In Search Of Good News

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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 find your success, from theNew York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne

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in Paris. His global success storyin the luxury world of fashion is inspiration
off. He's gone from clerk toCEO twice. Mark is classic proof that
the American dream is alive. Andwell, here's your host of Always in
Fashion, Mark Webber. Weber EveningLadies and gentlemen, And this is the

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good news. Well not so fast. I must admit I don't like watching
television, reading newspapers, listening toradio anymore. It's just bad news.
And it's always bad news. Politics, war, inflation, mayhem, murder,

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cheaters, liars, business failings,natural disasters, the scandals, and
then the far left they run thecountry and they're alienating half of the country.
I'm sick of politically correct. Welost freedom of speech somewhere along in
the line. I seem to rememberreading that freedom of speech was important in

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this country. I wasn't maybe thefirst amendment. Oh well, we've been
inundated with bad news, i'd say, of late, but it seems to
be all the time if you watchclosely, there's very little good news,
and it's often relegated to fluff pieces, non consequential human interest stories. Dorgye
finds way home, father day incoming. That's the best you got,

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No way if it wasn't for badnews, there being no news at all.
Now we're good with bad news,And then how about withholding bad news,
or as I like to think ofit, hiding of news. It's
recently come out again for a longtime, artificial sweetness might cause bad stuff.

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I don't even want to say it. There's a survey here, a
survey there. I'm a diet coke. I love it. So I figured,
you know, maybe I'll start drinkingdiet snapples. Same stuff, same
problem, same everything. I triediced tea, all that same stuff.
And the question is, is allthese sugar substitutes destroying humans more so than

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sugar, which is making us obeseand also destroying us. What's the truth
why isn't it screamed out loud?Does anybody remember cigarettes smoking? There are
warnings in fine fine print. Inever heard you smoke, you die?
Then the kudata. Let's not finishthere with the news that no one wants

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to say. What's going on withthese UFO sightings? There are too many
to count and far too many toignore. Somebody knows something? Would alien
life be good news or bad?Who knows? Where do we go for
the truth? The good, thebad, the ugly. Used to be
the New York Times not now usedto be the FBI questionable who used to

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be the Department of Justice before theybecame justice warriors? I don't know,
used to be the President. Igot news for you. It all used
to be. You can't find thetruth, even if you can handle it.
I've wanted to call the show goodnews, but I'm struggling to find
it. M I started to thinkabout it. First up, artificial intelligence

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is going to improve our lives,make us fast and smarter or better.
Then I remember the machines and determinating, thinking we're inferior and wiping us out
because we're in the way. Heis there any good news there? We're
getting plenty of warnings about artificial intelligence, electric cars will save our planet?
Or the mining materials required to manufacturers, the batteries drilling the earth, polluting

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the environment. And where do allthe discarded batteries go landfill ruining the environment?
Maybe if you go to the oceanslike plastics. Yeah, worse,
why don't we ruin the oceans withbatteries? And then again, is the
electricity demand for charging going to cripplethe planet, to cause more blackouts than

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we've ever seen because the grid can'tsupport it. And when your car runs
out of juice on the road,how do you get home? Do we
have these answers? Once again?The truth is not good news. I
hate being negative. I don't likecomplaining. Frankly, I'd rather be angry.
I like angry, and I amangry at the leadership humans. Thank

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you for pissing me off. Itgives me energy. Question is energy to
do? What? Search for somegood news? Well, my son got
married. He's still not here,he's on his honeymoon. Can't wait to
have him back on the show totalk to talk married man. Good news
and by the way, his wedding. We missed the Canadian fires by a
week now. That is good news, and that's a relief. I was

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just named and we will be receivingan award, a lifetime achievement award from
my career by Mr Magazine, oneof the few remaining fashioned bibles next to
Wimswere Daily invoked the good news thisnon relevant guy still is relevant to some
or the bad news is I'm arelic. Either way, I'm too young

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for this award. The fashion industryis thriving. That's good news. The
people themselves are embarrassing themselves because fashionis growing, and the way they're growing
with fashion is horrible. The rolemodels need role models than anyone. To
watch any red carpet events this year, wrong signals, wrong clothes. The
news is no one willing to stepup and say it. You all look

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horrible. Hey, guys, yourchoices are terrible. You look ridiculous.
I know it's bad news, soyou should love it. Yeah. If
it wasn't for bad news, there'dbe no news at all. I'm searching
though tonight, looking for some goodnews. Maybe maybe we'll find it,
But first I have to deal withthe bad news, which is called politics.

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President Biden, as you would say, come on Man. I grew
up respecting the office of the presidency. Whoever is elected has my respect.
I have my undying respect. Idon't have to agree with your politics.
That's my right to disagree if Ichoose. But respect is respect unconditionally.

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In business, I had presidents someI disliked. Didn't matter. I respected
the officer of the president. Youdon't become president of a company without earning
it. There's no guarantee that you'llbe successful, but if you got there,
you earned it, so I respectit. The boss is the boss

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unconditionally. And now I tell youthis so you understand from whence I've come
because I want to talk about politics. President Biden spent his entire career in
politics. He's to be thanked,he's to be respected, he's to be
appreciated. Once again, there's noway to guarantee success in whatever role he

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played. But if you watch thenews, it's all over the news.
The President is impaired. There's noquestion. Now, I admit I'm no
doctor, but it seems to mehe's impaired. It's not his fault.
He's eighty years old and he's introuble, and everyone knows it. There
are other people eighty years old.Look at Nancy Pelosi. She is sharp

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as attack, she's scary, smart. I don't like her politics, but
I respect the way she conducts herselfand the way she fights. She was
all over Trump all the time.I loved it. You have to respect
it. But President Biden, Ilike you. But another four years,
two years from now, come on, man. And the Democrats have been

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seeing recently. I saw them beinginterviewed leaving the capital and being asked about
the president going up for reelection.Those lying, I have to be careful
here. That seems to me theyput their interests in staying in power and
keeping the Republicans from getting in powerin spite of the President's in ability to
manage the nation. You want totalk bad news, that's bad news.

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How can we respect these politicians?With all due respect to the Democratic Party.
You want the presidency, go getit. Put in a vibrant,
younger politician to run for office.This is a shame, an embarrassment,
and clearly you don't respect the office. You want to run the presidency by
committee. There must be other Democrats. And to you, President Biden,

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you did it. You went fromhumble beginnings to the presidency of the United
States. You did it. It'stime to put down the presidential seal.
Put your pen down, move on, enjoy your life. Politics is such
bad news. Gavin Newsom was interviewedby Sean Hannity. Great looking, young

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guy. I never heard him speakin any detail before. A great fashioned
sense, great hair. He's smart, articulate and crazy. He's crazy if
you drill down, if you thinkabout everything he did as mayor for the
city of San Francisco led to ruiningthe city. Now is the governor of

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California. California is ruined. Itshould be declared a disaster area. The
homelessness, the crime, overtaxation,the rules, the people lead thing.
And he's oblivious. He's just righterthan rain, right than common sense.
No chance he might be on thewrong path. He's not the president,

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and I have to say it againyet I respect the incredible talent you need
to get electric to public office.Brilliant, But he sounded in a different
world. I said, oblivious.He doesn't care about the facts. He
sounded crazy. Listen, I'm abusinessman. When you tax people thirteen and
a half percent on top of theirfederal tax and everything else we buy in

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tax. Of course people are runningaway. How many people I know running
into Florida just to avoid taxes?This is nuts. He sounded crazy.
Now, I will tell you.Even though he's smarter than Hannity, with
a better grasp of the issues,even though he understood the facts better than
Hanny, particularly when he twisted themto support his inability to create success in

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California, the bad news that statewill only get worse. Gavin Newsom,
I respect you. I like whatyou represent youth, but you're often wrong
and never in doubt and fucking politicsand bad news. Maybe we should change
the word from political to battical.Everything is terrible, Which brings me to

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Trump. I'm a New Yorker.I've watched Trump my entire life. You
can't say he's done only bad things. He's done brilliant things. He built
credible buildings. He fixed the CentralPark rink when no one else could.
I mean, I could go onand on. He's a businessman. Now,

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is he his own worst enemy?Not? While the Democrats are out
there. Look, he talks whenhe should listen. He has too much
bravado. Every time he opens hismouth. He's getting in trouble. Every
time he opens his mouth, peopleare well questioning whether he's telling the truth.
I've met Donald Trump, I've workedwith Donald Trump. I like Donald

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Trump. He was stand up,honest guy and did everything he promised.
If he's not that way in reality, I can't admit to that. I
only saw one good side of him. The man said he would do something,
and he overdelivered. He showed upeverywhere, did what he said,
and he cared. I respected himfor what he did. Now, all

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of you out there, you're entitledto think of the man any way you
want to think about him. Butwhen he was president, he did good.
This country accelerated. We were respectedand feared around the world. No
one messed with us when Donald Trumpwas there. From a business point of
view, he made the country runwell. From an economic point of view,

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everyone was working, salaries were goingup, All ethnicities were better than
they were before working under the Trumpumbrella. Was he hard to like?
Yes? Did he say things aboutdifferent people that we're not right? Yes?
Did he perhaps not answer correctly onthe case of racial issues. I'll

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grant you all of that, Butyou want to talk bad news. Who
in this country doesn't believe that theDepartment of Justice is weaponized. And if
you don't, to quote our famouspresident, come on, man, come

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on man, Donald Trump is beingtried for treason. Does anyone really believe
that? One thing? We knowfor sure, for whatever reason, all
politicians have been taking classified documents home, whatever reason, but they all do
it. Pence admitted to it,Reagan admitted to it. You name him,

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Hillary Clinton three thousand documents on aprivate server, Biden did it.
I have a great idea for theDemocrats. If you're going to change the
world and change what's right and wrong, if you're going to weaponize the Department
of Justice. I don't know ifI'm allowed to say this. I'm certainly
not inciting violence, and what I'mabout to say is a joke just in

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case I have to say it.But why don't we just do away with
the trial? If we're not goingto be fair, if we're not going
to be America, if we're goingto be off the charts, crazy charge
Donald Trump for treason? Does anybodyreally believe he was selling secrets or he
was giving away information to our enemies? Come on, So, if the

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Democrats really believe this, you knowwhat, Why don't we do the following?
Like I said, the following isa joke. I just want to
make a point. Why don't wejust do away with a trial. Why
don't we just get a firing squad, put it in front of his wall
in Texas or along the board andto shoot him. Why don't we hang
a in the Washington mall. Leave. I'm hanging there a better yet from

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the capitol which we blame him foreverything? Why need a trial? This
is crazy? What's going You wantto talk bad news and embarrassment and shame.
I feel bad for this guy.Whatever his motives were, whether it's
even was the ego, somewhere inthere, he did good things. This
guy deserves a better shot than he'sbeen given. That's only one man's opinion.

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And I'll admit, what do Iknow anyway? Tonight I'm trying to
find good news. In fact,I'll call this show this is good news.
I'll just how to get that outof the way. I'll take a
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I'm in search of good news tonight. I believe I hate saying it
that if it wasn't for bad news, there'd be no news at all.
And yet if you look deeply andyou try, you might be able to
find some good news. I supposeTVs, newspapers, radio, then responsibility

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to share with those what's going on. Maybe the good news isn't interesting enough.
I don't know what it is,but I'm refraining from those activities because
it just doesn't make me happy.I was talking last week on the show
and I mentioned something about good newsism, maybe to do a show on it,
and tonight this is good news,So here we go. Have I

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told you recently that I hate Optimumwith a passion? I hate them.
I'll tell you why. I havea lot of TVs in my house.
I'm in the entertainment business. Ireally have to watch what's going on.
I have to stay culturally irrelevant,and I do have TVs in a lot
of rooms, and I'm reliant onOptimum to provide me with internet service and

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with cable vision. And for whateverreason, in my house, they're not
good at it. About a yearago, my TV started pixelating. I
can't see the picture. So Icalled Optimum and after twenty tempts to figure
out how do I get a humanon the phone. I finally got a
human on the phone. I toldhim what was going on, and they

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told me that they could send anew signal and over the air, which
I thought was interesting. They senta new signal that didn't work. Then
we try to trouble shoot and gothrough all this stuff. I said,
look, I have all these differentboxes. Some are working, some aren't.
It's a mess. I got themto send a technician. Technician came
and he said, well, youhave one splitter going into your system.
You need to change the two splitters. Wow, everything worked for five minutes.

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He left. Problem. Next thingwe know, I have to go
through the process again getting the peoplehere. Finally get someone on the phone,
they'll send out someone else. Theythink maybe my outside wires are a
problem. Guy comes checks my outsidewires. They're wet and they've degraded over
time. So I have to changemy wires and doing so, change the
wires, but he only handles thewires from the cable vision to me.

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But he doesn't connect them to myhouse. They closed down my system.
For two and a half weeks,I had nothing. Guy comes, he
changed for the wires to my system. Now I'm up and running. That
work for thirty minutes until I wasdown, and for a year. This
is going on. About three weeksago, a guy comes. Finally,
I have one TV on this areaworks another TV here, So if I

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want to watch baseball at night inmy bedroom I can. I have to
watch it in the kitchen. Imean, it's a mess. So they
send a technician. A guy comesand tells me all my cable boxes are
obsolete. They've all deteriored, theyall have to be changed. The only
problem is all my boxes are inone place and it's computerized. Everything is

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hig handled by the internet on mycell phone. And now I have to
be reprogrammed. He leaves, andnow I'm shaking my head. Nothing works.
Everything's a problem. This is goingto be worse callback cable vision.
I asked for someone who's a genius. I said, I need a genius.
This is going on for a year. I have all these TVs in

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my house. I use this housefor business. I can't believe what's going
on here. I am in trouble. You have to send me someone who
knows what they're doing. And sureenough, I waited another week. Guy
comes in. He has the brightnessin his eyes. There's something about him.
I life immediately, and I explainedto him what's going on. He

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goes downstairs, he works on it, as I think I know it's wrong,
goes out, and he comes backwith another box he calls an amplifier,
and sure enough, for the firsttime in a year, every TV
in my house is working properly.He left it stayed on. This was

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on Monday, it's now the weekend. It's still on. So there's some
good news now that I got thatout of my system. Probably bored you
to death. You know, everytime I speak in public, I asked
that question, is this boring?And everybody tells you you shouldn't ask that
you're not boring. I said,yeah, you know, in life now,
so much of what I do istalking about myself rather than the companies

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I work for. Concerned and I'mboring. But anyway, I have a
story to tell you about good news. It starts off with bad news.
I took a big demotion in acompany many years ago. I went from
president to not president, and Iwas distraught. I was given another assignment,

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and over a period of two years, I excelled. I didn't do
good, I did great. Icame back from the dead. And then
the job that I had left thatI had lost to someone else was the
presidency of the van Usen Shirt Company, which at the time was the love
of my life. Since that time, I had a number of new loves.
The Eyesight Company, that Donna KarenCompany, just to name a few,

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and the Vanuson president was up forgrabs. The boss was doing DV
jobs and they were looking for apresident. I went into the CEO of
the company. I said I'd likea chance to get back vanus and the
guy was in charge. Him andI had been compared editors. We were
even all throughout the time. Hewas a smart guy. I didn't like

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him, probably most of all becausehe was my competitor, and it's hard
to like your competitors. When Icome home complain about this guy. Before
I had lost the venues and presidency, my wife always said to me,
what do you want from him?His name was Alan. This is a
good guy. Every time he seesme, he's so respectful, He actually
listens to what I have to say. He's a good guy. Maybe the

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problem is you, Mark, andmy wife got me thinking maybe the problem
was me, and that made ithelpful for me. So when I asked
for the presidency of the company again, this is a story of loyalty and
good news. The guy said tome, you know you have to go
to Alan. It's his decision.I can't make that decision. And if
I remember correctly, Mark, youhaven't been too kind to him over the

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course of time. I said,you're right. Let me talk to him.
So I went to see him andI said, Alan, listen,
you have an opening for president andVanus and I really want that job,
and if I was you, i'dbe the last guy to give it to.
My wife always me I was neverfair to you, and she's right.
I can only tell you if yougive me this assignment, you know
I can do it. I promiseyou that I will be loyal to you.

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You know I know how to dothat based on how I've been with
my other bosses. Give me achance. I can work for you and
we could do great things together.And he said, let me come back
to you. Talk to my bossabout it. They both agreed to give
me a chance, and I wasgiven the venues and company back and had
a great run. In fact,I ran two companies at that time I
was president of and I was alwaysvery loyal to Alan, and over time

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we became really really close friends untilI left the company. And the good
news is that if you're honest withpeople, and confronting him straight up there
and admitting to him that I nevertreated him right, work wonders in my
favor. And as a human.You guys don't know me because you know
I don't like humans, but I'lltell you I am loyal to a fault.

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If you're honest with me, you'refair to me. There's nothing I
won't do in return it I alwaysto Alan, And it's a great story.
But conversely, I have another storyto tell you on the subject of
good news. I learned a greatlesson here. I work with a guy
I'm gonna call him Stephen, andsee even joined us as a friend of
a friend's nephew. And he camein. He was young, he was

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smart, he was bright, hewas eager. He had that thing about
him that he would do what ittakes to be successful, and he wasn't
good. He was great now.Having said that, he was treated differently
than everyone else. He was movedfrom assignment to assignment, He was looked
out for his raises world better thaneveryone else's. He was one of the

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anointed. He was treated as acomer, someone that we believed could grow
rapidly with the company because he wasthat smart. But he was treated differently,
and everyone looked out for him,myself included, and he moved up
rapidly, deservedly. So we gotto the point he was made vice president,
center of one of our divisions,important position. And again on the

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subject of lessons and good news,is a good lows lesson for you.
When you become an officer of acompany, you have a responsibility. It's
not just the job you're doing.You are an officer of the company.
Your job is to promote the company. So, as fate would have it,
one night president of the company tooka bunch of us out for dinner.

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I think the table had about twentypeople of it, and the drinks
were passed around and we're having dinnerand I start to hear Steve holding Court
and at the time, our stockwasn't doing well. We hadn't bought Calvin
Klein yet it was in the works. No one knew about it, and
he was venting. You know,this company used to be smart. They

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used to be smart people running it. I can't believe my fol one k
is worth half of what it usedto be. The stock is in the
tank. You know, I'm notreally happy. You know, it's we're
doing great things. They have greatbrands, so you can't be happy.
And the time, I'm the presidentof the company, and I sat there
and listened to this disloyal piece ofgarbage, and I said to myself,

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after everything we did for this guy, how could he possibly behave this way?
On top of which he's an offererfor the company he's supposed to be
putting the bright side of things.Following day, I went into the CEO,
told him what happened, and weagreed that he was no longer most
Favored Nation status. Within three months, he was no longer with the company.

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Now here's some good news. Hedid very well for himself, started
his own business. He did well, and I was happy for him.
I didn't hate him, I didn'tdislike him. I just didn't like the
disloyalty, and it really really botheredme. So what's the takeaway? What's
the good news from this? Thegood news I'm giving your tip here.
You have a problem with the company, you talk to your immediate supervisor,

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tell him what's on your mind,and package it so that it's not too
negative. You know, I'm disappointed. I thought my raise would be more.
I'd like to talk to you howto get a bigger raise. You
know, I've seen a number ofopportunities appear in the company and I haven't
been given the chance. I'd liketo know if I could be considered for
the next promotion, and if not, what do I need to learn in

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order to be promoted. I understandthere's an opportunity in another area, and
I know that I'm important here andyou need me here. What would we
need to do together if I wouldbe considered for that other opportunity? How
do we hire my replacement to getthat done? Those three scenarios are all
legitimate conversations done in the right way. Your boss can't get angry with you.

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Also, part of the good newsis a lesson here. When you
work for a company, you havean obligation to carry the flag and wave
it high. If you are disgruntled, tell you're significant other at home.
Don't talk to other people in thecompany. If you must, you can
talk to your immediate supervisor the rightsituation, since you can talk to human
resources, but you always have toput the right light on it. If

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you're going to sit two sets downfrom the president at a corporate dinner,
don't drink. If you don't addto hold your liquor, and if you
do, make sure you consider whatyou say and that he might be able
to overhear it or she for thatmatter. And by the way, you
have a VP next to your name, you have responsibility to take care of
the company. That's the good news. I have one other nice story.

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I've mentioned before that I'll be receivinga Lifetime Achievement award from Men's Mr.
Magazine. And while my family ismore excited about it than I am,
I guess partially why I'm not excited, as I'm out of the industry.
I am in the periphery of it, of course, because I have a
show on radio and podcast called Alwaysin Fashion. But I'm receiving this award,

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and I started to think about itand lifetime achievement. Gee whiz,
too young for that. It's alsoit comes at a time when you consider
that I'm not in business and I'mbeing all rewarded and honored for achievements I
have had. In my book Alwaysin Fashion, there's a prologue and I

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tell the story that my wife andI took a trip to Egypt and we
cruised down the Nisle. And duringthis cruise you would get off at relevant
cities and different towns, and youwould visit historic sites. At one point,
a tourist said to the tour guidethis brilliant question. She said,

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you know, sir, I've noticedthat all the monuments everything we visited had
the name of the same pharaoh.And a Egypt is three thousand years old,
a history of three thousand years old, Why would the name of the
pharaoh be the same on everything datingback whatever years. You see, each
successive pharaoh sand blasted the name offof the prior pharaoh and in effect took

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credit for the work in front ofthem. So all the monuments had the
name of the prior pharaoh. Andwhen I wrote my book, I thought
about the fact that all the workI did, all my achievements all the
companies I ran, everything I did, my name was sand blasted off those

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accomplishments. And here I am receivingan award for lifetime achievement. When I
was president of the Venues and Company, we had this unique, incredible achievement.
The Venues In Company was the numbertwo and number three shirt company in
the United States, perhaps the world. The Arrow Shirt Company had the history

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that had their tradition. We werethe up and comer, We were the
rebels. We came up with newideas. Arrow just went the course with
Polyston cotton, chief value cotton shirts, buttoned down Oxfords. They were the
classic shirt maker. We were theinnovators. They were always the number one
shirt company. And there was anothershirt company called Manhattan Shirts that had a

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John Henry brand, which was thefirst of what today you'll call slim fit,
modern, great looking product and itbecame the biggest thing in our industry,
and everybody was trying to catch upwith them. But anyway, at
one point in time, after aseries of moves, selling our brand at
JC Penny, opening up outlet stores, building a strong relationship with Macy's and

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other retail groups, we became thenumber one shirt company in America and as
a corporation. At the same time, we reached a billion dollars in sales,
and we were trying to figure outhow to celebrate that unique a treatment,
and we came up with the idea, let's invite everyone from the New
York office and key strategic officers ofthe company from around the country, bring

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them to New York and let's takea cruise around Manhattan on one of those
boats, have a big dinner.And we did. We invited the senior
most people in the company and everyoneelse for that matter. We had four
hundred up on a cruise boat.It was a brilliant night. And to
my credit, there were six livingformer presidents of the Venues and Shirt Company
and I invited them all. AndI remember the CEO at the time saying,

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why are you doing that? Isaid, because they were all part
of this success story as you were, Larry Phillips from Phillips van Uson.
There are six of them here,myself, Alan Bruce, you were here.
Why not have them come? Andone of them was a fellow named
Stan Gellette, who was one ofthe first role models I ever met.
I've talked about him before I sawthis man speak and the dignity had as

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a president. He blew my mindand I learned from him, and I
invited him and each of the otherpresidents to speak. When Stan Gellette got
his turn to speak, I wouldsay at that time, he's probably in
his eighties. He had probably beenout of the business for at that time,
maybe twenty five years. And wegot up to speak. He said,

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I can't tell you how much itmeans to have not been forgotten,
and to tell you the truth,that's exactly how I feel receiving the Lifetime
Achievement award from Mr. Magazine,and that feeling is good news. I'll
take a break back in a minute. Always in fashion been a lifetime of

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my career building the van Usen brand, and I am so pleased that they're
back with us now talking about suits. Men, we're dressing up again and
it's become cool to wear a suit. Suits can be won on multiple occasions
in multiple ways. You could weara suit formally to go out at night
or to an event, to weara suit to the office with or without

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a tie if you look closly.Now fashion trends, suits are being worn
with turtlenecks or mocknecks. The choicesare endless and every one of them looks
right. You could really really lookthe part. I believe that packaging yourself
this is important. Does the productsyou package and wearing a suit is one
of those things that make men looktheir best. Venues and invented a new

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idea. It's called the cool Flexsuit. It's been engineered with stretched technology,
giving you the most comfortable fit andmobility. It's wrinkle resistant fabric,
it's cool moisture wicking. It makesit perfect for all occasions. As we
discussed just now, this new styleof looking sharp while feeling cool and comfortable

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is amazing, and I'm so excitedthat the vanusing company is involved in this
new technology and is embracing the wholeidea of dressing up. Let's not forget
venues and made its name with dressshirts. It's only proper that their suit
business follows strongly in its way.You can find venues in cool Flex Men's
stretched suits at JC Penney are onlineat jcpenny dot com. Guys, they're

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great. You should go look atthem. Welcome back to Always in Fashions,
your host, Mark webber Hey it'stime to lift a tempo Tonight show.
This is good news. I havestories, a lot of stories about
finding good news. Let's be real. If you watch television, you read
the newspapers, even listen to theradio, there is no good news.

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That's what made me search for it. I'm in search of good news,
but I'm also in search of God, bless yous. I In spite of
having this love for the luxury worldand enjoying the things that luxury has to
offer, particularly in fashion, maybein restaurants automobiles, I also I am

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a man of the people, andone of my favorite restaurants is Grand lux
and Cheesecake Factory. Those of yougo there, you know why, those
of you who picking up your nosesand pooh pooing me and saying gee whiz
when an amateur, you're wrong,It's great. I was there the other
day with ten people, and therewere a bunch of little kids within the

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ten people, and it was araucous group. We were loud, impactful,
fun and demanding. Every single orderhad Well. I'd like the salmon,
but instead of the potatoes, Iwould like rice, and instead of

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the corn, I would prefer mixedvegetables. Everyone had their own order.
In this waitress we had. Shewas so sweet, it was amazing,
amazing and patient and talking to thechildren to make sure when they were trying
to order, she understood what theywanted. Brought over drinks immediately served.
The table was impeccable, even tothe end. Can I wrap anything up

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for you? She's perfectly got thebuild. And let's just say that if
I gave a twenty percent tip,the tip would be fifty dollars, And
in fact I gave her a hundreddollars tip. Came back to me at
the table and she said, Ican't tell you how much I appreciate what

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you just did. And all Iwant to say is God bless you.
When someone says that to me,it just leaves me in a place that
makes me feel good. It's somethingthat feels like an accomplishment. And I'm
generally speaking in search of God,bless you. How could you be nice,

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extra special, make someone feel good, do the right thing. My
wife would always say to me,give her a great tip, give him
a great tip, Give to thischarity, give to that charity. I
said, you know what's with you? Everything? Give there this mark the
money means nothing to you and itmeans everything to them, and there was

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something to be said for that.I recently ate in Avre A v r
a Greek restaurants, my favorite rightnow in the city. I like him
better than Melos. I love theAmphians more importantly. I love the food.
I love being there. And onceagain I had to use the men's

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room and there was a bathroom attendant. I hate having a bathroom attendant.
I hate it. You know,you want to go do your business,
you want to be left alone.It's one place you should be left alone,
etc. Etc. Etc. I'llnever forget having dinner at Del Friscos.
They have a men's attendant at DelFrisco's. And I remember after having
a corporate party, they're coming back, sitting down next to the chief financial

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officer and complaining, I can't believeI have to have a mail room attend.
Now I got to go back in. I have money in my pockets.
I have to go back and givehim money. I can't believe it.
This is crazy. And he said, what are you complaining about it?
So I don't like it. Ishould have to pay money you go
to bathroom. He says, youthink he wants to be there, You
think in life, that's the choicehe made, that he wants to be

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there quiet and I realized that theanswer was no. And sure enough I
went back in in this case tobe a nice guy listening to my wife
in my year. I gave himfive dollars and he looked at me and
said, God bless you. Andit taught me a lesson about being nice
to people and doing the right thing. But my favorite story, my friends

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and I were in Miami driving.We got lost and we were in trouble.
We didn't know where we go.It's late and night. We were
late for dinner. We were latehere, late there, and we got
lost and there was a homeless person. Guy walked over and he said to
us, gotta help you guys.And I said, well, we're trying
to find this place. We weregoing at Capitol Grill to have dinner.

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This is all. It's not toofar from here. You make a left
on this block here, you makethe next right on Capitol blah blah blah
blah blah. And he got usto place, and I remember how grateful
we were, and my friend gavehim ten dollars, and he said to
us, God bless you, guys. There's good news. If you look
around. There are people who dothe right thing. There are people that

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want to be nice to other people. There are people that make me feel
good. In spite of the factthat I am Cromudgeon. At times I
could be callous, I also couldfeel good about doing the right thing.
And I'm in search of God blessyou. That's the good news. One

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of my favorite things in business wasthe mail room attendance. Now why you
may ask, well, first ofall, who mail was delivered? Oh,
when you had to send things,people would come back and forth to
pick it up. They would walkin your office. You always get a
chance to talk to them. AndI found some of the nicest people and

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smartest people in the mail room.Sometimes they were disadvantaged, they didn't go
to the best schools. Sometimes theirEnglish skills weren't where they needed to be.
But they're always bright eyed, theyalways happy. Though. One lesson
I learned from traveling around the worldthat I've never forgotten, no matter where

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I was, when you ended uptalking with people, when you got to
have dinner with them, you gotto relax with them, you have a
drinker. It always came down tothe same thing. They cared very seriously
about their careers. They all wantedto do well and make their companies better,
but they were all doing it forthe same reason for their families.

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They all wanted a better life fortheir children. They all wanted to make
sure that children went to school,that children went to college, that children
had the advantages that they either hador didn't have. But it was always
the same, so it shouldn't besurprising then in our mail room there are
people who may not be as educated, who may have different langue skills than

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I do, always remembering, ofcourse, that if they're speaking to me
in English, it's their second languageand they have a first and that makes
them smarter than most Americans, orat least this guy, and I always
enjoy talking to him and finding outthose of them in the mailroom that could
be more than mail room people.And over the course of my tenure,

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I'm proud to say, on numerousoccasions, myself and my assistant, who
is also very much in favor ofdoing right for these folks, we worked
at getting them out of the mailroomand finding them serious careers. Within the
organizations we worked. And I can'ttell you how many times I've done it.
I can only tell you that Igot my share of God bless you

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for doing the right thing. Soin terms of good news, there is
good news. There is good deeds, There are good people. Even I,
mister I don't like humans could dothe right thing. I don't have
to like them to do the rightthing, because the right thing is the
right thing, and that's the goodnews. So that's where I am searching
for God bless yous, and searchingtonight for good news back in a minute.

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Always in fashion, I've been shoppingfor fun lately, and while I'm
out, I always look at men'sand I look at women's what's going on?
And I was particularly interested in Decaybecause of their sponsorship of the show.
I went downstairs at Macy's thirty fourthStreet to look around, and I
saw decmy active where and I promiseyou, ladies, it is sensational,

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from the sports bras to the croptops, to the leggings and the sweats.
It really is a great look.And Decay had begun as an all
American brand, dressing, casual clothes, engines and the stuff looks incredible and
right now the colors and the stylesis so exciting that I feel great about
the company. I always do.I wear the men's wear all the time.

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I've had situations where I've gone tobig events and been interviewed in TV
or radio and someone up to mein the microphone and like they always do,
who you wearing? And here Iam, this big shot with a
big company, and they said,well, I'm wearing a dk Y and
they laugh and say, no,you're not. I actually have one on
the internet where you could see me. They asked me what suit I'm wearing,

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and I say DC and why hadopened it up and there's the DKNY
label. Great fashion, it fitswell, it looks right. It's designed
to make you comfortable in the city, goes from day and to night.
You can wear it in the morningand wear in the afternoon and you look
cool at night as well. It'sgreat for the office. Is great Felisia.
But I was talking about the dcmY active war the first time I
really became aware of it. Jesseand I were up at Sirius Radio.

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He was doing a job for Serious. He does Dan Abrams show. He
fills in on the Potus Network andwe're in the lobby and this hip hop
group came up. Well, thisreally great looking Latino singer girl Young Beautiful,
and she was wearing a dkm Ysports bar and I said to myself,
this is amazing. Actually went toMacy's to see it, and I'm

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excited about the brand. And I'lltell you what, ladies, dk Y
always has great fashion for work,always wonderful dresses and things that you'd wear.
Their accessories are great, the shoesare always very cool. But activewear
in particular right now looks sensational andbeing that everyone's affleisure and activewear, it's
a great time dcmy go take alook. As one of the world's most

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celebrated fashion designers, car Lagafeld wasrenowned for his aspirational and cutting edge approach
to style. His unique vision ofParisian ship comes to America through Carlagofeld Paris.
He has women's collections, men's collections, ready to wear, accessory,
shoes and bags. The fashion housecar Lagafeld also offers a range of watches
I wear in premium fragrances. Youcan explore the car Lagofel collection, a

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karlagofeld Paris dot com. But it'smore than that. I, for one,
love to shop. I love goingaround and seeing what's happening and what
catches my attention, what would makeme feel good to wear now. I
don't wear the women's wear obviously,but I can appreciate it and may look
amaze easing. If you want tolook right, you want to have clothes
that fits you well. You wantto look like you're wearing something that's very

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expensive, that's exclusive for you andyours. You can find it at very
affordable prices at Macy's, So Carlgafeldot com, Paris. The women's ready
to wear fashion is extraordinary, aswell as the hand eggs in the shoes.
I for one, wear men's clothesunlike my appreciation of women's clothes.
I'm a modern guy. I wantto look current. I want to look

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the way I want to feel.I go out at night, I'm in
black and Carlagafelt is my buddy.Clothes are great. They fit great,
and they have little tweaks and touches, whether it's a stripe on the sleeve
or button at the neck or onthe shoulder, there's a lot of details
that go into Carlagafel because he's alwaysbeen, he always had been one of
the world's great designers, and thislegacy and goes on and on. I

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can't speak enough about it except tosay to you, you want to feel
good about yourself. You want toknow that you're dressing properly. You want
clothes that fits you well. CarlLagafeld, Paris at Macy's or Karlgafeld dot
com. Welcome back to Always inFashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber.
Been in search of good news,and it's out there. It's been

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said that the hardest arithmetic to masteris that which acquires you to count your
blessings. If you think about it, there's always good news in your life.
I took a moment to categorize somethings that made it special for me.
Graduating from college, being told Ilove you, hearing it's a boy,

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getting a job, being named vicepresident, Congratulations missed the President.
LVMH Author in the Library of Congress, Radio and Podcast Talk Show Host Award
recipient. I looked for it andfound my good news. I'm sure if

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you look for yours, you'll findthis is good news. Good Night,