The Practical Approach to AI

26:12I realized my company had become entitled. I want to talk to you about that. I realized some of my relationships were not where they needed to be. And, you know, at 42, 43, I was like, uh-oh. It was actually great. This is why I wish on everyone. I wish everyone can face their truth. And so candor has been massive. I use kryptonite because I do think I was uncomfortably blessed with DNA and parenting and circumstance. Not only did I have the greatest mother who gave me all of her great traits and I took my dad's best traits. This is a big joke in my family that I was first and I just kind of rolled up on my mom and dad and just took all their best shit because I was first.

26:55And like really, I really am, it's really wild. I speak about this like detached from it, but it is very clear if you knew everything about me. Like if we hang out in heaven where you can get every answer, if there was some AI graph up there that was like, what did Gary take from his parents? His parents have good and bad attributes. What did he take? It's like 98 % good. Like I took all the good shit from both. And my dad has a ton of bad shit. And I love him. but he has a lot of shortcomings and by the way, I'm not mad at him because I knew my grandma real well and she parented him and she had those same things and you want to hear something even crazier because everybody in Russia had kids at 20?

27:33I knew my great grandma well and she gave it to my grandma. So I always say this, my favorite keynote speech moment maybe of my career was at VCon 2 or 3, 2 and my opening line to the keynote, like 10 ,000 people in the crowd, I'm like, I just want to start with fuck your grandparents. And like the crowd was like shook. Everyone in the crowd was like what the fuck is going on? And my point was a lot of you right now in the crowd are struggling because you're mad at one of your parents. And you don't have the grace or empathy or compassion to your parent to realize one of their parents did it to them.

28:11This is my favorite topic in the world. I actually have a meditation that I do about this every day. It's just having grace and forgiveness for the fact that you're right. that there probably is something that the grandparent or the great-grandmother. Not probably. There is. What your parent did to you is what one of their, and you know what pisses me off is like, you're like, oh, grandma, because grandma now is on the, by the way, a lot of times grandma is sweet to you because she's still fucking up her daughter. Or she feels guilty about. Correct, it's one of the two. It's either they're like, fuck, they're trying to make amends with you, the grandchild, or believe it or not, they're still in it and they want you to side with, but this is fucked up, but it's real.

28:51They want granddaughter to side with grandma on this fucking 40 year debate. So they're sweet to you. So you're like, grandma, you're the sweetest and she's giving you cookies and five bucks and she's the fucking best. Meanwhile, everything you're mad at in life is based on this thing you're mad at your mom for and your poor mom got fucked by this grandma.

29:12But by the way, by the way, it's why I love, it's so true, right? And you know why I'm happy right now is I know someone's in a car driving and this might be the first, this is why I'm motivated to do what I do. I know someone's driving right now, had never heard this concept and literally just had a bananas aha and it's the seed that's gonna lead to them calling their mom in six months because it's gonna fester. You know, not everything's right away and they haven't talked to her for four years and it's gonna allow them to have amends and enjoy each other's company they'll be rocky roads, you know, when you have a tough relationship, you know, but right now they're completely zero and they didn't realize what grandma did.

29:57And then you're gonna be like, fuck grandma, and then I'm gonna be like, no, no, no, great grandma. You didn't know great grandma, great grandma Gertrude, but she was the worst of the bunch. It's about being aware. Correct. When you're aware of that, you can understand it. Being aware and awake to everything is good. Being aware is realizing if you're highly political, both sides are doing the same thing. That's being aware. They're both scaring you and telling you you're not capable and they're gonna take care of you. Both of them. They're just scaring you on different issues. I think, you know, when I think about you and like one of the themes of your life, I just think that like extreme self-awareness is at the top of the heap with your qualities.

30:42I mean, there's a million great qualities, but I think like you're just, you have an honest assessment about yourself and the world and I think that's a superpower for you. It allows you to grow and make impact. You guys know this, including the three wonderful people off the camera know this. When you start to get known, people have opinions of you. There are people who have full-formed opinions of me who've never met me and I understand. if you grew up in a household where over the topness and cursing were demonized, how could you possibly like me at first? If your parents taught you that self-promotion and be quiet, like you don't have to put yourself out there, which is a beautiful, like I'm literally getting goosebumps.

31:27I think it's beautiful to say like your work should speak for itself and you don't have to be out. I think it's a beautiful virtue. You know, speaking in a respectful manner. I think these are nice things. I am not that. I am very out there. I'm very Jersey potty mouth. But it's me. And I'm okay with people misunderstanding me at first. In a world where everyone wants to be understood immediately. I do not have the audacity to think that people should understand me right away. I actually enjoy the process. Many people listening right now, when they first came across me, did not like me. And now really like me.

32:06That's my favorite thing ever is when you judge a book by its cover and then you get to know the person and it's an onion. Correct. People are complex. What happens to you two? All the time. It's my favorite thing ever. Of course. I let him go down the rabbit hole and see me with blonde hair and big fake tits and let them judge that. That's right. I'm actually fine with it. I think a little bit of part of me gets off on it. Yeah, of course, because I think you know who you are inside. Yes. Again, but this is an important thing. There's a lot of people listening right now who think they're rotten inside and I tell everyone to listen to me.

32:38You are not rotten. If your voice tells you that you are bad, someone put that voice in you. That is not your voice. Right? I said something yesterday I'd never said out loud before and I'm excited to repeat it. I literally believe there's no losers in life. I really believe that. I just believe there are people that are currently losing. Right? It's like sports. Like sometimes you're losing 13 to nothing but I don't know if you've ever watched sports. like sometimes you come back and win like like no matter where you're at right now alcoholism fired four times 150 000 in debt like it's this is what's amazing about life like you actually can get out of it and then what's crazy like if you show me someone like if someone emails me that heard this podcast ever right now when you launch it or in 10 years if you're a person that emails me and says i was 150 000 that i battled alcoholism i spent six months in jail i like Like all these things.

33:33And now I'm here, that's the person I most admire on earth. The people I most admire are the ones that really get out of the muck. Not the people that kind of, like me? Like it's kind of always been chill. Meaning like my adversity was my youth. Fights all the time because I grew up in bad neighborhoods, bad grades, every adult said you were gonna be a garbage man loser, which was funny because garbage men make a lot of money, more than teachers, all this other crazy stuff. But by the time I got to 18, I was so beat up by every grown up, I was like, I like losing. So my life from after like regular school life, childhood life, and don't forget inside my house, I had nothing but love.

34:16And then selling and all the business stuff was showing me I wasn't a loser. But, you know, for me, I've kind of just like cruised along like success on success on success, happiness and joy. Like, yes, I think I'm, for some people, it might be like, oh, I want to achieve that. But I personally am more impressed with someone who's in a real fucked up spot right now and gets to some sort of basic tangible place than I am with what I've done. And I'm not kidding. If you woke up tomorrow and you felt rotten inside, what would you do? What's your self-talk? If me, myself, with the things I know, I would immediately say that it's not true.

35:00and that somebody, especially if it's me, some evil demon lord was able to manipulate my brain somehow. It must be some weird Emperor Darth Vader-like character was able to penetrate my brain or somebody slipped me some weird version of an AI roofie that remixed my brain because I don't understand how this happened but however it happened, someone ousts. I, Gary, do not think I'm rotten. someone tricked me into thinking I'm rotten. So if someone's listening and they feel rotten, you would tell them to understand? That their mother or father likely told them they were rotten. So how did they get out of it?

35:40By realizing their mother and father was broken and they can start the process of getting out. They have to not believe them. When your mother, there are people, maybe even in this room, just six of us, and definitely people listening, there are people who have parents that tell them you'll never be anything. Do you know how fucking sad that is? But I, again, do not get mad at that scene right now. I don't look at that woman or man. I feel bad for them. They are so broke. To be a parent that says that to your own child, do you know how fucking broken that person is? This is why I love negative comments in social.

36:18Do you know that most people don't post because they're scared of negative comments and I secretly love them? Why do you secretly love negative comments? Because it gives me an opportunity to DM some of them and try to help them. What do you DM them? Like, hey man, I saw what you just wrote. Like, first, sorry that you think I'm a scam artist, but on some real shit, like, if you're taking time to write that, like, you're clearly not in good places. Is there anything I can do for you? Literally six out of 10 people are like, whoa, and like pumped. And four out of 10 people double down, like, fuck you, Gary, you're not gonna fucking pull your shit on me.

36:48Like, my shit is compassion. Like, I'm right here when you're ready. I like doing that. And you've always done that. I want to talk to you a little bit about entitlement. That was a great segue. And you've always done that. Now let's talk about that. You're getting good at this. You're welcome. It's only taking a thousand. No, but there's all these articles now about Gen Z. And I hate to pick on young people because I know a lot of people in that generation that are really hardworking and do very well. I would actually argue to your point to double down just to jump in. It's actually a very wildly mixed generation because Gen Z has so many options.

37:24Gen Z is the most millionaires of a generation under 20 in the history of time because of technology. There's people working their faces off. I actually think they're just very split. Not a lot of in between. You have these gangster 19 year olds who are streaming for 19 hours a day every day of their life or building AI businesses and then you have the ones that are like, well, the boomers fucked it up for us. Hey, politicians, take care of me. Yeah, well, and then I think, you know. All generations blaming each other. Doing what we'll. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I just want to make this point.

37:53As if we didn't have enough things that we don't like each other about. Gender wars, race, religion. This is how fucked up things are. I do not believe that people are conscious to what's happening. There are many people on earth that try to make us not like each other for their self-interest. Literally as if we didn't have enough things to not like each other about. This is the first era. When I was growing up, guys, I didn't even know I was in Gen X and I never heard the term boomer. I didn't know what that was. Right? now you literally have Gen Z being like, you boomers fucked it up. And they're like pointing at some poor 71 year old lady who's just minding her own business.

38:29She's just going to the store to buy a banana. She's like, what do you mean I ruined it? But I wanted, so to your point, I think there's just entitlement across all sorts of different demos. Correct. And I think within that, I don't want to blame social media because I don't think, I think that's a cop out, but I think people see people with things or maybe that are further along and they say, hey, they have it. Why shouldn't I? Yeah, but the rise of socialism and Marxism and communism, like the 40s, the 60s, the 20s, had these same dynamics. Friends, actually, here's a good one. Please, this will really make your life a lot better.

39:05You need to stop blaming social media. It's an empty pipe. You need to start blaming yourself. Like, people are like, it's never been worse. I'm like, the Holocaust was pretty bad. Like, Hitler didn't have Twitter. I don't understand why people don't understand what's actually happening, which is we have become incredibly non-accountable. We have become wildly judgmental. And this is not a social media issue, this is modern parenting issue. Consequences matter.

39:40Literally, in five minutes, we went from parents actively smacking and spanking. I had a belt hanging in my apartment when I first came to America as a kid. And like my mom pointed to it and said, my mom, like literally I've been smacked, I've been spanked, grounded. Do you know this phenomenon? You guys are young, modern parents. People don't ground. I ground. We ground. I ground. How? I ground, I say. You know, I wanna know what the. No, no, no, that's threatening.

40:21She was misbehaving. She kept playing Mario Kart on the Wii. I said, if you keep doing that, it's gone for a week. That's good. She comes to me two days later, she goes, where's the thing? Big eyes, tears in them. Very cute. For a week, you have five more days. By the way, if you do another, it's another week. But 30, 40 years ago, it was not just the Wii. it was no phone, no friends, no TV, no like, like, like, like, it was real. She's like, thanks dad, you took away the Wii. Yeah, she wanted the next day. Now she's doing 1 ,700 other things. She's watching Rugrats. Correct. It's true, it's not Rugrats.

40:58No, no, I'm talking about when we really grounded in the 70s and 80s, 60s, like, you were going to jail. God forbid you heard, I'm gonna go get your father. Scared the fuck out. I was scared of my dad as if he was like an assassin. from like, no, no, we don't have, kids grow up, and this is why people talk so much shit. I grew up in neighborhoods where if you like said one thing to someone, like it was after school, punch, blood, fight, like people are saying all sorts of shit in the comment section because there's no ramifications. So what's your vibe on gentle parenting? Can't wait. I love the idea of being friendly and warm.

41:33Like I had a gentle parent who would smack the fuck out of me when I did something wrong. I believe that we need purple. I think that we this concept of like when parents are like I want to be friends with my child they're hurting them you want to be friendly but you need to be their father or mother and I'm telling you the biggest issue in the world right now is lack of consequences what keeps humans in a very nice place is consequences ramifications it's good like I love when people get punched in the face I mean it like you know run your mouth and disrespect and get punched in the face that's good I like it.

42:11I know that people are like, whoa, whoa, what? I need to dissect it. We as humans need consequences. It's why I love sports and business. There's consequences. Like if you don't play well, if you make a bad pass, if you don't train hard, you lose. You lost. This is why eighth place trophies destroyed society.

42:33When your kids get older, when they become 22, or 18, depending on how you see this, or somewhere in that range. If you guys, because of the empire you build, are giving money to your 25-year-old child, it will be bad. Well, we've seen that. We've seen it happen. We've seen what happens when you do that. And it is bad. That's right. And that's what's happening. You have people literally blaming boomers on TikTok whose parents are paying their rent. It's funny because one of the best things Right, right. Like it's like, I don't. Yeah. Not funny. Yeah. It's your book. Yeah. Isn't that funny? It's humbling and funny and awesome and like it's how I see the world.

43:17Like it's just very easy to see what's going on right now. Like we are soft. We are over coddled. We've become addicted to this. People love this. You're ugly. You're stupid. Well you should, my favorite, you should pay more taxes. Like okay. Like what about you? Where did this, like I never, I literally don't even know how to start a sentence of you should. Never in my brain do I look at someone and say you should other than the framework of kindness and humanity. It would be great, not this you, and you suck and you think you're so hot, back to the fake tits and blah, whose business are your tits?

44:06yeah you're maybe in the mix a little bit maybe a little bit in the mix depends on what era we're in i'm totally pulling that clip out of context go ahead you know like whose business is it how you know and by the way this is why i don't tell people how to raise their child i talk about parenting as a macro theme as someone who's receiving 10 to 50 000 dms a month from people that are struggling who are saying the same themes, which is mommy and daddy are over coddling me. It's all the same theme. So the kid is DMing you? Oh, you want the weirdest one? Yeah. One of the biggest breakthroughs of my life was when I started really talking about this six, seven years ago, I was getting DMs from rich kids blaming their parents for paying for their life.

44:50And I was like, yes. And I was like, my first reply ever, literally I didn't understand. They're like, Gary, I'm super depressed. You know, I read my DMs. super depressed. Let me tell you about me. My parents pay for everything. I'm 25. I live in LA. I remember like yesterday. They just bought me a brand new BMW and I'm deeply depressed. And it keeps going and I don't remember the rest but it ends with and all of this just shows me that they don't think I'm capable. They think I'm a loser. So it's a dog whistle from the parent saying that you're not capable and that's the self-esteem. That's interesting to me.

45:30To me too. It blew me away. Then the next part was funny. I said, I literally read this thing and I kind of like am shook because I'd never heard it. I didn't know what rich kids were dealing with kind of. And I replied, I think I can help. And this person replies, oh my God, please Gary, what should I do? And I replied, stop taking the money.

45:59And that's when the convo got interesting. This was like a fucking two hour DM back and forth. One of the few times I've ever done this. And literally for an hour and a half over fucking Indiana and Michigan and on my way home from the west coast. I convinced this person to call their father and give back everything. But most kids want to shit on their parents and do nothing about it. and I think it's you know on this show I've talked about this where I actually have a little bit of empathy and sympathy for people that are rich kids that are put in that situation because they don't actively make that choice their parent does for them yeah but when you're when you're 7 and 9 and 13 you're right but when you're 22 friends everybody who's listening if you're in a great situation financially where your parents have this situation if it's bothering you, you do have control.

46:56And I agree with you. I understand that you're conditioned to fucking have caviar on Sunday brunch. But you don't need caviar. Unless you're Russian like me, you do need caviar. The victim mentality. That's it. Why is it everyone's fault by yours? Literally everything that's wrong in my life is my fault. And it makes me happy as fuck. Well because then you can do something about it. Yes. Because then it powers with you. Correct. It's always somebody else's fault that puts you in a couple of positions. This is why everyone's so upset right now they think a politician's in charge. Like I don't get this everyone's wah-wah.

47:34Everyone's wah-wah. You know we moved from California to Texas and it's not. That's right. We just said okay. Oh and people had all sorts of judgment on you guys early on because you were a little early and then everyone's like you're pioneers. You went from shit faces to pioneers. And by the way and then it goes back and forth. Correct. And by the way And by the way, you may go back to California. Probably not, but I like being closer here. No, no, you'll appreciate what I'm about to say. Probably not because you're viewing it what it is today. What if the state of California changes three policies in the next 18 years that you like?

48:06And you might be like, wait a minute. By the way, on the record, LA has many things better than Austin. Oh, yeah. And if three or four things that matter to you change, maybe you will. We're gonna move next door to you with Mona. Well, that'd be lovely. And New York. New York City's the best. Better than... New York has better things than everything. New York's the fucking best city in the world. Let there be no confusion. I've been slowly moving more. Okay, so let me go back to what I was asking you. When somebody comes to you, you manage a lot of people, and their output is not matching what they actually are going to then, but they're entitled, and they say, Gary, I'm working with you.

48:43I've been here for a year or two. I tell them that, unfortunately, I'm making a subjective opinion. You might be right. This is very powerful. This has really worked for me because I actually believe this. This may really help a lot of bosses. I say, let's just have the convo. Hey, unfortunately, brother, I have to make a subjective choice here because it's my company. And subjectively, I don't agree with you. And not because I want to suppress you and not make money. You can go talk to other employees who've gotten raises. Just subjectively, I don't think you're up to snuff. Like, your content doesn't get views.

49:14Like, you come in at 9.13 when everyone's here at 9. Like, you kind of mope around when, like, someone else does well on a post. and your post doesn't. You're not really living it and so I don't think we're there yet. But good news, you know me, I'm Gary, I'm a good dude. Maybe this isn't the right spot and I will try to help you get a spot that's better for you or you can subjectively agree with me now because you can tell that you're not tricking me because I just gave you three examples. And let's maybe work on it together and see if we can rectify this in the next six months and if not, let's figure out a great spot for you.

49:47It's interesting to me how much you're paying attention. When you say you get here at 913 and you have 8 million employees, that's interesting to me. People think you're not paying attention because you're so busy and you've got so much going on. I wish you could interview all my employees. It literally freaks some, like some of my employees literally think I have a spy network. I'm very intuitive. Like my intuition is my great gift. Actually, let's speak about that. This would be really good. I know a lot of ladies listening to this are gonna really find this interesting. Ladies, you know how like in the last decade we've really started talking about gut health?

50:25Really big topic, thank God. And men too, I mean many, but like gut health has become a big conversation. We're starting to get more educated on gut health as like a primary driver of your overall health. I have a wild one that I really hope I live to watch this clip because the world figured it out. I'm completely commenced intuitively that your intuition in your gut is your primary brain and your brain is your secondary brain. And I don't think the world knows that. And I think there's something big, big there. And I wish it was a fucking - Intuition is coming from your gut, which is actually guiding you, not your brain.

51:03That's right. But he's saying the first indicator of whether something's off or on or good or bad. What did I get called the other day on the podcast, Michael, Gary might be it too. What did I get called? I mean, you called him. No, the pro-lific. Oh, no, no, no, no. She keeps trying, you're not a prophet. No, what is it called? She is. No, she wants to be a prophet. What's it called? Prophetic? Prophetic. Yeah, you both have that. Yeah, intuition. And I think the people that are willing to lean into it, I think a lot of people listening have talked themselves out of it. And you know what sucks is when you go against your intuition and it doesn't work out, it hurts triple.

51:35Because you're near. Yeah, and so for me, and for me. Wow, say that again. Uh-huh. The number one thing that really fucks with people is where they used someone else's opinion that they trust or logic to make a decision versus their intuition that was really going off. So then when it fails, you're like devastated because you're really mad at yourself for not listening, which is why I only listen to my intuition. Oftentimes it's not worked out, but it feels nice because I died on my own sword. It's much more fun to die on your own sword than someone else's sword. And a lot of the times it does work out and your intuition, spidery, senses, antenna is 100 % right.

52:15Most of the time. I'm just saying a lot of times it didn't because there's something you didn't see, you're on Twitter, like something else was a variable. You might have actually been right but it ended up being wrong. Like things happen but, uh-huh. One of my favorite things that you've ever talked about and I forgot where it was, I think on Instagram, but you said that when people say social media is negative, open up your feed, open up your content page and look at your content, you have created that. and I'm not saying it as eloquent as you said it. Can you talk to our audience about that?

52:48Every one of you that thinks social media is bad or that the algorithms are manipulating you, I want you to open your phone and go to TikTok or Instagram right now and go to search. Go to the search function. In search, I want you to do this. Literally pause the podcast right now. Get yourself situated. Yeah, do this. This is fun. This is nice. Do it. Friends, feel free to jump in. So go to search. So I go here. Yep. You're on search? Yeah. I really want you to do this. This is really important. Thank you, everyone. I want you to search. You're in search? Yep. Type in kittens. Okay? Got it? Okay.

53:22I need you to like four posts. Right now. I mean it. Please. Like four posts. You know, when Ozzy Osbourne passed away, I was watching like a million things because I love Black Sabbath. Yeah. My whole feed for works was Black Sabbath. Please help me here. Four posts. Brother. I don't care. I need... You're changing my algorithm. So cute. All right, now back out. Okay. I want you to type in love. Everybody who's listening to this podcast, I need you to do this. This is real. If you really believe that social media is the devil or the algorithm's against you or things are bad, I really need you to like, this one's important.

54:01Are you typing in love? Yeah, Michael's faking it. I can see he's faking it. I did it. All right, I need you to like, please everyone, follow this. I need you to like three posts and I know this one will hurt a lot of you. I know this will hurt a lot of you but I need you to follow one of those accounts in the love read. I know a lot of people are very precious about who they follow. This is gonna fuck people up but I need you to do it. Please just pick one. Michael, go follow Louise Hay affirmation. Oh, I don't know if I wanna follow that one that popped up at the top. What? It was Diddy though.

54:32Yeah. Yeah, it happens. It happens. Listen, he might be like, you know, learning a lot of things in his new sitch. Michael, follow Louise Hay affirmation. All right, back out everyone. Back out. This is very important. This is actually profound. This might be, Lauren, I really mean this. This might be the thing that we're most stopped in public about this segment right now. Now I need you to put sunshine. Okay. Sun shine. Sunshine. Okay. It is nice. Five likes. I need it. I need click into the grid. Pick which ones you like. Like it. Like it. All right, I don't want to eat up the entire podcast, but 15 minutes of this.

55:16Actually, let's do the last one. This is probably the most important one you'll ever do in your life. Ready? Need everybody to type in Gary Vee. I need you to like four posts. My friends. By the way, you're all over my algorithm, so that's good. Because it's all positive. So friends, this is super important. I believe a lot of you have done this just now. I really think a lot of people did it. I think a lot of you will continue and put, you know, hiking and things you like cooking. You know, Mona has really, in the last couple years, realized how much joy she gets from cooking. So like cooking, like, you know, sports highlights.

55:59Now we can go a little bit less deep. You can add sports highlights, fashion. I'm telling you, within 30 seconds, like tomorrow, if you really do 15 minutes of what I just said, you will, and close your phone, tomorrow morning your feed's different. Your feed is not changing you. The platforms are not manipulating you. They're exposing who you are. Your feed is a reflection of who you are. Our producer Taylor's feed is all buttholes. Buttholes? It's all buttholes. It's all big booty. And this is how I knew your theory was right because I asked him to go on his feed. He said show us your algorithm.

56:34I was complaining about social media and I said pull it up and all of it was twerking battle. And I'm like, well, this is a reflection. Sounds like he should be loving social media. Why is he upset? No, he loves no kids. Ariel, wait until you see his feed. Everything he said was gonna be great. We just did this dinner. He's like, he likes big butts. And he can't lie. He can't. Yeah. The algorithm doesn't let you lie. Gotta make that song. Go ahead. Adam, the head of Instagram, and he was talking about this, and he said, the algorithm is an interest-based algorithm. It follows your personal interest.

57:10Friends, social media doesn't exist anymore. I've been saying this for a couple months now. We are in the ear of interest media. You're not getting content from who you follow. You're getting content of the things you like. And remember when I said you were in control? People were like, Gary, you don't get it, though. It's addicting. Endorphins, they fucking got the system. I'm like, motherfucker, I just told you how to fix it in three minutes. What are you fucking talking about? We've given up our control completely to the algorithm, to Instagram, to TikTok. The fuck are you guys talking about?

57:41Bunch of fucking crying, wah-wah bitches who don't want to take accountability for their actual life. Don't blame people. You're the one that likes buttholes. I'm gonna pull that whole clip in just one segment. That's gonna be the opener of this. Brother, that's it, man. I don't understand. Can this podcast please, for thousands of you, be the moment where you realize it's two thumbs in? It's fucking two thumbs in, it's you. Okay, you don't get it, my boyfriend. Break up. If your boyfriend's a fucking delusionally negative fucking loser, break up.

58:25up or if like if you like if you like hooking up with him so much because he's the most handsome dude then realize you're choosing dick over happiness I don't know and by the way you're allowed for a couple of months but just get out of there eventually like I don't know like no judgment but like don't blame and don't choose dick over happiness is it's not worth it? Get a five-year. This was not on my note card. Or choose it for like one week. Yeah. Like again. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Life is not like locked in forever. And like I don't know. Like accountability is the most addicting word to me.

59:08I'm obsessed with accountability. I would inject accountability into my lips. No, I mean like I said, What we appreciate for such a long time about you is, and whether the message when you hear it sometimes for the first time might be like, whoa, whoa, it's like a cold splash of water in your face. But what you're saying is basically like, you have as an individual the power to dictate the outcome of your life. End of story. I watch politicians right now say, you're not capable, you're not capable. You need to be scared of this, you need to be scared of this. You're not capable, you need to be scared of this.

59:43You're not capable, you need to be scared of this. and I can help you. I live a life of here is all this good information. Here's how you make money. Here's how you get happy. Here's how you make money. Here's how you can make happiness. Happiness, money. Happiness, money. Happiness, money. And then I finish with saying I can't help you. You can help you. The end. That right there is what's going on. And by the way, I'm not special. There are other people like me. and I implore people that are listening right now to find those people and stop consuming the other people. Mic drop, Gary Vee. Third time on the show.

1:00:26Always a charm. This one was a lot of range, Gary. Yes, we definitely, you know. It's a lot of range. Yeah, yes, that was butthole, dick, tits. Like we definitely, it was a little bit of a sixth grade show. I don't know if you're promoting anything right now but I'm gonna call you out and say that I actually read your book to my kids. And they love it. Meet me in the middle. Yes, and there's two different sides. Yes. And I love how it switches over. Yeah, I think for all the moms, if you go to veefriends.com slash cartoons, this whole theme, you know, I can sit and talk about it or I can do something about it.

1:01:03Four years ago, I decided that I was not only the byproduct of a great mom, Jersey, immigration, entrepreneurship, the American dream, but I was also the byproduct of kids' television that was pushing good agenda. I used to watch He-Man and it was super cool and at the end, all 80s boys stand up on this one. Remember this? You'd watch He-Man, it was cool. It wasn't virtue signaling. Like it was like, beat the Skeletor and like cool shit. and then at the end, He-Man would show up on the screen at the end of the cartoon as Adam, which is who he was before He-Man and be like, hey kids, don't forget, be nice to your sister.

1:01:45I was like, oh fuck, He-Man told me to be nice to my sister. I'm like, Liz, get over here. You're the best. So five years ago, I started VFriends. We have 20 cartoons right now on YouTube Kids. If you have kids between three and eight, I could not recommend it more. VeeFriends.com slash cartoons. Please put it on, guys. and by the way I've really built this IP so it's 250 characters it's my Pokemon meets Marvel meets Sesame Street but you'll like this I really made two of the girl characters like the alphas of the whole world the fearless fairy and the ambitious angel are two of like the five most important characters but also the competitive clown so like my cartoons and parents please watch the cartoons you're gonna laugh the cartoons for the kids but it's also poking at you guys.

1:02:35Some of the stuff we talk, like when you watch the cartoon, it's a little bit like, yeah, I'm like, eighth place trophies lead to suicidal thoughts. Not really. But it's like, I'm really poking at it. I'm like really poking at it. So I think it's fun for parents to watch. I did, you know what's funny? I didn't, but AI, Sora 2, I don't know if you guys know what Sora 2 is. So everybody needs to download Sora 2. It's open AI's TikTok where all the content is AI. Watch this. So you'll love this. Eight, eight.

1:03:10You think ice will ever slow me down? You don't know your boy. So literally I just typed. That's not you. This one's even better. The sun feels like it's trying to cook. Everything in you wants to run for the nearest iceberg. But if you only play in the cold, you never build the tolerance for the heat that's coming anyway. When you charge streams. This is me. I literally, oh they see it. The sun feels like it's trying to cook. No, no, they know. Like, it's early, but the fact that it's already that good, where's it gonna be in two years? That was me typing, Gary Vee motivating penguins to not be scared of the sun.

1:03:42Enter. And that was made. With Sora. With Sora 2. So you used your voice from Sora for the cartoon? So where I was going is, there's a character in Vee Friends called Gary Vee. Okay. B-E-E. And I'm gonna be the voice of him. Is it a bee? It's a bee. Yes. That's genius that you have a cartoon. I think that's so smart. You ever need some cameo voices? Yeah, can I do a cameo? Yeah, for sure. Can I be like, like, ambitious angel or one of the characters that's alpha? Yes, you can. Can I actually? Yes. I will do it for free. You will do it for free. No, you're not, not we. She's in. You need to, you need to audition.

1:04:23I want to be, I know, I want to be, I want to be, what's the character I want? Humble hedgehog. No. No, no, no. No? What about Helpful Hippo? I'll be Helpful Hippo. Helpful Hippo. I'll be Helpful Hippo. All right, Jerry. Anyway, love you guys. I gotta run. Thank you so much. Everybody, if you enjoyed this podcast, please go back and look at the prior episodes. They're loaded. I appreciate your attention and thanks for being part of this journey. See you later.