Everyone Is Annoying

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This show is produced and hosted byMark Webber. The show is sponsored by
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Who is Mark Webber. He's aself made business executive here to help you
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Paris. His global success story inthe luxury world of fashion is inspirational.
He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic proof that the American
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Webberber. Everyone is annoying except me. I'm perfect. No one else.

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You're all annoying. You're setting yourways and you're opinionated. You're arrogant,
you're often wrong, never in doubt. You watch the news. You're a
world leader. Now. Now,don't get me wrong. If I don't
know you, I don't care.If I don't interact with you, so
be it. Enjoy yourself. It'sjust that it seems every human I talk
to or talks to me annoying.You never notice in every walk of life

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every endeavor, every phone call,every encounter, every service person, every
TV comment to every news correspondent,actor, actress, podcaster. They're being
interviewed annoying. Uber drivers, cabdrivers, pedestrians are annoying. The worst
in New York City, the bicycles. They're all freaking annoying. Used to

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be able to look left and seewhere the cars were coming, all right,
Now you got to look like threeheads. You have to look behind
you everywhere. They're so freaking annoying. Don't get me started. Everyone you
work with is annoying. They're unhappy. They're waiting for anyone to offend them
so they could step up and beoutraged. They're angry. They have to
be there. I can't take it. The world has become annoying. Let's

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see who's annoying. This week,Fouci went from saint to sinner. By
the way, if you listen tothis rhetoric, this stuff, COVID was
a figment of our imagination. Nowit was nothing so easy to say that.
Now got hit with a plague wasspreading rapidly the world. The US
government how to figure out what todo anyway. This week, Fouci went

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from Saint to Sinner annoying? Andthen, oh, my goodness, have
you watched our president? Have youlistened to Kamala? Have you listened to
the Hunter stuff? Jean Pierre andwhat everything she has to say is crazy
crazy? Everything he's going on isnormal, is crazy speaking crazy? Ravan

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F. Kennedy Junior this week haseither got the facts right or he's insane.
How annoying? Everyone is annoying?How in the world could anyone criticize
put America first? And they dowhat country does and put itself first?
What business doesn't put itself first.I've never met a supplier, a retailer,

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a manufacturer in my career who gaveme favorable terms at their expense.
Every penny is hard fought over.It's annoying that we have this attitude.
Everything I heard this week was annoying. That became tonight's show. Everyone is
annoying now speaking annoying, my lawyer, my co host, and my son

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Jesse Webber. Hey, Jess,you're calling me annoying. Now, No,
I just brought you in at theappropriate time. Don't be annoying.
What would you say if I saidyou were annoying? How would you feel
all right, don't get your backup, mister Jesse Webber. It's not
about us. Okay, Well,what a second you want to talk about
annoying? Mister? I can't makea decision on anything you don't think that's

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annoying? And what does that mean? By the way, I don't make
decisions. I bet you can't evengive me an example. I don't think
you want to go there. Whydon't we just move on? No,
you made him statement. Give mean example. You can't. All right,
I'm sure the audience already knows thatyou have trouble making decisions, but
this is a recent one. Iasked you last week what time do you
want to play golf this weekend?And you said to me, quote,

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you decide anytime works for me.So I made a tea time of nine
fifteen in the morning and you writeme that's too early. It is,
okay? So then what do Ido? I make eleven forty five and
then you write me that's too late. You want to talk about annoying.
That's annoying. For the purpose ofthis discussion, let's get into what got
me thinking about this right now?Your wife? Wait, where is this

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going? Now? I don't likethis. Your wife was incredibly annoying the
other night at Dinna. Okay,first you attack me, now you attack
my wife. I didn't attack you. You're annoying. I just mentioned I
brought you in. You assumed itsattacking here. I can't wait to hear
this. You share it to thewhole audience. How my wife is annoying?
I just hope she's not listening livetonight. That's what I hope.

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Too bad. I don't debate stylewith your new missus, let alone anyone
in the world for that matter.What are you talking about Friday night?
What you do? I hosted DanAbrams show on News Nation. I love
that. That's one of my favoritethings to do. I thought it went
absolutely terrific. You get good feedback, excellent feedback. People love the show.
They said to me, they wantme to do it more often.
I love seeing you on that showmajor news network. I'm loving it.

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You're there in the beginning and developing. I love it. And you look
so professional on screen. Okay,where we were going with this? Yeah,
your hair is long, it wassilky. It looked amazing. You
look different from all those other guys. You just have your own look,
and I told you that at Dinah. I appreciate that. But are we
talking about my hair now? No, Conceptionally you said it was too long,

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you needed a haircut. I do, I do. I think it's
a little outrageous. But you saidI don't know what I'm talking about.
That's what you said exactly. Andthen the new wife pops in and said,
I like Jesse with shorter hair.She's entitled to her opinion, not
one with discussing the business, orif that business fashion in this case,

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always in fashion, to ceo,jobs, to books, radio podcast.
I don't debate packaging yourself with anyone, let alone your wife. Well,
I will tell you people in theindustry have said my hair is too long,
and they said it's better short.She's not wrong. If you want
to talk about business, a lotof people say anchor should have shorter hair.
You know, if Chris Como saysit to you, Dan Abrams says

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it to you, you know what. I'll listen, but I won't listen
to anybody else. Okay, evenif they say it, I'm going to
argue with you. You have alook. It was amazing, You're so
handsome with the blue eyes. Youjust look great. And here we are
debating at dinner with your wife.All right, I'll tell you what.
In the interest of let's call itcommon sense, happy wife, happy life.

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So let's move on from this.Where did you get the idea for
tonight's show from your wife? Atdinner? She's annoying? Ever think that
maybe you're annoying? No? Allright, okay, now that that's settled,
the truth be known. She said, everyone's annoying, and that got
me thinking, and it got meinto this week, which drove me crazy.

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Someone, not just your wife,who shall remain nameless, has been
chasing me to meet them and me, I'm not agreeing to set a meeting.
I've been avoiding humans as most peoplethese days. It got heated,
started yelling at me. I couldn'tbelieve this person's yelling at me. He
called to mind the show we didin March. I sent it to them
just to make a point. Andhere's what it said on the show.

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I opened up with this. Iloved it. They'll try and pin me
down. Don't even think about tryingto make plans with me. I won't
meet you anywhere at any time.You have better chance bumping into me.
I'm gonna point in my life thatI want to be free for you to
do what I want, with whomI want, when I want. I
can't be forced, threatened, pushedinto anything. I refuse to make decisions.
It's impossible for me to make upmy mind. I wasn't always this

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way, but this is the wayI am now. So this person trying
to pin me down and set upa business meeting, I just couldn't do
it. And that got me thinking. And from that on, between your
wife saying everybody's annoying and this persontrying to tie me down, boom,
that's where the show came from.You know, they would look at you
and say you're annoying because they can'tcommit you to anything. Everyone's annoying except

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me, of course, only youare perfect. Don't be annoying. We'll
take a break, we'll come back, and we'll explore this subject in great
detailing. Now any of you turnaway, You're annoying anyone who's not enjoying
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look great. Welcome back to Alwaysin Fashion. Here's your host, Mark
Webber. This week tough week.Everyone's annoying. Everybody drives me crazy.
Everyone is annoying. But nothing inthis country is more annoying than the political

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situation we find ourselves in. Wecan't agree on anything, and the only
thing that seems to get people excitedis Donald Trump. You either hate them
or you love them, And bythe way, yeah, that's people on
both sides, and then they getexcited to hate him or they get excited

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to love him. Yeah, it'scrazy. Let's say, Karnan talk about
Trump, and let's talk about annoying. Jesse, you find an annoying that
everyone was trying to indict Trump.I hate the idea that our former president,
current frontrunner for the Republican nomination isfacing this. I think it's terrible
for the country. But at thesame token, what he did is really

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bad. Can't just ignore it.He can't just say this is all political.
And I could get into all thereasons why I don't think it's political.
Which indictment are we talking about rightnow? Forget about New York?
Okay, let's just talk about thedocuments investigation for a second. Okay,
So, first of all, thisguy brings this charges against him, And
it wasn't that Trump had documents.That wasn't the bad part. It's that

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he refused to turn them over.It's that he had his lawyers lie on
his behalf. Big freaking deal.We got politicians who's still holding documents.
So they rated his house in MoralLago and they took his stuff. End
of subject. They got it.It's a crime. What do you want
me to say? It's not acrime, which is the crime that they
had to raid him, or thefact that he had the documents? Spiden

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has documents, but he never refusedto turn him back over. But they
got him. See, you wantto put him in prison. I don't
want our former president in prison.I don't want the optics of it.
But what do you want me tosay? Just turn a blind eye.
I don't want you to say anything. I'm saying what I want to say.
Like them, hate him, lovehim, whatever the case may be.
They wanted the documents he tried tohold them. They got him,
end of subject. If this wasanyone else, would they be going to

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trial on this? Would they beindicted? No way you say that.
But I don't know, okay.In the history of the United States,
what are we two hundred and fortyyears old? Does anyone ever president ever
been indicted multiple times? Has anyoneever got in trouble for holding documents?
I mean, I don't want toget into it. I don't know what
happened to thirty three thousand documents HillaryClinton had? She destroyed them. Where

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is the marching her off to indictment? They looked into that and they said
that there was no criminal intent behindYou could disagree or not, but at
least they gave an answer. Whathappened to the washing and the bleaching and
the hammers and this and that?It seems a little excessive. Don't you
think that was the name of asoftware that was used. It wasn't like
it was actually whitewashing. There's alot of miscommunication about what actually happened there.

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You can't just erase things from yourcomputer that easy. They don't disappear,
okay, And why erase them?It is annoying But what you can't
do is just say, oh,just forget about it the next one,
okay, whatever summer it was twentytwenty one where all the riding was going
on, stores being burnt down,people being hurt or killed. People got

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arrested for that? Oh please,they did. They got arrested and charged.
Please. Did we arrest the mayorof Portland for allowing it to go
on and them occupy the city?Did we arrest them, did we indict
them? Did we do anything tofight back? Or we just allowed it
to go on? You could saythat's a dereliction of duty, but it's
not like he did something illegal derelictionof duties. So were they removed from

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office? Was there a discussion ofa grand jury? By the way,
there have been high profile Democrats whohave been criminally charged, who have been
investigated by the FBI. So it'snot like it's just all against people on
the right or conservatives of Republicans.It doesn't work that way. Look,
there's a lot of problems in government, it's sure, But I'm talking right
now about rioters in these cities,things going crazy. Do you remember what

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it was like in New York?Every single store had to be boarded up
and locked down. I was livingthrough it. It was terrible. It
was like mad Max. I hatedevery second of it. Okay, So
was the mayor convicted? Was heput under trial? No? No,
you're you're saying his defense should beWell, a lot of people there were
all those riots, so Trump shouldbe we should just forget about what he

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did. It doesn't work so simple. Look, will he be found guilty?
I have no idea, but I'lltell you. You can't ignore what
the facts are. He had anaid of his deliberately moved boxes to hide
it from the government. That's whathe's accused of doing. He could defend
himself say it didn't happen. Butthat's a big that's a serious allegation.
They got all the documents. Thisis so annoying. What can I say?

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And you know, people accuse meof liking Trump. This is not
about liking Trump. It's about watchingwhat's going on, and the optics of
it are terrible. Everyone who isa Trump feels he's being unfairly treated.
Wait a minute, if they comeout tomorrow and they want to bring charges
against Biden for documents, you'd haveno issue with it. If they came
out and said we want to considerindicting him for holding documents far back is

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when he was a senator, whenhe was a vice president, etc,
Etc. Etc. Why not.Don't get me wrong, I don't like
it. I don't like them doingit to Trump. I wouldn't like them
doing it to Biden. I'd believethey ought to change the rules when it
comes to documents and say that ifyou're going to talk about it being treason,
then you ought to have some veryclear understanding of what needs to be
done or don't. But I wouldn'tstart now. If you got to start

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on Trump, then you have tohandle all of them. It wasn't that
he had the documents, it washolding onto them when he shouldn't, and
it was obstructing an investigation. Ohblowney, So what I'm just making the
point. And then in terms ofJanuary six and these other charges, the
idea was is that he was instrumentalin having fake electors being inserted, trying

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to have him be the president,having Mike Pennce step in to make sure
the votes weren't certified. These areserious allegations here about what happened, Okay,
and if he really believed as presidentin the United States, the election
was rigged. It wasn't fair,there was wrongdoing going on, and trying
to figure it out. I haveno problem with that. So your defense
was that he thought the election wasstolen. He had every right to investigate,

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He had every right to see whatwas going on. Everybody was telling
him categorically, there's nothing here.There's no election fraud. Every one of
his cases was losing. He justdidn't want to accept it. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. When you're anexecutive and you're a CEO, you get
input from all kinds of people beforeyou make a decisions. But in the

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and you believe what you believe,and if you are good at what you
do, you're going to pursue yourbeliefs and enforce your will if you can,
until you are comfortable that you getthe right answer. You want to
play that game. Okay, Soyou head of a big public company,
all right, the share price isin the tubes, but you're gonna go
out and say no, no,no, no, no, no,
it's great. No, that's different. No, because he lost the election

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and didn't accept it and then goesout and say the numbers are false.
Wall Street's false. I mean,like that's what you're saying. It's the
same thing. No, if youtake it at face value. He believed
that the election was rigged, andtherefore, as American as the president,
he was going to find out oneway or another if it was, and
he was going to push conjole andsee whether he can get an answer.

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You ask me about a ceo.If his stock is tanking, if his
company's not doing well, he hasan obligation to search his own soul and
ask himself was it because of him? Does he have the answers to fix
it? And if not, stepdown. But you have to accept that
the stock price isn't doing well.He didn't even accept that he lost.

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He lived in reality where he thoughthe won in the election was stolen,
even there was no evidence to backit up. Then put him in a
sane asylum, not try him fortreason. I want to talk about this
a little bit more. Okay,this week Trump had a town hall with
Sean Hannity. Did you get tosee it? I didn't. Actually.
Now, look, Sean Hannity isa Trump advocate supporter. I don't know

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what you would call it, butyou can clearly know that he believes everything
that Trump does is right, andhe's really all Trump all the way.
Okay, I get it. Andtheir audience was probably one hundred percent Trump
bias. I get it. Thoseare town halls that are rigged because you
don't have enough of the other side. It's one way. It kind of
reminds me of another party. ButI don't want to go there. He

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was so lucid, and when hetalks about issues, hate him. Go
right ahead. There's so much stuffthat comes out of his mouth that I
hate. He makes me cringe.There's so many things I think make me
uncomfortable. I wish I could whisperhis ear and Shay, shut the hell
up. Don't you know how totalk? Don't you know how to defend

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yourself? But he has something MarkLevin, he said to him, as
the president, you had an outstandingpresidency. But it doesn't appear so because
those people in Washington. You rockthe boat, you shook up the system.
You said what no one else wouldsay, and it didn't work,

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and they will not let it stand. But over the test of time,
your history will prove that you havethe right answers. And That's where I'm
at On the subject of annoying.I believed in his policies. Now you
might think Trump is despicable. Iget it, But let's change the subject
slightly. Is that okay with you? Unless you want to say something,

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I want to change it slightly.By the way, this has nothing to
do with his policies. Whether hedid great things for the country and made
us stronger. That's a perfectly fine, reasonable conversation to have about politics.
And I don't disagree with you.Tell me one Democratic person who stood up
and said Trump's ideas many of themare great. Oh this is not saying

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Democrats are good, not at all. They're terrible. They're worse things than
even people on the right. That'snot what it is. They're never going
to give Trump credit for anything.Do you think people have faith in our
government right now? Do you thinkpeople have faith in the FBI? Now?
Do you think people have faith inthe Supreme Court? Now? Do
you think the institutions of our countryare protected and respected the way they should

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be? Well? No, becauseeverybody is making arguments based on emotion without
fact. If they listen carefully andwithout saying, oh my goodness, the
FBI is corrupt, Oh my goodness. The Supreme Court is corrupt without actually
looking at each decision and what they'vedone. Of course, that's why people
don't have faith. But that's whyit's a good thing to have an honest
conversation about what's really happened. AndI rest my case. Everyone is annoying.

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Now before I leave anywhere, Ijust want to change the dialogue a
little bit. Cocaine in the WhiteHouse. Is there anyone who believes that
there's not a camera and there's notfingerprints associated with that cocaine? Now,
I have no idea how it gotthere. I have no idea whose it
is. I do not believe it'sHunter Biden. But how convenient is it?

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It's open hunting season on Hunter Bidenand be talking about open hunting season.
You know, it drives me crazywhen these people talk. There's politicians
get up. The American people won'tstand for that. How do they speak
for the American people when the Americanpeople are three hundred million plus all over
the country. We know it's divided. It drives me crazy. I'm loving

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this say the American people are infavor of our war with Ukraine? Are
we in favor of this war?Are we voting in the United States here
that we want this war to continue? Was there a way to avoid it?
Was there another way to conduct itor end it? Where is it
saying the American people are okay thatguess has not seen anything below four dollars

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and twenty cents and who knows howlong. Now, don't get me wrong,
it's a noble effort to try andkeep Ukraine free. Where are the
Europeans? Where is their money?Why are we involved? Why is it
our war? I don't believe weshould have Russia as our enemy. Have
said it all along on the subjectof this inflation? Is there an American

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that these politicians are speaking for us? Americans understand inflation. We understand why
everything is through the roof. Weunderstand why there's supply issues. We understand
the American people know the American peopleare understanding this. I never heard anyone
say that is you're paying that fairshare. Nope, it's our debt,
our, bombs, death and destruction. I don't think the American people lear

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in favor of this. Biden oneannoying. I have something I want to
point out. Are we forgetting thatin order to avoid either a two cent
or ten cent gas hike when it'salready over foot dollars a gallon. That
the Biden administration. President Biden depletedour national oil reserves. They used up

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on going us our oil. Iheard the other day, and it's been
reported by many reliable sources that we'rerunning out of bullets, that the United
States doesn't have enough bullets to wagewar. God forbid it should happen because
we've put them all in the Ukraine. Forget the death and destruction. So

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we depleted our oil reserves. Nowwe depleted our bullet supply and bomb supply.
Is this crazy? We're allowing illegalimmigrants to flood the country at crazy
rates. We're parking them in citieswith no place to go. We have
some governors sending immigrants to other cities, sanctuary cities. This is a disaster.

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Our education is declining where I thinktwenty third in the world now we
used to be number one or two. So I have a question. If
there was a spy in the UnitedStates trying to influence policy or ruin the
country, could he do a betterjob than this administration is doing. And

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all I have to ask you,and they're trying Trump for treason. This
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back to Always in Fashion. Here'syour host, Mark Webber. Tonight,

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i'm talking annoying to me. Everyone'sannoying except May of course, but everyone's
annoying. I want to talk alittle bit about a business example. One
of my expertise is licensing. It'sthe concept of renting your name to a
company who is experienced in a particularindustry. Know how they use your name,

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and they expand your brand. So, for instance, if I believed
sunglasses would be good for my brand, If I can find a great sunglass
maker that would put my brand onsunglasses and they would make the right quality
in the right distribute, you shouldn'tit with enhance the value of my company
and pay me money because I'm rentingthe brand. I do this, and

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I make a deal, and I'vedone them all over the world in every
place, And you have to belucky, like you are with life.
You have to be lucky. Sometimesyou meet the right people, sometimes you
don't. And licensing it's very muchthe same. You have to be lucky
with the people you meet and thecompanies they run, because licensing is a
two edged sword. On the bluntedge, they're paying you money like you're

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a bank. You're paying you moneylike you have a building and they're borrowing
real estate and they're paying you forit. It's simple. You don't have
the risk. You're not designing,you're not taking the inventory, you're not
chipping, you don't have the accountspayable. It's easy. You're making money.
On the sharp side of the sword, decide you can cut you You've
lent them your brand, and veryoften they take shortcuts, maybe make lesser

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quality to make more margin, maybesell to people they're not supposed to say.
Because when you have a brand,when you think about it, you
are who you hang with. It'slike you as an individual, if you
stay with smart friends you're in asmart crowd. If you stay with people
who are honest and have integrity,you too will have honest and integrity.
You are who you live with andwho you hang with. But in our

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business, in fashion and a lotof business, a Ferrari, you buy
a Ferrari, you sign a documentthat you're not going to resell it.
Ferrari doesn't believe in reselling vehicles.You buy a Ferrari, they make you
sign a one or two year agreementthat if you choose to sell the automobile,
you have to sell it back tothem because they don't want the people

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reselling it and bringing down the imageor gouging consumers because they're on a waiting
list. They got a car andthey're going to turn it over. Very
very very real. Rolls Royce justincorporated the same process. You do it,
you're blacklisted forever. You can neverbuy a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari
in this case direct from the realand in the or luxury business, same

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thing with watches, there's a graymarket. You sell gray market for Rolex
catches, you'll never get a watchagain. So in fashion and luxury there
is a balance between what we wouldcall regular price and off price. You
know regular prices freestanding stores on FifthAvenue, but off rice might be considered

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outlet stores or TJ Max or RothStores or Burlington. And while many companies
sell into this channel, you'll neverfind luxury goods there. But by many
companies will sell into this channel.They have surplus, they have to get
rid of it, they'll sell itthere. Some companies go even further and
make goods for the channel, makeproducts directly to the channel to earn more

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money. So be it. Youmonitor it. In a licensey agreement,
you have terms and conditions for theamount that you could sell in the off
price channel. You have agreements onwhat that price will be. If you
sell it, and if God forbidyou go over it, you're going to
pay a penalty or you're going tolose the license. And this is monitored

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very closely by companies everywhere. Inmy case, I have a great story
to tell you. You want totalk annoying tonight. I had a wonderful
guy I did business within Europe.I'm not going to mention his name right
now because he's a friend, buthe could be annoying. And I've told
you great stories about him at othertimes, and I supported him. And

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one day the head of licensing comesto me. We're going through our financial
projections at this time, and shesaid, something is not making sense with
this guy's particular company. I said, what is it? She said,
we know all of his customers andhe's supposed to be behind in sales,
and in fact he's way ahead.So I said, well, what's wrong

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with that? She's wearing his wayahead? Doesn't make sense. She said,
there's one door, a name ofwhich we don't recognize, an address
that we've checked out isn't really aretail store. It's not Harrod's in London,
it's not Selfridges, it's not HarveyNichols, it's not the house of
Frasier, it's not at Deneminghams.And it's doing ten million dollars. You

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know how much business you have todo to sell ten million dollars. And
it's a door we can't find it. I said, I don't understand.
She said, we think he's sellingto discounters and he's not admitting it.
I said, he wouldn't do thatto us, He wouldn't risk the license.
He certainly wouldn't do it to me. He's a friend. Said,
well, I can't explain it,can you. I said no, but

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I will check. So I calledhim. I said, there's something going
on here. We have a problem. We found shipments to this particular door
that is doing ten million dollars andit makes no sense. Who are they?
And he said, it's impossible.I don't know what that is.
We got it from your information.Is it can't impossible. Let me check

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it out. So a week goesby here nothing, Two weeks go by.
I forgot about it, actually,but I got reminded by my head
of licensing, and I'm on myway to London. And I go to
London and I hang out with thisguy and I go through his product.
I approved all this product before heshipped in. It was great product,
really great design. I was veryexcited about it, and I listed his
distribution. I walked the stores,and we're all the best stores in London

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at that particular trip, and Iasked them about the door. I said,
look, I'm still checking. Itmight have been someone diverted the goods.
I don't know that now. Whatis diverted? Somebody buys it sells
it to someone else. Like Isaid about Ferrari or Rolls Roy and they
take the shipments. I said,but the problem is it looks like you're
selling them direct. Can't be mark. Something's not right. So that night

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I was flying home to New Yorkand for whatever reasons, I got the
lad I had to be with ThomasPink, one of the other brands I
ran the following day. It wasan emergency they needed to see, so
I extended my day one more dayand I was sleep over in London another
night, and because I was freeup having dinner with this guy, I
said, you know, I'm notgoing do you want to hang out?

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He says, you know what,I have dinner with another guy. Well,
why don't you come along. You'llhave a great time. So I'm
sitting there and having dinner. Imeet him. They're friends. They're very
friendly and apparently this guy was avery successful business man. And as he
talked, he was explaining to mehe's really in the warehouse and distribution business.
And I said, oh, really, where do you have He says,
I have a huge warehouse, millionfive square feet outside London. I

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turn over a lot of product andI'm in the business of selling clothesouts.
Really and who do you sell themall to? He says to everyone,
I have a huge clothes out business. My business is in excess of one
hundred billion dollars a year. AndI looked at it. I said,
do you do a business with youknow? I pointed to my friend there.
I said sure, I said,watching your biggest business with him?
Decan Why. So he got caughtand he looked at his friend like his

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friend was an idiot. But thefriend was being honest. And the point
is, when I say everyone's annoying, that's a great story. Here's a
guy I trust, I like,I vouch for a stand up for.
He tells me that he doesn't knowwhere his goods are going. This is
a mistake. And sure enough,here I am sitting with the guy who
bought it from it and I foundout that way, and that was annoying.

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I'll take a break back in aminute. Always in fashion, I've
been shopping for fun lately, andwhile I'm out, I always look at
men's and I look at women's what'sgoing on? And I was particularly interested
in Decam Why because of their sponsorshipof the show. I went downstairs at
Macy's thirty fourth Street, to lookaround and I saw Decamy active where And

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I promise you, ladies, itis sensational, from the sports bras to
the crop tops, to the leggingsand the sweats. It really is a
great look. And Decay had begunas an all American brand dressing casual clothes
engines, and the stuff looks incredibleand right now the colors and the styles
is so exciting that I feel greatabout the company. I always do.

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I wear the men's who were allthe time. I've had situations where I've
gone to big events and been interviewedin TV or the radio, and someone
comes up to me the microphone andlike they always do, who you wearing?
And here I am, this bigshot with a big company and they
said, well, I'm wearing aDKNY and they laugh and say, no,
you're not. Actually have one onthe internet where you could see me.

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They asked me what suit I'm wearing, and I say, dec and
why had opened it up and there'sthe DKNY label. Great fashion, It
fits well, it looks right.It's designed to make you comfortable in the
city, goes from day and tonight. You can wear it in the
morning and wear in the afternoon andyou look cool at night as well.
It's great for the office as greatFelisia. But I was talking about the
dcmy active ware. The first timeI really became aware of that. Jesse

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and I were up at Sirious Radio. He was doing a job for Serious
He does Dan Abrams show, hefills in on the Potus network, and
we're in the lobby and this hiphop group came up. Well, this
really great looking Latinos singer Girl YoungBeautiful. She's wearing a dk and Y
sports bar and I said to myself, this is amazing. Actually went to

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Macy's to see it, and I'mexcited about the brand. And I'll tell
you what, ladies, dk Yalways has great fashion for work, always
wonderful dresses and things that you'd wear. Their accessories are great, the shoes
are always very cool. But activewerein particular right now looks sensational and being
that everyone's affleisure in activewear, it'sa great time. Dcm Y go take

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Mark Webber. Hi, I'm reallyhaving fun being annoyed. I find everyone
annoying. No matter what anyone says, it seems to always be annoying.
Now maybe I'm at the point wherejust leave me alone. But no,
it's not just that I want totalk about some annoying things this week.
You ever get on the phone withsome of the cell phone and either they

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don't hear you or you don't hearthem well, and you start arguing,
who's the problem? I had thatwith your brother this week. There's something
wrong with your phone. How doyou know it's my phone? I'm hearing
you perfectly, it's your phone.It can't be my phone. Well,
in all honesty, it is yourphone. Because I've had a problem talking
to you as well, So whydon't you say so? Because I knew
you'd be annoying about it. Veryfunny, by the way, speaking of

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that, you know what the worstone is is when you're talking to somebody
and you're laying out an important pointand you make your point and then you
don't hear anything because the phone hungup. You know, it's interesting.
Technology is extraordinary. Go think thatyou'll be walking around someday with a computer
in your hand that allows you tostay connected to everyone in the world,
anywhere in the world. It's amazing. But the truth be known, I've

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seen no one invest in the soundquality of cell phones ever. You never
hear them talking about we did this, we did this, strip them making
the cameras better, but never thevoices. You ever noticed that? Yeah,
it's I think that that's not evenabout the phone, that's more about
the phone lines and the connection.I don't agree with you. I don't

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know that they have the best microphones, the best speakers, the best everything.
If they did, they talk aboutit. I never heard one cell
phone say our service is better thananyone, our clarity is better than anyone.
Never, But I'll move on.I find that annoying. You know
what else I find annoying. Isaw Mission Impossible. Oh, I thought
it was great. What do youthink? Why did you think it was
great? Amazing action, good story, never board adventure Tom Cruise is amazing.

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Was it my favorite? Mission Impossible? Maybe not? But I thought
it was very entertaining in a greattime. Okay, I agree with you
on one point. I thought itwas amazing and I had a great time
in that regard. I thought thewomen were interesting and they were beautiful,
and they were fun and they hadvery very good parts. But here's what
bothered me about the movie. Prettymuch, we've seen all the action before

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that whole train thing. We sawit on Wolverine, we saw it in
Tom Cruise's first movie with the train. It didn't feel new to me.
And then you get to the carchases. Car chase is a ruin.
Now, there's nothing that goes onin car chases that hasn't been done before.
It's beautiful, it's fun to watch, but it bothered me that it

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seemed like repetitive. Tell me I'mwrong. What about the jump? The
jump? Big deal? One jump? And you know what bothered me with
the jump? The actual culmination botheredme because it reminded me of James Bond
movie with either Pierce Press and youat Jamore. It was too comical.
It wasn't as seriousness I would thinkthe show deserved. I disagree. I

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don't want to give it away.But he had to figure out a way
how to get somewhere, and itwas pretty thrilling how it happened. And
look, the only criticism I haveis they showed way too much of the
jump and like behind the scenes andcommercials. It took away from it a
little bit, but it still wasamazing to say. You know what else
makes me crazy? Annoying? Well, I want to give one? I
want to give one? Okay,great? You know what is super annoying

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when you're in a store and thesales associate follows you like they're just all
over you, looking at everything thatyou're doing, or like, oh,
that's a good choice. Oh canI help you with anything? Like just
leave me alone, like back upa little bit. You don't know how
to blow them off. I said, I'm good right now, thanks,
And then they keep following you like, oh that's a good selection. That
is annoying. You know, it'salso annoying when they clean up. If
you look at it an item andyou pick it up and then you put

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it down, you fold it lightly. It's not perfect. Right after you
do it, they fold it.How annoying is that? That is annoying?
But you know what the most annoyingone for me this week is,
And if that's not considering all thehonking driving into city and in the city,
it's the traffic driving me crazy.It's so annoying. Not that you
know what really drove me crazy?TV commercials. Do you know what the

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TV commercial other than the five hundreddrugs that are being offered to baby boomers
for whatever the elements are, youknow what the most conspicuous TV commercial this
week was diet coke. I haven'tseen a coke a diet coke commercial in
years. And every time I turnedon the TV, diet coke commercials were

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on and considering the who or theportion of the who has just said,
diet coke make cause cancer. Nowthey come out with TV commercials and no
one's saying anything. I'm saying it. I mean they're doing it because they
have to regain confidence in their brand. Yeah, drink a soda that gives
you cancer or may give you cancer. I think that's perfect for commercials,
don't you. The other thing,I went to Costco this week. I

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hadn't been in Costco in a while, and of all things, I needed
batteries, and I know I getthem there relatively fair prices in a large
quantity of them. But after gettinginto Costco and staying online for twenty minutes,
watching people unload four hundred items andhaving to wait there and then realizing
they don't give your bags you takethem out in your wheelie caught. The

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whole experience of Costco drove me crazy. It wasn't enjoyable, although I would
I would say the price makes itworthwhile. Do you want to hear something
that really annoys me. It's veryspecific. I'm listening. You ever go
to a restaurant and it's somebody's birthday, and you make the effort to tell
the restaurant before, or you sneakaway from the table and you tell the
waitress or the major day, Hey, can you bring this CaCO? Can

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you bring a dessert over surprise theperson whose birthday it is? And they
say sure. The meal wraps up, and instead of just bringing the cake
with the candles and surprising the person, somebody thinks it's a good idea to
take plates and forks and knives andput them out before the cake comes,
and it ruins the surprise that annoysme so much, and all the time

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I feel the urge to speak tothe person, like, what's your thought
process here? Why do you thinkthis was a good idea? Ruins the
soul surprise that annoys me. Yeah, you're a hundred percent right. I'll
give you another annoying one, becauseyou know, I'm shot out of a
cannon. I had a million thisweek Optimum. I've been talking for a
year about the problems I had withOptimum, my service being out for weeks

(47:43):
on end and holding it together patchwork, and fortunately about a month ago they
sent this guy. His name wasAnthony, and he was brilliant, and
he overrode the guy who was herea week earlier who told me all my
boxes are obsolete. They all haveto be returned, optimen replaced with others,
and when they're done, you haveto bring in a computer guy to

(48:04):
get the whole thing all done.And I was distroyed, and I asked
them to send me a genius.The guy figured it out and it's been
brilliant. Knock on wood, knockon wood, knock on wood, brilliant.
But I've been trying to collect nowfor six months the money they owe
me for all the time that mysystem was out, and I can't get
anywhere, and it's so annoying.It's driving me crazy. Now the money's

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not going to change anything. Idon't care, and it's working now and
I'm it's a godsend, but Ican't get to anywhere on first base with
that. I also get really annoyed. Do you ever notice when people just
have the urge to make obnoxious comments, like they all try to be wise
guys and funny, and it justdoesn't make sense. I give you an

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example. Playing golf a few weeksago, I didn't hit the best shot.
Guy standing nearby a golfer goes,that was a bad shot. Why
do you have to say that?What's it is? Business? Yeah?
Why does he have to be awise guy about that? Everybody's annoying.
This has been annoying. Not toshow I've had a great time. The
world is annoying. I don't knowabout you, but everyone I talked to

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is annoying. The only person inthe world I can think of is not
annoying. That's me. I'm perfect, But I will say the government agencies
lately I want to call out.They deserve the credit. I don't dread
going into the Motor Vehicle Bureau anylonger. I actually enjoy going to the
post office. Speaking post office,they finally raised their prices on their forever
stamps way to Go, and theymade a sizeable increase. Why I don't

(49:29):
like paying it? As a consumer? I got to give them credit.
It's time you want to laugh atTrump and call him annoying for a night
without going annoying. I gotta tellyou he was right. How could the
post office possibly lose money? Theyhave a monopoly on the mail. You
want to give me a job andpay me a percentage of whatever I save.
I want to go run the postoffice. I guarantee you within a
year they'll be the most profitable division. I also want to give a shout

(49:51):
out to US Passport Agencies. Iwent there to renew my passport. They
were great, and they told meit's going to take up to eleven weeks.
Three weeks, I got a passport, and I gotta tell you it's
beautiful. If you haven't seen thenew passport, it's beautiful. I'm proud
to hold it and I was excitedto get it. But in the night
we're talking, you know, Iwant to talk a little about coming attractions.

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I don't know about you, butsometimes an idea today planned for months
later just doesn't feel as good.I accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from Mr.
Magazine, and next week I'm actuallygetting the award. You know,
I thought the wonder, why amI doing this? Do I need authentication?
Do I need validation that I hada career, that I made a

(50:35):
contribution I did good. No.But on the other side, my whole
family is going to be there.Jesse and Jared, my sons, are
going to give me the award.So that's priceless. My whole family,
we have a table. It's goingto be a nice thing, and I
suppose I'm accepting it on their behalf. I don't need accolades. I know
who I am. On the otherside, I'm going to see an industry

(50:59):
that's three one hundred and fifty peoplesold out. I helped the fact that
my name was used. We gotextra ads in the magazines, and there's
some very nice tributes played out tome that you could see I posted on
Always in Fashion Instagram or if youlook up Mmmer's magazine July issue you might
see it very nice. And thepeople who turned out for me, I

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really appreciate all the sponsors showed upand it's really really nice and it's going
to be meaningful. And why amI telling you this on a night that's
annoying. I think I'm a littleannoyed that I have to deal with this.
But on the other hand, I'mvery excited because it is for the
family priceless, and I want totell you from upcoming attraction point of view.
Next week's show, we're going totalk about lifetime achievement. With that,

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I hope you enjoyed the show Idid. If you didn't, it's
because you're annoying. Good Night,