In this engaging episode, our group navigates the intricate relationship between fashion and personal identity. We delve into the notion of ‘dressing for success,’ exploring how the clothing choices we make can influence both self-perception and how we’re perceived by others. From the psychological effect of dressing well to the concept of ‘dopamine dressing,’ the conversation provides insights into how the right attire can boost mood and motivation, setting the tone for the day. The dialogue is sprinkled with humorous anecdotes and firsthand experiences that make it relatable and entertaining.
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We’ll be right back. We’ll be right back.
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How’s it going everybody today? This is KLZ 560 AM. Good to have everybody with us today. If you’re listening, give us a call at 303-477-5600. We’re going to, at least for today, we’re getting off the topic of the traditional man. I mean, that seems to be like the topic, like we’ve done three episodes. Yeah, people really want to know about that, especially from us guys. But before we get started, let’s go around the room. Start with Reno.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, this is a Reno local business owner. And I would, today’s my wife’s birthday. So I would like to say happy birthday to her.
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Happy birthday. Happy birthday. I’m the truth. I speak nothing but the truth, but part-time janitor Brock.
SPEAKER 05 :
And this is Heath, the actor in Denver, Colorado. I’m out of work right now as an actor, but I’m also kind of out of work as a windshield repair. Come on, people. Come on, people. Give me jobs.
SPEAKER 03 :
And so today we’re going to talk about – because one of our sponsors we’re picking up is Men’s Warehouse. So we’re doing an episode for them, and we’re talking about like –
SPEAKER 05 :
What does the eye of the tiger have to do with the men’s warehouse?
SPEAKER 03 :
Sounded really good. Sounded really, really good. Men just stepping up and fulfilling their dreams.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s what inspires me. When you’re dressed nice, it inspires you to go take over the world. Makes me want to walk like the catwalk.
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In a suit.
SPEAKER 03 :
So we’re going to talk about how, like,
SPEAKER 04 :
it influences you like what clothing does for your mental state and your success so let’s start boys first thing i thought about was how much it influences what other people think about you right i mean you’re not going to go to a job interview you know in pajamas yeah yeah that’s true it’s it’s all about the outside influence what you want to portray
SPEAKER 03 :
Self-expression. You express yourself by what you put on.
SPEAKER 09 :
It also does something for yourself. So what you look like in the mirror, you look at yourself in the mirror and you look good, it’s going to boost your confidence.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that mood and motivation is going to motivate you to conquer the world. Agreed, man. So it’s funny that we’re talking about this. Many people believe that what you put on first thing in the morning will dictate your mood, the set of the tone for your day and how you influence people in your confidence level.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, we kind of hit all those points, didn’t we?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that’s what I’m saying. Like, like if you, if you hop up in the morning and you, you know, let’s say, let’s say your job required, you’re the CEO of your company and it requires you to wear a suit and you go rolling in every day with some ripped jeans. People are going to be like, Hey man, what’s going on with the company?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, the thing is, I guess you could end up being the owner of the company. And if you wear clothes like that, they might just put you to the grunt work.
SPEAKER 04 :
But what if your job, you know, has you dressed in a certain dress code? Like if you’re a painter, you know, a framer, you got to wear certain clothes.
SPEAKER 05 :
You get paint all over you. That’s what I was talking about. I was telling Arino just a minute ago, if anybody reads the E-Myth, Um, the guy talks about how he was a painter and he was just, you know, he wanted to charge more, but he didn’t get to and didn’t feel like he could, but it came down to a sense of pride. And his wife told him, start wearing suits. And that set him apart. And at first he was like, well, how am I going to, it doesn’t make sense to get a suit and get paint on it. And she said, no, go to the Goodwill, get a suit like for 10, $20. And, and it changed the dynamic of how his interaction with all of his customers were and how much money he could make in charge.
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And listen, people, if you know more than us, give us a call at 303-477-5600. There’s also a correlation between mental illness and the way you dress. There’s tons of studies out there about people who they’re super depressed. They’re always down. They can’t never achieve anything in life because of the type of outfits they put on every single day. And it’s crazy.
SPEAKER 04 :
There’s a concept called dopamine dressing. Okay, tell us.
SPEAKER 05 :
That sounds like a dressing for your salad.
SPEAKER 04 :
Dopamine dressing. Well, it’s just the same concept as, you know, when you exercise, it produces dopamine. But maybe this produces, you know, not dopamine on the inside, just it’s a, you know, psychologically it produces dopamine.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, no, for sure. For absolutely.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s why it’s called dopamine dressing. Meaning, you know, if I put on a suit and tie, it just might, you know, change my perception.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s just like working out releases things in you that like it really helps against anxiety and depression and. It’s huge, dude. What people wear. I’m serious. Okay, check this out. January 26, 2025, Forbes wrote an article called Dress for Success, Why Leaders and Their Appearance Still Matters. And they started off with first impression is everything. Nobody wants to talk to you. If you look like a piece of crap 24-7. Let’s be real. No, seriously, think about the guy on the corner holding the cardboard. He ain’t had a shower in three days. How many times have you not talked to that guy?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, you’re right, bro.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I guess that’s true.
SPEAKER 03 :
Dude, I mean, if billionaires are sitting here saying, hey, man, you got to dress for success. All right, all right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so if the guy on the street corner… Let’s talk about this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let’s dive in.
SPEAKER 04 :
So if the guy on the street corner was holding a sign and was dressed good, are you more likely to give him money? Are you more likely to say, well, I give him money because he’s dressed nice. He probably already has money.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m more likely to give him money if he looks like he’s successful versus some crack cat with a needle in his arm.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s dumb, dude. I got two… Not dumb, but it’s… Look, I got two examples for you.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s intuitive, you know. There’s two examples for you. I mean, these guys are outside the box here, but Jack Black… and Adam Sandler. These guys are multimillionaires, man. Billionaires, in fact. And they dress comfort. They dress comfort.
SPEAKER 03 :
They are. But at the end of the day, when somebody doesn’t know you, your first impression goes a long ways.
SPEAKER 04 :
For sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m telling you right now, if I walk into your establishment for a job and you’re hiring me and I pull up to your business and it’s just ran down, windows broken out, I’m probably going to be like, this is a fly by night joke and I’m leaving, dude.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, you know what I’m saying?
SPEAKER 09 :
It also makes a difference on your appearance when you come to the job. Right. If you come to the job interview or first impressions, you show up at a job site because we do interviews at job sites sometimes. You don’t have tools. You don’t have the proper protective gear. That first impression that you present to me as a craftsman – That says everything I need to know. Wow. And you’re a business owner.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s coming from the business owner. Hey, I was just coming up with a joke. You want to hear it? Yeah. All right. Here’s a joke. So the person who’s going to go get the job working in the cornfield has to wear overalls so he could dress for shucksess. You got to shuck the corn.
SPEAKER 03 :
That was a dad joke. Ha, ha. People form an impression about you in seven seconds. Is that true? Of course. I would agree.
SPEAKER 04 :
immediately like like forming opinions about us that quickly but yeah that’s what statistics are saying what that’s just that’s that goes along with guys i’m citing this from like mental health like websites and stuff yeah that goes along with uh you know how you form a relationship with a woman once you look at her you know you immediately know if you want to date that girl within a second Most people don’t want to get to know you before they say, okay, yeah, I’m going to date you. Because the outer appearance is absolutely everything nowadays, the way you look. That’s 90% if they’re going to date you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Reno. They always say don’t judge a book by its cover.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I’m about to debunk this according to what?
SPEAKER 09 :
Go ahead and debunk it.
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So when it says don’t judge a book by its cover, It’s saying that the reason why people make that kind of statement, it’s because they really don’t have anything to offer anybody. Most people that have something to offer somebody dresses like they have something to offer.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s actually a good statement. It is and it isn’t.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, listen, I get you shouldn’t judge somebody by the cover because we all say it. But it’s also one of those sayings like the person who doesn’t have money is always the guy who says it’s not about money. The person who has money says it’s about money.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s good. Tell us. I don’t know, man. Now I’m kind of waffling back and I’m going to go with a Reno on this because it’s like judge not lest you be judged into what measure you judge. You shall be judged. And we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. So then doesn’t it make people shallow?
SPEAKER 04 :
if all they do is judge somebody by their appearance that is is is a a facade anyway yeah but you could only you could only use that concept with people that are religious if you’re in a world that no one’s religious they’re not using that concept they would care less i kind of disagree yeah i mean to be true but not everybody’s using that concept because most people are probably not reading the bible
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you could play both sides because sometimes when I get off of work, I look like crap. If I’m in the field and I’m working and we just did a duck bank and I’m full of mud.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, you catch you at the wrong time of the day.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, but.
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And you aren’t looking sharp.
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When I, you know, go to church in a suit or I’m going out to eat and I’m dressed up or, you know. So you could. You could look at the right person at the wrong time and miss out.
SPEAKER 05 :
Circumstantially. And the same thing, Kent, you find somebody who’s not worth their salt and they’re dressed up nice, you can stuff a lot of crap into a suit.
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Yeah, you can. And anybody who knows more than us, call at 303-477-5600. Another thing that when it says don’t judge a book by its cover, is not how reality works. Confidence and authority is what people look for.
SPEAKER 09 :
So it’s the way you carry yourself.
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Yes. If you turn around and you go to a business endeavor, let’s say this person’s offering you $50 million. You’re not coming looking your worst. You will go and look in your best. Because it brings confidence. It brings authority. It tells the person sitting across from you, you know what you want. This is just studies. This isn’t what Brock says.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is all studies, man. There’s multiple parts to that. Okay. Because you could… You could dress nice and have no confidence.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s a true statement. That’s a very true statement.
SPEAKER 09 :
But that other person doesn’t know that. If you dress nice, you’ll have more confidence than you would have if you didn’t dress nice. I agree with that. So it goes in like hygiene, the way you carry yourself. I mean, I think you’re better off if you dress nice with your own perception. Right. The perception of yourself. Then that’ll boost your outward confidence.
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Have any of you guys ever had a makeover? No. No, like a makeover, like where they get you a suit and hair. Oh, that would be cool, though, dude. Pedicure, manicure, all that kind of stuff, and like how that might make you feel. I’ve never had one.
SPEAKER 03 :
Never had one.
SPEAKER 05 :
I did have a suit that I ordered, and I had it tailored. And as I was standing there, and she was tailoring and everything, and then when I showed up when it was all finished— I felt sharp because I was standing on like this, this platform and there’s all these mirrors around and you’re just checking like all of your, all of your angles and it looks good.
SPEAKER 03 :
So, well, I guess this would be the question. What’s more important or is there even a difference? A man and the way he dresses or a woman, the way she dresses, which is, which is more defining.
SPEAKER 05 :
Women already figured it out. Probably.
SPEAKER 09 :
There’s, there’s, there’s, um, women who dress professional and then there’s women that dress up at that, you know, maybe going out to a club or, you know, dressing sexy. You wouldn’t dress like that to a job interview or maybe some would for different reasons. Right. I think there’s more differences with women dressing than there is men.
SPEAKER 03 :
So, I mean, do you think dressing up empowers a man more or a woman more? I would think a man, right? Because it kind of fits his personality? I don’t know.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think that would be kind of individually. How many men in suits turn your head?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s a very good point. That’s a very good point. How many women in red turn your head, man?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, no, no, no, no. I get it. But there’s also a time you see a man, he’s in a suit, and you’re like, dude, that’s a sweet-looking suit.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’ll compliment a guy, man. Yeah. I’ll be in a Starbucks. I’ll be like, man, you’re fly.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I’ve stopped at the store on the way home from church when I’m wearing a suit. And I always get compliments.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s because I’m following you.
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You look so sexy, Reno. Again, call us at 303-477-5600. Well, wouldn’t it start with the inside, though, too?
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, if you’re not in love with yourself.
SPEAKER 04 :
So I could dress up. If I’m not in love with myself and I’m depressed, but I go dress nice, do you think that would help that?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, there’s a study. Oh, yeah, I’ll show you the study on it.
SPEAKER 05 :
But I would say this too, though, man, is that it’s a cheap fix to just do that. But it gets the ball rolling in the right direction of self-love, self-care, self-maintenance.
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So when it comes to social, psychological, and personality science, they believe the first impression tells a person whether or not you’re trustworthy, your state of mind is good, if you have money or not, and it defines how attractive you are in a female’s eyes. If you’re missing teeth, Holes in your jeans. I ain’t took a shower for, you know, three weeks. That woman you’re taking on a date, that’s probably the end of the date right there.
SPEAKER 04 :
I would say I totally agree because, you know, there was a young lady I liked a long time ago, but she always was in pants at work, and I was not interested because she never wore a dress. Like, I wear pants. You know what I’m saying? If I’m wearing pants, I don’t want to see you wearing pants also. So if we’re going to get dressed that morning, what, are you going to wear my pants to work? Oh, snap. Reno’s going to get you. Hold up.
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First call at 303-477-5600. Ladies, Brian just kind of threw y’all under the bus. So if y’all want to come in and throw the truth under the bus, all means call up. All right.
SPEAKER 09 :
What about yoga pants?
SPEAKER 05 :
Brian, do you wear your other pants? What about those peach pants or something like that? Peach pants? Yeah, they caress the butt, man. The stitching and stuff kind of makes the butt really plump. No, yeah. There’s some pants that are…
SPEAKER 09 :
I’m just asking because, you know, thank goodness I haven’t seen a man in yoga pants. But, you know, that’s a lot of women’s go-to is yoga pants. They’re pants, but they’re… To me, they’re for women.
SPEAKER 05 :
But they’re quite revealing. And pants.
SPEAKER 03 :
Guys, in studying this, I had no idea there was a scripture in the Bible that I’m about to read to y’all that said it. Proverbs 22 says, Rich and poor have this in common. The Lord is the maker of them all. The reason why you’re poor and don’t have anything is because you don’t try to change your mindset so the Lord has made you poor. If you’re rich, you change your mindset. And with a mindset comes the way you dress.
SPEAKER 09 :
I agree with you 100%. Your economy is personal. Right. So if everything is dictated by your mindset. Home.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. That’s true.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s true. If you purpose to change your mindset, you will change your situation.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s a mic drop moment, and we’re on the mics, guys. Repeat that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, repeat that. If you don’t like the situation you’re in, you change your mindset. You purpose to change your mindset, and you’ll change your situation. It’s all eternal.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s for every person listening to us.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, there’s some things that, you know, Not everyone can change. Like, you know.
SPEAKER 05 :
There are existential circumstances that are outside of that, but one can change their circumstance, get out of that circle, get out of that position that you’re in.
SPEAKER 09 :
And the five people you hang around, you look at the five people you hang around the most, and that’s who you are. So if you’re hanging around, if all your friends are broke with broke mentalities. Oh, my God, this is a good show. And there’s four of you, you’re the fifth one.
SPEAKER 03 :
Guys call it 303-477-5600. Reno’s hitting on something. That’s true, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I need to meet more millionaires.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, you need to shake us loose?
SPEAKER 09 :
No.
SPEAKER 03 :
But what he’s saying is true because your mindset drives you. You know what I’m saying? We’re visionaries, guys. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be here.
SPEAKER 04 :
So would that be the reason why you don’t ever call me?
SPEAKER 03 :
If your mind is always… just cast down and all you do is think negative, it’s going to reflect on your outside. It’s just the way it is, dude. And I didn’t even know this scripture was in the Bible. I’ve never read it until we started talking about the way men dress.
SPEAKER 04 :
But we’ve got to think outside the box and know that we have an enemy that you’re fighting. No, the Bible is the Bible.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t care about the enemy.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m not saying that. I’m saying, you know, it all sounds good and dandy, dressed nice, you know, get up, you know, take a shower, put on the men’s warehouse suit. You know? Have you done it every day? No, no, listen. Real fast. Hold on.
SPEAKER 09 :
Real fast.
SPEAKER 04 :
you’re you’re you’re allowing us to see your mindset oh your mindset is showing your mindset is showing no no i know that i know that but what i’m i’m trying to say something different i’m saying we that’s all good and dandy but on the outside you have an enemy that you’re fighting against that’s here to try to kill steal and destroy you so you’re you know you’re he’s trying to destroy your mind so you’re already in a tug of war with that all in its own you see what i’m saying
SPEAKER 03 :
No, but you’ve got to change your mindset. Like these dudes just said, it’s all starting in the mind.
SPEAKER 05 :
Brian, I think you have the propensity and the capability to, if you chose to dress nice and fly, you could probably set standards of nice and fly. Yeah. Because you know what it is.
SPEAKER 09 :
Guys, call us at 303-477-5600. So one way I learned to change your mindset is what you put into you. What you read, what you watch, what you listen to. So my opinion, I don’t have anything to back it, but if you are constantly listening to certain things, then that’s what gets inside of you. Yeah, 100%.
SPEAKER 05 :
And comparison is the thief of joy when we watch and look at things too.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, or compare yourself like I’m not as far as I should be in life or whatever. Everyone has their season. Everyone has their moment. But if you change what you’re putting in, you’re changing the way you dress, change what you eat, change how you work out, or if you don’t work out,
SPEAKER 03 :
all that stuff makes a difference on on on your mindset and what you what you put out man arena and he took over the show this is good so call that 303-477-5600 let me read this to you guys real quick um dressing well brings physical attractiveness like we talked about which correlates into self-confidence When a woman looks at you because you are and I get you’re all married. So hypothetical for guys who aren’t married. If you if you turn around, hold on, hear me. If you’re some single young dude and you’re chasing success, how you dress and how you even even as a business owner, how people look at you and grow your business is going to be what they think about you.
SPEAKER 05 :
I have a thought. Okay. I have a thought. So there’s vanity of vanities. Everything under the sun is vanity, right? All is vanity and vexation after the spirit. But there are things that if we don’t take care of them, if we don’t treat them well, and we don’t maintain them and keep them polished and clean and all that stuff.
SPEAKER 09 :
Like teeth.
SPEAKER 05 :
Teeth is one of them. That if we don’t do that, then really we’re kind of going against what we should be doing, which is kind of honoring the thing that we do have. So I’m seeing cell phones. We all got cell phones, right? I’m not the one to allow my cell phone, maybe because of vanity, I’m not sure, but I’m not the one to allow my cell phone to be all broken and janky and stuff for a period of time because I will take that immediately and get the $100 and fix it or something like that. And I was looking at B’s cell phone and stuff like that. I don’t know if that pertains to the same thing of dressing nice, keeping your things nice, not letting your things get wrecked.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, for sure, because what does the Bible say? Something like if you destroy this temple. Like, don’t you feel like if all you’re ever doing is destroying yourself, you’re destroying the temple of the Lord?
SPEAKER 09 :
So real fast, when I walk into my house and it’s a mess, it changes my mood.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
So if I walk into a clean house, it relaxes me. So in that aspect, not, you know, I mean, that’s a part of your environment. For sure. You keep your house clean. That says something about your psyche.
SPEAKER 05 :
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
SPEAKER 09 :
And, you know, you keep your body, your appearance, all that. I think it’s all along the same lines.
SPEAKER 03 :
And people, we’ll talk to everybody on the other side. We’ve got two more minutes left of this call at 303-477-5600 or call on the other side. And it’s just interesting. I really do wonder why so many people…
SPEAKER 04 :
fight against how a person dresses like for example people who don’t keep themselves up will always want to be like ah he he’s just trying to show off because it was uh to piggyback on what reno said so do you think if i dress better that would correlate to me having my car clean more yes that i wouldn’t you know my car is kind of trashed half the time i just let it go i think that says something a lot about
SPEAKER 09 :
your inside what’s inside you or could you correlate it with you know working too much you know I’m at work six in the morning I get off at four in the afternoon I work a lot my car is spotless you go look at my car right now there’s I don’t like filth. I don’t like clutter.
SPEAKER 05 :
What Reno was saying about the house and how it makes you feel the same thing for me, man, when I have my car cluttered, it’s an example of my life cluttered. Chaos.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow. That makes you think about hoarders, dude. People who just, piles and piles and piles of trash everywhere, dude. Like, you can’t function like that. And people talk to us on the other side. We’ll get back to y’all again. It’s 303-477-5600, The Guy’s Perspective.
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SPEAKER 09 :
What’s up, Eric?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, you know, I agree with… All, pretty much everything you guys are talking about, about dressing good, like if you go to a job interview or, you know, how people perceive you, you know what I mean? Okay. I think you’re all right on that. But there’s something you guys are leaving out. Tell us. And I don’t know if it hasn’t occurred to you, but you’re not talking about this. You know… The way I explain this is, you know those Judge Judy shows? Okay. There’s a lot of them. I watch a lot of them. They’re kind of amusing to me, but I couldn’t even tell you how many times I’ve seen this where a married couple or business partners or friends or neighbors or something like that, you know, like a woman or a man or even two gay people, one of them will say, when I met this person… They were a client of my boss’s, and they dressed real nice, and I was very impressed with this man. And I even ended up marrying him. But over a period of months, the veneer kind of sort of wore off, and I started to understand what this guy’s really about. uh i i couldn’t even tell you how many times i’ve seen that so i agree with you it is but you got to always keep in mind that maybe this is just uh i’m not going to say a put on but maybe this is uh a facade kind of a little yeah you’re right a facade that’s what i’m trying to say that’s one thing you guys haven’t talked about oh that’s good this is a great call thank you for that yeah thanks eric
SPEAKER 09 :
There’s always something more to the surface.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, that’s another thing. You really got to keep that in mind because that’s happened to me before with bosses or places I worked when I first interviewed there. and I took a little tour around the restaurant, and everything looked ship-shaped. But you stay there for a few weeks, and, man, you start finding out what’s really going on. That’s a true statement.
SPEAKER 03 :
Their true colors are eventually going to shine. Eric, thank you for calling in, man. We really appreciate that. You made us think about something we didn’t think about.
SPEAKER 04 :
Eric, that was a wonderful call.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wonderful call.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, but, hey, Kate, good show, you guys. Thanks. Thanks, brother.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you, Eric.
SPEAKER 05 :
That was a great call, actually. That was a great call. Let me lead with this, man.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I’ll mention my buddy Chris and his wife, man. You get together, just like Eric was saying, and you have this facade of who you are and stuff. And I remember… my buddy, Chris, he’s going to hate me on this. Uh, uh, they were going through some hard times and the wife was putting on some weight and the wife was getting like a plate of food, a big plate of food. And then she got a second big plate of food and they’ve already talked about her weight. Right. Um, and, uh, and so when she goes back for that second or third plate, heaping it on, um, uh, uh, He says, whoa, hey, Mallory, what are you doing? And she says, if you can’t love me at my worst, you don’t expect me at my best. And he said, when did I ever sign up for your worst?
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
When did I ever sign up? And after they had some heart to heart and they broke it down and everything, she realized that he was right and that we should never kind of like give up on what it was that we first poised ourself as. It’s like, hey, my wife deserves my best.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, you’re making a great point because I see so many people that get married. They portray themselves to be one way. And then, you know, they might have kids or jobs and they let themselves go. But yet, you know, the spouse or the wife, they want, you know, to divorce because they let themselves go. They’re not doing the things that they did in the beginning. So they lose, you know, they lose interest in that person.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. So sometimes things are out of their control. Not everyone that gains weight wants to gain weight. There’s thyroid issues. There was a situation where someone had got into a car accident and hurt their back, so they couldn’t work out the same. There’s a lot of things that take place that might not allow someone to lose weight or to actually get back to their best.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I’m going to read this to you because these are all excellent points. In some researches, they found that 90% of people had their mindset changed completely and their attitude by just the way they dressed. Mental illness. They did a study of like 200 people. 96 of those 200 people, mental illness went away after a year of the way they dressed. We have a caller calling in. Okay, well, let’s keep going until they do. Wearing the right kind of clothing. Oh, Truth Daddy, hey, how’s it going? Tell us, man. Tell us what’s up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, first I want to comment on, on the truth talking about women wearing pants if you’re dating a chick from the office that’s a janitor she probably won’t be wearing pants plunging toilets and stuff like that so well also what y’all guys need to hit on this does the suit make the man or does the man make the suit that’s that’s a good one too So I want to hear you all on that one.
SPEAKER 03 :
We’re going to. Thanks, buddy, for calling in, man. The man makes the suit. See you later. So what is it? Does the suit make the man or does the man make the suit? I think both.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think the man makes the suit. Okay, explain. Truth first and then Reno. So first of all, I think you have to have the mindset to put the suit on. Oh, that’s deep, dude. I think like Eric, our first caller, And that’s only a surface. That’s only the first thing you see, which I think is important. But eventually, you know, who you are is going to come out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Are you ready for the truth perspective? Oh, truth bomb? Nothing but truth.
SPEAKER 03 :
What makes it, the suit or the man in the suit?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I mean, isn’t this what this show’s about? Dress nice and it’ll change my mindset. So then the suit’s making me, because if I put on the suit, then my mindset’s going to change.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, that’s deep. He’s contradicting you, Reno. That’s what this whole show’s about.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s not really a contradiction.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s not really a contradiction.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s helping him change his mindset. I mean, if you look good. If you look good and it boosts your self-esteem and your confidence, it’s going to change.
SPEAKER 04 :
But that’s why I said it’s bold because first you need the mindset like you were saying. But since I’m the man and I had that mindset to put that suit on, once I put that suit on, that suit’s making me feel just as good as I thought it was. So it’s both hand in hand.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let me ask this question first. Would you recognize Superman if he never had the suit? Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, bro.
SPEAKER 05 :
No. That’s just a movie. That’s just Clark Kent. But you know what? He’s just Clark Kent. That’s what I’m saying. Would I recognize you as a millionaire without your status, your clothing? Check this out, man. Have I not always been kind of like comedy and comic relief and making light of myself to make friends? So this is like how my life is. So wouldn’t it sit that some of the suits that I’ve bought are those funny, humorous suits where it’s just like bright orange or where it’s just like mustaches on it or something like that, you know, like some of those suits.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. No.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because that was me coming out in those things, but like I never saw myself as dressing fly or, you know, sexy or beautiful or something like that.
SPEAKER 03 :
So basically your clothing fits your personality, I guess. And call it 303-477-5600. We’d like to hear from everybody. So you believe it fits your personality.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And that’s why, that’s why actually what I did start doing was I stopped wearing, um, like I love my jumpsuits, right? The Adidas and the Puma and all that stuff. But what I did start doing is changing out my T-shirts to all be like Jesus. So if I was going to have a billboard, it’d be Jesus this, Jesus that. But it’s always these like Jesus puns. It’s still me coming out in my clothes through humor.
SPEAKER 03 :
So kind of like Jordans are for his brand, basketball, right? When you think Jordan, you think his brand. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
SPEAKER 04 :
See, see, when I put on Air Jordans, isn’t it supposed to make me think I can go play basketball better?
SPEAKER 03 :
I promise you, if I’m a baller in college and I’m wearing some Jordans, I’m going to be thinking about balling like that, dude. That’s probably what they think about. I mean, I would imagine. I mean, look at everybody. Because that goes back to the saying, if you look at Michael Jordan and everybody’s chasing his status because of what he’s done. That’s not because of what he wore. Well, his shoes, his shoes.
SPEAKER 09 :
His shoes, but he could have put on some Converse.
SPEAKER 03 :
And you think he would have still had the brand like it does? Him flying through the air?
SPEAKER 09 :
Whatever – he made that brand. So you don’t think the brand made him? No, he made that brand.
SPEAKER 05 :
He brought it back. That’s deep. He brought it back from the depths.
SPEAKER 09 :
He brought it – they were – well, according to the movie, they were a failing company. I didn’t do the research to see what numbers they were at. But even – But Jordan – He’s a phenomenal athlete.
SPEAKER 03 :
For sure, a phenomenal athlete. And every basketball player is inspiring to be like him. But look at the younger generation.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s not because of what he wore. That’s because he was a superior athlete and he produced on the court.
SPEAKER 03 :
You don’t think he had to live up to the hype of his shoes and all the brand that’s being sold around the world.
SPEAKER 09 :
He created that hype. Yeah, he created it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, you think he created it and the brand didn’t create it? Because I really believe the brand created who he is.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, he created that brand. They gambled on that. They gambled on that situation.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the reason why I say that is because his shoes are going to outlive him. When Jordan dies, those shoes are still going to be selling, dude.
SPEAKER 04 :
But it was a gamble, Brock. The CEO of Nike, because everybody wanted to wear Reebok at the time, So, you know, so the CEO of Nike wanted to pick a college athlete. And he said, let’s put it all on him. I think he’s going to be the best class. And he became what they thought he was. And then the brand just blew up.
SPEAKER 03 :
If you know more than us, call at 303-477-5600. This is deep.
SPEAKER 05 :
According to that show, wasn’t Nike at that time, like, their big sales were like. Track. Running. Track.
SPEAKER 03 :
They were running shoes. So Nike didn’t come about from Jordan? Because Nike is Jordan now. No, no, no.
SPEAKER 09 :
Jordan gambled on Michael Jordan. Nike was a shoe company. They sponsored Jordan, and he made them what they are today. Without that Jordan brand, they would probably still be a running shoe. They signed him out of college.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I don’t think they signed him out of college. I think his brand came when he was in the NBA. But this is the point I’m saying. His brand is going to outlive him. So his brand is what made him. He didn’t make the brand.
SPEAKER 09 :
We made the brand.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don’t know about that. If we were all wearing men’s warehouse and we’re the top tier Michael Jordans of radio.
SPEAKER 03 :
Then we’re making men’s warehouse. Then we are making men’s warehouse. Men’s warehouse is not making us. Then we would be making men’s warehouse. We’d be making his. It’s helping us.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know about that. Men’s warehouse is already established as one of the biggest brands to make suits.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, I can see. But let’s say we’re starting ground level. They come to us. We put on a suit. Did we make the brand or did the brand make us?
SPEAKER 09 :
It went hand in hand. Merger.
SPEAKER 03 :
This is a deep topic, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
Best apples and oranges because… but i mean you see what i’m saying the reason why we bring up the analogy of jordan because jordan is the face of mba right now so if if i if i build a house it’s gonna outlive me yes okay yes i built that house that’s a good analogy that is a good analogy so jordan built
SPEAKER 05 :
the Jordan brand didn’t he he built that what do you guys know of Jordan after that obviously it was all the Nike and the Air Jordans and all that but there after wasn’t there Hanes he has an underwear thing too there were Hanes campaigns and then there does he still is that still a thing and then usually probably all things like you know like in his maturity then it’d be like suits and watches and stuff
SPEAKER 03 :
And anybody who knows more about all this and how a guy puts on his suit and how it makes him feel, call 303-477-5600.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I want to get back to what he was talking about, the facade.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, we’re getting back on track. That was the whole point of the Jordan thing is – Was Jordan’s game play what made the shoe or did the shoe make him or was it all just the facade? And then what about the fallout?
SPEAKER 05 :
What about the fallout of everybody who put on the Jordan shoes subsequently after that and how that made them feel?
SPEAKER 09 :
What do you mean fallout?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, not the fallout, the positive fallout. Anybody who wore the shoes after and it made them feel extra special so that they could achieve higher too.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, that’s because of what he did in the game.
SPEAKER 03 :
But that goes back to Brian. Is that a facade? Because I know if I put on some Jordans going ball, I may suck, but I’m feeling like I’m the king of the court, man.
SPEAKER 14 :
Second you throw some Jordans on, you’re legit.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s because of what Jordan did on the court. So then it is a facade, like Brian was saying. Well, it’s a facade, but it wasn’t a facade for Jordan because he made the brand.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s deep, dude. Okay, this is just from what I think. Just by the way you dress, you can gain opportunities, network, and resources by the way a person dresses.
SPEAKER 05 :
So can you wear a three-piece suit to an interview with some Jordans.
SPEAKER 04 :
I would say no. I say you look like an idiot.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, not if you’re an NBA player. Not if the NBA is recruiting you in the first round of the draft. No, I will debunk that any day.
SPEAKER 04 :
Dude, I hate watching people dressed in such a sweet suit and then have no socks and some dumb shoes on. You see it from the combine all the time. You got three-fourths of your outfit making you look like a stud and then you get to the bottom. Here we go. And he looked like some dude just woke up and didn’t really want to put on the suit, but he just had her out the door.
SPEAKER 05 :
Look, case in point, man. Brian would make a great salesman about, like, attire and wear if he applied himself.
SPEAKER 03 :
Guys, when’s the last time you guys looked at the NFL draft or the NBA draft? I watch NFL draft every single year. These young men come out in suits. They don’t come out in regular clothes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, no, they come in shiny.
SPEAKER 03 :
Nice suits. And think about this. $2,000 suits. They’re getting $20 million contracts at the age of 19, and they’re coming out with…
SPEAKER 09 :
What did you think about Deion Sanders’ suit in comparison to the suits now? And I’m just saying that because he’s so flashy.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m with you.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, it’s – I mean, is there overboard? Yes, there is overboard.
SPEAKER 05 :
So flashy is too much.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know because look where it got him.
SPEAKER 05 :
I like it. You guys, I’ve told you about Myron Golden. I don’t know if any of you have listened to him, but I love his appearance. He opens up the lapel, man, and it has MG. Myron Golden is like inside his clothing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Guys, how would you feel if you had the President of the United States talk to the American people and he wasn’t in a suit and tie, you would be like, what’s going on, dude?
SPEAKER 04 :
But doesn’t occasion have to have any, you know… The occasion. You’re not wearing a suit.
SPEAKER 03 :
It depends on your status, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re not wearing a suit and tie every day. I don’t care what you say. I’ve never seen Reno in a suit and tie every day. He’s not the President of the United States. No, of course. But I’m saying so it has to do with the occasion.
SPEAKER 09 :
My profession doesn’t warrant me wearing a suit and tie every day. So I know.
SPEAKER 04 :
So it’s the occasion.
SPEAKER 09 :
If you were running a Fortune 500 company, you would. If I’m in the office, I’m putting on a suit.
SPEAKER 04 :
So what I’m saying, it requires the occasion to put on the suit. You’re not in a suit right now. How do you feel?
SPEAKER 09 :
He could be right. He could be right about that. Am I dressed like a bum? No, indeed not.
SPEAKER 03 :
But I’m telling you guys right now, we’re doing this show because of Men’s Warehouse. And Men’s Warehouse gives us all five suits. We’re wearing the suit to the show. Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
We’re representing them. I got another one. Check this out, man. Because obviously I’ve done windshield repairs for 30 years, right? I’ve had the Ford pickup truck. I’ve had the Jeeps when I’d pull up to people. And I’ve had the Scion. And I’ve had the Beamer. But when I got the Beamer and I started pulling up to customers, here’s who paid attention. Those driving Beamers. Those with the Mercedes. Those… They paid attention, not like, oh, it just made me feel like I felt like they trusted me because I was driving the same. And now I roll up in a Tesla, and it makes people, I don’t know, some people are like, wow, this guy’s got a Tesla. Maybe I shouldn’t give him all my money. And other people, I’m like, they’re equal.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know of a contractor that started using a Cybertruck as a work vehicle. And it made his business go down because people thought that they were paying for the Cybertruck. Oh, wow. Although, if you look at the Cybertruck, it makes a really good work truck because it’s durable. But the perception of that where people didn’t want to pay for his Cybertruck.
SPEAKER 05 :
I would wager, man. I would wager that if he elevated his floor of his client base, they would appreciate that he had a truck like that.
SPEAKER 09 :
You may be right. I don’t know. I just was speaking on an instance that I heard about. People calling at 303-477-5600.
SPEAKER 03 :
This is deep. How you dress, how does it affect your life, your mindset? You know, guys, from everything that I’m reading and everything that we’re studying is that as a man think it, so he is. Dude, if you think you’re garbage, you’re going to be garbage. If you think you’re successful, then you’re probably going to be successful.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s one thing I can’t remember who said it, but they said whatever you think you are, you’re probably right.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that’s true, and I love putting on a suit. I love the way it makes you feel. You feel better than the next person next to you, right? But, you know, two hours in, it’s hard to wear all day long.
SPEAKER 05 :
When’s your next suit occasion, any of you? Is it Sundays?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, Sunday church. Mine’s just getting cleaned right now at the cleaners. Well, they just sent me a text.
SPEAKER 04 :
Isn’t a suit hard to wear all day long?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yes, yes. But I’m telling you right now, there’s people in society. Like, if Elon Musk walked in here right now, he’s probably going to be in a suit and tie. And if he’s not, he’s going to be in something really nice. A sports jacket with a bum shirt. He’s going to be in something really nice.
SPEAKER 09 :
He’s probably not going to look like he came off the streets. I’ve seen… I don’t know every occasion, but he’s not always in a suit. But he dresses nice, though. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
There’s never been a time… Do you think like a $1,000 t-shirt is softer than a $20 t-shirt?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah. A silk shirt’s probably going to be softer than just a regular cotton, I would think. I mean, I don’t know. I’ve never worn a $1,000 t-shirt. Yeah. You know what I’m saying?
SPEAKER 14 :
But if anybody’s worn one, give us a call and let us know, man. But you see what I’m saying?
SPEAKER 05 :
Does dressing nice have to be expensive?
SPEAKER 09 :
It does not. Explain. The Goodwill. Yes. Okay. You can buy a really nice suit. In fact, the Goodwill sells brand new things. Okay. So just because it’s inexpensive doesn’t mean it’s not nice.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because think about this, anxiety. They say anxiety is generally on a person who has a lot of anxiety. It’s somebody who cannot distinguish what he or she should be wearing throughout the day. Hey, Doug, how’s it going? Talk to us. Tell us what you think.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good, you guys. The idea of a suit, I think, is awesome. Do it, but don’t break the bank. Get a good men’s warehouse does a great job, you know, $200, $300 suit, and then get it tailored to fit you. And once you do that, once it’s really fitting you, and maybe you go beyond the men’s warehouse tailor suit, someone who really specializes, because you can always – Get it tailored two, three times. Once it fits nice, wearing it all day feels like a glove that you’ve had for years.
SPEAKER 03 :
Doug, you sound like a man who wears a suit. Do you wear one pretty often?
SPEAKER 12 :
No. I actually rarely do anymore. I live out in Ranching County, but I know a handful of very wealthy people out here who are still ranchers. They work. And so wearing a suit out here is just inappropriate. Doug, can I ask you a question? Sure.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you make the suit or does the suit make you? Good question.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s a combo, but generally you make the suit. Back to your concept of the first impression, if you walk up and people see this awesome suit and you’ve got dirty teeth and whatever, you just look less than Captain. the suit’s wearing you rather than you wearing the suit. So think of it, I mean, at times you can think of it as, you know, putting on the armor of God and how the, what’s your attitude in putting that suit on? And if it’s tailored to you to fit and it should amplify whatever you are, just like if you’re a bad person when you’re poor, you’re going to be a bad person, more a bad person when you’re rich.
SPEAKER 06 :
You’re right.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s a true statement. If you’re a jerk when you’re badly dressed, you’re going to be a jerk in a suit. Agreed.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. Doug, thank you so much for calling, man. Thanks, Doug. That was really good. He made a good point. Just because you put on a suit, if you’re a douchebag without a suit, you’re going to be a douchebag with a suit.
SPEAKER 05 :
What is it scripturally? It’s like he who is trustworthy with little will be trustworthy with much, and he who is untrustworthy with little will be untrustworthy with much. Hmm. So that means that like when we when we get just like Doug was saying, if you’re if you’re conniving and a thief and all that stuff and you make very little money, when you start making more, you’re going to be bigger.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Who was our first caller? Eric? Yes. I know he said people are putting on a facade, but you still have to. I know it’s a facade. You’re portraying yourself to be something that you’re not on the inside, but it all starts with trying to better yourself. So you have to put on nice attire. Even if it is a facade, you’re still trying to better yourself.
SPEAKER 03 :
So basically fake it till you make it to get success.
SPEAKER 04 :
Not everybody’s perfect.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wait a second. Okay. David didn’t show up to the fight in the proper attire. David didn’t show up to the fight in the proper attire.
SPEAKER 03 :
He came with faith, bro. After he became a king.
SPEAKER 05 :
Come on.
SPEAKER 09 :
You can’t put on someone else’s suit.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, he said he hadn’t been tested. That’s a good point. Reno said it.
SPEAKER 14 :
I’m telling you, Reno’s been taking over the show. Men’s Warehouse is going to love this, dude. You can’t put on someone else’s suit, bro. Nobody ever thought about that in the scripture. That’s deep. You can’t put on someone else’s suit, bro.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s what he was asking David to do. Here, put on my suit.
SPEAKER 04 :
this is not oh that’s like putting on somebody’s jordan he said it’s not been proven i cannot wear somebody else’s shoes i cannot go to like a goodwill and if somebody already wear those shoes put them on my feet they never work they sell new shoes at goodwill they’re not all used i’m just saying if i had to get used shoes it’s so hard thank you for calling you guys can always hear us every saturday from two to three call at 303-477-5600 i agree with
SPEAKER 03 :
Arino, you can’t put on someone else’s suit. Can I give a shout out?
SPEAKER 04 :
Can I give a shout out? Mom, if you’re listening, meatloaf mom.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh my goodness. Y’all have a good afternoon. See y’all later.
SPEAKER 01 :
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