ENCORE: Everybody Knows, Nobody Knows

ENCORE: Everybody Knows, Nobody Knows

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
The following is an Encore presentation. This show is produced
and hosted by Mark Webber. The show is sponsored by
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opinion of seven ten wor or iHeartMedia. Who is Mark Webber.
He's a self made business executive here to help you

(00:24):
find your success. From the New York City projects to
the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. His global success story in
the luxury world of fashion is inspirational. He's gone from
clerk to CEO twice. Mark his classic proof that the
American dream is alive. And well, here's your host of
Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Mark Weber.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
The older I get my hair turns gray, I'd like
to believe it comes with wisdom. I pay almost no
attention to what people say. I watch what they do.
One of my favorite quotes Ben Franklin, well done is
better than well said. The more I listen, the more
I realize no one knows what's going on. Everybody thinks

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they know, but they don't. From politics to technology, lots
of opinions, no one knows. It's annoying, No wonder I'm
a recluse. People in my view are either happy or angry.
I see it, I feel it everywhere you watch it
on TV, in the news. There's no compromise anymore. It's

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like the ability to talk is disappearing. You're too eager
to make your point than to pay attention and maybe
learn something. Everybody knows, but no one knows. Nobody knows
what's right. The economy in the United States of America
can't grow. We're dead. We just don't have it. We

(01:55):
aren't going to grow anymore, and yet we're booming. The
experts say retail stores are a thing of the past.
Retail figures are through the roof. They're huge, we're growing.
Only the e commerce players will win. Purchasing online, that's
the future. There's no room for anything else. Not so

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fast retailing is doing quite well, as is e commerce,
but no one knows. No one knows where it's going
to end up. Fashion. Fashion has decided we're all going
to wear active wear all the time. Jeans are dead.
Everybody knows that, beloney, No one knows. Yeah, your active

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wear is strong, but again, not so fast has always
been the case. We like our genes, we love our genes.
In fact, we want our genes in every conceivable format.
Cut off, short shorts, Thank you, ladies, loose, flared, tight,
thank you ladies. I want to wear them with my

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suit jacket. I saw this look on Ralph Lauren twenty
years ago. They said it would never happen, and yet
here it is still today, looking great. I know I
personally took heat for wearing jeans with my sport code
on Fridays. I was right, elegant, but casual. No one
knew I did. Jeans are here and they're not going anywhere.

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But what would I say? No one knows. In life,
we make choices what we eat, what we drink, where
we live, and the quality of the air we breathe.
One day, Margarine will save your life, will give you
less calories, protect your heart, and the next day it's dangerous.
Stay with butter. When I was a teenager, I said,

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if we all could stop eating, drinking and breathing, we
would live forever. Go No these years later, everybody knows,
but no one knows. Business is organic. It changes, The
rules change the more you live, the more you work,
you have to adapt. It's clear until the end of time,
the fundamentals in business are going to remain the same.

(04:09):
Build a brand, whether McDonald's or Doore, Burger King or Burberry.
Respect your brand, respect your customers, manage your inventory, and
protect your profit. Everybody knows, but no one knows. That's
the theme of tonight's show. Where's Jess? Hello, Jesse, You're

(04:31):
not here tonight. Where are you? No one knows? I do.
You're having dinner with important people in the industry rather
than hanging with me. I'll forgive you this one time.
I never had dinner with anyone instead of being here
with you on the radio. But that's okay. You have
more important things to do. I'll forgive you. No one
knows what it is, but I know and it is important.

(04:52):
So Jesse, I miss you tonight. But this is life.
I want to start tonight's show with a question and
about life and our well being. When I was starting
my career, in a moment with my first boys, I
said to him what I said when I was a teenager.
If we all could stop eating, drinking, breathing, we'd live forever.

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And then the environment came into the fashion business. I
want to tell you a story. I traveled extensively around
the world, and we were on a mission now to
try and make wages, try and make living conditions, working
conditions better for the workers in the fashion and textile industry.
During one of the course of trips, I was in Bangkok.

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Anybody ever been to Bangkok. There are people that live
on the water. The houses are actually in the water,
and the water is shallow in certain parts that people
actually bathing there live in there. Use it for everything.
I'll never forget. I was a young boy brushing his
teeth and down water from him. About twenty feet away
his brother or his friend was being in the water.

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I never forgot thinking about the environment. How can you
control that? How can you explain to people what is
right and what is wrong. There's so many tough decisions
to be made. Everybody knows, but no one knows. Nobody
understands the environment and what will happen. I'll never forget
being in the shoe business. Shoe business is one of
the dirtiest, ugliest businesses in the world. Why because it's

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all chemical laden. Let's take leather shoes for a second.
Stop and think about the leather. First of all, it
comes from animal hides. There's a slaughterhouse. Now the slaughterhouse
is really supposed to be slaughtering these animals for food,
and I presume that's what it is. And leather is
the byproduct. You take the skin and you move it
to a tannery. And what is a tannery. A tannery

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is filled with all these chemicals, including zinc and a
whole bunch of other things that designed to take the leather,
which is an animal skin, and make it tough, durable,
soft yet pliable, color it in any color of the world,
and use it for byproducts. But the products that we
use it for, of course, are jackets, shoes, belts, etc.

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All the chemicals that it takes to make this leather
product are dangerous. In fact, when you travel around the world,
the problem is all these chemicals are leaking into the
water because all factories run on water. Now on this
day and age, people are concerned about that and they're
taking active action to change the chemicals. Now, what has

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happened since then? The water is regulated. It can't go
in the water, It has to be filtered. There needs
to be another environment which you get rid of those chemicals,
and people are working on it. And here we are
looking at this trying to decide how to make the
world a better place, because everybody knows that this is
not healthy. And I'll never forget after the tour of

(07:48):
the facility, in watching and thinking and making sure we're
saying all the right things and we're doing all the
right things to get this factory moving in the right
direction so that we would no longer pollute the world
or the peace that we were there with. We went
out to join our staff for lunch, and there we
were sitting outside. There was a canopy over It's a

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hot neighborhood. Generally speaking, shoes are made in Brazil or Spain,
and it's very warm. There's a canopy. I call it
a tin shed where everybody eat long tables. Everybody's eating there,
And where are we sitting next to the gluing facility?
And I'm sitting there ready to have lunch. In all
I smell the chemicals of the glue. So everybody knows,

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but no one knows what the right thing is to do.
Be back in a minute to talk. Nobody knows.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Always.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
In fashion, my favorite brand has always been Iod. My
company at one time bought that brand. The CEO of
the company handed it to me and said, you better
make it work. And I put everything in my career
to make EYESOD work and I fell in love with
that brand, and to this day it is one of
the most exciting endeavors I've ever gotten involved with. ISOD

(09:04):
is an incredibly strong golf brand. If you play golf,
if you play tennis for that matter. They make a
great polo shirts. I mean great. They fit perfect. The
material is unique because it's a PK fabric that waffle leave,
you see, and it's made of a blend of cotton

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and microfiber that allows you to stretch. And very often
they are treated with solar protection as well, so they stretch,
they're comfortable, and they breathe well. And one thing about
ISOC they always fit. They'll never tug on you. You
put it in your waist that they'll fit you great.
The colors, patterns are sensational. Now I will also tell

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you ISAOD makes great shorts and great golf pants. You're
a golf friend. You want to look good. You don't
want to have to think about how do I look.
You want to think about how you play, not how
you feel. ISOD is the brand for you. I know
I was there when it was created. The strategy behind
that brand is brilliant. It's one of my favorite brands.
While I talk about it, I should tell you about
the man's sportswear. ISOD wasn't enough being a golf brand.

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It wasn't enough being just great polo shirts with logos,
without logos. Incredible brand and story and history. ISOD makes
salt weather programs. They have great printed woven shirts, short sleeves.
They look excellent with colors, excellent with shorts, excellent with

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cotton pants, of which they also make this whole salt
order relaxed line from ISO, whether it be fleece, cotton sweaters,
knit polos, woven shirts and pants of a range of
colors and fabrics that are perfect for a guy wants
to go casually in the spring and summer of this year.
And here's the thing. ISOD is affordable. Everyone listsing to

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me talk about this brand can afford to buy it
and know that there are a lot of other brands
that also have a look like ISID. Although I don't
believe it's fun as ISAAA is. The brand has a
lot of energy in it, but at the price points
no one can compete. You can find Eyaesa at You're
leading retails and online at ion dot com. Talk to

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you latery guys. I wish you are very happy springing summer,
and I help you by telling you if you were
Eya on, you're going to look great.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Welcome back to it, Always in fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
This is Mark Webber. This is always in Fashion. As
my hair starts to turn gray, I'd like to believe
I'm getting smarter. I'm getting some wisdom. And the more
I think about people, and the more I hear them talk,
the more I realize that they all talk like they know,
but no one knows. Everybody knows, but no one knows.

(12:00):
All the blowhards talking like they know they have all
the answers to everything, But there are two opposing sides,
so diametrically opposed on the news. So how do you
know who's right? How could they be so right on
one side when they disagree completely with the other side?
Nobody knows. Being that this is a business show, I
started to think about business, and I started to think

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about the one thing that is clear. Everybody thinks they know,
but they don't. And what is that Wall Street? Wall
Street actually the Stock Exchange. It's the largest legal casino
in the world, headquartered in New York City. It's a
casino that no one knows is a casino. Everybody gambles,

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but no one, and I mean no one knows what
they're doing. Yes, Oh, you can listen to the pundits. Yes,
there are so many stockbrokers. Yes, there are so many
TV shows. Yes, the results every day talking about the
winners and losers. Everybody knows, but no one knows. Think

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about it. If it was so clear and concise and
everybody knew what to do, how come they're not right
all the time. Why don't the CEOs of each of
these companies we hear about get it right every time?
Because no one knows. Why would any executive ever sell

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shares in his own stock if he knows it's going up.
Other than Jim Kramer on TV, who always gets it right?
Who else knows it? Hmmm? Does Jim Kramer always get
it right? He is so smart, he is so impressive.
He is such a great entertainer. I listen to him

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talk about stock, but it wasn't enough for me. I
wanted to go drill down and find out how often
he's right. You want to guess out there, I'm going
to tell you you're ready. Forty seven percent of the time
he tells you what stock is right and what's going
to work. Only forty seven percent of the time is
he right. That's like flipping a coin. Should I buy

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this one or that one? Fifty to fifty would be better?
He's only forty seven percent. I checked? I checked? Is
there anyone else in the country better? I found two
people who they claim are right in the sixty percent
tile forty percent they're wrong. Everybody knows, but no one knows.

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Of the three hundred and twenty million people in the
United States, nobody's doing well.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Well.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
You can make money. You could pick one, you can
get it right. You can make a lot of money,
but no one really knows. The theme of tonight's show.
I like to talk about Apple. I like their stock.
I want to tell you a story. So I have
a broker. Broker calls me up one day about two
years ago, and he says to me, Mark, you got
this money sitting here, will you stop with the Treasury bills?

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Trust me? Trust me? Please this one time, I'd like
to recommend two stocks to you. So I'm thinking, you know,
I got this guy. I never give him any stock business.
I'll take a few dollars. I'll buy one hundred chairs
of this and one hundred shairs of that, and it's
not going to change my life, but I'll give him
a shot. I want to see what he does. Maybe
you know something that I don't know. I forgot everybody knows,

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but no one knows. So he told me to buy Ford.
So I bought Ford one hundred shares at eleven dollars.
And he also told me to buy Ge. I bought
GE shares one hundred chairs at thirty three dollars. A
year goes by a year and Ford ten dollars. GE

(15:49):
is down to twelve. I think, I mean disaster. You know,
it's no big deal. I didn't change and bet the
franchise on it. But here's this guy. He's a broker.
He begged me to invest in here, I said, And
I called them up. I said, by the way, if
you looked at my stock lately, just no. I said,
you remember what you told me to buy? He said,
remind me after that impassioned plea, remind me? So I

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told him. He said, yeah, well that's the stock that's
the way. You can't count on this. I said, but
don't you remember telling me you wanted to mean invest
in these stocks? No, so brokers. Oh my gosh. When
I did this about a month ago, I said, you
know what, sell that crap? Buy me Apple. At the time,
Apple was I'm trying to think one seventy it's now

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two thirteen. I'll talk about that in a minute. But
what an idiot. There's an old TV commercial that used
to say, if your stockbroker is that smart, why is
he still working? Because everyone seems to know, but no
one knows. Let's get back to a minute, and why
would any executive ever sell his own stock? I was
one of those executives. Listen, if you are a powerful

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executive and a big company, your money is made in
your annual salary and perhapsure bonus, but it's really made
with a company, in the stock you invest in, the
company shares that you're granted. And the problem is, as
you're an executive, if you grow with a company, everything
you have is related to the company, your livelihood and

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your savings. Think about it this way. You're getting a
salary from the company, you're hopefully getting a bonus from
the company and you're getting stock, which is really the
way you invest in and you save for the future.
Something goes wrong, you get fired, that's gone. The stock tanks,
that's gone. So sometimes myself included, you sell stock in
your own company because you have too much of your

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net worth tied up in that. But there's something very
wrong in that thinking. After all, I'm in control, I'm there,
I know what's going on. Wouldn't it be better to
invest in my stock than anything else. Everybody thinks they know,
but no one knows. I'm telling you it the highest levels,

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whether it was president or CEO, I couldn't tell you
whether the stock would go up or down. And therefore
I have my questions about the stock market. But having
said this, I have even been a story for you.
My favorite stockbroker and I bought Apple stock when I
was ninety six dollars a share, and he said to me,

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this is a great investment. Apple's going to go to
two hundred. You really ought to buy more, So I said,
let me think about it. So I bought five hundred
chairs at ninety six dollars. You figure it out. So
I see the stocks start to rise, and I'm a
fan of Apple. I'm going in there all the time.
I have my phone, I've met my iPad, my computer,

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and as a retailer, there's no one better. I enjoy
watching them work at retail. I don't know how anyone
else can survive in the phone business, of the computer business,
not having stores. Because Apple solves whatever problem you might have.
I love Apple for that reason, and because I'm an
Apple fan. I said, you know what, I don't know
the company well enough, but I believe it's going to grow.

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So he came to me and he said to me,
why don't you buy more stock. I've thought about it.
The stock was one hundred and thirty two dollars a
share market's going to two hundred. So I bought a
thousand shares at one hundred and thirty two dollars. I
would say a few months later, I on a call
from him. Someone doesn't believe Apple's going to do well anymore.
The reaction to the new phones, all the information in

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the marketplace, the stock is going to tank and lo
and behold, when did he call me? The day are tanked?
It went back down to ninety six. So he said
to me, why don't you sell the thousand shares, I said,
I paid one hundred and thirty two dollars for them.
Why would I sell them now? This is because you
know what's going to happen. It's going to go down
to eighty three or eighty five. You'll pick it all

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up and then and you'll make tons of money that way,
because eventually Apple will go back. I said, But I
like my thousand shares. I feel comfortable with the said mark,
I'm your broker, trust me. Why owned it at one
hundred and thirty two dollars when you know it's going
to go down, Let's get rid of it now at
ninety six and you'll pick it up at eighty three.
So reluctantly I sold one thousand shares in ninety six dollars.

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I waited for the stock to go down to eighty
three to buy it back, and of course it's shot
right up and it's now two hundred and thirteen dollars
a share. The last time I look. You do the math.
Instead of holding it when I owned it at one
hundred and thirty two and selling it at two thirteen,
I sold it at ninety six and lost close to
one hundred thousand dollars, which only goes to show you

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your stock broker, you, all the pundits, all the recommendedies,
all the people who seem to know what's going on.
Everybody knows, but no one knows. I'll be back in
a minute.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Always in fashion.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
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most successful, powerful women in the fashion industry. She developed
a collection aimed at the luxury market for women on
the go, women who were powerful in their workplace, women
who had lives that extended beyond the workplace, and her
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But the interesting thing Donna Karen had a young daughter,
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there are brands that follow you throughout your lifestyle. You

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The remarkable thing about DK and Y clothes for work,
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Speaker 1 (23:16):
Welcome back to it. Always in Fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
I want to talk about fashion for a minute. I
guess you guys expected of me. We're in the fashion business.
After all. The name of the show is Always in Fashion,
and yours truly was a senior executive in the fashion industry.
I'm fascinated by what's going on in the industry. There's
so much to talk about, but at the moment, I'm
fascinated by retail. You see, everyone has retail dead. If

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you're not on e commerce, you're finished. That's what everybody says.
Nobody knows because retail is doing just fine. They're doing
actually great. People in retail are thriving. The second raiders,
the complainer, the people with concepts that don't make any
sense anymore, The people haven't adapted and changed, The people

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that don't know how important product is the people that
don't realize how important it is to take our money
when we're there, that we don't want to wait online.
The people that don't realize that value and quality go
hand in hand. They're falling by the wayside, and correctly so,
they're just not good enough. I give you a quick example.
On the way here tonight, I walked from Uptown quick Story,

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I walked into Sacks Fifth Avenue. I walked into Yougo Boss.
I happen to see a pullover sweater with a collar.
It's a great look. When you wear a pullover sweater
with a collar three buttons or two buttons, you wear
it with a sport code, it looks good. And actually,
if you don't wear a jacket over because of the
buttons in the collar, it looks great. You roll up

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the sleeves just to touch you wear in the right watch,
it's a great look. Some there you Go Boss is
a beautiful black. When I'm starting to feel it, it
feels like wool. I'm not a fan of Marinal wool.
I have a simple exercise. If I can't wear the
fabric is underwear, I don't want it. I don't want
to wear it on my body. If it's not comfortable
down there, then what would it be comfortable on my body?

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And Marina Wilwhile it's solved and it's nice and everybody
wears it just has this little scratchy sensation that I
just don't like. So when I first get in the
Yoga boys shop, guy comes out and he says, hey,
if you need anything, let me know I'm here. The
law protects consumers when it comes to products. The law
wants you to know where the country of origin is,

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where the product is made, and they want you to
know what the garment is made out of. What is
the fiber? What is it? So I start to look.
Now supposed to be visible at point of sale, that's
what the law says, and I can't find the fiber.
It's a guy happened to be floating around me and

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I'm touching it and he said, that's a nice shirt.
I said, yeah, can you tell me what it's made of?
So he comes home me. He touches it and he
says it feels like well and walks away. That's can
I help you? He walks away. I think that guy's
the worst salesman I ever met in my life. Hold
that thought for a second. Then I continue to walk

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down Fifth Avenue. I go into Lord and Taylor tenth floor,
intimate shopping experience for men. I get off the elevator.
The entire floor is women's clearance. The entire floor except
perhaps some suits in the back. I mean, the entire
floor was turned into women's clearance. What does that tell

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you about what's going on in Lord and Taylor problems,
whether it's the people you employ, or the fact that
you have too much inventory or you bought the wrong stuff.
Don't come crying later when you have to close stores
and you tell us that retail is not doing well.
You're not doing well because you're not doing the right thing.
Now while I'm in this mood of fashion, but I

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want to tell you about me being a fashion visionary,
and my kid's killing me for it. You're any about
three years ago, I was shopping in Prada. There's something
about Prada that just rings my bell. Those of you
are uncomfortable walking in there. I get it. Those of

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you shake your head. What do they have to offer?
Those of you'd say, why would you spend fifteen hundred
dollars on a wheelie when you can buy one from
Toomey for six hundred. That's a good question. It's all
a question of whether or not you're a luxury customer,
whether or not you find value in the product, whether
or not you like the Italian design, which is what
Prada did for me. And I walked into Prada and

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lo and behold. I found a utility belt just like Batman,
a utility belt that had packets and pockets for everything. Beautiful,
the black industrial material silver. I'm a silver guy. I
like everything silver. I'm not a gold guys. I'm elegant, subtle,
I'd like to believe. And I find this utility belt

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you can put over your shoulder. You put it over
one shoulder, through your head, it hangs off your back.
It's a utility belt with pockets for everything. I can
keep my sunglasses. Hey guys, let's take a moment here.
Think of all the things we have to carry. I
just want to think about it right now. I have
my car keys, I have my sunglasses, I have my change,
I have my cash. What else do I have on me?

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I have my cell phone and the wire for the
cell phone. Sometimes I bring the extra battery charge. How
do I carry all of this? And stuff. I would
look like, you know, one of those policemen out there
that you know they're paying somehow and miraculously stays up
with all those pockets filled with stuff. I found a
utility belt and it was cool as it could be.

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I brought it home and I said, guys, I'm going
to surprise you. I bought the greatest thing. I showed
it to Jesse. I showed it to my other son, Jared. Wait,
do you see this. I bought a utility belt. And
they start to laugh. That's not a utility belt. That's
a fanny pack. What do you mean it's a fanny pack?
He says, what are you a grandma? That's what that is.

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You're supposed to wear it around your waist like a
grandma in Disney World. I said, well, you could say
that all you want to me, but this is utility belt.
I'm Batman, I'm not grandma. And they laughed and laughed
and laughed. In reality, it is a fanny pack, it is,
but I don't wear it that way. I wear it
over my right shoulder and put it over my put

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my head through one arm through it, wear it and
hangs on my back, and it's the coolest looking thing
you ever saw. Two things happened last week. One, I
read an article from GQ or Esquire and it says,
fanny packs are the range, the rage. Everybody wants a
fanny pack. Now I don't want a fanny pack. I

(29:53):
want a utility belt. Then I have it, and I
was head of the curve, and I think that that's sad. Now,
while everybody knows what they're talking about, nobody knows except
for me in this case. And the second thing that
happens is I see my son last week, squeamishly coming
to meet me to go out for a while. And

(30:15):
what does he have over his head with his right
arm through hanging off the back shoulder The exact same
utility belt that I bought. I said, what's with you?
I thought that was a fannyback and he looked at me.
He said, you don't know anything. This is a utility belt.
And with that I'll take a break. We tug fashion on.

(30:36):
Everybody knows, but no one knows back in a minute.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Always in fashion.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
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Speaker 1 (32:32):
Welcome back to it Always in Fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
The more I listen to everyone talk, I gotta tell you,
the more I want to be a recluse. I'm glad
I'm home. Glad I'm not hanging out with all of
you out there. It's hard to like people. Everybody behaves
like they know, and no one knows. Everybody behaves like
they know, but no one knows. I want to talk
a little bit about life and healthcare of all things

(33:01):
I mentioned earlier in the show. When I was a
young man, I just came up with this thing. I
was watching. I was going around me, and I said,
if we could stop eating, drinking and breathing, we could
live forever. Little did I know how much I knew
when I was a young man, because I was right.
Think about where we are today, Chipolti poisoning people, crazy

(33:24):
romaane lettuce Ah through tons of states poisoning people. Let's
not forget one hundred million eggs in the United States
were poisoned. And what about the water in Flint, Michigan
poisoning young people kids. Everyone look at this. We're eating, breathing,
and drinking and killing ourselves. And then we get into

(33:48):
the polluted air in China. The air is so bad
from industry. There's so many things in the world that
aren't right. But everybody seems to have an answer. Everybody knows.
But if we didn't have enough problems, now we have
a new one. See, everybody knows about that, but no

(34:10):
one knows or no one focuses on airwaves. You know
what's going on in this world now with air waves,
we're walking around, We're minding our own business. The airwaves
they all have this toxic stuff in it. That's right.
No one seems to know what, doesn't want to know what,

(34:31):
doesn't care. The government's not telling you. Now. I mentioned
Apple before my favorite company to pick on, but in
that case, I'm not picking on them. I just want
to make a point. Apple, like Star Trek, has those EarPods.
Now everything is Bluetooth. They're moving to bluetooth. They're making
phones that are designed not to have earpieces. Me I

(34:56):
never put a phone by my head. I always get
the earpiece, plug it in, and keep it as far
away from my head as I possibly can. Because there
was so much research out there starting to scare us
about the phone next to your head, those waves, what
it would do to you. Interestingly enough, all that information
dried up. Nobody talks about it anymore. I wonder whether

(35:20):
it's like the tobacco industry. Nobody talked about cigarettes until
they were forced to. I wonder, now, what's going on
with all these air waves. We have those ear pods now,
by the way, anyone walking around with them is an idiot.
You look stupid. Are you kidding me? Those white things
sticking out of your ear, I might as well have
them sticking out of your nose. They look ridiculous. You

(35:41):
want to talk about a fashion show and style? How
can anyone in this world stick those in their ears?
But that's a separate subject. I'm worried about the health.
How can all those airwaves. It's not enough that all
our houses I have Wi Fi floating around, they have
the TV wire as they have all this stuff, and
all those things are flowing through your body and through

(36:02):
your head. My thought about if we all can stop eating,
drinking and breathing, we could live forever. But I don't
have an answer for this one, because they're there, and
we're stupid enough to put eepods in our ears. It's
not what they're called ear pods in our ears. And
I did some research and the medical industry split. They're split.

(36:26):
Some doctors will say, based on the research done, we
have a concern that it can cause something very bad.
Other doctors says the research isn't conclusive enough to make
a determination, and they can do something to you by
putting that next to your head. And then there are
people who just ignore it. Well, if you ask me,
that's not a very comforting thing, which leads me to

(36:48):
a story I want to tell you about hearing aids.
I don't know how many of you out there have
hearing aids. I never thought about it. I have a
very close friend, young guy, young guy who's hearing deteriorated,
and finally whoever convinced him to go to the doc

(37:08):
that to get his ears checked did and because I
was his friend, he asked me to come along and
I said, sure, I'll go with You went up and
met with the people that checked his ears. There was
a technician checked his ears, came back and said it's deficient.
His hearing was impaired, and they suggested he gets a
hearing aid. And the first thing they said is you
are in luck. Because the technology now is all Bluetooth,

(37:34):
all Bluetooth. You can go to the movies, you pressure iPhone.
It's hearing accessibility. I think it's called accessibility through your iPhone.
You could adjust the sound and the loudness in each
ear of your hearing aids. You can have different settings
for where you are. If you're in a restaurant and
people are talking right at you versus you were in

(37:56):
a concert where you want surround sound. All of this
now is controllable to your hearing aids through your iPhone.
Pretty amazing when you think about it. So I'm sitting
there listening and my friend is trying them out. He's
asking questions, but he didn't ask the question. So I

(38:18):
said to the technician, are these dangerous? And she says,
what do you mean dangerous? I said, well, you know
what was bluetooth right in his head. It's not even
near his head. It's going to be in his head,
I don't think. So why would you say that? I said,
you said, think we got silence for a minute. She says,

(38:40):
a wrong choice of words. They're not dangerous. How could
it be dangerous? It's so little a degree of radiation
that is the word you used. It's less than what's
in your TV. Oh great, back to that now, all
those radiation waves, airwaves floating through that house. I said, well,
I don't know, on his behalf less than the TV.

(39:04):
I'm not sure that makes me any more comfortable for him.
You know, you're talking about it. It's in his head,
in both ears, it'll be on for hours at a time,
and you're not sure if it's safe or not? Is
anyone I've ever talked to? Nobody? Is the first time
anybody's asked me that question. So I said, I don't
know what kind of patience you're getting. I don't know
why anybody wouldn't ask that question. I, for one, don't

(39:25):
want the eye watch. I don't want that radiation on
my wrist all the time. What's it doing there? I
have no idea. I got enough in the airwaves. I'm paranoid.
But who needs it? So I said, can we call
the doctor back in here? And she's laughing, and she's laughing,
but she's looking at me like I'm crazy. My friend's
starting to laugh at me too, and he's looking at me, saying,

(39:47):
what are you doing? What am I doing? You asked
me to come along? You want me to be a
potted plant and sit in the corner. I could do that.
Why did you ask me to come along? So I
call a doctor and she brings him in. How are you?
I said, I have a question on behalf of my
friend And he's looking at me like, who the F
for you?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
You know?

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I said it is dangerous. He says, what do you
mean dangerous? I said, all this bluetooth in your head?
He said no. I said, can I stop you for
a second, right there? Do cell phones have radiation that
could be damaging to your your brain? You know what
it causes? He said, well, there's research that says it

(40:30):
can be. There's also research that says it won't be.
I said, well, isn't that enough to have a concern
with all this bluetooth sitting in his head from one
ear to the other, that maybe it could be a problem.
He said, well, there's no research on it. These are
too new. I start to laugh. So let me ask
you this question. I might be right. This could be dangerous.

(40:53):
And you know, twenty years from now, he's a young guy.
He's got all these problems because he put these things
in your head, and you are not sure he got quiet.
I don't believe they're dangerous, which, my friends, is the
theme of tonight's show. Everybody knows, but no one knows.

(41:13):
Think about it. I'll be back in a minute.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Always in fashion.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
I spent a lifetime of my career building the van
usen Brand, and I am so pleased that they're back
with us now talking about suits. Men were dressing up
again and it's become cool to wear a suit. Suits
can be worn on multiple occasions in multiple ways. You
could wear a suit formally to go out at night

(41:38):
or to an event, to wear a suit to the
office with or without a tie. If you look closely
now fashion trends, suits are being worn with turtlenecks or
mark next. The choices are endless and every one of
them looks right. You could really really look the part.
I believe that in packaging yourself is as important does

(41:59):
the products you and wearing a suit is one of
those things that make men look their best. Venuesing invented
a new idea. It's called the cool flex suit. It's
been engineered with stretch technology, giving you the most comfortable
fit and mobility. It's wrinkle resistant fabric, it's cool moisture wiki.
It makes it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed

(42:21):
just now, this new style of looking sharp while feeling
cool and comfortable is amazing and I'm so excited that
the ven Using company is involved in this new technology
and is embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's
not forget Venues and made it's name with dress shirts.
It's only proper that the suit business follows strongly in

(42:43):
its way. You can find Vanues in cool Flex men's
stretch suits at jcpenny are online at jcpenny dot com. Guys,
they're great. You should go look at them.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Everyone behaves like they know everyone knows, but no one knows.
The more subjects I think about, the more pundance are
talking about how much they know. The more I get angry,
tune out. I can't believe what I'm listening to because
no one knows. I want to talk now about something
that's near and dear to anyone who lives, commutes, hangs out,

(43:25):
spends time, works in New York City. You have to
think about New York City traffic. It's a disaster, a disaster.
I know. I've driven to New York for work my
entire life, and a good day was an hour and
a half from Long Island or Brooklyn. Now a good

(43:47):
day is two hours. Most of the time, it could
be two and a half hours. It is crazy. Now,
what has changed? First of all, what's changed to the
bicycle lanes? Cutting off free access? Told the cars I
don't want to go there. What really changed in New
York is uber Let's talk about this a minute. Taxi medallions.

(44:11):
You know that yellow taxi is not a taxi unless
it has that silver medallion on the front. The taxi
medallion is the right to operate a vehicle from the
Taxian Limousine Commission in New York City. The taxi medallions
used to be the mecca for small business owners in
the city. Was a chance for young person to buy
into the American dream. The city protected the value of

(44:34):
these medallions, which is the Taxi and Limousine Commission that
controlled a number of taxis through the issuance of these
medallions offered to the people who wanted to buy them.
This kept the value high. You kept demand high and
the supply low. The value was high, the payments to
the cities were high, and the person who invested in

(44:56):
the taxi medallion through hard work, if they really worked
hard over for a period in time, they'd paid down
the debt that they incurred for the taxi medallion. And ultimately,
when they're ready to retire or they want to do
something else, they can sell that taxi medallion for a
huge profit. Because it was all controlled. It worked for everyone.
It was the American way. Now, let's think about the riders.

(45:22):
They had public transportation, they had trains and buses, they
had limousine services, but we all had choice. Everybody knows.
Everybody thought they knew what was the future the future.
Nobody knew technology change the world. Technology knows Uber changed

(45:45):
the world. Uber provides a reliable, clean, cost effective, brilliant
system for public transportation, and virtually they killed the New
York City taxi and destroyed brick travel above ground in
New York City. It is brilliant and whoever invented it,

(46:05):
whatever the billions he has, he deserves it because he
changed the world for the better, except if you're a
commuter above ground in New York City. So Uber basically
destroyed the taxi and medallion business. The government wasn't quick
enough to anticipate what was coming. The reason I thought
about this. It's now in the news and the city

(46:28):
is either passing or will pass legislation to limit the
amount of Uber cars or lift cars coming in later.
But who can feel bad for taxis well, the independent
driver and medallia owner disappeared. They no longer exist. The
medallions are just too expensive, the too few of them,
and the big fleets gobble them all up. We're not

(46:49):
riding with entrepreneurs anymore. We're dealing with companies sucking every
penny out of the system. The rates going up, although
they're controlled to a great degree by the city than
the Taxi and Limousine Commission. They have run down cars, uncleaned,
they're unkept, they're smelly, they're often dangerous, not well maintained.

(47:10):
The tires are always down, very very scary, and they're
never ever there when you need them. Uh you ever
try to get a cab when it's raining. That's where
the term I think fair, where the friend came from.
Sure they're there when the sun is out, you don't
need them, you know, it's nice to have a dancing
you go take them, But when it's raining, forget it.
They're never there. I must admit they do supply jobs,

(47:32):
and that's important. But Uber also supplies jobs. But this
is for lower income people that didn't or couldn't at
one time afford to buy their own cars. I'm talking
about the drivers now. But what was great at one
time the taxis if you believe it, they're no longer great.
Any wonder why Uber, aside from brilliance, is the future.

(47:56):
It proves one thing that no one knows. Everybody thinks
they know what the future, but no one knows Uber.
They are brilliant. Now. I took my first ride the
other day. I never took an Uber. I was resistant.
I was a car service kind of guy. I called
Uber came to the place right on time. I saw

(48:17):
him coming on the phone screen. You could see the
Rudy's taking. You know how long he's going to take
to be there. You know his name, you know his
phone number if there's a problem. And he shows up
and he took me home. I didn't have to take
out any cash. I didn't have to give him a wallet.
I didn't have to think about my tip. All he knows.
The guy picked me up in a decent, clean car
and drove me back to my house. It was amazing,
And I've taken a number of times over the last

(48:39):
few weeks, and now I'm a fan. But let's get
back to the city. Sixty five thousand cars from uber
or in New York City. As if on traffic wasn't
terrible enough, had sixty five thousand cars? Is there any
wonder why this is a disaster. There are four hundred
thousand trips per day added to the traffic jam that

(49:03):
we knew as New York City, and that doesn't include
left Those are Uber numbers. But nonetheless it's efficient and
great and brought to you by technology. Steve Jobs said,
people don't know what they want until you show it
to them. Well, Uber showed us what we want. The
only problem is the world we're living in just got

(49:24):
more congested. Yes, Uber is brilliant, exciting. I don't know
where it's leading, know where it's going. Everybody thinks they know.
Everybody has an opinion, nobody knows. As we get stuck
in traffic in New York City every day, be back
in a minute.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Always in fashion.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
My favorite brand has always been ISID. My company at
one time bought that brand. The CEO of the company
handed it to me and said, you better make it work.
And I put everything in my career to make eyest
work can. I fell in love with that brand, and
to this day it is one of the most exciting
endeavors I've ever gotten involved with. Isod is an incredibly

(50:09):
strong golf brand. If you play golf, if you play
tennis for that matter. They make a great polo shirts.
I mean great. They're fit perfect. The material is unique
because it's a PK fabric that waffle leave, you see,
and it's made of a blend of cotton and microfiber

(50:31):
that allows you to stretch. And very often they are
treated with solar protection as well, so they stretch, they're
comfortable and they breathe well. And one thing about ISOD
they always fit. They'll never tug on you. You put
it in your waist that they'll fit you great. The colors,
patterns are sensational. Now I will also tell you ISOT

(50:53):
makes great shorts and great golf pants. You're a golf friend.
You want to look good. You don't have to think
about how do I look. You want to think about
how you play, not how you feel. ISOD is the
brand for you. I know I was there when it
was created. The strategy behind that brand is brilliant. It's
one of my favorite brands. While I talk about it,
I should tell you about the men's sportswear. ISOD wasn't

(51:15):
enough being a golf brand. It wasn't enough being just
great polo shirts with logos without logos. Incredible brands and
story and history. ISOD makes salt weather programs. They have
great printed woven shirts, short sleeves. They look excellent with collars,

(51:35):
excellent with shorts, excellent with cotton pants, of which they
also make This whole salt order relaxed line from ISOD,
whether it be fleece, cotton sweaters, knit polos, woven shirts
and pants of a range of colors and fabrics that
a perfect for a guy wants to go casually in
the spring and summer of this year. And here's the thing,

(51:58):
Iszod is affordable. Everyone listening to me talk about this
brand can afford to buy it and know that there
are a lot of other brands that also have a
look like ISID. Although I don't believe it's fun as
ISAAA is. The brand has a lot of energy in it,
but at the price points no one can compete. You

(52:21):
can find isyaesa at You're leading retails and online at
ion dot com. Talk to you later, guys. I wish
you are very happy springing summer, and I help you
by telling you if you were isaon, you're gonna look great.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's your host, Mark.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Webber there's so many things going on in this world,
and everyone has an opinion, and frankly, everyone's entitled to
an opinion. But that's all it is, is an opinion.
If you look at our world today, you look at
our government, we have the Democrats and the Republicans, the
liberals versus the conservatives. They do not agree on everything.

(53:03):
And if you watch the news and you listen to
the talk, they're so diametrically opposed. They don't agree on anything.
Who's right. Nobody knows, Nobody has the franchise on what
the right answers are. That's what we've been talking to tonight.
My own personal where I thought I knew had to
do with radio. Ever since I was a young man,

(53:23):
I wanted to be on radio. I wrote two books.
My first book. After the first book, I used it
as a platform to go on the radio. The idea was,
you know, I'll work at a big company and I'll
also be on the radio. And I realized I couldn't
do it. Everybody knows, nobody knows. I thought I knew.
When I wrote my second book, I decided I wanted
to go to the radio and be your host. And
here I am talking about a myriad of subjects. Always

(53:43):
in fashion first and foremost is a business show. It
used the hook of fashion and luxury to draw you in,
but it's not only about that. It's about business first.
Success is always in fashion, careers, business and life. I
wanted to be on the radio. I thought it would
be extraordinary. It is chapter three of my career. But

(54:04):
here's the surprise. What I never knew. What I didn't know.
I tell people I'm on the radio, I expect them
to jump up and down. How did you do that?
That's extraordinary. I've listened to this guy. I've listened to
that guy. That is amazing. I thought when I announced
chapter three of my career it would be as big
as the other segments in my career. CEO of Philip

(54:26):
stan Using then Using Cavil Klain, Tommy Hilford, CEO of
Levetano Embessy in the United States. Now I am a
radio talk show host on WABC, the largest talk radio
station in the country. Go figure, nobody knows, nobody cares.
I have not gotten the excitement that I had hoped.
Go figure. If there's ever been a surprise to me,

(54:49):
it's a little reaction. I get to being on the radio.
People don't realize that they're billion listeners to radio every day,
billions people in their cars, people tuning in the radio
still a factor, but people just don't seem to care.
What I found out was all they want to know.
If I have a podcast, that's what they want to know. Unfortunately,

(55:11):
WABC websites we extremely show. Every week we have a
podcast to go back in and listen to it. I'm
on Apple and a whole other platforms if you want
to hear this show. But the shocker shocker to me
chasing this career for twenty years and making it happen
and being on this radio station. I expected people to

(55:33):
think I was doing something bigger than life, and in
the end they care about podcasts. Go figure, everybody knows,
nobody knows. This is always in fashion and tonight I'm
proving the point that everybody knows, but no one knows.
Good Night,