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Speaker 5: We have a special guest today, a legend in the game,
Speaker 5: Gary V. If you follow us, I'm pretty sure you
Speaker 5: watch a lot of our continents, all based on entrepreneurship
Speaker 5: and invest in. So Gary somebody that actually needs no introduction.
Speaker 5: He's been a pioneer in this base of not just entrepreneurship,
Speaker 5: but really online entrepreneurship as far as the kind of
Speaker 5: content even that we create. You know, he was an
Speaker 5: early adopter as far as social media to talking about
Speaker 5: you know, non traditional type of way of even presenting himself,
Speaker 5: as far as sneakers, hats and different things of that nature,
Speaker 5: which has become commonplace now. So he's somebody that he
Speaker 5: said a lot of blueprints and we've actually spoke to
Speaker 5: him a while ago. I think it was like four
Speaker 5: years ago. So just the follow up conversation. So first
Speaker 5: and foremost, thank you for coming, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Proud of you guys, and congratulations got married.
Speaker 6: Yesiate, and you know in that four year journey, I
Speaker 6: just want to give you guys some flowers. I've been
Speaker 6: thinking a lot about the concept of flowers while people
Speaker 6: are alive, you know, we got to give them out
Speaker 6: more often. I'm just it's been really great to see
Speaker 6: you guys build. So congrats and who's your audience following along?
Speaker 4: Thank you man, Thank you. So we got a lot
Speaker 4: to talk about.
Speaker 5: The first thing I want to ask for the last
Speaker 5: time we spoke, you were very adamant about NFTs. Yes,
Speaker 5: has your thought process changed being at the landscape of
Speaker 5: NFTs have changed or are you still bullish on NFTs.
Speaker 6: I'm in the same spot I was, obviously. If you
Speaker 6: go back to those videos in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 6: twenty when I was talking about them, the talk track
Speaker 6: was the same. This is early, this is like web
Speaker 6: one point zero ninety nine percent of these things are
Speaker 6: going to zero. You know, when people want to jump
Speaker 6: on me on that thing, they like to conveniently leave
Speaker 6: out all the videos I put out that said ninety
Speaker 6: nine percent we're going to zero. Three weeks ago. One
Speaker 6: hundred and thirty two million dollars worth of NFTs were
Speaker 6: bought in a week, but nobody, including the inner circle
Speaker 6: of NFT collectors even could believe that because the brand
Speaker 6: of NFTs are so faded, so you know low from
Speaker 6: page to the Wall Street Journal in the spring summer
Speaker 6: of two thousand says the Internet was a fad because Amazon, eBay,
Speaker 6: you know, PayPal, their stocks went from one hundred and
Speaker 6: fifty dollars to four dollars three dollars because of the collapse.
Speaker 6: What happened in Web one point zero and what happened
Speaker 6: in Web three Ozero with NFTs was the same thing.
Speaker 6: Greed took over the macro the so am I bullish
Speaker 6: crypto punks, which was the first NFT I was most
Speaker 6: talking about and excited about as the og. The real one,
Speaker 6: I think as we are filming right now, is somewhere
Speaker 6: in the ballpark of two hundred and twenty five thousand
Speaker 6: dollars for the cheapest one. They were fourteen to thirty
Speaker 6: thousand dollars when I was talking about them. That's a
Speaker 6: good return. You know Peggi Punk Wins, Peggi Punk Penguins,
Speaker 6: you know board Apes, Azuki v Friends. There's seven to
Speaker 6: ten projects that are building through this winter, and you know,
Speaker 6: we'll see what comes out of it. Right So the
Speaker 6: cheapest ved Friend right now from series one, my biggest collection,
Speaker 6: the cheapest one as we sit here right now is
Speaker 6: six thousand dollars. That's above what everybody bought it for
Speaker 6: when they came out. Many are much more expensive than that.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I'm incredibly bullish because I believe that collecting
Speaker 6: is on the precipitice of being in the same place
Speaker 6: that music, sports, fashion, and food were. So let's, you know,
Speaker 6: let's really go into something that I think could really
Speaker 6: help some people right now. Sports. The nineteen eighty two
Speaker 6: NBA Finals Lakers sixers. I don't remember which game, so
Speaker 6: I don't want to get it wrong. Maybe game two three,
Speaker 6: I don't remember five, but I don't think it was
Speaker 6: one or the last game. The nineteen eighty two NBA
Speaker 6: Finals was on tape delay in America. They aired a
Speaker 6: golf instead of live NBA Finals game because it was
Speaker 6: that unpopular, rating that poorly at that point, the biggest
Speaker 6: athletes in sports in the fifties had to get jobs
Speaker 6: in the offseason because that's what they were getting paid.
Speaker 6: Coca Cola did not have a sports marketing department until
Speaker 6: the sixties or seventies. In the last half century, In
Speaker 6: the last fifty years, sports went from this thing over
Speaker 6: here to as big of a cultural phenomenon as we get.
Speaker 6: Music obviously has had a much more stronger impact in
Speaker 6: a lot of ways, but the profound nature of being
Speaker 6: a famous musician continues to get amplified. Celebrity culture was
Speaker 6: not as big in the fifties sixties as a pilot
Speaker 6: and an astronaut was more famous than somebody, or at
Speaker 6: least equal to somebody that was on film. I love
Speaker 6: to look at history to understand the future. I believe
Speaker 6: what you're seeing right now. You know these la boo boos,
Speaker 6: la boo boos, sneakers, watches, sports cards, NFTs art. I
Speaker 6: think that collecting is starting to gain extreme momentum. And
Speaker 6: the way that you go out with your girl and
Speaker 6: sit with another couple and you talk about what do
Speaker 6: you watch on Netflix? Did you see the Big Game
Speaker 6: last night? Have you heard about this new rapper or artist? Like?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: Why is the way fashion changes. We're all old enough.
Speaker 6: We're not fifteen to see baggy than tight than baggy, right,
Speaker 6: Timbos to Nikes to like we see it right. So
Speaker 6: the reason I mainly believe in NFTs is a couple things. One,
Speaker 6: I believe in the blockchain, crazy crazy, heavy crazy. We're
Speaker 6: about to go into the AI era. Every video on
Speaker 6: the Internet, literally ninety percent of the videos on the
Speaker 6: Internet ten years that come out every day will be fake.
Speaker 4: It's like on social media or just general correct.
Speaker 6: And so there will be unlimited videos of YouTube in
Speaker 6: ten years saying shit you never said, and none of
Speaker 6: us will know if you said it or did it.
Speaker 6: And the only way we'll be able to say or
Speaker 6: tell is if you guys mint it on the blockchain,
Speaker 6: and there's a connection between the blockchain and the internet
Speaker 6: to show that this is real shit. I don't have
Speaker 6: to tell you guys about bitcoin and things of that nature.
Speaker 6: So I think that the blockchain is going to be
Speaker 6: the most important digital platform infrastructure of the next century.
Speaker 6: Money will be on that and so will collectibles one
Speaker 6: of the you know, I've been into collectibles my whole life,
Speaker 6: so I've watched it and now I'm really paying attention
Speaker 6: to it. One of the things that fucks people up
Speaker 6: with collectibles is fake fake art, fake sneakers, fake sports cards,
Speaker 6: fake comic books. I had my boy years ago brought
Speaker 6: up fuckinger Man first appearance. We were fucking hyped and
Speaker 6: then they started great. And this was back in the
Speaker 6: day and the nineties paid real you know paper for
Speaker 6: us back then, tens of thousands was like a trillion.
Speaker 6: We're like, yeah, I'm so happy for him. When grating
Speaker 6: came out and you could send it in, it can
Speaker 6: get authenticated. They're like, this is fake. One great thing
Speaker 6: about V Friends Series one, NFTs, They'll never be a fake.
Speaker 6: It's on the blockchain, right, That's a real crazy thing.
Speaker 6: So to kick off, I'm super hot on them. If
Speaker 6: you ninety nine point nine nine percent of the people
Speaker 6: watching right now have rightfully not paid attention for the
Speaker 6: last two three years because the brand got shit on
Speaker 6: right Brand's EBB and flow three years ago. We sit
Speaker 6: here Will Smith's brand here. Will puts out a kind
Speaker 6: of funny little rapvideo the other day, Little lower Will
Speaker 6: goes and makes a crazy bangervic movie in three years
Speaker 6: up right, we've all seen it. Ebbs and flows, right,
Speaker 6: Ebbs and flows, you know. On me growing up, the
Speaker 6: two shit is fucking sports brands in the world, the
Speaker 6: Golden State Warriors and the New England Patriots. Those two
Speaker 6: fucking teams sucked shit. Now, no better brands brands have
Speaker 6: been flow. Even in my fifteen year public career as
Speaker 6: a personal brand. Some moments I'm fucking hot. Some moments
Speaker 6: I'm in the cut, little chill, up and down, up
Speaker 6: and down. You guys are feeling it ready, right. Some
Speaker 6: moments you're like, we're fucking steaming. Other moments the six
Speaker 6: months you're like, fuck, what's going on? Other people are
Speaker 6: taking arty, you know, like that shit. So I think
Speaker 6: collectibles are gonna be a very big part of society
Speaker 6: because I think it's a human truth. Stamps, coins, you
Speaker 6: go back to cavemen, rocks, artifacts, antiques. So I'm bullish
Speaker 6: on it. I think they'll be the predominant. You look
Speaker 6: at kids growing up, minecraft, roadblocks, NBA two K, they're
Speaker 6: buying digital fucking things. They're trading those cards. So I'm
Speaker 6: bullish on it. The problem for NFTs as we sit
Speaker 6: here today is the brand is in the fucking gutter
Speaker 6: because people got fucking way too greedy doing dumb shit.
Speaker 6: Everyone thought every that would be like me telling you
Speaker 6: every trading card is gonna be worth money. But what
Speaker 6: if the players such like crypto, It's like, that's right.
Speaker 6: I mean big coins of a.
Speaker 5: Most cryptos fell on artment that doesn't That doesn't mean
Speaker 5: that big coins not legitimate, correct and so.
Speaker 6: But that's how everything is. Ninety nine point nine percent
Speaker 6: of art is worthless, nine nine percent of watches ain't
Speaker 6: worth shit, nine nine percent of sneakers aren't worth collecting
Speaker 6: comic books, coins, stamps, the dot com bubble. It was
Speaker 6: the dot com bubble. The greed took up, by the way,
Speaker 6: That's why I started making the videos. I'm like, oh fuck,
Speaker 6: because I didn't make those videos up front, because I'm like, oh,
Speaker 6: this is gonna go nice and slow, like TikTok and
Speaker 6: social media and like all the other shit I saw,
Speaker 6: and then it went real fast. You know, COVID people
Speaker 6: were at home, they didn't have other shit to do
Speaker 6: that the game was different than the world I lived in.
Speaker 6: There was no COVID when I was so the pace
Speaker 6: was different. Everyone was digital, everyone was on Twitter and
Speaker 6: social and so all that heat came in and people
Speaker 6: got ahead of their skis. Bad actors got involved, people,
Speaker 6: you know, looking for a quick buck, which is the
Speaker 6: quickest way to not make a buck, and she got
Speaker 6: fucked up and the brand got hurt. But again, the market,
Speaker 6: like for the people watching right now and be like, damn,
Speaker 6: is Gary fullshit or let me go check it. I
Speaker 6: think the ones that go look and be like, damn,
Speaker 6: that much volume is still going on. When that much
Speaker 6: volume is going on, ninety nine point nine percent of
Speaker 6: people think it's garbage. Well, then you know there's something.
Speaker 6: And that's kind of that's kind of what happened with
Speaker 6: sports cards and comic books. They crashed too in the nineties.
Speaker 6: But you but I was looking at eBay in the
Speaker 6: two thousands, I'm like, man, there's still a lot of
Speaker 6: people really fucking with this shit. Oh shit. And that's
Speaker 6: how it kind of goes wrestling, like when the Rock,
Speaker 6: when Hogan and Rest in Peace and Macho Man are
Speaker 6: doing their thing. Wow, then it's a lull. Then comes
Speaker 6: to Rock and Stone coll Bam. Then there's a lull then,
Speaker 6: like you know, I I think people jump off when
Speaker 6: things aren't fucking cooking, and I think sheep jump on
Speaker 6: when things are cooking. And I'm just in my own
Speaker 6: little cave by myself, in my brain, not being affected
Speaker 6: by anything besides what I believe to be true. And
Speaker 6: I'm running a marathon and I'm aware that in this
Speaker 6: social media AI world everyone's a sprinter, but life's a marathon.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: Four years ago, this is interesting because AI wasn't at
Speaker 1: the conversation.
Speaker 6: Couldn't be, wasn't ready, It wasn't ready.
Speaker 1: Four years later, here we are, and I know you've
Speaker 1: been on the cuss of looking at the next trend
Speaker 1: and looking how marketing has gone. Talk about where you
Speaker 1: see the influence that AI has now and where we're
Speaker 1: headed in terms of marketing, in terms of business, in
Speaker 1: terms of any any pretty much industry, and how it's
Speaker 1: about to change.
Speaker 6: Kids who are watching, let me tell you the best
Speaker 6: part about being forty nine is you've lived a little.
Speaker 6: When you're twenty two, you're like, fuck forty nine, I
Speaker 6: don't want to be there. But when you're at forty nine,
Speaker 6: you're like, wait a minute, you know, it's kind of
Speaker 6: like being a fighter. Like when you're in your fiftieth
Speaker 6: professional fight. Man, you've seen all those punches, right, and
Speaker 6: so you know how to fucking stick and move. That's
Speaker 6: how I feel about AI. I've seen this movie before.
Speaker 6: It was called the Internet. This isn't This isn't the
Speaker 6: things within the Internet. So the Internet came along. I'm like,
Speaker 6: look look at the shit. I don't know if you
Speaker 6: can see it. Literally, look at the goosebumps I'm getting.
Speaker 6: Internet came along when I was.
Speaker 7: Like, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Internet came along when I was eighteen, and I was like,
Speaker 6: this is about to change my fucking life.
Speaker 7: Ernest, what's up?
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Speaker 6: And then I went deep into it and did shit
Speaker 6: underneath the internet, email website, Google ad Words, MySpace, face
Speaker 6: got it. This thing isn't TikTok or NFTs or crypto
Speaker 6: or this is the whole thing. So let me say this,
Speaker 6: This could be the only clip we need from this
Speaker 6: whole fucking podcast. If you're fucking seeing this right now
Speaker 6: and you are not spending one hour a day minimumly
Speaker 6: fucking with AI, I don't give a fuck. If it's
Speaker 6: just chatch ept asking questions. And then if you're a
Speaker 6: creative fucking around with all the new shit mid journeys
Speaker 6: in this and runway and all that shit, if you're
Speaker 6: not in it, like you are literally your grandma that
Speaker 6: you made fun of, got it? Like how old are
Speaker 6: you too?
Speaker 4: I'm forty one, forty three.
Speaker 6: Perfect. When you guys were fucking with AOL instant Messenger
Speaker 6: and AOL and then MySpace and you know, cell phone
Speaker 6: and texting parents, grandparents unks, they weren't about that life.
Speaker 6: And it was like ha ha up, you know, like
Speaker 6: I'm in it, they're not in it. If you're twenty
Speaker 6: six right now, let alone early forties, and you're not
Speaker 6: spending an hour or two a day fucking with AI,
Speaker 6: you are becoming your grandma. You are your grandma. So
Speaker 6: all these people are like, no, I don't fuck with that.
Speaker 6: That's some bullshit. It's you know, here's my favorite thing.
Speaker 6: When people talk about new shit and they shit on it,
Speaker 6: on some noble shit, that's to tell that they're too
Speaker 6: lazy to do the work. I'm not doing AI because
Speaker 6: I think it sucks up musicians and I fucked with
Speaker 6: the arts and music and that's fucked up. So I'm out.
Speaker 6: You're not out because of fucking you're sad that fucking
Speaker 6: Kendrick Lamar might lose some paper. You're out because you
Speaker 6: don't want to put in forty hours to learn a
Speaker 6: new thing, because you're tired because you just put in
Speaker 6: a lot of hours to learn the last thing. People
Speaker 6: aren't noble.
Speaker 5: People are lazy, But people are also scared though too.
Speaker 5: Us a lot of fear as far as it's going
Speaker 5: to take my job, or some fears are legitimate, right,
Speaker 5: like we've created something. When I say we humans have
Speaker 5: created something more intelligent than ourselves, that's kind of never
Speaker 5: been done before in human history, as far as like
Speaker 5: we don't know how far AI can actually go.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you something right now, I don't know
Speaker 6: if you know this, you definitely do this a little joke.
Speaker 6: I'm setting it up, we also created a bomb that
Speaker 6: can kill every person on earth. If the three of
Speaker 6: us intellects were chopping it up in nineteen fifty two
Speaker 6: and the US just dropped the fucking bombs several years
Speaker 6: earlier and blew out Japan and I and we were
Speaker 6: just chopping it and saying, where the fuck are we
Speaker 6: gonna do with this thing. If I sat here and
Speaker 6: said in the next seventy years, no country, no man,
Speaker 6: no woman will drop that bomb, everybody'd be like, get
Speaker 6: the fuck out of here. We think about what nineteen
Speaker 6: fifty was. We just dropped the bomb. The last thirty years,
Speaker 6: we've had two World wars, right, so in the last
Speaker 6: thirty years of society, we just got out of World
Speaker 6: War One, we just just just had World War Two.
Speaker 6: The US just dropped this bomb. Now Russia's got it
Speaker 6: and everyone's trying to develop one. And I said, in
Speaker 6: seventy years it will never drop. Nobody would believe that.
Speaker 6: My point of that little story is, no shit. People fear.
Speaker 6: People fear everything, humans fear. Most parents parent with fear
Speaker 6: every fucking Let me break it down. I don't love
Speaker 6: to get political, as you guys know. Let me just
Speaker 6: make it real simple. Every politician weaponizes fear. Fear is
Speaker 6: how you control people. I'm not letting an another invention
Speaker 6: fuck me up, because guess what, when the car was invented,
Speaker 6: people were scared about that. Do you know what the
Speaker 6: word demonizing is? Demonizing comes from when electricity was invented.
Speaker 6: Word on the street, check this. Electricity gets invented. We
Speaker 6: have candles in our motherfucking offices and house electricity gets invented,
Speaker 6: and people don't put electricity in their home because the
Speaker 6: word on the street is there's demons in it. Like
Speaker 6: if you bring in electricity, you're bringing demons into your home.
Speaker 4: It's like magic, like just cut a light on. So
Speaker 4: how are you using AI.
Speaker 6: Have used it every day to think, to strategize for
Speaker 6: me personally, I as I think you guys know, and
Speaker 6: some people may know. I'm always thinking and then I act,
Speaker 6: and so I'm trying. They're not trying to think of
Speaker 6: a good one. I already referenced it. I'm fascinated by
Speaker 6: fashion trends because I think they tell you a lot
Speaker 6: of shit. So literally, like two three weeks to go,
Speaker 6: I'm on a plane, caught up my work just on
Speaker 6: some this is literally and by the way, I audio
Speaker 6: everything because I'm better with words than writing. So I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'm like, yo, chatty, I call it chatty. So we've
Speaker 6: been on this baggy trend again nineties. It seems like
Speaker 6: for the last couple of years it's coming like, can
Speaker 6: you give me the last forty years on like clothes
Speaker 6: being loose than tight than loose than tight, and what
Speaker 6: is your prediction on how long this cycle of baggy
Speaker 6: will last? And the reason I asked it is to
Speaker 6: get ahead of the next tight way correct. So, as
Speaker 6: an investor, if I see if so, that was just
Speaker 6: a random thought that I did, and the answers are crazy.
Speaker 6: They give you like all sorts and you go back
Speaker 6: and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and the
Speaker 6: answer is it gives me really sets me up to think. So,
Speaker 6: then in two years, if I see a new disse
Speaker 6: because when I saw Matt Happy, I was like, that's
Speaker 6: gonna hit kif watching Ronnie Firm from like, that's gonna
Speaker 6: hit Siegumann stables, those hats, I was like, that's gonna
Speaker 6: hit Like I'm starting to think that what I'm good
Speaker 6: at with the Internet, I should be doing investing in fashion.
Speaker 6: And so if some young girl comes to me in
Speaker 6: two years and she's like, I'm you know, I'm going
Speaker 6: back to like skinny genes, I might be like, oh shit,
Speaker 6: it's she's right somewhere the next two three years, let
Speaker 6: her cook, keep it alive, and she's like that. So
Speaker 6: that's the shit I use it for.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have the obviously you're creative just by
Speaker 1: naturing right, You've built that throughout your career, and obviously
Speaker 1: AI helps enhance that for the creatives. But we dial
Speaker 1: in a world where a lot of these agencies are
Speaker 1: old school, yeah, and they're not up to date and
Speaker 1: they don't really understand how they use this.
Speaker 7: What are your thoughts on them?
Speaker 1: And I guess this new world of influencer and entrepreneur
Speaker 1: who are using.
Speaker 7: It and trying to deal with agencies that just don't
Speaker 7: get it.
Speaker 6: There's a lot here. I'll break that down. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: take a little from over here, bring it all together.
Speaker 6: A couple things. First, Let there be no confusion. There
Speaker 6: is pain that is coming with this innovation, but that
Speaker 6: always happens. Hip hop the music that spoke to me
Speaker 6: in Jersey in eighty five eighty six, I stopped buying
Speaker 6: it like I would have been if hip hop doesn't
Speaker 6: come along. I would have bought Van Halen and bon
Speaker 6: Jovi tapes, but instead I bought run dmc Beastie Boys,
Speaker 6: the fat Boys. Big shout out to them, underrated that
Speaker 6: that took paper from someone else. When search engines came out,
Speaker 6: we were you know, I was a little older than
Speaker 6: you guys, but we were hyped. Yeahhoo, asked Jeeves and
Speaker 6: then Google, right, that was good for us. Nobody cried
Speaker 6: for the fucking one hundred thousand people that lost their
Speaker 6: jobs selling the Yellow Pages this city. Do you know me,
Speaker 6: motherfucker job it was to clean up horse poop before
Speaker 6: the car came out. This city. This the best city
Speaker 6: in the world that we're sitting in right now. Only
Speaker 6: one hundred years ago, thousands were employed to clean up
Speaker 6: horseshit because horses were getting us around and they shit.
Speaker 6: When the car was invented, nobody cried or they did.
Speaker 6: They wrote an article like people talked about it. But
Speaker 6: there will be pain in this. If you're not a thinker,
Speaker 6: if you're just a doer, if you're not the architect,
Speaker 6: and you're just a mason, if you just take direction
Speaker 6: and you don't use this. This is gonna be a
Speaker 6: fucked up era.
Speaker 4: Talk about collecting.
Speaker 6: Let me just let me I apologize. So to your point,
Speaker 6: the agencies that put their head in the sand and
Speaker 6: be like, this is bullshit. Real video is only when
Speaker 6: humans like this chop it up. You can't do that shit.
Speaker 6: They're gonna lose again. I keep using your age because
Speaker 6: it's gonna make sense to y'all and then everybody who's
Speaker 6: in our similar age. Remember when online dating out, Remember
Speaker 6: when your boy went on match dot com or your
Speaker 6: girl went on match dot com and went on date
Speaker 6: and then like, let's say it clicked, and now they're
Speaker 6: dating and people are like, yo, where'd you guys meet
Speaker 6: all bar It was so taboo to do online dating
Speaker 6: in two thousand and two, three four five. It was corny.
Speaker 6: You were a loser, you were a you know, fat
Speaker 6: guy in your mom's basement. Now it is the only
Speaker 6: way people date, right, like to the point where it's
Speaker 6: so scale. People are trying to go back to the
Speaker 6: way it right that that is how the world works.
Speaker 6: And the agencies that don't say it's real dating, akay,
Speaker 6: this isn't real content we're going to be put out
Speaker 6: of business.
Speaker 4: Talk about collecting and selling trading cards.
Speaker 6: Biggest month in the history of the hobby just happened
Speaker 6: in July. I think the number I saw was three
Speaker 6: hundred and eight million dollars worth of cards documented.
Speaker 4: Sold, sold in What kind of cards at artise?
Speaker 5: Like Pokemon cars out these Michael Jordan's rookie card, Like
Speaker 5: what exactly?
Speaker 6: The fact that cars you're not deep in it cool,
Speaker 6: You've dabbled, the fact that you're this is perfect. You're
Speaker 6: not deep and you just named two of the four
Speaker 6: things that are cooking. That's what I mean that collecting
Speaker 6: is getting the culture the U at forty one twenty
Speaker 6: years ago that wasn't into it, couldn't rattle off two
Speaker 6: of the four things that are cooking. It's in the ether,
Speaker 6: you understand. Yeah, yeah, man, everything's cooking. UFC cards are
Speaker 6: just trying to get hot Pokemont's fucking fire. Hot Pokemont's
Speaker 6: killing it basketball football, you know, but baseball is still huge,
Speaker 6: and that's where a lot of the origins come from.
Speaker 6: Hockey to a smaller degree, Marvel Disney getting very hot.
Speaker 6: And now you've got Michael Rubin, who's a real fucking guy,
Speaker 6: you know, really behind tops, really pushing the culture of
Speaker 6: a fanatics fast of the Javit Center, all these celebrities,
Speaker 6: you guys see it right, everybody listening right now, season
Speaker 6: their feet alivvy done. You know you know a grant well,
Speaker 6: like people are feeling it. There's more Tom Brady's every
Speaker 6: piece of content I see about Tom Brady's about trading cards. Yeah,
Speaker 6: Kaitlyn Kaylyn Clark, like little girls buying a twenty dollars
Speaker 6: pack pulling a fifty thousand dollars Kaitlin Clark's. So there's
Speaker 6: that lottery aspect to it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: For me, it was my first hobby and my first business.
Speaker 6: In a lot of ways, it taught me in the
Speaker 6: like I am who I am as a businessman because
Speaker 6: of baseball cards, because I was twelve, thirteen, fourteen, Those
Speaker 6: are formative years I'm learning. I'm in the trenches. I'm
Speaker 6: with grown ass men as a child, learning how to
Speaker 6: getting ripped off, learning how not to get ripped off, selling,
Speaker 6: buying all that shit. So I believe that trading cards
Speaker 6: are this generation's art. I think I know so many
Speaker 6: people in their forties to fifties who've gotten into some
Speaker 6: wealth that don't want to buy a painting from Europe
Speaker 6: from eighteen fifty five for five hundred thousand, but wanted
Speaker 6: Michael Joy and Rookie Card in a perfect condition, or
Speaker 6: a Bill Russell or a charz Ard, Like yeah, it's
Speaker 6: it's it's very big, and I honestly think it's incredibly early.
Speaker 6: And I think video games, comic books, look look at
Speaker 6: nerd culture, look at how the culture's look at her
Speaker 6: ac you know, you know, like obviously it's a ADHD
Speaker 6: but like that's off the reference of ACDC, like everything's blending,
Speaker 6: new balance, Like everything's just blending. We all know that.
Speaker 6: For you got to look at Wheezy and Pharrell. If
Speaker 6: you think about black culture, hip hop culture, when those
Speaker 6: fuckers started bringing in skateboards, when those guys started showing
Speaker 6: fucking like dragon ball Z and Pokemon. I don't think
Speaker 6: it's lost on anyone, Definitely not the audience that's watching here.
Speaker 6: Black culture. The culture becomes later pop culture, and you know,
Speaker 6: you can really look at that, you know moment where
Speaker 6: it started, like nerd culture went from straight up nerd.
Speaker 6: Like when I was a kid, if you were into
Speaker 6: comic books, you got your ass kicked in New Jersey
Speaker 6: right now. Like you go. Look, you go to a
Speaker 6: high school in the fucking inner cities, and fucking the
Speaker 6: baddest motherfucker in the school is walking in with a
Speaker 6: Pikachu T shirt, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And they and they're bringing their trading cars to lunch,
Speaker 1: and they're battling that lunch.
Speaker 6: There's paper in it. The fuck's the difference between slinging
Speaker 6: fucking nick bags or a Pikachu.
Speaker 1: It's just papers, you know, when you just said it,
Speaker 1: this is the first time I thought it.
Speaker 6: I like the by the way, the second one's got
Speaker 6: more paper in it and no fucking drama and no
Speaker 6: fucking worrying. And now you flinging, you flinging sports, you
Speaker 6: flinging Pokemon and sports cards and making five K week.
Speaker 6: You're an entrepreneur. When me and when my friends were
Speaker 6: growing up selling nicks, not even dimes, because it was
Speaker 6: fucking hood ship. They were criminals, same DNA. So it's
Speaker 6: good man, there's good ship in this.
Speaker 1: You're bringing them back my childhood now because I never
Speaker 1: looked at it as a lottery, but I grew up
Speaker 1: in that of getting sports cards and then getting the
Speaker 1: comic cards, getting comic book for getting the comic cards
Speaker 1: and buy and Marvel and trying to get the hologram,
Speaker 1: and it turns into like what you said now, like
Speaker 1: that is the art of this generation.
Speaker 7: NFTs is part of that as well.
Speaker 1: I want to just go back to that for a second,
Speaker 1: because it's important that you look at it as art
Speaker 1: and as a collectible. But part of it, I know,
Speaker 1: is the incentive of having it. Yes, and I know
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one is a lot different than twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: What was the challenge or did you see challenges? I'm
Speaker 1: sure you did in that process of making sure that
Speaker 1: the incentive of having that card stayed up to date,
Speaker 1: stayed relevant, and stayed on course.
Speaker 6: With V Friends, I won because this is like lost
Speaker 6: in the history and the ether pun intended. The NFT
Speaker 6: was the ticket to three years of a conference, so
Speaker 6: vcon like that's the way I priced it, which was
Speaker 6: this is what I would charge for this conference for
Speaker 6: the kind of caliber and football stadiums with Snoop Dogg
Speaker 6: and all these people, and amortized over three years. Right,
Speaker 6: So that was the first utility series. Two V Friends
Speaker 6: came with a box of trading cards those things. Over
Speaker 6: the next two or three years are likely the box
Speaker 6: is going to be worth more than what the whole
Speaker 6: thing cost. Right then, I had an NFT within v
Speaker 6: Friends called the Gift Goat, which means you got physical
Speaker 6: gifts if you owned it. Those guys and gals just
Speaker 6: got a box of Sapphire top sapphire, the most premium
Speaker 6: one literally in the mail for free, just by owning it.
Speaker 6: That box is selling for eight thousand dollars on eBay.
Speaker 6: So what's cool to your point, what's amazing about NFTs
Speaker 6: is right now, when I walk out of here, we
Speaker 6: wrap it up. Got to see you a good show.
Speaker 6: I can literally in the three minutes that I go
Speaker 6: downstairs to go into my car to go back to
Speaker 6: the office, I can see every single account that currently
Speaker 6: holds a v frind. I can also see the full
Speaker 6: history of that collectible. So for example, in ten years,
Speaker 6: I can look on the blockchain and see people who
Speaker 6: bought the NFT and never sold it. That's a loyal
Speaker 6: crew be able to do something. You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: It's amazing. It's so different. The blockchain is fucking profound
Speaker 6: and slept on again. Everyone's looking at the money bitcoin,
Speaker 6: how much is bitcoin worth? We're not looking at the
Speaker 6: big thing of what the blockchain means. The blockchain is
Speaker 6: the saving grace to society in my opinion, because of
Speaker 6: this A. I think you got to remember real talk
Speaker 6: video proof has actually been the judge and jury of
Speaker 6: our society for the last hundred years. Right, Like did
Speaker 6: JFK get shot or did he not get shot? Like
Speaker 6: that video mattered? Did Rodney King get beat by the
Speaker 6: police or did he not? That video fucking mattered. Right,
Speaker 6: We're about to go into a world real talk. Now
Speaker 6: you want to get really scared. This is what is
Speaker 6: scary to me. No video will be trusted. Did Trump
Speaker 6: say that or didn't he? Did Putin say that? Didn't he?
Speaker 6: Did Lebron do that? Didn't he? Every video on the
Speaker 6: Internet within a decade will be fake. The blockchain is
Speaker 6: the only answer if we live on the internet, if
Speaker 6: that's where the world really is, which it is, let
Speaker 6: there be no confusion. This is what we're doing right
Speaker 6: now is secondary. In fact, this is feeding what's going
Speaker 6: to go into it. Well, if everybody who's fake, that's
Speaker 6: fucked up, because the truth is important.
Speaker 5: So every video has to come with an NFT component
Speaker 5: on a blockchain to verify that it is actually a right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I still don't have it fully figured out. And
Speaker 6: there's listen, I stay in my lane. I can think
Speaker 6: about things. Theoretically. There's a place where my shit cuts
Speaker 6: off and I'm not technically sound enough. But knowing the
Speaker 6: blockchain exists and knowing the Internet exists, there will be
Speaker 6: a bridge or the social network step blow up in
Speaker 6: the future will live on the blockchain. Yeah, instead of
Speaker 6: the Internet. No company will own it. Nobody can shadow
Speaker 6: ban you, nobody can delete your account. It will be decentralized.
Speaker 6: Now that's great, but it's also bad. That means all
Speaker 6: the bad stuff has no police either.
Speaker 1: So that's why you were talking about the pretty much
Speaker 1: the analytics. Yeah, of looking at the blockchain and the
Speaker 1: v friends and you can see everything. First thing I
Speaker 1: thought was like, oh, this is the new ownership, right,
Speaker 1: because if you look at the platforms we're on now,
Speaker 1: I know you talk about this a lot. You're renting time,
Speaker 1: you're renting the equity.
Speaker 6: You're siphoning attention. When everybody gets mad at Facebook like
Speaker 6: fuck you, I'm like, they're giving you free attention. Which
Speaker 6: is the most important asset in the world.
Speaker 7: Exactly.
Speaker 6: But you're right, this is the ownership. For example, base
Speaker 6: Coinbase has a new social network. It's called base. It's
Speaker 6: on the blockchain. It's crazy. When you post something, people
Speaker 6: can hit one little button and tip you like eight
Speaker 6: cents of cryptocurrency, any crypto they want. And I was sitting,
Speaker 6: I was like, and you guys know this because you
Speaker 6: stream on YouTube and you're watching culture. You know this.
Speaker 6: Streamers get tipped all the time, right, And I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 6: this is happening in streaming world, but it's not happening
Speaker 6: in social world. Now, let's make pretend. You know, my
Speaker 6: wife Mona posts something about health and wellness and it's
Speaker 6: really valuable content. She posts about like really living a clean,
Speaker 6: healthy life. Now you get a two minute video from
Speaker 6: her and it brings you a lot of value. I
Speaker 6: think in ten years you might just be like, man,
Speaker 6: that was good. Shit, Like thank you, here's fifteen cents
Speaker 6: talk about you know, like shit's changing. Yeah, you see
Speaker 6: what I mean? Like, like that's not like Facebook didn't
Speaker 6: build that, Like there's no way to do that seamlessly.
Speaker 6: I think you're gonna see a lot of changes, but ownership. Yes,
Speaker 6: this is why I'm obsessed with NFTs. We're gonna live digital,
Speaker 6: which means our physical stuff is going to decrease in
Speaker 6: value because we're gonna live more like the way we
Speaker 6: live in our phones. Now, VR and AR are coming.
Speaker 7: People.
Speaker 6: Ah. I went deep on AI in twenty fifteen, but
Speaker 6: it was so over my head and it was so
Speaker 6: not ready. After about a month or two, I was like, okay, right.
Speaker 6: I bought bitcoin and ethereum in twenty fourteen fifteen, but
Speaker 6: it didn't really get cooking for another five years. Everyone
Speaker 6: shits on the Apple and the Snapchat and the Facebook,
Speaker 6: and then just like AI and the blockchain, you'all gonna
Speaker 6: wake up. I'm gonna wake up and it's just gonna
Speaker 6: be here, and everyone's only where the fuck did this
Speaker 6: come from the last twenty years? And then we're gonna
Speaker 6: be living like this. And now let me ask you
Speaker 6: a real fucking fire question, what the fuck happens when
Speaker 6: this is no longer the fucking game. We've been saying
Speaker 6: that and this becomes the game? Now? What?
Speaker 4: Or just I was in China.
Speaker 5: I was in China, and I mean they have it
Speaker 5: here to a lesser, very lesser degree, but is widespread
Speaker 5: in China where you pay for stuff just based off
Speaker 5: the eyeballs. So it's like passport, your credit card. All
Speaker 5: information is either your fingertips. Also, it's a it's a
Speaker 5: world we don't need any We don't need any digital
Speaker 5: device because all the digital device is actually on us.
Speaker 6: Look, I think it will get to that is validation
Speaker 6: and confirmation, you know, kind of like Apple Pay. I'm
Speaker 6: talking about the three of us living the back half
Speaker 6: of our lives where literally it'll start with glasses. Long term,
Speaker 6: I do think it will be contact lenses. But I'm
Speaker 6: talking about while we're in this room we see other ship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like, uh, well, Microsoft had what was the Microsoft
Speaker 5: They had the headset where you We did that a
Speaker 5: few years ago.
Speaker 6: I mean, I can't, I can't. I can't talk about
Speaker 6: it fully because I'm under some NDA. But I tested
Speaker 6: a Facebook product that's coming out in the future that
Speaker 6: shook me heavy and not like and not like clunky
Speaker 6: like do you I'll use video game terms that will
Speaker 6: hit for you guys, not atari like the latest PlayStation,
Speaker 6: like those graphic differences.
Speaker 1: It's and we talk about just I'm glad you said that,
Speaker 1: because I'm looking at it even like your microphone. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the agentic AI Like, it won't be the phone,
Speaker 1: it'll be something that will shoot you here. And that's
Speaker 1: the dial pad, and that's your agent, and it tells
Speaker 1: you where to go.
Speaker 6: You're refrigerators reordering your food forty exactly like your body
Speaker 6: knows that you're low on sugar and fucking the shit
Speaker 6: shit like a fucking Mango earners.
Speaker 7: What's up?
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Speaker 6: This shows up and in front of you, like on
Speaker 6: some real shit, like I do not believe that people,
Speaker 6: I let me. This is actually a good sentence. For
Speaker 6: some goddamn reason, we as human beings think technology stops
Speaker 6: when we're alive.
Speaker 5: That's almost like the Matrix though, right, because in the
Speaker 5: movie The matrix. We were all everybody was in like
Speaker 5: the generator thing whatever, and you just so it's like, Okay,
Speaker 5: if you are tied at work, you don't necessarily need
Speaker 5: to get a plane ticket to go to a Ruba.
Speaker 5: You can just plug in and be on a beach,
Speaker 5: right and just sit on the couch and just have
Speaker 5: that stimulation.
Speaker 6: Pack and the previews are in our faces.
Speaker 1: That's that's why I was going, because I don't even
Speaker 1: think you need to plug in. I think if you
Speaker 1: watch Star Wars, I think this doesn't stop. So it's
Speaker 1: like I'll teleport and.
Speaker 6: By the way, let me see this in less of
Speaker 6: a projecting. The fuck do you think zoom backgrounds are?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like you see what I mean.
Speaker 6: It's like seeing the previews already. When people I talk
Speaker 6: a lot about like people marrying robots in the future,
Speaker 6: and everyone gets all fucked up, like right now, I'm
Speaker 6: sure to comments a come on, but I'm like, yo,
Speaker 6: When you're dming with someone in dating apps before you
Speaker 6: meet in person, people catch feelings on those words.
Speaker 7: You have no idea who is.
Speaker 6: Like shits changes like if you're great great great grandma.
Speaker 6: If there was new technology, we could like rebirth people,
Speaker 6: you put some liquid on their grave and they come
Speaker 6: out and they're like, what's up. If that existed, all
Speaker 6: of us would go do that because we want to meet, right,
Speaker 6: that'd be nice. You go to your great great Greek
Speaker 6: grandma not that long ago, she was here one hundred
Speaker 6: years ago, and you put that liquid on she pops up.
Speaker 6: Granny's be like, what the fuck happened? Like like if
Speaker 6: you died one hundred years ago, no car, no plane,
Speaker 6: fucking internet, like a credit card? What the fuck is that? Like? Like,
Speaker 6: I don't think people understand how much happens in ten years,
Speaker 6: So why the fuck's it gonna stop now? In fact,
Speaker 6: it's the reverse. Now that we have all this infrastructure,
Speaker 6: it accelerates at speed correct.
Speaker 4: But also ebbs and flows.
Speaker 5: Like throughout human history, technology has always advanced, and it
Speaker 5: has been dark ages, and it's advanced and it's been
Speaker 5: dark ages. Yeah, so we could potentially form into another
Speaker 5: dark age where we maybe the technology gets so far
Speaker 5: advanced that it kind of works against us and we
Speaker 5: actually start going back to traditional way.
Speaker 7: It sounds it sounds like judgment by the way.
Speaker 6: I think that's happening already in a little bit of way.
Speaker 6: But I don't think it is a dark age. I
Speaker 6: think it's a balancedtage, meaning you're starting to see alpha
Speaker 6: and young gen zers really unplugged for real, Like the
Speaker 6: three of us are fucking twenty four to seven because
Speaker 6: we grew up unplugged, right, motherfucker. I'm forty nine. I
Speaker 6: didn't even have the Internet before I went to college.
Speaker 6: I lived my whole ass childhood but no internet. Did
Speaker 6: not go on the Internet until I was eighteen, so
Speaker 6: I lived unplugged. These kids live the reverse. They've been
Speaker 6: plugged from the get two years old, watching fucking Coco
Speaker 6: Melon iPad. So they're the first generation to be like,
Speaker 6: let's go fucking take a walk. Like I'm looking. I
Speaker 6: invested in the pickleball league. I'm looking at alternative sports.
Speaker 6: I'll give you one that I'm obsessed with with the ball,
Speaker 6: Like I could see people just getting back into Like
Speaker 6: I said something the other day that a lot of
Speaker 6: people hit me up about. I said, I see a
Speaker 6: business in the future where people get paid to walk
Speaker 6: with other people on some human connection shit, like literally
Speaker 6: on your Facebook. People are just like yo, I get
Speaker 6: paid twenty bucks an hour to walk with you and
Speaker 6: chat it up. I think you.
Speaker 4: Would cook like a dog walker.
Speaker 6: I literally believe every human that makes under twenty dollars
Speaker 6: an hour that's watching right now needs to hear me.
Speaker 6: And even if they don't have a Facebook account, create
Speaker 6: a Facebook account and then run ten dollars of ads
Speaker 6: ten dollars on a video saying Yo, I live in
Speaker 6: to Peak, a Tansas and I live on this area,
Speaker 6: and I'll walk with anybody. I'll walk with you and
Speaker 6: talk and communicate and chop it up with anybody in
Speaker 6: this ten mile radius and run ads ten dollars in
Speaker 6: Facebook ads on that ten mile radius. I think they
Speaker 6: build a straight up business. People are lonely. True, there's
Speaker 6: a sixty eight year old man or woman that sees
Speaker 6: that video of a twenty eight year old saying that
Speaker 6: who unfortunately just lost their spouse and they're lonely, and
Speaker 6: they're like, fuck it, I'll pay twenty bucks to walk
Speaker 6: with somebody for an hour. Like there's that's what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like shit changes. Whereas if I said in nineteen ninety
Speaker 6: people are gonna get paid to walk with people. People
Speaker 6: get the fuck out of here. Gary on that dumb shit.
Speaker 6: But let me give you one that will. If everyone's
Speaker 6: confused by what I'm saying, let me give you a
Speaker 6: different one. If you told people in nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 6: that motherfuckers would pay for water, Can I have that
Speaker 6: water bottle? Yeah, that one right there, just to I'm
Speaker 6: doing a prop on this episode. You could throw it.
Speaker 6: I catch. If I was an entrepreneur in nineteen sixty
Speaker 6: I said people are gonna pay three bucks for water,
Speaker 6: everybody would have laughed their asses off. Shit was free.
Speaker 6: It was in the fucking sink free. This shit's free
Speaker 6: except for the eight Now, this is where we're really
Speaker 6: gonna get into real talkers. We were talking about this
Speaker 6: off camera before we started, that shit's free except for
Speaker 6: the eight hundred million people on Earth that don't have
Speaker 6: access to clean water. That's why my ass isn't got
Speaker 6: a lot charity water, you know, Like so like, you know, like,
Speaker 6: shit's interesting out here and people aren't thinking. You know
Speaker 6: what I feel about the last twenty minutes. I need
Speaker 6: people to think. People just follow like they see one
Speaker 6: thing or the one boy says something like, yeah, you
Speaker 6: see it in politics, you see it in society. People
Speaker 6: aren't thinking, and they're definitely not thinking for themselves.
Speaker 1: You just made me, made me think of today's entrepreneur, right,
Speaker 1: the person who's trying to get started. Let's take your
Speaker 1: media group that you've created, right, you don't have the platform,
Speaker 1: you don't have the recognition if you're starting an ad, like,
Speaker 1: what's the first place you attack?
Speaker 6: We talked about it first. Quick Second, the number one
Speaker 6: thing I would do on Earth right now, if I'm
Speaker 6: fifteen to thirty and I'm just trying to fucking build
Speaker 6: something for myself, is I would give one solid, meaningful
Speaker 6: attempt at live social shopping back to China. Like I
Speaker 6: cannot say, I'm saying, I'm glad you're I need everyone
Speaker 6: to listen, Mike, you did it one time the other day,
Speaker 6: like one attempt literally TikTok shop, but you need a
Speaker 6: certain amount of followers to get a shop. Go live,
Speaker 6: and then there's a startup called whatnot. It's big now.
Speaker 6: You literally create an account it's QBC on social media. You
Speaker 6: literally go live and you start selling shit. All the
Speaker 6: collectibles are going crazy, but I see an opportunity for
Speaker 6: people to sell anything, including some garage sale shit. My
Speaker 6: number one belief is that every person that's watching right
Speaker 6: now that's crying about money. If they're in a place
Speaker 6: where they have an iPhone or an Android and they're
Speaker 6: watching this, they probably have somewhere between five hundred and
Speaker 6: two thousand dollars worth of shit in their house because
Speaker 6: everybody buys dumb shit and they don't use it. Like literally,
Speaker 6: I'm talking close shit in your attic, your basement, video
Speaker 6: games you don't play like. I really believe this to
Speaker 6: my soul. And in twenty seventeen, I've made a big
Speaker 6: platform about this. I called it twenty seventeen Flip Challenge,
Speaker 6: and I challenged people to try to make ten thousand
Speaker 6: bucks by selling shit in their house and then learn eBay.
Speaker 6: Fuck man. Every day I get dms from people screenshots
Speaker 6: of their eBay account and their Wells Fargo Gary. When
Speaker 6: I saw that video, I had eighteen dollars in my
Speaker 6: Wells Fargo. Two years later, I have one hundred three
Speaker 6: thousand dollars in my Eba account. I think most people,
Speaker 6: even the most not talented, can learn the basics of
Speaker 6: buying and flipping shit. And with dollar stores, with thrift stores,
Speaker 6: with fucking Salvation Army, with fucking garage sales, flea markets,
Speaker 6: and then you just start getting more and more advance,
Speaker 6: kind of like training, Like everybody can actually lose thirty
Speaker 6: pounds and gain thirty pounds of muscle. Shit's hard takes discipline, right,
Speaker 6: but every like the three of us could look crazy
Speaker 6: in two years if we went crazy. None of us
Speaker 6: are bad, but we can all look at each other
Speaker 6: and be like, we could be crazy in two years.
Speaker 6: We ate super proper and with and really hit right,
Speaker 6: and we look crazy, and people like, what the fuck?
Speaker 6: That's how I think about this financial shit. So anyway,
Speaker 6: live social shopping is going to explode, like explode. It
Speaker 6: will be massive in America, and I think everyone who's
Speaker 6: watching should learn about it again. Go to chat shept
Speaker 6: and be like Gary B said, live social shopping is
Speaker 6: going to be huge? What does that mean? And you'll
Speaker 6: get all the answers and you can literally talk. You
Speaker 6: don't even need experts anymore. Be like, and then how
Speaker 6: do I set up? And whatnot? And then what should
Speaker 6: I say?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 6: You just talk? And I'm telling you that would be
Speaker 6: the one place I would start first. With some shit
Speaker 6: that's in your house? Mike, What the fuck did you sell?
Speaker 6: How much did that pencil case go for? That shit
Speaker 6: was going to be thrown the fuck out by him
Speaker 6: and he needs twenty seven times. I'm serious, y'all, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean. So so, and by the way,
Speaker 6: I saw some crazy ass that I don't know if
Speaker 6: it's true or not. Back to like I didn't do
Speaker 6: the homework yet, but like there was some staggering number
Speaker 6: of like what percentage of Americans don't have three thousand
Speaker 6: dollars in their banks account?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Like ninety yeah, you guys know. But even in China.
Speaker 5: I was in China and one of the girls that
Speaker 5: was like my translator, actually she was. She's a seller
Speaker 5: online and they do like the twenty four hour marathon thing,
Speaker 5: and the amount of money that she was making from
Speaker 5: that was crazy, Like she made like like cause she
Speaker 5: said her best forty eight hours, she made like thirty
Speaker 5: thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: And I cannot stress enough T shirts, you sneakers, hats, everything.
Speaker 6: And then what will happen. Let's say the fifty people
Speaker 6: that are watching, they're actually gonna do this. Three of
Speaker 6: them are gonna email me in seven months and be like, yo,
Speaker 6: sow you on the pod, fucking they didn't fucking love
Speaker 6: you because they're gonna be happy, right, they're like, problem,
Speaker 6: I sold all my shit. I'm gonna be like, Now,
Speaker 6: go buy new shit and make profit. Oh you made
Speaker 6: eight thousand. Good, Now go buy eight thousand dollars worth
Speaker 6: of shit and make sixteen thousand. That you start learning
Speaker 6: a skill. What do you buy? What sells? Where's their demand?
Speaker 6: How do you sell it? But here's a big one.
Speaker 6: You'll like this. I think a lot of people that
Speaker 6: are trying to be Alex Earl and Joe Rogan and
Speaker 6: Gary ve like be an influencer, you know every like,
Speaker 6: there's not a single person under twenty whose number one
Speaker 6: goal in life is not to be an influencer. I
Speaker 6: think a lot of those people will never get to
Speaker 6: be that. But of those people, I think a shocking percentage,
Speaker 6: call it five to ten percent of those people that
Speaker 6: will never get to what they want to be millions
Speaker 6: of followers. I think five to even fifteen percent of
Speaker 6: those people I think can make six figures a year
Speaker 6: selling shit out of their living room. Yeah you say,
Speaker 6: and that's a lot more fun than having a job
Speaker 6: paying you seventy five K that you fucking hate.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you said they'll never get there is it because
Speaker 1: the age of influence is.
Speaker 6: Changing, you know, supply and demand. You're competing against the
Speaker 6: world and AI.
Speaker 4: As her point, I was thinking my influences.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you this as far as okay, you
Speaker 5: somebody that always are looking forward from a global standpoint,
Speaker 5: What markets are you looking at?
Speaker 4: What are you bullish on? Way? Do you think there's
Speaker 4: going to be opportunity? What area is like globally?
Speaker 6: I mean we talked about it a second before we
Speaker 6: got on here. I've been infatuated. In fact, I think
Speaker 6: twenty twenty six, maybe early twenty seven because we're opening
Speaker 6: up Dubai. But my Vayner World, be Friends, Vayner Sports, definitely,
Speaker 6: Vayner Media has to start putting flags on the ground
Speaker 6: in Africa. It's super clear. The youth, the talent, the
Speaker 6: fucking firepower. I wish people understood the intellectual firepower of
Speaker 6: the volume of under thirty year olds that roam at
Speaker 6: scale live in all the different countries in Africa. So
Speaker 6: Africa is going to win the If you want again it,
Speaker 6: please learn how to use AI. We just said this,
Speaker 6: immediately take off. You know what, fuck it, Let's do
Speaker 6: some show and tell. Stullt not using any biases of
Speaker 6: any other prompt I've done before. I just watched Gary
Speaker 6: v on a podcast talk about Africa as the next continent.
Speaker 6: He referenced Asia and the Middle East in the last
Speaker 6: fifty years. Fifty years ago Asia started to cook, Japan,
Speaker 6: then later China, and then obviously what's been going on
Speaker 6: last twenty five years in the Middle East, Dubai and
Speaker 6: then obviously what's going on with Saudi. If he's right
Speaker 6: about Africa, which five or six countries within Africa is
Speaker 6: he write about? And also give me the real data
Speaker 6: and make sure you're one hundred percent right on this,
Speaker 6: the real data. Because he mentioned something about how young
Speaker 6: the continent is. He referenced something that he wasn't sure about,
Speaker 6: but he said something to the degree of by twenty
Speaker 6: thirty five, thirty five percent of everybody under thirty will
Speaker 6: be living in the continent of Africa. Can you give
Speaker 6: me the real stat on that. Yeah, any other three
Speaker 6: or four bullet points that might give validity to why
Speaker 6: Africa is so fruitful and so vibrant and such a
Speaker 6: great entrepreneurial and business opportunity. Also, I've been aware over
Speaker 6: the last five to ten years that China has invested
Speaker 6: heavy into Africa, and I hear from a lot of
Speaker 6: American outlets like China owns Africa, Like what does that mean?
Speaker 6: Like I'd love to get a little educated on that
Speaker 6: and what impact does that have? Yeah? Thank you? So
Speaker 6: a couple things first, I'm really glad I did that
Speaker 6: because I think that just opened up a lot of
Speaker 6: people's mind into AI, because a lot of people are
Speaker 6: using AI right now like a search engine GBT right,
Speaker 6: A lot of people use AI like it's Google. They're like,
Speaker 6: what is a bird? You know what I mean? You
Speaker 6: could see what I'm doing. That was a full pledge
Speaker 6: minute eighteen prompt. I did a seventeen minute prompt the
Speaker 6: other day that forty one. I can talk a forty
Speaker 6: one minute prompt. All right, here we go. Under thirty
Speaker 6: population forecast. Your recollection that by twenty thirty five, thirty
Speaker 6: five percent of everyone under thirty will live in Africa
Speaker 6: is in the ballpark. While the exact numbers vary by source,
Speaker 6: here's what we know. By twenty thirty young Africans typically
Speaker 6: defined as those under twenty five or youth define as
Speaker 6: fifteen to twenty four, are projected to make up forty
Speaker 6: two percent of the world's youth. Of the youth, more
Speaker 6: than sixty percent of Africa's population is under the age
Speaker 6: of twenty five. Let me say that nice and slow
Speaker 6: for all the kids in the back. More than sixty
Speaker 6: percent of Africa's population is under the age of twenty five.
Speaker 6: Looking to the broader population growth, by the mid century,
Speaker 6: a significant one third of all sub So African sub
Speaker 6: Saharian African population will be children under fifteen. So, while
Speaker 6: the exact number is not right there you go five
Speaker 6: to six African countries poised for growth. Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Congo,
Speaker 6: Rwanda fastest growing economies in twenty four East Africa countries
Speaker 6: like Rwanda at six point nine Ethiopia six point two
Speaker 6: month the fastest growing. So that goes into that why
Speaker 6: is Africa vibrant? Full of opportunity? Here are four bullet
Speaker 6: points that back up Gary vs point in Africa. Youthful population,
Speaker 6: fast growing economies, massive population boom, infrastructure and investment both
Speaker 6: regional tech, agriculture, mining, and global investments. Notably China and
Speaker 6: now increasingly the UAE and the US are heavily investing
Speaker 6: in African infrastructure. What does China owning Africa mean and
Speaker 6: what is the reality? This statement pops up often, but
Speaker 6: the actual picture is more nuanced. China is now Africa's
Speaker 6: largest bilateral trading partner, accounting for about twenty percent of
Speaker 6: the exports Chinese loans and debt. China shares external public
Speaker 6: debt in Sub Saharan Africa rows from two percent in
Speaker 6: two and five to seventeen percent by twenty twenty one.
Speaker 6: One hundred and thirty four billion. Yeah, that's a large
Speaker 6: p And by the way, that's how I use chat gipt. Yeah, right,
Speaker 6: Like when I'm thinking about.
Speaker 4: Shit as like a mentor or like partner.
Speaker 6: Watch this, I'll give you another one because I'm heavy.
Speaker 6: Like if you ask me for real, for real, I
Speaker 6: would say that I'm a pop culture anthropologist, right. I
Speaker 6: just like to know everything to the best of my ability,
Speaker 6: Like that, why did Sabrina Carpenter pop off? What were
Speaker 6: the three things that really made her go? That? Shit?
Speaker 6: What I just did there?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 6: Like if I see anyone on the radar, I want
Speaker 6: to know why, right, like like just knowing because once
Speaker 6: I know why Kai Snett, why Sabrina right? Why? Why
Speaker 6: why Libby done? Why you start to see patterns. Once
Speaker 6: you understand patterns, you could start executing those patterns, right,
Speaker 6: viral hits and fan connections. Megaboo be a Taylor Swift's
Speaker 6: erator opening for Taylor Swift in twenty three twenty four
Speaker 6: exposed right, So then, like when I see something like that,
Speaker 6: I'm like, you know, and I'm you know, you guys
Speaker 6: probably have seen this to my content. I love emerging artists.
Speaker 6: I just like, I feel like that's just like someb
Speaker 6: pure shit like DOCI liked why did I like nail that?
Speaker 6: Just like spending time like consuming. She's a star, right
Speaker 6: if we were chopping, I mean she got there herself,
Speaker 6: but like three years ago, if she like hit me
Speaker 6: up and she's like, yo, why am I not popping off? Right?
Speaker 6: Or Tiara Whack someone I fuck with heavy that I
Speaker 6: think is a crazy star too. If I see her
Speaker 6: in six months and we have dinner, like just me
Speaker 6: reading that little thing, I'm like, Tira, listen to me.
Speaker 6: You have to fucking open, like swallow your fucking pride,
Speaker 6: and you have to open for the biggest fucking star
Speaker 6: you can go. Right. And by the way, that wasn't
Speaker 6: profound insight that's always happened. Opening for someone bigger is
Speaker 6: like a forty year thing. But you know, it reminds
Speaker 6: you there's here's a good one. There's the three of us,
Speaker 6: and everybody knows, but we forgot. That's just being a human.
Speaker 7: You've done a lot. I mean you said a lot.
Speaker 4: You've done a lot.
Speaker 7: I wonder my ownership has always been a key.
Speaker 1: Obviously you said asset is the biggest piece of the
Speaker 1: future of economy, but partnerships is something in this space.
Speaker 4: That we do.
Speaker 1: So I wonder when you say, okay, I don't have
Speaker 1: to own, it's okay for me to partner.
Speaker 6: Early in my career. A lot later it got changed up.
Speaker 6: Check this out. One of the reasons I'm scared to
Speaker 6: partner is I'm building such a big thing. I'm scared
Speaker 6: that I want to do something and by doing a
Speaker 6: small partnership, if I then later want to do something
Speaker 6: in it, I'm worried that that partner is like, Yo,
Speaker 6: fuck you, Gary B. You fucking stole my shit, or
Speaker 6: you did wrong money. I'm so scared of reputational So
Speaker 6: I'm very timid on partnerships because of that. Because my
Speaker 6: favorite thing, this is a very important statement that I
Speaker 6: hope it hits for someone. I'm not trying to maximize money.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to maximize the joy of the game. When
Speaker 6: you analyze my career and I've got another fifty years,
Speaker 6: when it's all said and done and it's written, people
Speaker 6: are gonna look at it if they if I keep
Speaker 6: doing what I'm doing, and it's worth looking at, and
Speaker 6: they'd be like, man, he did a lot of dumb shit,
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna come from fucking Heaven and whisper down
Speaker 6: to them. It wasn't dumb shit. I wasn't trying to
Speaker 6: maximize money. If I was trying to maximize money, I
Speaker 6: would just do real estate, all the tax laws in
Speaker 6: its favor. I'm trying to maximize fun. Like I'm serious.
Speaker 6: I like ah athletes. You know I'm in the business.
Speaker 6: Vaynor Sports big agency with just my brother, big shout
Speaker 6: out to AJ just signed the biggest Jets defensive player
Speaker 6: contract in history. We Rep Sauce Gardner. We have all
Speaker 6: these crazy athletes. It broke my heart when we got
Speaker 6: into the business ten years ago, and honestly, I knew
Speaker 6: it earlier eight years ago. We got into business probably
Speaker 6: twelve years ago is when I realized this. When my
Speaker 6: notoriety and my juice started growing, I started meeting more
Speaker 6: fancy people, I started meeting real athletes. I so wished
Speaker 6: as a kid that I could be a football player
Speaker 6: or anything. I love sports that much. Third grade in
Speaker 6: my hand eye coordination had me cooking all star and everything.
Speaker 6: Fifth grade, size, speed, athleticism, power, all started to matter.
Speaker 6: I got fucking cooked out. But I didn't realize how
Speaker 6: many athletes don't love the game. I just love it
Speaker 6: so much. I played five hours of basketball on Thursday.
Speaker 6: I'm fucking fifty in November. I'm not supposed to be
Speaker 6: out there like that. That's how much I love it.
Speaker 6: But for a lot of athletes, it's the way out,
Speaker 6: it's the path to paper. It's the biggest thing they
Speaker 6: can do to make money. As an entrepreneur, I think
Speaker 6: when people think about entrepreneurship, everybody who's watching they think
Speaker 6: about money. I think about sports and art. If entrepreneurship
Speaker 6: was like teaching and you could only make fifty thousand
Speaker 6: a year, I'd be sitting here right now talking about entrepreneurship,
Speaker 6: renting a fucking Kia, eating fucking inexpensive food, living in
Speaker 6: a humble home, and I would be happy as fuck.
Speaker 6: And I know a lot of people don't believe me.
Speaker 6: And the good news is I don't give a fuck
Speaker 6: because I know it's the truth. I'm in it for
Speaker 6: the game. So the reason I don't do a lot
Speaker 6: of partnerships is a lot of times I'm not trying
Speaker 6: to maximize the financial thing. I want to paint my
Speaker 6: own picture. I don't want to co cook. I want
Speaker 6: to cook, you know. And so for me, this is
Speaker 6: the like, this is why I fucked with Kobe so heavy,
Speaker 6: like long before, like just day one Kobe like And
Speaker 6: by the way, I'm a Knicks fan and hate every
Speaker 6: other player and team, but I was like that motherfucker
Speaker 6: and he was in the West, so that was good.
Speaker 6: It wasn't gonna fuck up my That's why I hate
Speaker 6: Jordan and Brady so much, but I understood them. There's
Speaker 6: certain people that it's just about the game. As an entrepreneur,
Speaker 6: what most excites me is to see where I stack up.
Speaker 6: But I have the humility when someone builds bigger shit,
Speaker 6: I'm like, you know, the game. You see the best
Speaker 6: athletes in the world play a game and the game's over.
Speaker 6: And as a fan, when the Jets lose to the
Speaker 6: Patriots and the game's over and all the Jets players
Speaker 6: dap up the path, but I'm like, don't fucking you know,
Speaker 6: I get pissed because I'm a fan. But they're on
Speaker 6: the field and they know, like UFC, right, these motherfuckers
Speaker 6: are trying to kill each other, fights over. That's why
Speaker 6: I love UFC so much. They fucking right, It's like
Speaker 6: a brotherhood, right, That's how I feel about fellow entrepreneurs.
Speaker 6: But the money isn't like what excites me, and people
Speaker 6: are gonna be like in the comments or in their
Speaker 6: heads right now, yeah, because you got it now, I'm like, motherfucker,
Speaker 6: fuck you. You didn't know me at seventeen. Go find
Speaker 6: my boys from around the way. It was always about
Speaker 6: this when they were fucking going to parties and hooking up.
Speaker 6: I did a baseball card show, not for a one
Speaker 6: hundred and eighty seven dollars that I made, because I'd
Speaker 6: rather hook up than get one hundred and eighty seven dollars.
Speaker 6: Because the fucking game it's like these lights, you know,
Speaker 6: like in the summer, when you got those lights and
Speaker 6: the little flies, they can't help it. I feel like
Speaker 6: those flies know that that light's gonna zap the fuck
Speaker 6: out of them and they're gonna die, but they can't
Speaker 6: fucking help it. It's like love, right, Like you know,
Speaker 6: love like you can't help it. That's how entrepreneurship is
Speaker 6: for me. And that's why partnerships it's not about like
Speaker 6: I don't trust. In fact, I trust too much. It's
Speaker 6: just that I just want to cook.
Speaker 4: But a game. What you said, everybody can't be a
Speaker 4: content creator.
Speaker 6: Okay, everybody can be a content creator.
Speaker 4: Everybody can't be a star content creator.
Speaker 6: Everybody can't get to the place like right, Everyone wants
Speaker 6: to professionally live, and that's the whole game. Everybody wants
Speaker 6: a one percent life. But it's a one percent life.
Speaker 4: Oh for surely you know the reason.
Speaker 5: But the next iteration of content creation because we actually
Speaker 5: saw a lot of things happen in the last ten years.
Speaker 5: Right where we saw social media influencer yep, com yep.
Speaker 5: Then we saw the rise of podcasts yep, and now
Speaker 5: we're seeing the rise of streamers, no question. So where
Speaker 5: do you see this thing going from a content creation.
Speaker 6: I don't know because I don't predict, but I move
Speaker 6: quickly to your point. Literally, starting in October, which is
Speaker 6: six weeks, I'm going live three four hours a day
Speaker 6: on the platform, all of them, which is why I
Speaker 6: told you, like, don't, I don't. If I have the
Speaker 6: humility to start up my kick account have three followers,
Speaker 6: then you should too. You see where I'm going. Humility
Speaker 6: is the secret weapon of the gangster. Humility is the
Speaker 6: secret weapon of the gangster. So I'm going to restream
Speaker 6: it everywhere, right, Twitch and Kick I want because I
Speaker 6: want that youth YouTube and others will cook for me
Speaker 6: because I have a little bit more of a base there,
Speaker 6: But I don't care. I want to eat back to
Speaker 6: the game. I want to eat shit for eighteen hours again.
Speaker 6: I hate him with my whole heart, Michael Jordan because
Speaker 6: I'm a real Knicks fan. Never wore a pair of
Speaker 6: Jordan's in my life, but I understand what was fun
Speaker 6: about baseball for him. When you get to the pinnacle,
Speaker 6: you want to write, I get that I've cooked and
Speaker 6: done well, but now let me go fucking chop it
Speaker 6: up on this irl shit. And for me, it's a
Speaker 6: throwback because I was cooking on you stream back in
Speaker 6: two thousand and seven, the first irl ustream dot TV.
Speaker 6: It was big for me, but there was no moving
Speaker 6: with it. It was different. It was on a desk
Speaker 6: that wasn't even laptops. It was fucking that big ass computer.
Speaker 6: You know. It was different. It was at my desk.
Speaker 6: But I'm gonna do tea with Gary V and I'm
Speaker 6: gonna do another show called winding Down with Gary V.
Speaker 6: Wine thing down. So I'm gonna sip some tea in
Speaker 6: the morning and do some Q and a Wisdom and
Speaker 6: drink some wine and do some Q and a wisdom
Speaker 6: in the evening and then back to the thing I
Speaker 6: said about Flowers, I want to start. I'm very focused
Speaker 6: right now and giving away given Flowers. I got a
Speaker 6: big platform, and I've always been good at that, right,
Speaker 6: dochi gonna you Logan pull all those Jake, all those
Speaker 6: kids that came up. I want to I want to
Speaker 6: almost formalize that I want to start really being much
Speaker 6: more thoughtful. And you know I'm doing the research anyway,
Speaker 6: right And a lot of people that have come up
Speaker 6: know this about me. I love a DM to a
Speaker 6: kid on the come up. Like nothing makes me happier
Speaker 6: than like being at midnight, just chopping up, looking at
Speaker 6: the culture, seeing someone I'm like, yeah, and like just
Speaker 6: giving them a fucking did on a way here, a
Speaker 6: kid that I've been watching for a while, Cam right,
Speaker 6: I just want to like, so I literally literally DM
Speaker 6: cam Peterson, the comedian on the way here, keep building,
Speaker 6: my guy, we all see you. That shit is everything
Speaker 6: to me because I can't believe that I'm a point
Speaker 6: of my career where someone thinks that's epic and I
Speaker 6: do not understand why people do not give more love.
Speaker 6: There are people who today will spend their entire day
Speaker 6: being on the internet shitting on people. The fuck do
Speaker 6: you think is going on in that person's life? So
Speaker 6: the haters are hating and the hurt are hurting. My
Speaker 6: question for everybody who's watching, if you're happy and you're loving,
Speaker 6: the fuck are you not given love? I'm happy, I'm
Speaker 6: in love with life, so I spend time giving love.
Speaker 7: It's that simple, man, that.
Speaker 6: Hate is loud and love is quiet, and we need
Speaker 6: to flip that. That's why everyone's confused out here right now,
Speaker 6: because people that are winning, like me, they just mind
Speaker 6: their business, and I'm saying to them, no, we have
Speaker 6: a respect on ability to fucking put love on the offense.
Speaker 6: And I take that very seriously. I think that's why
Speaker 6: I'm unique, ish a little bit like. It's not lost
Speaker 6: on me, it's not lost on you.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 6: The audience knows good bad, are indifferent whether you fuck
Speaker 6: with me or you think I'm the worst. I do
Speaker 6: play it different, and I actually think that little piece
Speaker 6: I just talked about is a big piece of it.
Speaker 6: I spend a lot of time and energy spreading good shit,
Speaker 6: and I don't get caught up in the nonsense. And
Speaker 6: it's let me be very clear, it's nonsense. Those fucking nonsense.
Speaker 6: If you're confused, and let me say this, if you're
Speaker 6: a human that goes sees somebody shine and you're envy
Speaker 6: and jealousy and hurt makes you want to write some shit,
Speaker 6: I ain't mad at you. I love you. I'm sad
Speaker 6: for you. I want to get you the fuck out
Speaker 6: of there because I promise you Johnny Pants forty nine
Speaker 6: saying Gary Vee, you suck motherfucker. That ain't doing shit
Speaker 6: to me? The fuck you think that's doing to me? Yeah,
Speaker 6: what the fuck do you think that's doing? I promise
Speaker 6: you Winners are not hurt by booze. Motherfucking winners are
Speaker 6: fucking invigorated by booze. Like even though I hate Reggie
Speaker 6: Miller and Trey Young and all these people, you know,
Speaker 6: the garden is the mecca, and these motherfuckers love to
Speaker 6: come in and be the villain, even though I hate it.
Speaker 6: Because I'm a Knicks fan, I would be the first man.
Speaker 6: I'd be the ultimate villain in the garden if I
Speaker 6: was blessed with basketball talent and was unblessed and not
Speaker 6: being a Nick and I would I would be the
Speaker 6: number one hated person in Madison Square Garden history because
Speaker 6: I'd go in there trying to kill people because it's
Speaker 6: the mecca and that booing. Like love booing so much.
Speaker 6: In fact, sometimes I ask myself on some deep shit,
Speaker 6: like in the dark, I'm like, do I sabotage myself
Speaker 6: just for the booing? Bro? This is some real fuck
Speaker 6: up shit.
Speaker 4: Do you know?
Speaker 6: My favorite Rocky is when he loses everything and goes
Speaker 6: back to fucking the Philly ghettos. Like I sometimes want
Speaker 6: to lose everything again and go back to Queen's and
Speaker 6: just start from the beginning. That's how much I love
Speaker 6: building and now I'm at a point where, like people
Speaker 6: think it's gonna be successful just because my track workers
Speaker 6: on fucking on wax. Like sometimes I think about like
Speaker 6: doing that face off thing and changing my face and
Speaker 6: becoming like I love being undressed. By the way, That's
Speaker 6: why I love V Friends. V Friends did me a
Speaker 6: blessing because, by the way, no one's really paying attention
Speaker 6: to what I'm doing with V Friends, and I'm building
Speaker 6: fucking Pokemon and Marble and everyone's face and no one's
Speaker 6: even seeing it because everyone's like, oh, NFTs are dead
Speaker 6: and you know that was the one thing Gary v
Speaker 6: was wrong about. Motherfucker, It's gonna be the thing I'm
Speaker 6: most right about. I'm willing to take the booze and
Speaker 6: the judgment right now. But when that bell rings in
Speaker 6: the twelfth round, they're putting up my fucking hand. I'm
Speaker 6: putting that belt and what are you gonna say?
Speaker 5: Okay, always a pleasure, pleasure, any last words you want
Speaker 5: to leave the audience with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, always. What you just saw is in the last
Speaker 6: three minutes is the luck. And I hate using that
Speaker 6: word because luck is the weapon of choice of the lazy,
Speaker 6: but I'm going to use it because it's true. What
Speaker 6: you just saw was the luck of the draw of DNA.
Speaker 6: We're all born with our DNA, the luck of the
Speaker 6: draw of having the world's greatest mother who gassed me
Speaker 6: up so heavy. But she didn't do modern gassing up
Speaker 6: or like you can be anything. She kept my shit
Speaker 6: in check. She was a Russian fucking immigrant mom who
Speaker 6: was willing to smack you in the face if you
Speaker 6: weren't doing the right thing. I didn't even think about
Speaker 6: disrespecting my mom, let alone doing it. I was scared
Speaker 6: if I thought it that she would know, so you know,
Speaker 6: but she made me feel like I was the greatest
Speaker 6: and a lot of hard work. And I believe that
Speaker 6: hard work because I saw my siblings aren't the same
Speaker 6: as me. There's always different shit. I think that everyone
Speaker 6: who's listening needs to understand that if you really listen back,
Speaker 6: you should run this podcast back. We touched on things
Speaker 6: that point when I said all three of us could
Speaker 6: look crazy in two years. The work is real, like
Speaker 6: you can and I say this all time. If anyone
Speaker 6: looks like you that's ever made it, the fuck is
Speaker 6: your excuse? If anyone with two parents that were drug
Speaker 6: addicts built something big and had a happy life right
Speaker 6: because people are looking for their excuse my parents are divorced.
Speaker 6: I'm this I come from this background, I'm this gender,
Speaker 6: I'm this race, I'm from this area. If anybody in
Speaker 6: the history of time has made it, and I say
Speaker 6: made it as being happy calma, maybe having a little
Speaker 6: something right from your circumstances, then you got to ask
Speaker 6: yourself why not you? And you got to get into
Speaker 6: fucking accountability. Like I'm telling you, we are living in
Speaker 6: the greatest era of entitlement, and you know what happened. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: the politicians in the last thirty years have successfully made
Speaker 6: people think that they're going to help them. Motherfucker. I
Speaker 6: made money with Clinton and Bush and Obama and Trump
Speaker 6: and Biden and Trump and the next fuck or two.
Speaker 6: It's not Trump's fault, it's not Biden's fault. It's not
Speaker 6: your mama's fault, it's not your daddy's fault, it's not
Speaker 6: the world's fault. It's no one's fault. But you and
Speaker 6: people don't understand. That's the liberation. Once you understand everything.
Speaker 6: When I tell you everything that is bad in my
Speaker 6: life is one hundred percent my fault and that makes
Speaker 6: me happy because then I feel like I'm in control.
Speaker 6: And the second you seed control is the second you
Speaker 6: start getting unhappy. And collectively we've seeded control to a
Speaker 6: bunch of clown ass, fucking clown ass politicians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, grab the will, no argument, Grab the will.
Speaker 4: Gary always a pleasure.
Speaker 6: Love you guys, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: See you next week. Peace, peace, all right.
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