The Biggest Opportunity on the Internet Right Now | Tea with GaryVee 93

[00:01] money on the internet right now is live social shopping. What not in Tik Tok shop, Twitch now has it. Talk shop live. There's all sorts of places you can go. If you have more than 10,000 followers on social media and like to sell stuff,

[00:13] opportunity in the world right now. I was with a guy yesterday who's one of the biggest wholesalers to flippers. All the people that pay him to be in his mastermind, he said like 80% of them started because of my 2017 flip

[00:26] was. And that was eBay. Now we have live shopping easier. psychotherapist in India. I have been creating content for 7 to eight years creating content for 7 to eight years and my Instagram blew up in 20122. Yeah.

[00:41] And I've got like 22,000 followers there and occasionally some videos blow up to and occasionally some videos blow up to like 500K 1 million or something. U but recently the reach has been very low and I've got a few clients. How do I

[00:55] approach content to build my business and presence on social media as a >> You've got to get better. Meaning, you know, something's going on right now with my team. We've gotten better in the last 3 months like we just and that

[01:09] really started with me because where my energy was. It always starts with you on to Sid, his accountability, and then it trickles down. We're better right know what else to say. We're not quote unquote mailing it in. I think a lot of

[01:23] unquote mailing it in. I think a lot of people that have your situation win and then just get into old behaviors and are doing the same [ __ ] V, you have to try new [ __ ] You've got to try different angles. You got to try different styles.

[01:37] You got to do you got to write out your thoughts on on mentality and mental health in the notes pad and then post that with a video following it up. And now you did a two post carousel that started with, you know, iPhone notes and

[01:50] then your video. You've got to read garyve.comattention the deck and you got to like really learn the details. You know my my answer you've got to get better at the craft. The algorithm is not hurting everyone.

[02:05] It's hurting everyone who's not good. Do you understand? The re the reach is down not because something happened to Instagram in India. The reach is down because you're not as good right now as you were in

[02:18] 2020. That's all. And you know it. And then when that works, it will you will get more clients just like you did before. Because if you're at 22,000 followers and occasionally get 500,000 views, when you start getting one every

[02:31] get to 100,000, you'll get more clients. You've already seen that the attention gets you clients, right? And so you've got to think about pack platforms, algorithms, and culture. Platforms are, you know, you're you're lucky you're in

[02:43] [laughter] right? all the different dialects and banned. So, there's all the Tik Tok clones, you got YouTube shorts, you got platforms. Then there's algorithms. That's understanding how the algorithm

[02:58] works. I already just explained that to you. Go read garyve.com/attention. everyone. Everybody who's on Instagram and other places, I am on whatnot. It's garyve.com whatnot. And and then finally, culture. brother you know

[03:12] finally, culture. brother you know what's going on in India in or maybe you don't but you need to know what's going on with what people are thinking about economy are they excited about a new band on TV is there is there something

[03:26] chain that's crushing like I don't know like like it's really that simple like you have to know what's going on in popular culture right so platforms algorithms and culture is how you get great at social content social content

[03:39] from that free posting when it's done well. Awareness leads to relevant. Relevance is how you get awareness. Relevance is the first way that people consider buying something from you. Oh, I like Courtney. I like what she says.

[03:53] That's relevance to me. Oh, now I'm considering things that come out of might want to buy. Relevance, consideration, purchase. That is a understand it. If you don't chat GPT it, what did Gary Vee mean when he said

[04:07] relevance, consideration, purchase? And [ __ ] cook. B, you have to be better. >> I'm a 70-year-old woman. And >> you're a 70-year-old woman. >> Okay, keep going. >> And eager to learn AI, which I'm doing,

[04:20] but I don't have particular skills to go on YouTube and post some videos, etc. I retirement, so I am not struggling for my expenses, but I don't know what where something on social media. >> Live social shopping.

[04:34] I believe that the best way to make money on the internet right now is live social shopping. whatnot in Tik Tok shop. Twitch now has it. There's um something called district you can check out. Uh talk shop live. There's all

[04:48] sorts of places you can go. I believe live social shopping is the number one way that people can make. Who here has more than 10,000 followers on social media and has made no money on whatnot? Please put up that in the chat. Say 10K.

[05:03] Say 10K. Send say 10K in the chat if you're that person. this, Erin? All these people that say 10K, I believe that if they were good enough to get 10,000 followers on social

[05:20] that there's if they're also comfortable selling actually here, let's go with that. Everybody, if you're in the 10K crew, who's in the 10K crew and also some of you are not. A lot of people hate selling.

[05:34] >> Sid? >> Yes. court. So, so Aaron, no. Right. Everyone's different and that's great because, you know, Aaron's remarkable at

[05:46] production for YouTube. Massive skill. But for the people that are at 10K and like to sell stuff, live social shopping is the biggest opportunity in the world right now. I was with a guy yesterday who's one of the biggest

[06:01] wholesalers to flippers for 15 minutes. He he wanted to say hello. He he has built a huge community of people that flip. If you sell like 14 really cool like if you sell 14 items a day

[06:14] like on eBay for a year, you make 150k. Like it was I I don't remember. I don't want to. But he said all the people that pay him to be in his mastermind, he said like 80% of them started because of my 2017 flip challenge. That's how

[06:27] impactful that was. Every And that was eBay. Now we have live shopping easier easier. Now it's and you want to be on eBay and these live shopping platforms, but I could not

[06:44] I could not could not push you all harder harder to learn about live social You know what I like about a good 70-year-old and a retiree? They can get

[06:56] into that antique thrift store, flea market, garage sale life, which can get this guy Tech who I was talking to yesterday that I talk about talked about Carolina this weekend bought a box for $5 that had original inaugural season

[07:12] Chicago Bulls original jerseys and warm-up gear sent it to Heritage one of warm-up gear sent it to Heritage one of them's $30,000 with a bid on it already.

[07:24] into wholesale dollar stores start buying from China and India and now with the tariffs you've got Indonesia and Vietnam and all these new places that popped up that can do supply chain you know not to China's level but become

[07:37] alternatives like there's so much opportunity. Please everybody learn what >> I am 30 years old and have less [clears throat] than $100 in my account. I want to start creating content but I'm lost. I started working with someone

[07:49] experiences. Do you think this is a niche to start from? And how do you there because I have no social media presence? >> Your your money means nothing. Like whether you have $100 in your bank

[08:03] account or a billion, that meant nothing to the question. Uh posting on social and starting is completely based on self-esteem and insecurity. Almost every single person watching this right now is not posting because they're

[08:18] insecure. Period. End of story. Well, I don't have anything to add. Well, I'm not that smart. Well, I don't look that good. Well, I don't this. I don't that. I don't this. I don't want my neighbors to say something. I don't Well, Gary,

[08:31] I don't want them to judge me because like I'm a cool girl, but what I would post about is Legos. None of my friends know that I'm into Legos if I'm and this and that. Lego. Like, it's all the same [ __ ]

[08:45] you know? Like, so do I think it's a good niche to film someone if that Drock and Caleb and Babin. Caleb, or Babin, it probably would have

[09:00] Caleb, or Babin, it probably would have not worked out. that's that insecurity. You're insecure. The hundred bucks means nothing to me.

[09:15] The hundred bucks means nothing to me. And um is it a good idea to document someone and follow them around? Yeah, they're good. You know, Jake, >> hey, what's going on? Can you hear me?

[09:27] >> I can, my brother. Can more importantly, can they hear you? Can you guys all hear him on whatnot? >> There we go. >> Day two. >> All right, Jake, talk to me. So my my

[09:42] cousin and I started a small side hustle about a year and a half ago in the children's edutainment uh system. I mean we teach kids about dinosaurs and fossils and paleontology and we use animatronic costumes and puppets to get

[09:57] that across. We have a large 12 foot long 8 foot tall walking T-Rex. We call him Terry the T-Rex. We bring him to schools, libraries, daycarees, etc. So of hustle on the weekends. My wife's a teacher. She helps me out on the

[10:11] weekends. I work in New York City. We're out of Cranford, New Jersey. So, like my four days off. And we're constantly battling like can't, you know, what are some indicators we should look at where one at least one of us takes a plunge,

[10:24] goes full-time versus still trying to do this on the side? >> How much money is it making? >> Um, first year we did about 80 grand and then this year we're on pace to to potentially double that. We're We're

[10:39] >> And how much profit on that 150 will you do? >> Um 70%. >> And what's bringing a lot of it back in? We got another costume coming from from

[10:53] overseas. >> I got it. And who and who's making the least amount of money or is the most miserable of the three of you? >> Um it's probably a tossup. I I would

[11:08] probably say my my cousin, but you know, he has three it's probably like I could take more of the risk, I guess, going full-time, like, you know, but I don't know. It's a toss up.

[11:23] >> I think one needs to be needs to be all in and like I have the fear factor of trying this. >> What's your full-time job? >> I I work in city marketing comms in the city.

[11:37] at an agency. Uh, >> it's No, it's for a for a a fintech company. >> But you do marketing? >> Yeah, marketing and comms. I'm like on the internal comms team,

[11:50] >> like old [ __ ] like comm's life, like PR press releases and like heading up >> some of that. Yeah. >> How much do you make? >> How much do you make? >> Uh, about 130 140 bonus.

[12:04] >> Yeah. I mean, I think you should quit and if it doesn't work out, you should because it sounds like you're doing old [ __ ] but I'll give you like 95 and teach you. >> That sounds great to me. I mean, I love

[12:18] the dinosaurs, teaching them. I mean, it's so much more fulfilling. I feel making 170K in topline revenue on a business where no one's being able to really go in on it

[12:34] like you if you went full-time like it sounds like you're putting in the least right of time or like like in like not that much cuz you're nineto-fiving >> Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we're probably putting in I mean, mostly weekends, a

[12:48] cousin will do because of his work schedule he's off, but yeah, if we were able to go five days a week, I mean, just the summer alone, we could we could go three jobs a day, five days a week just summer and all that stuff.

[13:03] >> Yeah. I I just I just think that you need to quit, bro, because the numbers look good to me. like 170. Could you imagine if you put 70 hours in? >> Yeah, I do think about that a lot.

[13:20] about? I think about a lot of [ __ ] too. >> Yeah. >> You got a you got a backdrop now that going to go hard for a year, and if you [ __ ] suck, you're going to work at

[13:33] Vayner Media. >> All right, that sounds great to me. I mean, listen, it's it's something I've been thinking about a lot. So, >> I don't give a [ __ ]

[13:45] about it a lot? >> Just do it. >> Yes. That's like, oh, I've been thinking about working out for three years. about working out for three years. That's nice.

[14:00] this as an overall. >> Like, you thinking about it means parachute other than you'd have to live a little bit more conservatively for a something modern here at Vayner because of the big leagues. It sounds like

[14:14] you're a T-ball in marketing, but you know, you should probably quit right now. Do you have any savings? >> Yeah. Yeah, I got savings. Yeah. Yeah. Like I've

[14:27] >> Jake, like you're pissing everyone off right now. You know that, right? Like the amount of people that are pissed in the chat right now. And by the way, they earned it. I'm proud of you. >> Yeah, it's it's a lot of work. I mean,

[14:40] like I said, my my my wife's a teacher. Like, we're hustling on the weekends. I words? [ __ ] proud of you. They shouldn't. They're pissed, >> but like But I'm But I don't think they should be pissed at you. Like, I'm proud

[14:53] of you, >> you know, but I think you should jump >> you know, but I think you should jump 170 150, excuse me, topline revenue with you not spending any real Monday through Friday time on it. Yeah.

[15:05] to crush. Plus, you should get out of the job marketing you're doing is going to fall behind and you're going to get fired and >> Yeah. It's not I'm not It's not

[15:18] >> Exactly. Everyone's like, I don't want to lose my stability. I'm like, that's not stability. Doing [ __ ] press releases and hitting up media in 2026 in an AI marketing world, you're [ __ ] a young kid doing old [ __ ]

[15:32] You're basically in your career walking around with a cane. Yeah. Hey kids, you're not doing marketing, bro. >> You know, you know that, right? >> Yeah. No, I know. It's I do. The

[15:45] >> reason you like your job is it's easy and stupid, >> It's easy. >> Yeah. It's not It's not not crazy >> Right. So, it sounds like you're completely mailing it in, Jake.

[16:00] Sounds like you are choosing to go to a nineto-ive that does nothing, light work, that you're not growing, you're decaying, and you're choosing the easy path. You have savings. You have you've you say you're hustling, but the reason

[16:16] you're able to side hustle is your job's a [ __ ] joke. You're looking at you're like adjusting your fantasy football team at like 1 to >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. So, what the [ __ ] are we talking

[16:30] about here? Think I'm [ __ ] adjusting my fantasy team from 1 to 3 p.m. on a >> No. Do you even have a fant you have a fantasy team? >> Not. >> And not because I'm so busy, but because

[16:42] I can't play fantasy football because the Jets are my love and I'm not going to [ __ ] ADJUST MY LOVE FOR FANTASY FOOTBALL. My [ __ ] son has Drake May on HIS [ __ ] TEAM AND IT'S PISSING me off. [laughter]

[17:00] in your life? >> Yeah. Yeah, I get it. I get it. And I I [ __ ] jerk off Monday through Friday instead of going living your dream. You've chosen easy.

[17:13] >> The reason you don't want to leave your job is, you know, it's a joke. >> Where you're way better off to go take this jump. If it fails, you learn that

[17:25] and work at Vayner. You make less money, but you'll learn. I'll be paying you to but you'll learn. I'll be paying you to teach you.

[17:37] >> Jake the Snake. Don't forget it. >> Jump Jake is your new name. >> We'll come in. We'll do your next uh take to work day at the headquarters. >> Jake, you're no longer Jake the Snake. You're jump Jake jump. [clears throat]

[17:50] >> All right. Jump Jake. I like that. Jake, if you don't quit next week, we're not >> All right. Thanks, Gary. I appreciate it. cousin? >> My brother. My brother's

[18:04] >> His brother. >> Then they deleted. I THINK SOMEBODY THAT BOS I THINK IT WAS HIS BOSS THAT HE KILLED HIM. I THINK JAKE'S DEAD, GUYS. [laughter] [ __ ] All right.

[18:18] Poor Jake. Went young. All right. Let's [laughter] >> I'm 44 years old and after 10 years I was let go from my job. I'm fully ready What should I do first? >> 44 let go of a job. What should I do

[18:33] next? I mean, I don't know. Like there's a little more to that question than I need. um you know obviously if you want to get another job my biggest belief is that an enormous amount of people are going to be surprised and let go over

[18:48] the next 18 months because of not only AI but just in general you know efficient just the reality of the business world it's getting more competitive the biggest companies are getting bigger you know every day that

[19:02] Amazon gets bigger is another day that a retail store with 11 stores gets smaller right So, we're going through this time of change and uh the AI thing is a really big deal. And I think the best way to get a job if that's what that

[19:15] way to get a job if that's what that person wants at 44 I and again so many of you have heard this over and over from me, but I have no idea why people continue to lag on this. We must put out

[19:28] continue to lag on this. We must put out LinkedIn content around what you know, what you like, what you care about. That's just like it like I you about. That's just like it like I you know I I I you must share your

[19:43] um information, your knowledge, your understanding of your craft in your understanding of your craft in um in these environments. That's the

[19:55] issue, right? Like I don't I don't think people understand that um [ __ ] LinkedIn's your answer. I do not understand that you you know like not going to send resumes we have to put out content on LinkedIn around your

[20:10] expertise around coding around management around you know being an electrician whatever the [ __ ] it is like we need content on LinkedIn that is how people will get jobs you must put out content on LinkedIn

[20:24] are going to be more competitive than ever and your basic resume is not going ever and your basic resume is not going to cut it and so that's that you know right, let's move on. >> All right, next question is from Tara.

[20:38] Um, I started Charlie Safari, a kids book brand that teaches about endangered their wild little ones. We've got one book out and two almost ready to launch. It's still early. We're learning as we go and making some costly mistakes. But

[20:51] as a passion project versus when to double down and make it a full-on business? After two years, we have not made a profit yet. >> It's the toughest question. Like the amount of people that quit 3 weeks

[21:05] before their [ __ ] that they spent four years on pops off is there's it's a real number. It's happened quite a bit in the world. Um and then the amount of people more year and one more year and have spent another three years quote unquote

[21:19] wasting their time." That's also real. It's a really hard question for me to answer on this show. But what I will tell you is you have to balance your regret with your tolerance for financial anxiety, right? You know, that is the

[21:34] framework, you know, and and I think that too many people um are delusional and think they're rappers and like, you know, [laughter] try to be

[21:46] there. Like, you have to look for signals. You need to make some level of backwards. So there's this is a very tough question to answer. Generally I tough question to answer. Generally I always heir towards the

[22:00] place of putting out more social media content to drive sales like are you good at the marketing like businesses need marketing. Marketing is the offense of business and the reason I spend so much time talking about marketing is because

[22:12] it is the savior to so many people out here. My last question was marketing. Like you're going to lose your job. I want you to get another job. I think put out good information and videos of showing your knowledge and skills on

[22:26] LinkedIn than spamming people on LinkedIn and message form or sending in a resume. in this scenario selling those books if they can we can we pin books if they can we can we pin garyve.comattention [clears throat]

[22:41] this 40page plus deck and implemented it and so many of you of the people on this show have and everybody on Instagram please come over to garyve.com whatnot I just I I really need people to push themselves on this because this fixes

[22:57] the issue here because the sales are not going to come miraculously to this book and then they are going to quit. So I focus on offense. >> I'm in a 9 toive job at a bank and I've been more stressed out than ever lately.

[23:09] >> It's to the point that I call out of work just to not feel the stress. I've quitting your job if you're miserable. But in my case, I have no savings and I'm actually in the process of filing for bankruptcy. Would what would you

[23:21] job? I'm at the point where I don't enjoy it. My manager is a micromanager washing business >> to go apply to other banks.

[23:33] You know, quitting your job when you're in his situation is not practical. Quitting your job after you've applied to 900 banks, you know, on on LinkedIn

[23:45] putting up your Indeed profile. Like that's practical. Like again like we need to we need to you know Angel says say something in Spanish. I took say something in Spanish. I took Spanish. Can you give me my report card?

[24:03] >> I just need people to understand this is my report card. I don't know if this is going to zoom in here. >> It is but it will like I took Spanish [clears throat] I look at I took it junior and senior

[24:16] year. That's on the right side because if you look at my full report card, I actually failed German freshman and sophomore year. And in New Jersey, if you don't pass two years of language, you can't graduate high school. So, I

[24:30] literally literally the only word I can say in Spanish is ola. Anyway, by the way, my eighth grade Spanish name was Haraldo. And just thought that was a fun know. [laughter] >> That on our wiki.

[24:42] >> That on our wiki. >> Um, yeah. So yes, you should quit that doesn't sound like you hate um the banking job per se. People people don't realize like I I just don't understand this dwelling thing. Like if

[24:57] I hated my job, I'm applying to a this is all about, you know, practicality. You know, yesterday we talked about AO, right? We talked about accountability and optimism, but there's a PO part of it as well because like if you actually

[25:12] get into practicality, like the practical answer to this like the practical answer to this question is [ __ ] go apply to every bank in a 40 mile radius.

[25:25] Do you know Erin, I had like a real conversation like this with a friend and when I told them some version of this they they said no because the other bank

[25:37] store. I was like apply to every hardware store and he's like yeah but the this hardware store is an extra 20 minute commute.

[25:52] what's going on out there, right? Like it's just complainer city USA. USA? Please put CCSa. Own it right now. Be

[26:05] vulnerable on [ __ ] Halloween. Don't go eat a [ __ ] Snickers and a Hershey kiss. Come in here and [ __ ] own it with me and put CC USA in here because you realize you just are looking to [ __ ] complain. And I appreciate all

[26:19] of you. Queen Elizabeth 444. I appreciate you, Jared J. Let's [ __ ] own it. Stop being a complaining [ __ ] Stop it. Complaining doesn't work. It's all you do is you're [ __ ] You're rolling in your own [ __ ] You're rolling

[26:33] in your own [ __ ] You hate your [ __ ] banking job. You're bankrupt. Get another [ __ ] banking job,

[26:48] You know, like I don't know. Like it's just real out here. like do [ __ ] Like everything's hard. I I don't know. I do not know why everyone thinks everything not know why everyone thinks everything should be easy. It's always been hard.

[27:02] should be easy. It's always been hard. It's always been hard. It's hard. And once [clears throat] you fall in love with hard, it gets good.

[27:14] mechanic but has never tried to actually put anything together or take anything and how would you support him? >> I would make him do it. I think my advice would be like Salvatore, you know, I love you boy, but if you want to

[27:31] be a mechanic, you have to work with your hands. Like, hey, if your son wants dribbled a ball, what would you tell him? DRIBBLE A [ __ ] BALL, SALVATORE. [ __ ] MOM, you know the answer to this. What kind of question is this?

[27:46] SALVATORE'S MOM. MAKE THE [ __ ] KID trinket something. [ __ ] make him do something. Salvatore's mom, I got an idea. Break your [ __ ] dishwasher. Like, break it and then say, "Yo, [ __ ] Salvator. Fix it." And mom, I

[28:00] [ __ ] Salvator. Fix it." And mom, I don't KNOW HOW. USE CHATBT, [ __ ] I'm right, Sid. What do you want from me?

[28:13] >> I can hear you, Jim. I heard you last time. And it sounds like whatnot's going >> And can Yeah, they can hear you. And can everyone hear me? Start from the top, Jim, with those beautiful accolades that made my heart feel so good.

[28:26] >> Well, as I mentioned, you are a humble person despite everyone thinking otherwise. No, you can't hear. They can't hear me. >> Oh, I can hear you. I was agreeing with you that you're clearly very emotionally

[28:38] intelligent because >> you're right. I have so much bravado and all this stuff, but in my actions, my humility is my superpower. >> Right. So, let me start at the beginning. When I was a kid, my aunt

[28:51] rooting for the Jets since I was 7 years old. Wesley Walker, blind in one eye, my favorite receiver. I loved him. And then >> number 85, my favorite my one of my favorite players of all time. >> I went to St. Louis University and one

[29:05] of the few players to ever come out of St. Louis University is Pat Ley. Number been carrying around a card to give to you for a really long time because I know number five is important for you, right?

[29:17] whole childhood and he wore number five and because five was the jersey my mom knitted for me, I felt a kinship to him other than his hairline was very similar minute. Remember he was like baldish. It was weird.

[29:30] >> Well, he works now at the Home Depot in St. Louis. So he, my friend, got me. >> Sign for me. >> He literally works at Home Depot in St. >> I'm literally going there on a vlog to shake his hand.

[29:43] >> We're going to clip this. We're booking it. I'm going to St. Louis in Q1 to the Home Depot. Jim, I need you to tell me which Home Depot. Email me at garybfriends.com. I'm literally going to go there just to

[29:55] shake Pat Lehey's hand. I might bring my friend Al. He'll enjoy it, too. I'm [ __ ] going to St. Louis, everyone. All right, go ahead, Jim. done everything that you've said. I've I've

[30:09] um documented the journey and after you started Tea with Gary Vee, I started the immigration answer show. So I have done 935 episodes, hour, hour and a half where immigrants can just call and ask me whatever question they want. Well, in

[30:23] the last year or so, it has shifted very much so from um qu technical questions about the law to like they're scared, >> they're nervous, >> and so I I number one, I'm getting ready

[30:39] wondering if you would come on for like 20 minutes one day. We could record it a >> five minutes. >> Yes, sir. That would be great. But >> I'm in. What advice do you have? I I

[30:54] and I love your immigrant story. I talk about you all the time on the show and and everyone on the show knows who you are. Um what can I do to help immigrants have >> by telling them what life's actually

[31:10] about, which is you can't control what you can't control. >> You know what I mean, brother? Like it's a very challenging time. People see this issue on both sides. I'm empathetic to how people see the world. Everyone's

[31:23] allowed to see it differently. No question. Immigrants, not only in America, but a lot of places around the world are in fear mode, right? And the reality is is that my number one thing to say to both pe by the way to both

[31:36] people who deeply deeply are scared of immigrants sadly because people have weaponized that narrative or in reverse immigrants that are scared to be immigrants that are scared to be deported is you cannot control anything

[31:50] deported is you cannot control anything actually and you must adjust to reality actually and you must adjust to reality and that's that there is watch this watch this Jim. Hey everybody in in the whatnot chat, how many of you

[32:02] emotionally right now? Please say struggling in the chat. Like real talk, like just like real life, you know, let's be vulnerable. How many people said they're struggling live in America? Struggling financially and emotionally

[32:15] and live in America. Say America in the chat. [snorts] This is what I tell my immigrant friends, Jim, who are Listen, I think living in America is remarkable. land of opportunity. I still

[32:29] believe it at the highest levels, even more with what's going on with AI and it's over. In fact, you're going to get fired and then start your dream life for a lot of people. A lot of people, no. But a lot of people, yes.

[32:42] But you cannot control everything. And so, Jim, you got to get to the root. The reason you like me is, and you've been following for a while, is I go to the root canal,

[32:56] worried about getting you like some toothpaste that does white, you know, [ __ ] root canal. Rips. So, you need to get to the root canal, [clears throat] Jim, and tell them that

[33:13] you you can't control how this is going to play out. You just can't. And you can't spend every day in fear. And you must wrap your head around that if you are no longer in the United States, you will go back to the country you were

[33:28] born in and you will make a remarkable life and you may find yourself back in taking a lot of people right now or in Canada. Like there's so much opportunity around the world. America is not the only place to find happiness. In fact,

[33:41] chat speak about struggling both mentally and financially right here in America. So, America is not the variable of happiness.

[33:54] You are the variable of happiness and making your happiness. And that's that. That's the real answer. >> Gary, thanks so much. I got my first V friends Resourceful Robin. I took the quiz, so I was really excited. I got a

[34:07] that. Thank you for everything that you've done. Thank you for ch literally immigrants that I've been able to help. You get credit for all that. You get >> No, you you get credit, brother. I might have been a seed, but you [ __ ] you

[34:20] executed. And I I I cherish all of you in the chat and all of you watching right now that have taken a word or a video of mine and actually done something with it in a world where millions don't. And I I

[34:33] applaud you, sir. And I can't wait. I hope to see you at that Home Depot with me and I can't wait for my five minutes to be on the podcast. Please email me at garyvfriends.com and we'll set it up. >> What would you recommend to somebody who

[34:46] owner but also has a chronic illness that makes them bedridden for one to sometimes two weeks per month? >> Give themselves grace.

[35:00] yourself up. You have a chronic illness. You know, I'll s I really want to talk about Grace this morning and the graceful goldfish, one of the underrated that character. I don't know if there's any graceful uh goldfish collectors in

[35:16] here. >> I want I want There was a woman, what >> Kayla. Kayla, I want you to give yourself grace, Kayla. Like, you have a chronic illness. You didn't control that. That was God's plan. And I think

[35:31] that you should give yourself grace. You can't hustle 18 hours a day, 365 days a year. You just can't. I want people who lost a loved one, like a parent, someone they really love, god forbid, a child or a spouse.

[35:45] you're watching, I want you to give yourself grace. Of course, you can't go grind. If that happened to me, I'm not [ __ ] building V friends the next day. I'm I'm I'm dwelling. I'm mourning. Please give yourself grace to mourn.

[36:01] Please give yourself grace to mourn. Right? If if you're starting your you've realized that you were suppressing very [clears throat] deep suppressing very [clears throat] deep angers or upsetness towards a parent or

[36:14] angers or upsetness towards a parent or an inappropriate uncle or an illness that your mother had with alcohol. Like give yourself a little grace. Now don't dwell in it. Don't dwell in it and lay in it forever. But give yourself some

[36:28] grace, everyone. Like you can't go hard if you don't have fuel. it was like, "What drugs Gary be on?" Gratitude, [ __ ] face.

[36:40] Happiness. Of course I can go hard 15 hours a day. Of course I can go hard 15 hours a day. I'm not weighed down. grace. When I make mistakes, big mistakes,

[36:55] when I, Mr. Gratitude and Happy, like wake up on a gloomy day, I'm like, "Ah." wake up on a gloomy day, I'm like, "Ah." I'm not like, "Oh [ __ ] I suck." Now, you don't suck. Someone said, "I suck earlier in here when I was saying who's

[37:07] struggling." What? I saw it in the chat. You do not suck. from a stroke. She's all I had." Not true, brother.

[37:20] true, brother. Mr. Santino. Yes and no. Your memories of her, you know, are what you have now. And your ability to find love in other areas, whether it's through

[37:32] companionship or even friendship. How many people here really love their best friend like that? Like really love them like that. court. >> Yeah. >> When I talk, do you know that the only

[37:46] about my parents at award shows and publicly? And the only other time I've ever ever in my life got choked up that way was when I talked about Brandon. Even right now, I just said it as I said his name. That's how much I love him.

[38:02] So, you know, like there's the people you're born into and there's the people that I did retire yesterday, Med, but I'm back unretired. I did retire here live on this show, but I'm back one day later. Um,

[38:17] you know, heyo, I'm going to be in a stadium with 40,000 people and be like, "Hey, just

[38:31] [laughter] like um so give yourself grace. How do I protect my personal brand as deep fakes are becoming an issue with popular creators?" >> That's

[38:43] >> That's undecided. to all of you to follow me on Sora 2, where you guys can all make videos of

[38:55] where you guys can all make videos of me. I'm going the other way. I am going me. I'm going the other way. I am going to use deep fakes to build my brand. So, for example, here Sid, can you take this and play it over? [laughter]

[39:07] >> This is something Braden made on the team. We're testing. >> All right, got it. You don't need to yell in my ear.

[39:22] >> Yes, it's a great word. It's my favorite. DOWN THREE NOTCHES. >> ALL RIGHT, I GOT IT. YOU DON'T NEED to yell in my ear. >> They can hear it. >> I think they can. Could Could you guys

[39:35] >> Yeah. >> You think ice will ever slow me down? >> You think ice will ever slow me down? >> You don't know your boy. [laughter] >> The screen one is better. >> You think ice will ever slow me down?

[39:50] >> All right, there's that. And which one? >> The screen. Oh, this is amazing. >> HELLO. [clears throat] [laughter]

[40:03] that bad. >> You got me. My heart is racing my go. >> You got me. My heart is racing my go. >> It's kind of peaceful out here. Hello. >> Sorry, man. Didn't think I'd scare you that bad. My heart is racing.

[40:16] >> So, I'm going the other way. I'm going to soon give you guys all an invite and all my socials. You're all going to follow me on Sora 2 and I'm going to open up my entire IP and you guys can make videos of me all day. How do you

[40:29] protect your IP? [snorts] You can uh lawyer up or you can take a surfboard lawyer up or you can take a surfboard and ride it.