Details. It starts right now. Welcome, everybody. Im neal cavuto. First up tonight, ive heard of a threeday weekend, but a sevenday weekend . Why hes giving his employees unlimited Vacation Time. Richard branson is the name, Sir Richard Branson and the book is the virgin way, everything i know about leadership, and he does know about leadership. Agree or disagree with his style or politics, the fact of the matter is that when average folks across the globe were asked who they would really like to work for, who would just be a cool boss, sir richard came up. Number two was rupert murdoch. Anyway. Richard branson back with us, and a lot of his leadership style is pretty much dont be a jerk, dont be dictatorial, dont shout at your workers, but its more than that. You believe in unlimited Vacation Time. You believe that throwing a lot of rules at workers theyre not as happy, productive, sfwhoboth . Most of our life is spent at work, so it should be interesting, it should be entertaining, it should be rewarding. Thats the virgin way. Thats wait we treat our people. As a child, you know, if i criticized somebody, my parents would send me to the mirror and ask me to stand and look at myself for five minutes because they said it reflected so badly on me. So we very much go out and praise people, look for the best in people, and i think in return we get the best. Do you ever run across people who dont get the message, theyre just jerks and youre being as a krrccommodating and generous as you can be, and theyre just slugs. There was one person who stole from me, and i took him into my office and i said, look, that was not a clever thing to do. Is that really how you did it . And i gave him a Second Chance. And that guy was so loyal from then on, he went on to sign the Rolling Stones for us, he signed genesis for us, he signed boy george. They cant all be sometimes i do think that everybody deserves a Second Chance on occasions, and i think a company that, you know, if you run your company like a family, you dont throw your children out on the street no, your workers are rabidly loyal, there is very little turnover. Obviously you practice what you preach. But you must have a tough guy, a woman, who is the tough cop . Or do you . I hope we dont for instance, if somebody is not performing well, rather than sacking them, we will try to find them a different job where they may perform well. Within the conglomerate . Yeah. Obviously, if its too much, they will be let go, but it doesnt happen too often. I think your daughter conveyed something to you about netflix or Something Like that . She just said, particularly in america, america hardly gives its people days off, and she just said its wrong that the Vacation Time is so short. So we thought we would experiment, and we just said starting with our head offices around the world, if anybody wants to take holiday any time, they can. What if they did it at the same time . They must get the job done and the company must keep running. So flexibility, people want to work from home, they should be able to work from home. If people want to work from home on fridays and mondays, they should be able to consider doing that. If they want to share their job with somebody else. I think flexibility is important, particularly for women who have got children and want to see their kids a bit. Space. Youre big on space. It comes at a time when certainly in the United States its government dependent, governments are backing out of this, and here youre offering a private way for average folks like me and others to do it. And quite a few have signed up for it. Where do we stand on this . Its taken longer than i thought. I suspect about a year or so ago we would have been in space by now. But i do believe that by the end of this year, our first test flight into space with this craft will have happened, and then i do believe by around about april or march of next year, myself and my son will be going up. So youll be the well be the sort of guinea pigs. You pay how much for a trip . The initial price is 250,000, which if you want to go on a russian spacecraft, its 40 or 50 million. There is that. Youre up and back . The initial flights are short, and then they will lead to pointtopoint air travel, and we want to take people orbitally around the world. That will be the next exciting project well be working on. And weve got plans to put a razor satellite in space. There are a lot of exciting things that will happen. But the best bit of news, which i can sort of announce today, is our rogckets are now working th full length of the time very consistently, and we feel confident that by christmas we would have done the first test flight into space. Will we be able to find cheaper ways to hitch rides with you rather than 60 million russians . Well be able to pay about 2 the price of the russians. A lot of your ideas are very cool. You think outside of the box. Richard branson, the virgin way. It can work. We got to go to a break. Im on that next spaceship as we speak. In fact, theyre volunteering me for it. To hear democrats tell it, its republicans that are at war not against terror or poverty, but women. Wait until you find out exactly wait until you find out exactly what qualifies as a war, how could switchgrass in argentina, wait until you find out exactly what qualifies as a war, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the Aerospace Industry in the u. S. . At t. 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They prefer going along with women being paid less than men. Am i missing something here . How is this debate over the minimum wage turn into a concerted attack on women . In fact, a war on women. Here to help me out, Claudia Tenney and sheri jacovski. Sheri . Its an election year. We already had equal payout since 1963. Its against the law to discriminate against women. They make it sound like republicans are not for paying equal. It is the law, and the president can set a good example. We know the Obama White House does not pay women the same as men. But look, im not going to say that it doesnt happen. I think women do hit a Glass Ceiling and then they go out and smart businesses. And guess what . Womenowned businesses create jobs in this country more than all the fortune 500 companies combined. When you start making it hard for these women to have jobs, youre going to have a problem. That transcends the whole gender thing. Youre a Small Business owner. Its about just providing opportunity that would benefit men and women. We dont need government getting in the way of women creating jobs. Im the coowner of a Small Business in its 68th year, and all we need is government to come in and regulate us even more, especially coming from new york. Even if men and women are paid equally . Absolutely. Currently we dont have any women operating a press, but when i was running a division in our company, we did have a woman running a press, and she was fabulous, and she got paid based on merit, not based on some Government Intervention on how we should pay people. I think women should be paid based on merit and not some government regulation. How did this get mixed up in the debate, then . If you look at the actual metrics, you have obamacare, but one of the aspects of obamacare that democrats have been pushing is obviously it ends discrimination against women paying more for services than men. You have the act which prevents women from being able to sue for wage discrimination. More women are affected by the minimum wage than men on average. Its a very small component in the overall u. S. Population that works for minimum wage . Yes. Then are you saying republicans would look you in the eye and say, i think youre worth less than a man and pay you less . I dont think they would look me in the eye no more than they would look you in the eye and say you thanks to the ledbetter law, its against the law for them to do it. I dont agree with it. When the government gets involved in this, heres what happens. When youre forcing people to do things that arent good for their business, remember, 1931, the davis baker act, that was invented solely to keep americans from going in and having federal contracts, because they wanted to keep those for the whites. Black businesses were shut out. Black businesses were able to compete and save the taxpayer money and give the government a better deal because they forced a prevailing wage. When you force a minimum wage, youre going to kill jobs and youre going to eliminate someones ability to create those jobs. The solution to this, to hearing some of these, democrats say then you got to lift the minimum wage, then the war on women will cease to be a war on women, but whats the level at which you cease it . We shouldnt even have a minimum wage. At this point the market should determine what the wage is. I cant imagine looking at all the women employees i have, and by the way, we are dominated by women employees, and saying, we are being unfair to you. What were doing is giving you an opportunity. You dont need government to come in, especially obamacare. Nothing has been seemingly devastated to our Small Business than obamacare. Raising rates on our businesses, weve had to go to a partial selfinsurance plan. That causes us to maybe lay off people and that transcends genders. But do you think this is just taking a side issue here and making a big issue to get the peoples attention away from health care . I know democratic strategy said they dont want to use the word recovery because that apparently is a loaded term. So is this just a load of youknowwhat to deflect the above . No, its a reality. Theres an election, so lo and behold, the same reason benghazi all of a sudden is so front and center. Could it be because hillary could be the next president . Of course not, benghazi is all legitimate. But my point is this. Yes, part of it is the fact its being accentuated because there is an election in a few months. Do you think its disingenuous to say if republicans raise the minimum wage, they are somehow against women . If im saying to you that women, especially single women, especially single moms, are disproportionately helped by your hike in the minimum wage, and youre saying to me, i dont care we have a nearly 90man work force, 2 million at minimum wage. Lets say all 2 million are women. The majority of people in this country dont have cancer. Why dont we were taking from mary to give to jane. Thats what happens when you raise the minimum wage. Ladies, i cant make sense of it, but again, im a clueless guy. Go figure. Not by the end of the day, my dogs were barking. They used to get really tired. [barking noises] until i started gellin. Its this awesome gel, only in dr. Scholls massaging gel insoles. Its like walking on a wave. I love my dr. Scholls massaging gel insoles. When theyre in my shoes, my feet and legs feel less tired. Theyve got two layers for support and cushioning its dual wave technology. So i feel energized im a believer. 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The most followed people on twitter and facebook are socialites, musicians. So we need to get you a video. Something catchy like this. Its cavuto well put it on myspace. The kids will lover i it. So i need a video. Well have you go crazy. Shave your legs. Or your head. Or your legs and your head skpchlt then finally the home run is obviously the sex tape. But we can save on budget and do a sex tape with just you. Theres an idea. These are just ideas, guys. This is a creation space. Were trying to think out of the box or in the box, whatever you want. Take all those down, though. When you were doing this, you had about 10 followers, then 10,000, then 100,000, 20 million, the most talkedabout athlete in the world. You blow them all away together. How do you do that . Heres the thing with social networking. It is the voice of the individual. And all humor aside, when you gain interest, when someone says, hey, i like this guy, immediately all athletes nowadays, all celebrities have social media, its just the extent they use them. When you say they all have them, is it you that sets it up . There are some celebrities are athletes who have their page and they say, this is set up for so and so but monitored by so and so. And there is the real voice of the superstar and the personality, and in wwe, all the twitter and facebook is the wwe superstar themselves. So its my voice out there. And yes, i use brand conglomerates and incorporate sponsors in my twitter like changetime. Com is a huge initiative for me unlaunching this Weight Loss Campaign through twitter. I believe in this program, i use it myself, so i tweet my success. I tweet my meals. I tweet certain comments. We can skip that because the whole weight loss thing would be a tough sell in my case. Easy sell from me to you. You just got rid of the cinnabons one day a week. One day, thats it . How do you know, when you attached yourself to this and you realized this was going to be big and you took it to the next level, other stars, tiger woods, for example, i need to connect with my fans because i seem to have alienated them. You went full throttle with this. I was one who said i want to keep the magic in the ww television program. I dont know about all this. Then it becomes larger than life and you have to get in it or youll get mowed over. When you say youll get mowed over, someone else will pick up those fans . This is wait they the way th now. How do you know theyre not just doing everything on those devices and not watching you . Im not saying youll get mowed over, but if you do not have a digital presence, you are hissing out on so much interaction way globe of people, whether theyre your fans or not. I often just tweet inspirational quotes and not quotes from other people. Ill just say what im thinking in that day and send it out in 140 characters. People like to retweet quotes. So a lot of people who arent even fans of mine will look and say, wow, i like that quote. Then they become interested in john sena. Then they become interested in the wwe. So you have people quoting just because of who you are, right . Or the meaning of what the quote is. I sent something out the other day that fatigue is something we all have, own it. Cowardice is a decision. Do the best you can in the day, or Something Like that, paraphrased. But you would never say things out of character for you . You would never say, you will always be a loser. That wouldnt be you . That wouldnt be me. Its authentic thoughts from me, and its not wwe programming, and people latch onto that. And whether they latch onto someone from wwe television or they latch onto the person who is typing the message, you put another person in that genre of fans. One way to win on facebook is you engage the audience, like john was saying. If i were a wrestler, thank goodness for john im not, because competition. Heres what weve got. No, the real deal cavuto. I like it. Dough boy. I did not like this. Its okay. Heres one the italian stud muffin. This is just me thinking outside the box. The canolli crusher. So you travel to bakeriebake. Yeah. Okay, its got something. He does not mean that. Hes as good as and ive been working at this being genuine thing for years now, for years. By the way, i have you always make me laugh. Every time i come on, always. It beats the alternative, john, because that would be ugly. Can we tell him whereef office is . Office is . What an s. O. B. , you dont holiday music is playing hey office is . What an s. O. B. , you dont i guess were going to need a new santa the music builds to a climax. more people are coming to audi than ever before. See why now is the best time. Audi will cover your first months payment on select models at the season of audi sales event. Visit audioffers. Com today. Neil one of the most popular guests we had on the show back with us right now. One of the most popular guests weve ever had on the show back with us right now, a, because hes good for ratings, but his point today, its not only impossible to laurcnch a company or darn close, its becoming increasely impossibinge to keep that company. Im talking about entrepreneur and manufacturing jobs advocate john ratzenberger, the guy who has been in every single pixar film. Youre concerned about this. Your big beef is what . Its x amount of years ive been going around the country like paul revere. Youve been relentless. Just put shop classes back in the schools. This is the first generation thats been raised in the history of mankind that is illiterate in the use of tools. So where is the next generation of factory workers coming from, manufacturers . Someone has to build the ships, the planes, the gasoline pumps, not only the cars to repair the roads, build the bulldozers why did we give up on that . Its my fault. Thats why im so relentless on this becaus