Ask GaryVee Show 81: Live Q&A and VeeFriends Giveaways

Everybody, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Great to uh be here. July 7th 2025 Ask GaryVee Show 81 is in the building. Um and uh I'm excited to be here. Team, thank you for putting this together quickly cuz I know this was a little bit of a shotgun wedding. Um, and uh I see you all on uh Instagram. I can't see the others because Mike hasn't changed his screen just yet, but I can see all of

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the first buyer of the show? All right, if you have a question for me, let's get right into Tea with Gary Vee. Aaron is ready. She's got her glasses on. Um, there we go. JBSD123 with the rare robot purchase. Uh, Aaron, the questions are coming in now. Everybody ask your questions in whatnot. If you're watching me on Instagram, if you're watching me on Tik Tok, if you're watching me on other platforms, I can see you, but

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whatnot so you can get the free stuff. There is 354 of you watching right now, but only 50, 60, 60, 70, 80 of you have entered the giveaway. Click this right here. Let's get into the show. Te with Gary B81. Let's blast off. Aaron, go. Okay. This question is from Jackson in Vancouver, Canada. I'm 17 years old and my dream is to be a screenwriter. My question for you is, should I pursue a more viable career

that would make more money and try to do writing on the side or just go all in on writing? Go all in on writing. 17. Again, we talk about this constantly. high and this is where the world had it wrong for a long time. High risk needs to happen early. You know, Aaron, you and I both, even though I'm a good generation above you, but we both grew up when like, oh, you're 22 now, go be

a grown-up. I really believe in this AI, live social shopping, social media world, the viability of making an income at a level similar to what you would make in a job by living in this digital world and by being in that age group of let's call it 17 since that's the person asking to 208, 29, 30. I really believe those are the golden years. I really do believe 20 to 30 is the new golden years. Not

just for fun, but to actually be practical financially by being high risk and by going after your dream, right? And like doing that court, you played basketball. Did you ever when you when when you realized you weren't going to go to the WNBA? I don't know if that was like in high school or in college, did you contemplate like I should go overseas and play basketball or were you not at that level either? I don't know.

I'm asking. I was I was contemplating it, but I knew honestly going into college that I didn't even want to go division one because I didn't want it to be a full-time job. So, I wanted to die. Understood. Where I was going with that with Court is I I talked to a lot of former athletes who weren't good enough to get to the NFL or or the NBA or Major League Baseball, but took professional routes differently.

They played overseas in Greece or Turkey or Israel. They played in the Canadian Football League or even like a pro league that nobody really watches. And it is stunningly obvious to me how many of those people do not regret it. Whereas so many people I've met regret not chasing their athletic career a little further. That's how I feel about entrepreneurship, script writing, the arts, anything that isn't like I am a cog in a machine and I'm

good with that. And and by the way, big shout out and I mean this huge shout out to people who are fortunate and that is the word I'm going to use. I want everybody to listen nice and slow because this is where we have confusion. Huge shout out to people who are genuinely genuinely happy to be a cog in a machine to not have to emotionally worry about the business they work for. I have thousands of

cogs in the machine in my companies. People who, you know, because of my personality, people, especially if I get to interact with them. Big shout out to Jaden the illustrator with a huge one. Uh we're going to throw up another giveaway in a second. Let's make it two minifigures. Rips. Two minifigures. They will come in this incredible blind bag. You know, with a boooo and all the blind stuff. We got our minifigures. Common sense cow and

gratitude gorilla are examples here. You don't know which one you'll get. Put up two of those. Let's get the giveaway. Everybody watching on all the other social media. If you want to ask me a question or you want to get a giveaway, please go to garyve.com/w whatnot and download the app and get over here. If you just downloaded the app and this is your first show, please answer. Back to what I was saying. Big shout out

to people in the cogs. The cogs in the machine. There's a lot of people that really enjoy life with a very simplistic I don't want to stress about my career that way. I'm going to work 9 to5. I'm going to work 40 hours a week. I'm going to have time at home. I'm going to be able to go to my kids stuff. I'm going to enjoy my weekends. I can't wait for Fourth of July and Labor

Day and Memorial Day weekend. As you guys know, I've been off the grid the last couple weeks. I'm not fully relaxed. Every morning I woke up, I had to look at my phone to make sure something catastrophic didn't happen. Like that's just like you don't have a vacation when you own a business. And so big shout out to those people. Obviously those come with limited financial upside compared to an entrepreneur or somebody doing something remarkable in

the arts or sports. But if those individuals know how to manage their money and live within their means, bless you rips. Like, you know, I say this all the time. Bless you, rips. A lot of people need to live move from San Francisco to Chattanooga, Tennessee. A lot of people need to move from Connecticut to, you know, New Hampshire. A lot of people need to move to places, especially as we go into this virtual world. So,

anyway, long-winded answer. 17 to 29, high risk all the way. If something's burning in your tummy, go all in. You could always get a job. you once you get a job, you don't have the hours to be creative like that. The thing that everyone's full of [ __ ] about, Erin, and I mean really full of [ __ ] about is they don't want to sacrifice all the other things while they chase their dream. So, if this kid's going to

chase his writing dream from 17 to 27, he's going to live very, very humbly. No Mercedes, no trips to the Amalfi Coast, no Prada bags. And I think that's great and that's that. So anyway, and then there's the whole mental part, the judgment. When you going to get a real job, your mom and dad, your friends, your buddy that was a equal to you in high school is now making 100K and has like a little something

and all the things that [ __ ] with people mentally. Anyway, that's the answer. Let's keep it moving. Justin, how are you? Gary, good to see you. How you doing, brother? I'm so well, brother. Looks like you have some nice weather there. Where are you? Uh South Carolina. Very nice. Great place to be. What's cooking, brother? It's great. Not much. So, um I own a water treatment company. Um which I'm sure a lot of people on here know

cuz I'm active on whatnot. Uh trying to get the the big the biggest skill skeleton collection out of the entire uh I'm aware, brother. You're killing it. Is that why why did you gravitate towards Skill Skeleton? Everybody, if you're watching V friends, my Pokemon, my Marvel, lot of stuff going on with it. We just had our trading cards come out. Everyone's going crazy. The NFTts are hot. The merch. Um Justin here's a serious serious collector. The

skilled skeleton. I'm asking why. Yeah, I think um you know I think all the the characters have some sort of affinity to to business and I think obviously I always love skeletons as a as a character in general, but you know I uh when I went into the military, you know, skills took me where I wanted to go. I kind of got out didn't have a lot of money. Um, I actually got out of the military

with more debt than, you know, I went in with, which is wild. But, uh, I got into sales and that's where my natural skill was at. So, skills took me out of debt, helped me start my own company, um, and now got me on this show, uh, to where I have to ask this big question cuz I'm about to make a big change. And I think skills, if you learn skills, I think you can go as

big and as far as you want in the world. So I'm super all in on just you know investing money investing your time into getting more skills because that is what will that is the asset that builds better bigger than any stock bigger than anything else in the world. So is the epitom and and then if you execute on scale right that's where discipline comes in that's where execution comes in but before we go any further

I just want to thank you for your service to this country and I really appreciate that brother means a lot to all of us well thank you G I'm all in on be friends you're going to see me if this is if if this thing this if this question goes well uh based on what I'm asking um yeah I'm you're going to see a ton of I'm going to try to do it like go heavy got

to get a series one anyway Um, I don't want to take up too much of the time. Go ahead. But my my company, uh, we're we're in the process, a large water company out of Florida, uh, that I've been working with has approached me to do an M&A deal. Um, which I'm excited about because, um, I have learned, and you talked about this a lot, I think I'm a better number two, um, in in the sales

department and growing businesses than I am running the company. Um, I wanted to run this company to prove that I could do it, but I'm at that point in my life where I've been doing this for going on four years now, and this could be a great way to take chips off the table, but I've never done M&A before. So, I've gotten an initial evaluation on the company. I just don't know, you know, what to watch

out for in these negotiations, maybe some things that you've done, you know, in your your career that Justin, do me a favor. Email me at garyvfriends.com and say M&A Justin skill skeleton in the title. I'm going to help you. Okay. Okay. It's super detailed. I'll have to get you in front of some lawyers for some watch outs, but I'm happy to do that given the uh relationship we have and the support you've been giving. Oh, that'd

be amazing. Thank you. So, that was Gary atvdfriends.com. It's about as easy to [ __ ] remember as anything possible. Perfect. All right, Gary. You're a legend. Thank you so much. And uh uh I'm going to all the PSA 10 skilled skeletons. That's the goal. I love it. Thank you, brother. Stay well. All right, brother. Thank you. All right. Take care. All right. Thanks, Gary. All right, let's keep going. Aaron, what do you got? Oh, I got to

do a give. Do we Is the giveaway up? All right, we have 578 of you, but only 300 have joined the actual giveaway. Click this button. Click this button. Click this button. Two free minis available. Also, I want to for anybody that likes high quality t-shirts and likes [ __ ] rocking it. The Vfriend Friends Decisive Duck Listister T-shirts. We saved some back. There it is right there up in the store right now. Right on your screen. Only

17 remaining. 17 remaining period rips like in in no and they can click sizes but but you heard. Okay, Jared on the giveaway. Jared, nice little win there. Uh let's get a pack of chrome rip and sign. Let's put up a pack of chrome. How do I see it's is this blaster? It would say hobby, right? A blaster pack. These are about 30 bucks. I'm going to rip it and then sign one of the cards. That

makes it $100 giveaway right now. Put it in the store. And for everybody who's here for the first time from another channel, say first time and then tell me where you came from. Kevin Showy, Alexander T, Jared F on LinkedIn. All of you get over here right now. Everybody on LinkedIn and Tik Tok, get over here right now. GaryVee.com/whatnot. That's why you can't see me. Go download the app. A bunch of you are here first time.

Can you give me the uh mic? Okay. Or just stay on top. Thank you so much. A lot of first timers. Okay. Wait a minute. Rips. Is there a show notes? Yeah. Let's do something. Everybody who's here for the first time, you want something for free? We can do something for free because you get $15 off on your first purchase on this platform. So, I'm going to put up something for 15 bucks just so you could

Oh, you got a bunch of people in the back. Huh? People waiting in a waiting room. I like this. Nice. All right. Uh, let me get let me do this giveaway first. So, because this $15 free thing rips, what do you got that's 15 bucks? Minifigures, model packs. All right, stick. Let's We can put both of these in the store, right? Yeah. All right. We're going to put both of these in the store. The mini figures

and the manga sticker packs are both 15 bucks. Oh, these are 18. Lower it. Can you lower it? Yeah. Okay. So, these are normally 18. Let's lower it to 15. And the sticker packs 15. And we are going to put them at 15 bucks. And what's that, brother? All right. Stickers are pinned. Everybody, real quick, VF-15. Is there a note? Is there a note over Where is it right now? Can you see it? Is it over

my It's usually right here. Right. Right here. Right. Right here is a yellow notepad. Click it. Click that notepad and then hit the little VF-15 white button in that notes. That will put the VF-15 code in your shopping cart and you will literally get these things for free. The sticker packs are right in front of me right now down below. You'll literally get it for free if you've never bought anything in the history of whatnot. It

is digital QVC Vapor X. That's exactly what this is. And I'm doing this show here because I want to teach you all about live shopping and commerce tainment. Uh Aaron, let's go to Bronson. Let's go to Bronson on the video screen. Oh, with the hard hat. This man is working. Bronson, you were [ __ ] working, bro. Can you hear me? I can hear you, bro. Okay, I'll jump right into it. So, can you think of a moment

in recent history that was really impactful for you that you haven't shared yet on social and put us there in the moment with you? That's a really good question, brother. Um, I I think you're catching me at an interesting time. I would say I had a lot of time to think the last couple of weeks and I'm really really, you know, I'm trying to think of something super impactful that I haven't shared yet. Let me give

you something that's current and I'll try to think of something big, but let me give you what's on my mind right now. What's on my mind right now is starting this fall, definitely going into 2026, I've realized I've really missed interacting live like this, right? This is why I'm doing tea with Gary Veemore. This is why I'm gonna start doing IRL streaming on Twitch and Kick. Like, I feel very much that I'm gravitating towards being more

creative. The comic books that I'm navigating, I feel like as I head into my 50th birthday in November, Brunson, I want to be more creative and more community. I want to double down on the two C's. And I feel like I'm really contemplating changing a lot of aspects of how I operate. Um, I also want to wake up earlier. Like I've been a very much like a 7:30, 8:00, then work out, then go in. But another

thing that's on my mind is getting up at like 5 or 6 to give myself some time before today. So that's on my mind. I was up at 5 today. So that's on my mind a little bit. But I haven't had anything like, god forbid, somebody passed away and reset my framework or or I had a health scare or something major unless something major with health happens. Nothing else is major to me. Those are the major

moments in life. You know what I mean? Yeah. I guess uh I guess really impactful maybe a little bit too big. Maybe just something that sticks out in your mind where you're like, "Oh, that's interesting." Okay. Well, give you a good one. AJ called me when I was at the a football game with Andy K a couple years ago and he's like, "Bro, you've got to see this." And it was the first time I saw Chad

GPT. And I was walking out of the stadium. It was the Rams Raiders game. I think it was the game that Baker Mayfield came back and like played well and like it rejuvenated his career. And uh I was playing with chat GPT as I was walking out of the stadium in LA and it completely changed the course of how I thought about everything right and like we are very deep in AI land right now. Um same

with this platform right here live shopping. I I'm excited. I mean we're in an era where search is getting destroyed like AI is exploding by the nancond and I would say that realizing collectibles on the blockchain NFT 2021 AI 2022 or whatever that was 23 I'm trying to remember when that was and live shopping last year like these three themes the blockchain AI and live social shopping and very honestly ly IRL overall live streaming. These are

the themes that have me very like, oh [ __ ] I'm paying attention and I'm excited. Yeah, I had a similar uh kind of experience with Catch GHT and stuff like that and I've been taking your advice on using it for like an hour a day. Love you for that. And um it's just such a great research partner and creative partner with like writing and stuff like that, brainstorming. So it's huge. It's huge. The other thing that's very

it's a superpower. I mean, look, the other thing that's really exciting is And it's free. We It's Yeah, it's very low cost. And And the other thing that's brewing is people are going to be building websites and apps in a day or two. All of us normies that don't know how to code, that's a big deal. Somebody here watching right now is going to launch an app that's two bucks a month on the app store in

a year and is going to change their life by just prompt engineering an idea. Like all of us have ideas, right? And like but like me included cuz I don't code. You don't wake up with an app idea and think it's going to happen. You think you need $100,000 to get a developer and marketing and all this stuff. So like lovable is very much on my radar and I'm paying attention to that. And so I just

think it's an incredible time to be alive. I think everyone's obviously like actually that's probably another thing very much on my mind. The polarization of like the world right now. Forget about even the politics, the wars, all that. Forget even that the separation of wealth, the changing tides. I think we have two groups of people. This is why I'm so motivated to bring back tea with Gary Vee every day. I need everybody here watching to start

their day mindset right. We are in such an extremely interesting time in history. And honestly, I genuinely believe this from the bottom of my heart. Either one decides it's terrible or one decides it's remarkable. And both can be true. But you were fundamentally in charge. Not Elon, not Donald Trump, not Vladimir Putin, not [ __ ] Sam Alman. like you and the way you've decided to look at the opportunity in front of you is like 100% real. Like

there's ways right now to like get golden visas in Portugal and Dubai that are pretty darn easy in the scheme of things. And so if you're upset with Canada or the UK or the US, you could stop being a cry [ __ ] baby and just [ __ ] move to Portugal. You could. Now someone's going to be like, "No, no, no." But like you could hate your job and you could learn how to use AI and live streaming and

the blockchain. Like like it's just [ __ ] binary. You could be a [ __ ] crybaby or you could be an actionoriented accountable [ __ ] awesome ninja. So you could be a [ __ ] crybaby or you could be accountable and actionoriented and nobody stops. And it's never been easier. And it's but brother that's why I'm saying it's never been easier when people like oh it used to be so awesome in the 90s [ __ ] they didn't have anything like it wasn't more

awesome in the 90s there was no Tik Tok there was no Shopify there was no Google there was no chat like we didn't have [ __ ] like I was a [ __ ] hustler making like and I was working my dick off and I was making like $83 a weekend cuz I had to go to a flea market and then wait for another show to happen 2 weeks later. There was no [ __ ] internet, let alone AI. You have one

of what's what's happening actually is technology in this moment is exposing people. It's creating the extreme halves and the extreme have nots. Either you're late either this weekend you laid in your bed and you were in your feed and you were upset or you weren't. Like that's it. I'm not a great reader either. So I can't read for [ __ ] library in high school. Bronson, I can't read for [ __ ] either. Yeah, TITBT is such a big help

with like learning anything I want to learn. 100%, bro. And Gemini and stuff like that. Gemini, all of it. [ __ ] it, man. All of it. All right. Love you guys. See you, Bronson. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Rips. Can I do like a flash sale? Minigures. I want to do a flash sale. All right, everybody. If you've never bought anything on whatnot in your life, see what I pulled. The heart trooper.

Oh, did somebody win the pack? Yeah. Who? Let me do that first. Everybody, if you are Mano, mano on our team one. Mano, are you allowed to enter mono from our international team one? All right, Mono. Good [ __ ] And he got a Kevin Hart. And he got a Kevin Hart. And he got a humble hedgehog. And it's okay. It's Oh, thank you so much, Court. Look at this skilled skeleton. Juicy Jaguar, Kevin Hart, and the Humbled

Hedgehog. We're going to sign the Humble Hedgehog. Mono. Just [ __ ] people in here. He had no idea. All right, let's throw uh let's do a flash sale. I'm going to teach everybody. All right, everybody. Flash sales. These are [ __ ] amazing. Everybody, if you're on the other channels, get over to garyv.com/w whatnot. Get over here right now. Who's new to whatnot? First time ever. Say first time ever. Say first time. Ooh, actually the tote is a good

one. Rip, where's the tote? I agree. This tote is so rips, what are the tote is crazy. This fearless fair. Show the show the cam again. Look at this. The Fearless Ferry. Adam Listister. What an incredible artist. How much are totes? They're 30, but they also come I think you have the sticker pack with you. I've seen people kind of flip. That's been smart. All right. So, these are 30 with the sticker pack. Yeah, we can

list one. We have all the characters. How many? We got all the characters. All right. Can you Can you flash them all or No, I have to do one at a time. All right. Let's do one at a time. You'll just run them. I'll go back to the show, but you're going to run these flashes one at a time. Lenny, stick with us. Give us a second. Um uh let's flash them. They're 30, right? All right.

Let's um You're going to flash them for a minute each. Okay. Let's take 25% off. Let's take a 25. 25. By the way, anybody checking out this little hat I'm rocking? That's a civet. Awesome. I love previewing the hats long before they come out. All right, rare robot tote. You want the totes? The flash sale is on. They are on. Oh [ __ ] they're going to sell pretty quickly. I think these totes are epic. All right, let's

uh let's go to Lenny while the flash sale is going. Flash the flash. The sale is up, everybody. Only nine left. They are flying. Lenny, what's good? Hey, Gary. Uh, actually, my name is Joe and it's funny. My name my dog's name is Lenny. So, um, and my my handle is Boston Dog Dad. So, uh, Lenny is, uh, is my my 13-year-old Boston Terrier. I love it Joe. Thank you. First of all, I just want to

say, um, you are a massive inspiration to me. You are the literally the reason why I created my dogs or my why I continued uh, my dog Lenny's Facebook page. Um, cons consistently posting is what got me to where I am with him today. Um, you suffocated my BS. uh you know which I loved. Um I have been following you for for a very long time now. I listen to you when I go to work um

each day and I learn so much from you and um you know I have you know your pretty hats to get. I know bought it. Yeah. Joe, speaking about impossible, I do not understand how people don't understand this panda bag's impossible and it's being discounted and there's only 19 left and there's 21 seconds. Get in there crew. All right, Joe. Go ahead. Thank you so much. Um, yes. So, uh, I've been posting consistently for probably probably

the last 6 years, honestly, on on Lenny's Facebook page, which is Lenny the Boston. Um, and he was actually the first Hotel.com official dog. So, also known as the K9 Critic. So, in 2019, um, like you said, you know, you have to you have to get the apps, uh, you know, and I did. I entered the contest that Hotels.com had. They had the entries. Um, I posted Lenny. I said, "Here's why Lenny deserves to be the

Hotels.com K9 critic." They chose us 3 months later. It was right before the pandemic. Pandemic ended or pandemic started. We couldn't travel. Then we were able to travel for hotels.com. Uh, and we're kind of in a niche spot where we review pet friendly hotels and I review them from Lenny's perspective. So, we've grown it from 60 followers to 114,000 followers, which is which is cool. Um, we're reaching 4.5 million views per month. Uh, now we're in

the content monetization program, which is great. So, uh, Lenny's really helping out the uh the family, which is awesome. One second, German. This is not a recording. This is live. Go ahead, Joe. So, Lenny's Lenny's Lenny's becoming the bread winner. Exactly. Lenny's paying the mortgage. Yeah. Um uh and uh so I'm looking to to take his brand to like the next level. Um he has two two other little little brothers. One is two and one is

one years old. One is Maui. One is Yoshi there. So we have the three Boston Terriers, the Terrier Bros or Super Boston Bros I call them. And we're just looking to uh I'm looking to get them into the hotel review space as well. Looking to kind of see what I should do next to continue building. It's it's it's it's it's doubling down on what you know. You know what my answer is going to be. If you're

not on all seven platforms, I'm upset. Like if you're not on YouTube shorts, you know, there's also going live, right? Twitch and kick. There's, you know, YouTube and Snapchat and Tik Tok and it's just more like I keep telling people building a brand on social media is like going to the gym. The answer is more. Like how do I get just came from? Nice work. you know, like like I you know, like people it's [ __ ] more

reps. It's like getting better at basketball. It's like getting better at, you know, chess. It's like what people don't understand is that most people are not disciplined or consistent or tenacious enough to get through the hard days and then they lose momentum. Every one of us, every one of us watching right now has tried to get better at something, right? And every one of us has failed. Like literally every [ __ ] person watching has tried and failed

at something, especially in a world of like health and fitness. Like so many people fail at that. And then there's other skills. The answer to your question, brother Rips, what's going on? Why don't we have the next tote? Which one? Oh, fairy's gone. No, sorry, I missed it. That's on me, R. I'll take my bad. My bad. All right, go to the next one. Um, I'm so locked into Joe's question. Joe, listen. I think I I

think you know the answer. If you're not posting on every platform and then there's other thing you could start writing on Substack, right? Where's the attention? What's the content you need to do there? How do you overindex on awareness on the platforms that have the attention? That is the game. There's the seven social networks. There's Substack. There's the live streaming platforms like Twitch and Kick. Um, and that's that. You know, this one's about to go up.

This slice of duck is about to go up. The last one they've all sold out. totes on flash sales have crushed um you know so Joe I that's it brother yeah more reps more reps like how much content is being you know more platforms more output more different ways written word audio video live recorded uh doing you doing podcasts with Lenny right you showing up I want to do well by the way then you need to

then you need to go take a shower since you just worked out and sit there for 3 hours and DM am every podcaster that talks about dogs or travel in the world. The end. That's what I do. I'm [ __ ] tenacious. Yep. Like a turkey or a termite, depends on which V friend you like more. Like, you know, that's it, bro. Got it. Right. I love it. Yes. All right, man. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

Love you, bro. Decisive duck sold out. Everything's sold out. Rips. Everything's sold out. Reps. Everybody, if you did not buy anything, there's things in the store. Go to the shop. Buy something. Let me know you bought it. If it's your first show ever, let us know. Aaron, time for you to read two or three questions in a row. Let's do some rapid fire questions. Te with Gary Vee episode 81. Thank you all for joining. Hit the

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to get on the show on video just like Joe did, you ask a question in the chat only on whatnot. Everybody who's on Instagram and Tik Tok and YouTube, I see you. Lefran Graphics, it's not your first time. You have to go to garydeme.com/wnot. That is why my face is covered on all the other platforms. Get over here. Aaron, go. Okay. Question from Yomar. What would you say to your 33-year-old self? I'm just curious because my

TikTok has gone ridicul ridiculously viral in the last 48 hours. If this was my one shot at opportunity between how I live and how I want to live, what would you say? Jump. Go all in. Fear is destroying everybody's soul on this show. Fear of what though is what the question like like falling on your face is good. Especially if you're lucky if you have family. Some people don't have family, but if you have family on

earth, like falling in your face is good cuz the booby prize of falling on your face is you go get to hang out with your family. Now, some people hate their parents. So, that might not work, but sometimes, you know, friends are sometimes family, you know, like sometimes you're, you know, as we always say, friends are the family you choose, right? So there's friends like sleeping on the couch of a loved one or friend I actually

genuinely know [ __ ] believe is a badge of honor if you went and took a risk and failed. If you're sleeping on a couch cuz you [ __ ] want to do coke all night and play video games, lose play. If you just want to sit around and [ __ ] you know, like smoke weed all day and gamble on crypto and that's why you're sleeping on your buddy's couch, you're a [ __ ] loser. But if you went and risked, you quit

your job, you had $8,000 in savings, maybe even $8,000 in debt, but you had this moment on TikTok when something's happening and you realize how to monetize. That's the other part. A lot of people can go viral, but they don't know how to make money. This is why I'm obsessed with this platform. I actually think Live So Mike V can't sell. He's not a [ __ ] sales dude, but now he's becoming one. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. You

didn't You didn't You didn't like obsess your whole life about selling [ __ ] It's true. I'm not making fun of you. I'm saying the truth. Like I have basically spent I'm 49 years old, six. I've spent 43 straight years every day thinking about selling something. Like I I don't know what to tell you. Rips, you get over here. Rips this. Rips when you were like 9 and 10 and 11. Like you thought about selling [ __ ] Yes. Right.

All right. Thanks. Like Rips wanted. But Mike, me and Rips could sell on any platform. eBay, a card show, flea market, this platform. But Mike here, not a salesperson, but went and did the show and enjoyed it. Yeah. Have you sold anything since, Mike? No, but another another show coming up. I got to go back to LB. That's where I got all the stuff. Mike, got no It's a small Brooklyn apartment. Mike, I don't give a

[ __ ] I'm going to go pick trash like when people do stupid. Mike, what have you been doing for the last 2 weeks in detail? In detail? What have you been doing? like this started last Monday at 9:00 a.m. I woke up um I want to know what your 700 p.m. to midnight has looked like for the last 2 weeks. O, you know, yeah, I can promise you what O looks like. It means you could have went

back to LBI and got more stuff. And this is what I mean. And like no burn on Mike. What I'm saying is what I'm saying is like just cuz you go viral doesn't mean anything. Like one like there's 8 billion people that had a clip get a million views on TikTok that have done nothing with it. It's all [ __ ] discipline, execution, knowing how to monetize. Are you selling something? Are you trying to get brand dollars? Uh

Mike Mikey the designer on V friends. He's doing his whole thing. I'm on a [ __ ] phone call with him three weeks ago as I'm driving to a meeting with Kelloggs, a cereal company and I'm cuz he emailed me twice to ask for, hey, I want to like figure out how to get brand deals, more brand deals. Like it's either you're doing it or you're not, everybody like enough of the blame. Like either you're doing it or

not. So that's what would I say? Jump. Go for it. But have a plan, you know? Alyssa, how are you? I'm doing well. How are you? Good. Where are you from? I'm from Virginia Beach and I am a 25-year-old who's been doing business for years. So, this part really resonated with me. I'm happy. What's cooking? All right. So, I read your book. I've got my decisive duck squishy. And I actually went and got a booth at

Podcast Summit because I've read your kissing booth style at the end of your book. Now, I wanted to know if you have any suggestions for, of course, now I have the vending booth. I'll actually be launching um my software called plug machine at the time which is really white label of go high level but um I wanted to know if you had any advice because we did decide to get that based on your book. I love

it. So what are you trying to accomplish there? The goal is more of a launch for the program that we're having plug machine because everybody in that community has a podcast. They'll need some type of landing page. Our full business is funnel building. So we're going to have the templates already built out and so they'll be able to buy. So, the first piece of advice by far is to film the entire execution. Got it. So, I

see I see the glasses. But if you can get someone Where where is this event? It'll be in Atlanta. Okay, great. Anybody who's watching who's in Atlanta, what's your Instagram? Carissa. C R L Y S A. Um, so like your last name but with a C. Correct. First name with a C. All right. Can somebody put that mods? Can you hit that? It's her first name. A but with a C. Um, that's your Instagram. C. Alyssa.

C U R L Y A. Oh, C U R. Yes. Like curls. Mhm. C U R L Y S A. Beautiful. Um, everybody, somebody who's in Atlanta who's willing to either, if they have a camera or with an iPhone, just film the entire booth the entire day. You're a straight grinder. You're a straight [ __ ] grinder. You're just excited to [ __ ] go and stand there and film every interaction. Hit up Kissa or Alyssa and uh see if

you guys can connect. That's what I would definitely do. So, that'd be the first thing for sure cuz you need those clips and because you know you're being filmed when you get the first people coming in and explain it, explain it to them, but also know to get your entire thesis out cuz you're going to post those things on LinkedIn and on YouTube shorts. Um, because those are going to be platforms that are going to lead

to opportunity. That makes sense. The biggest thing when you're in a live event, especially a B2B event like you're going to be at the two core things you're trying to accomplish is number one, you're trying to film everything. So, it's a production day for your content. Every live event, whether you're B2B or B to C, is now a production day for your social media content. Got it? Yes. Number two, you're trying to make very deep relationships,

one-on-one relationships with 5, 10, 15 people that can change the course of your game because of it, you know. Yes. So, that's it. That's what I would recommend. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Have the best day. You too. All right. Who is in the chat right now? Only on whatnot, not the other social platforms. Who's never bought anything on whatnot in your life? Say never bought. Also, all of you who are in the chat right

now, you've got to learn about Vfriends. Go to befriends.com/quiz. You've got to learn about the quiz. Reps, there's a lot of people who've never bought. That means they have a $15. That's right. Right up here, there's a $15. If you hit this notepad, if you hit that little notepad, there's a VF-15 button in there. If you click this little notepad, like the notepads. Yep. You just click it and there's a VF-15 button. You hit that, that's

$15 off your first purchase on whatnot ever in the shop right now. Or $15 items, I think. If you can't see the notepad, that means you're on desktop. Whoops. Or Android, or maybe you just can't. Uh, the way you talk is you ask a question in here. Ask a question with the question mark and the team will find you. Aaron, rattle off a couple questions. All right. Question from Joe. How do you maintain focus on one

project when you are so excited about six others? I tend to squirrel way too much and my attention is divided between several projects and nothing gets done. Discipline like I don't know like like you know but also not demonizing yourself. I get pretty creative too. I can deviate myself. I like I like spinning seven plates. I just don't cry when five of them break. If you're going to ADD it out. You can't beat yourself up for

living your true life. So, I'm giving the answer, but I don't live that answer all the time. Sometimes I don't see things all the way through because I want to [ __ ] spin six other plates. I got that off. I got that feeling off. I scratched that itch. I got that nut off. I did that. But I'm okay with five of the plates breaking cuz I realize that's what I'm doing it for the excitement of the creativity

of nine other things. I don't believe that I'm super human and can make seven things work at the same time. And I'm 25 years into my career now, 30 years into my career now. And I have trusted partners, my brother AJ, you know, Brandon Waricki, Eric Watenberg, not to mention all of you on the thing. Like I have infrastructure around me now, which allows me to do more things, but I used to have none of that.

I didn't have an admin for the first 15, 10 years of my career, you know, not even an admin. I had to do my own calendar. I had to like So like you just build up. But if you're going to jump to a bunch of different things and not be disciplined, don't be disappointed something failed. Cuz if you're going to need something to succeed, you got to put in time and effort. Nothing on earth has ever

happened without time or effort. Nothing. Not being a good parent, not being good at a sport, not creating a company, not getting views consistently as a creator or influencer. There's not one [ __ ] thing that has ever happened that has been meaningfully successful for a period of time that has happened without consistency and effort and work. And do you know, Aaron, do you want to hear something crazy? These [ __ ] don't want that to be the case. But

there's no [ __ ] OMIC in real life. In real life, building [ __ ] in business, in [ __ ] building, there's no OMIC. Sorry. There's no [ __ ] ompic in building a career or a business or something meaningful. Sorry. I'm sorry. I get it. I wish I could get A's in school. I wanted to get A's. I didn't want to get Fs. It's not fun to get grounded every 3 months. It's not fun for grown-ups to [ __ ] on you 24/7 from

the ages of 8 to 18. It wasn't fun for me. I wish I could get A's. There was a problem. I never opened up a book. I did no studying. I did not hand it a I did do you know how many book reports I did in my life? Goose egg. I did not hand them in. I heard book report. I'm like [ __ ] you. Do you know how I did my tests? I'm OG. I don't know

if you guys do they still have Scantron still like AB. Good. You know how I did Scantron? Let me show I can take a test in high school right now. That's how prepared I was back then. Ready? Here you go. A B C C DB A C A B C A B I'm out. I'm [ __ ] out. That was me. That's how I [ __ ] took tests in high school. BCP A CCB A B C A B CCC

I'm out. And you know what would happen, Aaron? I'd get it back and I'd get a 24. I'd get a [ __ ] 24. That's what [ __ ] happened. Cuz I didn't put in the work. cuz I wasn't like a lot of you who like you know paid attention to class and studied like and that's why I [ __ ] failed and sucked. You saw the report card. 243 out of I was 243rd best out of 254 kids in my class

earned cuz I was [ __ ] lazy in that thing cuz I kind of was smart and realized it meant nothing. And that's how real life is. Mike hasn't made any more revenue because he didn't drive to LBI and get more stuff and then go live again. Like it's not complicated. That is why Mike did not make more money. This was really good point. What's that? This is a really good point. It's a great point, Mike. I don't

know if you know this, but if you don't [ __ ] do it, you don't get the money. You can't just sit there and lay in bed and scroll and the money just shows up. There's no getrichqu scheme, you [ __ ] There's no secret. It's called [ __ ] work. [ __ ] me. Jesus Christ. Robert Mchu on the show. What's going on, Vic? What's up, my man? I'm good, bro. I'm [ __ ] fired up. These [ __ ] don't want to work. Robert, bro, I'm

telling you. I'm telling you, man. You don't even realize. I've been emailing, texting, and guess what? I'm here, bro. You just got to keep it up, man. That's all you got to do. 100%. How where are you from, bro? Uh Birmingham, Alabama. My man. How can I? Yes, sir. Uh just real quick, as you know, you may not know, but on uh on whatnot, then my little icon is the hustling hamster, bro. Out here hustling, getting

it. So, but but I'm hustling at the wrong things. I got to know like like how how do I figure out my passion? Well, what do you like? Like I'm Bro, that's just it. I like everything for for a short moment of time. You you you understand what I'm saying? Like I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Let's stop right there. All right. It sounds like passion and what you think you can make money

in are two different things. Okay. Got it. Got you. I'm talking about Robert the dude, not the guy who's trying to figure out where he can make his money. Talk to me about you. Like at night, on the weekends, during holidays, like what do you want to do? Do you want to drink beer? Do you want to watch NASCAR? Do you want to [ __ ] surf? Do you [ __ ] want to play video? Like you as a human,

what [ __ ] do you get excited about? Cuz you know, I'll give you like V friends. What I'm doing right now with V friends is me living my biggest truth. I love collectibles and like flipping stuff and like building unra and creativity and like like I'm living it. I love marketing. I learned when I was building my daddy's store that it wasn't the liquor selling that I liked. It was figuring out ways to get people to buy

it. So then I did Vayner Media. Got it. Like I need to know what what is fun for you. It is fun for me to come up with ideas for business and slogans and strategies. But if I had if I knew that gu uh if landscaping was where all the money was in the world and I was like, "Oh, I'm going to do landscaping." I wouldn't like it because I don't [ __ ] like mowing lawns. And by

the way, a lot of my [ __ ] buddies do, right? They they live for [ __ ] Saturday. They're like, "Gary, you [ __ ] see my grass?" I'm like, "I don't give a [ __ ] about your grass." They're like, "But my shit's so green. Look at my neighbor. It's like brown." And they can't wait to [ __ ] pop a [ __ ] Budweiser and drink the [ __ ] out of it and put on some [ __ ] ear pods and listen to Bonfucking Joy and Bruce Springsteen

and [ __ ] mow that lawn like nobody's [ __ ] They I have buddies literally. I mean this. I grew up with these kids. I talked to them that are literally can't wait for [ __ ] this Saturday to [ __ ] drink four and a half Bud Lights while listening to rascal frats while they mow the [ __ ] out of their lawn. And I'm telling you right now, if you told me that's what I had to do for life, I would take a

knife and stab it through my throat. I got you. I got you. So I want to know what you give a [ __ ] about. So So that's that's the thing, bro. Like what I what I care about is is the pro. Like I'm always trying to figure out the next way. Like that is what I enjoy. That's what I'm talking about to my friends is trying to figure out what can we do next. Well, let me tell

you what you should do next. You should download Lovable and you should make apps. Okay, that's it. I've literally changed your life, Robert. Stay disciplined. Never waver. If you [ __ ] with me like that, give me one year of [ __ ] becoming obsessed with how to use Lovable to make apps and put out apps that charge a dollar a month and try to get one to [ __ ] work. Okay. All right. All right. I'm in there, bro. Hey, I

I really appreciate all your stuff. I I do I appreciate you having me on, bro. It's a true inspiration. I hope you enjoyed your vacation. I hope I hope I didn't blow up your DMs on the vacation, bro. Yeah, brother. I'm so glad you're here. I wish you nothing but the best and like I I appreciate caring about what's next but once you understand what's bro here's here's what's next AI blockchain and live live streaming on

the internet whether brand building or selling I just gave you the answer of what's next that is the next four years right so now do something within it yeah yeah bro like I I it's lovabledev right right I just want to get I want to get pin for everyone. Okay. So, bro, I just told you what the [ __ ] is next. I I appreciate that because it's it it's always just been like, you know, I I dropped

out of high school to take care of my family. Like, we we kind of have like the same like you got to take care of your moms. You know what I'm saying? That's what I did. I respect it. And it's been hustle hustle city since then. And it's always been like about the making the dollar. And now it's just got to I got to figure out what that passion is. cuz I got to figure out what

about what about hobbies? Real quick, just real quick. What are your favorite h like what do you watch? Movies, sports, like what do you listen? Like help me. No, like like that that that's the crazy thing. Like that's the thing that's driving me crazy is I don't like my hobby is learning. Like I love to learn different things. Like I'm out here on chat GBT trying to figure out like what what's going on today. So, so

why don't why don't why don't you [ __ ] start a Twitch channel and talk about [ __ ] your like call it Alabama [ __ ] learnings and just [ __ ] sit there and talk about [ __ ] for an hour and share your screen. Why don't you go live sharing your screen while you're learning? Like, come learn with me. That's what I'm thinking about doing. One of the things I'm contemplating in 26 is going live in the evenings. I told Sid this yesterday.

I'm going to call it winding down. Get it? Winding down. Little wine. You like that? I like tea with I want to bookend everybody's day. I want to be tea with Gary B in the morning and wine ding down with Gary Vee at night. And I'm just going to [ __ ] And my slogan is going to be like, "And you [ __ ] have to figure out the middle." That's going to be me. I got you in the morning

and I got you at night. And you got to [ __ ] figure out the middle. That's going to be my [ __ ] slogan. Gary B 2026. Vote for me. [ __ ] you figure out the [ __ ] middle. Gary 2026 tea with Gary B and winding down with Gary B. And you got to figure out the [ __ ] middle. I love it, bro. I'll be your first subscriber. I'm in there, bro. Bro, listen to me. You've got to do the same thing.

You've got to learn how to like, you got to use chat GPT to learn how to get a proper little And by the way, Courtney's putting out content about how to set up your live world. Courtney's [ __ ] out here hustling, trying to build her brand on Let me teach you beginners how to set up a live stream sitch. Once you get that right, bro, your night should be put on some music or not candles, whatever the

[ __ ] incest, whatever the [ __ ] gets you going. Put on your [ __ ] get your [ __ ] screen live and here's what it's going to look like. You're going to have six, three, two and a half viewers at first and you're going to build Aiden Ross and Kaiet had two viewers at first. Me, too. That's how it is. And you're going to [ __ ] I'm teaching. I'm teaching and people are attracted to people that are like them. There's a bunch

of country boys that going to [ __ ] with you way more than somebody else cuz you're them and and they're you and they're going to [ __ ] like hanging with you. Like when I make my wrestling and sports references, root be or garage sales, people that are into that stuff are into it. People that are a little more quiet, more reserved, maybe high class life, maybe literature, they may not connect with me as much. The interests don't align,

but everybody has an audience. Everybody has an audience. I I appreciate that, bro. I really do. Hey, good luck to you on everything. And I'm going to see you on the stage one day. I promise you. You'll see again. Can't wait. All right, Rips, before I transition, do are you taking it? Like, is anybody taking this? Courtney's taking this. Oh, and Jazz. Oh, the ladies. It's We're about to do a ladies session here, which is good

cuz the ladies in the company are much smarter than the men. What? What? Blaster case break. Oh, we're doing a blaster case break. Uh here's a here's a question for the 600 of you that are live or whatnot. And for everybody who's not on whatnot, please get over here right now. Uh there's a reason my face is blocked. It's called garyve.com whatnot. If you didn't come here already for the thousand of you that are on all

the other platforms, get over here right now. I'll give you two minutes to say hi. Please get over download it now. Who's in the chat right now that did come today for the first time on whatnot. And here's the next question. Who here that's new is into Pokemon, Harry Potter, trading cards, Marvel, comic books, or has a kid that's between the ages of six and uh five and uh four and nine. Four and nine. Go to

bfriends.com/carttoons. Show them that. Uh C, can you just hit the uh Thank you. Uh kids between four and nine. Let me know if you're one of those people. Um do Here's a very simple question to new people. Do you want to learn C? Can you show my ground here, my uh my table? Who here wants to learn about this universe right here? Who wants to learn about the resourceful robin and why I named it after my

mom? Who wants to learn about the intuitive iguana and why so many of you [ __ ] don't trust your intuition? Who wants to learn the adventures of the versatile Viking? Why having versatility can actually set you free? Who wants to learn about the wolf a wizard or a self-aware hair or why adaptability like the alien is so key? Or one of my absolute favorites because she's a gangster, the ambitious angel and the adventures of that. Who wants

to learn about this world? Who wants to learn? Say, I want to learn. Um, and here's something you can do. You can uh you can text me at 212931-5731. Text me the word V friends. Uh, Adrian, can you put that up right now? If you want to learn, and if you really want to learn and you want to meet two of the greatest, fabulous ladies in the world right now, they're about to jump on, take over

the show right now, you're going to be able to buy some cards. You're going to be able to learn. It's going to be a lot of fun. What's going on the screen? No worries. Um uh and uh and who's ready for who likes my 2026 idea? The tea with Gary Vee and the winding down with Gary. And you got to take care of the middle. Please put 2026 in the chat if you like that idea. That's

coffee in the middle as well. A coffee commercial in the middle. You're right. The coffee commercials. Um all right, everybody. Thank you. I'll be seeing you a lot more especially going to really hit the ground running in October. We're mapping towards that. Um, I love you all. Uh, I could not recommend for all of you to stick around longer. Who's staying to learn about V friends right now? Because either you collect or you have a kid

from uh 4 to 9. Who's staying? Say staying. I want to learn. Ladies, please on board along with everything else. Thank you everyone. Who's uh what are you doing? Oh, you're playing that. Yeah. Just while we switch it up real quick. Welcome back. Thanks. Yeah, welcome back. Okay sweet. Um, just Yeah, perfect. I was going to say grab a chair real quick. Go left. You go right. I'm going to switch this around. Just literally like Just

take the stream deck. I did. So, amazing. Amazing. Amazing. Sweet. You have it. Yeah. Can we just check? I think the mic that just murdered my ass. Damn, dude. Um, is this scary? Can we just move that up for you? This is okay. Restart the recording here. Okay, I can hear me. Yeah, I can hear. Yeah, thank you. All right, I'm ready whenever you are here, bro. Are we good? Yes. Should we change back out? Um,

yes. That's a great call. It is a hard drive here. We don't know. I just smashed my fingers. We'll talk about that. Oh no. Are you okay, dude? I smashed my in the gate this weekend. Oh, good. That was perfect. Good. I'm glad. He was like, "What are we doing?" Like open show. Oh, I got more. Okay, cool. Okay. What? What is Okay, we're going to just exit out of that. Never mind. Can I help it

out? Um, I think we're good, honestly. Um, would you be able to grab tea? Uh, I guess we don't need tea, guys. I have a bunch of supplies. I'll get them all here. We're giving away. Thank you. Might as well. Why not? Oh, okay. Sweet. Great. Go first. All right. Ready? Yeah. Okay. We'll wait for it to time out. Actually, they've seen it like three times. So, I'm just going to Welcome back, chat. Welcome back. How

we doing? Happy Monday, everybody. You want to You want to give them the lowdown of what we're going to get into while I fix the camera real quick? For sure. All right. Thanks, Jess. Are we not getting any feedback, right? I don't think so. Good morning, Wana. All right. So basically what we're getting into is this is mine and Courtney's first literally both of our first blaster case break. So what does that mean? Blaster bl there's

blasters and there's hobbies. There's blaster blasters and we have 40 in a case. So that means we're literally opening up 40 of these blasters. So we're auctioning off every single character and you'll see them. So, one by one, we're going to auction them off and you if you win it, you get the character in all of the entire case. So, all 40 boxers say you want decisive duck and you win the auction. You get that that

that card in literally the entire case. Which one's going to pull a blast off for the Twitter? for this. Um I think I think I'm going to pull a blast off and Courtney's going to pull a game on. How's that? You're cutting blast off and game on. Yeah, these these cases I've seen this one case. Yeah, I've heard these are wild. I have two. I've never done one before. Me neither. This is a Yeah, first time.

First time blaster case. Let's go now. chat, how are we feeling? How do we do we understand how the blast that that gibby? We've got blaster packs for the giveaway. That's fist 101 Blastoff for sure. What? Listen, my favorite character already came off in Blastoff. I saw that. Yeah, we literally pulled You weren't there, but they pulled it right when you were there that morning. Yeah, that's crazy. I had just left the office. How's that blister?

I don't know, Saggy. It's still sitting on my counter. I don't know. I don't want to talk. You have an oyster? Yeah. I went to the beach this weekend, found a full oyster, wanted to bring it home cuz I thought there was a pearl inside of it, and then got too queasy when I went to crack it, and that was just sitting on my counter. Is it smell? Kind of. We're getting to a point where I

need to make a decision. Do you have Well, I mean, now I don't think you should crack it. It's Don't eat it. Well, no. I'm not going to eat I was never going to eat it. I was never going to eat it. Okay. But it was mostly cuz I want to see if there's a pearl on the inside cuz Right. That's a Look up on YouTube or chatbt. I think there's like certain ways to harvest them.

Okay. Yeah, we're learning. We're learning. Enter into this giveaway, though. Yeah. Enter. And And it's it's somebody's going to win right now. Let's see who wins. Chadley V. Congrats on the blaster pack giveaway. Congratulations. That one's going out, too. I just need uh a little sticky. You need a sticky note. Ah, just write it around the bag. Yeah, that's how we roll around here. Yeah, why not? I'm just so excited for this blaster case, dude. We're

going to have the best morning. And this is our first time back in what, like 2 weeks? Yeah, it's been a while. It's been a while. Oh my goodness. Why don't I work on getting some tunes queued up? Yeah, I'll get the you got them up. Um, you you got inbag.com. I can do that bookmarked. I I love that website. It's my favorite website of all time. You want me to up? Absolutely. I'm going to get

some uh some tunes rolling. Chat, how are we feeling after tea with GV? How are we feeling? Are you from here? Is this your first time seeing V friends? Drop a one in the chat if this is your first time seeing V friends. Drop a one. I'm getting feedback on my uh my headphones a little bit. It's okay. I'm good. Okay. It's No, I kind of I kind of like it. Whoa. You can see our entire

desk. This is cool. Yeah, you guys can see our N and Tussen. Welcome in the collector's table. Welcome in. If you just came in from Tea with GV, you know how Gary rolls. This is his IP, his Pokémon meets Marvel meets Sesame Street universe called Vfriend Friends. We have over 250 characters to collect. There's a 100 characters in the V Friends Top Scrum 2025 set, which you learned a little bit about as we transitioned into this

show. Are you the one? Are you the one on the left for 1:37 PM? Jonathan, I am. What's up? I used to work for 1:37 p.m. with card talk. Nice to see you here, my friend. Um, new series when manga packs is giving would be awesome. You know, that would be awesome. The collector's table, but unfortunately, we can't do that today. But if you stick around for our future shows, we will eventually have them on the

show. Denver collectibles. Yep. Card talk fam. Card talk fam in the chat. Nice to see you, John. I can't throw things behind me. That is my That's I am so used to throwing things behind me, but I should probably not do that here. Oops, daisy. That's funny. Oh my goodness. Okay, let's see if I can connect to this road cer here. How was everybody's weekend? Did everybody have a long weekend? I'm assuming some people did Fourth

July. I know I went home and spent some time with my family. Um, when I'm not working, family's number one. And I'm honestly so so blessed that I got to go do that and just hang out with my family all weekend. Um, but like still like I was looking at V friend comps and like all that stuff all weekend. But I actually taught my my dad and my brothers what V friends is and I brought some

cards. And so my dad walked in last night and he goes, "Hey Jess the Zestful Zebra said hi." I'm like, "Oh my god, Dad, you're so corny." But like, you know, my dad said he wants to learn every single V friend. And he he's a sports fan. And that just made made me so happy. Um, and so, you know, if if your family doesn't know what V friends is, whether it be old or younger, you know,

I found that my my dad's found so much joy in it. So, you know, share it and uh educate people cuz you never know. I thought he he would be like, "This is kind of weird." Um, but honestly, it was so cool just to see him literally come inside hours after the conversation and bring up be friends. Yeah, V friends is definitely a family affair. I will say I've gotten my family into V friends. It's a

ton of fun to be able to celebrate not only with your friends, but also or not only with your family, but also your friends as well. Oh, yeah. It's one of the coolest parts of of V friends is being able to share it with everyone, you know. All right, chat. I think we're going to get into the auctions here. We're going to get into the music. I know. I'm trying to get it to connect proper. It's

not playing through the right way. Hear me? Here I go. I'm blowing Courtney up already. It's okay. See you guys. Bluetooth. That's what we want. Oh man, I thought you guys could see these little figures, but you can't. Here we go. No, they won't be able to see him there, but they they can see him right here. Oh, I see you're on the top camera. Yeah, we're having fun. But all the the very very very lucky

black cat. If this is your first time seeing me be friends, that is our logo. That's our Mickey Mouse, our Pikachu, our Charizard. That's the character to collect. One of the harder characters to collect, but a great one to have your eyes on. Char. Yes, absolutely. Okay, while I get the tunes rolling, we're going to get into the auctions here. What's going to happen, chat, is you're going to see an auction pop up at the bottom

of your screen. I just pinned it down there. Every character is going to start at a dollar. It's going to start at a dollar. When the auction goes live, it'll have extended bidding on. So, when it gets down, it counts down from 5 4 3 2 1. If someone bids in those last few seconds, it'll extend the time to keep bidding. There will be some spots that are not character- based, like the non-character sketches. That is

for any sketch cards that come out of this blaster case. That is not a character on the checklist of the Top Scrum 2025 set. What else do we have? We have some erupt characters in the mix. This one right here, 555 fan, is a 1975 insert. There are a ton of inserts in the Top Scrum set. You learned about those in the video that we played during the transition here. To answer your question, what was this

like J Goddess? It is very heavy. It's 40 blaster boxes. 40 of them. My schedule wasn't clear today. It is now. With that being said, chat, we're going to get right into 555 and our first ever auction of a little aggressive right now. I Yeah, you know, it's hard to It's so It's such a big case. It's a little aggressive right now. But here we go. Starting at a dollar 555 Finn. One of those 1975 insert

characters. Boom. We are almost live cuz I didn't Oh, we don't want to do sudden death. Oh, I I punk chat right now. Okay, now it's live in 40 blaster boxes. Again, a 40 box case and these have been lit. I've been looking at the comps for these yellows. So, the blasters have these yellow refractors and honestly, the characters are going for higher than a bunch of ones. Like even base refractors, a lot of the characters

because people are trying to collect the sets as well as the yellow just pops. They're going for a lot. JMFsg with the W. What is up everybody? I've missed you guys. I've missed you guys. I haven't I didn't stream at all last week. Gosh, it was uh lonely without you guys. I'm just kidding. Where's the best place to resell? Honestly, eBay. Um, you can throw it up on eBay or you can go to a card show.

So, I'm gonna we're going to be at uh Collectcon in New Jersey as well as a card show in Tennessee this weekend. So, be friends will be there. Um, so you could, you know, Can you hear the tunes in my in my right ear? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can only hear it in one of Wait, it's in your right ear. It's in my left ear. So, what it's just split perfectly right now. Can I log off

after I get my character? Yes, you can. Um, and if you want, you can, you know, you'll be getting it shipped to you, but we we do a recap at the end. Um, so if or if you want to DM me or something like that, if we hit you something huge, somebody will tag you so you can always log off after your character. But the next character live is going to be bum bum bum the accountable

anteater. Hold yourself accountable. Hold yourself accountable. Can you log off before you get your if you want to koi soup? if you want to, but then you wouldn't get your character and then you would miss us hanging out with you. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. You don't want to miss your character. So, make sure you pre- bid. There you go. Denver Collectibles, you can pre-bid and hope that you win. Yeah, sports. I'm working on it,

my friend. Apologies. I know the music is mono right now. We're going to get that fixed here in just a moment. They can't They can't hear it. You want to No, they can they can hear it. Um that uh Oh, accountable anteater is up. Okay, perfect. The accountable eater is going in 5 4 3 2 1 and accountable and eater is up down below. So we've got the manga and the base. And you know what really

pops? The yellow looks pretty cool when it's the contrast here. So again, this is for all 40 blaster cases. Yellows base. You can get the ton of other inserts. The manga looks sick. The numbered mangas. We've been seeing some absolute color come out of these cases. Honestly, I think sometimes, you know, what's the best place to know the true value of a card in order to resell on eBay? That's a great that's a great question. The

first place that you want to check is completed sales on eBay and then to double check those prices. So, whatever you have and you're looking to sell, you're going to want to type that into eBay and then select completed and sold sales. That'll show you all the sales of that thing that you're looking to sell. You can then click one of those listings and create a listing right from another existing listing. But then you're going to

want to double check those eBay sales at 13point.com. They even have an app which is do have. Yeah. So like these are all confirmed sales like 555 guy and orange went for $224 um on July 7th. So, a hustling hamster yellow, which is, you know, I don't know how close you guys can see, but a yellow like literally if you get the hustling hamster, you could sell the yellow insert from this point for 10 bucks. So,

imagine, you know, there's 40 40 boxes. You're going to get a bunch. I'll type it in the chat here for you. Sneaker dad, I apologize. We do need to make a trade and I am going to trade you. I just need to counter. I'm trading uh sneaker dad shark out of 10. But I do need You traded your dad. So there's no sneaker dad. So sneaker dad is a maxi of shrewd shark. I love shrewd shark.

So only for the community am I going to trade my shrewd shark out of 10? But I'm pretty sure that he offered me a shrewd shark at a 20 as part of the trade cuz I need a shrewd shark back. Yes. So uh yeah, I've got to reook at that secret that I owe you a message today. He even said paging Jess. It was funny. All right, going back to this adaptable. Wait. So, they've been waiting

for the good characters till the end. The erupt characters. The erupt characters. I don't think we wait. This is a massive character. This is a This is an iconic. I think we save the We want to save. No, no, no, no, no. We don't save We don't save it after I think we give people the chance. You know, a lot of This is a lot of people's first time so they don't know what the erupt character

like the weight those characters hold. I say we let it run and the people that know that know and they're going to get in if they want to get in. If you know, you know. All right. We're going to do that. We're going to do that. The auction's going to start in three. So, this is a massive character. Boom. Massive character. Adapt to the alien sells for a good chunk of change. If you know, you know.

The iconics insert too, chat. Which is one of the most beautiful. They're like stained glass. It's sick. It's like stained glass. You know what it's designed after? Uh, no. Our NFT collection. We have iconics NFTts that were um gifted to I believe series one or series 2 spectacular holders. Ranger spectacular holder. Ranger 99 for the W. Ranger 99. Was that the character you wanted? On the set, please. The iconics insert is designed after Oh, congrats. In

two. All right. Next up. Next up, we have Alert Ape. This is one of those erupt characters. I think we're going to pause. We're going to pause. Hold on. We're going to pause because erupt is important to know about. Erupt is super important. So, we have to educate people. Educate. You're going to see a full video watcher just like you did on the tops chrome set. This is for the erupt insert. This is how big the

erupt insert is. It has its own commercial. And we're also going to put up a giveaway after that. So stay tuned. What I'm getting a little bit of feedback on on your headphones? Yeah. Like of me talking like I like hear me talking but it's like a echo. Maybe just turn my voice down or something. Yeah, I can definitely check. That sounds That sounds better. Uh, no. I know you haven't. I just heard it again. And

we're back. What did we learn about What did we learn about the erupt insert? What did we learn? What did we learn? Drop it in 3 2 1. Yeah, it's done by the Kaboom artist. It is done by the Kaboom artist if you're a sports card collector. Nice call on that, Green Dog. Now we're going to get into Alert 8. This is one of those characters. Alert. Alert. I can't hear her. Team with Carrie V. You

know it mess it. It plays with their soundboard. It's fine. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Alert. One of the erupt characters. This is a huge moment. Especially if you hit that erupt. That is a nice color match. So, I was going to say the color match. So, we pulled one. We pulled a fly firefly and that that's a sick. What is it? like it's the black background. Anything red. So if you hit anything red, that's a

color match. So this one is a big character alert alert. Make sure you're alert on Monday morning. Starting at a dollar. Here we go. That's wild. A dollar. And again, this is 45 boxes of full blaster case, which means there's no limit to what we hit. I've seen absolutely I' seen one of ones, sketches, game ons. I've seen everything come out of these cases plus some. And that's just not breaking. That's also when I go to

card shows and we're selling blaster cases and people are just hitting crazy stuff out of the same case. This is a big big character. Don't sleep. Again, you get all the cards from the case. It's gnarly. Kaboom. Boom. Kaboom. Gnarly is right. Gnarly is right. JNBO in the mix here. 3 2 1 and let's go J. Jay's in the mix. I want to alert Abe. Next up, we have Alpha Alligator. Alpha Alligator is going to be

next starting at a dollar. This is Alpha, so Oh, yeah. The