--- title: 'Tea with Gary Vee: NFTs, Pop Culture, and Business Advice' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=hkWUWm3f3vo' video_id: 'hkWUWm3f3vo' date: 2026-07-14 duration_sec: 0 --- # Tea with Gary Vee: NFTs, Pop Culture, and Business Advice > Source: [Tea with Gary Vee: NFTs, Pop Culture, and Business Advice](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hkWUWm3f3vo) ## Summary Gary Vaynerchuk hosts a live Q&A session, discussing topics like self-esteem, pursuing passions over parental expectations, transitioning from short-form to long-form content, the importance of pop culture awareness, hiring traits, and the launch of a simplified NFT purchasing process for his V Friends collection. ### Key Points - **Overcoming Negative Self-Talk** [00:00] — Gary emphasizes that self-esteem vs. insecurity is a choice, and that everyone's self-perception is 'fake'. He advises to understand that no one cares about your insecurities, and to reach a zen place of truth. - **Follow Your Passion Over Parental Pressure** [00:00] — An 18-year-old with music skills is advised to focus on music rather than going to university for his dad. Gary states living your life for others is wrong. - **Tools for Long to Short Form Content** [00:00] — Gary lists tools like Opus Clip, Vidi, VDO.ai, Chopcast, Pictory AI for converting long-form to short-form content, but stresses that discipline and mindset are more important than the tools themselves. - **Pop Culture as Currency** [00:00] — Pop culture awareness is crucial for content creation and product sales. Gary advises using ChatGPT to research trends like 'soft goth revival' or 'cowboy western revival'. - **Hiring Traits: Buy-In and Humanity** [00:00] — Gary looks for buy-in to his vision and humanity (EQ) over skill, as AI makes skills a commodity. Self-awareness and communication are also key. - **Grace in Adversity** [00:00] — For a parent with an autistic child, Gary advises giving yourself grace and time, not forcing goals immediately. He extends this to any adversity like financial mistakes or loss. - **Simplified NFT Purchase via Rarible** [00:00] — Gary announces that V Friends NFTs can now be bought with a credit card on Rarible, removing crypto complexity. He demonstrates the process and encourages viewers to buy. - **Origin Matters in Collectibles** [00:00] — Gary explains that the NFT is the origin of V Friends, making it the most valuable collectible, similar to first edition books or original action figures. ### Conclusion Gary wraps up by urging viewers to buy their first V Friends NFT on Rarible, emphasizing the ease of credit card purchase and the long-term value of the digital collectible as the origin of the V Friends universe. ## Transcript I think you have refreshed the cam >> the video ninja this video ninja. >> Oh yeah. Let's press >> says thank you. >> And then >> this this camera is still working. >> Yeah, it's still frozen. You know what that means? >> Can you just refresh this window? This one. >> Do you see what I'm talking? >> This window. Can you just Is it the scam? >> Yes. Perfect. Okay. Are you all set? Going live on. >> Let's go. >> What is up? You all must be wondering how did Gary get so >> in that chat. I've not seen LinkedIn. I've not seen Facebook. I've not seen Tik Tok or Instagram. Um. Uh. Okay, cool. Everybody, we are back to Tea with Gary V. Let's see if Aaron works and the audio >> testing. >> Very nice. We're good. All right, everybody. We are back. Uh, I'm a little loud. Uh, if we Yeah, thank you so much, Court. Um, one more time, let's go run the giveaway. Rips, let's run that giveaway. Thank you, Court. Let's run that giveaway again. Um, one more time. That giveaway. Uh, we're going to give away this comic book number two signed. Pretty excited about it. This has some real Oh, low volume. Is that right? How's everyone hearing me? It might be on your side official, Andy, because I'm feel Yeah, audio is perfect on this side as well. Uh, good. Okay, good. The giveaway is very easy. You literally click on the top right. Uh, you click on the top right. Um, and Court, thank you so much on the chat. I appreciate that. Rips is about to do the giveaway. Uh, I appreciate that. I just lost something court from your click. I think the chat or is that controlled by him on his side? Chris. Yeah, you took away that chat. >> Maybe bring that back. All right, everybody. Uh court, let's throw up the rarable thing. Can we share that? >> Um, no worries. Okay. All right. Let's just go into the Let's just go into the Q&A. Um, the giveaway should be up soon. We'll get we'll get to the rarable screen soon, but Aaron, let's go into the first Q&A. >> Okay, this question is from Alexander. How do you fight negative selft talk and limiting beliefs like I'm not good enough or why should people buy stuff from me due to not feeling ready because I myself am still on the way to learning what I want to I mean I think that's incredibly simple like you know life is either you know an insecure or confidence game right and so uh to me the my mic is low now for people. Um, are you guys mic low? And everybody, if it's low for you, please sign in and sign back out. Um, it seems like everyone's pretty good. So, everybody, if you're getting mic low, I would sign back in and back out. It looks like everyone's great. Um, you know, it's it's self it's self, you know, I I I really struggle with this because the reality is it's a self-esteem versus insecurity game. And I just don't understand how people don't understand that no one gives a [ __ ] and it's not high school. And like I get that people have voices in their mind. My voice says I'm good and I have good intent. Other people say I'm bad. Like I get that parenting circumstance DNA. The reality is it's all fake. Me being overly confident and other people being deeply insecure is actually fake. And I think once you get to that zen place of understanding that truth, it gets a lot better. And so I just I you know honestly I just I I really believe this is like the boogeyman and being scared of the dark and like like all that stuff and I just need people out of it. I'm I'm feel I'm hearing background noise. Are you guys hearing background noise or is that just me or is it just loud here or you Okay, they're all good. I don't know what I'm feeling. >> I don't know. Let's keep it going. Okay, next question um is uh I'm 18 I'm 18 years old and I have these amazing music making skills, but my dad wants me to go to uni first and later do my music. My inner voice says focus on music. What should I do? >> Focus on music. Living your life for your dad is wrong. Like I I do not understand how people understand this. Like living your life for other people is wrong. I don't know why I'm so bothered by that background noise. Normally there's so much noise that I have no problem. Cord, is there like a different setting on my mic potentially >> because I can hear everything in the back in a way that I normally can't. >> Like everything's so loud. >> I have different headphones. >> Oh, is that right? Why? >> Got it. >> All right, then. I'm not even going to wear them. Um, yeah, that's even better. Uh, so I feel as though look, uni is good if it doesn't collect debt because it's a lot of fun. Uh, and I highly recommend people um to going to that world if they want to. But at the end of the day, living your life for anyone, your dad, your mom, your cousin, it's always wrong if it's not for you. It's always wrong if it's not for you. Everybody on Twitch, everybody on every other platform, please come over to befriend garyb.comlive, please. Garyb.comlive. Uh, let's keep it going. >> Okay, next question is from Caleb. How do I transition from short form to long form content? Is there any specific equipment I need to be able to do that? >> Nope. I mean, that's that's just, you know, go to chat GPT and ask that question. Like, there's no tools. It's it's understanding like there's a million tools. You could do it by hand. You could do it in Adobe. You could do it on Opus Clip. You could do it on Hack like there's just a million it's there's a million tools literally you know ready like that these questions don't excite me because we have chat GPT now right like hey I want to go from long form to short form content. What are the best five tools out there? Like these are not the questions you know of the day. >> Absolutely. Shifting from long form to short form content can be really fun and impactful. Uh, a few cool approaches include focusing on punchy attention grabbing hooks right at the beginning. >> No, I mean I actually need the tools. I know the punchy hooks. I know the 3 seconds. I know the thumbnails. What are the best four tools to use to take long form to short form content? Here are the opus clip vidi vdo.ai chopcast ptoriai p i c t o r y ai. Friends, that's it. And they're going to change. They're going to constantly change. There's going to be unlimited tools with AI now. There's going to be unlimited tools. Tools are not the game. The discipline to use the tools are gained. The weights. Which weight should I use? They're all the [ __ ] same. They're 15 [ __ ] pounds. I don't care what [ __ ] company you use the 15 pounds. It's [ __ ] having the discipline to go to the [ __ ] gym and [ __ ] You like this Braden and Zach both LIKE THIS ANSWER. I DON'T GIVE A [ __ ] IF YOU use Manga or Schmanga or [ __ ] goalie pro or pro this or [ __ ] Weight This or Muscle Yutkin Inc. I don't give a [ __ ] what your COMPANY'S CALLED. IF IT'S 15 [ __ ] POUNDS, it's 15 [ __ ] pounds. It's the discipline to get the [ __ ] up in the morning when it's raining out in New York, go to the gym, and [ __ ] lift the 15 pounds. It's not the [ __ ] tool. It's the [ __ ] mindset. It's the discipline. [ __ ] >> Who won the giveaway? >> All right, Deep. Nice giveaway winner. We gave away the last one also. >> Oh, we gave away two. >> Nice. >> Exilas. >> Exilious sneaks in with a win. All right. Here we go. Who? Cord. Are you ready to help me show the screen up or not yet? Cool. Let me know when. Okay. All right, everybody. I'm telling you right now, rarable.comvfriends. Who just bought their first V friend? This is big time stuff. I'm like super excited about this. This is like the >> nice. I mean, this is like a huge moment. Everybody who's been wanting to buy >> it. >> Yeah. People who've been wanting to buy a V friend so bad NFT but have not been able to because there's so much complication for the average person to buy an NFT. the fact that we have just accomplished this partnership with Rarable where people can actually pick up their first V friends NFT and I'm seeing you all come in right now. Everybody for for all the V friends collectors in here who've been buying the comic books and the trading cards and all the hats and all that who want to buy their first V friends NFT say ready to buy my first one in the chat right now. Ready to buy my first one. And for everybody else who's joining us and doesn't know about um V friends, come and learn. I'm building the next Pokemon, the next Marvel. By the way, I think I'm red again. Am I red? Is the coloring off a little bit? Are we good? We're good. Okay, no worries. Just like I maybe got a tan. I'm good. All right. Got it. It's a TV settings. Got it. All right. Cool. All right. Let's go to the next question. Te with Gary Vee. Everybody, welcome. But all of you, let's get this pinned. rarable.com friends. Let's get this pinned. Mods. I don't understand how anything else is not I don't want anything pinned besides rarable.com/vfriend friends. Everybody's buying their first V friend today. EVERYBODY TRAIN. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE. 250 bucks, bro. I'll give it back to you. >> Yeah, just use a credit card, dick. All right, here we go. >> Okay, this question is from Ricky. What do you mean when you say pop culture is currency? >> What I mean when I say pop culture is currency? I am saying that popular culture like what people are into labus K Charlie XL uh new restaurants private clubs in New York um baggy clothes instead of tight clothes seven years ago hats hats when I was in high school major hats for after friends came out and everybody had that haircut nobody wore it hats came back like what food music Netflix what shows are people watching Love Island. Like what the [ __ ] is happening? LeBron's second decision Hennessy. Like what's happening daytoday in the culture? What's happening dayto-day in the culture? In every culture, right? What's happening in bull riding culture, UFC culture, the the the UFC event at the White House? Like every brand, every person, every entity on earth needs to know what's happening in popular culture. Do you know Do you know what I Show Speed is doing? Do you know what I show speed and Kevin Gates's thing at the LSU sidelines? Do you know that happened or don't you know that happened? Do you know what's happening on the runways on fashion week? Or don't you do you know what's happening with Penn State, you know, and and Texas [ __ ] the bed after being one and two in the top 25? Don't you do you know that the New York Jets are destroying my [ __ ] heart? Or don't you like what do you know that's happening in music, sports, travel? Like do you what do you know? Like all of that matters to the content you make, to the products you sell. I believe comic books are about to get hot next year. That's why I make them. I believe the card collectors, the sneaker collectors, the watch collectors are going to collect more and more comics. And then Rips, you might have been in this meeting. Miraculously, this is a thing I've believed for 15 months. Miraculously, yesterday we're in a meeting or the other day. I don't think Rips was in this. It was Andy, me, Jim, and DJ. And I was like, "What's going on in the world?" And both Jim and DJ, who are deep in comic culture, said they spoke to multiple comic book stores who said August or September was their be best month in business in 20 years. Welcome to Ta Friends, my friends. Tea Friends, Gary Vee, Tea with Gary Vee, and the V Friends thing. Everybody, right now, you finally have your chance to buy your first Vfriend. rarable.com/vfriend. You guys are ready to bring it up. All right. No, I want to do question. We're here for tea, but I but I need everybody to buy their first V friend. Who bought their first V friend during this show? Let me know right now. Bought my first. Say that in the chat. Go ahead, Erin. Next question. >> Okay. We actually had a question in the chat asking about what you were just talking about. They wanted to know how can 40year-olds keep up with that pop culture you were talking about. >> Work. It's [ __ ] discipline. I'm [ __ ] 49. The [ __ ] does this have to do with 40? I didn't say teeny bop 13year-old culture. I don't need you to know what 67 is, but I prefer you know what 67 is. You don't have to be [ __ ] 15 to know what 67 is. It's [ __ ] work. Like, it's Watch this. Do you know what chat GPT is? Good. >> Yes. >> Hey, Chat GBT. I'd like to know the 10 things that are happening in popular culture that have popped off in the last month to anyone like like urban culture, Hispanic culture, youth culture, uh women in the Midwest culture, like what's happening in popular culture that is like new and exciting and a new potential trend in a year because I want to be ahead of it. I just asked that again. It's not about the tools. Every [ __ ] person watching this knows what [ __ ] chat GBT is. It's do you have the mindset, the strategy to put in the work? Here are two treads, right? Soft modern goth revival. Great. Soft goth is back. Good [ __ ] cowboy western revival. Reclaiming the look. AI co-creator music artists. AI artists. Recession pop. Dance pop with emotional weight. Wonderful. I'm pumped that we have emotional weight. [ __ ] dance pop. I can't wait to dig the [ __ ] in. um you know uh like it's just there's so post Instagram fashion runway that doesn't translate to the feed cultural hibernation like [ __ ] it's all there everyone we can all be brilliant at what's going on if we put in the work all of this is about the work how do I get more fit work and discipline how do I build a business work and discipline how do I have a great relationship work and discipline work and discipline work and discipline work and discipline Right. Con Ben, how did you guys have your career? Work and discipline. Right. Thank you, Connor. [ __ ] All right, everybody. A lot of people are asking on Twitch, what's V friends? V friends is my Marvel, Pokemon, Harry Potter, Transformers like universe that I've been building for the last four years. Trading cards, fashion, uh, trading cards have been redhot. I mean, like if you go to eBay, you'll be blown away what's going on. What's that? Uh, they are in the shop. Comic books, trading cards, all this stuff. But most of all, the most important part, the digital collectible, the NFTts, and finally, after years of people, so many people in this chat have been wanting to buy a Vfriend NFT, but they had no idea how they can finally do it by going to rarable.com/vfriends with credit card. You literally go to rarable.com/vfriends. You literally click on which series you want to buy from. You hit buy now. You put your email in, unless you have a Vfriend's wallet, you just click the V friends wallet. So, if you all go to vfriends.com and create your wallet, makes it even more seamless. But it's even easier to go to wearable, pick which one you want, hit buy now, and then literally you can literally do Apple Pay now. And all the all the crypto work, the blockchain work is happening behind the scenes. Friends, this is how the internet worked. Braden, when who was that? Brandon Train, you're not Braden. Jesus. Braden. When you were just a thought in your dad's What year were you born? 2001. When you were just a thought in your daddy's mind. I kept a P. I know. You know, you thought I was going scrotum. I know what you were thinking, Erin. Aaron was like, "Here we go with this [ __ ] guy." When you were just a when you were just a thought in your daddy's mind in '95, 96, in '94, people did not know how to get on the internet. You had to be a tech nerd. We did not have things called browsers. You know this Google, Chrome, and Safari thing, we did not have that. You guys take You and Rips take this for granted. You just know what a [ __ ] browser is. When I was in high school and early college, the browser did not exist. Mark Andre, have you heard that name? Andre Horowitz. Mark Andrew. He invented Netscape Navigator. That was the first browser that allowed normal people like me to type in something I had never heard of before. http colon. We used to do that. It wasn't www. It wasn't just searching in the browser on Chrome. It was httpwww.ebay.com. Now the internet came to me. The tech work was being done behind the scenes. That is what we just did for crypto. Everybody here on rarable.com/vfriends, you literally use your credit card, but all the tech is happening behind the scene. The meta mask, the key, the seedphrase, friends, we're in it now. For everybody who just bought their first Ve friend, I'm about to blow your mind. Who just bought their first Ve friend on rarable.com/vfriend? Who just bought it? Uh, give me uh just bought because I'm about to send you somewhere even crazier. Court, when are you going to be ready? You're doing all sorts of things behind me. Oh, Chris is ready. All right, everyone who just bought. And by the way, all of you have to get in there now. Go to vfriends.com. Uh, actually, uh, he's ready. All right, Chris, if you can hear me, go to vfriends.com. Actually, instead of rarable, instead of rarable.comfriend >> Oh, he's doing it different. >> I can't see what he's doing. >> Pull it up. >> He's gonna pull it up here. Got it. Um, nine VF2s sold since we went live. Nice, Tim. We need way more people getting in. You can only buy one at a time right now. You can't sweep, but everybody get in and get your first beef friend. All right, I feel this is going too slow. Let's go to the next question. I want to bring value. >> Okay, next question. Gary, uh, what are the two most important traits you look for in an employee? This is from the chat as well. >> I don't know if there's two most important, you try to like it's hard when you, you know, I assume when you're hiring or after they are here. I mean, I think I think buy in, you know, I think buyin's a huge part of the game. Meaning I have a vision of the things I'm building whether it's V friends, Vayner Sports, Wine Library, Vayner X, Gary. I'm very empathetic that I have like a strategy. I don't think I'm right or wrong or brilliant or or lost. >> You okay? >> Yeah. >> Good. Um I just have a vision. And so what I'm really looking for is do people really buy in and understand? Biden and understanding matters because no matter how talented train will be if I don't feel like he's bought in he can only be so good and that's why so many people move around in the company like some people go to Vayner to be friends or team Gary to Vayner Media or Vayner Media to team Gary I'm agnostic if someone's bought into anything I do in any company but it is the first requirement and then after that you're looking for you know I really care about someone's humanity like how we all interact with each other you you know this with our team we're so you know entrepreneurial like how do people deal with adversity how do people deal with feedback how do people deal with stress I think mindset matters and then I start caring about skill so it's buyin and humanity and then I care about skill skill is a commodity and it's about to become a huge [ __ ] commodity in fact everybody who's been listening to me for 15 years about soft skills and emotional intelligence you better get your therapy up because with AI you're [ __ ] [ __ ] skills mean dick to me. It got real quiet in the office. Like, I'm serious though. I need everyone to buy in. EQ is about to eat up the oxygen of the world. Like, so much of my team editing, filming, like, okay, cool. I'm gonna do that for nine cents. But if I feel like you're about that life, there's so much else to do. There's so much else to do. Hum. Check this out. This is actually powerful. Humans. What are humans going to do in this AI scaled world? More human [ __ ] We're not called processities. We're not processes. Rips. You're not a process. You're a human. I'm going to need more human [ __ ] from you. I don't not You're not anformationalist. Are you considered anformationalist? Risks. No. You're considered a human being. I don't need information from you. I don't need process from you. I need humanity from you. Humanity is at the tippy top of my list there and it's about to really [ __ ] matter. Teamwork, self-esteem versus insecurity, which always leads to less politics, all that stuff. And then self-awareness. The other thing I'm obsessed with is self-awareness. What are you good at? What are you not good at? What do you like? What you don't? And then that leads to communic a flaw of mine for a long time was I had all that but communicating when it was tough was tough for me and I now value that more and more and more my older age. No, they do not t teach humanity in school. You could learn human schools and things but uh the real bridge if my microphone is low I highly recommend you come in and out because I think it's working for most people. All right let's go to next question. >> Next question is from Sally. If I'm a brand manager at a Fortune 500 company, how do I make the shift to becoming a pop culture strategist, aka a modern version of what a brand manager should be? >> Smart. The spending time. I mean, spending an hour or two or three on research every day. This is research, friends. Researching, researching, reading listening watching scrolling feeds Reddit Chat GPT podcast charts, like like consuming information as a human being, you know? Uh, are you guys ready to show the >> Yeah, like how's this going to work? Like I need to >> All right, but but is there gonna be a huge lag like there just was or could this happen like right now? >> Okay, but that should have taken one second. Like I I there's some sort of >> Chris, can you pull up befriends.com? This is for everybody who bought one. Who who who bought There we go. I see it there. All right, everybody check this out. For everybody who just bought a V friend for the first time ever on Rarable, who is that? Who got one? Everyone tell me if you got one. If you just bought, say just bought in the chat. We got to do this little PSA real quick. This is insane. Need to know who just bought. Let's go. Beautiful. Everyone, now go click the top right where it says sign in. Sign up. Yes, Chris, I love you right now. Chris, there's my man. All right. in this literally if you type in the email the same email that you just used the same email that you just used you're in the game and you'll be able to go into your account and see the NFT on vfriends.com in your account what rips what this has been three years in the making Chris go to rarable.com friends rarable.com not showing uh I I think that's how it's showing. I think it's it should be uh all right. Let's uh nice legit llama update. Uh now on rare for everybody who's on here, rarable.com/befriends, if you want to buy your first one, Chris, just click that uh that's series two because I think that's the deal for everyone here. Series one's 6,000 bucks. That's a lot of money. But this one right here, if you click Let's click that first uh that that caterpillar right there. Yep. Click it. If you click buy it now, literally literally the independent inchworm. You literally click buy now. You literally type in your email right there and you literally do the credit card out including including um Apple Pay. It's absurd, man. It's absurd how simp how many people just bought one. Thank you, Chris. You can take that down. We're going back to Tea with Gary Vee. But this is so exciting to me that so many of you have been wanting to buy the NFT and you finally can. So many of you can. Let's do another giveaway. another series 2 comic because it's all about comic season. Comic Con everyone. Oh, tonight. What's the fanatics URL? I know a lot of you have been asking for the Notorious Ninja hat. I know a lot of you have been asking for this. I know a lot of you want this. The only way you're probably going to be able to get it is on tonight's is going to be on tonight's Fanatic show. I got another app for you to download. I apologize, but it's on Fanatics Live. What is it on? >> v.comlive. We'll bring them there right now so they can download the app. Everybody, vfriends.comlive. Finally, this is going to be the only way if you're not going to the Javit Center to get the Notorious Ninja Cap that you've all been asking me for. vfriends.comlive. Adrian, get that pinned, please. v.comlive. Um, download the app right now. I'll be on today. I'm going to an event at 5:10 p.m. >> Yeah, it's from 5:10 to like 5:30. 5:10 to 5:20. Everybody, I know a lot of you want it. All right, let's go to the next question. >> Next question is from Louise. How do I set goals when we have an autistic child that consumes our life when we want to move forward? >> Uh, we're not switching back to Fanatics, Little Ant-Man, we're just going to be on every platform, eBay Live, what whatnot, Walmart, we're going to be on everything. And we got a cool little thing with Fanatics today. Joe, good to see you. One more time, Erin. It was an important question. >> Um, yes. Question from Louise. How do I set goals when we have an autistic child that consumes our life when we want to move forward? >> That's an incredibly challenging question. I mean, look, there's many families, uh, many that I know that have autistic children who have set goals, but first, you have to calibrate your emotions. I don't know how recent this is or not. You know, there's so much to this. And so, it's tough for me to sit here and and tell parents how to deal with such a real adversity. Um, I would just tell her or him, please just give yourself some grace. Give yourself some time. Like, you don't have to set goals. I don't know when this diagnosis happens. They could be three years into this. They could be three weeks into this. Just anybody who's dealing with adversity, the the loss of a loved one, uh, a diagnosis that's scary, dealing with some a challenge, um, like autism, just give yourself grace. We need way more grace. So many people, so many people judge themselves for how they handle adversity. And I ask people to give themselves more grace. Especially people who are grieving a loss. The amount of people who think they can take like a couple days off at work after their dad died and everything should be back to normal. Look, for some people they can. Like they put on a shelf to deal with it later. Some people are just so grateful the time they had and that's their perspective. But other people like it's just too tough. So, I just I ask all of you in every aspect of life. Uh financial mistakes. Uh there's some people right now devastated they bought a home because they ate up all their liquid and their cash flow is a problem and they're living to pay their mortgage and they're upset. Just give yourself grace. Life is long. Life is long. Grace. Graceful goldfish. Graceful goldfish is a very sneaky V friend rips. And I think we need to give ourselves more grace. More grace. Erin, next one. >> Okay. Question from Johnny. Collecting has always been a thing, but how is social media changed its trajectory in the recent years? >> Social media has changed every trajectory of everything. It's given it more awareness, more shelf life. There weren't that many comic book, excuse me, there weren't that many magazines, radio shows, and television shows that were giving collectibles a lot of attention in the 80s, 90s, 2000s. >> You think? All right. Thank you, Court. You know what I mean, Aaron? Um, actually, no. I feel I hear something else that's a little weird. >> I don't know. Is there I don't know. It's close, but there's something there. If you talk, you can hear yourself. I couldn't hear myself before. You talk. And do you see you see >> Ah, I see. Okay. Anyway, nonetheless, um, we'll play with it. But I think Collectibles has been given a lot more awareness. So has so many other things unfortunately including like crazy conspiracy theories. Um uh like other things other things have been given a lot of awareness too. Um and some good some bad. Um but that's just life. That's the uh that's the movement of the world we live in. Hey Sid, I had an idea by the way. Garyb.comstan everyone last chance to sign up for the Stan challenge. I today I'm doing the first call in in about an hour. I was thinking about maybe streaming it. Can you ask the Can you ask the stand team if they're okay on this first one that I let people watch on Twitch? twitch.tvgaryve so that people can get a sense of what these calls are about and they can onboard because it's never too late even though it starts this week. It's never too late to join the stand challenge. Everybody, I can't wait for the stand challenge. Can't wait to see all of you there. Garyb.comstand. Make sure you go. >> All right, Erin, go ahead. They'll just be watching. >> Okay. Uh this question is from Lori. How do you start a new business after 60 years old and challenged with technology >> very easily? You start a business like 60 has nothing to do with anything and technically challenged is the work discipline and work using what's her name? >> Lori. >> Lori download chat GBT and ask every question that you're challenged by in technology to chat GBT. Like everyone was this another gift. Was I supposed to run this rips? >> What? >> No, I wanted you to run a third one. >> No worries. Another giveaway, everybody. About a $100 worth of value on this signed comic in my opinion on eBay. So, even if you don't collect, just get in the mail and make a hundred bucks. What's up, Andrew? Um, uh, everybody, I see you all on Tw, by the way, I only see Twitch and YouTube comments on the other chat. We never got to that, by the way. Hey, um, uh, what's good explicit, Ashley? Um, what's good bricks? So, Brian, great to see all of you. Everybody, please, please, Bachelli over. Everybody, please come over to garyve.comlive. Um, next question, Aaron. >> Okay. Uh, we're a B2B SAS for car dealerships. We're trying everything right now when it comes to social. Should we keep doing that or dial into a theme? >> No, I think I think both work. I think you could be thematic for a while. You can be broad, but I think they're B2B SAS for dealerships. Aaron. >> Uh, yes. Dealerships, car dealerships, >> B2B SAS. >> Yeah, that's what they said. >> Oh, this is a piece of cake. This is all about LinkedIn. Anybody who's selling SAS products, please go to LinkedIn. Anybody who's selling SAS products, please go to LinkedIn and treat LinkedIn the way you treat Tik Tok and Instagram and make content there. And then when you have some content that gets some views, let's say normally get eight views. I said eight, Aaron. Eight. But you get 400. Then run some ads against employees of car dealerships. You know, Babau 323 on Twitch. Welcome from France. All right, everybody. I'm going to reset the stage again. I don't know if it's Chris or Courtney that's moving me to the screen share, but I'm going to reset the stage again. Who in here? Because I know hundreds of you in here are V friends collectors. Who in here is looking to buy their first Vfriend Friends NFT, but it's been too hard with all the crypto and you want to buy your first one right now. This is the moment. You want to buy one? Please say me because I have a way to do it. Let's go. UB, I know you reb's pumped. Who's ready? Who's ready to buy their first one? Who's ready? Okay, that's a lot of you. Follow me here. We're going to rarable.comvfriends. Don't worry, Stella J. This is your chance right now. It's happening right now. Let's go. Drew, uh, can we show rarable.comvfriends on my screen? We've got it pinned at the bottom. I need all of you to go to rarable.comfriends. This is huge. We've taken away the friction. We've taken away the friction. Okay, there it is everybody. You're looking at Rarable. Back to the top. Back to the top. Chris, not on that unit. We're going back to the top. You can click rarable. Just click the rarable or that's fine, too. Uh, there we go. All right. So, this is rarable.comvfriends. When you land on it, it is linked on here. It's that easy. You rebate collectibles. You literally close that out, Chris. Follow my lead here, brother. Close that out. All right. You land on this. Now, this is the befriends page. All four of our major collections are here. Series one, as you can see at the top, these are about $6,000. I don't think that's going to be for everybody, but if somebody buys a series one, let me know. The next one, the one that I'm going to recommend the most to all of you. Series two. You can see it right there. Series two collectors. That's about a couple under 300. Scroll down. Iconics. A very rare series that I love quite a bit. I can't see exactly what that number is, but it looks like 6700 bucks. How much is How much? 930. About $1,000 for the Iconics. They're very rare. And scroll down. These are little side projects. is probably the least important of mini drops, but um I would scroll up to series two. Scroll up to series two. Click that. When you click into series two, everybody, this is how simple this is. Now, you're going to scroll. What's here? I can't believe that inchworm is still there. But scroll down, Chris. Let's show a bunch. Scroll down. Let's just show a bunch of them. You can find the trusting tarantula. That's a rookie NFT right there. You got the OG Ox. Look at that prudent polar bear. Click into that polar bear, Chris, at 006. Click into that. Somebody's going to snag this one right here. Look at that. That little polar bear there running through the field. Scroll down a little bit, Chris. Scroll down a little bit for me so I can see the price. Uh 270 bucks. You click buy it now. This is like buying on the internet. You click buy it now. And literally right there, if you put in your email, your email that you're going to use for your V friends account and owning your NFTs, you put that in, you hit enter. The next screen is a checkout screen. Just like being on Amazon or wine library.com, you could literally use Apple Pay. Click click and you are done. You now own a Vfriend's NFT. All the crypto blockchain web 3 stuff is down behind the scenes for you. This is complete insanity. You can finally buy your first Vfriend. Everybody. Everybody can. And then go to vfriends.com and sign in and see your V friend. Who's buying their first V friends NFT right now? Who? Let me know. Who's buying it right now? Let me know. Abram, I expect you to buy a couple more, brother. Right now. It's easy. Easy. Yes. It means you own it on the blockchain. Pika. You own it on the blockchain. That's the only way to own NFT. What's that? Got it. It is Clean Keen. We're so excited about this. It's huge. It's huge. Uh, do minis show up in the wallet? I'm not sure, Raindrop. We're going to figure that out. Jeremy's in the chat. If you have questions, it's on the privy wallet, Tommy. It's on your V friends privy wallet, which we just launched a new vfriend.com that has that default. Um, Jeremy will be in here answering. This is that easy. Who just bought their first V friend? Somebody's winning the giveaway. Bang. Miss Oto. Miss Octo or Mr. Scott. Big win. Big win. Nice win there. All right. Uh I just bought three series two. Let's go, Tommy C. Love you for that. Everybody, these series two are going to get swept up now that it's so easy. Erin, ask your next question. Also, if you're buying your first Befriend Friends NFT right now while this show is going on in the chat, say, "Hey, Gary, I just bought my first Befriend Friends NFT." We are making the blockchain accessible to everyone is right hype dog. I'm I'm hyped. There are hundreds of people in here buying trading cards and comics who do not own a V friends NFT when the V friends NFT is the most important collectible in the V friends world. Oh man. Okay, question from Jack. Uh, when a business is creating collectible items, how do they choose a partner to develop the collectible with? >> One more time. >> When a business is creating collectible items, how do they choose a partner to develop the collectible with? I mean it depends on which collectible you do research. You just chat GBT. I want to make a comic book. What are the five companies I should work with? Friends, chat GBT is the answer. Perplexity is the answer. Gemini is the answer. Grock is the answer. Like literally type in like literally type it in. Tik Tok everybody. Great to see all of you. V rarable.comvfriends. Everybody in the Tik Tok chat. You got that. Braden team Gary or we we in the comments heavy on Tik Tok rarable.combefriends your first opportunity everybody and also garyve.comlive if you want to come over to whatnot and get a free giveaway. You know what Rips I'm in a mood. Let's give a huge giveaway for all the people on Twitch and YouTube and Tik Tok that are not here. Garyve.comlive. Get over here. The only way to get the Notorious Ninja signed hat giveaway free right now is to be on whatnot. We're doing it for free right now. What's up, James? Or senior in the building. We're doing this giveaway right now. Right now, the giveaway reps, put it up. You got it. And we got tons of stuff in the store, everybody. Who got their first NFT today? Let me know if you just bought it in the last five minutes. Oh, let's go. Juan, did one just Somebody just bought a series one. I love that. Let's go. Let's go, everyone. Get it. Get it. First series one. Let's go. Donut and Muffin. [ __ ] pump for you because that is the ultimate forever ultimate alpha series one NFT V friends I'm trying and struggling why Nick it's so easy now Nick it's literally rarable.com friends go there and it's literally the giveaway is not up yet rips is slow as [ __ ] these days next okay this question has been been asked a couple times in the chat from the dawn started my Christmas light install business yesterday waiting on a product to arrive any advice to help make this an awesome season of installs Literally, literally. Facebook content, Instagram content. Pound meta. Meta is the alpha. Facebook and Instagram at Facebook and Instagram. Organic content. Content. Content. Content. Content. Content. Content. Content. Content. Content. Content. Garyve.com. If you want to be good at it, Adrian, put it up. We can put the rarable thing down. Garyve.com. Get rid of that little swiggy at the end. Edit that. Adrian, thank you so much. If you want to learn how to be good at it, if you want to know how to be good at it at the content, here's a free 40 plus page deck to help all of you with it. >> Uh, keep it going. Let's keep it going. >> Okay. Um, when trying to build my own software business, how should I go about understanding pain points of my customers business? I've tried cold emailing and surveying, but I'm wondering if there are better options. go live on platforms, email, like just you got to keep emailing. You gotta email better questions. Just because you're cold emailing doesn't mean you're doing it well. Um making content that asks people like a video that says, "What are your three pain points?" and posting that on LinkedIn. Again, I had seven views when I did Wine Library TV. 12 views. Like we've all seen the Mr. Beast video that he has only, you know, like Kai said that like everyone starts at the same place. People are just not Aaron. People are just not willing to put in the work and be patient. They know the answers. Like it's just [ __ ] consistency and trying different tactics if you've done something for months and like I don't know people just not willing to put in the work. It's like Pierre, right? Good athlete. He could have put in more work to his basketball game. He brings so much of his soccer skills. He's just so [ __ ] athletic. But I know because I played with him, if you put in more basketball practice, he'd be even better. He's just going on pure athleticism. That's life. Like we have natural talents and then there's work. I can tell you right now, my son Xander in basketball, right, Rips Court, you know this, he's put in the work to get better. It's not It's not natural super athleticism. It's [ __ ] work. It's [ __ ] work. All right, I'm going to be heading out soon, but I cannot leave until all 500 of you get your first V friends NFT, of which who in here right now wants to get their first VI friends NFT because you know it's the ultimate collectible and you know I'm going to work for the next 50 years to make it a thing but still hasn't. Say that's me in the chat. Say that's me. All right, all of you then you got I don't know. Do all of do all of you know like there's so many of you saying me. Are you going like do you understand how to do this? It's rarable.com/bfriends. rarable.com/befriends. We've made it so easy for you. Ube I'm so pumped you got the crocodile brother. You need another one. Has anyone Yeah, divorce. By the way, someone said divorce is expensive. I I want to make this very clear. Nobody should be buying anything, let alone an NFT, let alone a $5 a $10 toy from Nobody should buy anything if money is tight. This is a collectible. This is not a necessity. So, please, I'm not talking to anybody who can't afford it or shouldn't be buying it. I'm talking to people who, like myself, like to collect things, who may think about in a five or 10 or 15 year window, it might be a collectible that's worth some money and you want to play that game. Please do not buy anything from me. Don't buy wine from my dad. Don't buy Don't do anything. Pier, what did you just do? Walk around the office? I'm confused what you're doing. Oh, respect. Okay, you want to use my office? Okay, got it. Okay. Um, so anyway, let me drink some tea. I'm [ __ ] I'm all over. It's literally credit card. It's rarable.com. Chris, throw it up again. Chris, can you hear me? Let's do it right now, everybody. Rarable.com. Can't wait to see all of you in the meeting. Go to the top again. Uh, Chris, thank you. Tash Razzie, what you do with an NFT is the same thing you do with trading cards in a comic book. It is literally a collectible. It is what you do with a sneaker. The [ __ ] do you do with a comic book? It's a collectible. People collect. What do you do with pins? Like, what do people buy pins for? Why do people buy like It's a collectible. What you do with it is you hold it and you collect. Um, and there are activations. Lynchi knows there are a lot more things with NFTTS, but I'm just keeping it there. I'm just keeping it there for right now. There are perks. There are other things. What's cool about it is you if you bought cards for me, when I send you these cards, I have no idea where the [ __ ] you are. If you still have them, what's amazing about the blockchain is I know who has the collectible. SOMEBODY JUST WON FASHIONISTA. FAITHISTA, EVEN BETTER. FAITH Anista with a huge win. EVEN BETTER THAN A FASHIONISTA IS A FAITH ANISTA. Let's go. All right, everybody. I am gonna hang up in a second. I'm going to see a lot of you very quickly on the Stan challenge call. If you did not sign up for the Stan challenge and you're a creator or an entrepreneur, entrepreneur, creator, you want to build a side business, you made a huge mistake. Garybe.comstand, I'll see you all in 43 53 minutes. Excuse me. I'm going to hang up right now. I need to see a hundred people go to rarable.com right now friends and buy a V friend. Who is going? Who has not bought their NFT because you've been hanging. But as soon as I hang up what? Uh, no. I don't want you to raid. We're just going to literally end the show because what's happening here, Rips, is literally I believe a hundred people are about to buy a series 2 because it's literally a credit card. It's easy as buying a [ __ ] pants on [ __ ] guilt group. I don't [ __ ] know who is buying their first NFT or another NFT because it's so easy. Uh f uh Faith and you're going to claim the hat by We know it because you're we're shipping. It's automatically done. It's so easy here. Faith Faith and it's so easy. It's like you put up your uh your info when you build into this platform. So, it's just going to be shipped to you. Um who is picking up their first or their next NFT as soon as I hang up right here? because I'm literally going to walk and go and look at the activity on the blockchain. Say first NFT or say next NFT. Do not troll. Do not try to, you know, appease me. It's okay. I just need to know as soon as I hang up who's going and buying their first NFT. Who's buying their next NFT? Put first NFT. If you're buying right now after or if you're buying your next one, say first NFT, next NFT in the chat right now. I need to know who's going to do it. First NFT. Authenticating now before giving frog. I love it. Hey co, make sure you uh update your uh frog first NFT. Very nice. Uh everybody, you're by the way, if you want to buy your first NFT, I know Tik Tok you may not know where this is because we didn't put it in the chat. It's rarable with an I. R A R R A R I BL.com/bfriends. It is literally three clicks. We have done all the hard work for you. No more meta mask, seed phrase, crypto, Coinbase theory. This is insanely big. This is insanely big court and people are buying $300 trading cards and don't own an NFT. Who's an OG into physical collectibles because you've been hanging with us here and you don't own an NFT? Say don't own one yet, but you own physical stuff. So only don't own one yet. You have comics and cards, but you don't have an NFT. Don't own one yet. I need to know who's part of that crew. It's rips. This is what's pissing me off. Yeah, like Justin C. Family Guy. Like, come on, Justin. You should buy a [ __ ] series 1. So many of these people have spent thousands on physical when the NFT is the ultimate [ __ ] collectible. Series 2 NFT will be more valuable than 99% of physical collectibles one day, rips. Because the NFT is the origin. Why do I believe that? Because Tash because I know how collectibles work. The Harry Potter first edition book is more valuable than the trading cards in the comic books. Spider-Man's first appearance comic book is worth millions in a good grade. Its first rookie card, the trading cards, trading cards are bigger than comic books, but Spider-Man's comic book is worth 10 times hundred times more than cards, which is a whole another story for another day because I think the cards are out of price. But because it starred as a comic, Star Wars action figures, [ __ ] action figures are not as big as trading cards, but Star Wars original action figures in the packaging is more more worth more than their rookie cards. The origin matters. Befriend Friends Origin is NFT. It's a collectible forever. And no matter how great I do with comics and cards and toys, it will be the NFT. I'm going to watch for a few minutes. See you. Thanks. >> rarable.com. You better [ __ ] go to rarable.com/bfriends right now. I'm going to watch if you're buying. Get your first one and get a series one if you're a [ __ ] baller.