The Quieter You Become The More You're Able To Hear

The Quieter You Become The More You're Able To Hear

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Who is Mark Weber.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
He's a self made business executive here to help you
find your success from the New York City projects to
the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. His global success story in
the luxury world of fashion is inspirational. He's gone from.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Clerk to CEO twice.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Mark is classic proof that the American dream is alive.
And well, here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Mark Weber.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
It's twenty twenty five. I brought in the new year
quietly with my family. For me, it was a time
to observe, not to be out front. On the thinking side.
I wanted to reflect. I'm a true believer. Convert now
to Benjamin Franklin's well done is better than well said.
You can make all the promises, you can set your resolutions,

(01:05):
you can state all those things you're going to do.
Just show me, don't tell me. Yes. The new year
came into me quietly as I thought about the year
that was passing a year of what will come is
twenty twenty five. It was a quieterns. It was quiet
amongst the chaos in New York City, which where I
was a million people coming in to see the wall drop.

(01:28):
But I, for one, was like an eagle flying through
a snowstorm. I flew simply, straight, elegantly, consistency into twenty
twenty five. It was a very good year. Twenty twenty
four was a year of good and a year of
good riddance. On the plus side, thank you to our
loyal listeners on radio, and thank you to our followers

(01:49):
on the Always in Fashion podcast. Though, like life, it's
time to move on. I made my mistakes, I had
my wins, I had my ups, I had my dawn.
I had tough times and I had great times, no
different from any of you. I moved into the new
year and move forward from last year. I'm happy the

(02:10):
administration is changing our government. The country needed to change
and perhaps some new honesty. I thought the Democrats would
welcome change and accept responsibility. I thought they'd wish the
new guy's success, maybe even help. But I have to
read you an article, a headline that I just saw

(02:30):
from the Daily Beast to make the point, it's not
going smoothly, and it won't be smooth. I can tell
I'm very disappointed to see what's going on, The Daily
Beast wrote, and I quote Trump's angry, unhinged rants at
presses show things will get very bad. What a headline
after Trump releases some wildly crazed ideas to reporters. An

(02:54):
expert in authoritarian rhetoric says Trump revealed deeper intentions that
are danger that you're see, alarming and designed to normalize
the abnormal. With all due respect, give the guy a chance.
You know, Greenland, or for that matter, of the Panama Canal,
or for that matter, any territory. The United States was
built on acquiring territory through negotiation, not through wars. Maybe

(03:19):
the French and India War had something to do. But
the bottom line is, if he has a vision of
taking over Greenway with all its natural resources, and I'm
told special minerals that we need for all our computers
in the future, let him try. Let him proceed. The
truth is there's only fifty six thousand citizens. There can't
be all that much trouble. You can make them all

(03:40):
millionaires and it'll call less than what it's costing us
in the United States just to bring in all these
illegal immigrants into New York. Give the man a break.
I thought the Democrats would welcome change, accept responsibility for
what they did wrong, and do the right thing. Wish
the new guy's success even help them. I don't know.
Already it's starting to think wishful thinking. Yet you have

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to marvel. Seventy five million voters voted for this man,
more than half the country. They love the president again.
They love it. They're excited about the government. I can't
remember the last time that was the case. Maybe Obama,
who became the most devisive president ever, I happen to
love him. I would vote for him again. Perhaps not
against Trump. I love the guy, didn't love his policy.

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But people are dancing in the streets. Trump has his
own dance, his own music. This is an amazing sign
of solidarity and excitement about what's to come. They're making
dancing videos, They're dancing on the ballparks and ball fields
all across America. The majority of Americans are excited with

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the country and it's leadership. It has been a long time.
Twenty twenty five wish to President Luck. We need him
to be successful. Me. I'm happy to be me this year.
I'm happy with what I uplished. I thought about my
personal goals and surprised I did so well. I'm still

(05:05):
in erner, still paying more taxes than anyone should be
expected to pay. For that matter, I think about it,
I wonder why I'm not applauded for my success and
the good I do. Where is my thank you card
from the irs? And after all is said and done,
New York City again decided to single my kind out
and punish me again. I'm starting the new year with

(05:29):
lessons learned. They're always new, yet never different. And I
think that the more you realize life is common sense
and common sense is not so common, the better off
you're going to be. I'm like the month of March,
coming in like a lion, going out like a lamp.
I just TwixT it. I want to come in like
a lamp and go out like a lion, quietly reflecting

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on what I hope is to come, what's in store.
I have my fingers crossed now for me personal goals.
I walked one thousand, four hundred and sixty miles in
twenty twenty four. Think about that, one thousand, four hundred
and sixty miles. Amazing. It's like walking to Florida. My

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walking goal for this year is one thousand, eight hundred
and twenty five miles. That'll be five miles a day. Now,
when you consider it, the following I don't walk every
day I can, it's impossible. Things get in the way.
I have to do other things. So to average five miles,
that would mean I have to do six or seven
or ten miles on other days, which is not unlike
what I did in twenty four. Now, the first lesson

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of twenty twenty five, when I think about what I
just told you, I made up my mind. I made
it happen. That's what it's all about for all of you.
Make up your mind what you're going to do, and
then just make it happen. Another goal of mine last
year and continues to be weight maintenance. I did say
weight maintenance. Thank God for me. It's not weight loss.

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Three quarter years ago, almost four years ago, I lost
fifty pounds. I made it my mind, I made it happen.
Now I have one ongoing yearly goal in this regard,
never gain more than two pounds no excuses. When you
gain it, lose the two pounds and stay fit. My business,
I want to record every week no misshows for laziness.

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I took two off this year for vacation and one
off for technical difficulties. I'm impressed with that. Same for you.
Work every day work smart. Every day work is not
for the lazy. Lazy's for the other guy. Decide, make
up your mind, make it happen. That's my thinking for

(07:42):
twenty twenty five. And now I get to introduce my lawyer,
my co host, and my son, Jesse Weber. Welcome to
twenty twenty five. Always in Fashion.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Jess, Wow, twenty twenty five. That's it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Don't you remember it was just a millennial and we
were talking about whether computer work.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
I was literally about to say that.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I remember, I remember twenty five years ago, when it
was nineteen ninety nine going into two thousand.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
I was so scared. I told you, Mommy.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
I was like, I think all the computers are going
to shut down at midnight. I was like, I'm very concerned.
Why two K remember the bug?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Nothing happened.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
They said that, and I think it was like the
as the as texts were like it's going to be
the end of the civilization. I was very worried. I
was very worried. You said, don't worry, Everything'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Interesting it seems like yesterday. That's the point.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I know, it's crazy. It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Twenty twenty five, first show. I haven't been on the
show in a while. It feels weird. It's good to
be back with you. I've and super busy. That's my
twenty twenty four. My twenty twenty four was I was
incredibly too busy. I don't know if it's a bad
thing or a good thing. I'm busy, it's a good thing.
I'm busy at work, but I don't get enough time
with you. I don't get enough time to be on
the show. But it was a great year. A lot
happened for me career wise. By the way, my first

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full year as married, it was great. That's the twenty
twenty four milestone.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
And it was funny.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Every time I said to people my one year anniversary,
they're like, oh, you know, they say the first year
is the toughest. I was like, not at all. Was amazing,
So I love the first year. Twenty twenty four was great.
How is yours.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well, I'm not married.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
And it wasn't easy, but it was a good year.
I'll talk about it, you know, I said, I accomplished
a lot, and I'm really looking forward to this year.
What's going on in Let's just talk about what's going
on in the legal world with celebrities and all this nonsense.
It's gonna be a big year, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Huge year.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
I mean, the big trial is going to be Sean
Combs Diddy May twenty twenty five, Federal Court. There'll be
no cameras, unfortunately, but it was interesting, did you. We'll
talk about the Golden Globes later? But Nicki Glazer, who hosted,
she had a line that she cut and I thought
it was hilarious. I thought she should have said this,
but she said this is what she was gonna say.
She looked around the room of celebrities and she goes,

(09:55):
isn't it great we're all here together. I mean, the
next time we'll all be together is the Diddy trial.
She cut that though, but that's going to be the
trial that everybody's going to be watching. Who are the witnesses,
who are the victims? Who is going to be implicated?
Will other people be charged before he goes to trial?
So a lot of eyeballs are on that one. I

(10:18):
think that's going to be one of the biggest cases
that we're going to be following, whether or not Jay
Z who's also been he hasn't been criminally charged, but
he's in hit with a lawsuit, whether that law that
trial will actually happen, and then of course if anybody
follows you know, criminal trials.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Before we go there have a procedural question, Yeah, the
witnesses you mentioned, does prosecution need to tell the defense
who their witnesses are and vice versa?

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Is it is a great question, and you know what
to do a little self promotion here. You know, I
host a show called Sidebar on Law on Crime. It's
say you can check it on YouTube or any podcasts.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
I just I mean the one that gets twenty to
thirty million hits every month. Yeah, I know, now, I
just crazy.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Just did an episode yesterday about how both the prosecution
and the defense they are fighting over the pre trial schedule.
So when they have to reveal who their witnesses, who
their witnesses are, who their experts are, the exhibits, you know,
the defense is saying to the prosecution, you need to
tell us what this case is about sooner rather than later.

(11:26):
We don't even understand who the witnesses are, what the
events are, who the victims are.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
We have a right to know. The prosecution is concerned.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
They say, look, we can't reveal anything yet because the
judge hasn't decided a lot of evidentiary issues. Would be
too premature for us to tell you everything.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
And also they're.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Consuls, so evident remaining whether the let them submitted or not.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
So the idea is before you go into any trial,
whether it's a civil trial or a criminal trial, there
are motions about what can be led into evidence. So
what can't be led into evidence, what arguments can be presented,
and what arguments can't be presented. The prosecution says, we
can't reveal our case yet till we work all these
evidentiary issues out. Otherwise we're giving you something too prematurely.
We first have to know what the judge is gonna allow,

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what the judge is not going to allow, and then
we'll tell you more about our case.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Defense.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
I didn't inspect that. I didn't realize that you have
to submit all this stuff to the judge.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Before a tribe judge, the judge is the one who
decides what comes into evidence and what doesn't.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Judges a bag rolled.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
By the way, if the judge makes a mistake, if
the judge, well, if the let's say, for example, the
defense says, the judge made a mistake here, we wanted
to introduce evidence about X, Y and Z, the judge
wouldn't allow it. Or opposite, the judge improperly led in
this this very prejudicial evidence for the prosecution. And their
client gets convicted, they can raise that on appeal they

(12:41):
said that was a mistake for the judge. We deserve
a new trial. So that is a lot of responsibility.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
The issue of Celebrity B, the one who supposedly I
think it's a woman who watched the alleged rape by
Sean Combs, and now they're saying jay Z will they
have to tell in advance who that witnesses.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
So, first of all, to be clear, that's part of
a civil lawsuit.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
It might not come into this criminal case at all,
It might not have any relation to it. Now, the
question about Celebrity B is interesting. Why is it celebrity B.
Why do we not know who this person is well.
One quite one reason could be the person who is
suing Sean Combs and jay Z is represented by attorney

(13:23):
named Tony Busby. It is possible that Tony Busby reached
out to Celebrity Bee and said to Celebrity Be, before
I name you in this lawsuit and your name becomes public,
why don't you settle, Why don't you pay up and
you won't be named in the lawsuit, and you know what,
we won't call you as a witness in this upcoming trial. Now,
whoever that celebrity be is if, by the way, there

(13:43):
is a really Celebrity Bee, if this really happened, can
you blame the person for not wanting to be exposed.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Hey, that's the civil case where the money's involved.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, yeah, you said that.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
People. Why wouldn't the person who witnessed the rape have
to come forward for the criminal.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Case because the criminal case is about different allegations than
the civil case. The civil cases there are so many,
that's not what the criminal case is going to be about.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
The criminal cases is what is the criminal case.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
The criminal case is about sex trafficking of at least
one victim who we believe to be Sean Comb's ex
girl frand Cassandra Ventura. It's about racketeering from two thousand
and nine to two thousand and four.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
So what is that?

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Twenty tix me twenty twenty four, So what is that racketeering?
Is a criminal enterprise that they say Sean Combs was
a part of that. He engaged that this criminal enterprise
engaged in kidnapping, forced labor, sex trafficking, bribery, and a
lot of different incidents. But a lot of these lawsuits
are about things that happened in the nineties, or they're
about isolated incidents of sexual assault or rape that might

(14:45):
not really apply to a racketeering charge. So the prosecution
can't try a I mean they could, but the prosecution's
not going to try a case for a year and
include all of these different allegations and everything against them.
That's not what it's about. They're very very specific in
what they're trying arging him with and how. But we
but here's the truth. Out of all the people who
have sued Sean Combs, we do not know who, if any,

(15:09):
will be witnesses or alleged victims in the criminal case. Now,
there are some deadlines that have been put forward before
the trial when we might get some more information. But
we'll wait and see. I tell you what, I'm still
a little skeptical this trial is going to happen in May.
It is so much going on in this case, and
after this episode that I did, where both sides can't
agree on what's going to be shown, when I feel

(15:30):
like it's got to be pushed out. May is right
around the corner. You usually don't see a federal trial.
What eight months since his arrest.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
It's crazy, that is so saddlebody's sitting in jail.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, but if he's convicted, he's going to be sitting
there potentially for the rest of his life.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
But wouldn't he want to get it over and done
with as soon as possible?

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Of course, he thinks he.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Why does it seem so confusing? I can't understand what
you just said.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
It's a confusing It's clear.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Because listens, why wouldn't that prosecute just make it simple?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Federal charges aren't that simple, you know.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's not like you could a lot of these charges,
A lot of these things excuse me, A lot of
these things that I said, these these allegations in the
civil lawsuits. They really apply to state charges like a
suck sexual assault, rape, but many times the statute of
limitations has run and those charges can't be brought they're
too old. So the federal case is a way to

(16:26):
bring in a lot of these allegations in a kind
of creative way.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
And there's no time issue.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
You say, these kinds of individual assaults, they're part of
a larger racketeering case or a larger sex trafficking case.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
So why do you only hear about you know, this woman,
this thirteen year old who was allegedly raped by two men, etc.
With a witness. Why do that's all we hear about?

Speaker 2 (16:50):
That's not true? Sean Combs was what was it? Last month?

Speaker 3 (16:54):
He was sued by three men who claimed that he
recently sexually assaulted them.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Oh my gosh, you haven't.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Been following it as much as I ad.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
It's like, let's go on. What else is gonna happen
this year on the celebrity side.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well, so on the celebrity side, what else? I don't
know on the celebrity side, but I got a big case.
We have a big case that's coming out.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Well, how about let's cover what's her name? Blake Live.
Why do we do that?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Oh, yes, of course I forgot about that.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Well, we got the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni drama that
started at the end of last year and now into
this year. What a back and forth that is. It's
very hard to get a sense of who was wrong
or who was right. You have Blake Lively who says
that she was sexually harassed on a movie set by
the director and her co star, and that when she
was and then as a way to keep her quiet
or as a way to prevent her from coming forward

(17:44):
with these allegations, he launched a smear campaign against her
and all of this negative press. He's like, wait a minute,
that didn't happen, and I will show you that it
was her own it was her own interviews, it was
her own comments, it was the things that she did
torpedo at her own career. And these allegations that I
harassed her on set. You know, she claims I came

(18:05):
into her trailer unannounced while she was breastfeeding. I have
a text message where she invited me in. So there's
a little bit of a gray area here. It's hard
to make sense of what's what. But I'll tell you
one thing. It was very clear a year ago that
there was bad blood between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni,
and now we're getting a much different sense of it.
And by the way, have you seen that movie that

(18:26):
it's called It Ends with Us? Have you seen the
movie that this is all centered around. No, my wife
watched it on the plane.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
It was terrible. Okay, let me just tell you that.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
After all this And by the way, they say, he's like,
that wasn't even the cut of my film.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
It was Blake Lively's cut.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
So he says that she took too much control over
the film, and it's a really messy situation.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
Are you surprised that Ryan Reynolds hasn't gone after the guy.
I'm surprised there's no fistfight.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
I think Ryan Reynolds is doing so well in his career.
You have the movies, you have Aviation Jin, you have Wrexham.
I think the last thing he wants to do was
get involved in this. He does not want this drama.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Let me tell you, it's his wife.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
It's his wife, I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
But at the same time, I think he's trying to
steer clear of it. There's a there's an allegation in
the papers that he confronted this director and yelled at
him ahah and said that how dare you fat shame
my wife? Because there's allegations that he fat shamed her
and that he did this in front of other celebrities.
So he he there was an allegation he didn't fight him,
but he yelled at him allegedly.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
All Right, you got some big, crazy law cases this year.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
We got Brian Koberger, remember him, the guy who allegedly
killed the four college students.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
I didn't know his name.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, oh yeah, that that's a really, really chilling case.
We still don't even know what the motive would be there.
He's planning on going to trial this year. It's possible
we may have a Luigi Mangioni trial this year, you know,
the United assassin, the alleged United Healthcare shooter. I don't
think it's going to happen this year, but we'll see.
So look, we've got some big cases coming down the

(19:59):
four It's a and by the way, also, I hate
to say it, and one of the most gruesome senseless
killings I have ever seen in my life. The guy
who allegedly lit the woman on fire in the subway.
That guy who's now facing murder and arson charges, it's possible.
I wonder if he'll take it, you know, not even
a deal, if I'll just play plead guilty as opposed

(20:21):
to going to trial, because the evidence against him is
just staggering.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
And what's his defense? What did he say?

Speaker 3 (20:27):
He allegedly told investigators he was drunk and he blacked
out and doesn't remember.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Let me tell you something. You don't have to be
a lawyer to No, there's no, that's not a defense.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
The world is nuts. The world is nuts, So you're
gonna be busy. Mister. You like the world's expert now
on crime in the United States. It's really big. What's
going on with you? Do you like that role?

Speaker 3 (20:47):
I like I love being a host, and I love
presenting to people, and I love talking the law. I
wish it wasn't some of this macabre, very gruesome, sad stories,
but unfortunately that's the world we're living in right now,
and there's a lot of misinformation that happens about these cases.
So if I can provide a little true information, I
like to think I'm doing a service.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
I'll give you a break. Let's switch to the political.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Can I Why don't I just hold to the host
of Golden Globes. I think I do a good job.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
I think no one's unseating her now. She was too perfect.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
She was so good, dazed, you're so good, She's so good.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
If I was the Academy Awards, I'd begging her to
come right now. I would fire whoever I hired. Do
you know who's doing the Academy Awoods?

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Is it John Mulaney?

Speaker 4 (21:30):
I don't know who it is, But after her, they
should get her right now. She should become the national
celebrity host for everything there is out there, unbelievable how
well she did. I'm changing subjects. Do you believe what
Biden is doing to Trump is undermining everything what's going on.
He has the right to do this stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Well, I mean, I think he's also setting up a
dangerous precedent, and I don't even know if dangerous is
the right word. He is giving Donald Trump a lot
of ammunition to do whatever he wants.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
You.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I've talked about it before.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
With all the pardons and the commutations and all this,
what is stopping from Donald Trump just doing the same thing,
and just pardoning whoever he wants, and and and commuting
any sentence he wants. I mean, Biden was so liberal
with that that I think he's just given Trump license
to do what he wants. And what's he gonna say.
He's gonna say, Biden did it, why can't I do it?

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Well, that's one thing, But the whole thing with saying
you can't drill anymore on the East Coast, all these
things that he's doing at the last minute, this is legal.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
He's he's still the president, my friend, and if he
can still do it, he can still do it. Doesn't
mean that he uh, it won't be overturned by Donald Trump.
But I guess he's trying to get in some last
minute measures while he still has the power.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Will Donald Trump be able to override this stuff?

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Look, he's got he's got he'll be in He'll be
the executive so a lot he could do through executive action.
He's also gonna have control over Congress for the for
the most part, he's gonna be able to do a
lot of the things that he wants to do. Maybe
not everything. I don't know enough about how you take
control of Greenland or to the Panama Canal.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
I'm sorry, I.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Don't remember that. I don't remember them Inroe doctrine. I
don't remember how we take over different territories. But he'll
be able to do a lot of things I think
that he wants to do. And look, there are people
who say on the left, oh, and he's also got
the Supreme Court who will just rubber stamp everything that
he does. I wouldn't be so sure of that. I
think there's a number of cases that the Supreme Court
has taken where they actually they actually rule against Trump

(23:26):
and rule against conservatives. But he's in the best position
that he could possibly be in. Well, let's go back
your pretieules.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
What do you think these laws that Biden is signing
in right now about the ability to drill or about
whatever he's doing at the last minute to undermine the transition.
If he's signing it with a pen and he's not
getting Congress to vote on it, doesn't Trump have the
ability to eliminate it with the signing of a pen.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Theoretically yes, because first of all these executive actions, they
don't I mean, I'll use a little pun here, Congress, Trump,
it's an executive action. It doesn't have the permanence of
a congressional law or measure, so I think it would
be temporary and Trump could probably revoke it.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
So he needs the Congress to help him from the question.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
For the most part, yes, I mean executive actions. He
could if it's the thing with an executive action is
it could be challenged in the courts, It can be
thrown out. It doesn't have the kind of power. That's
why he needs Congress to do a lot of things well.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
Form my vantage point, this is the three worst weeks
in the history of the country watching him do his
version of revenge. Biden is unbelievably out of control all
of a sudden. He woke up at the end of
his presidency. I really don't get it. You would think
with three weeks left to go, he has the common
sense and the whewithal of the smart so the niceness
to understand he's not the president anymore and there's a

(24:51):
new guy coming in and it's his turn. I'm shocked
by it. And that's the biggest surprise so far from me.
In twenty twenty five, we'll take a break, We'll be
back in a moment. This is always in fashion first show,
first new show of twenty twenty five. To the title
of tonight's show is the quieter you become, the more
you're able to hear. So, mister Biden, quiet please, You'll

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Speaker 2 (27:45):
Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Tonight, I've realized that the quieter you've become, the more
you're able to hear. This is twenty twenty five for me.
It's going to be a year of listening. You can't
learn while you're talking, and yet here I am on
the radio on podcast talking. Can't help it. It's my job,

(28:10):
my life. But I am listening and I am watching,
and I do have to report those things that I
admire and those things that I'm uncomfortable with. And I
have to start my first question of the year twenty
twenty five. Why am I so hated, particularly by New

(28:31):
York City. I'm a good guy. I'm in the third
chapter of a highly successful career. I'm still working Why
many others would have retired, disappeared, called it quits, and
yet here I am still contributing I'm still at it.
I'm creating, I'm helping, teaching, entertaining and earning money, and

(28:56):
earning money, I'm paying taxes and contributing. And therein lies
the problem. I'm not appreciated. I'm a bad guy. Why
get ready, I'm going to say it out loud when
I should keep my mouth shut, I should listen rather
than speak. But I have to tell you I'm a
bad guy. Why Because I'm a rich guy. And according

(29:18):
to the press, rich guys don't pay their fair share
of taxes. Trust me, I've paid taxes that would support
small countries. Now tonight, Well, I think about the quality
to become the more you're able to hear. As much
as I want to listen, I still have to talk.
And in this regard, I'm going to try and help

(29:38):
you all see some common sense. I'm going to speak
softly and you could just sit back and hear. This
is something fundamentally wrong with the system of things. Here's
a great example. Considered the amount of time you work.
Let's take a day. You work nine to five, that's
eight hours most of us. To get to the city,

(30:00):
you two hours at least a day. Then I spend
at least an hour or two thinking about working. So
you're talking about ten to twelve hours a day just
on working. That's half the day already. If you're lucky
enough to sleep, that leaves you five hours to do
for your family. For you, twenty percent of your time
is spent on you. Then let's think about working five

(30:23):
days a week to get seven off. You're working seventy
one percent of the time and twenty nine percent of
the time is for you. If you work six days
a week, then I'm just gett even worse. Of course,
eighty five percent of your time is working and only
fifteen percent for you. Who figured out this system? Whoever
did it doesn't make sense. And before I leave this,

(30:45):
let's just think of what the system doesn't make sense.
Fifty weeks a year to get two off, ninety percent,
ninety seven percent of your time is work, three percent
is for you. And I'm not even bothering to mention. Yeah,
the eleven holidays you get a year, or if you're
lucky enough to get three weeks vacation, it still doesn't

(31:06):
register unfair or making sense. A system isn't working. And
with that as a backdrop, I want to talk about
the system for taxation. Everything you earn gets taxed by
the government, the United States government, the Internal Revenue Service,
and the state taxing system New York State income tax.

(31:26):
Then there's Medicare, Social Security, all the federal taxes, state taxes,
local tax If you ever think about, everything you buy
is tax school taxes. The bulk of my taxes on
Long Island or in New York where I have places,
are spent for school tax I haven't had children in

(31:47):
school for twenty years, my oldest son twenty five years,
haven't been in school, and I am paying. Are you
you monculars? I don't even have the word to explain it.
Are your mongous amount of taxes for school rules? Don't
get me started. If I'm going to pay taxes, what
about give me the chance to point where my taxes
should go. That should be something the government will to

(32:08):
think about. You give a tax to a hospital, or
a church or synagog or whatever the case may be.
They give you a choice where the money will go.
Why not the government. I don't want to spend any
more money on wars, although I do want to spend
it on the military. Having said that, we get taxed
on gas, we get taxed on food. We get taxed

(32:28):
when you buy a car. If I go to the doctor,
they charge me taxes. If I go to the dentist, taxes,
I pay mortgage taxes. Everything I have saved, all the
money I strained in my life to put aside, put
in the bank or put in the treasury bills is taxed,
even social security, everything, water, power, when you eat out
in a restaurant, everything is taxed. What happened to freedom America?

(32:53):
The land of the free doesn't exist if you live
in New York City. Right now, my freedom's attacks. New
York City doesn't like me anymore. And those of you
haven't figured it out. What am I talking about? Keep listening.
I drive to work. Driving to work is one of

(33:14):
my great pleasures in life, one of my greatest goals.
When I was a young man, When I was twenty
six years old and started working, I prayed and I worked,
and I said, the minute I could afford to drive
to work, I will never take the train or bus again.
Starting out, I took two buses and two trains to
get to Brooklyn to into the city. Hottest can be

(33:37):
sweated on the subways, never on time, always aggravated. It
was a goal of mine, and I made it happen
a lot younger than I ever anticipated. Now, when I
say it's one of life's great pleasures, you have to
consider I'm commuting taking two hours in that car that
should take thirty minutes at night when there's no trafficked
thirty minutes during the day. Two hours. However, it's my choice.

(34:01):
I like the time to myself. I like me alone.
I like being above ground. I like watching what's going
on around me. I want to drive to work, and
I don't tell you what to do. You want to
walk to work, you want to walk over the bridge,
it's free. Good luck. If you like riding a bicycle,
you can ride your bike for free wherever you want

(34:23):
to go outside into the city and all around the city.
If you're a subway or bus rider, more power to you.
Jump on them, go for it. It's okay. You're paying
for the help of the hand. They're getting you from
here to there. But now, if you drive your car,
you're a dirt bag. We don't want you. We don't

(34:43):
like the congestion. We don't like the congestion you cause.
In New York City, the congestion I cause in the
city by driving in my car.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Me.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
Now, never mind my freedom. I get it. I don't
deserve freedom and transportation. I'm a rich guy. I should
be overcharged. Maybe I could say I don't mind taxing,
but I hate over taxing. That's what I'm thinking about
right now. Well, you'll say I'm contributing to pollution. I
have a hybrid. You're giving me a benefit. No charging

(35:18):
me the same amount as my guess. I'm paying taxes.
I'm paying a toll to get into Manhattan. I'm paying
tax on the gas I use. Hey, I pay tax
when I purchased the car. I'm paying a toll to
get into this fed up, crowded, unsafe, pan tropolis. Now,
don't get me wrong. This is New York City. I've
lived here my whole life. It's the best city in
the world. I even got in trouble. The best city

(35:40):
in the world. I'll never forget. I'm in France. I'm
having one of those important yearly strategic meetings, and a
session of the strategic meeting is dedicated to human resources
in personnel, and during the course of this meeting, the
head of human resources the ELVIM ancient Paris says to me, Mark,
we're thinking with a French accent that I don't have.

(36:01):
We want to bring some of your people to live
and move here to France. It's good for them, good
for us to get the American way. Of the people
you have direct reporting to you, who would want to
move to France? Now, in preparation for this meeting, I
interviewed the five direct report women that I had working
for me, and none of them wanted to move for
various different reasons. Either their partner lived and worked in

(36:24):
New York. Either their husband or wife lived and worked
in New York. Either they loved New York, they didn't
speak French. They thought they worked for the greatest city
in the world. So when I tried to encourage them,
none of them wanted to leave. So I told them
at LV in France, none of them wanted to leave.
They believe they're in the best city in the world. Well,
aside from the fact that I couldn't deliver on people,

(36:47):
Boy did that head of the human races get upset?
Their back went up and said, who were you to
say New York is the best city in the world?
And I looked at him and said, well, I don't
really have the authority to say it. I'm telling you
what the people who live in New York think. A
lot of the world thinks in New York is the
best city. But I got myself in trouble, and here
I am criticizing my city. But now you want to

(37:11):
charge me a congestion tax for showing up. Might I
remind you or inform you that this is the first
city in the United States doing this, the first and
only city. Now, not only have I paid tolls to
get there, I'm gonna pay taxes on the parking when
I park my car. I'm making other people rich, not me.

(37:32):
The text the congested tax is anti American and trumps
my freedom. You want money to improve the subway and
the Long Island Railroad for me who doesn't use it.
Why should it be my money? You want my money
to pay for airport improvements. Airports and airlines are some
of the biggest conglomerates in the world. Let them pay

(37:52):
for it. They're using it, not me. And I'm congesting
the city me you the city congested this city kidding me.
I didn't give away needed lanes on all our city
avenues and struts and cross streets. I didn't give away
needed lanes for mostly unused bike racks. I didn't give
away lanes for restaurants that were needed in COVID but

(38:14):
not now. I didn't give away thoroughfares so we could
have parked cars in the middle of the streets you
did New York City. I didn't congest anything. All I'm
doing is gone from point A to point being, parking
my car for forty dollars a day. It's not my
fault that you've allowed a million electric bikes storming down

(38:35):
the so called allocated bike lanes, driving on the sidewalks,
going at any speeds, unregulated, undisciplined, uncorrected, unfounded. I didn't
cast these safety issues and putting pedestrians in harms way. No,
I'm just a sucker. Now that you're forcing to pay
for all of your sins and speaking congestion, I got

(38:57):
an idea, What about charging yourself? Why don't you charge
all the garbage trucks to congesting our city and making
traffic impossible, rather than having them pick up the garbage
in the morning when everybody's trying to get to work.
How about the buses going in and around the city,
clogging up our avenues. How about police cars going in
the congested zones. How about the snowplows? Why not charge

(39:20):
yourself your inefficient city plans use the money. I got
an idea. Take all their money that you get on
their vehicles and pay the police and fire them in
more money they deserve it. I rather see the money
go there than protect the subway where everybody's getting harassed.
You see, you don't like me. You can pick on

(39:43):
me because I'm the rich guy. I'm the rich guy.
You want to pay for your sins. This city is
already too expensive. It's uncompetitive. People are leaving, Companies are leaving,
people are refusing to come back to work in the city.
They're demanding working from home. Who can blame It's ten
dollars for a Coca Cola, It's one thousand dollars to
stay in a Hilton hotel. Now, on top of which,

(40:07):
you're gonna screw every truck that unfortunately travels into this
left up city and gets in the city grid of congestin.
You're gonna charge me nine dollars. You're gonna charge the
tucks twenty dollars a day from being in the congested zone.
And you know what, they're not gonna pay for it.
We are. They're bringing everything into the city the city needs.

(40:30):
They won't eat it. You will. Everything you buy that's
already expensive will go up in price. All the food,
all the supplies, all the goods and services. They're already
excessively expensive. And it'll force these companies, these truckers, these
people involved in shipping and getting our things from here
to there, to raise their prices. They're not gonna take

(40:53):
the hit. Nobody accepts price increases, nobody, So these truckers
are gonna charge all the food companies, all the service companies,
all the bedridge companies, all the delivery, the paper, the
printing inch, everything you need in your work and life
in the city to go up. They're the ones who
are gonna pay for it. You know, f you you
hate me because I've chosen to drive, do you hate everyone?

(41:15):
Because everything you buy in this city will be more
expensive than it already is. And those of you who
are woke and are trying to reduce submissions, which I
applaud if it makes sense, when the city's ready, when
we have charging stations, when we have cars that you
could trust, but I do my best. I bought a hybrid.
What are you thinking The cars you're forcing out will

(41:37):
all be electric, so they're not going to cause problems
with the error. You're so stupid. Tax me more. What
are you gonna do. You're gonna force the less than
one percent off the road? You proud of that? The
one percent is You're not forcing me out. You can
fool me once, shame on you. You can fool me twice,

(41:58):
and it's shame on me. I don't like you either.
I won't vote for you. The funny thing is I
can afford to pay this tax. Everyone else can't. And
those are the people who are going to pay the price,
including everyone who consumes anything in this city. Raise all
the prices. See if I care, I can afford it,
most of us can't. Good thinking, Good job. You know

(42:22):
what I can't afford you take a break back in
a minute.

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Speaker 2 (44:18):
Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
I'm starting off this year quiet. My idea was to
come in like a lamb and go out like a lion,
the opposite of March. But I can't help it, even
though the title of the show is the quieter you become,
the more you're able to hear. I'm doing my best
to listen, but I can't help but comment on what
I'm listening and seeing, and I have to go down

(44:45):
to say Esquire does it again with the Golden globes.
Whatever happened to common? Since whatever happened to good taste?
What's the purpose of fashion? His point of view? And
the magazines that they print on after they're read, they
become tomorrow's birdcage liner. When do we forget to walk

(45:05):
softly and carry a big stick? Don't stand out, make
a nice statement? Understand what looks good? When did we
change from wow, that's a really nice outfit to wow,
look at you. When did it happen that if it
wasn't for bad taste, there would be no taste at all?
I'll tell you when when Esquire lost the way? Esquire

(45:28):
for some time now has subverted the elegance of men. Worse,
they're sending the wrong signals of how men should dress.
Making men look like fools or peacocks can't be helpful
in the real world. Esquire has put their rubber stamp
on some of the most inappropriate and ugly outfits I've
ever seen in my life, and they're giving authority to

(45:51):
this nonsense and style under the heading of fashion. I
suppose fashion is some form of art, and you can
call it art, but it's not really soon clothes for men,
And yet Esquire has done it again at the Golden Globes.
They got it wrong or are afraid to tell the truth.
You want the truth. You can't handle the truth, but
I'm gonna try. What you wear is supposed to help

(46:14):
you look your best. You want to make statements, here's one.
I'm in style. I'm looking the best they can be
for this occasion. Women get it unless they overdo it,
and a lot of the women at the shows did it.
One of my favorite actresses in the world right now
I've always thought is amazingly beautiful is Kerry Russell and
the Diplat. She wore a suit the other night we

(46:36):
had a cape on it. It was a beautiful idea with
the cape rund whole thing. What was she thinking about?
She overdid it. I'm not gonna pick on anyone else.
I'm not even picking on you, Kerry Russell, the Diplomat.
Great show, You're beautifully great acting. I love it. But
you overdid it. Ladies, that's the signal I want to
send to you. Stop overdoing it. But the men, most

(46:56):
of you are wrong, most of you are amateurs. And
has anointed you with the best dressed. What happened Esquire
growing up there with a bible. Now they're Hustler magazine,
they're sellouts or zealots. Yes, the govin Glode had a
point to me. Now I want to point out what
makes it crazy to go overdone and to do these

(47:18):
stupid outfits. They don't have struggle to look right. Can
you imagine if an everyday Joe takes Esquire's point of
view and tries to copy it. Not only they're ugly,
or they're ordinary, or they're regular, they're gonna look like
fashion fools. You chase fashion, they're gonna take you down
the wrong street. But you, the regular people, like myself,

(47:39):
you're imperfect. Don't take this guidance of clothes from them.
Back to your wedding, to your business events, to your
night out, to your dates. Chances all you look the fool,
not the cool. I'll tell you what. Brad Pitt, Benjamin Button,
this is a scene. He's on a sailboat, he's coming
to meet his love. He gets off the sailboat. He's
wearing khaki pants, a beautiful yellow. I remember how taken

(48:02):
aback I was, how amazing that outfit looked. So I
went out and I got my khaki pants and I
bought a beautiful soft yellow sweater, put it on, and
I realized, I don't look like Brad Pitt. I look
like a banana. I've been on photo shoots for golf,
for all these different things, and one I remember this
golf shoot where the colors were tan and brown and

(48:22):
every model put it on. The shirts were extraordinary. At
the end of the shoot, I bought the samples from
the company, I had them washed, I put them on
in my house. I was tan, I looked my best.
I put those on. I just didn't look like they did.
I can tell you I was so disappointed. You have
to know what looks right now with that Jesse, you
get a chance to look at what the men were wearing.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
Yeah, I was few and far between that anyone looked decent.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
Do you mind if I go first? Sure, I just
want to give you what I thought was the worst
outfit of all with a comment you ready. Do you
know who Jonathan Vanessa's No, I don't know what he's
known for, but I have a tip for him. If
you're gonna wear a dress, you shouldn't have a beard.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Yeah, no, I haven't seen that. Did you see Andrew Scott?
Who is dressed in like the pink colored teal like teal.
I guess that's like a blue, like a light blue teal.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Ridiculous though, the only one who looked more ridiculous than
him in that color was the guy from what's his name?

Speaker 2 (49:25):
The accession.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
Yeah, he's wearing teal, the law suit with the bucket hat.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
You know, he was wearing a Laura Piana, which is
a very expensive play.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
Well, what does that mean? Trying to make a fool
of you?

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Did you see Daniel Craig? He was wearing Georgia Armani.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
But it looked weird, Okay, Daniel Craig. I don't know
what has happened to Daniel Craig. I have to tell
you that. Look, I'll never forgive him after dying in
his last movie, no matter what anybody tells me, the directors,
the writers. I think he was all for it. I
think he wanted it, and I think he thought it
was good. I'll never forgive him for it. I have

(50:01):
trouble looking at him, but in recent year, the way
he's behaved fashioned, whether it's the glasses, the effeminate clothes,
the things that don't look right, he is be going
from a style icon to a style fool, and I'm
embarrassed for him. I'm disappointed because he was so brilliantly
tailored up until his private life. Now I didn't understand

(50:24):
him at the Golden Gloves. I don't understand what he's
going for. He's grown his hair out. It looks great.
I hate what he's doing. Your turn, and yes, I'm
serious about this stuff.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Timothy Shallomey.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
I don't know why he wore a scarf, didn't I mean,
as opposed to a classic.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
You're wrong, You're wrong. You have the picture in front
of you. I do bring it up close. It's not
a scarf.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Well, it's not blue scarf around his neck metallic.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
It's a neck tie. Yeah, around his neck like a tie.
Ridiculous look, and they make him one of the best
dress I want to shoot myself. The reality is he's
always trying to go over the top. But at least
he wore a shirt on this one.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Yeah, that wasn't great.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
I love Jeff Goldblum, but he was wearing a weird jacket.
Andrew Garfield was wearing an oversized Gucci suit.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
Andrew Garfield another buffoon, with all due respect to not
his acting, not his looks, the way he dressed. First
of all, I don't like him with a beard. He's
a great looking guy. He doesn't need the bed. But
if you look closer again, he's wearing a green tuxedo.
Green that doesn't fit with open at the neck. It's terrible.

(51:44):
Look what do I think? I think there are only
so many colors that work at all. Okay, let's face it.
If you're gonna wear a tuxedo, you wear a black tuxedo.
If you believe that navy is the original tuxedo, I
get it. You want to wear a white dinner jacket,
I get it. Anything else, st home, you look wrong.
What signal you want to send? You want to go

(52:04):
to your friend's wedding and show up in a green tuxedo?
This is what you want to endorse? You know who?
Alton Mason is. No great looking black guy, the greatest
arms and shoulders I think I've ever seen it. Looks
like Floyd Mayweather. Why is he not wearing sleeves? I
get it. At Stolchinkavata, are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (52:25):
This is the statement you want to make.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
What did you think of Glenn Powell?

Speaker 4 (52:30):
Good looking guy? Not my favorite guy yet. I think
he's getting a little too much too quick. But he
knows how to dress. I could live with a tuxedo
with a black shirt and collar open, but you know,
going over the top. Look look at the rock. Rock's
a great looking guy. He was wearing black pants, black shoes,
look great with a purple silk looking tuxedo jacket and

(52:53):
a matching tie, a matching shirt. Excuse me, he was
wearing a purple, kind of light purple tuxedo jacket with
a beautiful silky looking shirt matching color. The problem with
his it was opened up to his belly button. Again,
What are you trying to say? It's not good taste.
Bottom line here is Esquire magazine. You want to be

(53:15):
the fashion gurus of the world. You have a position
that you built over one hundred years. What are you doing?
What signals are you saying when you name these people
the best stressed? How could you do that? You are
telling people to dress any appropriately. You're telling people to
dress without good taste. You're telling me that the best

(53:36):
looking people in the world, looking like peacocks or buffoons
are doing the right thing. These people, incredibly talented, good
looking people that could be setting the stage for men
to admire and men to copy, to learn how to
do the right thing. We all have responsibilities, whether it's
what I say or what I do. You have responsibilities

(53:57):
to send people all around the world world the right signals.
It's one thing for the actors to make a mistake
of their choices. It's another thing for you to praise them.
Please stop as I will. Now. You may have noticed
I'm passionate about the way men look. Why because the
name of the show, first of all, is always in fashion.

(54:19):
But it always in fashion. I suppose what I really
mean is you're always dressed appropriately. You're not about making statements.
I chase fashion in the early part of my career
the wrong way. I had people talking about my clothes
rather than what I had to say. I stood out
rather than fit in. I don't want to be known

(54:42):
as a good looking guy in a suit. I don't
want people saying to me, wow, look at that. I
prefer them saying, wow, that's really nice. Where'd you get it?
It's important to recognize that packaging yourself is as important
as the products you package, and with that comes a responsibility.
With anyone who makes a statement. In the case of Esquire,

(55:04):
I grew up reading your magazine. Everything you said I
took to heart. Your articles are brilliant, and they probably
still are, but your fashion sense is off and the
signals you're sending will not help people. We're dealing with
the most visual statements in fashion and dressing in the
world during awards season. We need to know how to

(55:28):
implore the people that are dressed well versus the people
that are. We need to give advice. We need to say,
I love the way this guy was dressed, but he
would have looked better or should have looked better if
he did this. We need to send the right signals.
Men are already messed up. People are forgetting what I

(55:49):
just said that the casualization of America. Competition in the
workplace didn't end with the removal of the jacket and tie.
Everyone next to you is competing for prizes. It shouldn't
matter the way you look, but it does. Esquire, the Academy.
Everyone please recognize that we're all not beautiful. We're all

(56:10):
not six foot two, We're all not movie stars or
television stars. We need to look the best we can be,
and we can't undermine ourselves by dressing poorly. I suppose
that's a paid political statement, except I'm not getting paid
to try and help with that. Remember, the quieter you become,
the more you're able to hear, And at this point

(56:32):
I'll be quiet. Good Night.