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I've had a sixf figureure car detailing

business for 8 years and congrats.

It's been great, but I don't like it

anymore. Um, I know I want to do my own

thing and specifically streaming like in

Fortnite specifically.

Are you doing it at night?

Yes. And how's it going?

So, uh, slow.

Yeah. How do you make content that's

like stands out?

By you being your full self. By you

talking about [ __ ] guitars. By you

talking about car dealing? By you

talking about your Candace. You got to

make Fortnite videos. And you got to get

them to know you. You got to tell about

life stories while you're playing. Make

the jokes that you're making. You have

to make it you.

Everybody's generic out here. And even

worse, everyone's trying to figure out

the hack to go viral. Aaron, let's get

to the first question.

When you're building your side hustle

outside of your 9 to5, when do you know

the right time to jump and go all in on

your side business?

The second you can eat [ __ ] for a year.

Now whether that is you saved enough

money and you're willing to go there or

you don't give a [ __ ] and you're willing

to give up a lot of luxuries,

you can pay your basic needs like roof

over your head and transportation,

right? But if it's really burning a hole

in your heart, in your stomach, not your

heart, uh you know, you may even decide

to take public transportation instead of

having a car and you give up your lease.

This is about how much you're willing to

like be resilient, right? How much do

you love your passion? But I will say

this, Aaron, this is super common. This

is incredibly common. A lot of people do

not jump when, let's let me just paint

you this picture. You make 93,000 in

your job and your side hustle is making

$2,000 a month. So you're thinking 93K

and 24K, but your side hustle is getting

so little of your time because you have

a job. If you're at 93k in income and

24,000 in side hustle, you're likely

when you jump going to do 100k in side

hustle because you have so many more

hours. This is the math. This is the

calculus that most people don't get.

Sid, you've never heard this from me.

This has been I see how you react, but

this is one of my best pieces of

content. You make 93k in salary, you

make 24,000 in side hustle, but when you

jump and do side hustle, you make 100k

in side hustle. And now you're thrilled.

You have more flexibility. People think

you have to have like even even you make

100K you need to get to 100K because you

got to pay your bills. You don't realize

that those 40 50 60 hours per week. If

you've been able to make 24K with a

couple of hours a week when you go all

in plus you're happy plus your 40 hours

are not equal. Your 40 hours at work are

shitty out your C minus. Your 40 hours

on your on your new found primary hustle

is A+ hours. So it's compounded.

That's the answer. How are you my

friend? Gary, what's up, bro?

What's up, my man? Where are you calling

from?

Syracuse, New York. You actually know

who I am. Um,

oh, I know who you are. I just don't

know where you live. It's good to see

you, bro.

Syracuse, New York.

Cuse. I love it.

We're orange all the way.

I know it, my brother.

How's life? So, I'm chilling. Um, I own

the financial practice. I I work with

bluecollar people. Um, just helping them

out with their financial affairs, their

investments, the retirement stuff. Not

that I've lost my way, but like I've

lost a little ambition. I lost a little,

you know, just go getting attitude. You

know what I mean? So why

I mean I don't know. Do I like it? Do I

want to try something else? Do I want to

add different streams of income?

Um,

have you contemplated a side hustle?

Uh, I have.

And where do you go? Where do you go in

your mind when you think about side

hustle?

So my goal is to start like so I I want

to start a business in a in a practice

do something down in like the Bokeh

area, right? So this

So you want to move? You're tired of the

snow. I

I mean Yeah. I mean, nobody wants I

don't want to live here the whole year.

You know what I mean? It's be it's

beautiful right now, but like

Are you a Bills fan?

I am. So I lived in Chicago when I

Oh, you're a Bears fan. I love it. I

became much better. That's much better.

Good. 85. Yeah, right. You just missed

it. Okay. So, so move to Bokeh.

I' I'd love to. I got a you know, I've

got a a family that, you know, there's

you

What are the dynamics?

So, we're

breaking into it like I'm split right

now with my wife,

which is very hard

right now. And regardless of what

happens there, I still have a son who

has four years of high school. So, I

can't Oh, you're golden.

You're, bro. Do you know how many people

are in the exact same situation with you

with three kids under seven?

You're [ __ ] You're moonwalking. Your

boy's [ __ ] going to college or not

college in like 3 minutes. You're good.

36 months is nothing,

right?

In fact, that's actually perfect. You

can like start putting the pieces

together for 36 months from now.

But nothing like I I don't just need I I

don't want to abandon anybody, right? I

That's That's what I meant. Like you're

actual, notice what I said. You're not

abandoning anyone. You're staying in

[ __ ] cues for three more years,

which

is it's lovely all in itself, but at the

end of the day,

it's 36 months. This is where

do I take time? Am I a jerk for going

down there once a month for a week and

trying to set stuff up and you know what

I mean?

Definitely not.

Definitely not a jerk. I mean, obviously

it depends on how you got custody going

down and what's going on and, you know,

obviously so much depends on how your

wife or future ex-wife or not ex-wife or

whatever happens here. I don't want to

get in your personal business, but

she's she's great. Like, you know what I

mean? So, I

So, I mean, honestly, think about what

you just said. Like, in the tough

situation of a marital split, right? A

you have a child, only one, and they're

already 14, 15, six, like right they're

in striking distance to like their

chapter 18 on. and you're in the heat of

this very tough situation and you just

said she's great so you're very

fortunate like you are way ahead of most

people.

So so I think if you're

overcommunicating to her and your son

you would be able to find many weekends

or many 5 days or maybe 4 days and maybe

7 days and maybe even 10 days cuz she

and the son go on like a vacation and

you got time like you're going to be

able to find two three five seven day

windows over these next 36 months to set

it up.

I'd love to set it up with all of them.

You know what I mean? But how do I try?

I'm not going to try to relocate, you

know?

It doesn't Yeah. You're not Abby fish

with the big one. What does Abby

What blind box? Okay, we'll open up. Uh,

brother, it sounds like you're not ready

to do that right now. And that's okay.

Like, you're going to have to eat a

little bit of patience and that's I

respect that. You're a man. You have

responsibilities and you is, you know,

this is what's so awesome about being a

kid.

When you're a kid, you could be 100%

selfish. When you become a [ __ ] man,

you become 100% selfless.

I respect the [ __ ] out of you for that.

Yeah. So, you just I'm maybe just not

even making any moves until we figure

out the dynamics.

No, no, you're missing again. You're

going black and white. Let's go back.

You're making a lot of moves. You're

going down to Bokeh a fuckload. Every

second you can. Every second you don't

have a responsibility to your son.

And every second that you can afford to

be down there, you're down there

setting up shop, networking, going to

events there, looking at locations,

trying to get your name out there,

making content out there, networking,

getting a feel for it. Maybe you don't

even like it like you thought you did.

You might start [ __ ] going down there

once um you know, for the first year and

be like, "Fuck Bokeh."

You know what I mean?

I like Bokeh Delray. that that like area

doesn't have to be with the 85 year

olds, but like you know there's certain

things that I think we can make money on

and I think we could take a take

advantage of the area and

you're thinking you're thinking all

Yeah. You're thinking all or nothing. I

think you can

I got a lot of [ __ ] going through my

head and a lot of things. You know what

I mean?

I'm here to simplify it. I'm I'm here

Matt. I'm here to [ __ ] help you.

That's why we love you.

That's why I love you back. I love you

first. That's why I'm doing it. Listen

to me. It sounds like you could be down

in [ __ ] Bokeh if you can afford the

flights and the stay. It sounds like you

could be down there [ __ ] 60 70 days a

year.

Yeah,

that's a fuckload.

I like that.

Yeah. And you're down and you and you're

down there like this is perfect.

Actually, in fact, I think people should

do this even when they have complete

flexibility. Instead of just jumping

into the cold water, you put your little

[ __ ] toe in there, right, Court? You

know, I don't know how you jump into

pools, but I like to put my little

[ __ ] toesy in there. You go all in.

You're a [ __ ] gangster. Yeah.

Honestly, I actually go more in now

because sometimes I find out I puss out

when I put my toe in there. Like shit's

cold. But if I don't know, it's like,

[ __ ] it for a second, I'm good, right?

But Matt, listen to me. 60, 70, 80, 90

days, 30 days, 40 days, that's going to

actually prep you proper. By the way, by

doing that, you may end up in Austin,

Texas. You may end up in [ __ ] Miami.

You may

I'll [ __ ] I'll [ __ ] with Miami, but I'll

stay away from Texas.

Fine. You're you're allowed to go

wherever the [ __ ] Yeah. I hate the

[ __ ] Cowboys, too. like, you know,

whatever it might be. Like, you know,

like, you know, whatever it might be.

Actually, by the way, on on the record,

I just did that for fun, like I was

improv. I actually love the Cowboys

because I hate the [ __ ] Giants. So, I

love the Eagles, the Commanders, and the

Cowboys. I like the Redskins, and the

Commanders, and the Washington football

team. All three versions of them in the

last decade. That's how much I [ __ ]

hate the Giants. [ __ ] you Giant fans.

You [ __ ] entitled [ __ ] crying

about the last decade not being good.

You [ __ ] won four Super Bowls

in my [ __ ] face.

You're second to the Patriots, you

[ __ ]

Often Yankee fans, too. I'm a Yankee

fan, but like, you know, super entitled

[ __ ]

Let's go Eagles fly [ __ ] I like the

Eagles. I like the Cowboys. And I like

all 17 versions of the [ __ ]

Washington football team. Anyway, uh

Matt,

you're golden. The fact that you have

this situ watch this, Matt, read the

comments. How many of you were separated

from your former spouse? and being

separated. I mean, I don't know if we

might get back together cuz I still love

her and that's amazing. Respect.

Respect. Personal [ __ ] Exactly. Watch

this though. I want you to read the

[ __ ] comments. How many of you

separated from your spouse and it is a

very negative situation? It is not good.

Say that's me in the chat. Say that's

me. That's me. Don't say me. Say that's

me. Look at this. So the fact that you

have so many people,

you know, that are going, you know, and

then again, those people that have

negative spouse social situations also

often times have want to go on and move

to Bokeh and do their thing, but they

have a four and two-year-old. You came

in with a [ __ ] kid that's going into

his sophomore year, right?

Oh, yeah. I did. I got a sophomore in

college and a sophomore in high school,

so I've done all that. You know what I

mean?

Yeah, man. You're And you're young as

[ __ ] Look at No [ __ ] You look [ __ ]

great. What are you 45? 43. But thank

you.

You're welcome. I actually went too

high. Sorry. But listen, you're [ __ ]

You're winning out here, bro.

I know it. I know it. It's like you made

it by, bro. You're not the I see it.

You're a bro, I'm sorry to interrupt.

You're a tweak away. And the tweak was

don't make it black and white. It's

gray.

Be happy that you can be there for 60

days versus crying that you can't be

there for 365 days. Bam. There it

[ __ ] is. There's the [ __ ] clip. be

happy that you're there for 65 days,

which is unusual for people in your

situation because of age of kids and

relationship with spouse or former

spouse or working through it with spouse

or whatever versus crying that you can't

be there for 365 days.

And I talked to you when I first started

my business and you're you're the one

that said just don't do your own [ __ ]

Why you working somebody else?

I remember I remember

it's great and it makes me good money

and I'm comfortable and but like is

there a next step in my

This is a 2.0 conversation. Yeah,

there's so much [ __ ] going on. So, I

appreciate you,

bro. You're [ __ ] golden. You're

golden. In fact, enjoy the [ __ ] out of

these three years with your son. Make

sure you're, you know, like enjoy it.

Like, you're in a very beautiful spot

once you decide you're in a beautiful

spot.

Once I realize it and wake up a little

bit, man.

Yeah, bro. People people are like I

don't like comparing but I cookie

that's the main thing that I didn't like

with my with the job that I had before I

became a business owner is they compared

me to everybody else and even though I

was killing it and making six figures it

was I still felt like [ __ ] because there

was a couple people ahead of me and

realistically people can't can't have

that and maybe they maybe they do for

motivation but some people just work

better on their own and just leave them

alone and let them work. You know what I

mean?

Yes I do. Of course I do.

I'm proud of you, bro. You're, bro.

You're good. Honestly, there's a

drillion people that would switch with

you right now on Earth.

I bet.

For real. And everyone's healthy. Thank

God. And like, [ __ ] go, man. You won.

Go enjoy your 68 days in [ __ ] bokeh

and go enjoy the [ __ ] cold ass

Syracuse. And [ __ ] let's go.

Love you, man. Thank you.

All right. Somebody just bought a

ceramic mug. Big shout out to Gore

Bashed. Uh, you can buy the mug. Yes,

friends. Also, this hat is fire. Court,

show me again on the Look at this

[ __ ] hat. Let me just get in here.

There we go. This hat is going to be

crazy.

The giveaway is up. Look at this. The

awesome African civet. This will be out

in the fall. Look at Look at that little

character. This hat is crazy. I am

awesome, which is why I wear this. By

the way, everyone should buy this.

Everyone is awesome. Not on some like

weird third grade teacher [ __ ] on some

It's actually true. And you

[ __ ] believed your broken

parents or you believed broken society

or broken [ __ ] spouse or girlfriend

boyfriend or broken best friend. You

listen to someone that was broken to

tell you you're not awesome when you're

[ __ ] awesome. Everyone's [ __ ]

awesome. Not on some rahrh I'm like a

guidance counselor [ __ ] on some it's

[ __ ] true. Shut the [ __ ] up. You're

[ __ ] awesome. And if you're watching

right now and you think you're not

awesome, someone put that in your head.

I'm looking to take it out of your

[ __ ] head.

But you don't get it, Gary. I've lost my

whole life. And

just because you've been losing doesn't

mean you can't win. I call it the Monday

night miracle thesis. Court, do you know

what the Monday Night Miracle is?

You're about to tell me.

I'm about to tell you. The Monday Night

Miracle, you can Google it or catch GBT.

is when the New York Jets were losing to

the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night

Football 30 to7 with like 10 minutes

left in the game and came all the way

back and won.

Just cuz you sucked at life

and you're 66 years old and go, Gary,

[ __ ] you right now. Like I triggered

some feelings watching this and you're

like, it's not true. I'm not awesome.

I've lost at everything. Drug abuse,

lost my loved one. Like losing like by

how we would all scare, you know, uh

consider it. I literally believe that

you can win.

And many have so many people, especially

when they get terminally ill, they

notice what happens. You get terminally

ill, you change your behavior. When you

change your behavior, good [ __ ] happens.

When you deploy love, not hate. So many

have poison in their soul. They got to

get it out. Erin, keep it going.

The question is, if the best form of

advertising is now organic social media,

how will companies that thrive off of

paid for ads make money, i.e. a news

company? Why would companies pay for ads

or brand deals if organic social media

is cheaper and better?

Cuz it's harder. Ads are guaranteed.

Organic reach is only based on your

merit. And in fact, if you get virality

in an organic post, the next best

practice is to amplify that creative or

reuse it as an ad. So paid advertising

is phenomenal, especially when you're

buying underpriced attention.

Underpriced attention sits in many

places. The Super Bowl, if you can

afford it, is underpriced.

Like I'm contemplating V friends

commercials for for in the Super Bowl in

the future because I think it's

underpriced. If we can afford it one

day, I will do it. Uh so the ads are

underpriced on Meta, Instagram, and

Facebook. It's just that if you start

with organic, you know, the creative is

good and that's what you should be

amplifying. So it's both, not or. But

for a lot of us right now that are

watching should realize that it's an

opportunity because they don't have ad

revenue, but they can win organically.

Understand?

So that's the key.

Okay. Next question is from Doug. Do you

feel organic reach is less now with

Facebook advertising boosting reels for

money?

No, I think it's more now. Organic reach

is higher now for good content and lower

for bad. I think it's more merit than

ever. I think is it Doug? Doug Doug

needs to look at himself and realize his

content

is not good enough right now and he

needs to mix it up. It's I do think it's

harder to be consistently great. I think

competition has grown, but it's not the

ads. It's many more humans with organic

content. But the good gets more and the

bad gets less. It's more merit-based.

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question.

Okay, the question is from Paul. The ne

nepatism is alive and well in my

workplace. I'm one of the most qualified

people there, even over my younger

managers. It is impossible to get ahead

simply because I'm not from here. I'm so

tired of fighting it. I know you're

going to say leave, but I need to hear

it. Leave.

Like, [ __ ] leave. Leave. Leave.

Leave. Leave. Leave. Like, you can't

fight it. Leave. And by the way, leave

everything. You can't fight your mom for

60 years who has who's bipolar or

narcissist. You don't leave her. You

just limit her. It's either limit or

leave. Loved ones. Limit. non- loved

ones leave leave the job like marriages

a lot of people need to hear it's tough

I'm not advocating for it at least go

through the therapy like work for it

like do something don't eat it either

leave

either go for the work which would be

therapy exercise life is leave or work

or shut your [ __ ] mouth

cuz complaining

limit or leave or put in the work or

shut your [ __ ] mouth.

Complaining and pointing fingers is

[ __ ]

Accountability to the max. Here's the

nuance that almost no one sees.

Accountability even when you're right.

Being the bigger person even when you're

right. I have someone in my life who

cannot go there because they can't

forgive.

Lack of forgiveness is the poison that

is ruining your life. There is nothing,

Aaron, you can say to me that would not

allow me to forgive, including the

ultimate darkest [ __ ] that can come out

of your mouth. Let alone stealing money,

let alone cheating, let alone

backstabbing, let alone talking [ __ ]

These are things that people literally

eliminate loved ones and friends for.

Literally. Do you know how many people

right now have eliminated loved ones and

friends for talking [ __ ]

For talking [ __ ] as if they never talk

[ __ ] You know what I love right now is

like watching people [ __ ] on people as

if they've never done anything wrong.

Even when they die. Hulk Hogan died. He

[ __ ] died and people were giving

tributes and of course like every other

human. And he's done some bad stuff. I

get it. But I love those comments. I'm

like, I'd love to know what bad stuff

you did.

[ __ ] tired of this [ __ ] Can we

get the [ __ ] out of this matrix? This is

why I'm doing tea with Gary Vee. I'm

going to create a [ __ ] cocoon of

positivity and accountability that is

going to [ __ ] dominate. Sid, I'm

going to [ __ ] dominate 2026. I'm

going to be IRLing. You know this court.

I'm going to be video blogging. I'm

going to make way more content. I'm

going to be substacking. I'm going to be

[ __ ] AIing. I'm about to go [ __ ]

ham on [ __ ] faces.

Gonna suffocate all the excuses and it

gonna instill all the opportunities.

It's going to be good.

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Aaron, asked the next question.

Okay, next question. How can teens today

start learning how to bu build a

business online while still creating

emotional boundaries between who they

are and what the algorithm rewards?

That's a fun great question. Um,

there's a lot of ways to think about

this. Big shout out to Addison Ray who's

been saying this. I heard Mona listening

to this. I overheard it while she was

listening. Addison basically said, you

know, she did what she had to do on

TikTok to get the fame and now she's

quote unquote different. big who won did

not Steven's view win. Stephen, that's

amazing. Stephen, congrats. Good big big

part of the be friends community. Um,

she said she did what she had to do and

now she can be more of herself and I

think a lot of kids can learn from that.

Like you can make content that the al

now you got to make content that's

somewhat in you. You can't like say [ __ ]

you don't believe or do [ __ ] you don't

believe. But if it's not the all the way

you the answer is both. You can do both,

right? Like you can do both. I do that

all the time. You guys know this uh the

post I did the other day with me and my

dad doing a wine video. You think I

thought that was going to overindex the

algorithm? I sure didn't. And as you

know, Sid, we're just we we had a little

moment on Instagram where we were

testing ads and doing things and it

threw off our algo. We're just getting

ourselves back. We want to get into that

organic reach system better for the

algo. And yet I still posted that video

with me and dad because I want to post

that video for me and dad because I

promise you when my dad's gone, I'm

going to be happy that I posted that

over getting an extra 100,000 [ __ ]

views on [ __ ] Instagram.

So, the answer is both. So, that's it.

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Hello Kitty, you know, um Star Wars, if

this is your first time and you love to

collect, say first time and collect. And

if you're one of those people that just

says that right now, first- time

collect, then I want you to DM me and

ask, tell me more about Vfriends. I'm

gonna have Zach and Ross and I in my DMs

and whatnot answering your questions,

teaching you about this. But everybody

right here right now, all 600 of you,

you need to go to vfriends.com/quiz.

Take the quiz and whichever V friend you

are, it's a Vfriend quiz to find out

which Vfriend you are of the 280

characters. When you get that, come take

a screenshot and change your avatar like

you see a lot of people in the chat

instead of letter yellow letters like

Carol Corales has.

You can have an icon like MJM has with

the alien or narwhal or all look at look

at Atomic Coffee with the gritty ghost.

So do it now. Take the quiz while you're

you can do it while you're listening to

this in the background. Let's keep it

going. Aaron, next question. Okay.

Give a blaster pack.

What's that?

Giveaway is a blaster pack.

Oh, we're going to open it. Are these

the blaster packs in front of me?

They're all blaster. No hobby.

We have hobby as well.

Which how do I see again?

Uh if there's Right. So this is the

blaster pack. We're giving this away.

These are like what? Two 200 a box right

now. Divided by how many packs? Eight in

a blaster.

So it's probably like 23

23 25 bucks. We're giving this away. You

can get your first Chrome. Go to eBay

and check this out. You've got some

stuff I can share with them. Do you have

the comic book

video? Yeah. Prep that up. Let me answer

this question. Then I need to show all

of you something. If I'm literally

building the next Marvel and Pokemon, at

least that's my ambition. Obviously, I

know that's a big stretch, but I'm going

there literally in front of all of you

GaryVee business content friends in your

eyes and you're not even knowing it. I'm

going to show you something that's going

to blow you away. Also,

vfriends.com/carttoons.

If you have a 3 to9year-old in your

life, uh go to befriends uh YouTube Kids

channel. It's linked. Adrian's got it

right there. Uh okay, let's go to the

next question.

Okay, this question is from Muhammad.

How do you communicate with an employee

who's in trouble at work? They really

need our help, but they don't know how

to ask and we don't know how to assist.

Kind cander. You know how to assist by

telling the the honest truth with

kindness. And if you say that we don't

know how to assist because you've been

doing it already and they're not getting

it, then you may have to cut bait.

There's nothing worse than f for me.

There's nothing worse than firing an

employee. But the reality is it took me

into my early 40s, maybe even mid-40s if

I'm being honest, to realize you're

doing them a favor, not the reverse. Cuz

once they're dead on arrival and dead

man, dead woman walking in your

organization, you're not doing anything

right by them. Let's keep it going. I'm

growing a brand and community called

Nomies that revolves around the tabletop

role playing game community. My friends

ask me to delegate tasks to them, but I

noticed they start strong and then don't

deliver. They say they want to grow this

community with me, but how do I keep

them accountable so we can grow? by

firing them and paying them.

Like, yeah, like it doesn't sound like

he's paying them. So, it's hard. You

know, some people are motivated at first

with passion, but then they worry about

other things. Like, you have to know how

to And by the way, some people don't

need to get paid and they're motivated

by the joy and they would do it for

free. And that's awesome, but that's a

small percentage. And then if you're

paying someone or not paying someone and

they're not doing the task, you release

them of that task. That's what

leadership and ownership looks like.

That's the responsibility.

Let's keep it going.

Okay. A question from Laura. I'm 41

years old trying to build a brand, but

it's hard because I'm shy and I feel but

I feel I have so much to give. I'm also

very self-conscious about my accent. Can

you give me some advice, please?

Look, this is the classic question,

right? Like, you know, first when she

was saying she was s shy, I was going to

tell her she doesn't have to be on

camera. Then she threw me a double

curveball by saying she's worried about

her accent. Big win for the Jmax 79.

Jmax 79. Let's clap it up. Everyone.

Everyone. Ross. Here we go. What did

they win? A pack. Another pack. What?

Another another blast bracket. I'll open

it in a second. So, look, here's the

punch line. You either get over it or

you're or you don't. Like if someone

makes fun of you for your accent, if

someone makes fun of you, whether you're

seven or 77, I'm gonna say this slow. If

someone makes fun of you, they the

person making fun of you is a piece of

[ __ ] Or and in actuality, they're the

one that's hurting. Literally, no one

that makes fun of me upsets me. What

they get from me is compassion, empathy,

and sympathy.

They are hurting.

Nobody who's not hurting makes fun of

people. I do not make fun of people. Nor

have I ever made fun of people. Little

Raz, a little like, you know, Jersey boy

[ __ ] But I've never really actually

tried to hurt someone's feeling because

I got very fortunate. Luck of the draw

DNA wise, circumstances, environment,

and most of all, mother who made me not

hurt.

Thus, why would I be hurting? Hurting

only comes from a hurt place.

So if she's worried about her accent is

her strength, not her vulnerability. Her

accent makes her first of all incredibly

relevant to a lot of people and then to

everyone else it's just a nuance. It's I

wish I do you know how do you know how

much bigger I would be if I had an Ivan

Drago like accent? If I was like you are

an [ __ ] Like that would be way

better.

How old are you? Like that would crush.

Stop [ __ ] watching Lost. I would

[ __ ] dominate, Sid. I'd have 80

million followers instead of 10.8 on

Instagram if I had a real [ __ ] Ivan

Drago. I must break you. I would [ __ ]

dominate. In fact, with AI, I might go

accent. I might go Russian accent for a

decade. All content Russian accent only.

All of it.

Russian.

Only hurt people make you hurt.

Understand? Like I would [ __ ]

dominate.

Accent is strength.

[ __ ]

That's where I'm at. All right, let's

open up this pack. Who won?

The Jac 79.

The Jmac. Jac, fearless ferryy in here.

Shrewd Shark.

A common sense cow numbered to 199. What

a hit. This is a nice little hit. And a

Fearless Ferry that I'm going to auto

which is going to give value. That is a

big win for the person that got it. Oh,

we did. We had a giveaway, right?

Somebody won this box. Who won this?

Abby fish.

Abby.

Abby, congrats. You got the heart

trooper. Big shout out, Jeremy. The

heart trooper. All right. So, we got

that. And then what was there another

winner?

Blaster pack.

Blaster pack for who?

Cookie.

Cookie.

Cookie. But the blaster pack. Here we

go. That's a hobby.

Uh, I don't want to. Anybody can buy

anything they want. It's in the store.

Go to the bottom right of your We're not

going to put many more. Just leave

what's up here now. Uh, but go to the

bottom right. Hit the store. Buy

anything you want if you want to start

becoming a V Friends collector. Juicy

Jaguar. The insightful Irish terrier.

The Honest Honeybee and the Wise Wasp.

Nice pack. Let me sign the Wise Wasp.

Next question. Aaron, go. You were

watching te I'm sorry, Aaron. That was

on me. I fumbled that. You were watching

tea with Gary Vee, episode 83.

Big shout out to Santana Moss going into

the Redskins Hall of uh Redskins

Commanders Washington Football Club Hall

of Fame. Drafted by the Jets, wore

number 83 on my Jets thread today. Me,

AJ, and a couple of others talked about

us underutilizing him during his time

with the Jets. Big shout out to Santana

Moss for going in the Ring of Honor down

in Washington. I'm about to give away

something good. I'm going to You know

what? Let's give away a $200 box of V

friends. But we're not going to do this

yet. We're going to give everybody on

social 5 minutes to download the app and

get over here. Everybody get over here

right now from social. Get a I mean,

this is free. 200 bucks. You can win it.

Even if you don't want to become a Brief

Friends collector, Courtney's face right

now is crazy. You should see it.

Literally, you come over here, you buy

it, and you sell it on eBay. It's free

money. Speaking of free money, here's

some free advice coming to Candace S.

Candace.

Hi.

First of all, I want to say thank you

for everything you do. Um, you're a huge

inspiration to me. Um,

so I've had a six figureure car

detailing business for eight years. And

congrats.

Um, it's Yeah, it's been great. It's

funded. I mean, it's just made my life.

I mean, it's been great, but I don't

like it anymore. Um, I actually listened

to a podcast from you. Um, I don't know

when it was, but you had mentioned um

when you left your dad when you were

making content and you woke up one day

and you just like it it wasn't a burnout

time,

right? It was Wine Library TV after 5

years and was so important. Changed my

career, changed my dad's life, set me up

to be able to build what I built. But

one day I woke up and I'm like, "Fuck

this [ __ ] I don't want to do it

anymore." And I stopped.

No, literally that's me right now. And I

have had this like

I still I know I I'm entrepreneurial. I

know I want to do my own thing and

specifically streaming like in Fortnite

specifically. So

So do it at night at first. Are you

doing it at night?

Yes. Yeah.

And how's it going?

So

uh slow.

Yeah. cuz my main question is like how

do you make content that's like stands

out and it's not the same as everyone

else

by by you being by you being your full

self

by you talking about [ __ ] guitars by

you talking about car dealing by you

talking about your [ __ ] Candace

right

that's it

okay

there's nothing else Candace if you're

trying to [ __ ] follow clicks you're

dead

right

clicks is clicks and that's exactly

I can't

Candace there's going to be You know

this. I know this and you know this. I'm

going to deliver it right now. You live

your life and a lot of people don't get

you and don't like you and plenty of

people do like you and do get you. Yes.

Yes.

That is the answer to the quiz of every

[ __ ] person watching this show.

Right.

You got to make Fortnite videos and you

got to get them to know you. You got to

tell about life stories while you're

playing. Make the jokes that you're

making.

You understand?

Yeah. Absolutely.

When everybody did their Hulk Hogan

tribute posts, I did mine authentically

to me. Literally, it was a picture of me

and him and the copy was, "You broke my

heart in the spring of '89 when you beat

the Macho Man." That was to me. That was

me. You broke my heart and today you

broke the heart of many wrestling fans.

You know, like like you have to make it

you,

right?

Everybody's generic out here. And even

worse, everyone's trying to figure out

the hack to go viral.

Well, I feel like it makes the most

sense because you look into like people

like Queso and like these people that

are so themselves and it's like they're

the most popular like that it's about

being

and by the way some people listen and

some people are naturally charismatic

and some aren't just what it is and some

people are pretty and some are less

pretty by standards and some people are

smarter and sharper and some like we

just have to be all us. I talk proudly

constantly about not being able to read

the most basic [ __ ] thing.

And I made it a strength. I'm like, "We

have to have fiveminute meetings because

I can't read it."

Right?

You know what I mean? Like you want to

make fun of me cuz I can't read. Here's

my answer to you. Go [ __ ] yourself.

Like what do you want from me? Like you

what do you want? A cookie, a medal,

like you read better than me, Masletov.

And by the way, for some of you, that

should be your pride. Be like, "I'm a

great [ __ ] reader."

Yeah,

you aren't, Gary. You got that one on

me. You know, like that's it. Like what

are we talking about here? So Candace,

you got to start making way more

authentic you. Your your passions, your

hurtships, your your hacks in the game.

You know what I mean? And you got to try

[ __ ] You got to try [ __ ] You might

after a four months of Fortnite and

nothing happening, maybe you just stream

you playing Super Mario Kart just for

for the [ __ ] of it.

Right. Right.

People talk about authenticity and then

don't live it.

Yeah. Absolutely. Do do you know how

many compliments I get for being who I

am in real life?

In fact, sometimes even better than I am

in real life than who I am on video. And

I see it. I many of the kids I'm looking

at right now have already said it to me

or I can see it in their eyes. Do you

know how sad that is? That actually

means the world is not authentic. Do you

know how sad it is that we have a saying

in society that everybody knows that

says don't meet your heroes?

That speaks to lack of authenticity.

Literally, when people compliment me for

being a good guy or like living up to

who I am, I I literally feel weird. I'm

I feel it feels good. Like I'm like,

"Yeah, like I'm glad I do that." But

that's like a hundth of a second. The

rest of that second in my brain is like,

man, it sucks that that's life.

Authenticity.

Thank you.

Cool. You are beyond welcome, Candace.

I'm rooting for you. Thank you.

Take care.

God, I love tea with Gary Vee. I love

doing this [ __ ] show. Everybody, we

are giving away this free show it court,

please. Thank you. This free $200 box.

Literally, if you go on eBay right now

and go to completed items, you put in

top, you put in Vfriend friends chrome

blaster. Enter. Sold. You'll see 200 to

$225 a box. This is free. We're about to

give it away for free. Come over,

download the app. I I've noticed some

people say, "I don't need another app."

Okay.

But like I'm trying to do three things

for you here. One, teach you what

commerce tamement is. All of you can do

a show just like I'm doing and sell

stuff. Your honey, your t-shirts, your

bracelets you make. Two, you can just

You can't get free [ __ ] on the other

platforms. Like, why not get free money?

I'm literally giving away free money.

Three, once you become a Vfriend Friends

collector, you will be entered into the

best community in the world. You have no

[ __ ] idea. Watch this everybody in

the chat. only if you've been part of

Vfriends for a year or longer. And even

if not, you can say less than a year and

then give your answer. Put year plus

colon and then say what the V friends

community has meant to you. By the way,

I'm going to give everybody the preview

if you're not on whatnot. The best

friends they've ever made, consistent

positivity, consistent accountability,

90% positive. Obviously, there's some

people that lose their way in our

community, but it's [ __ ] amazing. And

in less than a year, put what you've

learned already. I just want you to

become a befriends collector. Not even

for you to buy anything. Our community

is so generous. You'll just pick up free

[ __ ] along the way. And I think I'm

building one of the biggest collectible

companies in the world. I just want you

part of this journey. All right, let's

keep going.

Um, this question is from Anthony. I'm

46 years old and have been very

successful in the restaurant business.

I'm making more money than I could dream

of, but this is a tough and demanding

business, and part of me just wants to

sell everything and downgrade my life to

do what I truly love,

being a creative musician. Am I too old

to risk it all at this point in my

career? It's not risky at all. You're

going to sell it. You're going to get an

asset. You're going to live. Notice how

he said downgrade. [ __ ] genius. Do

you know this? This is insane. From like

a go get it, go do it. [ __ ] am I mean

there's an ambitious angel. I'm going to

Who does not know anything about V

friends? Say don't know in the chat

right now. If you don't know anything

about V friends or very little, say

don't know in the chat right now. Say

don't know. I'm going to show you

something right now. I'm going to show

you something. This is my little

universe. I'm just going to show you a

little glimpse of it. Here are some of

the characters, right? Swaggy sea lion.

Uh, excuse me. Uh, let me see the where

is it? Oh, it's high. Intuitive iguana,

outgoing octopus, resourceful robin,

right? Optimistic otter. Like, you know,

rare robot. Here's the versatile Viking,

hustling hamster, patient pig, selfless

sloth. Here's the moral monkey.

Oh, I know where she is. Thank you,

though. Here she is. And she might be

the one I most associate with out of all

the things. Ooh, do that again, Court.

Holy [ __ ] Court. Do that again, Court.

Holy [ __ ] Court. There's the ambitious

angel. Oh, do I love the ambitious

angel. I might associate with her more

than anyone. I am as ambitious as they

come, but I'm going to say something

right now that might be a curveball that

if you haven't listened to me carefully,

you don't realize I've been saying it

the whole time. I said it in Crush It,

the first book I wrote. The answer to

the quiz of life for almost everybody.

Think about what I just said is to

downgrade

is to simplify

less New York and LA and Miami and more

Chattanooga, Tennessee and De Moine,

Iowa and County, New Jersey.

The secret to life is

a stillness in your chest.

How many people in the chat worry about

money? Put money in the chat right now.

Like, let's talk real. Let's talk real.

Everyone say money in the chat.

We're getting somewhere real here. I'm

going to keep it this zone.

The amount of people that said money in

there, I would die to be able to look at

all of their expenses and bills. I would

die for it.

Almost every human overs skezes

themselves financially.

This is what happened when credit cards

were introduced. When people used to not

be able to buy on credit, they paid for

cash. They don't get it. We're confused

out here. What do I think? I think he's

ready to go enjoy his life and he's

going to live in a simpler house with a

simpler car with simpler day-to-day

luxuries. Watch this. I need you to be

honest cuz we're teaching a community

lesson.

If you said money in the chat, but you

were subscribed to three or more

streaming services, Netflix, ESPN Plus,

HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Hulu. I Please

don't lie. Tell Put the number three in

the chat. Three in the chat. If you said

money, but you have three streaming

services.

It's a lot. You see it? It's a lot.

If you struggle with if you worry about

money, we're going to keep playing. And

you buy

coffee at a coffee shop that's over $5

often enough. Let's just leave it at

that. Please put a $5 $5 mark in the

chat. Be honest. Don't [ __ ] me.

Please, please say that. Be honest. This

matters.

See

who's got rent or a or a mortgage that's

over their skis? They worry about that.

They in hindsight they realize it was

too much. Put to o much much. Put too

much. That the car or the house was too

much in hindsight. Put too much. Be

honest. You're helping everyone

including yourself.

Look at that. By the way, Cyclone Signer

said, "I buy too much Vfriend Friends.

Stop." On the record, clip this forever.

Do not buy anything Vfriend Friends. Do

not buy anything Wine Text. By the way,

you should all buy this Thursday's Wine

Text. It's the best deal of all time if

you can afford it cuz it's an actual

$125 Napa cab for less than 30 bucks.

It's insane. Big shout out Brandon

Jeff's dad. And then none of you should

buy that if it's something you can't

afford. My friends, this is where it's

at. Simplicity is happiness. Do the

giveaway. We're going to do it very

quick. We're doing the giveaway right

now. Run it. And the winner of the $200

plus dollar box is

Freezy. Six. Let's clap it up. Freezy.

A nice OG. The rational rattlesnake. I

think Freezy. Great win.

All right, that's it. All right,

everybody. Thank you for being on the

show. Everybody, please follow if you

just joined, if it's your first time.

Also, real quick, if you if you if

you're curious about Vfriends before we

leave here, this is important. Adrian,

get ready. 212931-5731.

Text me the word Vfriend Friends full to

this phone number. 212. You can do it on

WhatsApp, too. 212. If you're

international, it now works on WhatsApp.

212931-5731.

Text me the word Vfriend Friends. One

word. Text me. So, you're updated on

what we're doing. How many people are

texting me V friends right now because

they've become V friends. Curious. How

many people realize in this show they're

going to start collecting V friends? Let

me know. How many people say starting?

Say starting.

Say starting. I want to know. Take the

quiz. Take the quiz.

Oh, a lot of new collectors coming. I

love it. You're going to love this

community. Take the quiz. be

bfriends.comquiz. It's rolling on the

middle of the screen right now.

You have somebody in mind?

Yes. It's a mineral.

What's that?

The person is a mineral. They have a

bunch of vintage friends. Let me see.

They're live.

Let me just see it. I know who it is,

but I just want to see what they're

doing.

All right, we're about to stun them.

This is going to be awesome. Everybody

go over there and ask the OGs that are

with you in this raid to teach you about

V friends during this show.

And we're going to send you Everybody

got the phone number? We're all good.

And

by the way, all of you Oh, we're gone.

We're starting the raid. Not yet. Okay.

Uh, all of you need to start using

WhatsApp, excuse me, whatnot for

yourself. Do you can do garage sales on

here. You can, if you sell anything

physical, all of you who I brought over

here now, I want you to learn how to use

this. By the way, I'm not an investor

and whatnot. I own no equity or whatnot.

It's just Tik Tok shop and whatnot will

work for a lot of you. Um, we're going

to send a raid in three,

two,

one,

friends. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

400 people.

What am I going to do with 400 people?

What am I going to do with 400 people?

V friends. I hope you like V friends

cards. That's a patient pig.

Good morning. How's everybody doing?

Gary Vee, thank you very much. Team,

thank you very much.

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
hustle /ˈhʌsəl/ B1	noun - busy work or activity, especially to achieve a goal verb - to work hard or move quickly to achieve something
passion /ˈpæʃən/ A2	noun - strong enthusiasm or desire for something
resilient /rɪˈzɪliənt/ B2	adjective - able to recover quickly from difficulties
authentic /ɔːˈθentɪk/ B1	adjective - real or genuine, not copied or false
simplify /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/ B1	verb - to make something easier to understand or do
downgrade /ˈdaʊnɡreɪd/ B2	verb - to reduce the quality or status of something
accountability /əˌkaʊntəˈbɪləti/ C1	noun - the state of being responsible for one's actions
forgiveness /fəˈɡɪvnəs/ B2	noun - the act of forgiving someone for a mistake or wrong
merit /ˈmɛrɪt/ B1	noun - the quality of being good or worthy, especially by effort
amplify /ˈæmplɪfaɪ/ B2	verb - to make something larger or more intense
stream /striːm/ A2	noun - a continuous flow of data or content verb - to broadcast or receive data or content over the internet
content /ˈkɒntent/ A2	noun - information or material provided in a digital format
viral /ˈvɑːrəl/ B1	adjective - spreading quickly and widely, especially on the internet