Good morning. Good morning. Good morning everybody. Welcome to another episode of Tea with GaryVee. I am Gary Vee. Uh if you want the full experience social media on uh on this episode, please go to garyve.com whatnot. Uh for everybody else, Nick Corso is in the building. Always good to see that. Pablo, you taking the mic? I like it. Um, uh, this is episode 87. I'm excited about it. I'm ready to answer your questions. This has been a fun week of banging on these questions. And so, uh, let's keep it going. One more time, if you want to be able to ask your question on this show, um, then you're going to need to get over to garyv.comnot. Whatnot is a social live selling platform. Uh, commerce tamement is something I'm fascinated by. We'll talk about that in a minute. Um, I see that Lost Tapes asks me about Nano Banana. I just saw the news this morning, so I don't have the full thing. We're blurry on the main screen for some reason. >> There we go. Um, let's go to the video question first. Julio Garcia. Julio, how are you? >> Hey, Gary. Good morning, man. How are you? >> I'm good, brother. How are you? Perfect, man. Um, just before we get started, let me let you know that I'm part of the 50% of the poll from yesterday. >> What's that? >> You're you're part of the what, my friend? >> Oh, >> part of the 50% of the poll from from yesterday. So, >> you peed you peed your pants in school. I love it. This a whole club now. We got to start a whole revolution. All right, my man. What's uh what's the question? >> Hey, man. Um, so just just to let you know, uh, and if you see, I'm actually outside my RV. >> A month just about a month ago, my family and I packed up all our stuff. We sold everything and we decided to go on the road to travel across all 48 states to to simply follow our dream. And our dream is just to support familyowned restaurants, make them free content, share their stories, and we are faith-based, so we also pray for their business. And it's just part of what we do. Um the way that we are currently making end meetats it's through my social media um my social my digital marketing agency where I offer services for small restaurants and I've been following literally your advice on you know with with the book that the chap [ __ ] right hook basically that one has been how I bottle my my services and part of this is giving value through to to these restaurants giving them a a free content without asking anything in return that gives me the opt you know the opportunity to get in the door uh get them to to talk to them get to know them and then we offer them our services that's how I've been been been doing it and that's how basically we are making a living now >> makes sense >> with this new with this new venture uh I want to make this into a national brand you know where people can um see the the company is actually called forward And that is you know the the main thing but I'm just using Julio the Furio as the face of the company right okay >> so um >> my question is would would it be better to start focusing now more on footies forward or continue to do it with my personal brand which is Julio Deio >> both >> both because on on on putting forward I'm not even really doing any content there yet. I try to do a few podcast and clips like that. But on Julio the Furio is where I'm uh doing all these stories and you know sharing the businesses and I another thing that I'm doing a little bit different which I don't know if it's messing up with my algorithm or not. Um >> stop. >> I see like >> stop with that. >> Stop with messing up my algorithm. >> You're I'm telling you everyone's caught up in this game. Listen, the algorithm matters, but again, when you've everybody has this weird dream that the algorithm is [ __ ] them up when it's them [ __ ] themselves up. The algorithm is people's attention. Just so you know, the algorithm is not some weird Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Wizard of Oz, something dynamic. Do you know what the algorithm is? Julio, the Voodoo. Do you know what the algorithm is? The algorithm is a system that puts content in front of people and when the people in the beginning of seeing that content on the other side don't [ __ ] with it, the video doesn't get seen as much. >> Agreed. >> Everyone's got this weird [ __ ] thought of what the algorithm is. The algorithm is just is the content good. >> Okay. Makes sense. >> So you you using this account or that account people like my algorithm was [ __ ] up too three months ago for a whole couple months. You know what it was called? Me and my team [ __ ] sucked. >> Get better at it. Yeah, >> we were using old [ __ ] content with not a lot of [ __ ] thought going through the [ __ ] motions. I was busy. The team was not hitting on cylinders. We just weren't [ __ ] good enough. >> Okay. >> And miraculously, the last couple months or last couple weeks, month, last four, five, six weeks, my shit's hitting hard because we have a refocus. We're thinking more thoughtfully. We have better strategies. The thumbnail's better. The hook's better. The first three seconds better. The 10 seconds in is better. My copy's better. Our energy is better. You know, I see some of my teammates, you know, Pablo specifically shaking his head. He's been here. He was here. Not Danny who's just shaking his head because he likes positive affirmation. He wasn't here. But Pablo's shaking his head because he was here. And he knows that the energy, the effort, the thoughtfulness, the debate, they were mailing it in. I was mailing it in. and we had a bad [ __ ] several months of my content. >> And and you even prove it right when I remember when you did the uh your other account um that it was getting a lot more views than than than your main account just by answering random people's question. I think that was kind of like a proof what you did with >> ah you're talking right you're talking about this where I showed that on my Tik Tok one of my Tik Toks I created something called you know uh Gary Ve's answers and I replied to somebody's Tik Tok and that video got more views with 284 followers than my $15 million $1 15 million person account. That's right, bro. It's the content. >> Yeah, >> it's the content. All right, man. Get into that mindset. Try to make good content. >> Thank you, Gary. >> You got it, my man. Stay well. >> Appreciate talking to you. >> Of course, my man. >> All right, Pablo, what do you got? >> Terry asks, "What do you suggest I do? What do you suggest I do to become a theater actor at age 46? I have a family and a full-time job and kids in college. What do I do?" >> Spam. That is my answer. I think he I think he should spam I think he should spam every local theater within a two-hour mile radius driving of him and say that I want to try out. I want to act. I think you should spam, right? I mean, you're 46. You want a theater act. There's only going to be so many theaters around you. Uh, you know, maybe you live in New York City, but that's obviously the toughest game in town. I think you need to go out for rehearsals and I think you need to ask for rehearsals and that's it. I mean, as far as like you've got kids, you got a family, you know, Dustin Dustin Lee says, "Not use social." Dustin, I don't know if Arizona is so hot that your brain is not as sharp when I say spam. What What do you think I mean? Of course, social. DM people on social, email, you know, I'm not sure what's going on in Arizona, Dust, but you might be you might have too much free time on your hand out there riding your bike and [ __ ] you know. Yeah, I understand you just try to help elaborate. I um I love you. I miss you a lot. Um so, look, I think And by the way, what's Dustin doing up right now? Is it 6:10 in the morning there, my man? Um and so I think that you need to go ask and take it. I think the second part of the question is how do I afford that? I guess providing for a family like look life has responsibilities like if you decide to have children you need to take care of them. I'm I don't know what to say. Like I don't you know like the amount of people that are coming to me being like Gary but I got kids. I'm like, "Hey dick, you know, pull your dick out and don't have kids." Like, I don't know. Like, what do you want from me? No [ __ ] you have kids. You've made that decision. [ __ ] take care of it now. Like, like, people are 48, six, and trying to like, like, I'm sorry that you have kids. In fact, I'm so happy that you have kids, but yes, I understand you need to now provide for them. Sorry that you can't go play theater. Why the [ __ ] do you think I'm yelling at all these [ __ ] kids 18 to 30 right now and telling them to go [ __ ] chase their dream before they have those responsibilities? What do you think we're doing out here? I'm not [ __ ] sitting here making jokes. I'm not out here trying to make you laugh. I'm not out here modeling. I'm not trying to have you look at me and want to be like me and like fascinate over me. I'm not out here shooting buckets and throwing 99 miles an hour. I'm not trying to have you put a poster of me in your room because you think I'm a great athlete. I'm trying to talk about real [ __ ] [ __ ] here. Why do you think I'm [ __ ] trying from the bottom of my heart on [ __ ] mornings in the late summer to get people to understand what the [ __ ] life is about? In your early years, you need to go all in on your dreams. This gentleman wanted to always be a theater actor. Feels like he didn't get it out of his system. Sounds like he didn't in his 20s go to the big city and have 8,000 auditions and then by 30 be like, "Okay, I got that nut off. I'm not that guy." Why do you think I'm telling all of you kids not to take the job your parents and society are telling you to? dead [ __ ] curious what this dude did from 20 to 30. Did he take that job that he thought he was supposed to take? Did he take a job that paid a little bit more so he had a little bit of a better apartment and could go and live his life and now at 46 like, oh [ __ ] life's really about joy and enjoying it. And by the way, people have confusion on joy. I don't want to go sailing and on vacation. Clearly, look where I am this morning. This is my joy. I am more happy to sit here and spit this old man wisdom on all of you than be sailing this morning or teeing off at a country club. I understand a lot of people like to do that. I love that for all of you. Oh, by the way, Sportis, I'm not saying I'm old when I say old man [ __ ] I'm saying since I was [ __ ] 13, I've been spitting wisdom. I've been on this 88-year-old talk track since I was 18. Go talk to my high school and college friends. Ask them what [ __ ] I was spitting. I get that you have responsibilities. You guys chose that. How do you handle it? You get into good physical and mental health so that you can actually slip sleep 6 hours a day. That gives you 18 hours a day. In an 18 hour day, you can get a lot of stuff done. All of you are [ __ ] brain rot scrolling, playing video games, watching Netflix, doing other [ __ ] Most of you are golfing and sailing and playing video games and watching Netflix to escape, not enjoying what you do. Does everybody understand this game is reverse? People do all this other stuff and spend all this money on stuff to fix the fact that they don't like their 9 to5. >> What was the question again in exact order? What do you suggest I do to become a theater actor at age 46 with a family and a full-time job and kids in college? >> Yeah, I mean like I think you got to give up your weekends and your nights. You have a full-time job, come home, kiss the wife and go out and [ __ ] audition and then when you know like I don't know what to tell you. Like I don't understand how nights and weekends have become off limits. I think we got [ __ ] up. You know how like we overcorrect? Like we went we go two left and now we go two right and then now we're going to go to like people don't know how to find the middle in this world where from 2007 to 2012 it was awesome to be like hustle. I was [ __ ] one of the faces of it. Hustle, go hard. Don't forget the 2008 financial crisis [ __ ] everyone up. Smartass kids with good degrees for the first time ever couldn't come out and get jobs. They're like what the [ __ ] is this? While Facebook and Twitter were exploding, YouTube [ __ ] was changing, we overcorrected. Like people are like, "Gary, the Do you know how many people I mean, you may know this because you're my [ __ ] You people are like, "Gary, I get going hard, but like I got to live my life." I'm like, "Motherfucker, live your life. You're in debt. The [ __ ] are you talking to me about Aziza when you're in debt?" This instant gratification. Where the [ __ ] is like I I see Chris Leap behind right now. He'll be on next. He's got some gray hairs. When him and I grew up, people didn't think that it was supposed to be awesome every day and [ __ ] party every like people are conf like the entitlement is ravaging us. >> What do I think? I think it's I think his situation's easy. He's got kids in college. Like clearly he's talking about like I want to do this full-time. How do I afford to pay it? You don't. You're not a good enough theater actor. That's like me coming on this show and be like, "Yo, listen real quick. I don't trust Justin Fields. How do I become the quarterback of the Jets and win a Super Bowl?" The answer is you're [ __ ] delusional, Gary. Shut the [ __ ] up. You're almost 50 and you're not that And you're not athletic. I was by and by NFL standards, you're a piece of poop. The [ __ ] are you talking about? We are just not self-aware, not accountable. And and this is all love for this dude. This dude's got it good. Audition at night, act on the weekend. What's he if he was on screen, would he come? Yeah, but my wife like, okay, then pick your wife. I don't like what like what do people want from me, Pablo? The [ __ ] do people want from me? You've made decisions. You need to live in those decisions. And then you have to realize you have tons and tons and tons of opportunity like you can easily act. What do kids in college have to do with anything? What do you want me to tell you to quit your job and go be Liberace? >> We're asleep. >> Yes, sir. >> How are you, my friend? >> Outstanding. So, for Mr. Pablo, I do act and I do a lot of improv and everything like that. And you do have to sacrifice. >> Well, Pablo, don't don't blame Pablo. Pablo just asked the question. Don't kill the [ __ ] >> No, no, no, no. I'm blame him. But yeah, if you want to be an actor, it does take a lot a lot of time. That doesn't even count doing the lines. you got to run the lines all day long. So, of course. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But, um, my thing is is I do a lot of lives where I'm answering questions about medical stuff and everything like that. And, uh, my history is I've lost two children and I've gone through all of that. And >> one of the things I want to do is really get more into public speaking. >> And I know the social, but with my copy, do I just keep putting that on the end of the copy of everything I do? Just hit me up and let's do something. And and again, I think it goes to what I said there, like if I'm you, I'm chat gbting and googling public speak public events where there are speakers in my area and I'm I'm literally emailing them and saying, "Hey, I'll speak for free. I think I'm really good. I think I'm next. I think I got it. You don't have to charge me." The first besides my first speaking engagement which I got paid which even made me aware that this was a business. My ne after my first event speaking where I got paid because it was a cold outreach. I would say the next 25 speeches I gave were for free. >> Okay. >> You know when nobody wants you, your cost is zero. >> Outstanding. And I don't even care if >> Yeah, I could I could tell. Yeah, that wasn't for you. That was for everyone, right? Like I hear from a lot I could tell that from your temperament. Like I think the answer is just reaching out to as many events, including if you have the capacity to travel, if you have a genre or an area, for example, improv. If I'm you, I'm going to catch GBT right now. And could you give literally I'm I'll do it right now just for [ __ ] effect. Here we go. >> Um, hey Chatty. Oh, by the way, I called Chat GBT. Chatty. Hey, Chatty. Um, can you give me a list of 10 public events, conferences, speaking events that are around the improv industry that are happening in the next 90 days? Can you also give me a link to them? In fact, if you can find the email on the website, that would be even better and save me time. What I'm looking to do is I'm looking to speak on stages, but I don't have a big name yet. Look, I'm no [ __ ] Gary Vee, for example, you know, and so I'm looking to get on stages and I need to email them and offer my services for free. So, in for the rest of the calendar year or into Q1 of next year, I'm looking to get uh knowledge on some events that are going on specifically around improv where I have some knowledge where I could reach out to them. So, can you give me a link to six events in the next 180 days with link to the website of the event and their emails if you can find it? Okay, a couple things. One thing that is exciting everybody on Tea with Gary B, I hope you saw like this is how I prompt engineer. I think for a lot of you, you're probably like me. You don't communicate as well in written form as you do in voice. I only voice my prompts. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> See what happens here. All right. Here we go. >> Uh, Countdown Improv Festival 2025 Tampa, Florida, August. Uh, that already passed. So, did something wrong there. Applied Improv Network event in safe in Safety Harbor, California. I IO Fest 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. >> Hold on one second. >> Yeah, I looked at Hey, hey, Chatty, you do understand that there is no time machines and I can't go backwards. You just gave me a bunch of events that already happened. I don't know if you're on some future AI [ __ ] where you think I can go backwards. In fact, if you are on some future AI [ __ ] can you tell me why you believe time machines exist? And in fact, can you tell me which company is going to be the leading company in time machine technology? Because I'd love to be an early angel investor. Notwithstanding that insanity, can you please tell me events that are coming up because what you just gave me is not actionable. Thank you. >> Okay. So, mine's not only the social media, but the direct contact like hitting these places up >> that >> directly. Okay. It's always brand and sales. The brand, right? The brand work you're doing is the social media content. The reading, the reaching out directly, right? >> Mhm. Okay. >> Is the way to go. >> Okay. Yeah. I mean, and as far as my payment, if one person doesn't selfch checkckout, that's my payment. So, I I love it. That's outstanding. >> All right, my brother. I wish you well. Stay well. >> Thank you, sir. >> All right. All right, everybody. If you are on Instagram, which a lot of you are. Hi, everyone. I'm I'm actually here's your camera, everyone on Instagram. I'm just looking here because that's where the chat is. Please look at that huge yellow bar that says garybe.comnot. I really want you to come over to this platform. Same with you all on Tik Tok. Please come over. And then again, Jason Hooper on LinkedIn, Josephine F on link on Facebook, excuse me, um Vaporx um on YouTube. Please everyone come over to garyve.com/wattnot for the full experience. We're here on a live shopping platform. In fact, what you could do on this platform is do giveaways. I'm going to do that right now. A lot of you could use a free 75 bucks. I'm going to give you it right now. This is a pack of series 2 V friends cards. I'm going to sign it. When you get it in the mail after winning this giveaway on whatnot right now, you can literally post it on eBay and you will get $75 for this. I'm giving away free money train free $75. I assume most people [ __ ] I'll take free 75 bucks and I've got more money than most people watching right now. Like please don't be lazy. Everybody on social come over to gary.com/w whatnot. Rips please um um please put up the you have done it. Thank you so much. Top left or right corner. I don't remember. You just click the button and you are entered in the giveaway. Top right corner for all of you. Let me see if I do that. Yep. top right corner right here. There we go. That's how I do it. Got it. Raven camera. Got it. Hit that little giveaway button. I don't know what can be easier. The fact that there's 440 of you in this room and only 240 of you have hit it speaks to why the world is losing. Literally, we do not have the effort to click a button on the top right of the whatnot screen or come over from Tik Tok, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube to come over to whatnot. Download Pablo. Downloading the app is too hard. It's too hard for people that double click in the face like too hard to then come over here and then click the top right button rips. It's just too hard for that free money. Can you imagine? No wonder there's so many questions of saying like Pablo. Next question. >> Audi asked, "How can I be confident among successful people even when I'm not yet successful?" >> By not giving a [ __ ] what they think about you. The [ __ ] are you talking about confidence around successful people? Why the [ __ ] is there success creating insecurity in you? I had not beencome successful in my 20s. I hung around with nothing but rich people drinking wine in their 50s. I didn't [ __ ] give a [ __ ] that they were winners and I hadn't been yet. Confidence has nothing to do with other people's success or your lack of you like that, Liz, right? Like >> I don't I don't know why putting someone else's success on a pedestal makes any sense. Like my success has nothing to do with any of your confidence or insecurities. Do not put people on a pedestal. You know who's the last person we should be putting on a pedestal? Someone that has made money. I I really hope none of you [ __ ] watching right now look up to me because of me being able to be good at making money. I really hope not. If that is why you look up to me, stop. That is not the punchline. That is not what we're [ __ ] here for. Period. I like being good at business. Like, I like it. I I love that. That is the byproduct of me being strategic, smart, hardworking thoughtful patient tenacious, humble, like I look all that. So anyway, I don't know that was a very easy question. Keep going. All right. An asks, "I've been struggling a bit with my mental health as I did something under the influence which was objectively bad but didn't have >> which was Let me just let me just help you. It was definitely bad. Keep going. >> The people around me looked at me differently and taunted me, spreading rumors about me. How can I deal with this? You say you shouldn't care about them, but when you die, isn't what people think of you all that's left? >> No, it's what you think about yourself. You know you did something wrong. >> That's what's happening here. You are upset with yourself and I'm proud of you for that. This is a beautiful question. What's this gentleman's name? >> An >> I'm really proud of you. An um Scorpion official says if they make rumors, cut them off. They're reacting to his [ __ ] Nobody would be talking about anything if he wouldn't [ __ ] up under the influence. Like I don't understand. Like again, are we really going to blame people for talking [ __ ] because you were under the influence and did something wrong? Like, please make a video right now on your social and [ __ ] completely own it and say you're sorry and it won't happen again and you've learned from it and then you can move on. Blow yourself up. Go naked. Own it. Make a video. Go right on your video right now and be like, "Yo, what's good? It's An. Listen, here's what's happened. I snorted some lines and I [ __ ] up. Or I popped some Molly and I did this. Or I [ __ ] thought I was getting a little gummy action. There was a little more in there than I thought and I lost my [ __ ] [ __ ] And I'm acted a fool. And I'm incredibly embarrassed. I embarrassed my parents, my friends, my loved ones, and most of all, I embarrassed myself. And I apologize that. And for all of you, my homies, my acquaintances, the people I know that have been talking mad [ __ ] I get it. If I didn't do this dumb [ __ ] you wouldn't have anything to talk about. So, I apologize to y'all as well. And I hope that you're never in the position that I'm in where you [ __ ] up. It's just Brunson. It's just Brunson. I love that. I hope that's a Jaylen Brunson fan. It's just Brunson. Big win. That's free. Let me go back to my video. I apologize. I'm going to try to move forward. I know this will linger. This stay may last forever. I just want you all to know that I own it. It's on me. It's 100% my fault. And if this lingers in the air for the next 10 years, I have no one to blame but myself. But I'm going to act better going forward. And over time, I think this will be a blip and an anomaly and a side joke amongst us all because it was that one time that I got caught up instead of it being a consistent narrative of who I am. That's what I believe today. Obviously, if I do it three, four, five more times, it's who I am, even though my intent wasn't good. I love you all. Sorry. I'll see you next time. There was a there was a great gentleman on my team early on, Steve Unwin, one of my first team Gary Vee teammates, and he said something profound to me. I'm obsessed with intent, as I think you know. I'm obsessed with intent. Um, but he challenged me one day in a meeting and he said, "Yeah, Gary, but if you don't act on your intent, what's up?" And I said, "You're right." Said, "You're right." Now, my belief is that most people's intent like it's broken. Like, it's you're going to show up wrong because your intent was wrong. But I um I I value intent and I think humans make mistakes. I think in hindsight that moment what I realized was I couldn't articulate the concept of having grace for yourself having having accountability and grace for yourself I think matters if you notice what I did there that's full full accountability you know so being able to forgive yourself is a powerful thing and I'll tell you why my friends if you're able to learn to forgive yourself you'll forgive others your obsession with judging. Here's what's happening in the world right now. We are in everyone else's business because we're looking for people to trip up so we can [ __ ] on them to feel better about what we're struggling with. You like that, Mike? You felt that one, right? I saw your head go. That's what's happening. Like, you give [ __ ] about Taylor Swift and Kelsey and have your two cents on it for one reason. You're not feeling good enough about yourself. I could give a [ __ ] about those two other than I want nothing but for that love to be awes Oh, I actually do care. I want their love to be awesome and they're great people and I do hate Kelsey though. He's a chief and they [ __ ] us on that Monday night game. That [ __ ] flag late in the game pass interference call is straight [ __ ] Everybody watched the [ __ ] refs rob the Jets of that win. I never blame refs cuz football's tough. I I actually don't [ __ ] with it, but [ __ ] every football team but the Jets. I hate all of you. The Dolphins, I [ __ ] hate you. The Bills, Patriots, all you guys, you three I [ __ ] hate the most. Next, all AFC teams. The [ __ ] Bengals, Browns, [ __ ] Steelers, um, you know, and Ravens, [ __ ] you, [ __ ] Next, the South, the Texans, and the [ __ ] Jags and the Colts and that whole [ __ ] division. [ __ ] all four of you team. Uh, the Titans, [ __ ] you guys. And then the West, the Raiders, Broncos, Chargers, Chiefs. [ __ ] you guys. So, [ __ ] all the AFC teams. Now to the NFC. I don't [ __ ] bo I don't bother with you guys over there too much. But like first, [ __ ] the Giants. All you fans are entitled. [ __ ] you guys. You've won four Super Bowls. I don't want to hear you crying. And Jack's Dark is going to stink. Even though I love that kid as a kid, but now he's a Giant. I hate him. I like the Eagles, Cowboys, and Commanders cuz they hate the Giants. So, they're probably the three teams I like the most after. I don't even really think about the rest of the NFC. I like the 49ers a little bit right now because Yutkin and Marcus, two people I love, love them, but now that coach Salah, who I loved as the Jets coach, back defensive coordinator, I'll root for them. And I like the Vikings owners and Mike Vicanti, my trainer, is a Vikings fan, so I got a little love for the Vikings, but [ __ ] every AFC team. Next question, please. Umar asks, "I'm a 70-year-old woman and I want to make some money for my retirement so I'm not struggling for my expenses, but I don't know where to start and what I can do to start something on social media. I'm eager eager to learn AI as well, which I'm doing. What advice do you have for me?" >> I I I think that most people that are confused need to just go on social and start telling stories. You're a 70-year-old woman. You're loaded with stories. We touched on this yesterday. This is becoming a thing. I might build some content around the concept of just telling telling stories like she's got I'm telling you right now I'm positive about what I'm going to say and I think it's going to work out for me. Um I believe and I've talked on this everyone. I believe that we've been on a pendulum swing in the last 15 years where we put youth culture on a pedestal, right? Youth culture. So everyone wants to act younger. Everybody's, you know, the kids know everything. They're young. They're smart. And that's been the wave. Again, back to society. I think we went through a wave where instead of being purple and in the middle, we went two left. Everybody canceled everybody for [ __ ] everything. And now I think we're going right. I don't know if anyone's paying attention, but hate is out of control. Like, we need middle. Same with youth culture. We went super youth. Everything's good youth. new technology, young kids, everybody [ __ ] get [ __ ] plastic surgery and look 20 instead of 40, like blah blah blah blah blah. I actually think in the next 20 years, um, we're going to be at a place where wisdom is going to be hot. I predict that within the next 15 to 20 years, five of the 10 biggest influencers in the world, influencers will be over the age of 70. I'm 49. I predict in 21 years, five of the 10 biggest influencers in the world will be over the age of 70. And so, honestly, I actually think my greatest era of popularity, fame, influence will be when I'm over 70. Cuz on that note, I'm not going to be in this in between anymore. I'm going to be in this like nice like you're [ __ ] Yoda. In fact, I told Mona, I'm not even doing like face care or like skin or [ __ ] anything. Like, I want my [ __ ] to wrinkle up crazy. I want to be like Pruny V out here and just like I'm doing nothing. I'm just like doing nothing. I'm trying to look old. I'm trying to be like my dad. My dad's 71. He looks 90. I'm on that kick. I'm trying to be like [ __ ] cuz it's just going to really like reinforce where I'm going, you know? Like I'm going [ __ ] like Yoda. Like I might even live in a cave for a year. I talk about this a lot. I might even do that Obi-Wan [ __ ] and just wear a cloth like I'm a [ __ ] Sandman. like like just like [ __ ] and I'm just going to be out to hear like videos and be like you [ __ ] I've been saying this [ __ ] for 50 years, you know? Like I'm really ready. >> Robert Coin. >> Hey Gary, how's it going? >> I'm good. How are you? >> Good, good. Hey, just real quick, just want to say thanks for all you do, man. Thanks for all the good messages. It's helped me uh really push myself this last year. Um, one of the things uh I started doing was really believing in myself and starting off with someone was talking about theater acting. I've started improv and comedy this year because I just started doing it. Um, stopped being afraid of it. Started doing it and I've really found a love and passion for it. So, that's been a great thing. Really glad I've been doing that. >> That makes me so happy, bro. Honestly, what what So, what you're saying consuming my content made you realize I've been living my life for other people's judgment. Those people have absolutely nothing to do with my life. and if I don't jump now, when am I going to jump? You then jumped. You realized in fact when you jump, eight out of 10 people are cheering for you and smiling. And you've learned how to kind of deal with the two that out of 10 that are not. Yes, >> 100%. 100%. And it and it and once I got in and it wasn't that scary. And part of that failure in doing that um has taught me to, you know, it's not when you really It's weird cuz like at my job, you know, you have a failure, you feel bad about it, you want to do better. But when you fail in something that you really feel a passion for, I don't feel bad when I fail. I feel good knowing I've learned something out of this and now the next time I hit this, the next time I can find my mark, I know where I can go in that next And by the and by the way, this whole concept of like like feeling good or learning from failure, let me say where I'm at. I think that's true, but that's only 5% of how I feel when I lose. When I lose, I'm angry and pissed and [ __ ] up. Like me, Courtney Xander, and Rips lost yesterday, five straight games of four basketball to Andy, Jay, um, Tyler, and Zack, right? And the teams like weren't in our favor. like all four of us were smaller. They're also pretty tenacious and didn't want to let us win. Um we're better looking, but other than that, like we were in a tough spot when that game ended. I wasn't like, oh, I learned that maybe I should have passed to Courtney in this move or oh, like that was a good run. You know, I'm almost 50 years old. Like I had really good cardio. I got some nice workout or like oh like, you know, um damn I I could have done this better. I learned from that. when we lost. I'm like I hope that Tyler dies of a heart attack right now. Like right now as he's walking to get water, I hope he falls over. It's dead and never to be alive again. I I I'm sorry. I want to be authentic with everyone. I'm in a very dark place when I lose. I know everybody in the comments be like, "What the [ __ ] just happened in competit?" Now, let me let me make this clear for the people that don't know me. Of course, I don't really mean that. But I want people to understand that when you lose, there's all sorts of energies that come, right? NFT NFT Katie says, "Glad it's not just me." Right? This isn't some like bro macho [ __ ] NFT Katie the best sweetest girl. She also loses her mind when she loses. Like it just is what it is. I don't really again before everybody gets all caught up. No, I do not want that. Tyler's one of my favorite people on earth. I wouldn't want that to someone I hate with all my guts for that to happen, let alone someone I love. But in that moment, I wanted to punch Zack in the [ __ ] face. I wanted to like break Andy's leg. Like, I'm I'm angry. I hate everyone. I'm not looking to talk to anyone. Don't [ __ ] Luckily, like Jay and Guy are new and they think like it's okay to like dab after the game. Like, everyone around me knows like if I lose, don't come near me. I might bite your shin cuz I'm always sitting. Like, I might bite it right off too. I'll [ __ ] take your skin off your [ __ ] leg, you [ __ ] [ __ ] That's where I'm at. >> Just leave me alone. >> I have a question for you, Gary. Um, so I've, uh, I've been a fairly high, and this is, you know, trying to be humble about it, but I've I've been a pretty high performer, um, in my job. Uh, really started finding my footing. I'm 33 now. Really finding my footing in and my most recent job I've had for the last year. Had my latest performance review. Not a single thing negative. Not one bad thing. Okay. Um, so I'm realizing I'm performing at a higher level. I realize that I'm doing well. I'm engaged. >> What I'm trying to do is bridge the gap from where I'm putting my efforts in my job and how I can translate that into more things for myself. So taking that same time and attention that I'm giving to my customers, that I'm giving to my management, and and taking that same energy and and really feeling it more for myself. One of the problems I have is is with my job is I sometimes feel a little bit of that and I I hate to use the term it's overused but imposttor syndrome, right? I've I kind of found my way in. >> But hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. That makes sense because you started this conversation, bro. You know what I think about imposter syndrome? We have to eliminate that word. The word sometimes in your job, you feel insecure. That makes sense to me. You started this with saying you feel insecure at times. >> That's okay. It doesn't it doesn't sound like it's merited. >> No. No. And and um you know, like I said, I I >> the way of work, >> the way you were parented, the the neighborhoods you grew up in, the DNA that you were given, your circumstances led to you having some level of insecurity. We all do. Every person, even me, and I talk about my confidence is crazy. All I was was insecure as a kid. I was scared of everything. riding a bike, kissing a girl, swimming. Like, I mean, I I literally avoided the doctor and dentist at all. Do you understand a needle a shot from 3 to 25 years old in my life would be like you telling like I don't know like getting a sh like getting killed. I I was like, "Fuck it. Kill me. I don't want the shot." Like, "I'm dead. I'll take it." like I would like you know like you know >> absolutely oh yeah and then that's how I was with public speaking for a long time and then I you know my late 20s started to get over that. >> So anyway I mean I honestly you just got to chip away at what you're doing. Clearly consuming my content has given you more confidence and clarity. There's other people that do that. There's people in your life. There's other content creators. My friends, for everybody who's watching, and by the way, all of you watching on my other social channels, please come over to WhatNot. Please come to garyve.com whatnot. You'll get so much more value coming over here because I'm about to do something crazy. Rips. >> Yeah, I'm doing it. >> I'm giving away an $800 box of V Friends, but I'm not doing it until we have 800 people in the room. So, here's how we're doing it. I apologize, Robert. Give me one second. >> There's four There's 495 people in the room. Every one of you should be hitting the share button. There's only 30 shares. First of all, if you come to one night and you don't share, especially if you're an OG. Like, how do I say that? [ __ ] you, right? Like, share it. I need this link. When you hit the share button, you can tweet it out. You can put into your Facebook. I love a good group chat. I'm sure everyone's deep in their fantasy football group chat right now. Take that link and put in there and be like, "Yo, watch Gary Vee. This t-show really helps me." But for But here it is, everybody on Instagram. Rafi, Rafi, Abid Azoo, all of you on Instagram, you've got to get all 400 of you over here. Everybody on Tik Tok, all 700 of you, you've got to get over here right now. All of you over there. Not $8. Donov 800. Show them. Court, go to eBay right now and show sales if you can. Could you do that? You can while Courtney does this. Robert, I'm done with you. Meaning you got this. Oh, sorry, Robert. That wasn't supposed to happen. court. I was now seen between you and me. We just made that look bad. Uh, Robert, you're good, bro. Honestly, just keep building the momentum. Positivity. What's working for you is what works for everyone. Do you know who I am? I'm the byproduct of a mother that [ __ ] instilled nothing but positivity optimism and accountability. Just so you know, I'm nothing. I'm just a vehicle that's extending what my mom did for me to all of you. That's it. I'm an empty vessel. Just so you know. All your accolades, all your goat emojis, all you're the best, all you're the best of all time, all you're awesome, you're this. Good news. I feel none of it. It passed through me and goes to my mother. All I'm doing for all of you is what she did for me. The reason things are better, Robert, is you've decided to listen to me instead of watching [ __ ] CNN and Fox News or follow other social media people who've got nothing but negativity or judgment. take every tragic event like we had in Minnesota, which is devastating. And you know, here is how we decide to react to that. Why don't we spend all our time and energy [ __ ] hating each other? There we go. That's a good [ __ ] that's that sounds logical, right, Rips? That's a good idea. Let's take some [ __ ] darkness and hate and let's take that as a human and then spend the next eight hours on the internet hating everybody else. That seemed productive. You [ __ ] shits. You [ __ ] idiots. the [ __ ] are you guys doing? >> It's true. And and to the guy who wants to be a theater actor, I have I have a wife. I have a kid. I have a full-time job. I'm take I was taking comedy classes on Saturdays and Sundays. I I'm taking my nights to write sets and and work on my craft. I mean, find people that are in that sphere and and connect and connect and connect and talk to all the people that you want to talk to that you can talk to in there because >> they're not only going to >> help you push yourself, but they're going to they're going to be through the same thing and you're going to have people that you can talk to that are doing the same thing and keep you motivated. So, you're right. Nights and weekends are not off limits, man. >> Not off limits. >> Thanks for everything you do, man. I really appreciate it. Help me push myself. >> Love you, brother. All right, everybody. I'm new and I don't understand. That is because you're not going to garyve.com/wnot. I literally need all of you to go to garyve.com/wnot. The real swipecards says Gary the legend. If you believe in that, go to garyve.com whatnot. I am literally giving away this box. Is everybody seeing this on the screen? These are Vfriend friends cards. By the way, you have to learn about Vfriends if you don't know. I'm literally Look at these prices. I'm literally building the next Pokemon. You can put in box, put in hobby box at the top. I want people to see. I'm literally giving this away for free right now. You saw Riff's reaction. We're like treating these like gold, right? Treating these like gold. There you go. There it is. That's sold. Oh, I don't know the 24 3 days ago. >> Yeah. >> This is 800 bucks. Literally. Literally. I don't know how to explain this. Do not run the yet. I We're only at 566. What' I say? 800 >> friends. We need 200 people to come in here. All we need to do, all we need to do is get the [ __ ] over here and hang. I love you back, hoodie flacco. Just get over here. I'm literally giving this away. I don't think every Oh, it's funny. They can't see it. Everybody on other social, you can't see the eBay thing. Everybody on on whatnot can see it. Everybody on whatnot can see that two of these boxes sold for $1,449 three days ago. This is real free money. Literally free money. Literally free money. Literally free money. Like I don't know, man. Like 800 bucks matters. Mike, right? Mike really wants $800, right? >> 100. >> I mean, Jesus [ __ ] Christ. It's $800 and all I need is for everyone to come over to garyve.com/wenot. And you know what's funny? I need that. I don't, by the way, I have no equity in what I don't give a [ __ ] about whatnot. I I don't I really don't. I have no equity in it. I I'm just trying to te I'm literally trying to teach all of you what commerce tamement looks like. I just did an entertainment show. Give me something to sell here. Give me that manga box. Can I sell some of these? >> No. >> Blaster packs are better. >> Blaster pack. Fine. Blaster packs. Fine. >> You want me to sell blaster packs? >> Yeah. >> Fine. >> Can you give me one? >> Cuz there's none here. You want me to sell something that I don't even have a [ __ ] prop of? Great job, reps. Thanks. >> Not a good option either. >> All right, there's 611 of you. We literally need I'll even do it for 700. We have 618 in here. I'll do it for 700. Discord people, we're getting closer. This is literally free money. Pablo, ask your next question while I'm waiting for free. By me, this is going to be funny cuz without me pushing on video, I bet you the number goes down. This just proves that like people don't know how to rally together. There's 622 people in there, all of which who want this. There's all these people over here on social. They can rally each other in here by boosting, by promoting, by messaging people and whatnot. They could rally. But Pablo >> Jonah asks, "I'm pushing live social shopping in my company and getting zero traction. To clarify, I want my company to start doing live social shopping heavier." >> One more time from the top because I got distracted by the chat. Go ahead. Oh, we're at 643. They might have a chance here. Everybody on every social media platform, just download what right now. This is massive. This is a huge opportunity. All right. Go ahead. So Jonah asks, "I'm pushing live social shopping in my company and getting zero traction. To clarify, I want my company to start doing live social shopping heavy. Any advice?" >> I mean, you know what I think about this? I think conviction over convincing. When you don't have the leverage, right? If Mike V wants me to do something, he doesn't have the leverage. I'm the decision maker. He him trying to convince me isn't going to work. Often it's not. But him showing me, him going and doing a live show and being like, "Yo, Gary, I'm [ __ ] Mike V. I have seven followers. You have 15 million on TikTok." I went on and I sold $98 worth of stuff. Legos and this [ __ ] pen. Like, I really think you should do it. His actions got me going. Right. So, this What do I think this person should do? I think this person should go and do a show, sell some random [ __ ] around their house, walk into the office and be like, I sold $900 worth of stuff. This company can sell $9 million worth of stuff. We need to get out of talking and we need to get into acting. This is a generation. And by the way, when I say generation, I do not mean Gen Z and young millennials. I mean the people older than me, the boomers. You know, us Gen Xers, we don't even get talked about. It's as if we don't even [ __ ] exist. Which honestly on some real [ __ ] makes me realize like I'm like I think this will make sense to all of you. Like that's why I think it's good. Like you know what I mean? I like like it that way. Like Yeah. Like we're not old enough to be on full defense, which is where boomers get a bad rap because they're on defense. Everybody loves the jungle and merit. It's like it's a jungle out there. You got to like [ __ ] compete, but then you become 70 and you don't want to compete anymore and you're like, "No, no. Let's take the money we made from the jungle and pay politicians to make rules to make my [ __ ] old ass [ __ ] good. [ __ ] that shit." I'm like [ __ ] Obi-Wan Kenobi. Like I'm going to be out here like [ __ ] doing it. And then like when I'm not good enough, [ __ ] Darth Vader's going to kill my ass. Like I can't wait for young entrepreneurs to destroy me. I'm not going to try to let that happen. I'm on some I'm going to be 82 and have more energy and [ __ ] dominate you young [ __ ] But if for God forbid I slow down, I'm not trying to use my power and my money to [ __ ] cozy up to [ __ ] politicians to make it better for me to change the rules of the game. I'm trying to be out here and get killed. I'm trying to be out here and get killed. train. What I mean by that is I love the game so much. I believe in merit so much. I believe in competition so much. I believe in it is what it is so much, even at my own expense. When I'm not good enough, I should lose. I just am not scared of you weak young lug little [ __ ] I'm just not even I'm not even worried about it to be honest though. That's the good part. I just think at 82 I'm going to have more humility and hunger and [ __ ] tenacity. I just don't know what else to say. I just don't see people outworking me. Just not scared of you. Really not. The best part is I I'm not Kobe. My body isn't going to break down and I can't do it anymore. Sports is tough. The [ __ ] that have my mentality have to retire. The body breaks. It just is what it is. 23 year olds are a problem. I'm really lucky. It's like God really smiled down on me. He's like, "You know what Gary? Not only am I going to make this all awesome for you with the gifts of what I'm going to give you, I'm going to decide that when you're going into your prime and even past your prime, I'm going to create a generation of entitled bitches." You know that whole thing of like like you know do you think like one you know Israel Anagna can beat like 300 you know like pumpkins and they do that simulation. I feel like it's like Gary do you think you can you versus 10,000 Gen Alpha entrepreneurs who will win? I'm like me. They feel they feel they feel like people care about their feelings. Do you know why I can't lose Pablo? Cuz I know no one cares about my feelings. By the way, I blame no Gen Z or Gen Alpha kid. The culture [ __ ] them up. We tricked them. Now I blame all of them. Now that they Now I blame all of you. Now that you've heard me say that, now it's on you. Okay. And And what? Because news alert. The amount of Gen Alpha and Gen Z kids making paper and dominating is higher than any generation before it. It's called the internet and social media. 22 year olds that are out here [ __ ] making paper. So what are you crying about? Kai Sinet Sat, excuse me, I apologize. He's not making this kind of money in 94 in 72. Mr. Beast isn't making this kind of money. Alex Earl isn't making this kind of money. Alex Cooper isn't making this kind of money. So what's your problem? If if the boomers [ __ ] it all up for y'all? The [ __ ] happened to Clicks? Why didn't he get [ __ ] up? Oh, I don't know. Because he [ __ ] streams for 15 hours a day and has his mind right. Has natural talent. Found his thing, you know. 700. Good job, everybody. We're giving it away. Run the giveaway. Clap it up for the chat. 700 in the room. Big. All right, Jackson. We'll see, baby. We'll see. Ver scam. We'll see. Jackson. We'll see. We will see. Jackson. Um 712 in here. We're running the giveaway. All right. Now, here's the scary part. There's a little button right here. There's a little tiny button right here. Little tiny button right here. Little tiny. Thank you. There we go. See this little button? I cannot believe that there's 727 of you in here and only 441 of you have entered. Free $7800 box of cards. Free. Free. >> Edgar Calderon will get you tomorrow. One more from you. Pablo. >> Zach asks, "How would you scale a marketing agency while maintaining the quality of service and production?" >> Hire good people, I don't I don't know. How did I do it? Well, everyone's like, "But they want me, Gary." I'm like, "They don't want you more than they wanted me, right, Pablo? That's a follow for everybody. Everybody wants, you know, Gary, but they want me to work on the account. How do I scale?" I'm like, "Motherfucker, they don't want you more than they wanted me." Everybody, the only reason people have been hired Vayner for the first, oh, I don't know, every year is because of me. How do you scale? You hire good people. You hold them accountable. You fire bad people. You hire more good people. You take care of good people. You're there for them however they want to be there for. Some people want more money. Some people want recognition. Some people want work life balance. You know, you're there for people. So, you have retention. That's it. That's it. >> Three minutes until someone gets this. What do you want, R >> trailer for this? >> All right, let's show this everybody. I want you to know what V friends is. Especially because so many of you don't know. This is V friends. Watch this trailer. Get to know what I'm building. I'm building the next Marvel, the next Disney, the next DC, the next Transformers, the next My Little Pony and Care Bears, the next Harry Potter. I am building the next thing and all of you don't even see it. You're so caught up in the Gary Vee motivational character of it all, you don't realize that you're looking at one of the great storytelling entrepreneurs of all time who's building the next Pokemon in yourself. And if you collect things, by the way, if you don't have I said it yesterday, if please do not buy V friends stuff if you don't have money, but if you buy other collectibles, trading cards, sneakers, art, comic books, you go to Comic Con, you buy [ __ ] to flip or collect, you need to [ __ ] learn about V friends. In fact, top left corner, click our little logo. Top left corner, click our little logo right there. We go. Oh, back. There we go. Click that little logo right there. When you click it, click it, Mike, for me. I think the third thing, Could you click it? I think the third thing is Yep. Click that little logo. The third thing is message and say, I want to learn more about V friends. We have a whole team that's educating Play it court. Reven said, "Thank you, Gary Vee. Tomorrow will be my day. Today is your day." Everybody, thank you for watching this. Um, oh, I'm heavy Big Mo into the collectible of thing. Uh, we got a whole team led by our creative director, DJ Kaufman, watched him paint. 791 people in the room. Everybody, you're literally missing it. Please, please click the entry. How the hell is not everyone clicking this? We got 29 seconds. It's literally just click this [ __ ] thing. Please click this thing. It's right here. This gray button. Jesus. Jesus. I mean, somebody do something like somebody click it. How is there still only Oh my god, this makes no sense. Here we go. Yep. You can go there. I'll be there in a few minutes. Are you joining us next? You jump. You're going to jump in. Got it. All right. The winner, Rocco 727. What a huge win. Rocco. [Applause] All right. Where's the yellow thing? The little yellow post-it note. Show me where that is. Everybody check this out. Who has never bought anything on whatnot in their life? Who has never bought anything on whatnot in their life? Say that's me. Who has never bought anything on whatnot in their life? Okay, I want you to click this little yellow post-it note. If you click it, when you click it, there's a little white button in there that says VF-15. That will take $15 off your first purchase. $15 off your first purchase. Literally click that. These packs that come from this $800 box are what? 40. >> Those are blasters. >> Oh, there's blasters. How much are those? >> Usually we do 30, but we can blast. >> We go We can go 30. We can go We can do 20. No, I don't even want to. We can do 30. Are you going to put them up? >> Just pin it to the bottom. These are from the blaster boxes. They come from the $200 box version of this. You can get $15 off on this and get it for $15. You can get your first pack. They are pinned to the bottom right now. Start your Vfriend Friends collection right now. Adrian, I want you to pin something. vfriends.com/carttoons. Who in this chat that's just joined is here for the first time ever on whatnot and has a child between the ages of three and seven, put the number three in the chat. If you're here for the first time and you have a child who's between three and seven, put three in the chat. That's a lot of you. Wow. I need all of you to go to vfriends.com/carttoons right now. We have a smash hit YouTube Kids show for Vfriends. That is the way to get the kids involved, as they say. The packs are in the store. By the way, OG's, you're allowed to buy packs, too. I know a lot of you want a blaster pack. You're more than welcome. It's not just for the newbies down below. $30 a pack. This comic is going to crush crush. Crush. We haven't shown any of the comic yet. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. I mean, it's it's gonna be killer. Thank you, everyone. Now, next question. If you're really into ComicCon collectibles Marvel anime manga that you know, One Piece, you know, Pokemon, that whole world, say nerd in the chat right now. Nerd. Put nerd in the chat if you're one of those people. Okay, all of you, especially if you have yellow letters. If you have yellow letters on your icon right now, that means you're newish. All of you have to go to vfriends.comquiz. Take the quiz. Figure out which V friend you are. Which V friend you are. And then come back here and update your avatar with a photo of it. I need to know which V friend you are. Also, everyone who just said nerd, you have to become a V friends collector. The way to do that is go in the top right corner, click our logo. Click our logo right here. Click that little logo. The third thing that comes down says messages, hit them and say, "I'm a nerd and I want to go all in on V friends. I'm a nerd and I want to learn about V friends. I am going to spend the rest of my life making this one of the most important collectible storytelling brands in the world and I want a bunch of you on board joining this train. I'm going to now again this is collectible speculative stuff. Do not spend $1 if money is tight. Even if you think you're gonna buy something for 30 bucks and sell it for a hundred bucks like I do, that might be in three years. And right now $30 if your money is tight is more valuable to you than $100 in three years. So please do not spend money you can't afford. These are collectibles. Uh the king, if the promo didn't work, please message what do they message whatnot, right? Where how do they find them? >> Support at whatnot.com. You might have boughten something before and didn't realize it or there might be some other reason. Um Marmar I see says money is tight here to support Marmar here's how you can support me enter giveaways I'm going to do it again let's do a giveaway right now $75 pack in my opinion a series two pack with an auto for free I'm doing a giveaway right now throw it up the reason if you the reason you should hang out on whatnot with us and your money's tight is to enter giveaways get free stuff sell it on eBay and start building up your bank like the reason I want you on places like whatnot and Tik Tok shop is for giveaways. All day long giveaways. Take the thing, get them home, put on eBay, start building. I love you. What's up? 570 people. The giveaway is almost over. Enter. Enter. Enter. There's still half of you who have not entered yet. Still half of you who have not entered the giveaway yet. What's up everyone? I'm Adam from V Friends. Going to be joined by Courtney from V Friends. Are all the packs autographed? No. Only the ones we're giving away. Only the one we're giving away is autographed right here. Only the one we're giving away is autographed. Boom. Signed by Gary Vee. Mhm. If you're broke, log into what Gary's hustle. I think that's right. So, everyone who's here right now, if you're brand new to the show, I need you to do a favor for me and just drop