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much like the whole abercrombie vibe
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did nothing for me i don't
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get it by the end i
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think i've done is got another scamming, so,
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i'm i'm not i'm not among one
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angelina
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jolie hello, patrick i come
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i girl what are we talking about today
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white hot the rise and fall of
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abu
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the and
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right now my son whoever
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but this is insane
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maybe you do you remember
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the abercrombie had a law that got me
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about every like couple of months the i remember
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have you been
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they're never liked the supremacy of the second
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level and probably honorable for the earth one
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hundred was like he was sworn it was saga
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afford it was very gay the i guess
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it as eventually the understand why like
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it went right over the general public had how
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homo erotic the whole abercrombie brand what's
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with the gave one hundred percent new
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and the girls like the girls in the gaze
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at the same idea they were like little does that
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apply the same second
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no one realizes when
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it but im gay yeah i'm into
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the abercrombie and fitch that was not really my thing
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i am exactly who they didn't want
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i was like the not hot kid who thought i did
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that are looking if i wore amazon weapon
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and the impact other assorted
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the backstory of the outside
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why are you might have had us
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american if
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you weren't wearing to amazon you weren't who
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remember the pressure fits in here
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to stay with i , ever come is
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saying saying
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that say now that said it was very close
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look like everyone here
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is a guy one here who i'd just
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shredded like you carve out carve
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green and of the world com
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as malaysia
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the point of his image of an all
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american youth
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and i will watch have ever have been like what
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is so special about this sort it
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is so seen this and
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maternity boarding school
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one reason
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, people like illusion
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heart of our
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so while a top we need
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a bunch of the former models and they're talking
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about the bags remember the bags were also
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like soft core porn
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what are explaining is that all
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of the models were naked and all of the images
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but they're selling
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what kind
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of genius also eventually we're going to get
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this companies backstory i had no idea oh
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there's a whole thing it's so crazy
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people , saying like name
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over the clothes and that's why hated cel mai
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know
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that like a plane shirt everything i'd have
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abercrombie on it or some stupid races graphic
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realize through have we have i was out into the
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people were obsessed and like kids are
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covering their school books with it it away when
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this would your lockers for didn't people
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were able to figure out how to fold the paper so
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that the spine of the book that the perfect
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abercrombie saying that allows steve
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tipped ingenious i could never achieve
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yeah i know people knew for sure
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had the cutouts in their locker
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what a book survive
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on level
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people you can be just like them and i'm like
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why gotta tell you i knew a
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girl who actually got like a abercrombie
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degli she never became like a famous model and
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she only did one sued for she did have a photo
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appear like in the towel wow that's crazy
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wow that it was she was like out a positive or
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whatever some of the gb ram and they bought a boomerang
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she was a guy wasn't
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documentary sorry guess is that recruiter
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recruiting us like
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more doing exactly
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that the burger and you
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have a scrappy do it's like rubbing where they're
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from and one of them
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the a baby mamas challenge see
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a new york new york seven one nine
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since birth telesis's fanatic
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test
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oh and everyone
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, your drink as far
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as well as amish
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country what
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i'm kind of connecticut i dunno
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to and i've no idea honey the area code
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a be like civil what i baby i'm like whoa
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that
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again and your mom needs the home and forty
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five minutes sweetheart i just don't know
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how it's taken us five years the cameras
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in the booth how is it taking us out log of
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soccer on camera know don't remember
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that that's so you're doing great we
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also hear about all these famous people like before
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they were famous i'm at all your eggs and
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ashton kutcher january jones and taylor swift
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who was part of their rising stars campaign oh my
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god this is a kind of a slut same taylor to assert
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that said i have more boyfriends that he slept at that
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they have actually had to remove it affects
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, lot have a problem gen
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joseph it was joseph it i didn't know that she
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was
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see we're going to the in in her abercrombie pictures
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is verna has a straight brown hair was
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all his famous the boss jennifer
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lawrence channing tatum ashton kutcher that
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i knew about as a witcher three as holy
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shit
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more about like who told everyone
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what was cool back that it of like mtv in the mall
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and we get a fifteen minutes of people
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explaining what a mile and a half
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life or of we hire this
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year of our spoken word i people
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don't know what
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i know how did we get like imagine
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why a or something that you can
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walk or walk you know in the online
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catalog that's an actual place
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so are you know the thing
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is i'm not going to talk about your asset
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anymore because i know you hated every
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hey this but the mall it's just like
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by digits digits your queens it's
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them the more money it's also
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a flaming what it is i don't
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know where suffer that we when we were in orlando
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during a so it would we went to like an old
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more complex with his comedy club was
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it was there was not everything was centered one
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of them are you know how people i go to a bad in
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hospitals and take photos and
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i'm all and i
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know it's true
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walking through like oh this used to be the food
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court order listen closely adam
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madonna will fry the hallway that
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has her sister was cancelled or i have no
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me much it was nice little trip
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down memory lane to see over give functioning
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off i loved the my brother got obama
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when , growing up mother's i'm in a month or
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a fourth a real might not
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a real at all
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like yeah there was is that
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you know roosevelt field and there are some places in queens
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like they terrorists
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up as i really like a suffix
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you have to go outside
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to get to the next door you'd have them all of a survey
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terraces out that we
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, to the mall mall
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unable to see very very specific about
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what you're shopping you're a hypothesis
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your a of you who got off
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madison one or more that prefer let
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her go to abercrombie and six is one of their pressing
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stores could focus on the things
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they wanted so like you could be the preppy store
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like abercrombie and fitch which is what they decided
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to make
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right and then we meet mo the journalists
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i love her so she's explaining
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that abercrombie took
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everything see hated about high school
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the initial ice a small
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we what are your eyes she goes oh my god
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they bottle they thought oh this is the
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word
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realize his successor science as as
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the as the worst part of everyone's high school
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experience of and monetized it and put
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it
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the or what does thing about abercrombie was that
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they had the hot models out for member that would
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terrifying also like a lot of
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them were like not a team
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like a lot of people going into the store were
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not eighteen and like twenty year old bus
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guys like it's like a bot let you out
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absolutely and i gonna
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say like out all the guys we see in
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this argument that we're doing it are very confidence
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because my mom growing up were like felt
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weird about being out there were their shirts off so you
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have this so let's let's say sounded real
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herself
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the guys outside shirtless yeah sometimes
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they were a santa hat and
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we were in which is very hot i'm
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just gonna say i was it was christmas holiday
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season i say the holiday season
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when his sunset tonight i think sunset it's like seven
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thirty we're getting closer
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right or am i gonna
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try dirty looks sorta
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thing about the door
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in the mall with that
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when an event of an abercrombie did my
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brilliantly was another round
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shutters over the windows and
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a big image and the front door way of
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the entry so you really couldn't see what
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was an astronomer she went into the story
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no other more interesting i mean they forced
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you to come over the thoughtful
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you couldn't see what was in the store unless you went
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and it was kind of a big
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deal at the time because you that automatic we
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have every other store it's true what together
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there you have to walk through the gauntlet of shirtless do
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sometimes there's a line sometimes
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there's not there's like allies in my
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thirties when i when i was also
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cause you're not that long ago that
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hollister at abercrombie and says avenue
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there was a line to get emphysema
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one seven he like an early in the
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morning to be the first people in there the time during
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the day you'd what will i swear to god
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and maybe they did maybe they like decrease
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the capacity on purpose of make their be alive
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so you that point the music would be
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blasted parents hated at the lights
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were really dark they couldn't see anything the
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and patrick hated that matter is never once
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walked into a store that was like a nightclub
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that he enjoyed that you saw it on
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the table the price and conveniently those zulay
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probably see what i worry london and we were told
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that they're going to be a dj at the restaurant were having
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dinner we immediately capitalists we're effect
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that what i'm not going to be the capitalists that
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i happen to us once but we did know what we were like halfway
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through dinner and all the cellphones or when
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i heard a scream at dinner
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and we just sat there in silence have surfaced
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and i'm a happy
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we could cover any
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, way the guy is a wise it's so loud
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i know i contribute a lot of loudness
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to the world is going to say would consider
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the summer split up all the largest i can handle
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you know to me and it's show and was like syria
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allowed live so you're allowed in the world
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right now i'd rudely lot now
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the way
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mckee masculine
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and we have to hear about front i know how to say
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like when i was the can i wanted to like that said
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you wanted to where the abercrombie columbus i thought
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it was a was certainly not a mustache it was you're
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asking me they try to say the must have i'm
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i don't get a little there because the two
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that are here are adorable they are adorable that
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one of them as like we got a lot of freak
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there there
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was that i actually would seem please
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walk around and spray things with
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this said i get migraines
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easily so it was actually like hard
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for me by going into mouths i've never had it
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but for teenagers it was probably find anybody
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over the age of seventeen walking into an abercrombie
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would get a headache or they have to leave after two minutes
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let me tell you i'm sure there were fighting
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that they had a headache big one like this is a good way to be
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i have selected as right i'm that israel bowl
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of ice he says
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now like i know
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they wanna be employed job with the as what you are
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annoying
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why do you
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do it sensibly be rude said you
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are a sign of as a zara now
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that you sit down and i learned that the documentary
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that know that was exactly how they work totally
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aloof and
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you try to find them they would walk
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away from my own irritating like through
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compliment you on the south
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talk about my jeffries
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the former ceo oh god this is all by
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his design very choreographed by my jeffery
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they let us know right from the top he was not
17:27
interested in city deaf professors of assess
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assess assess as he is a nightmare i know
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steve the worst season either attached to a nightmare
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less wexner yeah just will okay
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so we learn about this guy what's
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westerners networks are and
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let me tell you he plays a major role
17:42
and that victoria secret documents i love
17:44
way because that entire documentary is basically
17:47
about less wexner and what a piece of garbage he has and
17:49
the whole jeffrey epstein
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yeah yeah yeah yeah now that's just
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so this guy less lesnar by the way his whole
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company was built out of columbus ohio see
17:56
what obsessed by what we learned
17:59
that this guy
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last plumlee a second there is
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one of the great be held master minds of
18:04
america he is
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in behind a lot more
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that we have in
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well known as
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the merlin at the mall actually this
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guy owns the limited express
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victoria's secret about about it more
18:18
of them are like
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he's like a wizard he's wizard
18:22
you know like
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the all powerful eyes only when you p find the curtain
18:26
mother fuckin molester the your layout
18:29
a mall wizard good for you wexler
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of he says any fronted up soon as ross
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lyon my jeffries is also to put this is where
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we they keep also in charge of the abercrombie
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brand and abercrombie have been around for a hundred
18:40
forty years yeah did not notice at all
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as part of the day was like an outdoorsman
18:45
john morrissey brand for men macgyver
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teddy roosevelt and fucking hemingway i
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describe it as a masculine juri i'm
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ira talk , the mail days
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you know superior my life where i feel
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like he be white would have described me that way
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more matthews's as so
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mask elite sportsman like
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shaving cream and blankets i set blankets i
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you forgot that swim my wifi
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teddy roosevelt like on a donkey or
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whatever
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moose all over the other words and
19:14
like all our the branding like they try to keep
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that together so like to soar sell
19:18
on hard times less wexler it's look less
19:21
like there's some offended by that applies
19:23
to reveal i give it a second life but he tried
19:26
to keep like a sportsman store and it's not working
19:28
and after he brings in make jeffrey
19:30
failed ceo we learn other
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sailed women's apparel company
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out how to jeffries
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my jeffries comes up with this formula
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and it just happened
19:40
the work yeah what jeffries really wanted
19:42
to be was like the coolest brand for the eighteen to
19:44
twenty two year old stuff what everybody wants their brain
19:46
to be a hospital or for this guy he's the privilege
19:48
but make it sexy yeah it's supposed to be
19:51
that like high quality sportsmen
19:53
stuff just but way sexier and someone
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says something or i'm like holy shit she
19:57
says person is an industry that is
19:59
quiet for not particularly doing a lot of
20:02
market research the goal is not to
20:04
give people what they're asking for but to make
20:06
them up for what your
20:07
frame they'll give people what they want
20:10
people are an offer like
20:12
never heard of put that way but that's exactly right
20:14
it's so true and we also learn that this guy
20:17
mike jeffries himself goes from wearing
20:19
like loafers him khakis to button
20:21
down jeans and sandals and i
20:23
said why did we ever were button down
20:25
gm putting didn't you ever been down g absolutely
20:28
not i love the never
20:31
fall for any of the
20:32
why are so here's a weird a d h d
20:34
saying we put things off because everything
20:36
feels like a mountain of the amount of times i'm like
20:38
i have to pee and i have to be mass
20:40
because i you there's no real measure city
20:43
the issue the issue are diverted your
20:45
the idea of i don't drink enough water at
20:47
all have a headache it i'm dying of thirst you know
20:49
i like sides i am i said you have impeded
20:52
like ten out normally policing me but he's like i'm
20:54
worried about your kids i'd also like
20:56
are you okay and then i'll be like to go now so
20:58
my whole life has been like iowa
21:00
parts of the buttons like oh
21:01
the group of out of the butler yeats
21:04
the i'm just gonna play that game was
21:07
gallery about damn time
21:09
because i know i'm just like as if he know
21:11
i doubt and then it's eight o'clock at night not like off
21:13
right now
21:14
that leaves are like not sexy it's
21:16
a terrible luck active with anyone ever did
21:18
you don't have an open was as if you miss a button
21:20
i
21:23
love this calculation that we see a
21:25
leaders and plus sexy equals exclusivity
21:28
sad because exclusivity was what they wanted
21:30
they wanted you to feel like it was the cool
21:32
thing you need to be a part of a neat they're saying
21:35
like for a be seen this
21:37
is only
21:44
hum i have
21:47
a from if this was a little more affordable shots
21:50
affordable a soon enough fat
21:52
not so extensive that it was
21:54
out of reach it was still moderately
21:56
priced still like whereas other
21:58
brands that were fancy and like it was
22:00
an exclusive club like calvin klein
22:03
or said it was like too expensive to buy any
22:05
way but abercrombie and fitch was chef
22:07
on the edge of affordable so like nerds
22:09
like me you could like by the clothes and
22:11
it would like make you feel like you were hot and cool
22:13
kid but it didn't it doesn't work america
22:16
way to remember ,
22:18
being like forty bucks for for
22:20
sure audible isn't really
22:22
like audible isn't save my money for the summer
22:25
and then good abercrombie by for that
22:27
i got an abercrombie sweater that i
22:29
were like every day my junior year of high school
22:31
alias or physical zippy
22:33
zippy obsessed like either of us
22:35
have said auto auto out probably
22:38
would probably lead to erase this from their history they
22:40
were a big pioneer of the cargo shorts you begin
22:42
to our ass cargo shorts at abercrombie that's
22:44
how do they were sexy and that's all we know they're
22:46
still sexy
22:47
that's him genes i'll say it i had some a garbage
22:49
and
22:50
when i when you
22:52
look really ashamed of yourself i
22:54
feel as as a family what i know now
22:56
ya ya ya ya ya
22:57
aretha shirt
22:59
i know will get to those
23:00
though in nineteen eighty six abercrombie goes public
23:03
them your hands of money to that abercrombie abercrombie
23:05
kids hollister hollister was like the california
23:07
beach vibe version
23:08
abercrombie as yeah i wrote everything's coming
23:10
up abercrombie asked for now
23:12
super now i that wage jobs racist
23:15
pieces the trash yeah so their office was
23:17
called this made me crazy the whole idea
23:19
was that work with life
23:21
and my sister in every city with pulling
23:23
all nighters citizens of place in a you hang
23:25
out with your friend
23:28
my comment thirty
23:32
he like they called it first
23:35
grade and
23:36
but i don't
23:38
like that why don't you like everyone
23:40
was pulling all nighters is of the king it was your
23:42
friend morning and hooking up jackie me
23:44
to separate your work from your social there's
23:46
something about abercrombie be me acts in
23:48
part of retail store thirty three
23:51
honestly a lot of role i had i'm
23:53
sorry i would have loved it so much
23:56
santa , allow was really
23:59
like not a good idea know about the
24:01
marketing salvage the court the
24:03
magazine which is really just a bunch of naked pictures
24:05
of men the quarterly magazine not
24:08
only is it like naked pictures of
24:10
men it's naked pictures of men doing
24:12
based off with each other like twenty one years
24:14
old yeah they're like in wrestling poses
24:16
which are all very gay
24:18
enter wrestling underwater
24:21
no one holding each other or they're like
24:23
so like saying i saw the i'm tackling
24:26
each time like all in their underpants a book
24:28
catalogues worth it gay porn
24:30
right and then you turn the page it it would be like by
24:32
these cargo that's for thousand dollar on
24:35
the other part of that was
24:37
wearing any clothes every time we meet
24:39
this guy service he was a former editor
24:41
in chief of the quarterly magazine
24:43
and he's like oh this sub i knew i was gay my
24:45
proves to me that i was gay because he was like oh my god
24:47
the boys
24:48
no me i'm selling i've been saying this week it's
24:50
a grind se but in cool in one sense
24:52
enzymes will be as on the record with entertainment
24:54
weekly thing like yes i know my ass and that's the
24:56
major yes like this guy sabbath had the
24:58
had the ryan phillippe the but experience and
25:00
he had to edit the magazine
25:04
this i black and white kind of
25:06
sepia tone right it like
25:08
magic our twilight zone said
25:10
wrestling was
25:11
that it a bruce weber bruce weber
25:13
specifies neighbor's dog or for or
25:15
even famous and he was
25:18
doing calvin klein he was doing everyone
25:20
a minute a beautiful book called air pond
25:22
first fuckin weber over high heat
25:24
rash creepy creepy fucking
25:27
south
25:27
photographer on also
25:30
a total creep with at least fifteen male models
25:32
accusing him of sexual assault senate
25:34
did he was created it was like for abercrombie
25:36
was a joyful groups as everyone gun
25:38
or be with wide golden retrievers as far
25:40
as the i can say no all sorts
25:43
the countryside they were also see like damn
25:45
hot farm boys bobby
25:47
blank see who a model
25:50
feels , obama solicit and wearable yeah
25:52
like i'm a i'm a i'm a
25:55
fan of like fan of exactly who that is james
25:57
walker he was just the he was a he
25:59
was
25:59
mine
26:00
on the bad guy was about like that was
26:02
the valuable everybody got for a decade
26:05
saved when you walked into the store i mean he
26:07
was ever where it's like cindy crawford
26:09
level supermodel deal with yeah
26:11
that bad was printed eight billion
26:13
in the time and he's like yeah so i was like don't
26:15
you know i'm here from minnesota are hobbling
26:18
game that he's like he's adorable
26:20
he's still very cute and then we mean ryan
26:22
who exactly what they
26:24
were looking for from nebraska captain
26:26
of every single team the homecoming
26:29
king he was like to be fair this was not a
26:31
dream of mine i was hammered at a bar and
26:33
some lady asked me if i wanted to do this and three weeks
26:35
later i was where i saw the awesome
26:37
for the first i was disappointed
26:41
when the suit sound horrible yeah because even
26:43
though was super gay and that should mean it's fun whatever
26:46
like how your childhood was day when you're right yeah
26:48
no parties and
26:49
the masculinity a dot cause all the
26:51
guys were trying to get that creepy photographers
26:53
attention right so they be like
26:55
right now my football
26:58
, whatever they resist the guy with his
27:00
friends say hey bruce bruce
27:03
is ill or like
27:06
doom for substandard from says the guys
27:08
are testosterone into someone's reputation
27:11
among the guys are trying to impress the women's
27:13
phillies play defense humanity at humanity basic
27:16
level and have to look cyril
27:19
and they say they're like cyril was just about like
27:21
hot guys like impressing women but
27:23
also the getting groped by but photographer on
27:25
getting side
27:26
because they know that abercrombie was
27:28
really like a gigantic saying and
27:30
there's just one of their picture to be in the quarterly that's
27:33
really all it was speaking of let's talk
27:35
about the what makes someone attacked
27:37
of him
27:37
oh my god actual
27:40
look books at abercrombie eulogy daves
27:42
to their managers though they hire this
27:44
person and not this person and all that check
27:46
marks of who you hire they're all white people
27:48
the beginning of abercrombie saying
27:50
all the city stuff out loud japan my
27:52
dad six months
28:00
irene to the customer that of the word they
28:02
used so you know i mean we combed
28:04
attractive natural classic hairstyle
28:06
is acceptable white guy blonde blue
28:08
eyed just right next to him as a black
28:11
man hot that is beautiful black man
28:13
what is great smile long dreadlocked
28:15
are people in the store or an inspiration
28:18
to the customer a neat little
28:20
homes attractive natural
28:23
plastic hairstyle is acceptable
28:26
the last are unacceptable for
28:28
men and women
28:30
on a name or not accessible for men
28:33
women me where a sin towards
28:36
delicate
28:36
over nothing on bush
28:39
and affected you imagine the on twenty
28:41
twenty two writing that down on a piece of paper
28:43
and all of the things that you're right that are
28:45
facts are like sin white
28:48
just plain looking can
28:51
you see how not that i would have wanted to
28:53
but i would have had no chance of working at this establish
28:56
what now here's the kicker
28:58
brand representatives are required
29:00
to wear appropriate undergarments
29:02
at all time it exists
29:03
i did they are dictating
29:05
the fucking underpants the people are wary
29:08
be underpinned so it's natural
29:10
amir
29:10
again classic the ins look
29:12
and there's like a skinny white blonde woman exactly
29:15
and that he got i'm not kidding watch it will put the screenshots
29:17
and job so it might jeffries the
29:19
guy who like came in and started this formula
29:21
was a total micromanage
29:23
yeah and he would show up at the stores
29:25
unannounced it if you've ever had a fucking job
29:27
you know what a nightmare that they call them blitzes
29:30
just as a success
29:32
so say a visit was on friday
29:34
monday tuesday wednesday thursday
29:37
you are doing all nights this
29:39
is where we gotta make sure like everything
29:41
a spic and span like everything gets wiped down
29:44
there's like notice any aware sub
29:46
moosehead looks clean
29:48
the thing that matter most
29:49
the i was who's working there are some
29:52
people they that you kept on sale just for visits
29:54
and then it's you put the people on
29:56
shift on friday that you only keep
29:58
the rounds cause hot ready literally
30:01
say there are people you only keep on the schedule
30:03
for these visits to their the best looking what
30:05
what know their to quote best looking one
30:07
my jeffries thinks about that's what i meet
30:09
our yeah yeah so we'll get into his micromanaging
30:12
and a minute do we have to talk about how happy they were
30:14
about that supersonic i'm a girl by oliver remember
30:18
alike , they have a ground and
30:20
face can we talk about
30:22
just how stupid that song oh
30:24
damn but they're like everyone is like
30:26
that's when we knew we made only mean it's like it's
30:29
marketing
30:29
couldn't possibly by you know
30:31
i mean it's like
30:32
it also like we'll sell for that saw
30:34
i was outside you know the
30:36
not offer assistance or
30:39
, said we'd like
30:43
the look of utter disappointment when would
30:45
you thought that i'd thought that you fell for that song
30:48
so you know me and asked how
30:50
long the soon and american idol we did
30:52
it was american best did see
30:54
that song you know one thing about my jeffrey
30:56
just that that was the coolest thing to ever the one hundred
30:58
natalia let's
31:03
talk to fill you feel you runs
31:06
the angry asian man blah you've also
31:08
like so good looking i just like while
31:10
we're here i may as well you know meme know
31:13
if you're to tell us about the issue of the graphic
31:15
tees
31:16
so i remember that as i
31:18
like i knew of abercrombie and maybe
31:20
i kind of remember this put this is
31:22
bananas
31:23
murray they didn't hire outside copywriters
31:26
why needed really fast turnaround to make these really
31:28
cheap sorts and sell them that like just
31:30
that expensive price
31:31
yeah can i just say i love that this guy
31:33
fill up the angry age i'm a blogger cia
31:35
like so i first in our eyes on the our
31:37
how it was receiving a catalogue out of the blue
31:40
and i remember seeing these young people smiling
31:43
and frolicking and like where i'm a college
31:45
like maybe maybe i'm going to hang
31:47
out with my friends in a field like armed
31:49
armed like this said and jump around
31:51
and around getting a dog pile of the like
31:53
like biskupic catholics that are know when
31:55
i'm in college all go getting
31:58
a dog pile in a field like my son
31:59
i'm not a fire
32:03
if exactly what you would see it every
32:05
channel it had the sun setting there's a late
32:08
all i do tall grass it's all
32:10
boys that they're all just for their underpants and they're lying
32:12
on top of said are wearing you know item
32:14
of clothing that think so ottawa of of
32:16
of avoids open
32:18
half of his i'm gay porn that
32:20
it is so some of these super
32:22
race asserts include there's one like with a
32:24
traditional indigenous headdress job and
32:26
it's tam
32:27
the wanna so it's spelled out like it's supposed
32:29
to be like a tribal name
32:30
the fight hard to say out loud as
32:33
shit is yeah when amateurs
32:34
the budget pp that's his camp you wanna
32:37
me so you're not only being racist but you're also
32:39
making i guess like an accent again the way
32:41
it's written yup but films here to tell
32:43
us about the like specifically asian racism
32:46
like of the buddha bass get outta
32:48
on the floor and like one
32:50
more for the road with a donkey
32:52
wearing a sombrero holding a taco my name
32:54
is it it seems if you're in a writers were i go
32:57
on a sketch comedy so they'd be like that's two races
32:59
and also to on the no one's gonna do that
33:01
it's ridiculous
33:02
why not changed so much you feel like i'm the last three
33:04
years the fact that they weren't blurring it in
33:06
the documentary when we're one another one
33:08
to me and here is the one that sells like
33:10
okay
33:11
yeah yeah yeah the one their remember
33:14
long brothers advertising a
33:16
fictional laundry service modern
33:20
the said the caricature of the buck to them
33:22
slant eyed cases so the
33:25
slogan was too long as can make it whites
33:27
to lungs can make it
33:29
white
33:30
it's on we all
33:31
the even saying that
33:32
right now i know you like ucla i
33:35
see it's insane and themselves
33:37
like this like pop culture's been
33:39
doing this to asian people forever like mickey
33:41
rooney it acts as acts seventies and long that song
33:43
and sixteen candles sixteen candles to sixteen settled is
33:45
a fucking terrible movie
33:47
other than to fill up says is that legs
33:49
as is americans were taught by our parents
33:51
to just keep our heads up flying many of us
33:54
are first generation we just don't make trouble
33:56
but he's like fuck that this was the six to get
33:58
mad about he's like wasn't even
33:59
one a single person asking
34:02
if this is a good idea when i one person questioning
34:04
it like this is what happens when you have a rueful white people
34:06
somebody like the one of the producers says
34:08
to him like what we were told that there was actually
34:11
to asian people on this crew and
34:13
he's like their cover is that is is the one a's
34:15
and guy in the room rise is the one guys like out
34:18
your mind offensive and like is that guy really
34:20
going to be like yet or he's gonna flip over the
34:22
table be like ice and i think this is
34:24
really fun system identity like in that environment
34:26
in this corporate stuff environment where everyone
34:28
around you is white you're like i
34:31
don't know that's really a safe place to do that right
34:33
he's like i can't imagine you made it easy
34:35
for them to feel
34:35
the line a bunch of rich white people
34:38
say you know what i mean like we want our job
34:40
we're wouldn't for the coolest brand in the world but there's
34:42
no way in which there's no way
34:44
spent yet they're there to provide the
34:46
cover for abercrombie to be like know this isn't
34:48
racist the asians are fine with
34:50
i'm sure it wasn't like hey let's have a conversation
34:52
about this and and really put something other that makes you
34:54
comfortable it's like okay with this right you're not going to
34:56
cause a scene
34:56
right then we also learned that when there's backlash
34:59
literally abercrombie whose only knows
35:01
how to do the prc wrong they put out
35:03
a personally seen like oh god we thought
35:06
the easy one
35:08
appearing that we see about that it's t
35:10
to say with the old oh my god and drives
35:12
ya got older now this also save
35:15
i've you know i love her would see
35:17
even on like thirty rock what she was the right
35:19
to walk the line and this is over the
35:21
line
35:22
that it's not as offensive it's lazy
35:24
like i know that it being offensive makes it a thousand
35:26
and that's where i got lazy jobs like
35:29
uses a stupid do better yeah like you're gonna be
35:31
like i don't feel like writing a good job i'll just like a race
35:33
is on i'll i'll do like the easiest
35:35
punching down like it's so stupid
35:37
but still a saying like this is why we didn't say
35:39
anything of kind of everywhere
35:40
that we were used as a punchline exactly and
35:43
that's got to that earlier who sat on service
35:45
is all upset because he just knew
35:47
something was about to change the culture what he saw
35:50
this the tobey maguire spiderman movie as
35:52
you know economists said peter parker's biggest
35:54
boy his last nonsense and he's
35:57
recently been a big blind my asshole
35:59
and in a movie he is just headstone abercrombie
36:02
the entire time and it really upset me it was
36:04
really really upsetting
36:05
they got blockade i just knew wasn't good
36:08
listener and mean like because something has shifted
36:10
the bully was stress head to toe in africa
36:12
yeah you know really bummed to now is
36:14
like i summer girls by alice always are ah
36:18
ra thought i saw the wire
36:20
spiderman he looked really hard
36:22
you know he out as gay awakening i guess
36:24
also maybe it wasn't thinking i
36:26
wasn't thinking straight but i'm bomb but he just wanted [unk]
36:28
i'm
36:30
the great were didn't nothing it's all it's all
36:32
sake effects know ella so
36:35
that stupid son doesn't mean you've made it like
36:37
napoleon a spiderman movie doesn't like
36:39
nothing
36:39
i'm not be no real to the a that
36:41
going crazy thirty three hundred
36:43
honest about this
36:49
i don't
36:51
understand
36:52
i i'm sorry but as
36:53
the abercrombie and fitch on it for why
36:55
well but also the good cargo shorts
36:58
of assess assess assess i guess i
37:00
can i know salaries
37:02
and they mean seems cargo sorts of all the
37:04
for one good thing they did jillian right
37:11
i simply say the fact video
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shows that according to crimes out of the average
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it you know was broken in had been there for
38:45
a similar sense of habit i can't even believe
38:47
that it's like have a twice that
38:49
absence of
38:55
so we jumped two thousand and three reporter
38:57
mo is back and she tells us about
38:59
this encounter that she has with a manager at an
39:01
american eagle store and like american eagle
39:03
is like abercrombie lights right yeah
39:05
it's like the old navy to banana republic
39:08
are making a banana republic
39:10
by the same company with a cellphone say yes
39:12
than a minute yeah i did feel it's just like
39:14
anyway so mo and other reporter walk
39:17
into an american ego and they're just talking to
39:19
this manager and the manager burst into
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tears tissues
39:22
oh happy here i get to say
39:24
years away once she gestures
39:27
to the guy who's leading women
39:29
the dressing room
39:37
it was happy that he liked gave
39:39
a good interview and was enthusiastic and she
39:41
could hire him whereas you couldn't hire
39:44
a black person at abercrombie right
39:46
i'm for no reason why are allowed to sell correlates
39:48
to work at abercrombie she's a black woman and because
39:50
this matters abercrombie and fitch she's beautiful
39:53
at that we wouldn't mention it i mean like that matters
39:55
abercrombie right so this is going to prove their racism
39:57
even more exactly so she says like
39:59
hot of hours as you'd always asking for
40:02
more hours she wanted basis as he was
40:04
always told know like we're all filled up i'm
40:06
so sorry they only gave her night shifts
40:08
which he says was basically just cleaning jobs
40:10
and when she asked about it they say carla
40:13
you're just like or that's the window washer
40:15
you know about this issue process
40:17
as i know this is what i'm talking about no irony
40:20
they think it's accomplish they say what the
40:22
thing they think is a compliment later
40:23
now on believe i know i know i
40:25
know i now
40:26
he got your friend and her friends like person
40:28
who works at abercrombie she's like carlos
40:31
it's because you're black like look around
40:34
and it never occurs to carla
40:36
i because she was like
40:37
they wanted like it hurt like i know it's true
40:39
but it really hurt to be faced with that
40:41
in that kind of way
40:42
then after she had made the kerfuffle about
40:44
wanting a basis to sniff the wants the fucking windows
40:46
are just putting her on the schedule they fired a book
40:48
with a difference i remember asking him
40:51
at do it was it i do do as to work
40:53
here at home in on the schedule in two months
40:55
and even know you do justice to
40:57
calling
40:59
i knew i'd been fired and i just moved
41:01
on i mean there wasn't a resignation
41:03
there wasn't any one that called me i
41:06
it was over managers they got you totally
41:08
work here will call you as soon as the anything and another
41:10
never hello again and they did the same thing to jennifer
41:12
who's isn't just and it's the same
41:14
thing she's like i worked at a store close to use
41:17
the irvine which had like a seventy five per cent asian
41:19
population suggest like her sword did
41:21
have a couple of people of color
41:22
working there but they all the phone of suspects
41:25
let's see what what look at this know
41:27
they sent to the employees greetings
41:31
not , a paycheck you have been like a merry
41:33
christmas christmas
41:35
has this is that true
41:38
said a of of of of when
41:41
you're not gonna die my youngest
41:43
one sentence merry
41:45
christmas christmas is haunting
41:48
that is
41:51
a bio
41:53
the yahoo has a com a simple way to santa
41:56
oh my god lump of coal for us
41:58
a hard thing
41:59
so big and we hear so much of this
42:02
is like and i was really mad about this
42:04
i was like twenty one years old at what could you even
42:06
do
42:06
well a bunch of people of color who were
42:08
fired got together nine of them
42:11
in fact they file a lawsuit
42:12
got i was so happy to hear about
42:14
the lawsuit and to meet thompson's the attorney
42:17
speeds like all of these helpless people
42:19
that are being blatantly discriminated against each one
42:21
of them after that acts as well there's nothing to
42:23
do about it one other moms was like what what what
42:25
were you expecting i do that with him happens you
42:27
so the lawsuit brought against
42:29
abercrombie and fitch and this is the ultimate
42:32
oh my god i can't believe you're saying this out
42:33
yeah to hide talk to us
42:35
about what abercrombie was saying it
42:38
wasn't that we were being racially discriminated
42:40
against it with that
42:42
we were good looking enough to work on for
42:44
we just the badly assists
42:47
racism it's an
42:49
ass
42:52
the important thing because you're
42:54
what you're saying is you don't said black
42:56
people are easy people who anyone else just
42:58
as pretty as a viper
42:59
exactly you only think why people are pretty
43:02
that is races and it's a good look again this
43:04
is so dumb but it matters abercrombie if you
43:06
book a car was put under any one
43:08
of those white people she's way hotter right way
43:10
hotter yeah
43:13
but that same it's not doing what they thought it was doing
43:15
it but doubled down on the that is what i'm
43:17
saying would be only know how to do the wrong pr
43:19
move and they only does not talking a certain
43:22
are like
43:23
what you could have said was nothing there
43:25
like know it's not that it's not that you're not
43:27
white you're just you're not wait and you're not
43:29
you never yet they could have looked inside
43:31
and been like oh my god you're right let us
43:33
six the systemic problem even
43:35
there were doing in the most cynical way a whole lot
43:37
of they were doing it for the sake of the still
43:39
be like visit their dot their was doing that
43:41
right sir not even doing it to set em all up
43:43
say nothing sometime in the minorities
43:46
you thought they'd love the races so you're saying it all
43:48
out loud it's it's all about how loud
43:50
at with a smile it's amazing so
43:52
happy added a lawsuit with a settlement and they
43:54
admitted no guilt yeah but they didn't because of
43:56
fifty million fucking dollars on good because
43:58
of fifty million dollars if they enter into
44:00
a consent decrees would mean that they
44:03
like agree to chase it recruiting
44:05
they're hiring and their marketing practices
44:07
and the it's like a six year deal that they
44:09
agree to do the since there are benchmarks
44:11
they have to hit but there's no penalties if they don't
44:14
right so what they end up doing is
44:16
a whole lotta nothing but one thing they do do
44:18
they transition of the cheese diversity officers
44:20
are they hire a black guy and his name is todd
44:22
and he's a vice president of diverse and so
44:25
here right
44:26
no and i that complicated feelings about i
44:29
agree what you're saying is that i begin to figure
44:31
what it was really about what is going to figure out how to
44:33
prevent or brand from the perspective of the
44:35
in i was at the time was
44:38
on a function that was on office there
44:40
was not a discipline is no muscle side
44:42
of the ahead of it all together as and well
44:44
in the brain a god he the same the
44:47
use of and v i guess it's only working
44:49
now this is probably what would i even
44:51
doing this company but then he realizes that it's like
44:53
legitimately the challenge he's been praying
44:55
for so he said saw
44:57
but you know he's so guarded
44:59
in this interview about what he wants to say
45:01
because i don't know if it's illegal thing or he
45:03
wants to protect his legacy it's because he
45:05
did spend a lot of his life at this
45:08
company doing good works it's it's complicated
45:10
because he refuses to share his feelings
45:12
your yeah but other people of color
45:14
art not following a whole life
45:17
she was a former
45:19
manager at the diversity inclusion yeah
45:22
she gets to go to the meeting say go into
45:24
the meetings where they are literally like a searing
45:26
me that white suit like the managers who just said
45:28
says interviews are going through the look
45:30
pocket talking about people's noses
45:32
like dissecting down and
45:34
she goes will it all they did was change
45:36
the wording the brand reps are no longer they
45:39
were either impact announcements
45:41
that you went to the back
45:42
or model and
45:44
that meant he can be upfront
45:46
i'm like the idea was that
45:48
calling their minimum wage
45:51
retail employees models the know abercrombie
45:53
cleared and get away with anything
45:55
that a modeling
45:56
he i get away with you'd
45:58
be a model i'd be impact
45:59
now undergoing
46:02
an easy among
46:04
they say they say well my or a we
46:06
got all that is a yeah yeah yeah they say by calling
46:08
them models they could close get away with
46:10
things that modeling agencies get away west and i'm
46:12
like oh well that's settled a modeling agency
46:15
his nap on and forgot what are what
46:17
is
46:17
i gotta tell you and i don't want to do real this
46:20
you must my favorite show of the early
46:22
two thousand was the janice dickinson
46:24
modeling agency my and universe
46:28
, supposed to the amazed at the now
46:31
maybe i made idealistic i made mali it
46:33
is the i was the ship
46:36
hms sick of them got away with was
46:38
like oh my god we we know our
46:40
dance moms yet , as a like
46:42
lived my life about about
46:45
i the willing tax
46:48
evasion here
46:50
we go again with my biggest fear steve i can't
46:52
go to prison but i think she was like really trying
46:54
to dodge nami it wasn't like a paper route
46:56
me doubleday my taxes i do
46:59
i but if the estimates i was asking
47:01
for money goes into retweeted the government
47:03
to look up terrible her eyes please
47:05
send us both of the same woman has woman amazing maybe
47:09
i'll get a little bit like i
47:11
guess a war i tell me what i
47:13
oh and i'd happily pay
47:14
you and i could sense the same women's prison can we
47:16
be sally
47:17
it would love that i don't think they would allow it
47:19
know that i would make the best reason why
47:20
you just be on your best behavior and them will try to
47:22
get like the best person
47:23
oh yeah you you are you from getting
47:26
out of line in prison not be you have no
47:28
sign of life and i live in fear
47:30
of getting yelled that i live in fear of getting in trouble
47:32
i do everything right i buy follow
47:35
every rule on one side of nope we gotta move
47:38
that's something horrible because i'm numbers weber the
47:40
thing about bruce weber can i wrote oh
47:42
a great and now we get to learn about all the sexual misconduct
47:45
and like bruce weber like these models
47:47
are here to tell us about how they were all sexually
47:49
assaulted by him if he are you invite you
47:51
over and it's as good as bad as the
47:54
word
47:56
put your hand on your says and
47:58
he prefers and under
47:59
then can i don't into relax
48:02
and then it was i'm in a lower
48:05
your hand me
48:07
when did that you stop me when
48:09
you when you're not comfortable or whatever guess
48:11
legs never won the touching everything
48:14
is a violation and
48:15
that is a weird creepy way to start
48:17
and and it's it's also a power dynamic
48:20
what has we learned that like other guys are voters
48:22
who to get invited to dinner with him as an
48:24
enabler seriously be gone the next states
48:26
the implication meaning that legs he tried to
48:28
have sex with them and they said no and so he sent
48:30
them home
48:31
have you said no to him you were instantly fired
48:33
but on the spot
48:34
the guy with the bad guy tells a story
48:36
about how bruce causes wasn't a dinner and he says
48:39
no and two minutes later he gets a call from some
48:41
the us you're on the next place where you been every
48:43
other models like when he did the hand of saying yes i
48:46
don't move your hand i don't address is like that's hilarious
48:48
i going to move ahead down and the model was like nothing else
48:50
about doing know it's like you're not moving your hand
48:52
down my body right now we are
48:54
learn about this my jeffries that like
48:56
we get a backstory a little bit married
48:59
he's got a kid he's gay we use their
49:01
to a woman yes and the exploits of they have
49:03
a teacher i guess that means his reason with them he was
49:05
super super closeted said
49:07
he also had a bunch of was really bad
49:09
plastic surgery
49:10
well then matthew smith guy comes
49:12
into the picture becomes like his life partner business
49:14
partner job but this is what we learn like my jeffries
49:16
is not well because he was obsessed
49:19
with like his idea of beauty had any
49:21
how old is really bad plastic surgery and i'm like
49:23
you're a zillionaire get it done right good
49:26
get the carol brady plastic surgery you
49:28
have the money yeah have you want
49:31
to get out of plastic surgery but i guess like to
49:33
a point you're just gonna look ridiculous i
49:35
gotta say there are no bow legged mrs brady
49:37
bunch of florence henderson away
49:40
looks like mrs brady from the fucking
49:42
sixties until the day she died or the on in the first
49:44
last half of what will work
49:46
, every day i was my
49:50
area a
49:52
forget it
49:53
right if you have the money is making forty
49:55
those are your the plastic surgery in your face of that
49:57
we should be simpler but you don't amy i'm
49:59
we meet then was the journalists
50:02
just and for some reason he gets his
50:04
coveted invitation to come to campus
50:06
and right about this brand because microprism
50:08
let anyone in and know what and why as
50:10
this
50:10
been obsessed with mike and the campus
50:13
for forever and he says no over and over going
50:15
in and out of the blue sensitivities
50:16
and there was like i saw it all
50:18
jumpers have died he goes what i really
50:20
want to do is like dive in and and to some
50:22
like very hard psycho analysis but we'll have
50:25
time for the
50:25
now and i'm like him to sit down interview
50:27
might just like super honest and like even
50:29
say he says all this of out loud as a
50:32
reporter porn or he's like just
50:34
not everyone to wear clothes i don't want everyone
50:36
to be able to wear clothes he talks about how
50:38
like he wanted to target the cool kids we get
50:40
the full quote later foods like every school
50:42
has cool kids and not so cool good we were
50:44
unabashedly targeting the cool them with
50:47
us you are the ones with all the friends and
50:49
this and this he says all of this is a reporter
50:51
and in two days later reporter get the call that apple tablet
50:54
pulling out with somebody overheard would make
50:56
sense of report another like we're not part of reading of
50:58
is so publishes a story anyway
51:00
now for the times as much as the for salon so
51:03
that out a speakeasy
51:06
all these years later and twenty thirty
51:08
guy benjamin oh keith comes across the two
51:10
thousand two thousand or to
51:11
we want to talk about benjamin a key for second to
51:13
this guy is so fucking cool yeah he's
51:15
like one of the reasons that i didn't
51:17
your abercrombie besides being incredibly
51:20
expensive was because i i literally
51:22
couldn't i was the saturday
51:24
pork head pretty much like the bullying trifecta
51:27
he causes the bullies rocket man
51:30
i don't wear the same
51:32
and what he says is like he was reading
51:34
this article in his like we buses from seven
51:36
years ago and he can't believe that people are
51:39
allowing him to say i am here
51:40
yeah cool cloak they never actually say it in
51:42
a documentary jeffries is quoted as eggs in
51:45
every school there the cool kids and the not so cool
51:47
kids candidly we go after the cool
51:49
kids we go after the attractive all
51:51
american kid with a great attitude and lots
51:53
of friends are we exclusionary absolutely
51:56
that's illegal that you can do that well
51:58
i bet okay saying like this was
52:00
seven years ago and no one gives
52:03
me think about this he says he got to get them
52:05
to change dot org make the petition puts
52:07
it on his own personal social media goes
52:09
to bed overnight the world the club fucking hold
52:11
on topic just talking about it
52:13
earl everyone signing i have what i'm talking
52:15
about of like how harmful abercrombie
52:17
and fitch is the brand and like what is behind
52:19
the brad how it leads to disordered eating
52:21
which he also has experience that you
52:23
have to look like this are your nothing and this
52:26
is mike jeffries view of beauty and in
52:28
this
52:28
year that this will happen in two thousand and thirteen abercrombie
52:30
still a really big deal and so when ben
52:33
is pulling up this article from seven years ago it's
52:35
going viral because nobody can believe
52:37
that this jeffries guy is still the c
52:39
o right of abercrombie he was never
52:41
held accountable for the same it's it's making the
52:43
rounds on twitter on the today show cnbc
52:46
it goes on for weeks and then finally
52:49
abercrombie calls the ben guy and as
52:51
i could off the hounds let's see if we can
52:53
work this out
52:54
step into our office and so he does
52:57
he goes and he brings the ceo of the
52:59
nasa eating disorders association and someone
53:01
from change that org and like to other eating disorder
53:03
professionals which is an incredible and
53:05
he brings like twenty five thousand pages
53:08
each with hundreds of signatures on that he's like
53:10
a very dramatically draw them in front
53:12
of everyone i think that's why i switched the theater
53:14
i have a compliment like he came
53:16
with the fact that had with the emotion
53:18
it was i mean of us have an amazing summer and his home
53:20
the point is that like i was in this room
53:23
where was a all the top dogs of abercrombie
53:25
every single person at that table was
53:27
white mice jeffries doesn't even
53:29
show up for meetings and then would achieve
53:31
diversity officer walk them as hard as i
53:33
did stamps he's like ascended by this
53:36
ben guys inside to explain to me
53:38
how absolutely were an incredibly
53:40
diverse company and all of the great
53:42
things that they had done for diversity in
53:44
their stores since he had come on and
53:46
so he hands me the xbox and i sort of work
53:48
out at night throw it back at it this
53:51
means nothing loves in this room you're the only
53:53
person of color here they have a site
53:56
in the boardroom habits
53:58
are fighting exit
53:59
the todd chief diversity officer guy like this
54:02
is the issue he sounds like on the store
54:04
level they were able to really make change
54:06
look when he started there it was only ten percent
54:09
non white and by the his sixth year
54:11
it was over fifty percent not wait at the store
54:13
level which is great but when you go any level
54:16
up in the company it's just a richer
54:18
and wider an older and like
54:20
that's where the systemic change would have to come
54:22
yeah we learned that the court appointed monitor
54:24
did find the abercrombie repeatedly miss
54:26
benchmark loading underrepresented minorities
54:28
and and marketing and hiring so nothing changed nothing
54:31
changed and benjamin makes it important point
54:33
about todd because he says suicide
54:35
harvey mudd she's the vertigo gas and he's
54:37
like society does this the marginalized people all
54:39
the time yes we put them in this position
54:41
now it's hard to fix all of that
54:43
money was set up the sale
54:44
right and he added that he ends up leaving
54:47
the company and he likes doesn't want to talk
54:49
about it is kind of like the why you're here
54:52
i think that he is trying to protect
54:54
his own legacy with that's where i landed on top
54:56
guess he's not talking about of running about legal reason
54:58
i think he thinks he did good work and he's
55:00
got number of active absolute a really
55:02
unleashes true emotions about it it would kind
55:04
of in his mind diminish the work that
55:06
work did or what let me that and a looks better
55:09
than might todd decline my
55:13
japanese exact everything gets hard side
55:15
of the story
55:17
hi
55:20
the backlog baron online
55:22
company right and you know how sometimes shopping
55:24
in the mind to be like harden mysterious
55:26
you don't know what you're getting yeah no that's going
55:28
to sit by one knows it's easier to break it
55:31
and are you feel like
55:32
my first yeah fees is my go to company
55:34
now for shoes and i gotta tell you rothys takes
55:36
the guesswork out of shoe shopping with comfort right
55:38
out of the box plus super easy and free
55:41
returns and exchanges right that's all there
55:43
is no restocking fee or know and i gotta tell you look
55:45
i'm going to say they are made from recycled water bottles
55:47
they're saving the planet you throw them in the washing machine
55:49
when they get dirty but there are also like gorgeous
55:51
and stretchy so you put them on and they kind
55:54
of like conform to your feet i've never one
55:56
choose like that but you don't have to break them nc you know where
55:58
the
55:58
they like to work and and
55:59
for drinks after work or whatever and you won't
56:02
be in pain the other day my goes oh that looks like it's
56:04
time for me to put my recipes in the washing machine got
56:06
he was so proud he just he was so excited
56:08
also like they make
56:09
gorgeous women sousa get the point in the
56:11
flat soda the usual suspects yeah
56:13
but they also make insane we comfortable sneakers
56:16
loafers ankle boots and more still got
56:18
totally
56:18
and i just wanna say my seasons
56:21
are approaching zola and winter almost here
56:23
and transitioning from summer to fall is super
56:25
easy with the
56:26
the will you know what else princess me from dayton i remember
56:28
that summer wore them to the gym and then i wore them to a business
56:30
meeting guess they are appropriate for both
56:32
the i might from home to the gym to hear out
56:35
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56:36
it's a family solve the case of your next
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c o said we
56:55
love you so much but please leave the true crime plans to i
56:57
mean seriously yeah
57:01
what do you could see now and we need samantha
57:03
and cement is awesome she's from tulsa oklahoma
57:05
he's amazing as she where the hit job
57:08
i didn't get a job because of it's actually about
57:10
for the interview and makes basically
57:12
it goes great the manager says to her will be
57:14
calling it a like schedule your orientation
57:16
as she never gets the go after
57:18
say interview me see called the district manager
57:20
because i was wearing a black said sorry
57:23
the time they had a know black policy
57:26
they told her he doesn't matter what color sure
57:28
she can't work here it comes down
57:30
to the headscarf
57:31
no she's doing now yes and
57:33
good but abercrombie doubles down
57:38
major way their legs she doesn't
57:40
look like our clientele she would
57:42
cost us sales to abercrombie
57:44
doubles down to the level of the
57:46
supreme court united states
57:48
we're gonna have a nuclear
57:51
ruled and samantha saber and are lawyers like
57:53
that so you know was really about what skill
57:55
leah said it was discriminate
57:57
story so many things to say number one
57:59
people
57:59
like how would accompany allow
58:02
a something like this to get to the level of supreme
58:04
court and not be settled why if
58:06
we feel doubling down on their racism
58:08
they think it's good for their brand glass and be
58:11
all supreme court justice
58:13
who sides would abercrombie clarence
58:15
mother bomb as honest and he's and prick
58:17
anyway obviously this obviously this i love
58:20
that guy that guy
58:21
samantha when she went the kids yeah
58:23
season history books ya this cases studied
58:26
and last
58:26
yeah that's incredible incredible
58:28
or seats as cool as hell she's if your child
58:31
has really telling a story about it
58:33
i now do we have to talk about the forty seven
58:35
page manual the however less freedom on the debt because
58:37
it's loyal
58:38
they can say yes we learned that like abercrombie
58:40
is like losing it's relevance and make
58:42
jeffries a silver c o it's
58:44
forty million a year
58:45
the in a year the stock is it the garbage
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and yet he still has a forty seven
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page book about how he has to be treated other
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company just some we're not
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have accompanied gonna be obsessed our
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how but don't do anything like that of
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a summer describes it as particular and i'm like
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a peculiar and stupid rooted
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dynamic thanks not know some of these rules
59:07
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the passengers are eating called
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59:12
to eat hot meal when michael
59:14
or michael guest make guest make respond
59:17
by saying
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no problem
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the minute this should be used in
59:26
place of phrases like i
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know right away sir no
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problem is the same as i know i
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don't know
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say no say no don't say
59:42
either must be mustered up really
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badly ones with somebody said sort of this fucking
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right passengers are eating cool
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so crew members or any the hotness so everyone
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i don't i was
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eating eating or sounded like okay hundred
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and seventy second
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moving on and cause super
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if the i don't why can't you just be thrilled
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the a private jet you don't i would give to do that what
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see through as you might already
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million dollars bottom line
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loss of its luster because the whole
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idea of exclusions which is what the
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brand was built on nobody wants that
1:00:17
anymore it's anymore to keep saying that all of the
1:00:19
kids that got bullied grew up and didn't want to
1:00:21
spend their money trying to be the bully anymore
1:00:23
and awesome
1:00:24
abercrombie and fitch place
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some of that aura went away precisely
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because exclusion
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was the root of their
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success
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an exclusion it sells shots
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being
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haven't flown yeah no one cares anymore
1:00:42
know you know and so by two thousand and fourteen and
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my jeffries leaves with a twenty seven million
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dollar retirement package see just disappears
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summer was like he was at a conference call one
1:00:51
day i don't say he just didn't exist
1:00:52
our yeah bruce
1:00:55
weber get sued by a bunch of
1:00:57
models he settles a bunch of lawsuits
1:00:59
and claims no responsibilities says
1:01:01
he didn't do anything wrong
1:01:02
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1:01:04
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1:01:06
their side has forced and over to jeffrey epstein
1:01:08
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1:01:12
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the new ceo of abercrombie
1:01:17
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1:01:18
the rest of the documentary is an ad for
1:01:20
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the history of their social media like they started instagram
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now it has evolved to become a place of belonging
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can fucking go into one of those two things i'm
1:01:42
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weekend together whatever the time it's gonna be
1:02:07
everybody there it's gonna be panels and meet
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and greets and meet ups and live taping
1:02:11
during the day lives as at night so
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meet up there is no traveler absolutes
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1:03:32
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feel about started about like latest with the ice
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with and ice mcroberts
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