1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Ruthie's Table four presented by Sky. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: I always liked clothes because I liked how they made 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 2: me feel, and I feel like, you know, kind of 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: you look good, you feel good. I think there is 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 2: something to that because I think it gives you confidence. 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 2: It's a way to express yourself. I love when people 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 2: dress up. They've got to look in a style in 8 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 2: their own jo out of eve on, how they kind 9 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: of pull it all together, and there's so many ways 10 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 2: to do that. 11 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: Of course, trying to think of how to talk about 12 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: my newest friend, Paul Price, I sawt some help from 13 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: his oldest friend and the person who brought us together, 14 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: the film director Andrew Direki. He wrote, Dear Ruthie, I 15 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: first met Paul during freshman year at Princeton. He was handsome, poised, 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: and about a thousand times more stylish than any other 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: student we were with. Is a taste maker and a creator, 18 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 1: as he's reshaped my perception of what life can be. 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: He is also reimagining legendary brands in the world, a 20 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: fashion now burbery and making the newly relevant. An obvious 21 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: adjective to describe Paul is elegant, but is not nearly 22 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: enough of a word. 23 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 3: It's his mischievously. 24 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: Funny wit, his creative mind and deep compassion for and 25 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: curiosity about people that sets him apart. I know you're 26 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: going to love him. This is from Andrew last night. 27 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 2: That reminds me of, you know, the Adventures. 28 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 3: Of Finish It's done. This is back to me. 29 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:44,479 Speaker 2: Now. 30 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: What Andrew didn't mention, but I know really well, is 31 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: that Paul loves food and he loves to cook. That 32 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: was our first connection some months ago over dinner at 33 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: the River Cafe. It was the beginning of a conversation 34 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: and the beginning of a friendship. And as Andrew says, 35 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: I know I'm going to love him. 36 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 3: So now, what were you going to say. 37 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: About Well, it's like hearing your own eulogy, right, And 38 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 2: that was very sweet Andrew. Thank you. It means a 39 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 2: lot to me. Actually get a little teary on that 40 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: it reminds you of, you know, the Adventures of Tom 41 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 2: Sawyer when he remember he went, he went, He and 42 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: Huck Finn they ran away, and they faked their deaths 43 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 2: and they thought they drowned in the town. And he 44 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 2: thought everyone hated him and he was a bad boy 45 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 2: and all this and so they went back to town 46 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 2: to see what was going on, and they churched up 47 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 2: to a tree and it was his funeral and he 48 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 2: was hearing the eulogies about himself and what people were 49 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 2: saying about him weren't anything that he thought that they thought. 50 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: And he was like, oh, wow, actually I'm loved, I'm 51 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 2: actually I'm liked. Actually there are qualities about me that 52 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 2: are great. So anyway, you know that that was very sweet. 53 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: It was also that movie, you remember that movie, It's 54 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: a Wonderful Life, also with Jimmy Stewarp when it comes 55 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: back or he's about to kill himself. 56 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 3: That's right, that's sweet. And then all the things. So 57 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 3: we don't hear enough, but. 58 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 2: Well, thank you here for your that's very sweet. And 59 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 2: I feel sime about you. 60 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is the beginning, and we love Andrew. 61 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 3: We have to talk more about that. 62 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: You grew up in this house of you know, Serbian 63 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: Croatian Julia's child sitting down to dinner, having lunch. 64 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 2: That's why I had to cook. That likes to cook 65 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 2: as well. 66 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 3: Did they entertain lot? They did? So, remember would you 67 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 3: like the kid that stood on the stairs. 68 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 2: I used to sit on the stairs, and this is 69 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 2: when people would smoke inside and smell the smoke. I 70 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: sort of liked that smell. My parents didn't smoke, but 71 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: they would let there. I remember one my mom said, oh, 72 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 2: it's so boring, like you sit next to the same 73 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 2: person all night. So she came up with this idea 74 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 2: which no one had at the time, where she had 75 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 2: she had sixteen people over for dinner and she had 76 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: four tables of four and everyone had to move a table, yeah, 77 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 2: after each course. But now they do it all the time, 78 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: and so for her to map it all out and 79 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 2: who's going to be next to who? And she sort 80 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 2: of was known for these sort of rotating parties. 81 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 3: This sounds really cool. 82 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: She would PLoP like big plants in the middle of 83 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 2: the table like a giant like you know, fern in 84 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 2: a tree, and they're all it's quite cheek nineteen seventies, 85 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 2: and she'd. 86 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 3: Like them with seventies. 87 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 2: She liked them with you know, Christmas tree lights, which 88 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 2: was sort of at the time, felt very ahead of 89 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 2: the start. 90 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 3: What did your dad do, but you said he had stores. 91 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 2: He was he was a traveling shoe salesman, and then 92 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 2: he started doing shoes in this departments are called the 93 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 2: two Swabies. And then the shoe concessions started doing better 94 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 2: than the rest of the store, so he bought the store. 95 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 2: So then he would go into all these little towns 96 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 2: like Walla, Walla, Washington, and Lewiston and Boise, Idaho, and Building's, 97 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 2: Montana and take over the general stores. And they were 98 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 2: sort of like sort of discount stores before that time. 99 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 2: And then my mother was really in so my dad. 100 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 2: My dad was doing okay, so we were sort of 101 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 2: a big fishing. 102 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 3: Big deal though, to start all these stores all over 103 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 3: I mean that was yeah. 104 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 2: So we had like twelve or seventeen or something, and 105 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 2: I'd work for him in the summers and on the weekends. 106 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 2: And so then my mother my dad, she liked eve 107 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 2: Ce Lauran, So my mom would be like, my dad 108 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 2: would like, okay, you can buy two to three outfits 109 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 2: of celaw a season. Yeah. So my mom would then 110 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: take me to Seattle, she take me out of school. 111 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 2: I'd go to the shops on the wrong with her 112 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 2: at the department there, you know. So my mother came 113 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 2: up with this brilliant idea that they had all this 114 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 2: excess inventory with Marshall Field, which was the store that 115 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 2: and she said, how do you get rid of that? Go? Oh, 116 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 2: we sell it. So she said to my dad, you 117 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 2: should offer them pennies on the dollar of all these 118 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 2: designer clothes and we'll sell them in spoken and I'll 119 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 2: be in charge of We'll call it the clothes rack. 120 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 2: So my mom opened up this the first kind of 121 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 2: discount designer shop in this weird little town. Half the people, 122 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 2: well most people even know what they were looking at. Yeah, 123 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 2: but that's sort of her way. So I used to 124 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 2: all the shipments would come in and then I go 125 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: to my dad's warehouse. My mom would be, of course 126 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 2: take the first pick of stuff, which was a heaven 127 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: for her. My my niece just got a lot of 128 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 2: my mom's clothes and she said, Uncle Paul, you should 129 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 2: see this. So she has all these sola wrong things. 130 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 3: You know, Tell me about clothes, Tell me about your lifession. 131 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, my mother was always in doing obviously, and I 132 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 2: always like clothes because I liked how they made me feel. 133 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 2: And I feel like, you know, kind of you look good, 134 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 2: you feel good. And I know that sounds a bit 135 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 2: you know that, No it doesn't, But I think there 136 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 2: is something to that because I think it gives you 137 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 2: confidence and it's something you just and it's it's a 138 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 2: way to express yourself. And I love, you know, I 139 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 2: love when people dress up, and when I dress up, 140 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 2: it means, you know, they've got to look in a 141 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 2: style in their own Joe out of Eva on how 142 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 2: they kind of pull it all together. And there's so 143 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 2: many ways to do that, of course, and it all 144 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 2: you know, and I like all kinds of style. So 145 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 2: I love that. When I was I was, I was 146 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 2: running top Shop for a couple of years, and I 147 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 2: remember there was a someone who worked for me, and 148 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 2: you know, it was fast fashion and we were selling 149 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 2: a lot of things and whatever, and there was I 150 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 2: think there was we were to dinner at the other 151 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 2: table there was a bunch of brain surgeons. No, no, 152 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 2: we were we were an off site and in the 153 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 2: other room there were brain surgeons. Literally And then we're 154 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 2: in the other room talking about you know, T shirts 155 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 2: and skirts and she comes out and we were she goes, 156 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: oh my gosh, there's like brain surgeons in the other room. 157 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 2: It just really makes you think like like we're just 158 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 2: not doing anything of value, and we're like we're like 159 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 2: so like silly, this industry that we're in, and I said, 160 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 2: a whole art. So I go back into the room. Everybody, 161 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 2: you know, blah blah, just not blah blah. Meg just 162 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 2: said this thing, and I like, I said, you know, 163 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 2: I go. We may not be brain surgeons, but we 164 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 2: are bringing confidence to fourteen year old boys and girls 165 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:12,239 Speaker 2: like they are able to basically afford something at great 166 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 2: value that's made well, that looks good and makes them 167 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 2: feel good, and it's their self expression. It's one of 168 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 2: the first things that they can express themselves with. I said, 169 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 2: I said, we should be proud of that. Yeah, and 170 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 2: I think that's important. You know. 171 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,679 Speaker 3: I know that when I've had a hard day, sometimes 172 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 3: I just go and I try on something to wear 173 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 3: because it makes me, oh, that could be that person 174 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 3: or maybe i'd like to be if I wear that, 175 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 3: that's interesting. And then you know, you sort of see 176 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 3: if you go to you know, esthetically and people are 177 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 3: so nice. There is I think. But tell me how 178 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 3: you decide what to wear when you get up in 179 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 3: the morning. 180 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 2: It's funny. I always wear burbery, but I sometimes mix 181 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 2: it with other things, but which I think is great 182 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 2: because that is what burbery is. It's you can wear 183 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 2: it all, or you can mix it or you know it's. 184 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 3: Not Do you have huge cupboards for a class? That's nice? Yeah, 185 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 3: you keep them from I do. 186 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 2: When I move from La back here, I got rid 187 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 2: of a lot. And then I'm thinking why did I 188 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 2: do that? You know, because everything comes back into fashion, 189 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 2: you know, we're thinking. But anyway, but I do try 190 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: and shake it up, you know. I don't want to 191 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 2: get locked into one thing where oh there is wearing 192 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,199 Speaker 2: that outfit again, So I try and like change. 193 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 3: I know you wear that suit again, Yes, I know 194 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 3: you wear it again. 195 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 2: Do Actually it's it's uh, it's wolves. So this will 196 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 2: probably be the last time I wear it for probably 197 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 2: until next October. Yeah, and then I'll wear it with jeans. 198 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 3: You know, I wear jeans so beautiful. What would you 199 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 3: would you think about if you wore something today? Would 200 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 3: you think, well, I'm not going to wear it tomorrow 201 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 3: the next week? 202 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 2: Oh? 203 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 3: No, I think about how often did you change? 204 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 2: I change it? No, I don't want the same look. 205 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 2: I try and change it up and make it interest 206 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 2: because I think you also, I feel obligated to show people, 207 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 2: not to show people demonstrate you can wear things in 208 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 2: a different way. And also I think it's fun if 209 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 2: you're working with somebody, what are you wearing today? Yeah, 210 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 2: so when we're in the boardroom and we're chatting and 211 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 2: sometimes everyone's looking to see what everyone's wearing. It, Yeah, 212 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 2: it's kind of fun. And there's certain people that sort 213 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 2: of how long. 214 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: Does it take you to get dressed in the morning 215 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: to decide? You open this cupboard? 216 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 2: Said, when I'm brushing my teeth, yeah, I have my 217 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 2: electric Not to get too personally here, but too much information, 218 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 2: but I have my you know, my two minute electric toothbrush. 219 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 2: I opened my closets and I'm like, okay, let's see. 220 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 2: And some days you start with the jackets, some days 221 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 2: you start with the pants. Some days you start it's like, 222 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 2: what do I really want to wear today? Do I 223 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 2: want to wear this sweater? Okay, now build an outfit 224 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 2: around So it's like somebody, oh, warn those silk pants, 225 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 2: let's figure out what to do with those. So I mean, 226 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,679 Speaker 2: but yeah, I like to dressing up. 227 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: Is it's great, And especially when you go to another city, 228 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: it's so nice to walk around and see what people 229 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: are doing and they're wearing, and you know. 230 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 2: And you know, you go to Tokyo and you know the 231 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 2: hair Juco girls and yeah, and it's like I was 232 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 2: just there. It is such an inspiration. It's like, Wow, 233 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 2: you really put a lot into this and you look great. 234 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. 235 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 2: You know, it's like when someone really makes the effort, 236 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 2: it's like you just have to appreciate it, you know. 237 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 2: And you know, I'd rather have one great thing than 238 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 2: a lot of things. 239 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, me too. 240 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: Do you have something that you look at and you say, 241 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: I've never this, this, this is my treasure or this 242 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: is what I would never like your mother and her 243 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: son Lareol. Perhaps you do you have something that means 244 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: a lot to you. 245 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 2: I have a few ties of my father's which I 246 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 2: wore one the other day, which is really fair. So 247 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 2: I love that. I have a few old burbery things 248 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 2: that I really love, like the sweet coat burbaries I have. 249 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: I have a dress that I never is my safety dress, 250 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,719 Speaker 1: though what is it? It's actually you are and I've 251 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: had it for so long and it's nothing. It's just 252 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: a gray sort of flannely, just really simple dress that 253 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: I love. 254 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 3: But I know that and I thought I'd lost it, Yeah, 255 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 3: I really was. I thought what's gone? And I had 256 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 3: to sort of talk myself through that a lot, thinking 257 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 3: it's okay with you, You'll be okay. It's only pressed. 258 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. And meanwhile, every time I opened a 259 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 3: cupboard here, I thought I'd left it here because I changed. 260 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 3: I looked at home, we looked for it, and then 261 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 3: actually I went to I was shopping and the one said, 262 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 3: you know, you left a shopping bag here about yeah, 263 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 3: two months ago, and you never picked it up. And 264 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 3: I opened it up. But there it was that. 265 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 2: I thought that amazing. 266 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 3: It was really nice because there are things that you 267 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 3: just feel secure. I know, there are things that I 268 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 3: feel slightly secure, makes me feel safe. 269 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 2: For you something, thank you. But otherwise what you wear 270 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 2: when went when you don't see anything? 271 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, what was it when your mother said this is 272 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 3: your ticket, education is your ticket out? When you went, 273 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 3: when you left and you went to Princeton? 274 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: Was that you know you didn't have those grilled lime 275 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: sandwiches for lunch and you had Did you make that 276 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: world yourself? 277 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 3: What did you? 278 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 2: We know? It's interesting? So I was, I was, I 279 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 2: mean just I was in a small town and so 280 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 2: I get I get to college and suddenly I'm around 281 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 2: all of these amazing kids who I didn't grow up with. 282 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 2: So I'm with the Andrew jurekis, who are you know, 283 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 2: interesting family and you know, like you know, educators and 284 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 2: you know, parents are doing interesting things and the kids 285 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 2: have traveled and they're really smart, and they're like, you 286 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 2: know all these things. And my friends were great from home, 287 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 2: but the breadth of friendships was just astronomical for me. 288 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 2: So I would you know, my friend Angelo's mother was 289 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 2: head president of Lincoln Center, so I would go, I'd 290 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 2: go off to some party and this and that. So anyway, 291 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 2: so my first grades would come through the first and 292 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 2: that they go straight to the parents, not because they're 293 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 2: paying the bill. My mom and dad would call them. 294 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 2: They go, you're au straight a student and now you 295 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 2: got two c's, a B and an a minus, like 296 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 2: what is going on? And I said, well, I'm I'm 297 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 2: part of my education. I think should be the people 298 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 2: that I'm meeting, and you have to allow me to 299 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 2: do these things and whatever. And they said, no, no, no, 300 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 2: that's just not I said, well, I said, just think 301 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 2: about it. I said I can't. Just I go, I'm 302 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 2: learning so much from all these other these people and 303 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 2: these are going to be friends I have for life, 304 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 2: which is you know, Andrew being one of them. And anyway, 305 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: so they called me two days later. They go, Okay, 306 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 2: here's the deal. You can get B pluses and a minuses, 307 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 2: but he has to come in at a minus or 308 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 2: you know, that's it. So I kind of struck a 309 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 2: deal with them to do that. 310 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 3: So what does that? What did you have to do? 311 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: Did you just have to do few fewer parties or 312 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: fewer trips to. 313 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 2: I just focused a little bit more more expect to fewer. 314 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 2: I'm not a fewer type of person. 315 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's okay, it's okay. 316 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: But why Andrew described you're going into your room? He said, 317 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: because we didn't print that one out. But about going the. 318 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 3: Parties and hilarious. 319 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: You know, tell me about that because you immediately what 320 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: the portrait he painted of you? This is the one 321 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: that I sort of got from the first out we met, 322 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: which is you, Well, first of all, like me, you 323 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: really like being surrounded by all kinds of people, but 324 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: you like being a host. You like big person that 325 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: people come to rather than go to. 326 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 3: Is that right? 327 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 2: Which is true? 328 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 3: And how did you do that? In college? 329 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 2: What to do? So the first time I met Andrew, 330 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 2: Andrew was like a year behind you. Actually, and so 331 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 2: Andrew I seemed like a nice guy, but I didn't 332 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 2: know him that well, but I could tell that he 333 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: appreciated He was in a singing group and he was 334 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 2: very creative and anyway, and so I wanted to throw 335 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 2: a great party in my room and my dorm room. 336 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 2: You know, they weren't that big, but I said to 337 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 2: my room, I said, let's throw a cool party. And 338 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 2: I said, so we cleared out all the furniture, which 339 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 2: is kind of unheard of. And then I went into 340 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: why did you put it across the rooms room or something? Yeah, 341 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 2: that was like a lot of French anyway, but anyway, 342 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: and then I said, let's let's go into a theatrical 343 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 2: uh design shop in the in the forties in New York. Yeah, 344 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: and theatrical lighting and things. So at the time, this 345 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 2: is nineteen eighty one, there are rope lights the ones 346 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 2: who game but now you can give them back. Then 347 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 2: it was like you could only be if you were 348 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 2: in a theater thing. So I bought rope lights that 349 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 2: went all the way around the room. And then I 350 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 2: got a fog machine with a dry ice machine, and 351 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 2: then the theme was where wear upright colors and you 352 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 2: can been seeing through the fog, So it was like 353 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 2: a fog party in the room. I played disco and 354 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 2: whatever and it was I don't know, it was sounds 355 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 2: so basic. At the moment, it goes who else has got? 356 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: And I used the I used the Calvin Client underwear 357 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 2: and I went colors Xerox has just came out, and 358 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 2: I rolled them up and I put them in everyone's 359 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 2: door and it was like over the over the I 360 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 2: wasn't out or gay at the time, but I put 361 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 2: it the invite over the guy's crotch and his underwear 362 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 2: and it was quite compelling. Cocktails at five. 363 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, you were a freshmen. 364 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 2: You always need a good invite? 365 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 3: Were you a freshman? 366 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 2: I was a sophomore from that time. 367 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 3: You always need a good Tell me about invites. I 368 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 3: agree with you, by the way, Yeah, I agree with you. 369 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 2: So I learned about invites when I used to go 370 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 2: to this club area in New York which was Eric 371 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 2: Goods Club, and he always had a great invitation. And 372 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 2: I did a party at my house in London about 373 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, and I sent everyone got a pill bottle 374 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 2: and it said it was for my partner at the time. 375 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 2: Is Fletcher's birthday? You know, Baba, I said, open the 376 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 2: open the pill, open the bottle and drop the pill 377 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 2: and do a hot glass of water to see what 378 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 2: the dress the dress code is. And so you got 379 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 2: a pill and you dropped it in the water and 380 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 2: it fizzed. I mean this took about a couple of 381 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 2: weeks of research to figure out how to do this. 382 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 2: It fizzed and then to the top of the glasses 383 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 2: a little piece of of my lar and it says 384 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 2: be good, be good, or be bad, but be beautiful. 385 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 2: And that was the dress code. And it was Heaven. 386 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 2: Now this was in London, and that was a Heaven 387 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 2: and Hell party. 388 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 3: What was that? To heaven? You're either good or beautiful? 389 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 2: And then I had to I had two There were 390 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 2: two twins in the in the entrance of my place, 391 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 2: and they would look at you in unison. They had 392 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 2: they looked exactly like it, and they had these little 393 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 2: sort of banged fringed wigs on and they'd look at 394 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 2: you and they go in Unison, they go hello, Ruth. 395 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 2: And first she had to sign a release. I don't 396 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 2: know why but we had a really hello rooth, You're 397 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 2: going to Hell. And then they gave you a ticket 398 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 2: you'd have to go downstairs. And I had the whole 399 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 2: bottom of my house in Hell where they go, you. 400 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 3: Know, hello Richard, You're going to Heaven. 401 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 2: And so then we kept everyone separated from Heaven and Hell. 402 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 2: And then I opened it up after about an hour, 403 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 2: and then Heaven and did you decided? 404 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 3: Did you pre plant that? 405 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 2: They decided. 406 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 1: They just decided to the twins. If you came dressed 407 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: to look good, but you went down to Hell. That 408 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: I think maybe that was a fact time. 409 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 2: I'm not sure everyone in Heaven always looks like there. 410 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 3: Maybe probably Heaven, maybe they're not. 411 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 2: Did your book by their color rouths? 412 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 3: Why did you go into retail them? Was that? 413 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: Part of it was my dad. I sort of grew that. 414 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 3: Sort of thing that your mother and your father my. 415 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 2: Dad really And then I would work my friends, would 416 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 2: you know, do normal kid things, and I'd sort of 417 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,199 Speaker 2: go work for my father on the weekends. I mean, 418 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 2: I would do normally kid things. 419 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 3: I mean, I can understand why you did. I mean 420 00:19:58,160 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 3: I don't. 421 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: I don't think I just say that my probably at 422 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 1: Princeton and it was kind of trajectory. 423 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 2: But it was great. 424 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 3: It's like me going into restaurant, so you know, why 425 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 3: do we do that? 426 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 2: So, you know, I'd sometimes work in the warehouse, so 427 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 2: i'd work in the shoe department, or I'd follow his 428 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 2: buyers around, right, Dad, Yeah, that's the popcorn counter. And 429 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 2: so when I was like, ay, i ran the popcorn counter. 430 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, that was buttery. It was salted. 431 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 2: So my dad would come home, we'd always have a dinner, 432 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 2: you know, the four of us sit at dinner. Mom 433 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 2: would like the candles, you know, she'd make some kind 434 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 2: of dinner and then always be conversation. My dad would 435 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 2: be like, so I'm hearing from Mollie they had cashier 436 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 2: that you're putting in three pumps of butter into the 437 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 2: popcorn and you're only supposed to be putting in one 438 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 2: one pump of butter. He goes, why are you doing that? 439 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 2: I go, well, it tastes better, it's better, And he said, 440 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 2: but you realize that that it's ten cents a bag, 441 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 2: and by the butter's the most expensive ingredient. So if 442 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 2: we do that, we're gonna have to raise the price 443 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 2: up to twenty five cents and he said, it's completely 444 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 2: your choice. I will do what you decide, and he goes, 445 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 2: why don't you think of that overnight? Because if you 446 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 2: think that your popcorn is that much better that you're 447 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 2: going to get twenty five cents a bag, then I'll 448 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 2: take the price up and we'll see how it works. 449 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 2: So you right, eight, Wow, that's next night at dinner, 450 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 2: my dad guys, have you thought about your popcorn? And 451 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 2: I go, yeah, and its what do you want to do? Well? 452 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 2: As good as my popcorn is, I just don't think. 453 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 2: I think twenty five cents is a bit expensive, so 454 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 2: I think we should just do one pump. My dad goes, 455 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 2: I think that was a good choice. But I'm glad 456 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 2: you thought about it. 457 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, but maybe do you think now I kind of 458 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 3: got the bug? Yeah, you got the bug. 459 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 2: Got the bug, and then I'm out of school. I 460 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 2: went to the training program at Bloomingdal's, which is a 461 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 2: department store. 462 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 3: I know, I love Bloomingdale. 463 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 2: It's a bit sort of like self rigidity, Yeah. 464 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: But kind of Bloomingdal's in New York was kind of 465 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: do you think because it was Avenue and there's Burdils. 466 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 3: But then Burmia Bloomingdale's is on Lexington and fifty. 467 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 2: Ninth of the last. It was kind of it was theater. Yeah, 468 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 2: it was very theatrical. Take countries and do a whole 469 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 2: theme of the store in China or whatever. 470 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 3: You did a management retail. 471 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 2: Training course right that you work in this store a 472 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 2: little bit, and you'd be like I said, you know, 473 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 2: they'd put you into in my case, they put me 474 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 2: in the China silver department. 475 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 3: Or are they clothing? 476 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 2: I want? So I wanted to So Marvin Traub was 477 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 2: the he was the CEO at the time. He's like, yeah, 478 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 2: been written about him. And he used tot his office 479 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 2: behind the towel department on the sixth floor anyway. So 480 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 2: I was like, I was obsessed with Georgia of money 481 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 2: at the time. He's American Jiggle just coming and I 482 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 2: was like obsessed with Georgia of money. And I was 483 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 2: went up to his office every day. I said to 484 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 2: his assistant, I'd like to speak to mister Troub. I'm sorry, 485 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 2: he's not available. I went up every day and finally 486 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 2: mister trave overheard me. It wasn't that he was ignoring me. 487 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 2: I think he was genuinely busy is that that Paul 488 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 2: Price kid that's like coming here, Like, what are you 489 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 2: doing coming up here all the time? I go, I 490 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 2: really need to speak, it's really important. Are you put 491 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 2: me in the wrong depart I'm in the training. He's like, 492 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,919 Speaker 2: I know who you are. I go, I owe you 493 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 2: put me in the wrong department. He goes, you're in 494 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 2: China and Silver says. He goes, no, we know exactly 495 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 2: where we're putting. No, no, no, no, you don't understand. 496 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 2: I have an affinity for men's designer. I should be 497 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 2: in there the men's designer area around Georgia or Barney. 498 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 2: And he goes, mister Brice, let me let me give 499 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 2: you a little lesson. What's that, mister Trump. He goes, 500 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 2: if I put you into the Georgia Ormony department, you 501 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 2: would look at the suit and you'd go like, oh, well, 502 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 2: I really like that suit, so I think we should 503 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 2: buy those. And I really like that shirt, like that tie, 504 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 2: and he goes, you would just personalize everything. He goes, 505 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 2: I bet you now that you're in China and Silver, 506 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 2: that you're learning about the Upper east Side lady and 507 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,479 Speaker 2: that she likes to have gold on her plates, and 508 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 2: that she likes China versus porcelain, that she likes, silver 509 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: plate versus sterling that she likes. He goes, you're learning 510 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 2: about your customer, and he goes, you need to learn 511 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 2: about your customer, not about your own personal affinities for things. 512 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 2: And he was absolutely right, right know, you learn about 513 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 2: your customer. You know that. 514 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 3: How of course, how long did you stay in that 515 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 3: department four before? 516 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,199 Speaker 2: For six months? And then they moved me andywhere? Then 517 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 2: they got me into the clothing because they knew I 518 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 2: wanted to do that. So I learned what I had 519 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 2: to learn. 520 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 3: I think those kind of people in your life are 521 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 3: so crucial. 522 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 2: He was amazing. He's passed away, but he years ago. 523 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 2: I was at some conference living in London. I was 524 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 2: working at Burbery and he was there and I went 525 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 2: up to him and I said, mister Troup, you're not 526 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 2: going to you know I lost my hair at this point. Yeah, 527 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 2: I know, mister Traub, you won't remember me. I know exactly. 528 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 2: You're the kid from China. You're the kid from China 529 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 2: zor yeah, And he goes, how are you? I said, well, 530 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 2: I'm at Burbery now he goes, I would He goes, wow, 531 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 2: you guys are doing such great things. I said, well, 532 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 2: why don't I bring you by the office. I'd love 533 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 2: to give you a tour of the showroom. And it's 534 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 2: not so I did. Yeah, And it meant the world 535 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 2: to him. I thought he felt like service of pride 536 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 2: under he is doing something interesting. Yeah, you know it's nice. 537 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 3: When Yeah, that was nice. Did you eat well? In 538 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 3: New York? 539 00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 2: New York you can always find something to eat. I 540 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 2: think for not a lot. You'd go down to you know, 541 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: the Lower East Side at the time, and you could 542 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 2: you know, I forget the names of some of these places, 543 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 2: Kafka or whatever it was. 544 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 3: And would you cook? So would you cook a little 545 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 3: bit as much? 546 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 2: In New York? 547 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 3: Was that post days? They had a New York feeling? 548 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was right right in the middle of it. 549 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 2: And I was really lucky with someone I was sort 550 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 2: of seeing it at school, sort of in the wrap 551 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 2: under wraps, but he was with the gay men's health 552 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 2: crisis and I was getting ready to graduate and was 553 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 2: eight and it was just kind of surfacing. And he 554 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 2: handed me all these brochures. His name was Bill George's 555 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 2: Thank you Bill, since thanked him at dinner at Zunny 556 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 2: Cafe in San Francisco, and he I said, read these brochures. 557 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 2: He goes, we don't know what this is, but you 558 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 2: need to read these brochures and follow these roles. I did, 559 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 2: and I think he probably helped me. 560 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so, which is great. 561 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: I think when you think about New York in the eighties, 562 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: I guess I knew it. I never lived in New York, 563 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 1: but I know that those different cycles even being there 564 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: right now. You think New York goes through these phases, 565 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: isn't you remember? You know, the great times, the hard times, 566 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 1: the people who've been there. I'm like, do San Francisco 567 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 1: is very different San Francisco. 568 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 2: I feel like I've lived in all cities I've lived 569 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 2: in at really good times. And when I said San 570 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 2: Francisco was in the eighty eight to two thousand and five. 571 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 3: So that was after Bloomingdale's you move. 572 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 2: After bloom As, I moved to San Francisco. 573 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 3: Why did you do that? 574 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 2: Because I met this man, Mickey Drexler, who made the 575 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 2: gap gap. 576 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 3: Yeah. 577 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 2: So Mickey'd heard about me blooming News and he said, oh, 578 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 2: I've just taken over Banana Republic and we want to 579 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 2: convert it from a safari used to be a safari. 580 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 2: He goes into a modern learning company. So Mickey, howged me? 581 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 2: Is this first merchant? So I moved to San Francisco 582 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 2: and I didn't know anybody, and it was really exciting. 583 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 2: You know. San Francisco is known for its food. 584 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly. 585 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 2: I remember Alice to Zuni Cafe for the first time 586 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,959 Speaker 2: and Judy Rogers was the chef. 587 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 3: I knew her. 588 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I remember having that roasted chicken and the caesar. 589 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 3: Salad and the bread saladary. 590 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, that bread which I've learned how to do we. 591 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 3: Make it here. We put it in one of our 592 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 3: cooks to Rogers, and. 593 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 2: To me, that was one of the greatest meals I 594 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 2: ever had. And so after I left GAP for twelve years, 595 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 2: I opened up an events business with my brother. 596 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 3: Were in San Franciscancisco. 597 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 2: And we did parties and things. But Judy hired us 598 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 2: to do her Christmas decor for the first It was 599 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,479 Speaker 2: she never done it, and she said, oh, I'm going 600 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 2: to give you guys your first job. I was like wow. 601 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 2: So we did a kind of old fashioned Christmas tree, 602 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 2: you know, it was like a spindley old Charlie bound 603 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 2: tree with big lights and what breathe it. But it 604 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 2: was like, you know, quite rustic and cute and propriate anyway, 605 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,679 Speaker 2: So we had to set it up on a Monday 606 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 2: night because they were clothes on Mondays or Sunday night. 607 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 2: It was late. So I set up and they were 608 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 2: relaying the kitchen floor with this red wax so it 609 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 2: wouldn't leak down below or something. I don't know anyway, 610 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 2: and she had all of these ropes around the kitchen. 611 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,360 Speaker 2: She goes, whatever you do, just don't go into the kitchen, said, 612 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 2: because the wax is wet and light. So cut to 613 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 2: late at night. My boyfriend at the time, Mark, we 614 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 2: had a Samoya dog, a big white, fluffy like husky, 615 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 2: and he comes by. He goes, oh, I'm coming by 616 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 2: to see you guys, and so he knocks on the window, 617 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 2: you know, on market and he had the dog and 618 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 2: I did so I didn't realize that her name is Daisy, 619 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 2: that she was there. So I'm like doing something and 620 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 2: I see these like red pawprints of wax all over 621 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 2: the entire restaurant, you magice. So I was freaking out 622 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 2: and I was like, so we're like trying to get 623 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 2: the wax off. We did, and whatever I regard, this 624 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 2: is a disaster. It's our first job, and with my brother, 625 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 2: we were with my brother. It's a disaster. So I 626 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 2: came clean. I go the next day because Judy didn't 627 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 2: close up that night. I go, Judy, I go, I 628 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 2: hope you like what we did, I said, but I 629 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 2: have to tell you, I said, my dog got into 630 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 2: the restaurant by mistake, and her footprints are all through 631 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 2: your kitchen in the wax, and she goes. You get 632 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 2: it a plus for design, and you get it a 633 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 2: plus for your honesty. And it's our honor that Daisy 634 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 2: is forever im martinalized in our kitchen. So my dog's 635 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 2: friends in the kitchen. I don't know if they're still there, 636 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 2: but it kind. 637 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: Of makes sense that you went into events because you're 638 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: such an eventful person. 639 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 3: Did you not want to stay? 640 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 2: Well, then I missed it, and then I sort of 641 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 2: missed retail, and miss retail. 642 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 3: I love what I do, so yeah, tell me about 643 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 3: what you do. 644 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 2: So I'm in charge of the product in the business, 645 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 2: so I'm the chief merchant, and I just make sure 646 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 2: that my team and I we work with the design 647 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 2: team and the product development team and the sorte teams 648 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 2: whatever to make sure that what gets designed and what 649 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 2: eventually gets bought and what's presented is the things that 650 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 2: are right for the brand, that tick the boxes of fashion, 651 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 2: but also our commercial and to balance sort of the 652 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 2: the commercial. You know, what our customers want, what does 653 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,479 Speaker 2: your customer wants? Try and understanding what that is. So 654 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 2: you know, we'll you know, and we'll say to our 655 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 2: design team, for instance, I need five different beverages, and 656 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 2: they will give us a water and a tea and 657 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 2: a wine and whatever, and they're like, well, you know what, 658 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 2: maybe the tea. The tea is a really good one, 659 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 2: so let's do three flavors of tea and not do 660 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 2: the water. And you know, maybe we should have glasses 661 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 2: that we should have a green tea glass, and we 662 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 2: should have a black tea glass, and we should have 663 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 2: a then you know, so you sort of create stories 664 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 2: around the product. And I'm pretty good, I think at 665 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 2: picking the thing on the table that's going to sell yeah, 666 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 2: more than the other, so I can kind of say 667 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 2: this is going to do better than that, and we 668 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 2: should buy more of that than that. Don't always get 669 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 2: it right, but you know over time you kind of 670 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 2: you you know, I'm sure you kind of know what. 671 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: Yah, yeah, and you're thinking about And also I think 672 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: people always say where did you get the idea for something? 673 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: And I said, there's no ideas in my work. You know, 674 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 1: it's about a progression from right. You know, if I 675 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: said we make an almond tarde with you know, Paris, 676 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: then in the summer we might put strawberries on it, 677 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: you know, and if you put strawberries, you might marinate 678 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: them first or al to just do them stuck in. 679 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: And it's a kind of it's not like, oh, I 680 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: have an idea for a new flavor of ice cream. 681 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 3: I mean I have to do you do? But it mostly. 682 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 2: Don't You also think that you know, people come to 683 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 2: your restaurant and they you know, they want certain things 684 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 2: that they can count on, but they also want some 685 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 2: it's sort of at what point, you know, we always 686 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 2: sort of grapple with this. It's like, at what point 687 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 2: do you move on? And like, because you know, for us, 688 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 2: you know, we have a lot of a lot of locations, 689 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 2: and it's sort of like if it's your local location, 690 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 2: you have to keep refreshing a lot interesting So We're 691 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 2: always like, how do we keep it interesting? Yet also yes, 692 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 2: we have new verses of trench coats. We've got you know, 693 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 2: whatever it may be. So it's fun. It's like a 694 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 2: you know, it's it's an architecture of sorts of assortment 695 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 2: of things. 696 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 3: Which has been so good. 697 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: And I'm starving if you are, so I think that 698 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: you know the last I think if I always say, 699 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: you know, food is about what you've described as your 700 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: you know, you're you're really more in portrait of your 701 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: parents on food is it's also you know, hosting and 702 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: making people feel better, but it also is comfort. So 703 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: I suppose I might have an idea clue of what 704 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 1: you might choose. But if you were thinking about comfort 705 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: food to go to when you need comfort, is there 706 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: something that in your memory or your relationship? 707 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 3: What would it be? That chicken pop pie. 708 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 2: So I'm starting up a group with my friends and 709 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 2: it's called death Row Meal. It'll be it once a 710 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 2: month and there'll be like twelve of us and you 711 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 2: cook what you would have on death row of your 712 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 2: granted your death row meal, yeah, meaning your last meal. 713 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 3: Basically yeah, is making a bit more no, no no. 714 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 2: And sort of like my last meal. I gu this 715 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 2: would be my most comforting. 716 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, what would that? 717 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 2: So it would be like I would do, I mean 718 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 2: to go fancy. I would have caber because that would 719 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 2: be really nice. I mean I wouldn't that wouldn't be 720 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,959 Speaker 2: my car too, because that's expensive, but I would, you know, 721 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 2: And I would do a porterhouse day on the grown 722 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 2: with a chimmy cherry sauce. Home. It's with mint and 723 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 2: serrano peppers and oregano and vinegar and oil and chilies. 724 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 2: I say chilies anyway, it's just like a nice mix 725 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,839 Speaker 2: of that. It's argent time. And then I would do 726 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 2: a mashed potato creamy mashed potato potato, which is also good. 727 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 2: I would maybe do that instead, and then I would 728 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,319 Speaker 2: have probably asparagus, and then I would have a peach 729 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 2: and raspberry pie with my secret ingredient, which is Southern comfort. 730 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 2: I soaked the peaches and the raspberries and Southern comfort 731 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 2: and then I drained that, and then I didn the 732 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 2: pie and then it like explodes with flavor delicious. So 733 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 2: I think it would be something quite be very American. 734 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,400 Speaker 2: And then i'd have a cheese. I probably have a 735 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 2: final cheese dessert, and then they'd elect you keep me, 736 00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 2: I'd be done. 737 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 3: What that? 738 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 1: No no no, and then you'd have your party about 739 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: no no, no, We're never gonna die. 740 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 3: We're gonna keep on eating. I'm gonna eat that. Thank 741 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 3: you so much for I love you. 742 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 2: I love you, I love you, Thank you, thank you. 743 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 1: Ruthie's Table four is proud to support Leukemia UK. 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