uh and uh excited for uh this show. Aaron's here's in the building. >> I'm ready to go. Aaron, you got something for me? >> Yeah. First question is from Matthew. I'm 44 years old and after 10 years I was let go from my job. I'm fully ready for whatever is next. In my next steps, what should I do first? >> 44. Let go of a job. What should I do next? I don't know. like there's a little more to that question that I need. Um, you know, obviously if you want to get another job. My biggest belief is that an enormous amount of people are going to be surprised and let go over the next because of not only AI but general companies, you know, trying to be more efficient. The reality of the business world, it's getting more competitive. Companies are getting bigger every day that Amazon gets bigger. store with 11 stores. So, we're going through this time of change. Uh the AI thing is a really big deal. And you know, I think the question becomes for me is the audio in and out guys. Audio looks like which one? This one. Um so the maggot um I think the biggest issue is that uh um is that that that person there we go um is that the best way to get a job in my opinion or do you want what do you mic is that it silver part you got let's see if this works um the the how's that sound Um, uh, great. Better. Good. Awesome. Um, so I think the best way to get a job if that's what that person 44 I and again so many of you have heard this over and over for me, but I have no idea why people continue to laugh. We must put out LinkedIn content around what you know, what you like, what you care about. Just like, you know, I I I you must share your um information, your knowledge, your understanding of your craft in um environment. So, I guess they're saying it the audio goes out when I turn my head anytime. And >> I'll try to stay locked in, but I think we need to find a different solution. All right, let's keep it going. Uh, maybe the maybe the hat. Maybe the hat. Will that work? >> Thank you. The hat is fire. I'm aware. Um, [ __ ] it. All right. So, you know, like that. Um, that's the issue, right? Like I don't I don't think people understand that. Um, [ __ ] LinkedIn's your answer. I do not understand that you you know like what are you going to you know like you're not going to send resumes. We have to put out content on LinkedIn around your expertise around coding around management around you know being an electrician whatever the [ __ ] it is. Like we need content on LinkedIn. That is how people will get jobs. You must put out content on LinkedIn to get jobs. Jobs are going to be more competitive than ever and your basic resume is not going to cut it. And so that's that. You know, ser simple as that, Aaron. All right, let's move on. >> All right, next question is from Tara. Um, I started Charlie Safari, a kids book brand that teaches about endangered animals and helps parents connect with their wild little ones. We've got one book out and two almost ready to launch. It's still early. We're learning as we go and making some costly mistakes. But how do you know when to keep something as a passion project versus when to double down and make it a full-on business? After two years, we have not made a profit yet. >> It's the toughest question. Like the amount of people that quit three weeks before their [ __ ] that they spent four years on pops off is there's it's a real number. It's happened quite a bit in the world. Um and then the amount of people that are like, "Oh, one more year, one more year, and one more year." and have spent another three years quoteunquote wasting their time. That's also real. It's a really hard question for me to answer on this show. But what I will tell you is you have to balance your regret with your tolerance for financial anxiety, right? you know that is the framework you know and and I think that too many people um are delusional and think they're rappers and like you know try to be a rapper for 20 years and it's not there like you have to look for signals you need to make some level of progress but it's also okay to go backwards so there's this is a very tough question to answer generally I always heir towards the place of putting out more social media content to drive sales. Like, are you good at the marketing? Like, businesses need marketing. Marketing is the offense of business. And the reason I spent so much time talking about marketing is because it is the savior to so many people out here. My last question was marketing. Like, you're going to lose your job. I want you to get another job. I think you're more likely to get a job if you put out good information and videos showing your knowledge and skills on LinkedIn than spamming people on LinkedIn and message form or sending in a resume. in this scenario selling those books if they can we can we pin garyb.comattention if you have not team if you have not read this 40page plus deck and implemented it and so many of you of the people on this show have and everybody on Instagram please come over to garyve.com whatnot I just I I really need people to push themselves on this because this fixes the issue here because the sales are not going to come miraculously to this book and then they are going to quit. So I focus on offense. >> Next question. Zoom or >> we're going to get into this. You can go. >> Okay. Next question from Joe. I'm in a 9 toive job at a bank and I've been more stressed out than ever lately. >> Why? >> It's to the point that I call out of work just to not feel the stress. I've watched a lot of your videos about quitting your job if you're miserable. But in my case, I have no savings and I'm actually in the process of filing for bankruptcy. Would what would you recommend to mentally prepare for this job? I'm at the point where I don't enjoy it. My manager is a micromanager and it's slow season for my pressure washing business >> to go apply to other banks. You know, quitting your job when you're in his situation is not practical. Quitting your job after you've applied to 900 banks, you know, on on LinkedIn and and Indeed and those other and putting up your Indeed profile, like that's practical. Like again like we need to we need to you know Angel says say something in Spanish. I took Spanish. Can you give me my report card? Sid. Can you can you Sid? Can you put my Spanish Can you put my I just need people to understand this is my report card. I don't know if this is going to zoom in here. >> It is but it will. Like I took Spanish twice. I got nothing but D's. I look at I took a junior and senior year that's on the right side because if you look at my full report card I actually failed German freshman and sophomore year and in New Jersey if you don't pass two years of language you can't graduate high school. So I literally literally the only word I can say in Spanish is ola and gracias. Is data a word? I think so. There we go. Let's go. Let's go. That's lit. I mean, I literally took four years of high school language in German and Spanish, and I think I know seven combined words. Seven combined words. H. Anyway, by the way, my eighth grade Spanish name was Haraldo. And I just thought that was a fun fact for everybody if you wanted to know. Put >> that on your wiki. >> Um, yeah. So, yes, you should quit that job because you hate your manager. It doesn't sound like you hate um the banking job per se. People people don't realize like I I just don't understand this dwelling thing. Like if I hated my job, I'm applying to a this is all about, you know, practicality. You know, yesterday we talked about ao, right? We talked about accountability and optimism, but there's a PO part of it as well because like if you actually get into practicality, like the practical answer to this question is [ __ ] go apply to every bank in a 40 mile radius. Do you know Erin, I had like a real conversation like this with a friend and when I told them some version of this they they said no because the other banker in this scenario it was a hardware store. I was like apply to every hardware store and he's like yeah but the this hardware store is an extra 20 minute commute. >> This is what you understand this is what's going on out there, right? Like it's just complainer city USA. How many of you live in complainer city USA? Please put CC USA. Own it right now. Be vulnerable on [ __ ] Halloween. Don't go eat A [ __ ] SNICKERS AND A Hershey kiss. Come in here and [ __ ] own it with me and put CC USA in here because you realize you just are looking to [ __ ] complain. And I appreciate all of you. Queen Elizabeth 444. I appreciate you. Jared J. Let's [ __ ] own it. Stop being a complaining [ __ ] Stop it. Complaining doesn't work. It's all you do is you're [ __ ] You're rolling in your own [ __ ] You're rolling in your own [ __ ] You hate your [ __ ] banking job. You're bankrupt. Get another [ __ ] banking job, man. That's it. You know, like I don't know. Like it's just real out here. like do [ __ ] Like everything's hard. I I don't know. I do not know why everyone thinks everything should be easy. It's always been hard. It's always been hard. It's hard. And once you fall in love with hard, it gets good. Just fall in love with hard things like rips. All right, let's keep it moving. >> We have We have Jake on. Jake's coming. It's better than doing this. >> It's fine. Jake, >> hey, what's going on? Can you hear me? >> I can, my brother. Can more importantly, can they hear you? Can you guys all hear him on whatnot? >> There we go. >> Finally. >> Day two. >> All right, Jake, talk to me. So my my cousin and I started a small side hustle about a year and a half ago in the children's edutainment system uh system. I mean teach kids about dinosaurs and fossils and paleontology and we use animatronic costumes and puppets to get that across. We have a large 12 foot long 8 foot tall walking T-Rex. We call him Terry the T-Rex. We bring him to schools, libraries, daycarees etc. >> So we're currently doing on the side. A lot of hustle on the weekends. My wife's a teacher. She helps me out on the weekends. I work in New York City. We're out of Cranford, New Jersey. So, like my cousin, he's work schedule four days on, four days off. And we're constantly battling like can't, you know, what are some indicators we should look at where one at least one of us takes a plunge, goes full-time versus still trying to do this on the side? >> How much money is it making? >> Um, first year we did about 80 grand and then this year we're on pace to to potentially double that. We're getting there. >> And how much profit on that 150 will you do? >> Um 70%. >> And what's a lot of it back in? We got another costume coming from from overseas. >> I got it. And who and who's making the least amount of money or is the most miserable of the three of you? >> Um it's probably a tossup. I I would probably say my my cousin, but you know, he has three kids. I have no kids. Like, you know, it's probably like I could take more of the risk, I guess, going full-time, like, you know, but I don't know. It's a toss up. >> I think one of us though needs to be needs to be all in and like I have the fear factor of like leaving my full-time job and and and trying this. >> What's your full-time job? >> I I work in city marketing comms in the city. at an agency. >> Uh, it's No, it's for a for a fintech company. >> But you do marketing? >> Yeah, marketing and comms. I'm like on the internal comms team. >> Like old [ __ ] like comm's life like PR press releases and like hitting up >> some of that. Yeah. >> How much do you make? >> Uh, about 130 140 bonus. >> Yeah. I mean, I think you should quit and if it doesn't work out, you should email me and I I won't give you 130 because it sounds like you're doing old [ __ ] but I'll give you like 95 and teach you. >> That sounds great to me. I mean, I love the kid. Love playing with the kids with the dinosaurs, teaching them. I mean, it's so much more fulfilling. I feel like >> you're making you're making a you're making 170k in topline revenue on a business where no one's being able to really go in on it like you if you went fulltime like it sounds like you're putting in the least right of time or like like in like not that much because you're nineto-fivinging right? >> Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we're probably putting in I mean, mostly weekends, a couple things during the week that my cousin will do because of his work schedule he's off, but yeah, if we were able to go five days a week, I mean, just the summer alone, we could we could go three jobs a day, five days a week, just summer and all that stuff. >> Yeah. I I just I just think that you need to quit, bro, because the numbers look good to me. like 170. Could you imagine if you put 70 hours in? >> Yeah, I do think about that a lot. >> Well, what the [ __ ] are you thinking about? I think about a lot of [ __ ] too. But you need to do [ __ ] bro. >> Yeah. >> You got a you got a backdrop now that like you got a backup plan. You're going to go hard for a year, and if you [ __ ] suck, you're going to work at Vayner Media. >> All right, that sounds great to me. I mean, listen, it's it's something I've been thinking about a lot. So, >> I don't give a [ __ ] Who gives a [ __ ] if you've been thinking about it a lot? >> Just do it. >> Yes. That's like, oh, I've been thinking about working out for three years. That's nice. But you're chunky. Like, you know, like not you, Jake. I mean, I'm just saying this as an overall. >> Like, you thinking about it means nothing. I've literally given you a full parachute other than you'd have to live a little bit more conservatively for a little while and prove that you could do something modern here at Vayner because of the big leagues. It sounds like you're a T-ball in marketing, but you know, you should probably quit right now. Do you have any savings? >> Yeah. Yeah, I got savings. Yeah. Yeah. Like I've been >> Jake like you're pissing everyone off right now. You know that, right? Like the amount of people that are pissed in the chat right now. And by the way, they shouldn't be pissed because you [ __ ] earned it. I'm proud of you. >> Yeah, it's it's a lot of work. I mean, like I said, my my my wife's a teacher. Like, we're hustling on the weekends. I mean we're >> I'm going to say it again. Did you hear the words? [ __ ] proud of you. They shouldn't. They're pissed, >> but like But I'm But I don't think they should be pissed at you. Like I'm proud of you, you know, but I think you should jump 170 150, excuse me, topline revenue with you not spending any real Monday through Friday time on it. >> Yeah. >> Are you [ __ ] kidding me? You're going to crush. Plus, you should get out of the job you're in anyway because you're the marketing you're doing is going to fall behind and you're going to get fired and you're gonna get fired anyway. >> Yeah. It's not I'm not It's not stability at all. Yeah. >> Exactly. Everyone's like, I don't want to leave my stability. I'm like, that's not stability doing [ __ ] press releases and hitting up media in 2026 in an AI marketing world. You're [ __ ] a young kid doing old [ __ ] You're basically in your career walking around with a cane. Hey kids, you're not doing marketing, bro. >> Yeah. >> You know, you know that, right? >> Yeah. No, I know. It's I do. The >> reason you like your job is it's easy and stupid, >> right? >> Yeah. Yeah, it's >> it's easy. >> Yeah, it's not it's not not crazy difficult. No. >> Right. So, it sounds like you're completely mailing it in, Jake. Sounds like you're choosing to go to a 9 to5 that does nothing. Light work that you're not growing. You're decaying and you're choosing the easy path. You have savings. You have you've you say you're hustling, but the reason you're able to side hustle is your job's a [ __ ] joke. You're looking at You're like adjusting your fantasy football team at like 1 to 3 p.m. on a Wednesday, right, Jake? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. So, what the [ __ ] are we talking about here? You think I'm [ __ ] adjusting my fantasy team from 1 to 3 p.m. on a Wednesday, dude? >> No. Do you even have a f Do you have a fantasy team? >> Not. >> And not because I'm so busy, but because I can't play fantasy football because the Jets are my love and I'm not going to [ __ ] ADJUST MY LOVE FOR FANTASY FOOTBALL. My [ __ ] son has Drake May on his [ __ ] team and it's pissing me off. [Music] >> This is This >> Yeah, this was helpful. >> Do you now understand what's happening in your life? >> Yeah. Yeah, I get it. I get it. And I I >> [ __ ] jerk off Monday through Friday instead of going living your dream. You've chosen easy. >> Yeah. >> The reason you don't want to leave your job is, you know, it's a joke. I agree >> where you're way better off to go take this jump. If it fails, you learn that you're not an entrepreneur and you come and work at Vayner. You make less money, but you'll learn. I'll be paying you to teach you. >> All right. >> All right. >> Jake Snake, don't forget it. >> Jump Jake is your new name. >> We'll come in. We'll do your next uh take your kids to work day at the headquarters. You're no longer Jake the Snake. You're jump Jake jump. >> All right. Jump Jake. I like that. >> Jake, if you don't quit next week, we're not friends. >> All right. Thanks, Gary. I appreciate it. >> Who's laughing in the background? Your cousin. >> My brother. My brother's >> What just happened? What happened? What happened? >> I think his brother deleted. I THINK SOMEBODY THAT BOS I THINK IT WAS HIS BOSS THAT HE KILLED HIM. I THINK JAKE'S DEAD GUYS. [ __ ] ALL RIGHT. Poor Jake. Went young. All right. Let's keep it going. >> All right. This question is from Annabelle. I am 30 years old and have less than $100 in my account. I want to start creating content, but I'm lost. I started working with someone where I vlogged their daily life experiences. Do you think this is a niche to start from? And how do you think I can start putting myself out there because I have no social media presence? your your money means nothing. Like whether you have $100 in your bank account or a billion, that meant nothing to the question. Uh posting on social and starting is completely based on self-esteem and insecurity. Almost every single person watching this right now is not posting because they're insecure. Period. End of story. Well, I don't have anything to add. Well, I'm not that smart. Well, I don't look that good. Well, I don't this. I don't that. I don't this I don't want my neighbors to say something. I don't Well, Gary, it's my social. My friends are on this. I don't want them to judge me because like I'm a cool girl, but what I would post about is Legos. None of my friends know that I'm into Legos. If I'm listening to you right with the niches and this and that Lego, like it's all the same [ __ ] you know? Like, so do I think it's a good niche to film someone if that someone is me worked out for [ __ ] DRock and Caleb and Babin. But if you [ __ ] followed Drock, Caleb, or Babin, it probably would have not worked out. Or maybe it would have. I don't know. So that's that insecurity. You're insecure. The 100 bucks means nothing to me. And um is it a good idea to document someone and follow them around? Yeah, they're good. You know, [Music] >> bring that up. >> Okay. You're 93 years old. Oh my god. You're a fetus. I'm so into this. Like, I really believe it, man. I believe 80 year olds are young. What do you want from me? If you don't, [ __ ] it. What's this guy's name? >> VBOV. >> VBOV. What's good, bro? >> Hi, Gary. First of all, I'm very nervous and I can't believe I'm here. Um, thank you so much for all the things that you do. I have been following you since 2017 and um, >> I discovered you through your book Crush It. Um, then I got your videos. My question for you is that I have been practicing as a psychotherapist in India. I have been creating content for 7 to eight years and my Instagram blew up in 2020 22. Yeah. and I've got like 22,000 followers there and occasionally some videos blow up to like 500k 1 million or something. U but recently the reach has been very low and I have got a few clients. So my question to you is like how do I approach content to build my business and presence on social media as a psychologist in India? >> You've got to get better. Meaning you know something's going on right now with my team. We've gotten better in the last three months. Like we just And that really started with me because where my energy was. It always starts with you back to accountability and then it goes on to Sid his accountability and then it trickles down. We're better right now. We're trying harder. Like I don't know what else to say. We're not quote unquote mailing it in. I think a lot of people that have your situation win and then just get into old behaviors and are doing the same [ __ ] V, you have to try new [ __ ] You've got to try different angles. You got to try different styles. You got to do you got to write out your thoughts on on mentality and and mental health in the notes pad and then post that with a video following it up and now you did a two post carousel that started with, you know, iPhone notes and then your video. You've got to read gary.com/attention the deck and you got to like really learn the details. You know, my my answer to you and everybody who's watching is you've got to get better at the graft. The algorithm is not hurting everyone. It's hurting everyone who's not good. >> Do you understand? >> I do. >> The re the reach is down not because something happened to Instagram in India. The reach is down because you're not as good right now as you were in 2020. That's all. And you know it. And then when that works, it will work. You will get more clients just like you did before. Because if you're at 22,000 followers and occasionally get 500,000 views, when you start getting one every week that gets a million views and you get to 100,000, you'll get more clients. You've already seen that the attention gets you clients, right? >> Yeah. >> And so you've got to think about pack platforms, algorithms, and culture. Platforms are, you know, you're you're lucky you're in India. There's like a billion platforms, right? All the different dialects and languages, all the, you know, Tik Tok's banned. So there's all the Tik Tok clones, you got YouTube shorts, you got LinkedIn. Like you need to be on more platforms. Then there's algorithms. That's understanding how the algorithm works. I already just explained that to you. Go read garyve.comention. Uh Adrian, please pin that for everyone. Everybody who's on Instagram and other places. I am on whatnot. It's garyve.com whatnot. And and then finally, culture. brother, you know what's going on in India in or maybe you don't, but you need to know what's going on with what people are thinking about, right? Like are they worried about the economy? Are they excited about a new band on TV? Is there is there something happening? Like is there a restaurant chain that's crushing? Like I don't know. Like like it's really that simple. Like you have to know what's going on in popular culture, right? So platforms, algorithms, and culture is how you get great at social content. Social content posting is free. Awareness comes from that free posting when it's done well. Awareness leads to relevant. Relevance is how you get awareness. Relevance is the first way that people consider buying something from you. Oh, I like Courtney. I like what she says. That's relevance to me. Oh, now I'm considering things that come out of Courtney's mouth that she recommends. I might want to buy. Relevance, consideration, purchase. That is a framework that is true. Please understand it if you don't chat GPT it. What did Gary Vee mean when he said relevance consideration purchase and [ __ ] cook be? You have to be better, V. You just have to be better. >> Got it. >> Right. Makes sense to you, I'm sure, because you've been able to do it once. >> And you're you like listen, if I can get stuck in ruts like I did for the last year prior to the last couple months, anyone can. I was busy. I was focused on being an operator for Vayner X and V friends more than being Gary Vee. You know, I'm stretching Sid into ops at Vayner and other random things. You know, it just there's a million things that go into it. But we're better today. >> You're dialed in. >> I'm dialed in like a dog. This hat is [ __ ] fire. If the wool, too. Do you see this? >> I made it. >> This is right. This is the This might be my favorite hat that we made. No, I still like the ninja, but And the yellow. Who's got the yellow rare one? Say, I've got the yellow rare one. Um, that's it, B. I wish you well, man. Go at it hard because you know it requires that. >> Um, such a pleasure. You got it. >> All right, let's keep this going. >> Aaron, what do you got? >> All right. Um, I'm a 70-year-old woman and >> you're a 70-year-old woman. >> Yes. >> Okay, keep going. >> And eager to learn AI, which I'm doing, but I don't have particular skills to go on YouTube and post some videos, etc. I do want to make some money for my retirement so I am not struggling for my expenses but I don't know what where to start what I can do to start something on social media >> live social shopping I believe that the best way to make money on the internet right now is live social shopping whatnot in Tik Tok shop Twitch now has it there's um something called district you can check out uh talk shop live there's all sorts of places you can go I believe live social shopping is the number one way that people can make. Who here has more than 10,000 followers on social media and has made no money on whatnot? Please put up that in the chat. Say 10K. Say 10K. Send say 10K in the chat if you're that person. All right. All these people, you see this, Erin? all these people that say 10K I believe that if they were good enough to get 10,000 followers on social that there's if they're also comfortable selling actually let's go with that everybody if you're in the 10k crew who's in the 10k crew and also comfortable selling something because some of you are not a lot of people hate selling reps you like selling >> Sid court so Aaron no right everyone's different and that's great because you know Aeron's remarkable at production for YouTube massive skill but for the people that are at 10K and like to sell stuff live social shopping is the biggest opportunity in the world right now I was with a guy yesterday who's one of the biggest wholesalers to flippers for 15 minutes he he wanted to say hello he he has built a huge community of people that flip if you sell like 14 items a I think he said something really cool like if you sell 14 items a day like on eBay for a year you make 150k like it was I I don't remember I don't want to but he said all the people that pay him to be in his mastermind he said like 80% of them started because of my 2017 flip challenge that's how impactful that was every and that was eBay now we have live shopping easier easier now it's and you want to be on eBay and these live shopping platforms But I could not I could not could not push you all harder harder to learn about live social shopping. And I love the 70-year-old. You know what I like about a good 70-year-old and a retiree? They can get into that antique thrift store, flea market, garage sale life, which can get very lucrative. Sky Tac, who I was talking to yesterday that I was talking about, talked about a guy in his group that in North Carolina this weekend, bought a box for $5 that had original inaugural season Chicago Bulls original jerseys and warm-up gear. Sent it to Heritage. One of them's $30,000 with a bid on it already. The thrill of the hunt. Then you get to wholesale dollar stores, start buying from China and India. And now with the tariffs, you've got Indonesia and Vietnam and all these new places that popped up that can do supply chain, you know, not to China's level, but become alternatives. Like there's so much opportunity. Please, everybody, learn what live social shopping is. Please learn what live social shopping is. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're the 430 of you on whatnot right now, you're on it. Watch this. We'll do it in real time. Rips, what do you got to sell? >> Let's do that. This is comic book number four, everybody. This is a pack, so you can get a rare cover and get a very expensive one. Just to give you context, look, show this. Show this, Sid. Show them these sales. Show them what stuff sells for. Show them this. Look at this. Look at this. Like on eBay. Sold comics like sold. Sold, right? Like they like these things sell. Like V friends is a thing. Show them the first page. Not that the other hand. Yep. The not that page. The other side. There you go. Comics sold. Sold on eBay. like real dollars, real numbers, right? This is a collectible. They sell. So, I'm going to sell a comic book right now to everybody on whatnot. If you've ne Thank you. If you've never bought a Be Friends comic, I could not recommend this more. It's the first appearance of the thoughtful three horned harpic in a pack. What is 30 bucks rips? If you've never bought anything on whatnot, you can get $15 off right now, too. By the way, if who here on whatnot with me right now has never bought anything on whatnot? Never bought Never bought anything on whatnot. So everybody who's saying me is there do I have my little note? Yeah. >> Where's my note? Show me. >> Show me. Show me on the screen. Show me. Show me. Show me. Show me. Show me. Okay. Right. Boom. Oh, we made it nice and big. There it is. If you've never bought anything on whatnot, click this yellow. Do not buy the comic yet. Oh, you could buy other things. Good job, Kitty. Um, click click this little post-it note in there is a white button that says VF-15. Click that now. Everybody on social media, I see all of you. Bryce, Dark, Marv, Chefpino, I see all of you. But you're on my social. You got to come TO WHATNOT. THAT'S EVERYBODY ON YouTube and Instagram. Please type in Garyve.comnot in the chat so everybody knows where to go. Garybe.comwnot. All right. Now, if you're on whatnot, I'm literally gonna put this comic book up in the chat right now. Thank you, Ashton. You're going to put it up, Rips. Some people will get it. The audio is a little rough. What happened? I got a little excited. >> Seems too sensitive. >> Yeah, maybe I got a little excited. Sorry about that. Um, you get excited when the selling happens. There it is. 30 little books right down there. You can get it for 30 bucks or you can get it for 15 bucks. If you've never bought anything, buy it and put it away and let me cook. Let me cook over the next decade. There it is. They're right down there. Let me know if you have if you just bought your first item ever on whatnot. This is live shopping. Thank you, Preston 2. Thank you, Skeleton Key. Thank you, Kitty Gone Wild. Thank you, Key West. Thank you, Roberta. Thank you, everybody who's grabbing one. Please read it with your kid. It's a great story. And when you open it, make sure if you got one of the rare covers, you can throw that on eBay and make [ __ ] paper. Heyo. So anyway, everybody can sell in these things. It's real to me. It's [ __ ] real. So anyway, but I would also keep it sealed. Don't open it. All right, here we go. >> We have Jim coming on screen. >> Jim, I love you back, everybody. Thank you, sweetie. Get your last comics. There's only 10 left in the store. NINE. ONLY NINE LEFT, FOLKS. Jim Hold on one second, my brother. Hold on, Jim. It sounds like we can't hear you, but you're you're very kind. Give me one second. >> Yeah. No, you're fine. I can hear you. Unfortunately, the audience can't. Something's going on. Give me a second. >> We hear you. >> Yep. Keep going, Jim. Oh, we'll get you back. All right. Jim was awesome, by the way. We'll get him back in a second. Uh, did the comic sell out? Did anybody miss out on comic number four pack and wanted to get in? Uh, Chef Boyard Birdie just said Jet Stink. We may have to ban him for life. I'm kidding, Chef. Love you, bro. Thanks for being here. Oh [ __ ] a lot of people want it. Oh, I know. Comic number five is actually a gangster, but we can't let them have this rips because I'm raising the price on that one. All right, comic. A lot a lot of people miss. put 30 more up. Again, if you've never bought anything, hit the hit the little yellow thing that's up here, you know. Um um or put in the code VF-15 when you check out. Everybody, I see you all on YouTube and on Instagram. I see Elmixologist. I see Chefman990. But you have to come to garyve if you want to join. I see a lot of you asking. You have to come to garyve.comnot. Can everybody share that? panic. You know, >> beautiful. All right, they're pinned back in the store. Panic goes, "Ompic face." That's the best compliment ever. I've been putting in the work. I'm proud. Um, let's go. Karen Cron, thank you so much. Everybody who's picking up a comic, let me know if you just picked it up. It's pinned in the store. You can get it for 30 or 15. Kittens 3, please learn about Vfriend Friends. It's a [ __ ] vibe. Sorry everybody who missed last night. We sold out of the Funkos in 36 seconds. 900 Funkos Sid last night in 36 seconds. That's how much I believe in live shopping. You know what else I believe in? Aaron. I believe in Aaron. Aaron asked me a question. >> This question is from Salvator's mom. Um, if your 16-year-old son wants to be a mechanic but has never tried to actually put anything together or take anything apart, what advice would you give him and how would you support him? >> I would make him do it. I think my advice would be like Salvatore, you know, I love you boy, but if you want to be a mechanic, you have to work with your hands. Like, HEY, IF YOU'RE SOMEONE TO be good at basketball, but never dribble the ball, what would you tell him? DRIBBLE A [ __ ] BALL, SALVATORE. [ __ ] MOM, you know the ANSWER TO THIS. WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THIS, SALVATORE'S MOM? MAKE THE [ __ ] kid drink it something. [ __ ] make him do something. Salvatore's mom, I got an idea. break your [ __ ] DISHWASHER. LIKE, BREAK it and then say, "YO, [ __ ] SALVAGER. FIX IT." And mom, I DON'T KNOW HOW. USE CHAT GBT, [ __ ] I'm right. I'm right, Sid. What do you want from me? Uh, only way to ask questions is come over here. Come to garyb.comnot. Everybody who's on social, I need you all. Danny a Alex do that [ __ ] all of you please come over from where you are on Instagram and YouTube go to Garyve whatnot thank you so much Don Johnstone on Facebook come over here and hang out with me you know so you know let me know if you come over to whatnot and you just downloaded say that you're new who's here on whatnot for the first time in their life say first time ever and let me know if you're enjoying it and if you think it's cool oh let's do a giveaway I got a good We're doing a big giveaway. That's the big thing now. We're just giving free money. Everybody, if you're on other socials, get over here. Garyb.com/whatnot. Wh I'm literally giving away this signed motivated monster comic number five signed pack. Everybody in the chat that's an OG V friends collector, Vens is my Pokemon meets Marvel meets Harry Potter meets Star Wars. I'm building the next big intellectual property fantasy world. Everybody who's part of this, how much do you think this would sell for on eBay for someone who wins it by accident right now and has never has no clue about be friends? How much do you think it's no [ __ ] like real numbers? What do you think? Yeah, I think a buck 50 is right. So, free $150 just giving it away. Boss Williams, get over here. Affection, get over here. Andrew, get over here from YouTube. All of you, get over here. This is the motivated monster number five rips. Can you put it up? You have already. Top right corner everyone to enter. Just literally click this top right corner button if you're on mobile. If you're on desktop, you might not see it. Get over here on mobile. >> Jacqueline in whatnot asks, "Am I on Whatnot yet?" >> Jacqueline on whatnot. Yes, you are on whatnot. You're here. All right. Giving this away for free. There's still 14 harpics in the store. You can get them for 30 bucks or if you've never bought anything for 15. Hey, we're about optimism here. Next question. Go >> Queen Shrine. You can't buy on Instagram. You have TO COME TO WHATNOT. GARY B.COM WHATWHATNOT. DOWNLOAD THE APP AND get over here. >> Try again. >> What's that Jim again? Let's try it. >> Can you hear me, Gary? >> I can hear you, Jim. I heard you last time. And it sounds like whatnot's going to be able to hear you. >> And can they can everyone hear me? Start from the top, Jim. With those beautiful accolades that made my heart feel so good. Well, as I mentioned, you are a humble person despite everyone thinking otherwise. No, you can't hear. They can't hear me. >> Oh, I can hear you. I was agreeing with you. >> You're clearly very emotionally intelligent because >> you're right. I have so much bravado and all this stuff, but in my actions, my humility is my superpower. >> Right. So, let me start at the beginning. When I was a kid, my aunt sent me a Jets jersey. So, I've been rooting for the Jets since I was seven years old. with Wesley Walker, blind in one eye, my favorite receiver. I loved him. And then >> number 85, my my one of my favorite players of all time. >> I went to St. Louis University and one of the few players to ever come out of St. Louis University is Pat Ley. Number five. I've been carrying around I've been carrying around this card to give to you for a really long time because I know number five is important for you, right? >> I love Pat Le. He was our kicker my whole childhood and he wore number five and because five was the jersey my mom knitted for me, I felt a kinship to him. Other than his hairline was very similar to what your hairline is right this minute. Remember he was like baldish. It was weird. >> Well, he works now at the Home Depot in St. Louis. So, he my friend got me got this sign for me. >> He does. >> He literally works at Home Depot in St. Louis. >> He does. >> I'm literally going there on a vlog to shake his hand. >> That'd be awesome. Anyway, >> I'm going to St. Louis in Q1 to the Home Depot. Jim, I need you to tell me which Home Depot. Email me at car garybfriends.com. I'm literally gonna go there just to shake Pat Lehey's hand. I might bring my friend Al. He'll enjoy it, too. I'M [ __ ] GOING TO ST. LOUIS, EVERYONE. All right, go ahead, Jim. >> All right, so when I read Crush It, I've done everything that you said. I've I've um documented the journey and after you started Tea with Gary Vee, I started the immigration answer show. So, I have done 935 episodes, hour, hour and a half, where immigrants can just call and ask me whatever question they want. Well, in the last year or so, it has shifted very much so from um qu technical questions about the law to like they're scared, >> they're worried, >> they're nervous, >> and so I I number one, I'm getting ready to hit episode 1000. So, I was wondering if you would come on for like 20 minutes one day. We could record it ahead of time. And >> five >> five minutes. >> Yes, sir. >> I'll take it. I'll take five minutes. That would be great. But >> I'm in. What advice do you have? I I love whenever you talk about immigrants and I love your immigrant story. I talk about you all the time on the show and and everyone on the show knows who you are. Um what can I do to help immigrants sort of feel safer or messaging that you have >> by telling them what life's actually about, which is you can't control what you can't control. >> You know what I mean, brother? Like it's a very challenging time. People see this issue on both sides. I'm empathetic to how people see the world. Everyone's allowed to see it differently. No question. Immigrants, not only in America, but a lot of places around the world are in fear mode, right? And the reality is is that my number one thing to say to both pe by the way to both people who deeply deeply are scared of immigrants sadly because people have weaponized that narrative or in reverse immigrants that are scared to be deported is you cannot control anything actually and you must adjust to reality and that's that there is watch this watch this Jim. Hey everybody in in the whatnot chat. How many of you are struggling financially and emotionally right now? Please say struggling in the chat. Like real talk. Like just like real life, you know, let's be vulnerable. I don't know if you see this. Core, can you fix this? Just an enormous amount of people are playing struggling. >> You know, sure. >> And I don't know if now how many of that said that are struggling um are living in America. Oh, the winner. You look so PRETTY IN A CASKET. LET'S GO. BIG WIN FOR YOU. LOOK SO PRETTY IN a casket. Monster win. STRUGGLING a little less. Struggling a little less on Halloween. >> Wildly appropriate. >> Yes. There we go. Um, so watch this, Jim. How many people said they're struggling live in America? Struggling financially and emotionally and live in America. Say America in the chat. This is what I tell my immigrant friends, Jim, who are struggling like living in America. Listen, I think living in America is remarkable. Land of opportunity. I still believe it at the highest levels, even more with what's going on with AI and everything. While people think less, they're like, I'm going to get fired and so over. In fact, you're going to get fired and then start your dream life for a lot of people. A lot of people, no. But a lot of people, yes. But you cannot control everything. And so, Jim, you got to get to the root. The reason you like me is, and you've been following for a while, is I go to the root canal. Not to the surface level. I'm not worried about getting you like some toothpaste that does white, you know, whitening. I want to get into the [ __ ] root canal. >> Rips. So, you need to get to the root canal, Jim, and tell them that you you can't control how this is going to play out. You just can't. And you can't spend every day in fear. And you must wrap your head around that if you are no longer in the United States, you will go back to the country you were born in and you will make a remarkable life and you may find yourself back in the United States or in Portugal that's taking a lot of people right now or in Canada. Like there's so much opportunity around the world. America is not the only place to find happiness. In fact, we just watched more than half of the chat speak about struggling both mentally and financially right here in America. So, America is not the variable of happiness. You are the variable of happiness and making your happiness. And that's that. That's the real answer. >> Gary, thanks so much. I got my first V friends Resourceful Robin. I took the quiz, so I was really excited. I got a hoodie coming. So, I'm I'm excited about that. Thank you for everything that you've done. Thank you for ch literally changing my life and the life of all the immigrants that I've been able to help. You get credit for all that. You get credit for all that. >> You get credit, brother. I might have been a seed, but you [ __ ] you executed. And I I I cherish all of you in the chat and all of you watching right now that have taken a word or a video of mine and actually done something with it in a world where millions don't. And I I applaud you, sir. And I can't wait. I hope to see you at that Home Depot with me and I I can't wait for my five minutes to be on the podcast. Please email me at garyvfriends.com and we'll set it up. >> Thanks, Gary. I appreciate it, brother. >> Brother, stay well. >> You're the best. >> You're the best, Jim Hacking. Jimmy Hacks in the building with us. Brought up Pat Lehey while having Pat Lehey's exact hairline was incredible for me. Dieard Jeff from the 80s. You agree with me, right? He Jim literally had Pat. He's uh exact thing. Big shout out to Wine Library. Um love seeing all of you. Let's keep it going. Erin, next question. >> Okay, question. >> Oh, real quick. I apologize. I'm sorry, Erin. A lot of people want to buy the motivated monster. How much is motivated monster? 30 or 35? >> 30. >> 30. Nice. All right. Motivated Monster. I've seen the chat. We'll put it up. You can get a pack. There's, by the way, if you know anything about comics, there's a Jay Lee alternative cover that you can pull. Anybody who's a comic head, tell everybody how epic Jay Lee is. Yes, the J. Yes, the Jay Lee. Jay Lee alternative comic cover available in packs. $30 for the motivated monster. You put it down below already. Very nice. Pinned to the bottom if you want one everyone who's starting their comic book collection on befriends right now. This is live social commerce. All right everybody, let's keep going. >> Okay. Question from Kayla. What would you recommend to somebody who is passionate about being a business owner but also has a chronic illness that makes them bedridden for one to sometimes two weeks per month? >> Give themselves grace. [Music] I I admire them so much. Like don't beat yourself up. You have a chronic illness, you know. I'll really want to talk about Grace this morning and the graceful goldfish. One of the underrated V friends and I can't wait to develop that character. I don't know if there's any graceful uh goldfish collectors in here. I want I want There was a woman, what was her name again? Kayla. >> Kayla. Kayla, I want you to give yourself grace, Kayla. Like, you have a chronic illness. You didn't control that. That was God's plan. >> And I think that you should give yourself grace. You can't hustle 18 hours a day, 365 days a year. You just can't. I want people who lost a loved one, like a parent, someone they really love, god forbid, a child or a spouse, if you're struggling right now and you're watching, I want you to give yourself grace. Of course, you can't go grind. If that happened to me, I'm not [ __ ] building V friends the next day. I'm I'm I'm dwelling. I'm mourning. Please give yourself grace to mourn. Right? If if you're starting your journey to building yourself back up and you've realized that you were suppressing very deep angers or upsetness towards a parent or an inappropriate uncle or an illness that your mother had with alcohol, like give yourself a little grace. Now don't dwell in it. Don't dwell in it and lay in it forever, but give yourself some grace everyone. Like you can't go hard if you don't have fuel. People ask me like you know yesterday it was like what drugs Gary be on? Gratitude fuckf face happiness. Of course I can go hard 15 hours a day. I'm not weighed down. I really want you to give yourself grace. When I make mistakes, big mistakes. When I Mr. for gratitude and happy like wake up on a gloomy day. I'm like I'm not like OH [ __ ] I SUCK NOW. You don't suck. Someone said I suck earlier in here what I was saying who's struggling what I saw it in the chat. You do not suck. Mr. Santino said my mom died at 48 from a stroke. She's all I had. Not true, brother. Mr. Santino. Yes and no. your memories of her, you know, are what you have now. And your ability to find love in other areas, whether it's through companionship or even friendship. How many people here really love their best friend like that? Like really love them like that. court sid when I talk do you know that the only time I get choked up is when I talk about my parents at award shows and publicly and the only other time I've ever ever in my life got choked up that way was when I talked about Brandon even right now I just said it as I said his name that's how much I love him so you know like there's the people you're born into and there's the people that I did retire yesterday but I'm unretired. I did retire here live on this show, but I'm back one day later. Um, you know, hey, I'm very, by the way, I can see it already. Is anyone here in doubt that I'm going to be in a stadium with 40,000 people and be like, hey, just um, so give yourself grace. [ __ ] I can't sell this hat. It won't be out for a long time. Dialed in dog. This is fire. And it's woolly. It's woolly, too. Anyway, that's where I'm at. Give yourself grace, please. Please. I'm not tired. I just The bag's under my, you know, I'm 50 in two weeks. What do you want from me? And I' I've had the bags, you know, like, and yeah, I haven't slept as much last month. I've been [ __ ] a lot of red eyes grinding. Um, all right. Next. >> Okay. Question from Jimmy. How do I protect my personal brand as deep fakes are becoming an issue with popular creators? >> That's undecided. In fact, I am about to send a big push to all of you to follow me on Sora 2 where you guys can all make videos of me. I'm going the other way. I am going to use deep fakes to build my brand. So, for example, here Sid, can you take this and play it over? This is something Braden made on the team. We're testing. >> All right, got it. You don't need to yell in my ear. [Music] >> You don't need to yell in my ear. >> I'm sure they can hear it. >> They can hear it. >> I think they can. Could Can you guys hear it? >> Yeah, >> you think ice will ever slow me down? >> You don't know your boy. >> Play the screen one. >> The screen one is the best. You think ice will ever slow me down? >> You don't know your boy. >> All right, there's that. And which one? >> Oh, this is amazing. >> It's kind of peaceful out here. HELLO. >> SORRY, MAN. Didn't think I'd scare you that bad. >> You got me. My heart is racing my ass. >> It's kind of peaceful out here. >> Hello. >> Oh my god, Dude. >> Sorry, man. Didn't think I'd scare you that fast. You got me. My heart is racing my ass. I'm going the other way. I'm going to soon give you guys all an invite code. I'm going to post on my Instagram and all my socials. You're all going to follow me on Sora 2. And I'm going to open up my entire IP and you guys can make videos of me all day, [Music] you know. So that's that. So I don't know. How do you protect your IP? You can uh lawyer up or you can take a surfboard and ride it. >> Exactly. >> This is the gift from Paul. >> Uh >> what time is my >> Yeah, this we're two more minutes and then we have to let you guys move for Gary Vee. Uh, I will open it on my um live >> on my Gary Lee L Gary Vee Live. Everybody at uh 1 PM I'm gonna be on Tik Tok live. Follow me on Tik Tok. I'm Garyve there. I will be live at 1:00. We will get it going again. Who was on my Tik Tok yesterday and had a blast. And tell everybody here how the Tik Tok live is different than Tea with Gary Vee because it's different but the same, right? Let everybody know in the chat how it's different but the same. Um, you'll see kitten 3 1 pm today. Um, >> what's that court? >> Same same but different. >> Same same but different. [Music] All right. Love you all. See you later. Thanks for being on the show. [Applause] [Music] >> Yep. Hurry up.