Tea with GaryVee Episode 84: Live Q&A and Giveaways

If I'm talking check. >> Okay, everybody on Instagram. Instagram. What's good? I know Instagram. I know you guys can't see me because I need you to go to Let's Let's go live. I need you to go to Tik Tok, I see you as well. Uh YouTube, I see you. Twitch, what's up, Paperchasing? Uh I What's up, the man 516? Stanley, good to see you. Uh Jerome F, great to see you. Uh do we have cming? >>

We need we need cming. And >> yes, so the when once you're live on that, we can't control it from your phone. >> No, no, I'm telling you. So, we couldn't control it from your phone. So, what I had to do was find those profiles manually and then block. >> Okay. There's no >> com. Yeah. You know what to do. >> All right, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to another episode of Tea with Gary Vee.

It's great to see all of you again. Again, a lot of you on all my other platforms. You need to go to garyve.com/whatnot. Why? Because I do all the giveaways on there. The show is official on here. I need all of you here. Great to see you. Uh Simone, great to see you on YouTube. Romeo on LinkedIn, great to see you as well. Great to see all of you. Uh I'm excited. I'm gonna send a text

right now and we're going to start the show. Aaron, how are you this morning? >> Uh I am well. Um we are going to Whoops. Do that. Um we are going to get into the show. Tea with Gary Vee, episode 84. That's a nice number, Ezra. 84. You like that number? >> You like it's average. I'm not that. Actually, 1984 was a great year for me. I was killing it in Edison, New Jersey. [ __ ] lemonade stand

legend on Tingly Lane. Um, everybody who is watching on Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Twitch Facebook, I need you desperately to get over to garyve.com/wight cuz that is where the action is. That is where you want to be. That is where Is it garyve.com/wnot? >> Yes, >> of course. That's what's on there. Um, come here now. I'm live. [Music] >> All right, let's get really into this. Right off the bat, I'm giving away this $100 Creative Crab hat

in a I'm going to And why is it 100? It's actually more because I'm going to sign it right here. All right. Now, we're really cooking with gas. I'm going to give this away, but I'm going to wait. But I'm going to wait. I'm going to wait because I need to make sure everybody from Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube, and all the other platforms realize the only way they can get this is if they come to garyve.com/whatnot

and download the app. If you just went to garyve.com/wot and download the app. And this is your first time on whatnot. I see you all in the chat. Say first time here. Say first time here. Aaron, get into the first question. If you want if you want to ask a question on this show and be on this show, be on the Ask GaryVee show, um you need to ask the question in the whatnot chat and use

the question mark at the end of your question so that it shows up yellow and pops up. That is very important. Some of you will get DM'd a link. Some of you will get DM'd a link um to actually be on video with me. Others will just be asked by Aaron. What's up, Zachary? How are you, brother? >> Looking good, man. How is Italy? >> Good. >> Epic. >> Ready for Jet season? Yeah. >> Good. I'll

come and say hello after the show. Hey, Zach. >> Take one of these packs. >> Pull something good. All right. Go ahead, Aaron. What's your question? >> Okay. This question is from Young Wolf. I'm an American. Young Wolf. And this person's name is Young Wolf. Yes. All right. This question better be [ __ ] badass and not some [ __ ] [ __ ] pansy [ __ ] I think if your name is Young Wolf and you ask like my feelings hurt, then you're

not [ __ ] Young Wolf. All right, go ahead, Erin. I I need to hear this. I'm very concerned that Young Wolf's about to ask me like my boss is not nice or my mommy said I couldn't do it. I'm very concerned, Aaron. I think you won't be disappointed. Um, Young Wolf asks, "I'm an emerging Chicago artist in my early 30s, and I recently signed with Jim Jones's Vamp Life Records. It's a big milestone, and I'm grateful for

the progress and what's ahead, but I struggle with feeling like I'm not where I should be yet, and building my fan base and finding financial stability. Any advice?" Okay, good. Not the worst. Young Wolf, listen to me. >> It's okay to be ambitious. It's okay to be accountable, right? you're not where you are because you haven't done it. You haven't done the work. You might not be talented enough to do it. Like you you might be

you might be liking certain parts of the music game but not other parts. It's okay to do. It's okay to have momentary micro moments of self-doubt. It is not allowed to have consistent dwelling and consistent beating yourself up for dumb [ __ ] Wolf. So, what I need from you is to understand who gives a [ __ ] >> Like, I mean, at 34 years old, I had a tiny bit of money in savings. I had built a huge business

for my dad, but I was not financially strong. I had I had very little to show for my 12-year insane commitment and talents other than the self-fulfillment of why I even did it, which was I wanted to support my dad and my mom and all those good things. And and I could have [ __ ] cried. I could have real. By the way, if anyone deserved to cry at 34, like a lot of people here are crying that

they don't have the money, the fame, the happiness that they want at 34, but they didn't do [ __ ] I did [ __ ] I built my parents' life for them on some real [ __ ] And yet, I chose not to cry and started from scratch and built what this is today. to remind all three of you, Ezra, Aaron, Mike, who have not been here for 15 years, this [ __ ] company that has 2,000 employees and does $360 million in revenue

started in a conference room smaller than that conference room because I couldn't afford to pay rent anywhere on Earth to start the company. and Marcus David Zang, two guys you guys know, and Kevin Stats, who you don't know, and Sam Tagard, who you don't know, literally didn't get paid. And AJ AJ AJ, I had to barter. I had to barter doing consulting and marketing for a hotel in Midtown so that AJ could stay in a crappy

hotel room as a place to stay. This is real [ __ ] I was 34. Young Wolf signed a signed artist. That's incredible. Wolf, start being happy about what you've accomplished instead of crying about what you haven't accomplished. You've accomplished something thousands of people watching this right now wish they could. Be a signed musician. If you're not happy where your fans are at, [ __ ] get to work. Reply to every DM you've ever gotten on social. Reply to every

comment you've ever got on social. Go backwards now and like and reply to every content comment you've ever gotten. Start now. Start now at 34. Start now at 44. Start now at 55. Start now at 66. Start now at 77. That's the [ __ ] game. That's it. Everybody on social, Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube, Facebook, please get over to garyve.comnot. And as soon as you get over, come over here and say here now. And that's right. Woody42, for

real. For real. Aaron Lonely is going to be on the show. I don't see I don't see this. I don't see the video. I just see the audio. Aaron, you got the video or no? >> There we go. Aaron. >> All right, let's put Aaron on. Aaron, great to see you. Where are you from? >> I'm from Northern Ireland. >> Very wonderful. It's great to see you. Uh it's good to see you too. It's real privilege.

Um without being cringe just straight off the top, I just wanted to say thank you for your content for the past 3 years. It's really brought me out of my shell and given me confidence. But uh the question I have, >> before you go anywhere on that, cuz I want to know >> y >> what what do you think most stood out from my content that has helped you? just you just tell me not to care

what people think and to like I don't know I just really lack confidence throughout life and just even just reading your books and watching your videos you just made me feel more confident in myself and not taking myself too serious. >> I love that. I love that. And and honestly not Go ahead. Go ahead, my brother. >> Um so I'm starting to shake. I'm really nervous. Apologies. Don't be. Don't be. Um, so I'm 39, I've got

three kids, and looking at all your content and stuff, you were talking about business. I sort of thought, I need to find something I'm passionate about. And the only thing I was passionate about at the time was making cookies with my kids. And I sort of thought, look at all your content. So I went and typed Gary Vee cookies into YouTube and sure enough, I found two videos. I think it was the 13 years ago. I

actually watched it last night. It was the simple business vacation. >> Yes. In the last 3 seconds of the video, you said, "Go sell those damn cookies." And without being cringe, I was like, "Geez, he's he's literally talking to me here." And then there was an Ask Gary Vee as well. And it was a girl that had phoned in and she had started a cookie business. And I just really related to it. And I thought, do

you know something? I'm going to go for it. So, I did. And I'm about a year and a half into the business now. And it's just it's just taken over my life. >> I love it. >> It's like I I still work full-time. And I've actually just nipped outside the office to talk to you. Um but it's it's still a side hustle. >> But it's getting there. It's just it consumes me. Yeah. And I've started doing

content. >> You're so lucky. You're so brother. You do know that you Aaron, you do know that you've hit the holy grail to have something that consumes you. Like for example, I'm sitting here right now doing this show for all of you, but the only thing I'm actually thinking about is running to the airport and getting to Chicago because the trading card convention is in Chicago. And like V friends is consuming me. >> Like I've got

I've got responsibilities with Vayner X. I've got responsibilities with Vader Sports the Fives. Helping my dad with Wineex. By the way, wineex.com. Adrian, put that up right now. Anybody in America in a state that we can ship to Thursday the single best deal in the six-year history of Wineex. $125. Really $125 super wine for under 30 bucks. Mike, >> do not buy it because that is not what you should be spending money on. Um, but anyway,

Aaron, you are very fortunate. You are right there. You are right there. >> You are right there, brother. You're on the cusp. You got it. And you're so young. I'm so pumped that you're on the cusp at 39. That's incredible. You know, I talk about this a lot, but I'm going to say it again, brother. God willing, nothing out of the ordinary, you were going to live for another 60 years. >> I hope so. And so

for you to capture this passion this early and something that incorporates your kids, are you kidding me? What a [ __ ] blessing. >> Yeah, I'm living the dream. >> You really are. >> Just I just get it for the next level. That's the only thing >> I Well, by the way, the next level comes comes out of, you know, time. Enjoy that. Good to see you, George. Hey, Anna. Um, listen, the next level comes to work. I

said it yesterday's show, you're going to get to enough revenue where even though it's a lot less than the job that you're stepping out of right now to make this call on is making more. But once you realize when you're putting 80 hours into the cookie thing, you'll be able to make as much, you're going to make that jump. You just have to use every minute right now to invest in content and selling and supporting. Oh,

Katie, look who's back in the building. Look who's back in the building. Hello. Um You're going to realize this, brother. You're going to realize it. Got it. >> Perfect. Got it. >> Good, man. Good luck. Go hard. >> Thank you so much. >> More content, more selling. More content, more selling. More content, more selling. Got it. >> Thank you so much. >> You got it, brother. >> Cheers. >> Cheers. Aaron, what do we got? All right.

Uh, the next question is from Greg. Um, I've been building a pest control business since 2020. One van, one man. I do around 120k year gross without without uh advertising or marketing. Wow. I'd like to scale and hire out, but I'm afraid I don't have the capital or access to capital to do so. Advice. Live humbler. Live like you make 68,000 a year. Miraculously, if you do that, you now have 52,000 to. And I go I

know it's gross. I'm not I'm I'm not a bozo. I know it's Don't bring in Mario yet cuz I'm going to do something before I bring him up. I don't want him to sit too long. Uh, Mario, just sit put. Uh, I know he's 120 gross, but I want him to live like he has 68 gross. So, again, he said 120 gross might mean his takehome's like 65, 72, 84. I know what I'm asking him to

do. But here is the thing. If you want to scale a business, you have to give the money to the business, not to yourself. We talked about this yesterday. Did Who was tuned in yet to yesterday's show? say yesterday in the chat right now and not all of you on social media only if you're on one not if you're on social media get over here right now so a lot of you heard this yesterday I see

you all a lot of you heard this yesterday I asked who who's worried about money and a lot of people said yes then I asked how many of you have three streaming services you pay for each month and many of you said that then I asked how many of you buy $6 bougie coffee and many of you said that I'm telling you right now I'm going to say this slow and I'm going Say it hard. Almost

everybody I know on Earth Sid, I need you to pay attention cuz you're a part of this crew. Almost everybody I know on Earth spends too much money on dumb [ __ ] even if they think they're financially disciplined. We have gotten into the era of believing luxuries have become necessities. >> I met with somebody last night where the father of his wife wore the same pair of jeans every day for 10 years. You guys are a bunch

of kids. I'm 49 and I can project up. I knew many and remember I I grew up lower middle class. So I understand that I didn't grow up wealthy enough. But I need people to hear this. I knew many people in my life who wore the same clothes constantly. The [ __ ] is this concept of a wardrobe? The [ __ ] do you need a wardrobe for when you have no money? Why do you have 16 [ __ ] shirts and

19 sneakers and 11 different pairs of pants and [ __ ] nine handbags when you have no [ __ ] money? If you're trying to build a business, if you're like, we have completely lost our way. We don't need [ __ ] Who said that we were entitled to be cozy at all times? What happened to being comfortable with being uncomfortable? And the amount of people that tell me they're uncomfortable in DMs and then I, you know, I get weird sometimes as

you see once in a blue moon. I go back and forth. The new definition of uncomfortable is some [ __ ] people out here crying like their life sucks. And went to a concert on Saturday night and drank a $19 beer. You [ __ ] dick faces. And we got hundreds of kids in the office today. It's bring your kids to school or work day. I'm looking at Sid's little girl. Yes, baby. I said dick faces. Yes. [Music] Yes. [ __ ]

my life sucks. I've got it so bad. [ __ ] bought a $16 beer. Your life can't be ruined. And at the same time, you're going to Olivia Rodriguez concerts. Your life can't be ruined. And at the same time, you bought something on StockX in the last month. Come on. No, I want to say a couple things. First of all, everybody who's watching, especially the people on social media, I see you, but you can't see me because you

didn't go to garyd.com/whatnot. I need all of you to understand. Get over here right now. Get over here right now. Get over here right now because I'm about to do this giveaway. Let's do the giveaway. Let's do the $100 hack giveaway. If you if you win this, you can literally put on eBay and make a quick hyundo. Maybe more with my auto. Oh [ __ ] Did I hit something? I don't Did I hit the keyboard? Um uh

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little show. Mario, we're gonna admit. Very nice. I like how you guys are doing this now. Good work, team. Way to keep evolving. Proud of you, team. Good job evolving Mario. Here he comes. Mario's in the building. >> Mary, how are you? >> How you doing? Good. And you? >> Great to see you. Where are you calling from? >> Belgium. >> Very nice. It's a pleasure to be with you. How are you? >> Yeah, I'm doing

good. Doing good. Uh, very, very good. Thank you. >> What's your question? >> My question was, um, how do you, how would you market a catering, a pizza catering company? Uh, a company that does like catering at venues and just trying to find a way to get more creative with our content. >> I apologize. One more time, what am I marketing? What kind of a kitchen pizza? What? >> No, it's like a pizza catering. So pizza

like >> yeah making pizza at the location itself and >> but most of your are most of your customers business B2B or most of your customers humans? >> Uh humans yeah more uh like B toC more yeah >> well people having parties how much how much I mean this is all day long social media organic like how much in Belgium especially what are you doing on Facebook Tik Tok and and uh Instagram? Yeah. Not a lot.

It's not a lot because it's not really >> Mario. >> Mario. >> Mario. >> Mario, are you telling me how long have you been following my content? Tell the truth. How long? >> A lot. >> How long? How many years? >> Four years. >> Mario years. >> You have the audacity, Mario, to call me after 4 years of watching me and ask me that question. You have, Mario. You owe me 500 pizzas. I like mushrooms and

peppers and onions, by the way. Please send them to Hudson Yards. Mario, you you know what the [ __ ] I was going to say? Yes. >> Kind of. Yeah. >> Mario, you know you know why I'm saying it. Cuz it's true. >> Cuz it's right. >> You're right. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. >> Mario, >> just finding a way to to promote it. Mario, if you were talking to your great-grandmother right now, she would say I will

say it to you like an Italian. Mario, you spit in my face. You understand? >> You spit in my face. You're calling after four years of consuming my content. You know I'm going to say it's [ __ ] organic social media. Make [ __ ] pizza videos on Facebook, Twitter, and Tik Tok, Instagram, and you'll sell [ __ ] pizza. Mario, >> I don't know. Is this the right way for the Belgium market? Yeah, >> I don't. Yes, it's right for Bel.

People are on [ __ ] social media in Belgium, Mario. All right. All right. I trust you. I trust you 100%. Yeah, you're right. >> All right. What's your What's your social media account on Instagram? >> Uh this uh Wait, see this MF? >> Mario, what's the What's the What's the Instagram account? >> Let me check real quick. >> You don't even know. You don't give a [ __ ] about social media, Mario. You don't you don't give a [ __ ]

about social media. You don't give a [ __ ] about me. Mario, I'm very upset. And the winner is Fox on the Fractor. Let's go, Fox. Huge win for Fox. Let's clap it up for Fox, everybody. Mario. Mario, you don't love me. You don't love this community. You don't love pizza. You don't love customers. Mario, you have to do this. I need you to understand this tough love that I'm giving you. I need you to do this. It

will change your business. >> I understand. I understand. >> Promise. >> Yeah. You're right. You're right. You're right. >> Yeah. >> Please, Mario, post three to four pieces of content a day. Pizza video. Pizza video. Pizza video. Pizza video. Mario video. Pizza video. Pizza video. Mario video. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Mario. >> How old are you? >> I'm 34. >> 34. A kid. Ready? In this moment in your life, you are either going to become Super

Mario or you're going to become terrible shitty Mario. >> Only one way to Super Mario. >> Okay, we'll be watching. >> Yeah. >> Love you. >> All right. Great. >> See you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> [ __ ] man. Mario. Sid. I want to film all these episodes and put them on a new YouTube channel. Like, we don't need to perform. It just needs to live somewhere. You know what I mean? and with with metadata.

Like there's 800 [ __ ] pizza Marios out there who [ __ ] aren't doing [ __ ] and they need to find this in a search and with AI coming. Like this whole show needs to be uploaded somewhere. You know what I mean? And it's full form. Who gives a [ __ ] Just new channel so it doesn't [ __ ] us up. I don't give a [ __ ] Aaron, good to see you. Look at that. The boy was I mean he's learning his style from

his daddy. I like it. All right, let's Aaron, give me some questions. All right, next question is from Crystal. Um, you speak to tripling down on LinkedIn. What is the proper etiquette when posting about your side hustle when your upper management is watching every post and move you make? >> One more time. I was distracted. >> You speak to tripling down on LinkedIn. What is proper etiquette when posting about your side hustle when your upper management

is watching every post and move you make? >> Mult. Here are your options. one create a pseudo like you know like isn't right Charles Dickens real name is not Charles Dick right that was his pseudonym right that whole thing so you create the new version of that with AI like with AI you can change your voice and your facial features and you can be like a different person on your side hustle like new shit's happening number

two you could go allin and just deal with the ramifications right which is like the consequences you can go to HR and be like I'm doing this side hustle it does not affect my Aaron, you know this. I would be okay with that as long as you weren't doing consulting for a competitor of our clients. Most bosses are not like that. I get that. Um uh I'm going to do a bunch of it in a row

here. Uh or you could set up the side hustle under your spouse, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your sister, your brother, and they could be part of it more, and you could kind of position as like I'm just helping my brother beat even though it's yours. Um, those three ideas stand out to me. Real life, you know, you can quit and go all in if you're at that place we were yesterday. I like that piece of advice.

We're going to chop up that that Sid. We're going to have that clip for that piece of advice of like side hustle 90 24. We're probably working on that. You know what's so funny? It won't overperform, but it's [ __ ] advice that people need. I don't give a [ __ ] Sid. Handle strategy. I You know what? I have a Oh my god. I have a huge [ __ ] idea I just invented right now. I'm creating this handle. This is

real. Sid, I need you to grab it. because I'm telling you live and somebody else is going to grab it. So, we're going to go slow. All right, I'm going to go slow and I can do it cuz whoever grabs it here is then either going to be a great person and give it to you, Sid, or they're going to think they're clever and want money for it and then I'm going to say, "Fuck you. I'm

just going to use a different handle and then I ban them for life and never be their friend." Ready? Gary be won't perform. How long could it be by the way? A handle. >> We're about to find out. >> But ready matters. >> J but matters. I think I got it right. I'm also not the best at spelling. >> Yeah, you're not the best. You got that immigrant spelling [ __ ] thing going on. But good news, you're

way better than me. >> You would [ __ ] up if I spell it. >> I Yeah, if you spell [ __ ] wrong. I'm like, great job, Sid. I have no idea. If I was an English teacher, everyone would get an A. Run on sentence. Good [ __ ] thought process kid. What the [ __ ] You know, by the way, while I'm on it, run on sentences. Piss this concept [ __ ] [ __ ] me up. Who gives a [ __ ] By the way, I'm a

pioneer again. You guys at Sid, you know this. I love dash instead of comma, right? And now [ __ ] chat GP's all dash city once again. Once again, the world came to me. [ __ ] you, comma. [ __ ] you, period. It's Dash era. And I've been I've been dash era. I've been in dash era for 20 [ __ ] years. Victoria, run on sentences are [ __ ] I actually think we should only do runon sentences. And in fact, I'm putting this flag

in the ground. [ __ ] you, Academia. I'm on this. Runon sentences are a indicator of intelligence and creativity. I'm putting that in [ __ ] ink. >> Ross, why are you late? Ross, where were you in the last hour and 3 minutes? >> Working out. >> Why didn't you work out? What do you mean working out? It's 10:03. >> I should have been here. I know you work way more than the average person in my ecosystem, but but you

still need to be here at 9ine. Yeah. All right. >> Do you want to show the creative? >> What's that? >> Creative cap. >> The creative Oh, this black cap. Why? You want to do something with it or you want to sell it? >> Oh, we got in the shop. Do you want to do a flash sale? Let's do this. Let's do a flash sale. Let me teach people. Get it ready, everybody. This is really fun.

So, these are what normally what we at 75 bucks. We're going to do a flash sale. Watch this everyone. How many do we have? I know a lot of you want this. This is the [ __ ] bad. Wait a minute. How do we even have these left? They sold out in second. We held some back. How many? >> So, we have about 25. >> 20. You didn't have to whisper 25. This is going to sell in one

[ __ ] second. Put up 22. Just in case there's a problem. What are you whispering about? This thing's going to sell. Watch this, Ezra. This is going to sell in a hundth of a second. I see five available. Oh, you got the copper one. Put up the black one. Put up 22. Put up 22. [ __ ] Ezra. whispering as if we're not going to sell all these in one second. Watch this, Ezra. Gang, let's prove Ezra wrong here.

You You got it as >> uh like one minute. >> Okay, great. Do not buy any of the Do not buy the cap right now. Do not buy the cap right now. I'm flashing it. Everybody who just bought a cap, don't do that. Jesus Christ. Stop buying the cap. >> There's only one left. >> Yeah, people. Are they all sold? >> We We can load more up. >> How many do you have? Because I think there's

one left. There was five. That means four sold. Are you still in that TW? So we got 21. Do 19 cuz I don't trust you. Now it's that one sold. >> Now we don't. >> All right. Jesus Christ. Everybody who just bought that hat. I appreciate it. But I I guess actually I'm an idiot cuz they know I'm not going to actually those people were smarter than me. I just see what happened. They bought it now

to guarantee it 75 cuz they know what they flip for on eBay. I'm going to or they just want it. I'm going to now do not a very big discount and it's be 1 second. They realized they could guarantee their That was very That's what I do in breaks. I I don't care to pay a little more. I want the guarantee because if you get caught Ah, that was smart. All right, here we go. >> Okay,

they're normally at 75. >> They're at 75. You're putting up 19. Y >> I want you to flash sale a 15% discount. All right, that was smart by them. >> Yeah, it would be 6375. >> If you want to get the awesome hat when it launches, go to vfriends.com/caps and sign up on email right now. v.com/caps. Everybody on social, get over here. Get over here. Nick Murray, get over here. Fata, get over here to garyb.com/ Oh,

there it is. The flash sale's up. >> Oh, it's not lively. Okay. $63.75. Here. Don't worry. I'm holding them up. Here we go. It's the flash sale. It's right on the bottom, everybody. You can just click it right there. There's 19 left. This is only for 58 seconds. We're going to do the flash sale. And it is sold out. [ __ ] it. Ezra whispering around here. >> Sold out. Ezra, >> you want to do the white one?

>> We did do the black one, didn't we? >> Nope. >> Oh, that was the other one. Oh, we did the white one. >> Yes, I want to do the black one. Let's do the black one. Oh, one's left. Somebody's credit card declined. There's still one copper one left. Somebody can sneak in there. On the copper. All right. Oh, baby. It's like broken. I bet you people are trying to click it. They can't get it. All

right. You're doing the black one. >> Yeah. like 2 minutes. >> Okay, 2 minutes. Aaron, ask me a question. Okay, this question is from Brendan. I'm running the social and ecom side of a retail store that's tied to a pretty well-known personality. Videos with them go crazy, but we're not seeing that energy turn into online sales yet. What would you do to turn views into conversions when the attention is already there uh by throwing some right

hooks? You know, if the brand content's not leading to conversion, then do some ads. have the personality, make an ad, and be like, "If I've done anything for you that has brought value, please buy my thing." You know, a lot of people just bought that hat, Aaron, as a thank you cuz they want to support me for all the value I've brought them. You know what I mean? Other people just want to make a quick buck

on eBay, and other people want to rock the [ __ ] hat, right? Uh, Woody42, the way you ask a question is by literally asking the question. Oh, see Quueva, great call. He said, he said, "$13 beer, why $63 hat?" You're absolutely right, Serba Sequa. Uh, I say it here all the time. I'm going to say this nice and slow. Do not ever buy anything from me ever if money is tight. Cuz the things I sell are the

least necessities. No one needs wine and no one definitely needs collectibles. I mean, that's absolutely right. Do not buy anything from me ever if you can't afford it or money is tight ever. Even if you By the way, a lot of people are buying the collectibles cuz they think they're going to make money on three or four years. And God willing, if I stay healthy, they will is my intent. Many have already. But do not buy

a single thing ever from me ever. Clip this, Sid. Clip this in perpetuity. Do not buy anything from me ever in the history of my life cuz I will always have businesses and I always have things to sell. Do not buy a single thing from me ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever in my life. In my life, if you see 1,900 pieces of content from me for the rest of my life, do not buy anything ever

from me. Ever from me, ever from me. If money is tight or you can't afford it, do not do that. I do not want it. Please don't do that. Never do that. Don't do do it. And don't do it. I don't even know the saying. Do not buy [ __ ] from me ever. Ever. Now, if you have disposable income and you're going to buy a random t-shirt, buy my V- Ren t-shirt instead of a [ __ ] St. Louis

Cardinal t-shirt. Big shout out Ryan Samberg. Rest in peace. That one hurt for me. My best friend Brandon in the world. His favorite player as a kid was Ryan Samberg. That's a real tough loss. Only 65 years old. Really makes me sad. Um, okay. Next question. >> Mario, you want >> Well, Mario's gone. >> Mario's back. >> Mario's back. >> Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. No, not Mario. You're right. Nick. >> Nick. Mike. >> I know. >>

Nick, we'll take Nick. [Music] >> Nick is in the building. Nick, where you calling from? What's up, brother? Where you calling from? I can. Where you calling from? >> I'm on Long Island. >> I love it. I love you already. Nick from Long Island's I already [ __ ] love you, brother. You're my [ __ ] brother. I already love you. >> I know Long Island sign guy real well. >> Did I not change that motherfucker's life? >> 100%. His

social media is going crazy. >> Sid, can you can't hear what's being talked about? Nick from Long Island said, "I know Long Island sign guy real well." I just said, "Did I not change that motherfucker's life?" He said absolutely. >> I've taken a lot of tips from him and through from you throughout the years and I've been posting social every day. This is just for everyone else to hear every single day and it's popping off like

millions of views, lots of lots of lots of customers for my business. It's been amazing. Absolutely amazing. >> Yeah, Nick, let there be no confusion. This 15-year tie rate I've been on is 100%. And >> yeah, >> I need people to desperately start doing and not thinking I'm guessing or joking. >> Real quick, real quick, real quick. >> Real quick. Ugly Primo just said, "How do I deal with toxity at the workplace?" The answer is quit.

Start looking for other jobs, you know. Or look yourself in the mirror and find out if you think something's toxic that's just inconvenient and you're a soft puss. Got to make sure you're not a soft puss, Ezra. [Music] You don't want to be that. No. Okay. Go ahead, Nikki. See, Nick from Long Island comes and all of a sudden I'm talking like a Jersey boy, right? Nick from Long Island comes in the show and I'm going

soft puss. You know that's what happens. All right. Go ahead, Nick. >> See, give me 90 seconds to give you back and me just so you can understand me as a person. >> Hey, Nick. Hey, Nick. Nick. Uh, for some reason it got muffled for a second. You were very clear and then it got less clear. Go ahead again. >> Is this Is this better? >> Yes, sir. Go. >> So, give me 90 seconds so you

can get some context of who I am. So, 2016 going to college, started listening to you about business, hustle culture, yada yada. Put my head down, grinded, stopped listening to you for a while, which is something you said is actually a good thing. Um, and I came back to you like two years ago, but not for hustle culture or anything like that, which I know you've talked about in depth, which there's some confusion on, but more

about what you preach about humanity and your perspective on things. And I absolutely love it and I share it with everybody, my friends, my family, your podcast, everything. Um, and it kind of leads me into my question, which you've talked about a lot, but when we can have the nuance conversations, it's better. um empathy and feeling bad for your employees. Uh my brother and I own a business for 3 years now. I have a few employees

and you know they have problems with money, with time, yada yada yada. And I find myself feeling bad for them a lot. Um that comes with firing too. Like I fired my first employee and that was [ __ ] brutal. Um so >> brutal >> against >> I guess my question to you is how do you handle feeling bad for people because you can't just give them endless amounts of money >> by I I struggled with this my

whole life, Nick. Stay right there, by the way, Nick, cuz your video went out. Just stay right there for a second. I struggled with this my whole life. Firing people has been the bane of my existence. I I hate it to this day. I'm 49 years old. I've been doing it for 27 years. really probably a little bit more cuz from 18 to 22 I was influential to who got fired. Uh I hate it. How do

I deal with it? By realizing that if I don't do it, everybody else gets fired too in the form of us going out of business. You know what I mean? Like that's one. The other way is you realize that at some level there's a little ego in it where you think they're better off with you. and you learn that if you fire someone who you've already decided isn't good, you've you've realized that you can actually help

them a lot with the firing. I've seen many people find better environments for themselves than the environments of my workplaces. Even though my workplaces subjectively and objectively were better work environments, their fit in that place was better. Right? And you know, listen, for example, my organizations are A organizations. Some people do better in a B organization. We're not held up to the same standard. Like it's just real life. And so I think there's a little ego

in it that we have, me, you have to let go of. And then the other thing you realize is one thing that I've done way more of, brother, this may help. This is another little tip. I used to sit on a firing for [ __ ] years. This is embarrassing. Years. That's Jackie. Years. And I realized I was better off firing people a little bit earlier and giving them more severance than what was really happening. Because even though

I was paying them the whole way, they didn't know they were going to be out of a job. And then I was so bent out of shape of like paying them for two years to do nothing or do a bad job that my appetite for a severance was like, "Fuck you. You had a severance for two years in real life. You haven't done shit." And then and then I So there's there's a lot of ways to

You see where I'm going, right? You may want to fire like And by the way, let me say another thing while I'm on this rant. once you know it's always you know like it's very rare where I'm like I got to fire Ezra and then miraculously I'm like no I don't like even if I don't for like 3 months he'll do some dumb [ __ ] that reminded me why I needed to fire him in the first place

like it is what it is you know and so honestly bro I feel so equipped to answer all questions that's why I do these shows this one's interesting because it's been hard [ __ ] it's been hard out here because you're right. I have a bleeding heart. I am empathetic. I am a people pleaser. I love people more than my businesses. I just You have a sense of responsibility that And by the way, let me give you a

[ __ ] one that really got me [ __ ] going. This is actually I'm glad I stayed on, Nick. You're going to like this one, brother. This is what really got me there, Nick. I realized that people that were remarkable and working their [ __ ] faces off, I wasn't able to give as much compensation to because the [ __ ] leeches and the bottom feeders were eating up the dollars and I was now hurting the people that were carrying them. It had

nothing to do with me. And that really got me going. >> Oh, yeah. It's affecting it's affecting other people, not just either. >> Correct. Cuz I was eating. The reason I got [ __ ] up is I was willing to eat the [ __ ] I was like, "Fuck it." Even though I'm the whole [ __ ] team and I'm the guy, I'll take less to be nice to these people. When it hit me that it wasn't me, it was my A

players and my hardest workers that were taking money less money home because I was carrying I was like, "Wait a minute. I'm doing [ __ ] communism and socialism. I'm [ __ ] What am I not?" And it wasn't like everyone got paid the same, but like if Sid was making 10K less because I was carrying three bozos, like was that right? The answer was no in hindsight. And I want to do less of that. >> I I really like

your >> But I still need Sid to take $10,000 less. HR, cut 10,000 off of Sid's payroll, please. Just because I'm in the mood to do weird [ __ ] Go ahead, Nick. >> I was I was going to say I really like your take on intuition and I feel like one day humans do not realize that intuition is such a huge part of >> I will die, Nick. I will die on this. I believe in aund within

the next I will die on this. Within the next hundred years, we will realize that our gut is the primary brain and our brain is secondary. And it will it will create a new world order. And I'm sad cuz my intuition says I won't see it. But I can't wait to be chilling in heaven and see it happen. >> Yeah. You said that like 2 years ago and I almost think about it weekly cuz it's so

many occasions where your intuition says you do something. You just got to listen to it and nine times out of 10 it's the right thing to do. >> 100,000%. >> I love you, bro. Have the best day. >> All right. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. >> Nick, by the way, keep go. I love your vibe, bro. Keep going. Like you whatever you're doing, I can feel it through the screen. You're heading down a very good path.

Keep tripling down on whatever this energy is. >> I know. But my Twitch is giving it to me also. By the way, I'm a V friends one holder. I'm going to keep buying more and more and more cuz you got to blow it up. It's going to make me money and it's great things and it's great things you do for kids. Give it on those characteristics. >> Thank you, bro. Honestly, that means the world to me.

Like the feeling I have towards series one and series NFT be friends holders mean the world to me and and no [ __ ] It feels so good because I'm so positive of what's going to happen over the next decade or two. And it feels remarkable. And the last six months has been really fun because I can feel that. Is it time? Oh [ __ ] I got to do that thing for one minute. Ezra, hold down the Nick. I

love you. I'll be right back. Everyone. Everyone. I will be back in 2 seconds. Ezra, give something away cuz otherwise you won't be able to hold the audience. >> Peace. >> Welcome everyone. Hello. I'm the person that might uh might be fired. I don't know. You guys heard, you know. Um that's okay for now. Thank you. Um hello everyone. I'm Azer with Vfriend Friends. You can see I'm wearing a V Friends cap. I want to talk

to you a little bit about V friends cuz Gary's I think literally taking a five-minute meeting right now. >> Um, can we do the top cam as well? >> Awesome. So, we're giving away Oh, there we go. And then the guest cam. Gary's going to be back. Gary's going to be right back. But we are giving away this blaster pack. This blaster pack. So, this is Vfriend Friends. V Friends was handdrawn by Gary himself 4 years

ago. And over the last 4 years, it's evolved into the I mean, he may have used this Sharpie on this charismatic chameleon. But you can see the drawing uh the handmade drawing by Gary himself right there. And then like I said, it's evolved over the last 4 years into something like this uh which is a real top scrum card. Who knows about top scrum? Does anybody know about tops chrome? Like the trading card who put me

if you know about top scrum. V friends has a real official proper multi-year deal with Tops Chrome to release Vfriends on the Tops Chrome cards. So, this was launched um in May, I think, of this year. May of this year. So, it's only been a couple of months that this has been out. This is our 2025 card edition. We're going to give away these four cards. We're also doing a 2026 drop as well, so stay tuned

for that. These actually, Mike, how much do these retail for? Do you know I'm acting like I'm Gary? $99 for a hobby box. A hobby box for $99. Now they are up to about $700 because Gary was like, "Yo, Tosh, we got to produce more." They didn't listen. They played it cautious, which is fine. You know, you got a multi-year deal. You got to do what you got to do. But now they're up to uh $700.

So, it's real. It's real. So, let's take a look. Let's learn about a little, you know, this 3se secondond V friend or three minute little V friend interlude here. Um, can you run a flash sale in the crab hats? I have it loaded up. If Gary wants to, we can I can we can press a button. We got Kevin over here about to press a button potentially once Gary gets back. Okay, so this is badass bulldog.

Then we have vibe and vampire chat. Let me know out of these four cards, which one do you like the most? Which one resonates to you the most? Uh there's only 270 people in the giveaway. If you can't enter giveaway, you might have to be on iPhone. Um enter the giveaway because we're giving away these four cards. There's 2 minutes and 30 left. Uh 2 minutes 30 seconds left. There's 523 in the room and only 280

in in the entries. I mean, this is what Gary's saying where he's saying, you know, why why aren't I succeeding? Why don't I want to do what I what I want to do? Why can't I do what I want to do? It's because you're not freaking entering a free giveaway. It's my Gary impersonation. Um, thank you. Okay, so this is Vibe and Vampire. Then we have the bullish bull. Anybody in crypto NFTTS, you guys know a

little something about the bullish bull. And then we have the charismatic chameleon. Okay, out of all three, out of all four of those, that's your favorite one. The charismatic chameleia. I love that. Out of all four of these, which one is your favorite? We have the charismatic chameleon, the badass bulldog, vibing vampire, and bullish bull. So, V friends, generally, let's open up another card. You know what? I'm going to add this in the giveaway. We're doing

two. We're doing two of them. Yeah, we got vampire, chameleon, bulldog, definitely the chameleon. This card had this this pack has two cards in it. Was this pre-opened? We have dialed in dog and the considerate cowboy. Okay, so now we have six cards that we're going to give away. So you could see that V friends is really like Gary's saying, you know, he spends this time here, this hour with you guys sharing um, you know, motivation,

thoughts, perspective. That's what V friends is here to do. It's here to add positive traits into the world. Gary often describes as Pokémon meets Sesame Street. So the collectibility of Pokémon with trading cards, with stickers, which by the way are in the shop, you guys. These stickers are in the shop for $15. If you have if you use the code VF-15, just press the little button right here um to enter the notes. Then click the white

rectangle and then you can see VF15. It'll automatically apply to your wallet if you've never bought anything on whatnot before. Not from us, but if you've never bought anything on whatnot before. So, we have manga stickers, kids socks, we also have a kids cartoon. We literally have a kids cartoon on YouTube right now. If you look up Vfriend Friends cartoons on YouTube, it's uh for ages 10 10 and under generally, but 20 episodes, 3 minutes each,

and they are uh teaching kids positive traits and through storytelling. Um we have 30 seconds left on the giveaway. 30 seconds left on the giving. Um All right. Who has a question for me? I'll give you advice. Oh my gosh. T with T with easy. No. Also, giveaway has 10 seconds left and there's only 329 people in there. Gary might even sign these. So, if you're not if you're not in yet, >> almost 100 people. >>

No, no, no. >> Yes, there was 611. Get out of here. >> I did my best. And giveaway winners about about to go. >> All right, everybody on social, I need you all now. I need you all on Instagram Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube, Vapor X, Mets on Y say why on Twitch. I need all of you, all of you to get over here because Ezra just blew it and I need to get the number back to

611. There's only 510 in here. I need all of you to get over here. garyve.com/w whatnot. I'm going to do a significant giveaway. Did we do the black corduroy hats flash sale? Not yet. Are you ready for it? >> Just get a giveaway winner. The giveaway winner is >> Is it this? Is it these cards? >> Yeah. If you want to sign one, >> I will. >> AWP1 is the winner. >> AWP1. Congrats. Okay, real quick.

Here's a good question. Actually, here's a good question. Actually, can I hear this? Can you put Aaron on real quick? I just want to Aaron. Oh, yeah. We're good. Good. Here's a good question. Everyone, how many of you are on whatnot? Let me do a little quick question. How many of you on Whatnot for the first time in your career? This is like the first time. First time ever you're on whatnot. Say first time. Say first

time. Or actually either your first time or your time. Okay. There's a lot of people. You see what's going on now? We need all of these people. Well, thank you, sir. We need all these people to answer this qu if you said first or second time. Here's the next question. Do you collect anything and what is it? Say collect. Say in the comments collect with a colon and what it is. Now, Adrian, my favorite mod, I

need you to pin something. vfriends.com/quiz. I need all of you, all of you, all of you. All of you, all of you, all of you. Yo. So, >> excuse me. Yes, sir. >> Do you know who the Rizzler is? >> Of course. I made a piece of content with him 3 months ago. >> You like the Rizzler? >> Show this kid my Rizzler video. Uh, >> that's right. They can all come over here. Um, all right.

I need to show you something. You're about to learn the real deal Holyfield about what Vfriend Friends is about. You're about to go crazy. Crazy. You Everything's eBay, Robin. Everybody has to go to Oh, we have the eBay video. Courtney made the eBay video. >> Oh, amazing. All right, Ezra, I'm letting you gather your thoughts. Don't worry. >> I want to >> I'm ready for eBay. >> Are you ready for eBay or you ready for the

comic? Actually, let's throw eBay. Throw up eBay real quick. Can they hear me talk right now? >> Yes. >> Okay, everybody. This is eBay. This is literally everything that sold yesterday. Look at the date. July 28th. These are trading cards. The top trading cards. This has exploded. Exploded. This is like one of the hottest intellectual property trading card launch new launches ever. 2025 Tops Chrome. If you collect cards and especially if you have kids, it there's

the Gutsy Gecko. It teaches kids about guts. It teaches them about balance. It teaches them about being chill. It teaches them about being a radical like the radical rabbit right there. This these cards are hot. I need you guys to get in, become collectors. It would mean the world to me. I think the best part is you will be blown away. Blown away on what's happening here. Next, show the comic video. I need you to understand

the depths of what I'm building. The depths. Okay, now they can't hear me. Back up. >> All right, everybody. I'm telling you, I'm building it. I'm telling you, I'm Yeah, it is great. Fourth, please. I'm telling you. Vfriends.com/comicbooks. Not Not on that right now. Uh, Vfriends, I You can go to vfriends.com/comicbooks if you want to watch the rest. There's so much going on. This is really fun. It's going to and Robin, you're going to love being

part of this community. Also, vfriends.com/quiz. Everybody who's new, first or second show, you must go here. vfriends.com/quiz. Take the quiz, screenshoot the face of the character you are, and update your letter. Yellow letters. Notice in the chat and whatnot, we don't accept yellow letters. We don't like yellow letters. I don't like yellow letters. I don't want yellow letters. I don't need yellow letters. I need you to go to vfriends.com/quiz. Take the quiz all the way through.

Find out which V friend you are. That will be the one that you will become a maxi of. In fact, everybody in the chat that's an OGV friend, who do you collect in V friends? Who are you a maxi of? What's your favorite character? Who do you collect? Everybody reply with your favorite. Look at that. Look at all these everybody. See what happens. See how they have the picture of who they collect in their avatar. It's

amazing. All right, one more question. Aaron. Aaron. >> Okay. Um, a question from David. I am unemployed. Been looking for about 3 months. When should I just go with any job instead of applying to the jobs I want? I'm looking for a business intelligence analyst position. I also have a side hustle of a fish social media account called Chaos Aquatics that I need to post more on than I currently do. >> Right. So, you already answered

the second one. And on the first one, And on the You already answered the second one. And the first one, you settle when you can't take it no more. In life, whether it's a job, whether it's a side hustle, whether it's a relationship, like there's always a time time to bounce off. And the answer is when you can't take it no more. Right? That is the actual answer. When you can't take it no more. And this

is an important question which is an important statement. I I believe Aaron that people can take uh Aaron, do you know this about like working out physically? Like that you're like you think you can't do it anymore, but you can do like way more. Do you know about this? Like how the body works and the brain works? Braden, you know about this? Like how you think you can't do another push-up, but you actually do like 37

more cuz the brain and the body are funny like that. Yeah. It's like a really interesting thing. That's how I feel about life. I think a lot of people here are soft, you know, they're just like they're like, I can't do it anymore. And when they can do it so much more, we have become incredibly visceral to being uncomfortable. And um I want resilience for everyone here. All right, couple things before I bounce out. We need

to do the black hat. That's what they want. The copper hats were gotten. We got to do a black hat flash sale. I know you want the creative cap. Black cat, it's coming. Watch this, Ezra. Only 15 available. Discounted down to 6375. Only if you could afford it. Watch this, Ezra. Three, two, one, go. All right, so we got 59 seconds. Here we go, Mikey. We got 57 seconds. And 3 2 1 and sold out. >>

Let's go. >> All right, now a lot of people, Ezra, want a pack. Let's show the eBay sales one more time. We're going to, now this is important. Is the pack 25? >> 25. >> So that means some people will be able to get the pack for 10. If you've never bought anything on eBay in your excuse me, on whatnot in your life, say never bought because you have to hit the yellow notepad on the top

left corner and get the code. You got to get the code. Um, you got to get the code. If you've never bought anything, get the code on the top left corner, that little notepad, and hit the VF-15 button because you will be able to get a pack for 10 bucks. Okay, Ezra, let's put this up right now. Let's take that down. That's the eBay sales. It's hopping on V friends on eBay. I need all of you.

I need all of you. I need all of you. I need all of you to get ready. We've got 90 threeacks right down below. Write down below. 93 packs, 25 bucks. Get your first pack ever. If you're getting your first pack of V friends ever, leave a comment saying first pack. And obviously, OG's, you're more than welcome to load up. I know the blasters are hard. The blasters are hard. They go fast. Get your packs. Get

your packs. Get your packs. Get your packs. They're at the bottom of the store. Big shout out to Ox Ling getting a pack. Big shout out to Mike Nelson getting a pack. Um, I've got to run, but maybe not. I may have a surprise on the other side. Ezra, run. Comic number three, voice over. Everybody, uh, actually, let's do a giveaway as well because I want all the new people to follow us. You ready? >> Which

giveaway would you like to go? >> Yeah. Can I give this away? This is a big deal. This New York Comic-Con exclusive pin. >> That's pretty much all we got, too. >> This is I know it's all we got. These are tough. These are hot. The New York ComicCon pigeon pin giveaway. Collect them all free right now. All you have to do as soon as Ezra puts it up is literally hit this button. Yep. Here it

comes. Ezra, we got You got it. Okay, Jack. It's not there yet. It's not there. It's not there. Remember, packs are in the store right there. Right here. Packs. $25 packs. Get your first pack. Get your first pack. Get your first pack. And this literally hit this button right here, the giveaway button. Every one of you hit it. If you've ever, if this is your first or second show, definitely hit this button right here. Learn the

giveaway concept. Learn the giveaway concept. Learn the giveaway concept. Learn the giveaway concept. Learn it, Ezra. Play comic number three right now because people do not understand. They do. They are underestimating. Oh, in fact, Adrian, real quick, put 2129315731. I need people to text me V friends. The word V friends. If you if this is your first show or if you're not on my tech service and you want to be updated on giveaways, live shows when

we're doing events for V friends. And then finally, big question here. Who has decided they're going to collect V friends? Say, I'm collecting. Who decided they're who decided they're collecting V friends right here now? I can't see you on social media. Only on whatnot. Who's collecting? Not OG's, new people. Who's decided they're collecting? There's a lot of people that said, "I'm collecting with yellow letters." Yellow letter friends, as soon as this ends, go to bfriends.com/quiz download.

Oh, actually, I got a big one. I'm so happy I said this. Everybody show me the screen. Everybody who's new that said that I'm collecting, I need you to d click this click this be friends logo right here that I'm touching right now and send a message. Click it and send a message to us with your first meaningful question about collecting V friends. Our team will answer you with tons of links. We will onboard the [ __ ]

out of you. We will onboard the [ __ ] out of you. We're going to build the most cohesive collecting universe. In my lifetime, we will throw a VCON Comic-Con like event at the Javit Center that is as busy as Comic-Con just for V friends. In my lifetime. In my lifetime, I will build an amusement park, likely in Indonesia, a V friends amusement park in Indonesia that you will all visit in your older age. All right, run comic

number three. Watch this.