Tea with Gary Vee: Live Q&A on Patience, Business, and Creativity

like this. Morning. Morning everyone. Uh, welcome to Tea with Gary Vee. Uh, episode 90. Um, I haven't done a lot of live content on the Monday morning after a devastating Jets loss in a while. So, we'll see how this goes. Uh, I'm inherently upset uh and, uh, devastated. And that's that. Um, okay. Uh as you can see a lot of you are heading over to whatnot want uh a lot of you a lot of people claiming

no sound on uh on YouTube team FYI. Uh I can't see the the chat's a little clunky. I see the reream for those but I don't see Yeah, exactly. You got to make Instagram and Tik Tok work fine. Um everybody on whatnot, great to see you. All right, T with Gary Vee, we're going to get it going. If you want your question asked, uh, you need to get over to whatnot. And if you want to be

on the show live, like a lot of you have been asking, um, from my socials, then I highly recommend you get over to whatnot. That's garyv.comnot. Um, and I hope you uh can get into the chat right now. Thank you so much for the kind comments. Healthboom, thank you for saying that. It's 3 p.m. in South Africa. Get over here. Big shout out to South Africa. Big shout out to Spain. I see all the 3pmmers. Um,

good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Uh, Ray Mundo on Twitch, good to see you. Thank you for being here on Twitch. Julian Swift, uh, on LinkedIn said it could be worse. I'm a Miami fan. Yes, the Dolphins have it bad, too. I just think the Jets have it worse. Uh, and big shout out to all 200 of you on whatnot. I need all of you to share. Uh, please, please hit the share button. There's only 17

of you in there. And stuff is in the store if you want Vfriend Friends stuff. V Friends is my Pokemon meets Marvel stuff. Um, Sid, you said that the uh the way to get into the green room was going to be pinned. I don't see that uh as the first comment. What's that? Is that the mod shared by by Adrian or is that >> Yes, I I know the G. So, if you want to be on

the show actually live, go to garyb.com tea. If you want to be watching it from the whatnot where I'm doing giveaways like I'm doing right now, let's do a giveaway right now. Do a pair of socks. That's what I feel like in the mood for. Focused Falcon. Focus Falcon socks. Free giveaway on whatnot right now. Focus Falcon socks. This is for the Falcons who had a great win last night. Even though I'm a guy who roots

for the Vikings. Great performance by the Falcons. Focus Falcon socks up now for free on the giveaway top right corner. Uh, just hit the top right corner if you're on whatnot. If you're watching on all the other social platforms, you have to get over to garyb.comwhatnot. I see a lot of you are slow to get over this morning. Uh, get over right now. gary.comwnot to enter the giveaway. Erin, I'm ready for the first question. Let's fire

away. >> This question is from Michael. >> Oh, wait one second. I don't I don't have headphones. Is that how we did it? Is that how we're doing it? All right. Little Monday morning blues here. No headphones. Thank you, sir. Okay, now I'm in the game, >> Aaron. >> Okay, this question is from >> I can't hear you. >> And headphones says, oh, battery phone. Might not be that. Hold on. Headphone just came on. >> Now

I can hear you. >> This question is from Michael. How can I deal with not being able to retire my parents in my 20s and giving back to them since they sacrificed so much for me? You tell us to be patient for ourselves, but how can we be patient for people when you don't know how long they'll live? >> Well, there's a lot of I I'd like to cure cancer. I'd like to have world peace. You

know, this concept that Michael is going to beat himself up and go into depression, anger, sadness because in his 20s he's not able to retire his parents. Michael, nobody in their 20s retires their parents. like [ __ ] 0.01.00001% like the amount of humans that have ever lived that have retired their parents in their 20s is like zero. I I don't understand this. I don't understand why we continue to make up dumb [ __ ] You know, dumb [ __ ] like

retiring your parents at 20s like what's the alternative? So, he's saying, "By the way, I'm orange again and red. Can we fix my coloring?" Um, we're in this place where Michael says, "Hey, I'm not going to be patient, Gary. You say patience. So, what I'm going to do is be sporadic and high risk and gambling, which is going to lead to loss. 99% of people lose when they go that route, right? And so what I'm going

to do is I'm going to do that because I want to retire my parents. In fact, my overall belief is that that's a [ __ ] framework, you know, and it's more like some sort of noble fake excuse, right, of like why you want to get it done. Um you just want to get it done because you actually just want to live the life, you know? And so I don't know. I'm I'm just like I might be way

too much in a bad mood because of the Jets Bills game. Um am I going to turn from red soon or is this my natural color now because I got [ __ ] blasted by the sun while I watch my team lose 30 to 10. You're fixing it. All right. So anyway, Erin, I have no, you know, I don't know what uh what I can say to this. Like what do you want from me? Like most people don't

retire to their parents in their 20s. some athletes, some entertainers, some content creators, you know, do I believe do I believe anything that I talk about when I talk about patience has to do with the ability to retire parents 20s? And then he's making it up on like when you don't know how long they are going to live. [ __ ] you don't know how long you're going to live. The [ __ ] are we talking about? Hey, Hanukkah. Like,

what are we talking about? I just I don't know. Like, I'm a little bit [ __ ] tired of these ridiculous questions. Like, sorry. Like, don't fine. Don't be patient. Go [ __ ] gamble. I don't know. Like, what do you want from me? That's it. That's all I got. I have no like inspirational thing at the end. It's [ __ ] stupid. Like, it's stupid frameworks that are getting people depressed. We're just finding new ways to be upset. I don't know

what else to say. We're finding new [ __ ] ways to be upset. Like now we're going to upset ourselves because we can't retire our parents in the 20s. Like I don't know. I'm just not about like how we're doing this. I don't know. How's audio going? I see a lot of complaints on YouTube, whatnot. Are you guys hearing me? You guys hearing me? Okay. How's everybody hearing me? How's the sound? All good. All right. Good over there.

Well, it looks like we're good. Okay, let's keep it going. >> All right. Um, this next question is from Cap. I'm 25 and working full-time. Deep down, I know I want to build something of my own, something meaningful, but I'm sure when to take the leap. If I start now, I'll have to leave my job and give up a stable income, but if I wait two more years, I'll have more savings. How do I decide when

is the right time to leave stability and chase purpose? I >> I think 25 is good. I think 27's good. They're both good. I don't know what else to say. Like they're they're they're both good, you know? Like both can work, you know? So more savings is good because it gives you a little more time. Going at 25 is good because you're [ __ ] 25. And if you fail, you can start at 27, save for two more

years, and start again at 29. You're all [ __ ] children here. People figure out their lives at 40, 50, 60, and 70. Literally, I'm not joking. people figure out their lives at 40, 50, 60, and 70 and I got 20 year olds like concerned and [ __ ] like I don't know where this [ __ ] thing is. Um, you know, I just don't know what to say other than I feel good about this kid. It's going to be fine. Both

work. It's all fine. It's all [ __ ] fine. Everybody, if you're on other social media platforms, garyve.com/whatnot, come over here right now. That's where the official thing is. Did we do the giveaway? Did we have a winner? June one. Big cloud up to June. Yeah, I have the screen over here now. So, I don't think I'm going to see the giveaways. Let's do another giveaway real quick. Let's just go for the jugular for everybody who is watching

on other platforms like YouTube Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, uh Twitter. Get over to garyve.com. garyve.comnot. Here is what I'm giving away next. $125 box of V friends manga cards. We're putting it up on whatnot right now. Yes. Whatot friends, there's almost 500 in here and you're getting the giveaway right now. Everybody hit share. Share. Share. Share. There's only 29 shares. There's also a ton of stuff in the store. Whatnot friends, go there now. Um, let's

do this giveaway. Let me know when you're ready. We're doing that giveaway right now. Ezra, tell me when we're good. Uh, what's that? It's up, beautiful. Uh, JT, good morning. Uh Erin, let's keep it going. Next question. >> Okay, next question. We seem to get diminishing returns on Facebook ads. We sell watches and do well, getting uh ROAS up to a a point like 10K a month. Then it drops. We get about half the return. Do

I keep going and spend more? >> So ROAS is rorowaz return on ad spend. The creative is the variable here. If you're having diminishing returns with ads, everybody on all platforms, let me know if you are having diminishing returns on your ad spend. Griffin N on YouTube, top five rappers, B.I., the B.I., notorious B.I. is number one. That's my whole list. All right. If you have if you have negative return or you're declining your return on

your ad spend, here's what's happening. The creative needs to change. People are overrelying on the math on ads. They get lazy. Right, Pablo? You know this. You're in the math game with us. But you know when I give you some good new creative, you can cook again. It's like you're the chef, but if I'm not giving you good [ __ ] ingredients, you can only make so good of a meal. The creative is the ingredients. Most people, Aaron,

have fallen in love with the math, which is remarkable. But the math now is understood. The creative is the battleground. So you need to make that person with the watch stuff needs to make 50 new videos and pictures and try new [ __ ] The creative is the issue at hand for most people. Much more creative. Everyone much more creative. The creative is the variable. One of the reasons I do tea with Gary B is one to give

back. Two to give my team more creative. You can see my Instagram's already cooking better with the creative. And three to build awareness for V friends the next Pokemon. If you don't know, DM us right now. I'm literally building the next Pokemon. And four, giving awareness to things I'm up to. Dropping some bombs this week, Sid. Dropping some bombs this week. Just put this right here to see if people can figure it out. Sean Nude, Nud

on YouTube says, "Who is this guy?" Answer the question, I'm just some guy. Let's keep it going, Aaron. >> Okay. I've also been told we had someone on screen. >> All right, let's do it. Screen time. Nice little transition there. Fancy Johnny. All right, great transition, but no Johnny. All right, bad work team. Let's move it. Aaron, next question. >> Okay, next question. Um, Moshin asks, "Where do we draw the line between blocking out negative news

versus wanting to stay informed?" >> Who is that? >> Mosen. >> Mosen. That's a great [ __ ] question, actually. I mean, I think it's about surface level grazing. That's what I do. You know, I want to be informed, but I'm in some surface level, you know, grazing. You know, everyone's into doom scrolling and you just get yourself all [ __ ] up. I think that there's an absolute way. Um, I use break the news. Let me show you what

I use. Uh, break the web, excuse me. Here's my app, Break the Web, right? And it just got trending now. It takes it from everywhere, not just Twitter. Look, I see Emmy Emmy winners, Ricky Hatton, Qatar Israel, Kirk Kirk assassination, like Trump UK visit. Like, it's got the news. To me, it's about grazing the information and not going deep, right? And uh that's it. I mean, I think it's very simple. You have to protect yourself. Let

there be no confusion. The world right now is very, very, very fear-based. This is a great era for fear, right? You go back to 2006, 7, 8, 9, 10. Much more optimism, less fear. Fear has the momentum right now. And that's what it is. You know, fear is uh is definitely got aggressive energy right now. And I think there's a way to stay on top of news without going fear. And I think it's about how deep

you go. Real quick, Reese Chase says, "Hey, Gary. I've been holding a V friend one since launch. Any new news?" Reys, where you been? We're announcing [ __ ] every week. Reys. Reese, text me at 212-931-5731. Ree, I'll say that again. 1212-931-5731. Text me the word Vfriends. We update constantly. Go to vfriends.com. We're announcing news every week. Follow Vfriends on Twitter, which is where I see you on X. We're announcing stuff every week, brother. So, um, get back

in it. All right, let's keep it going. Hello. What? I can't hear you guys. I see somebody on the screen. Ariel, how are you? >> Hey, what's going on, Garrett? Good morning, sir. Nice to meet you. Been a long time follower. Been a longtime fan. Um, actually, you're on my uh vision board as far as interviewing you in the near future hopefully. I've been doing card content now for about I want to say two to three

months. I've gotten really good um I've gotten really really good feedback. I'm almost at 14,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel and I'm ailate with sports card investor. You know, I've been taking what you got for the free information and I've just been rolling with it right right now. I'm having problems having better conversion as far as like people wanting to actually purchase products and having more like and I comment like you you know I'm I read

all the comments I respond to all the comments and I just want to be able to have a better understanding of how I can get better conversion on you know tapping into that part of being actually to make money on the online space. I'm a truck driver now. I work in the oil field in West Texas. I make about a quarter million dollars a year and that's fine, but I want to be able to transition into

something more something more meaningful, you know? So, I want to provide better value, you know? So, can you give me any suggestions on like where I can go? I mean, I'm I'm 40 years old and like you, [ __ ] age. Age ain't nothing but a number, baby, you know? So, I I want to be able to go ahead and just grow. I want to evolve into my best form. And I honestly eventually want to move out of

the physical world space of truck driving. I want to get into the digital world, which that's where the future is going. Let's be honest. AI taking over, you know, and and it's just this it's just this you know couple. >> I got some gems. First of all, team the echo is killing people. >> What's that? >> Oh, he had the scream on while he was on. Got it. No worries. Um Ariel, so you're talking trading cards.

Yes. Uh yeah, sports cards. I actually I got I got some of your cards too as well. So yeah. >> And um can you can you turn off the stream on wherever you've got it because it's a double echo because you got the stream on as well. >> Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, I I have it on my tablet, but yeah, I turn Thank you, brother. Um and when you're trying to convert, are you on Whatnot

or Fanatics Live? >> Uh I am on Whatnot. I have uh my own affiliate link store from uh Fanatics that they provided me with a storefront to be able to go ahead and sell their products on that storefront. >> Yep. When you said you asked me you want to sell more brother Ariel. >> Ariel, bro, you could be on whatnot like and you could find a different place to do that. You don't need any fancy setup.

You could be in the [ __ ] kitchen with the refrigerant in the background. So that's just like excusity. back to like your energy so epic and you're right age is just a number and you're a [ __ ] grinder like that's very obvious. Are you going to really with your [ __ ] epic bald head and an epic beard and [ __ ] epic energy? Are you really going to tell me that the reason you can't sell or whatnot is cuz your travel

agent wife is in the [ __ ] background? Is that really where we're going to [ __ ] go? Well, I mean, it's not really where we're gonna go, but like she's talking on the phone in the background. It's like she exchanging credit card information and stuff like that. That's the only thing I'm ever worried about, you know. >> Ariel, Ariel, do you know the Do you know the term you're bullshitting me? I understand. You're not going to do it

in the same room as him as her. Excuse me. You could do it literally anywhere else. The reason you're not selling is you're not selling on the best platform. The best platform to sell is on whatnot. You need to be on whatnot. I don't give a [ __ ] what time you're on. That shit's selling 24/7. You can sell [ __ ] at 1:00 in the morning or 6 a.m. And you could do it out of any room. You do

not need a fancy setup. You've got selling cards on whatnot. Period. End of story. >> Period. Like this. Like, do you not like Do you not like it as much? Like I'm trying to get to the root cause here. There's something that's stopping you from selling on whatnot. It's not it's not that I don't like it as much. It's that when I have whatnot, there has not been that much >> sales converting. >> Yeah. >> Do

you have the tablet on again? I'm just trying to figure out what's going on with this echo. No off. >> Okay. Thank you, brother. Brother, you need to put in you need to put in the work. I'm watching people like Debbut Sports and Splash Cards. I watched them go from zero and three and six watchers, but they went on every [ __ ] night every day and eventually got there. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I mean, double down

and stream live more. >> Brother, I don't want to like I love you too much to do this homework. I have a funny >> Thank you, bro. I have a funny feeling if I go and look at your whatnot, you haven't done enough [ __ ] shows. >> No, I haven't. >> Well, that's it. What else do you want from me? Like, that's like somebody coming to me if I was a fitness guy and saying, "Hey, bro. I

[ __ ] went to the gym twice. Where the [ __ ] is the six-pack in [ __ ] guns?" >> Yeah. >> It's simple as that. It's what not. It's disproportionately the place that stuff is selling. And you got to do it [ __ ] daily. >> Okay. >> All right, brother. So, and what about what about like the Fanatics affiliates? Like since I'm I've been an affiliate with them, I've only like for the past two months, I've only made like 10 bucks

in total sales, you know? >> So, it's like how do I how do I double down on that and like push that more for people to come in and buy more just whatnot itself? >> Listen to me. Go on whatnot. Use your social media, push people to it, email, text, friends, just and [ __ ] just deal with it. Like, put the 20 bucks into boost your own show and [ __ ] deal with it. No pain, no gain. Like,

deal with it. You [ __ ] bounced early on very little adversity, >> okay? >> It's not super complicated, you know? >> Like, got you. >> You're being impatient. It's not complicated. You're like, "Fuck, where's the money?" Like, I know you want to bounce from the truck [ __ ] and sell cards all day. I get it. That's right. I like that. Good for you. But [ __ ] man. I need 150 shows, two hours a piece before we judge. You call

me back when you've done 300 hours. Then we can have a conversation. Not the [ __ ] you're walking in with now. >> Okay. >> All right, brother. Love you. >> Love you, brother. Thank you. >> Take care. >> That's, you know, that's it. All right. I don't know what just happened there. All sorts of stuff going on. Aaron, go. Am I ever not going to be red? >> Yeah. Is that ever going to happen? You've been saying

yes to Andy four times. What? >> Coloring. That's fair. people in the back room. >> Understood. >> It's 9:22. I don't want to be red for 22 minutes. >> That's fine. See, Aaron, >> next question is from Yana. I'm a pro volleyball >> Yana. >> Yana. >> Okay, I'm excited. I got real ammo here. I got I'm really set up for success here. Go ahead. >> I'm a pro volleyball player in Greece. Building a personal brand.

have started a YouTube uh week in the life as a week in the life as a pro volleyball player and doing live streams with my team. How do I make them stand out from the thousands of generic athlete Q&As's >> by being yourself? You wanna you want to stand out. I just I just needed it. You want to stand out and you're everybody asks the same question like, "Oh man, how do I stand out? Everybody's doing

live streaming. Everyone does cooking content. Everyone does health and wellness content. Everyone, yes, everyone does video game content. Some people broke out. Clicks, ninja, others, mongrel, like, you've got to be good. You've got to be creative. Like, this concept that everyone just deserves to have millions of fans is a wild concept. We We're in this era where everyone just thinks that they should have massive followings. The way you stand out is by being good. What is

good? beautiful, funny smart entertaining clever. Like, there's a million ways to stand out. Um, you've got to pick one. Some people are everything. I don't know if you know this, Eron. There's some people that are just like wildly attractive, very smart, very funny and charismatic, you know, like they exist, you know, and so, you know, the the reality is is that you've uh got to really really really go there and really tap in to your uniqueness.

All right, that's it. That's it. It's all I got. Next question. >> Okay, next question. Um, Erin asks, "How do I scale as a physiootherapist going into opening a clinic?" >> That's a little broad. I mean, scale location, scale your content to bring awareness to your location. That's a little too vague for me. >> Okay. I've got a question from Katie. Uh, I'm a single mom. I do wardrobe consulting and I'm limited in time as I

have to drop my child to school and pick them up 5 days a week. So, six hours of alone time is all I have. I need to scale my business, but finding it tough. Can you help me? >> I mean, these become very tough questions. Like, you know, you have to just be profoundly good in your six hours. Six hours is enough and not enough. >> Yeah. It just depends on the person, right? Like, I mean,

six hours is plenty of time. But if she's decided that she can't because she's prioritizing being a mother, then she's already lost before she started. There's plenty of people who do very, very nice businesses who put in six meaningful hours. There's also people who do 12 hours that are not meaningful and achieve nothing. Hours of time, unless it's a very small amount of time, is not a guarantee to success or not success. Right? There are plenty

people working 15 hours a day that are going to accomplish nothing because they're not very productive 15 hours. So, I I I highly recommend people realize that it's not the hours you put in, it's the impact of the hours you put in. as long as you hit a minimal threshold. I think there is a minimal threshold here achieved and I'm gonna go with the fact that that is um six hours which I think is more than

enough. So I think it's about her being a maniac during the six hours. Hold on one second team. This setup is really not working for me. Can you move the Tik Tok and Instagram to the reream chat? Reream chat's bringing me the least value, but it's my entire eyesight. Let's make that change. Um, everybody on whatnot, please share, share, share. Let's do another giveaway. Let's go for the jugular $250 blaster box. Uh-huh. Courtney's face would have

sold this. We're giving away a $250 befriends chrome blaster box right now. Everybody, if you want to get this on the other channels like Victory and Option B and Cherylyn, all of you on link on Tik Tok, you have to get over to garyb.comnot. Hey Sid, all these people, we don't have the yellow bar anymore. I don't see us cming or banning people that are trolling. So, I have no idea how people are going to get

over from social to garyve.com whatnot. >> Um, everybody get over here to garyve.com whatnot to be entered into this. Ezra, tell me when you're giving this away. That's a monster giveaway. Erin, let's go to the next one. >> Okay, next question is from Nabil. I just resigned from a toxic job. My bos my boss was a narist and he made me >> You chopped in and it out. >> Sorry. >> I just resigned from a toxic

job. My boss was a narcissist and he made me feel incompetent. I'm struggling with self-doubt now. How can I rebuild my confidence and reignite my passion? >> By not believing your [ __ ] narciss that Aaron, the gentleman said, I quit a toxic job with a narcissist boss. How do I rebuild? The easiest of all time. you realized you were in a toxic job and you're in a narcissist boss. It's when you don't realize that you're in a

bad relationship that you're [ __ ] up. Got it? If you can't see it, the second you see it, what the [ __ ] are you dwelling on? You were wronged. According to you, by the way, that's a whole another story for another show. The [ __ ] are we struggling for? The [ __ ] are you struggling for? What do you mean rebuild? You're rebuilt. You quit. You did it. It's over. You won. It's over. You did it. We're good. It's over. You

won. Yay. It's over. Ezra, I don't do not understand this concept of dwelling on [ __ ] You know what it is, Eron? And this is why it's so important. We've had this great run where we started to get a little bit deeper and understand what was a little bit [ __ ] up, but then we went too far and now a lot of people are are just deeply comfortable in dwelling looking for sympathy. Like they're more comfortable in like,

hey, I was wrong. He already won. And so what what are we doing here? We have to help our children to not do this in the next generation. You know what I mean? Like there's so many bad things that have happened in my life. It's unbelievable. Actually, this is a good topic, right? There's so many bad things that have happened in my life. It's unbelievable. But the issue is that I've just chosen to focus on the

things that went well. That's a choice. That's a mindset. That's a that's a perspective. That's something that I think a lot of people can take some value out. Now, that doesn't mean being detached or like burying everything underneath so it becomes a problem one day in my life. It's just okay to decide to focus on what is going well versus what's not going well. And similar, and this is why fear is such a son of a

[ __ ] because fear has done so well in the last three, four years, seven years, 10 years, 15 years. Fear's gotten hot. It's got a lot of momentum. It's got us into a place, the masses, that we just want to stay in our yuck. We've decided like every person that's watching right now, Victory H and Jay and Jeie and Schula on Tik Tok, Jesse, right, and Corey on whatnot, Nicholas, you know, and Prince on Tik Tok or

excuse me, on Instagram. Every single person on earth has had good things happen and bad things happen for some reason. And this is very interesting. I was in this really interesting setting not too long ago where somebody was really dwelling and basically telling a stranger that they don't get it. Their life was way worse. And this stranger on some straight battle rap dropped like four things that happened in that person's life and the other people that

was the person that was crying wasn't even in the zip code. I think the person could have been lying, but wasn't even the zip code of this other person and just assumed because that other person wasn't crying all the time that their life was so great. This this concept from all of you that everybody else has it so good and you have it so bad has to stop. this comparing and thinking like everyone has it so

good and you have it so bad has to stop you. Do you understand everyone that you don't know anything about most people's lives, including the people you're close with? Your siblings and parents and loved ones are surprising you once every seven years with some [ __ ] You don't think a stranger will surprise you? I don't know, man. Anyway, what do I think? I think rebuild your confidence. Why is your confidence hurt when you were in a toxic

narcissistic? You should feel bad for that boss, not for you. You're out. That [ __ ] boss is stuck in her or his head in life. They got real jail. You were in fake jail. A job. That motherfucker's in real jail. A mindset. What's that? Was it What about it? 10 seconds left in the giveaway. Over 200 of you on whatnot have not entered. Top right corner, just click it, please. Who's going to win this? This is a

big win. This is a big win for someone. Free 250 bucks. They could just list it on eBay. Free money. Who got it? >> Fosis with the mostess. Good win. Here you go. Hey, KJ. All right. Next question. >> Next question is about V friends actually. Sultan asks, "How do you keep the motivation same for each character of V friends while developing their IP in the beginning when they are not so popular?" >> Very easily I'm

patient. Just because Shrewd Shark is not as pos as popular right now as patient panda doesn't mean it won't be. Look at look at Marvel. Look at history. Look at Black Panther. Black Panther wasn't popular for 30 years. It was a tertiary tier 4 character in the Marvel universe. One movie comes out. Bam. It's already happened, Erin. In the four and a half short years of E friends, Decisive Duck was not popular the first two years.

Decisive Duck red hot. Look at Decisive Duck made the box of first E friends. Look at that. Decisive duck right there next to Black Cat. Very simple. Because I'm patient. Because I know Mojo Mouse will have its day. Because I know Tolerant Tortoise will have its day. I mean, it's just so simple. because I enjoy the process. Because I'm not scared. Let's keep going. >> Okay, this question is from Mark. Thoughts on paid versus free community?

Which one do you think is better suited for someone who has an audience and is already an established expert in their field? >> The answer is both. You should be doing both. If you have a Patreon and only fans, a substack, like having a free machine to drive awareness to that is essential. Aaron, having a paid subscription and having a huge commitment to free and bringing value is the one-two punch. If you are fully just subscription,

you have a hand behind your back. You're fighting with one hand. Maybe if you're Terence Crawford, you can win that fight, but not if you're a normal person. Both matter. You need both. That's the answer to your question. >> All right. Next question is from Richard. I just had a horrible breakup with a company, a company I founded with a friend. After seven years of being hyperfocused, I find myself suddenly without direction. How do you find

inspiration or focus for the next project? >> Time. We must give ourselves grace when we're going through something quite, you know, adverse and starting co-founding a company that then you have a breakup with and you're on the outs. It's very understandable to have a few minutes. I don't understand why we beat ourselves up for a bad moment or even moments. Erin, going back to what we talked about earlier friends why are you a piece of [ __ ]

if you had a bad year? Why? Why are you a piece of [ __ ] if you've had a bad year, a let alone a bad week or a bad day or a bad month? Why are you such a horrible person if you've had three very bad years? Let let me break this down. Let me just paint the picture. In the last three years, you broke up with someone that in hindsight was so good for you, it's scary.

You lost a job, you got fired, and then you got another job and you got fired. And then you got a third job and you got fired. And now the excuse that the boss and the job was pieces of [ __ ] has been shattered because now it's getting to be consistent. You inherited $43,000 from your grandma who died who you love so much but you never really hung out with and you got the cash and you bought

a [ __ ] stupid car and lost 10k in Vegas gone. That's your last three years. You know what I see your end? Just a small little rough patch. You're 20. You're 32 years old. So 29 to 32 did not go well. What's the problem? What's the [ __ ] problem? Right. Like, so like that's it. Like I I don't understand in this obsession with beating ourselves up. If you're on whatnot for the first time, if you're on whatnot for

the first time, say first time right now in the whatnot. I need to know who's here for the first time and I need to know now. There we go. A lot of first- timerrs. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Uh, Adrian, put up garyv.com, excuse me, vfriends.comquiz. If you're on whatnot for the first time, this is Vfriend Friends. This is my Marvel, my my my Zelda, my Super Mario, my Pokemon world. If you're on whatnot for the first time

and this is the first time you're seeing V friends, but you're a nerd, you're into Comic-Con, Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering, anime, manga, you're into that [ __ ] Say, first time I'm a nerd. First time I'm a nerd. Not people that have been here before and not everybody on all the other channels. You need to come to whatnot. First time I'm a nerd. There we go. All right. All of you that just did that. Delaware

legs. You bet. All of you, please go to the top left corner, hit the logo. When you click the logo, the Vfriend Friends logo in the top left that has that 5.0 star rating. Click that. The third thing that comes up says message. Message the team right now and say, "I want to learn more about Ve Friends." Because if you're here for the first time and you [ __ ] with Gary B and you're a nerd and you're

into collecting and flipping and making that side cash, if you're looking for something to collect with your seven and eight-year-old that might not be into sports, you've got to get here. We've got comic books like crazy. We're going to be at ComicCon. We got figurines, socks, cards, stickers. We're going crazy on V friends. Send a message. Say, "I want to learn more about V Friends." And as soon as you did that, this is only for first

time on whatnot and you're a nerd and you've messaged, say message completed in the chat. Message completed. Tim F in the building, my Chicago wine friend. All right, go ahead, Erin. >> Okay, this next question is from Dustin. I'm 34. I'm 34 and I've always had this longing to create start a business. I don't know what though. I guess I have this mindset that I needed to be unique or total really different or cool. So, I

skipped through all ideas that seem too normal or investment heavy. Where would you suggest I start? >> This is a tough question because like the reality is is like putting the idea of building a business on a pedestal is [ __ ] everyone up. Like, you start a business when you know what the business is, not because you've wanted to have a business because you thought I was cool and business got cool. This is the same old thing.

People start thinking certain things are cool that have nothing to do with them. Do you know what I think is cool, Aaron? I think it's cool to be a male [ __ ] model. I I didn't wake up and be like, I'm going to be a male model because I'm not a [ __ ] male model. Aaron, do you know what I think is cool? Being an international hiphop star. I didn't wake up this morning be like, you know what?

I'm gonna [ __ ] go do it. I'm the next bad [ __ ] bunny. Do you know what I think is cool? Being a world class fighter. But I'm not waking up this [ __ ] morning and going to the gym. I'm going to be an octagon or I'm going to fight [ __ ] Canelo next. There's a lot of things that are [ __ ] cool that you're not built for. It's okay. Where the [ __ ] did self-awareness leave the room? Danny, you're not going

to be a WWE superstar. I know, brother, cuz you're a [ __ ] twig like me. Yeah, bro. Maybe Train, but not us. Me, you, and Ezra fit girthwise into train. Not everyone can do everything. What the [ __ ] are we talking about? You're 34 and you've always wanted to do a business and you've like Erin, it's a it's it's I would tell you I hate to do this because I do not squash dreams, but [ __ ] man. Just that

question makes me know that person's ever building a business. Why don't you go here's for everyone that's in that crowd, go join a business that has eight employees and learn and watch the number one navigate and see if you're about that life. Yeah. Next. >> Okay. This next question is from Priya. I'm 19 years old. I have a laptop and Wi-Fi and I like talking. I want to be a millionaire in 6 months. What do I

have to do? >> I'm going to punch Priya in the [ __ ] face. What do you have to do? You have to come to here, Priya. Come to 35 Hudson Yards, New York, New York, 425. Come to my office so I could punch you in the [ __ ] face. No pen studio. This is not pre-recorded. What are these [ __ ] questions? Did I hear that right? I'm 19. I have a laptop and I like to talk. How do I

become a millionaire in 6 months? I'm [ __ ] finished. I'm out of here. I'm done. I'm actually done. The stupidest [ __ ] question. What are we doing? [ __ ] delusion at scale. [ __ ] deluke. I'm finished, Sid. I'm done. I'm angry. That was a real question. >> I don't understand. Like, what do you Priya, come here. I will punch. I need you to come here. Punch [ __ ] punch some sense into your [ __ ] skull. I don't, you know, obviously I believe

half of this is trolling, but like, but what's sad is I know it's not. People are [ __ ] insane out here. I mean, Jesus, >> I don't know. See, and with that, we're going to transition over to a little bit of V friends. Actually, I pinned uh intuitive iguana down below because I feel like intuition is important. All right. Do we feel like we can be a millionaire in six months? Is that really the intuition? Okay. So,

I'm actually going to put up a giveaway for a Tops Chrome V Friends Blaster Pack. So, enter now. It's live. Is it live? It's live right here. I got to scoot over. Live right here. Live right here. Giveaway is live right there. So, I'm going to open up and show just a little bit about V friends. All right. I said blaster pack, but I'm actually going to do this hobby pack. All right. Check this out. Desert

witch. Yes, you showed up just in time for a great question. Um, okay. Good morning. Good morning. Okay. Can we get the top down camera? Okay. All right. So, I'm going to open this pack and then we're going to see what you get. All right. So, in this giveaway, we currently have energetic electric eel. All right. There was some energy there at the end. Energy there at the end. on the Y ones and twos. A little

bit a little bit of something. All right, let's do the next one. Sophisticated stingray. These are all V friends. So V friends is a a universe that Gary created four years ago around the positive traits and attributes that we want to see more of in the world. And it's kind of like Pokemon, Marvel, Garbage Pale Kids. Uh,