men's stretch suits
Speaker 3: at jcpenny or online at jcpenny dot com. Guys, they're great,
Speaker 3: you should go look at them. Donna Karen began her
Speaker 3: career as one of the finest, most successful, powerful women
Speaker 3: in the fashion industry. She developed a collection aimed at
Speaker 3: the luxury market for women on the go, women who
Speaker 3: were powerful in their workplace, women who had lives that
Speaker 3: extended beyond the workplace, and her clothes went from day
Speaker 3: and to night. An extraordinary collection. But the interesting thing
Speaker 3: Donna Karen had a young daughter, and she had friends
Speaker 3: and they couldn't afford to buy the Donna Karon Collection
Speaker 3: and Donna invented DKNY Donna Aaron, New York. It's an
Speaker 3: offshoot of the Donna Karen collection. The same concept a
Speaker 3: lifestyle brand. Now we talk about lifestyle brands, what does
Speaker 3: that really mean? Simply what they say, there are brands
Speaker 3: that follow you throughout your lifestyle. You get up in
Speaker 3: the morning, you start to get dressed Donna Karen dcan
Speaker 3: why as intimate apparel, as hosiery, as all those products.
Speaker 3: You're getting dressed for work. You get accessorized shoes, handbags,
Speaker 3: and it takes you through the day. The remarkable thing
Speaker 3: about DK and Y clothes for work, they work into
Speaker 3: the evening. The dresses, the suits, the pants, the sweaters,
Speaker 3: the blouses, extraordinary clothes at affordable prices that go from
Speaker 3: day in tonight. Part of your lifestyle is active. You
Speaker 3: have weekends, you have events, you participate in sports. Donna
Speaker 3: Karen's casual clothes did that under the dkn Y label.
Speaker 3: A vast array of casual sportswear that make women look
Speaker 3: great as they navigate their busy lives. Whether you going
Speaker 3: to soccer games for your children or whether you're going
Speaker 3: out to the movies, whatever, you want to do, dcn
Speaker 3: y Jeans, dcay Hy sportswear is there for you. That's
Speaker 3: what a lifestyle brand is. And I need to mentioned
Speaker 3: DKY Activewear, which is extraordinary, the leggings, the sports bras,
Speaker 3: the sweats. You can wear DKY Activewear, certainly in the gym,
Speaker 3: certainly when you're working out at home, and certainly if
Speaker 3: you want on the street, because it's that well done.
Speaker 3: The quality of dk why is nothing short of exceptional.
Speaker 3: And why shouldn't it be because it was born from
Speaker 3: the idea of luxury made affordable for women of America.
Speaker 3: DK and Why a true lifestyle brand that takes you
Speaker 3: from day and tonight, from the week into the weekend.
Speaker 3: DCN Why You can find DCN Why and Macy's DKY
Speaker 3: dot com.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to it Always in fashion. Here's your host,
Speaker 1: Mark Webber.
Speaker 3: I can't accept not trying. We all make millions of mistakes.
Speaker 3: I make millions of mistakes. I do things that I'm
Speaker 3: sorry I did. I say things the minute they come
Speaker 3: out of my mouth. I wish I could take them back,
Speaker 3: but I can't. But I applaud myself for always trying
Speaker 3: to be the best I can. I believe wholeheartedly that
Speaker 3: good is the enemy of great. I want to be great.
Speaker 3: I take the time to talk, I take the time
Speaker 3: to be with people. I take the time to think
Speaker 3: things through. I want to think them through. I don't
Speaker 3: want to be surprised. I want to be great, so
Speaker 3: I'll do things. I'll be aggressive, I'll be initiative. But
Speaker 3: I can't accept people not try, which brings me to
Speaker 3: this week. I've had a couple of examples of things
Speaker 3: that drove me crazy because facing me across the table
Speaker 3: of the desk with people that didn't care. They weren't
Speaker 3: using their brains, they could care less. So I got
Speaker 3: this crazy stuff. Jesse, I know you're busy. You have
Speaker 3: to leave for something else before I tell the story
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: I have to head out, But I'm glad now I
Speaker 4: don't feel as terrible about tariffs. I have a different
Speaker 4: idea about it. I think that was worthwhile. That was
Speaker 4: a long first segment that you did on and I
Speaker 4: hope everybody got a chance to listen to that.
Speaker 3: Well you got me inspired. What can I tell you
Speaker 3: I can't help?
Speaker 4: Well, there you go, have a good rest of the show,
Speaker 4: and I'll see you next time.
Speaker 3: I guess you'll have to listen to the rest on podcasts,
Speaker 3: Apple Spotify, iHeart okay, all right, by yes, all right,
Speaker 3: Sony Wway. I was talking this week. I had a
Speaker 3: crazy week. I have a story to tell. I had
Speaker 3: family staying over in my house this week and one
Speaker 3: of the people my cousin got sick is a dog.
Speaker 3: Sick is a dog. We didn't know what it was.
Speaker 3: It could have been a stomach virus. Choosing my words carefully,
Speaker 3: but I guess they were throwing up crazy bed and
Speaker 3: they were able to get a hold of their doctor
Speaker 3: who was willing to prescribe a prescription for them to
Speaker 3: deal with the nausea and help settle the stomach. And
Speaker 3: the doctor called CVS for the prescription. So the first
Speaker 3: thing I did is I got in the car and
Speaker 3: drove to CVS. Now, before I go there, I have
Speaker 3: to tell you that I had used Dwayne Read before
Speaker 3: Out of the Blue. Out of the Blue got a
Speaker 3: letter last week telling me that Dwayne Read in my
Speaker 3: area was closing, and they told me that all my
Speaker 3: prescriptions were going to CVS. I found that fantastical. I
Speaker 3: couldn't believe that Dwayne Reid, who has no affiliation with CVS.
Speaker 3: Was giving away my account to CVS when Walgreens is nearby.
Speaker 3: They owned Walgreens' own CVS. I didn't understand why that happened.
Speaker 3: I'm still not happy about it, and I will work
Speaker 3: my way over to Walgreens and I will work my
Speaker 3: way over to another. Dwayne read to find out why
Speaker 3: they don't give a hoot about my business, talk about
Speaker 3: I can't accept not trying anyway. I go to CVS.
Speaker 3: First thing I find out when I get there the
Speaker 3: doctor didn't prescribe the prescription. So my cousin called back
Speaker 3: and found out that the first prescription went to New
Speaker 3: York City where they live, rather than my local CVS
Speaker 3: and did work, so it had to be prescribed again.
Speaker 3: So I went back. The prescription was filled. I got
Speaker 3: it heads up that you can go in. I go
Speaker 3: to the store and I get in there and it's
Speaker 3: a nice store. It's in my area, it's local. I
Speaker 3: thought it made sense. I didn't pick the one they
Speaker 3: prescribed to me. I picked a different CVS because this
Speaker 3: one I knew and I felt comfortable there. I walk
Speaker 3: in there, two people working, one receptionist in the drug
Speaker 3: area and the other is a pharmacist filling prescriptions, and
Speaker 3: I said, I have prescription here. I gave the name
Speaker 3: and he looked it up and he said, nice guy.
Speaker 3: He looked it up and he said, uh, yes, we
Speaker 3: have it. I'm sorry about before, but the doctor came
Speaker 3: back and it's here. Now we have it. So it
Speaker 3: was like eleven o'clock in the morning. He said, we'll
Speaker 3: be ready at two o'clock. I said, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: I'm here. Now person I'm with is sick, then nauseous
Speaker 3: to throwing out. I can't come back at two o'clock. Well,
Speaker 3: we're busy. There's only two of us here, myself and
Speaker 3: the pharmacist. I said, I get it, but I'm the
Speaker 3: only one standing here. Just listen. Rules are rules, I said,
Speaker 3: there's no rule. He said, well, you have to talk
Speaker 3: to the pharmacist. So I walk over to the pharmacist.
Speaker 3: I said to the pharmacist, I have this prescription. I
Speaker 3: know you heard me talking to the other guy, which
Speaker 3: is while I'm busy, I'm doing other things. Now I'm
Speaker 3: losing it. I said, now listen to me. With all
Speaker 3: due respect, I wish I was a pharmacist. You must
Speaker 3: be brilliant the things you do save lives. I think
Speaker 3: you're great, But I'm standing here representing someone who's sick
Speaker 3: in my house right now, throwing up nauseous, doctor prescribed medicine,
Speaker 3: and you're telling me you're too busy to fill it.
Speaker 3: Here's the deal. I'm standing here. I'm the only one
Speaker 3: in the store. Whoever's prescription you're working on right now
Speaker 3: is not here. They're not going to pick it up now.
Speaker 3: They can come back five minutes, ten minutes, whenever it is,
Speaker 3: they're not here.
Speaker 1: I'm here.
Speaker 3: How could you not fill the prescription. I don't care
Speaker 3: how busy you are. No one is here waiting to
Speaker 3: fill and pick up their prescription, So please fill my prescription.
Speaker 3: She looked at me, hated me, hated me. She could
Speaker 3: shoot me through the eyes boom, but she filled it
Speaker 3: twenty five minutes later. I appreciate it. I took it back.
Speaker 3: It helped my cousin. But that's frustrating. I can't accept
Speaker 3: people not trying. I don't care there was only two
Speaker 3: people there. I don't care that she was the only pharmacist.
Speaker 3: I don't care that she was busy. I don't care
Speaker 3: that she had a backlog and prescriptions. All I care
Speaker 3: about is I had an urgent issue right now, and
Speaker 3: nobody was standing there waiting to pick up the prescriptions.
Speaker 3: So if she took ten or fifteen minutes to actually
Speaker 3: satisfy someone in giving a caring thought to it, I
Speaker 3: would have been Okay. I don't know how you guys
Speaker 3: feel about that. You know, I wish that was the
Speaker 3: only thing that bugged me last week. Then oh my god, cablevision,
Speaker 3: my internet, my telephone, and my TV all of them
Speaker 3: went dark. Nothing not a black not even black screens,
Speaker 3: no anything zero. So what did I do? I looked
Speaker 3: up a cable vision and they said, would you like
Speaker 3: to have a chat with someone online? Still not clear
Speaker 3: those online chats are humans, but I think they were.
Speaker 3: I started to explain what's going on. Took me a
Speaker 3: while to get through. I started to explain, you have
Speaker 3: a Q ten minutes, but we'll do our best. And
Speaker 3: you know, I sat there and waited five minutes, and
Speaker 3: then I said, are you're still there? You are fourth
Speaker 3: in the queue? Now I was seventh, Okay, I waited
Speaker 3: another five minutes. You're third in the queue. And I
Speaker 3: kept doing that and finally I got to the front
Speaker 3: of the line and someone what can we do to
Speaker 3: help you? I said, everything is down in my house.
Speaker 3: I know there was an outage yesterday, but I've been
Speaker 3: told there's no longer an outage. Can you tell me
Speaker 3: what's going on? Just a minute? She types, Well, he
Speaker 3: there is an outage in your era? Really, because I
Speaker 3: was told the outage was clear up, there's still an outage. Well,
Speaker 3: how will I get an answer when the outage will
Speaker 3: be fixed. We'll write you, we'll text you, we'll call you.
Speaker 3: I had to go out. I came back an hour later, nothing,
Speaker 3: called back, chatted again, same story, this time, there's no outage,
Speaker 3: but nothing in my house is working. Let me check,
Speaker 3: let me check, let me check. We can't explain. We
Speaker 3: have to look into it. I'll try and send you
Speaker 3: a signal. I said, you can send me a signal,
Speaker 3: but the problem is I have no power. The other
Speaker 3: units everything's power. I have no problem with electricity. I
Speaker 3: just have those things that you're involved in. This goes
Speaker 3: on three times, from eight o'clock in the morning when
Speaker 3: I woke up and saw that I wasn't getting any service,
Speaker 3: to now it's four o'clock and I'm really well. Let
Speaker 3: me be honest. And now it's one o'clock and I'm
Speaker 3: really nervous. You know, when you're dark in your house,
Speaker 3: I think you don't realize how reliant you are on
Speaker 3: Wi Fi. You don't realize how important it is to
Speaker 3: all those things you need to do. They've made us addicted.
Speaker 3: I have no choice. I'm in trouble here. This happened
Speaker 3: to me once before. I had to go hang out
Speaker 3: in the library and hang out in restaurants to get
Speaker 3: my mail and to get those things that I need
Speaker 3: to read clear and fast or whatever. Finally I call
Speaker 3: them up. Nothing's going on. Finally I call up Cable
Speaker 3: Vision and after a series of misstarts, what's your problem,
Speaker 3: I've talked to you this this is Finally I asked
Speaker 3: for an agent, and they, finally, after awake, put me
Speaker 3: through to an agent. Agent read the file, told me
Speaker 3: the same things I did with the chat. I said,
Speaker 3: we're not getting anywhere, and you put me with a technician. Said, oh, technician, sure,
Speaker 3: I can't accept not trying. I wouldn't give up, but
Speaker 3: why wouldn't you offer me A technician got on the
Speaker 3: phone with technician. Took thirty minutes for him to decide
Speaker 3: or to realize it appeared that there was nothing wrong
Speaker 3: anymore with an outage in my neighborhood. It could be
Speaker 3: localized to my own line. That he felt it would
Speaker 3: be important to send someone to my house to look
Speaker 3: at it. One hour later, two o'clock, an agent shows up.
Speaker 3: A guy's name was Nick, great guy energy. You had
Speaker 3: that shine in his eyes that said I'm going to
Speaker 3: get something done for you. And sure enough he came
Speaker 3: in and note he first he checked the outside power
Speaker 3: and the power from cablevision to the house was working.
Speaker 3: Came in my house, walked downstairs, looked at my units.
Speaker 3: I have a lot of TVs. I'm more like a
Speaker 3: broadcast studio because I am in the business, but I
Speaker 3: have a lot of rooms, a lot of TVs came
Speaker 3: down blacked out. All the stuff that's associated with me
Speaker 3: is blacked out. And he said, I don't know what
Speaker 3: to do about this. But he'd gotten back in the unit,
Speaker 3: started playing around and realized that there was a blow out.
Speaker 3: There must have been a surge that killed a bunch
Speaker 3: of things. And over the course of the next day
Speaker 3: half hour, we added some extension cords, put some more
Speaker 3: plugs into the extension cords and he fixed everything, including
Speaker 3: two units of the house that i'ven't worked for six
Speaker 3: months because I was lazy. So cablevision very frustrating. Some
Speaker 3: of you can't accept you're not trying. Some of you
Speaker 3: were brilliant and they fixed me. And with that as
Speaker 3: a backdrop, I'm grateful. But ladies and gentlemen, please, whatever
Speaker 3: sector you're in, whether you're working for the Motor Vehicle
Speaker 3: Bureau of Starbucks, please care enough. Try back in a moment.
Speaker 1: Always in fashion done to.
Speaker 3: Karen began her career as one of the finest, most successful,
Speaker 3: powerful women in the fashion industry. She developed a collection
Speaker 3: aimed at the luxury mar market for women on the go,
Speaker 3: women who were powerful in their workplace, women who had
Speaker 3: lives that extended beyond the workplace, and her clothes went
Speaker 3: from day and tonight. An extraordinary collection. But the interesting
Speaker 3: thing Donna Karen had a young daughter, and she had
Speaker 3: friends and they couldn't afford to buy the Donna Karen Collection,
Speaker 3: and Donna invented dk NY Donna Aaron, New York. It's
Speaker 3: an offshoot of the Donna Karen Collection, the same concept,
Speaker 3: a lifestyle brand. Then we talk about lifestyle brands, What
Speaker 3: does that really mean? Simply what they say, there are
Speaker 3: brands that follow you throughout your lifestyle. You get up
Speaker 3: in the morning, you start to get dressed Donna Karen
Speaker 3: Decan Why as intimate apparel, as hosiery, as all those products.
Speaker 3: You're getting dressed for work. You get accessorized shoes, handbags,
Speaker 3: and it takes you through the day. The remarkable thing
Speaker 3: about dk andy clothes for work, they work into the evening.
Speaker 3: The dresses, the suits, the pants, the sweaters, the blouses.
Speaker 3: Extraordinary clothes at affordable prices that go from day in tonight.
Speaker 3: Part of your lifestyle is active. You have weekends, you
Speaker 3: have events, you participate in sports. Donna Karen's casual clothes
Speaker 3: did that under the dk and Y label. A vast
Speaker 3: array of casual sportswear that make women look great as
Speaker 3: they navigate their busy lives. Whether you're going to soccer
Speaker 3: games for your children or whether you're going out to
Speaker 3: the movies, whatever you want to do, DK and Y
Speaker 3: Jenes dk and Y sportswear is there for you. That's
Speaker 3: what a lifestyle brand is. I need to mention dky
Speaker 3: active Wear, which is extraordinary. The leggings, the sports bras,
Speaker 3: the sweats. You can wear DKY active wear, certainly in
Speaker 3: the gym, certainly when you're working out at home, and
Speaker 3: certainly if you want on the street, because it's that
Speaker 3: well done. The quality of dk why is nothing short
Speaker 3: of exceptional and why shouldn't it be because it was
Speaker 3: born from the idea of luxury made affordable for women America.
Speaker 3: DK and Why a true lifestyle brand that takes you
Speaker 3: from day and tonight, from the week into the weekend.
Speaker 3: DCN Why You can find DCNHY and Macy's DKY dot com.
Speaker 3: As one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers, Carl
Speaker 3: Lagafeld was renowned for his aspirational and cutting edge approach
Speaker 3: to style. His unique vision of Parisian shit comes to
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Speaker 3: ready to wear, accessory, shoes and bags. The fashion house
Speaker 3: Carlagofeld also offers a range of watches, I wear and
Speaker 3: premium fragrances. You can explore the car lagofl collection at
Speaker 3: Carl Lagofelparis dot com. But it's more than that, I
Speaker 3: have for one love to shop. I love going around
Speaker 3: and seeing what's happening and what catches my attention, what
Speaker 3: would make me feel good to wear now. I don't
Speaker 3: wear the women's wear obviously, but I can appreciate it,
Speaker 3: and they look amazing. If you want to look right,
Speaker 3: you want to have clothes that fit you well. You
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Speaker 3: The women's ready to wear fashion is extraordinary, as well
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Speaker 3: always been he always had been one of the world's
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Speaker 2: Com, welcome back to it always in fashion.
Speaker 1: Here's your host, Mark Webber.
Speaker 3: I can't accept not trying. This has been a week
Speaker 3: that is trying for so much. So many of us
Speaker 3: are watching what's going on in the world. I can't
Speaker 3: help but wonder why people don't put the best forward.
Speaker 3: Having said that, I want to talk about global warming
Speaker 3: for a minute because it's bothering me. It bothers me
Speaker 3: that half the world believes in global warming and half
Speaker 3: the world doesn't believe in global warming. One of them's right.
Speaker 3: I'd like to err on the side of caution and say,
Speaker 3: maybe the people worried about global warming are right. If
Speaker 3: this was Star Trek, the world would be united in
Speaker 3: the Federation, and the Federation's council would decide, let's fix
Speaker 3: global warming.
Speaker 1: But we're not.
Speaker 3: We're individual countries all over the world. One hundred and
Speaker 3: sixty countries. I don't know. Everyone has a different opinion,
Speaker 3: and getting everyone on the same table has been very difficult,
Speaker 3: more practical than worrying at the moment about the oceans
Speaker 3: running over into the streets. And let's not forget Sandy.
Speaker 3: When we had that storm and the water came over
Speaker 3: the East River and started flooding buildings and basements in
Speaker 3: New York City. That was scary stuff. So I'm scared
Speaker 3: of the water. I have a home on the water.
Speaker 3: I am constantly in fear of that happening. And maybe
Speaker 3: it will, and I hope the powers to be are
Speaker 3: smart enough to figure out what it is we should
Speaker 3: be doing about goble warning, get everyone on the same page,
Speaker 3: not giving anyone chance to wait till two thousand and
Speaker 3: sixty or twenty fifty or thirty five. I'm worried about it.
Speaker 3: But I was a young guy. I always had a
Speaker 3: unique position on things, and I remember starting to read
Speaker 3: about all this stuff. What was healthy, what was not?
Speaker 3: I said at the time, you know, if we would
Speaker 3: all stop eating, drinking, and breathing, I think we'd live forever.
Speaker 3: And it was a stupid comment, but at the same time,
Speaker 3: it turns out it's true. If we'd stop eating, drinking,
Speaker 3: and breathing, we'd have no problems. Now, let's add on
Speaker 3: Bluetooth and all those waves going through our heads and
Speaker 3: Wi Fi and all the waves going through our heads
Speaker 3: and bodies. A lot of stuff is interfering. And that's
Speaker 3: what I'm worried about right now. Electric cars. We've decided
Speaker 3: that the future of automobiles and transportation is electric cars,
Speaker 3: and yet there's no honest dialogue about the amount of
Speaker 3: energy fueled energy that it takes to make batteries, to
Speaker 3: make steel, to make all the parts that make the cars.
Speaker 3: And the question is are we more energy neutral making
Speaker 3: electric cars than gas powered cars? I just wonder. I
Speaker 3: don't know enough to know about it, and I'm worried recycling.
Speaker 3: I know for a fact my neighborhoods don't have recycling
Speaker 3: cans anymore. I don't see the yellow ones I always
Speaker 3: see whatever people have. Are we still doing it? Is
Speaker 3: it working? We're losing that battle too. And then there's
Speaker 3: the bags in foodtown. I blame Schumer for that. I
Speaker 3: don't know whether I'm right or wrong. I don't know
Speaker 3: how many states in the country force people to buy bags.
Speaker 3: You want to talk about unforced errors and taxes? Why
Speaker 3: is it? Why is it that the consumer has to
Speaker 3: buy their own bags? Why aren't the stores providing bags?
Speaker 3: I go to food down, I have four hundred things.
Speaker 3: If I don't buy bag, I can't. I can't get
Speaker 3: it out of that. I've done it. I've walked in
Speaker 3: by mistake, and I refuse to buy those stupid bags.
Speaker 3: I have enough of it already. I'm under the auspices. So
Speaker 3: I don't mind spending money, I hate wasting it. How
Speaker 3: many bags do I need from Fresh Direct when I
Speaker 3: go to the grocery store. I should have them with
Speaker 3: me in the back of my car. I guess that's
Speaker 3: the answer. But I don't believe this is helping anyone.
Speaker 3: I just think it's weird what's going on. Then the
Speaker 3: paper straws, if there is ever anything, they made absolutely
Speaker 3: no sense at all. By the time you use the
Speaker 3: straw to drink your drink, the stores melt. What's that about?
Speaker 3: Is it helping or hurting? I don't know. And then
Speaker 3: Robert F. Kennedy has come along. He's such a fanatic,
Speaker 3: he really cares. You want to talk about a guy
Speaker 3: who's really trying. That's the guy who can't accept not trying.
Speaker 3: He's trying to get us smart and see what's going on?
Speaker 3: Red dye? Before I got a red dye? Do you
Speaker 3: know there are three thousand products in our country that
Speaker 3: are allowed. We're in Europe and the EU you only
Speaker 3: three hundred of them are allowed. And things that we
Speaker 3: eat and drink. Everybody who's drinking bottled water for a
Speaker 3: safer life. That turns out, all these years later, all
Speaker 3: the containers that we were carrying that water, all those
Speaker 3: plis plustic containers, are poisoning us. How could that be?
Speaker 3: What's going on? Red dye? Everything has red dye in it,
Speaker 3: eminem peanuts, all your candies, all your breakfast cereals, all
Speaker 3: your everything is red dye. And now we're agreeing, after
Speaker 3: all this time, it's gonna kill us. All the other
Speaker 3: ingredients in food, processed meats. When did it become that
Speaker 3: all that stuff we buy to survive, you know, reprocessed turkey,
Speaker 3: am whatever it is, can kill us. Then they tell
Speaker 3: us which vegetables are safe and which aren't, how much
Speaker 3: protein we have and how much we don't. I am
Speaker 3: freaking out. I don't know whether we know what can
Speaker 3: be done. And everybody's still reacting to Robert F. Kennedy
Speaker 3: bringing up these things. It seems like he knows what
Speaker 3: he's doing. He hasn't missed a beat yet. I suppose
Speaker 3: the vaccine stuff with him is getting him a little
Speaker 3: bit on the side of Elon Musk where nobody likes him.
Speaker 3: But the reality is he's bringing up a lot of
Speaker 3: things to save us. So I applaud Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy.
Speaker 3: I think in government we have to be intellectually honest.
Speaker 3: Now I could read you a list of the politicians
Speaker 3: that I can't look at, can't listen to, can't stand,
Speaker 3: don't want to know anything about. Hope they're never around.
Speaker 3: I hope they don't run for office again. I am
Speaker 3: not interested, But I also know there are some that
Speaker 3: are worth their while and they really care. They just
Speaker 3: don't talk. They can't accept not trying. And that is
Speaker 3: what I wanted to talk about to night. I hope
Speaker 3: you enjoyed. I hope you learned something, and I hope
Speaker 3: I calmed down from what looks to be a trade
Speaker 3: war that isn't well thought out. Would that in mind?
Speaker 3: Good night, talk to you next week,