We Live In Interesting Times

where we're going. You never really know. With the advent of AI with a change in all our communication habits with UAPs, unidentified anomalist phenomenon or unidentified aerial phenomenon. Are we alone? Do we know? Are we going to learn something soon? It's a question. And then, of course Trump not Trump watchers or sneakers, Trump change, elon musk change. We're living in interesting times. Feels like the best of times, not the worst of times. I'm often happiest though, when

I'm observing, and there's much to observe right now. Well, I would say the Super Bowl reminded us of the Goat, the greatest of all time. That it can't be hyped, it must be earned. A time for shopping habits to change everything Amazon versus everything that was in the malls. Women are dressing up, men are dressing down. What's the future of mankind went out in sync? Women look their best, men look their worst. Is our species doomed? What's going on?

I often said I don't mind spending money, I hate wasting it. I hate wasting a penny, even though penny's not worth a penny any longer. I always looked up to the government. I trusted it to do the right thing. Now in the world, it's clear that everything the government has done proved their best at throwing away our money. There's no oversight, no preparation, no common sense, hidden funds for causes that don't help America, no care at all for where our money goes, where has been spent. We're

a wasteland for money. We're stupid. We live in interesting times, the time to enjoy time, the time to understand, to explore, a time to question. I've had great times. I've had good times. I've had annoying times. We all have. But in my case tonight, I want to talk about the state we find ourselves in. And I don't mean New York State, I mean our state of affairs. We have a new president. He's sninking outside the box. Actually, he's snaking outside this world. He's being forward at every turn.

Forget the fact that what he says is making sense. Forget the fact that he's assembled a brilliant and loyal team. He's applying lessons he learned from the last time he was president. Forget the facts, even though they're right in our face. Somehow or another. We can't accept change, any change. Listen, Democrats, did you see Schumer and Maxine Waters dancing the other day? We will win. We will. You had to be embarrassed

for them. The Democratic oversight, let's be honest, has been a disass America voted You're out, Sit down, Think before you talk, Think before you talk. Now. I have a Democratic history in my family. I come from a working class family. Although today the Republicans are now the common sense party for everyone. The Democrats, they have to ties to this nonsense, no woke, no champions in illegal anything, hold politicians aliable for incompetence, Please keep us safe. Can

you handle the truth? The truth is we all need to be observant. Common sense is not so common. We need to talk about doing what's right. Which brings me to Trump. And with Trump comes my lawyer, my co host, my son, Jesse Webber.

and of course Dan for giving me the opportunity. And I want to thank all of you for tuning in, allowing us into your homes, allowing me into your home.

authority to do it. And unfortunately, what I think was happening for Donald Trump is he's running into a lot of the roadblocks Congress never approved them to do that Congress has the right to do, to move around funds that Congress never appropriated, And I think that's the major concern. You know, it's a balance between he's the head of

the executive branch. He has a right to direct and manage the executive branch, but at the same time he has to follow the law and there's a separation of powers. I think there was a big concern at the beginning of the week. It seemed to temper a little bit, but based on Vice President jd Vance's comments that the courts are getting in the way, questioning the court's authority to stop Donald Trump from doing this. The worst case

scenario is if Donald Trump's administration just doesn't follow court orders. Now, he seemed to sugges he is going to follow the court orders. He's going to appeal it, which is his right to do. But that was the biggest concern from this week is that while his intentions might be noble and right, how he's going about it and what he's going to do if he's challenged, that's what we're all waiting out to say.

you want people to build in there. That might be a way to get you know, the area back. But again, I think there's so many things he hasn't thought of that it almost felt like a little bit of an off the cuff statement.

And while he is trying to bring the Arab community together. I thought what he should have done is split the Gaza into regions, all lined up with the same purpose. It's on the water. It could be great resort, great places, division for conventions, bring people together, turn it into something special. But I believe what he should have done, or could do, is take a section of it. Give it to the Russians to build their hotels, their view of what this

looks like. Give to the Chinese a section to build what they think is their view, what their hotels, what they want to bring to the table. Give the Europeans, the European Union a section to build, and the Americas will build a section. In the Arab community will build a section. Call it five different sections, all on the same strip, making a statement, all working together to build it up. Make it amazing, give everyone a chance of prosperity, and I think that would alleviate a lot of the

future problems going forward. In fact, you know what, think about Disneyland with all the theme parks. Do the same thing in the Gaza strip, involving the international community. I think it would be great.

save people. I love what's going on with the Ukraine. Before I give you my input that you say you like, do you have something you'd like to say about the Ukraine.

get on with their lives. And it means succeeding some territory. It was going to happen. Russia's not going to lose to the Ukraine, no matter how many weapons we send in, and whodo wants to be sending in weapons from here to help kill people. I know the Europeans have questions. We have to stop Putin, we have to stop Ukraine. It's a terrible situation that can go on forever, and it's enough killing. Having said that, a little territory to save a lot of lives I think will make a

lot of headway. Now as far as Putin goes. I've said this in the past, they'll say it again. There was a time two thousand and eight. I remember I was at LVMH. We had an amazing run with the Russians. They were all coming to New York, they were all coming to this country, they were all doing business, they were all coming together, and it became the successful entrepreneurism of the world, bringing our two countries together, and Russia was in a very good place. Putin was proud of

the country. He was proud of what was going on, and then we alienated him everything anti Russia, anti Russia, anti Russia. This is a man, It's like anyone else. If everybody keeps hammer on you and saying you're a bad guy and you're a dictator, and you're a Nazi and you're this, of course he's gonna not like it. We need to bring him back into the community of men. We need to bring Russia back into the community. We want them as our friends. We don't need enemies. We

have to let buy guns be byguns. I know a million people are gonna tell me I'm foolish, but what else is the alternative. Let this war go on forever, Let it lead to World War three. Let Trump make a deal, let him be the broker. Let this happen. I think we're in a great place. You know, this is such a patriotic time for our country. Those of you don't like Don Trump. Every time he shows up, people are chanting USSA, USA, USA, make America great again,

Put America first. It's a wonderful time. The conversations on Canada, I never thought about it. Should Canada be our fifty first state? When did we make Alaska our fifty fiftieth state. There was a reason should Canada become our fifty first state. I think it's a great dialogue that we're having, and let the geniuses figure out as that are plus or minus for both countries. The subject of Greenland, it's natural resources. If we could buy it, why wouldn't we. The population

is successful, they're happy. Maybe this is a nice addition again to the continental United States. And then of course this Panama. We gave the Panama Canal away for nothing. Jimmy Carter gave it because he thought it was right that the Panamanians should own the canal. But he didn't consider that America built it, all the work, all the sacrifices, and now they're taking advantage of us. They're holding up our ships. No good. I think it's right that we're

talking about and Gulf of America. I love it. So I hope all this turns out to something international and if we can. We want to be neutral in this world. We want to have a nice time. We don't want people dying. Get on board, Democrats, what he's doing is right. You want we are a nation of immigrants, not illegals, immigrants. We don't want to be woke anymore that we've all voted for and what are we fighting for now? We're

fighting to get America on a solid foundation. To say anything before I close this segment.

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interesting times. And with that as a backdrop, I want to talk a little bit about life in general. I have been very active, seasons changing. I love to go shopping, look at new clothes, sees what's going on. And I've spent some time in Bloomingdale's and I want to tell you about it. Yeah, Bloomingdale's is an exciting store. Women's wear is interesting. It's always had an entertainment factor theater to Bloomingdale's. But that's not why I want to talk

about it. What I want to talk about is there was a sighting in Bloomingdale's this week. I well, i'll tell you what happened. I went into Bloomingdale's in Manhattan and I bought a Armani stretched shirt, a white one.

the security tag off. I was so pissed off. You know, you go to this effort to buy something, you gotta figure the guy at the sales counter has only one job, well two, well maybe not. Let's be fair. He has to greet me, he has to take my money, he has to put my shirt in a bag, take off the security tag, and say thank you goodbye. Well, if I got to take off the security tag, which ended up turning into a good thing because I had to go back. I went back and I went to buy.

I returned the shirt, I had them take off the tag, and I ended up buying an Armani short puffy jacket. Have a really cool one right now, and I wanted to buy it, and I bought it. Once again. I'm standing around and I go to pay for it, and I give the guy my credit card and he looks at me and he says, are you Mark Weber? I said, yes, I'm Mark Weber. You have the card. He says, no, no, are you the Mark Weber? I start to laugh the Mark Webber? He said, yeah, the radio guy, the podcast guy.

I said, yeah, that's me, and he goes, oh, this is crazy. I can't believe it. I listened to you every Sunday. I listened to you every Saturday and Sunday night driving home. I love your show. My wife loves your show. I'm so happy to meet you. I said, that's great. You know I was laughing. It was night. Not the first time it's happened, but it's always fun when someone recognized you in this case, which is amazing, either from my voice or from my name. It's not

like they know my face. So anyway, he says, he says, but he goes, You're gonna hate me. I said, why would I hate you? He says, I'm gonna show you. And it comes from around the counter where he the desk where he took the money, and he's wearing a suit with brown sneakers with white souls. He says, I know you hate these shoes. I know you're gonna give me grief. I looked at him. I said, I like you, but I hate your shoes. I'm looking at this outfit. You look like a I said, I apologize. You look

like a schmuck. You wear in a nice suit of white shirt and these shoes with the soles. You look ridiculous. What are you thinking? He says, I know, I know, I can't wait to tell my wife. He tells it it takes a thing to his wife and sends her a note. And anyway, he wraps the coat and I go home. I get home and once again blooming Dell's. I bought an Almani jacket. I went to try it on.

I put my hand in the pocket. In the pocket, there's a snap that holds the pocket in place when you wear it, and one of the snaps was broken. So now I have to bring the coat back. So the next day I go to bring the coat back. I go to see him again. He said, oh, I can't believe you're back. He's so excited. But I told my wife she really wanted to know. Well, she says not and he goes, let me show you what she wrote me. And he shows me his phone and the

fife says one word, one question? Was he obnoxious? Now I don't know why the guy needed to show me this. And you know, did it make me feel bad? No, I mean most humans might feel bad. I wouldn't feel bad. I just said to myself, here, I am trying to do the right thing in life, trying to entertain people, bring them knowledge, create a show that they could learn from enjoy. Am I obnoxious? Now? I think about this set a lot of times in various different degrees. I

try my best to be humble. It's hard when you're talking about a career that has spanned the length of mind and has the success that I had and the financial wherewithal that the show the career has brought me. But I recognize, and that's why I often talk about the fact I'm a man of the people. I began my career in the city projects. I never expected to be successful. I'm not important now. I used to be important. I do all of that to try and offset the fact that here I am, having been the CEO of

two major companies, and obviously I did well financially. I try to offset it by being, as I said, the coming man, and the best she has for me was he obnoxious. Hey, Jesse, am I obnoxious?

the way we're supposed to carry ourselves. Say thank you, appreciate what's done for you, dress appropriately, talk appropriately. You know you can't buy class. I don't care how much money a person has. You can't buy class anyway. I'm watching what's going on and minding my own business. And I turned the page Golf magazine and there are two photographs, one of Ricky Fowler and the other of Jason Day Ricky Fowl American, Jason Day Australian, and they were both

dressed so poorly it almost blew my mind. Ricky Fowler is the hot streets. Everybody loved him. He's the guy from who always wore the orange with the long hair, and he started his own clothing line. He was so attractive and so interesting. And Jason Dave, for a good looking guy from Australia, was a bigger winner a few years back. But they were wearing the worst stowes. I'll come back to it. You know what I remember about golf.

When I was a young man, I would always go into someone's house, and if I went to someone who's affluent and the guy the father was home on the weekend Saturday Sunday. He'd always be by the TV watching golf, and they invite me to sit down. I'm a date a girl. He'd be watching golf and I watch it and I said, this is a game for old people. When I played it, I realize it's not because if you want to play golf, every part of your body has to work. You need your legs, you need your arms,

you need your back, you need your shoulders. You have to be in good shape in order to play golf. Now that doesn't mean you don't see fatsos. You don't see people who are not in the best of shape playing. With all due respect to the fatsos, I have a right to call him that. I was fat for a large part of my life, so get over it. But the point is I watch it on TV and there would be Bobby Jones. They would show you historical pictures of Bobby Jones. He was always dressed elegantly, pleated pants,

beautiful belt. In those days they wore dress shirts and ties to play golf, and he looked brilliant. I grew up at the end of Arnold Palmer's career. The man was always elegant, beautifully dressed. He would wear beautiful pants, beautiful golf shoes, gray slacks, black golf shoes. He would wear a light yellow golf shirt with a beautiful Lynx cardig in V neck sweater. He looked brilliant, he looked elegant.

Arnold Palmer was a measter in dressing. And then it went on to Sevi Ballisterais always wore a beautiful golf shirt, beautiful matching pants, nice golf shoes that matched. This outfit with a golf shirt and a V neck sweater. Elegant. Jack Nicholas, he showed up. They started wearing plaid pants and a little outrageous, but once you got into it, you could see a lot of time effort went into

just being elegant. Even their rain suits were amazing. Then liv Golf came this outshoot of golf, this rogue golf that the Saudi family, the Saudi what's that called the Saudi Sovereign Fund built put in to golf as a threat to the PGA. They're at war with each other. They're going to make a compromise, but they have an offshoot golf organization and they play, and they got some of the best players in the world to come because they offered them a lot of money. And I loved

it until they went to shorts. If you ask me, shorts is a signal of the end of society. I hate seeing men in shorts makes no sense. First of all, ninety nine point nine percent of America has ugly legs, and who wants to see him anyway. I don't want to look at your legs, Guys, I want to look at you. If you have to look at you at all, you're inelegant in pants. I don't want to look at your legs. And shorts I hate them. Anybody wears the shorts. I'm with all the respect, I think it's a buffoon.

Those of you who see me are gonna tell me how wrong I am. It keeps you cool, balooney, beloney, you wes shorts when it's hot out the sun is beating down on your legs. It's not making you feel cool, it's making you hotter. Look at the Arab nations. They're all dressed in all those heavy garb from their head to toe to keep the sun out because it keeps you cooler. Don't tell me all I know it's the end of society. I don't want to read about Phil Mickelson's calves, which I did when they saw him in

shorts for the first time. We had to listen to three weeks of that, which brings me back to Ricky Fowler. He's wearing a hunting golf suit. Hunting you you had to go out and shoot pheasants or hunt bear. That's what he was wearing in golf matching shirt and pants. Disaster disaster. Even the hat was a hunting hat. What are you doing? What kind of statement? Where is the control? I wouldn't have let him play that day if I

was the commissioner. And then if that wasn't bad enough, Jason Day comes out in Melbourne, m alb o n. I have one of his shirts. Very cool. He came out in a sweatsuit, sweatpants and a sweatshirt to play golf. All the elegance is gone. It was terrible and I really really start to feel that men have lost their way. I know it. You hear me talk about her all the time, but now it's come on the golf course, which was the final bastions of elegance in America. In

my view. You want to go to the Super Bowl? Tell a Swift shows up to all the games. She's dressed, beautifully, dresses, she makeup, she looks great, and then her boyfriend Jason Kelsey comes out into your tracksuit. What's happening, America? We are ruining the world. No, I would tell you. When it comes to fashion, he who seeks attention loses. He just lose. That's not what it's about. I remember back to golf for a second. Harvey Wintraub, who's hyve Win Trump?

Harvey Ron Trout is a famous director and deal maker in Hollywood, and Elvis is finally years. He took Elvis on his final tour, convinced the captain to allow him to take Elvis out. He's also responsibil as he directed, and he brought the team together to do Earth Oceans eleven, twelve and thirteen. He was the producer. Amazing guy. I go to the golf course and I see him there and I go, wow, look at this guy. I knew

who he was right away. He was wearing bright purple golf shoes, bright purple pants, bright purple shirt, bright purple cardigan sweater. And there he is on the golf course looking like an egg plant. I don't know whatever's purple, and it looked terrible. One of those I've talked about this before. Wow, look at you. And I went over to the low told them I fan. I believe that the appropriate way to then dress would be black golf shoes, gray slacks, a light purple, a light purple shirt, and

a light purple sweater. If you want to took purple that is wow, that looks nice. I've talked about this, maybe even last week. I don't remember. He who seeks attention loses. You know, I love to fly. I love to fly on planes because no one in the back in the day could find me. There were no cell phones, no texting. Nobody knew where you were. You're on the plane. You were left alone. I used to love golf fashion. Both now are classes because first class versus schmuck class.

That's still the case. There's only two glasses on a plane, first class of schmuck class. I've flown the boat. But class does matter. If you're getting in first class. There's a way for you to behave. You should dress well, You should behave, You should be grateful, you should be patient, you should appreciate. Money doesn't buy your class, and we see this all the time. Manners and upbringing derives class. So before we remove men from the fashion dockets of

the world, before you continue to ruin it. If you keep looking like crap, women won't want to be with you anymore. If they won't want to be with you anymore, we won't procreate the species, and we'll all be gone. Please remember class and dressing well still manners in this world and business. Removal the jacket and tie doesn't say you could wear anything you want. You're still in a

competitive environment. You still have to look your best. I feel i'm talking on deafias because on top of everything else, all these trends that are coming from men, from wearing dresses to kilts, the brown shoes to shoes with sneakers, with suits with white bottoms. I'm getting really frustrated, but I'm going to leave it to this. We live in interesting times. You're allowed to do whatever you want, You're allowed to mess up, you're allowed to be wow, but

it doesn't mean it's right. I'll take a break. We're back in a minute. Some more interesting times.

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talk about football. He talks about it irreverently, how much he respects the game, how much work he put in, how hard he did it, how it never gave up, how he had a vision of how to conduct himself. And for that regard, it's fascinating to watch. I often think about my style and how I behaved when I came in. You know, I had a big personality, and you know I looked a certain way, and because of that, I tried to downplay who I was. I always wore very,

very conservative but elegant clothes. My wardrobe, as your listeners you know now, navy blue suit, white shirt, black tails of the loafers, navy tie, sterling, silver cofflinks, day in day out. I had a simple look that tried to play down or complimented a personality. I didn't want to be big personality, big clothes. I didn't want to make statements. I wanted to be under the radar. Although it was someone impossible for me to be under the radar, I

did my best to do it. My style was elegant, classic, sophisticated. I didn't brag, I didn't share my plans, I didn't talk goals. I just did my job. And I just did my job better than my peers, often better than who I was reporting to. Now, I didn't engage in conversations of corporate politics. I left the powers to be

to kill each other off. And while everyone else was killing each other off, I put my head down and I slipped through the doors of opportunity like a powerful running back, cutting through the line where the opening was made by the line back where the opening was made by the offensive tackles. I was downfield before anyone even knew it. I have a story. There's a guy named Danny Kiseman. He may rest and please. He owed the

factory and I think it was Danville, Illinois. Don't hold me too, but it was an Illinois and I and my boss went to see him. One day. They were making windbreaker jackets and someone in the company, the CEO, the founder of the company, said I want you to go down there and see if you could buy those windbreaker jackets. Put it in your sportswear line. Change the label from windbreaking the van using at the time. I want him to sell more jackets. I come to sell

to us in the company, and you internalill go. When we went down to visit with Danny and his brother, and we walked the factory, We talked questions, we had dinner. We had a great time together. And up until that point I never really met him. I would see him in the hallway say hello, And at one point he took us aside and he said, to my boss, you're going to be the CEO of this company some day.

I have no doubt about it. Not only that the founder, Larry Phillips, the founder's grandson, had told Bruce he was going to be the CEO someday. But me, I was an anomaly. Said you know, Mark, I've seen you around. You always look great, You're always smiling. But I gotta tell you, I always thought you were just a good looking guy in a suit. I had no idea who you are, he said. I just spent the day with

you here, having dinner with you. I had no idea how serious you were, how interested in the business you are, and how much you know about what's going on. And I would never have given you the credit for it. In fact, I think that's your greatest difficulty to overcome, and it's your greatest asset, because when time comes, nobody's going to see you coming. You're going to come out of left field and run this place. You're going to be the man. Now. I am just proud knowing I

know you, because I know that's going to happen. And sure enough he was right, and I loved hearing it then, and I appreciated that the way I was carrying myself, even though I had when I thought was too big of a personality, worked. I tried to be humble and I tried to do my job. And as I've often said for my buddy Ben Franklin, well done is better than well said. So I say that to all of you.

Think about your personality, think about what you're doing, think about how your clothes compliment you, think about what you're trying to achieve. And my advice to you, don't brag, be humble, do your job, and things will come well. On another note, can't help but think about money this week. With all we're finding out from Elon Musk and the government about the wasteful spending of money, it is incredible, sad and making me angry how people don't respect money.

My treatise on money is I don't mind spending money, I hate wasting it. I'll buy anything that makes sense, But I don't like wasting money. I don't like buying something, bringing it home and hating it without returning it. I hate it. It's wasteful. I don't like it. Doesn't matter how much I have, how much I want, how much I spend, as long as I don't waste money. And recently I heard a statement from a former executive at PVH.

Someone told my son. Someone in the industry told my son at a luncheon, is your father toughest guy I ever met, fairest guy I ever met. And everybody knows that he has the first dollar he ever made. His reputation for making sure money wasn't wasted was legendary. And I know he hasn't spent money, he has saved it. He's provided for future. I don't know if I could do that. I don't want to do I don't know if I want to do it. But I know your father saved his money. And I started to laugh myself.

It's a lot better than the woman who called me obnoxious. I worked to succeed at work. I didn't work for the money. I knew the money would take care of itself. You know now that I said, I've told the story again. I apologize, but the new listeners. My first interview, when I got prepped by the guy sending me on the interview, he asked me how much money I wanted to make, and at the time, going back all those years, I was fifty thousand dollars. He goes, what are you talking about.

That's the stupidest answer I ever heard. First of all, you're not going to get a first job at fifty thousand dollars. It's just graduate to college. But I'm going to tell you what you're going to say when he asks you how much money you want to earn, You're going to say money doesn't matter to me right now. What matters to me is working for a great company like this, with people who are willing to train me. I will work hard, I will learn, and money will

take care of itself. I never worked for money. I always worked to do the job. Money is a means of keeping score as you go along. If you're doing well, you make more money. If you're doing very well, you make even more money, And that's one of the ways that you recognize you're doing a good job. Sometimes I accepted what they paid me. Sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I either felt my worth was more and I fought back and I negotiated with them. It also makes sense if

you have the leverage. If they're twelve people like you lined up behind, you might not be a good time to fight. But if you know for a fact that you are not being treated what you believe is fairly right way, with the right words, you have an opportunity to talk and get your point across. You might not get the money right then and there, but you might

get it down the road. You put in someone's head that hey, I'm no fool, and if you do it right, you might not get it, but they might respect you the powers to be you might just respect you for the way you negotiated, for what you had to say, for the fact you weren't afraid to talk what you believe was honest. Now, I grant you, that's a tough balancing act, but it's one that I've lived through and

done many times managing money. Now, one of the greatest things I want to take a little bit of money I ever heard in my life was a clip I never forgot it from a movie called Gentlemen Preferred Blondes. Marilyn Monroe and I want to play that for you now, because I love it.

I said. My career had ups and downs. I never knew where I was standing, and I was sitting in a chair, and I said, let me tell you. When someone came into my office meeting me for the first time or wanted advice, they would ask me, what is success like? I said, First of all, you see this chair I'm sitting in. I don't own this chair, and I never forget that for a minute. I don't own this chair. I'm being paid to do a job. There's

no guarantee that I will have this chair tomorrow. In fact, what I would do is I would be sitting in my suit. I would open my legs a little, and I said, let me draw an imaginary line between each leg. I pat my left leg and I say this leg is getting promoted tomorrow, and then I'd pat my right leg and say this leg is getting fired tomorrow. And to tell you the truth, I never know which will

be the case. So I live my life humbly. I keep my mind on doing the job, and I recognize that politics plays a role, and I do my best to navigate for that in mind. We live in interesting times, and that's what I wanted to talk to you about tonight. I love what's going on in a country. I love the enthusiasm, I love the energy. I love the fact that a president walks into the super Bowl stadium and

the crowd goes wild. Forget for a moment it's Donald Trump if you don't like him, But that patriotism, that respect for Aleida, that good feeling that we used to have with all our leaders, needs to come back. And why not let it start with Trump. Democrats support him, Republicans keep him in treck. Let's do the right thing. We live in interesting times. Good Night,