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It's all right. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of Busting with the Boys. This is episode two sixty four and we're too sixty four five, two sixty five. Our guest today is gonna be Gary Vee. But you guys know the deal, especially if you're Tier ones. We're gonna sit, we're gonna talk, we're gonna chat, have a nice time with each other.
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get there, just like I am today. Boy it's Monday, you're viewing this on Tuesday, and I'm I'm an electrostack to have you. Before we started the show, I had Mitch. I made him pop on machine gun Kelly's newest single just let Me Go, Don't Let Me Go, Don't Let Me Go now sad Boys song, And I gave you guys my whole spiel about Machine Gun Kelly and our two interactions. It was like ying yang one was great, one not so great, but not that way. It was
flipped the other way around. I love this man's music. I think it's absolutely incredible. I had the opportunity to tell him his album we put out tickets to My Downfall was the best album I've heard since two thousand and three Obliquent, a two self titled album. So with that being said, you guys get a chance to go check that out, because no, no free shadows. But you know, the boy's gonna tell you what he likes, and that's what I That's what I like, dude. So if you
don't like that, too bad, you're watching the show. That's what I like. Oh what else is going on? Cam Newton? You want to pop that video for me real quick, jackie, because I seen a couple of things. The big news. The big news about Cam Newton right now is, first off, anybody who's seen him in person looks like a damn action figure. He goes to he's in what he's ad a youth football camp or something like that, some sort of camp seven on seven camp, the softest version of
football you could possibly be a part of. A couple of hardos want to go in the paint with Cam Newton. Now, thank god for the roots coming out of his hat, because truly, when you watch it at first glance, Yo, that man's really handling himself a bunch of a couple of boys around there, which is nice. But then you start to notice the details and you see that this dude with the flat brim hat ripping around getting pulled away by people. He's literally reaching to take somebody out
and his hat hasn't even moved. Now that tells me two things. One the dreads really help keep the hat on, and the second thing, maybe there's not enough circulation to his cranium because we've all had a hat on that was one snap too tight. Mitch, you definitely know about that. It's hard, it hurts, right, it's a bit of a deal. No, it's not comfortable. But du shadow Cam Newton, man, because I don't know what you know happened for this to happen.
I don't know what series of events took place for this man to get in a fight with what looks like kids young adults. I don't know, but they must have done something real bad to pis him off, because Cam Newton's constantly in the light and for you to switch up like that in a hurry, you need to do something in a big way. Did you guys see the video?
Yeah?
Would you boys think about it? Cam Newton Big Dub or Big.
L Big Dub.
Yeah.
I mean it's like four guys on one Hell, I want to know how old these kids are though? If they look little, yeah, I mean Cam Newton's also like six six and like, you know, a huge man.
So he makes anybody the way you said man just now. I mean he's a big boy.
Here's a big boy.
He's definitely not fighting like youth teens. I think these are like probably parents of of kids.
Yeah, I could see that. I definitely see that.
We're all talking about his hat not coming off. You can see the hat looks custom made to where his dreads were cut.
Through the of it. Yeah, it's held on pretty tight.
It's like groot with style. Dude, I like that. It's a nice deal mixed.
Would you think I think it's one insane for Cam to even be attacked like that. Yeah, but like I mean, he he wasn't even like throwing any punches or anything. He was just like throwing people off of him, right, Those people.
Were flying, you know what he was doing. He's a big boy.
Yeah, becoming Superman, bro, Yeah, he's becoming super massive.
Yeah.
He's a dude. He's a big cat. Beautiful calves on him, Beautiful calves. When you're doing NCAA fourteen Creative Player and you're just putting ninety nine on everything and the dude's like two forty the Legit just made Cam Newton, except my dude was always white because I thought we had to beat the odds even on this game. You know, Okay, sometimes I make a black dude. Sometimes I crush the black dude. Get a little light skinned guy in there.
What else, dude, what happened this weekend? You know what else happened this weekend? The boy Shane Gillis, The boy Shane Gillis did SNL.
Now.
I was at Ernest as how before this whole thing started, and I thought it came on at seven o'clock Eastern, six o'clock Central, him and his wife and their kid. They want to go to dinner, So I'm like kind of low key, being rude, rushing everybody through dinner, because I truly want to see this monologue, because I think to myself, Norm m MacDonald nor McDonald, if there are those of you who don't know, he was on the cast of SNL. He did the weekend Report and then
was fired, and he has this incredible monologue. I believe it was October twenty third, nineteen ninety nine. The reason why I know that I looked it up last night. His monologue is essentially shitting on SNL the entire time he's on SNL because he was fired for not being funny. But a year and a half later he's asked to host the show. So is it because he's not funny
or because the show actually sucks? And he finishes with the patented line that's supposed to be, hey, we have a great show for you tonight, but he says, hey, we have a bad show for you tonight, so stick around, and he goes at the entire cast and everything. I was on the phone with Ernest after after the whole thing yesterday, and he had a great point, He's like, he probably studied that monolog because what an incredible situation it is for Shane Gillis to truly have the ascent
he has had. And I know people come at us all the time about hey, get off, Yeah you glazing hard on the boy, get off. Shane's nutsta da da da dah. Like, listen, if you're able to have a homie that crushes life, you should be able to give flowers to the homie. Now, Shane is an absolute or past five minutes, He's an absolute fucking stud everything. The guy that you see on the stage doing his thing with the little destrung shoulders and all that, that's him,
one hundred. He's the funniest guy in the room at all times. He's the one of the wittiest people I ever met. And he came on that stage and what he didn't do is change himself, And I think that is the coolest fucking thing. Did you guys see the monologue, by the way, Yeah, yeah, he didn't change himself. Dude laid down three gays one retard and said cracker on live TV, like and then congratulated himself during his monologue.
Is that yeah? I said cracker like that is. And that's the thing too, is This is another point that Ernest brought up. You know, I keep bringing him up because these aren't my original thoughts. These are just things that I also agree with, Like SNL itself, the show it is now, it's been on for forty nine seasons, is an iconic show, like everybody loves SNL or the idea, the concept of SNL. If you're a writer or comedian, I'm sure, I'm sure at one point your goal was
to get an SNL. But the show is bad now, It's not as good as it used to be. It's gotta be incredibly tiring for writers every single week come up with new material. We're gonna pack an hour of comedy with you know, a small break for commercials and are singing guests, but we have to put five to six skits alive that are many people laugh. Lean's super show that Lean's super Left and Lauren Michaels, who's been
a part of this thing for the entire time. He can't go to Shane Gillis and he can't ask, Hey, Shane, I need you to be yourself. I need you to use your type of bravado the entire time. He just has to get Shane and bring him in and hope he doesn't change anything about himself, which Shane absolutely delivered. I'm sure if you look up the numbers of the views, I bet you that was one of the most highest viewed SNL shows of all time. And what does that
tell us. It tells us that comedy is a place that is sacred to being able to say whatever the fuck you want. It should be the only place in
the world. Not the only place in the world. I'm gonna take that back real quick, but it should be one of the places that, regardless of what you say, how you deliver it, is the only thing that matters this man in this world we live in where you know, we're not gonna get into all that stuff, but where the world we're living in now says the word gay three times, you remembering your mom's gay little boy, huh, your gay best friend, all that, and then talks about
his cousin who has down syndrome and says the word retard, and then hits us with a cracker after that, and then makes a block joke in between. That is the reason why Shane Gillis is gonna be on the Mount Rushmore someday of comedy. He refuses to change who he is. If you look at back to this is the best part. And I hope you zoom in on this Mitch during
the show. If you're watching on YouTube, there's a girl with red hair in the back and she if you watch the entire eight minute monologue, she does not change your facial expression. She's livid the entire time. She's mad that this hot man is on the stage preaching. Now you can tell this is my favorite part about the entire monologue. You could tell Shane was nervous. It was
really you could tell he was breathing heavy. I don't know if he had to walk up some stairs before walking down those three stairs, but he was breathing heavy as if he went through some stairs and he was feeling it out because he's now doing something in the public eye that he knows he has viewers that do not watch his shit, and he's got to essentially make you laugh while still being himself. So let's give a
round of aposter. Shane Gillis soon like to me, that was one of the coolest things you could ever do. One of the coolest things ever is host essen L. But we all think back to like the Sandler days and the Blue she days and the Farley days and all like all those times like when we were growing up that type of SNL. Now the only guy I know from SNL is the white dude and the black dude who do Weekend Report and Keenan Allen those guys to me, and then all the other guys are is
that his name? Wait? Now there's Keenan Kel. What oh so, Keenan. What's the other dude's name? What's his name? We guy him thinking of Keenan Thompson, which was from Keenan and Kel. You guys remember that hell of a shower?
Hey, welcome to.
The Good Burger? Can't I take your order?
That?
He's very funny to me, But I don't know the rest of the cast. And I was a kid too that would sit down Saturday nights excited to watch sn L, excited to watch the skits. That's something I always loved, the Mad TVs and the comedy centrals. That's what that was on at my house. So it was very cool to see one of your friends go and fucking kill it like that.
Dude.
Gotta love do you bos have anything to say about Shane and SNL. Do you guys watch it? Yeah, I already asked you that question. What'd you think?
Yeah? I mean it was good. I thought his monologue was really good.
I think the skits are just they were trying too hard to force the Trump stuff. It's always political or religious and it's like, we not just have fun anymore.
Hey, can the boys just have a little fun out here?
A little fun?
I still think there was funny parts of the skits, but the monologue obviously was There's some shock value in it, and I think obviously Shane did exactly what people wanted him to do. So yeah, congrats to him for getting on there. I'm sure it was so nerve wracking, cough to be on that stage and who knows, man, but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the monologue. It was just it was classic Shane, classic Shane, just just going at his family the whole time, going at his.
Family and doing that. It nicked me.
It nicked me.
I thought that Trump one was good. I thought the sneaker thing was hilarious because you obviously Shane does a great Trump impresona impersonation. But I think they did a good job of doing the Trump thing and then at the end of it doing like making fun of Biden as well. Yeah, like that's that to me is where I think we fall We fall off a little bit when it comes to like SNL in general. Right, it's really hard coming at the right and then not so much jokes to the left. But I enjoy I enjoyed
when people make fun of people. I like it. I don't like it so much when it's on me. But you eat it and you keep moving forward. Look for your opportunity to tell me somebody real quick. But yeah, dude, I was I was stoked for that.
That.
Uh, that absolutely fired me up. The U I tell you boys, my my kid. I taught my kid the batmobile and the rubber band. Have you seen that? You guys used to do that when you were a kid. Seat the rubber band three fingers, two fingers? You ever did that? I feel like that'd be a staple. Dude, you that that's the first step. The next step is tech dex and then your pants are halfway down your ass with the studded belt.
What is I'm confused on what the rubber band thing is?
So if you take a rubber band, you put like a robband over the three fingers, and then you take your two fingers go through one side rubber band and over and then Bennett, oh, it turns into a Batman batmobile type of thing that.
You were talking about, like the whole just like getting your boys with rubber bands when you just like smack.
Oh no, that ship. I would not do that to my six year old to learn. Yeah, Wind's gotta learn quick, dude. We do have a sing in our house. Act like a bitch, get treated like a bitch. That is a saying in the Luwan household. Our kids haven't heard that yet, but my wife and I we definitely explain that to each other.
But it's cool.
Uh, when's definitely at that age right now, dude, where she's she's acting some type of way like she's trying to find the line of being a little bit rude and that that pisses me off because.
She's got testing dude, she and she does.
Yeah, But I'm finding it's cool part because I'm finding my lane as a father, Like I used to think I'll be the fun dad and I'll be this and that when it's playtime between me and Taylor. I dumb mean Tayling in the fun the fun category, I absolutely murder her like I'm out there. My kids are like Daddy, pretend this. I'm pretending I'm not right then and there. But on the other hand, when it comes to discipline, Tailor is not as hard on them as I am.
And I found myself in the good like I'm a good, solid, grumpy dad. Now I do. I do a great job of finding some grump in me. And my kids are starting to look at the look when they're not listening to mom and I get one of these. They just know, right then and there, I gotta go do what I was supposed to do. So I had to have a big talk with Win this week because she was It was a full moon outside on Saturday. I don't know if you guys saw that, but they were out there
damn near Howland Bro. They were going crazy on the whole thing. It was a bit of a deal man. It truly was kids, ma'am, and just it's never stops. So when you two have kids, just make sure you're ready because there is no downtime. There's no chill, boy, there's no time for Michi to go make his crackers, peanut butter and jelly. That there's no time to leave work at noon on a Friday to go work out. Well, actually that that time will still be there because you'll be at work.
Do we want to get down this road? You're just having fun, dude, I know, I know, I I would. You need to look at my contract?
Oh is your contracts say I get to work out at noon on Fridays.
No, it says that I'm in the shop four days a week, when I'm here five days a week every week. So I mean if you were, if you were on the business side of it's required.
Yeah, is required. The people that are listening now, If you're here for Gary Ve, great, we'll get to him in about thirty minutes. But I want you guys to know that without you guys subscribing, unsubscribing, and resubscribing, sending it to your friends, commenting all that stuff, we're nothing. We're absolutely nothing. We're just one big dumb idiot and his other big dumb idiot spewing bullshit into a microphone while nobody watches. Without you, guys were nothing. So Jack,
thank you for coming in five days a week. I guess, brother, I appreciate that you're never off. We're never off.
We're never off. What do you mean you take plenty off?
What do I take off? Do you think I just go home and I fuck around. I don't think about this at all.
I don't know.
I'm not there answering emails. Dude, I got a computer. Now, I got a computer. You guys know what I might have coming up the pipe. We don't want to say on the show.
What's that?
How many computers have you had? Is that the second third?
That's my third computer in twenty four months. But that's not a bad number, right, Like? How long have you had your computer?
I still have the same computer from college.
I'd hate to see the search history on that.
Yeah, but I mean I still have it. I haven't lost it, and I have the one that you y'all gave us and don't lose my stuff.
I uh, Jack, Colin, have you had your computer?
I got a new one I think two years ago, but that's my personal computer, and then I've had this one for I don't know, probably the same amount of time.
I think I got this one after I got my personal one.
What's the point of having two computers.
I bought my own computer, and then we started getting paid here, and then I got this one. So this one, this one came back I think six months afterwards to we're computer personally?
Did I did I pay for that computer?
No?
I don't think so, Bustin. Yeah, yeah, okay, I mean I guess in a way, maybe you did. Absolutely may probably will more than you.
No.
I mean, well, and I get paid the same. I know every dollar that we spend we don't make. I don't know it might be for half of that. Yeah, maybe I'll be paid for half of that computer.
Yeah, are we getting that right here?
Nothing, dude, Yeah, filibustering my own podcast right now, I'm doing. I'm just trying to have a good time. Should we hit a twisted question?
We don't technically have one in the reads, but I think it's so fun.
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Mitch, all right, this is one that we were kind of talking about in the office. I don't know if you were here for it, but it's kind of like a I don't know how to describe it.
Say so, the question is.
You're doing great so far.
By the way, say your.
Kid gets kidnapped and the only way to get them back is to kidnap somebody else's kid.
Yes, but you never give the other person's kid back.
Done.
I get my kid back, though, You get your kid back, absolutely, that is the easiest. Taylor. Do you want your child back?
Yes?
Would you do anything to have your child? I'll ruin another family's life to preserve mine. Yeah, do another one. And some of you think I'm a bad guy for that you guys don't have kids or you hate your kids. My kids rip other than on my kids, well, other than when it's a full moon. Would you change that? Jack?
No, I don't even have kids.
No.
If I had a kid, I'm one doing anything in my power to give my kid back.
But you you have a dog that you love, right, Like, that's like.
Dealing with a dog. I would I would steal someone else's doggy my dogs.
Do you steal somebody else's kid? Probably good, that's a guy with good morals.
Along the same lines, what crime would you commit to? Like, if you committed this crime, then it could never happen again, like in all of humanity.
Yeah, that's that's a good one. But you have to commit the crime yourself. Yes, okay, my first thought is murder.
Wait, so the question is you commit the crime, and it's.
It will never happen again once you commit the crime, like.
For anyone in existence.
You're like, you get to do like one small bad thing to clear like a bunch of right.
Like, it's like if you like, you tell it, if you you have to murder somebody and then murder would never happen again.
Yeah, for everybody, everybody ever, so essentially I fall on the grenade of whatever the thing is. And this is the answer because a lot of people are like, oh, I don't know, because what if I I have to do this, then think of the worst thing, the worst crime ever, the thing that affects people the most. I don't have that answer. That's what I'm doing. That's what I'm gonna do, and it's gonna I'm gonna look like
a terrible person. But it's kind of like one of those do you take one person out to save one hundred, you know what I'm saying, the railroad dilemma. Yes, if I I don't want to say what the crime is, but we can all use our imagination on what the worst possible crime is. Right met you thinking about one? Say it out loud. Say it out loud, Mitch Jack, say something bad. What worst crime you could possibly think of? Sex trafficking? I would sex traffic. Don't clip that, don't
clip that, but just listen hear me out, dude. Yes, it's a horrible thing. And that is the reason why how many times Super Bowl is a big one. Every super that's like the biggest time of the year for sex trafficking. If I commit one sex traffic, just one, and I know it's terrible because I've ruined that person's life. I'm now viewed as one of the worst people that's ever lived in the entire world. It never happens again ever, So I'm a hero.
But it's like one of those things. Is it known that it will never happen again? Or is it just it just like it's not like a said thing like Taylor committed this crime, therefore it'll never happen again.
It's just one of those things that just never happened.
Right, I just know it never happens again. I never get the credit for obviously stopping sex trafficking.
So you wouldn't necessarily be a hero. You'd be a hero, I would know.
But isn't that what it's being a hero is all about? Huh? If you live for the cheers, you're gonna die by the booze. For me, If I know I could stop sex trafficking, and all I have to do is commit it, which sucks. Right, We've already identified that it sucks really bad. We hate that. If I commit that, I'm gonna go to jail and I'll be murdered very quickly. Right, So my pain and suffering will be out, but it will never be sex trafficking again. All the kids, all the girls.
I'm gonna save. I might be the best dude ever. Would you guys change anything? It was a good speech, right.
Yeah, it was a great speech.
Yeah, would you What would you do? Mitch?
I feel like you said super Bowl and what immediately popped in my head was the like mass shooting that would m I mean just thinking about.
It, Yeah, you'd have to go mow down some cats.
Huh, that would be terrible.
But like the fact that it's there's it's happening more than we actually know. So, like, I think that's a bit ridiculous. So I think that would be something I would maybe.
But here's a good thing on this bus right now. Sex trafficking has gone forever, and mass shootings forever. Jack, what's the final what's the final ring? The final stone?
Umm, I'm gonna ode for the boys? Oh shit, yeah, no more, no more drug problems.
But I think you're to be committing well, you commit the crime.
Crime, so you just od I guess.
So, I mean, if it's gonna save the I mean, it's the biggest epidemic right now in America is the opioid crisis.
So yeah, yeah, I.
Mean there's a lot of answers you can do. I just don't feel comfortable saying.
Most of them right right. But I'm glad you guys said mine. Yeah, I'm glad you guy said mine. Do you want me to say one for you for me? Yeah? Do you want to stay one for you? Go ahead, start with the C is the first word. Second word is an R.
You know what I'm saying?
Oh my god, what was that back there? I don't want to say it. I don't want to say I feel too uncomfortable saying it.
Grape.
Oh as you said C.
Yeah, the first words of C.
Oh.
Yeah, you're not gonna do that.
No, I mean, I just let's I don't want to even we're not.
Having fun anymore. We're not having fun anymore. What this podcast is about. We got to have a good time. So let's just rewind that back. We're not gonna cut it, but we're gonna pretend like it never existed. Your boy over here doing what he's doing. You guys said it. If you didn't hear it, don't rewind it because I don't want to repeat it matches shooting everybody and Jack is oh dean. I feel like Jackie got out the easiest.
But I'm also saving probably the most lives.
Yeah, I know, I am, you know you are. You know you're saving the most lives.
And taking illegal drugs unless you're an organ.
Yeah. Yeah, I feel like that's a cop out.
Right.
It's illegal to take drugs that are now prescribed.
But you have to be arrested for it.
You can be arrested and then OD.
Yeah, but you're dead, guy odd, put some cuffs on him, get some fingerprints.
I'm saving the most lives, so regardless of the biggest here or not.
Yeah, ok, now, on this bus, we don't condone drugs, right, No, no, we don't. But stick with me here. If Jack o DS and no one ever can o D again, we can all just start taking drugs.
Right, So I'm a hero to Mini Mini.
Well, dude's gonna start smoking some crystal meth and be like thank you McPherson. That's big, dude.
This question is really.
Not have if you think your answered Jack.
I think we're thinking too deep into this at this point.
Yeah, you're right, we we we good. We did a good job. Of switching up, going back to having a good time. That's what we wanted. Hit me with an ad Red real quick, dude, why I rethink about what I need to talk about next? I should really start writing.
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Yeah, you have. Those ads have been good.
Yeah, and it's gonna like the next ad I read is definitely gonna like fall apart.
That's a tough ad. Yeah, there's a lot of verbiage.
There's a lot of verbiage, and I'm glad you're recognizing that, Jack, that's just kind of I'm a words of affirmation guy, that's my love language. And for you to do something like that at a time like this, after what the conversation we just went through means quite a bit to me.
Brother.
What's not a little football for a second?
Dude?
Obviously it's like we're in a big dead period about football. Free agency's coming around the bend. One guy I want to talk about, specifically, the King, Dereck Henry. Where do we think Derek Henry is going to go? Because I have I know there's a lot of places stay in Baltimore, so take Baltimore out of it. There's two places in my mind that King Henry needs to go to. But do you guys want me to go? And then you guys give me an answer, you want what do you want to go? First?
I only have one in mind that I think he's probably the same as yours, and it's Dallas.
Dallas is one of them.
Yeah, I think, yeah, Buffalo.
Is a good one too, But I think they have Cook right. Is he a free agent now? Then you can then then maybe Derek's out on that. That would be a great thing for him to have. The thing that Derek is not. His favorite thing to do is zone. Read like, he doesn't like turning your shoulders away from the lat of scrimmage. She likes to get downhill. He likes the outside zone, the duos that doses the inside zone type stuff. So any kind of RPO is kind
of tough. And I feel like Buffalo utilizing Josh Allen has more of a difficult time just doing some downhill run game type stuff under center. Blah blah blah blah. But yeah, Dallas is one of them for me. First off, guy lives in Dallas in the off season. He having to start. Even if you're an Eagles fan, even if you're a Redskins fan or Commander's fan or a Giants fan, wearing the star in your head is one of the
coolest things you can do as aoble player. That brand that Jerry Jones has created is one of the most incredible things ever. But Tony Pollard, I don't know if he had a great year or whatever, but getting Dak Prescott opportunities to just hand the ball off once in a while and not put so much pressure on him automatically, he puts that team into the discussion they're always in Week eight a week nine of the season. Week eight
nine a season, we got dak Is an MVP. We got Cowboys winning the Super Bowl, this, that and the other. They have a great football team. I don't think McCarthy's a guy there. They should have put Mike Rabel there. But that's a conversation for a different time. If you bring Derrick Henry to the Dallas Cowboys, you have legit contenders there. That's what you have on the Dallas Cowboys, and all it takes is the piece of Dereck Henry. You have an outstanding offensive line. Tyron Smith is a
free agent, but he's getting older anyway. He's been the same contract for like fifteen years. It seems like he's still got a lot of fight left in him. I believe he'll go somewhere in play. But like we all get, look at my knee, Look at me, dude. You get old and you get out of it. Eventually you gonna find a little younger there. But Zach Martin still kicking, still crushing it, very strong, great jel, great continuity on
that offensive line. They got weapons on the outside and a quarterback that regardless of you know, some people's beliefs can sling the ball like no one's business. So you put Dereck Henry on there, dude, you gotta have him on there. If he goes there. I'm telling you, the Cowboys are making a big run at the playoffs in the NFC the next place. And this is me just thinking from the roots that I've been a fan of for a while. You see the shirt I'm wearing, twenty
twenty four Champs. These aren't even available at the shop, but we should do a day this week. You know what We're gonna do that this week. Wait for my tweet at Taylor l One seventy seven. These these shirts and the Michigan Championship clothing will be on sale for one hour that stored at barstool sports dot com slash Bustle with the Boys. That's where it's gonna be already, right.
Sure, they went right after they won, and.
They won, we went live. Then we took them down and not get c ind And then we put them up for an hour and took them back down and we didn't get c indeed. So I'll double check on that. If we're not c indeed right now, I'm gonna put these things out here at some point during the week for one hour, So keep a close watch on that if you're a Michigan fan. But that brings me in everything I'm about to say. The Los Angeles Chargers would
be an incredible place for Derrick Henry to go. Who's a new head coach, one of the Goats.
Horrorball?
What does he love to do? When they played Penn State in the second half, mitcheld knows, because you're a Penn State fan how many times they run the ball thirty times in a row. They did not register one pass in that game. We know there was a PI type of situation. We're not even to get into that. They love to run the ball, They love to impose
their will. The Chargers. You think of them, You think of Justin Herbert, you think of Keenan Allen, who we've already brought up once in this podcast on accident, and a bunch of the weapons they have, Mike Wallace, they want to throw the they want to be a high flying offense. What did I mess it up?
Williams?
Fuck dude, Mike Williams, excuse me, be there next season. That's okay, It doesn't change anything. About to say. They have been a team that throws the ball forty five fifty times a game and they hardly run the ball. They use Austin Eckler in a very good way. Obviously, he's a He's a back that can get out in open space and catch the ball. Very different from Derrick Henry.
He's a free agent this year. If you put Derek on that team with a left tackle that had I leave a bicep tear, but he's coming back with made a Pro Bowl in his rookie year, absolute stud offensive line that's gotten better and better each year. You put him there and you allow to take some of that pressure off Justin Herbert, which we already know he's a
generational type of talent. People love Justin Herbert. I haven't watched enough of his games to go play my flag on the ground and say this is the guy blah blah blah blah, but I know he's he's an absolute stud. I think he got a massive contract too, right boom. So that does everything you need to know right now. You put Dereck Henry on that team was with hardball to get with Herb that strength coach, he gets to have Jesse minter as the DC to get that defense
with all the stars on there to go up. We're talking about possible contenders in the year one. That's if the boys buy into Harball's unique personality. That's what I think. I think if you're able to get Harball to die, if you're able to believe in Harball and buy in the way the kids bought in at the University of Michigan and put your pride and said it's the side, and know, yeah, we're gonna do some cheesy shit sometimes
they who's got it better than not? That's not cheesy at all, but these very unique kind of isms that Harball has. If you can get past that and kind of just buy into his winning culture, Chargers, you guys could legit win it all. I'm a fan this year. I'm going to be a fan of the Chargers this year as well. Obviously I'll always be a Titans fan. I'll be a fan of the Charges this year too. It's another team that I'm picking. What do to think about that?
Yeah? I like Dallas.
I think Dallas would be my favorite landing spot for Derek. I think he could utilized their office. Tony Poller, So I think on his way out there.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's gonna be sad regardless. As a Titans fan.
I know, bro, I'm excited to see exactly where it goes and the longevity of it, Like does he go one more year somewhere and then hang him up?
Or is he in this for like another three season? Side thing?
And he saw the way he was talking, he saw the way he was talking on the bus.
I mean for him to go ten plus years? Was he on year nine right now?
Can he just finished year eight?
Yes, he's going to your nine.
Going to your nine if you make a decade is one of the you know, staple running backs in the NFL.
It's just it's insane.
Already a first ballot Hall of Famer. Yeah, absolutely, Now you obviously we haven't talked about the Titans at all. The chances of Derek going to the Titans is very small, like minute, but we've said it on his podcast. Dude, he's like six hundred yards away or something like that, a very achievable goal away for beating Eddie George's rushes with like one hundred less care already, what's that? He is more than a hundred less carrious he's got. I
mean I think he's got. He's got a hundred total touchdowns with his five touchdown passes and his three receiving touchdowns. But he has a chance to break and he's already the best running back in Titans Oilers franchise history. I said Oilers, Yes, I did history. But if he stays for one more year, it's truly cemented. There's no going back, no take back. Sea's on Derrick Henry. That's the kind of cat we're talking about here, and that to me is cool because I think legacy is a very cool thing.
And obviously Derek, regardless of what he does and where he goes, he's gonna have the same kind of treatment at a George has when he come when he's obviously he lives in Nashville, but when he goes back to the stadium, it's like one of the all time greats. Derrick Henry is one of the all time greats, regardless of how much longer he plays, in who he plays four.
But I just personally, and this is not if you're a young football player trying to learn the ins and outs of football, do not think like me, because I am an extremely and I say this as a it's a bad quality. I'm an extremely loyal cat to the franchise, like to the Titans. Like even if I could play football, which I cannot, I would have been like, I only want to play for the Titans. You put on one uniform for so long, you buy into something for so long.
I just wanted to be a part of that. So going somewhere else, although the idea is cool, Like, I mean, Jersey Jerr would always bring up, hey, go to the Steelers, go to the Steelers, Like, yeah, that would be sick to play for the Steelers. It'd be sick to play for Kansas City, It'd be sick to play for all these other teams. But something about the boys in the two tone blue man, the guys, the underdogs, the constant underdogs of the NFL. That's where I belong. That's where
I belong. Derek, he belongs to the highest bidder. That's what I mean. That's what he means. Yeah, I just don't sickening, dude, that would be sickening for Titans fans.
I mean, Stephen Nair did it, so, I mean really, yeah, it's it's very much a normal thing for Titans players. To follow the Ravens.
It's weird seeing him in like those all black unis. I think it would be so hard.
Yeah, I'll go home with the dark basing and everything too. They have dope ass uniforms. They have, They have dope uniforms. Baltimore would just suck to living.
Man.
I don't even know shit about Baltimore, but the times that I played there, driving through and it's like never a good area around the stadium in any place you play, but like, damn, I'll drive through that. I was like, give me a crap cake and get me out of here. Man, That's kind of what I want to do when I'm when I'm in Baltimore.
I remember when I went up for that second round playoff game when you guys beat the ship out of him, appreciate that. I was walking on Titan Jersey and I remember a cop stopped me and was like, hey, man, like welcome.
I hope you guys are fine. He's like, whatever you do all day, goes, do not cross those railroad tracks. He goes, don't do it.
He goes, there's a really big chance if you do that, you're not coming back.
And I was like, no.
Shit, I was like, all right, appreciate the heads up, but yeah, the bank is like smack dab in the middle of bad project areas.
Which kind of ads that right, kind of adds to that cool shit. Yeah, because the Ravens do have that type of attitude. Like I know people hate the Ravens in Nashville, Tennessee. I don't hate him like that. I just think I don't want to live in Baltimore. But I think like Lamar Jackson cool, Like, uh, who is a Humphries Marlon Humphries. He seems like a cool guy. They just see OBJ who I think is a free agent, but like they just seem like they have a cool squad.
Squad Ronnie Stanley, there's another dude that's on there that I think is like a cool guy from what I know about. I've talked to him a few times. But anyway, I think it'd be cool to.
Watch Justin Fields is gonna end up.
Part of me feels like he's gonna stay with it with the Bears.
You can you can bet on it hashtag DK partner hashag DK partner. He's like very good odds, like low odds to go to the Atlanta.
Atlanta would be a good stop for him. I mean, it's just tough because the guy has all the talent in the world. He just hasn't been able to put it together. Now is that coaching, is that development? Is that work ethic?
I don't know.
The guy seems like he owns the locker room when it comes to all the boys. The way his teammates talk about him. I have a hard time with Ohio State quarterbacks. We've only seen one guy with one year of experience that's really shown that they can get it done, and that's c J. Stroud.
I think Justin can do it. He just the Bears organization has they've been abysmal historically been a shitty organization. Yeah, historically, well since like the Safeties, but they just they haven't If you look at their quarterbacks the past twenty thirty years, like there there's nobody that really sticks out.
I mean they went to the Super Bowl with Rex Grossman, like yeah, he's like he's.
Not really anything crazy, But I think I think the organization did him wrong.
So you think he should leave. You think they're gonna take JJ McCarthy in the first overall pay and then they're gonna edge them.
I think they're gonna take Williams, but I think Justin Fields should get out.
If the Bears are going to move on from Fields, they need to trade him before. Obviously everybody already knows that. But the minute you pick somebody up in the first overall pick as a quarterback, that quarterback you had before, his trade value has gone in the dumps because they know you need to get rid of them. They know you do, and they'll just sit and wait because I think he's going to your four. Right, What are we talking about here?
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possibly could. So shout out DraftKings sportsbook hashtag DK partner. We want to hit a shout out, no free shout out. Mitchie starts off.
All right.
Last week I shout out hugs with your boys this week, shout out giving compliments to your boys, just hyping your boys up. I know sometimes Taylor walks in with his sunglasses on, like you know last week, I'm like, yeah, you look like Maverick from Top Gun with them, and I could just immediately just see your face light up.
I mean, I'm always there for you with the compliments, but when you receive one from your boys too, like you're just like Will complimented my shoes one time, like you know, every time I wear these shoes, and come on, I know Will, I know Will likes these shoes.
There's there's like just you need to hype your boys up more.
And I think it's some people, like some guys might find it weird, Like girls are doing it all the time, Like you see it on Instagram, Like you see all the comments on.
Like you're gorgeous whatever. D d Why can't guys do that?
Yeah, why can't guys coming on your Instagram?
So you're normalized dudes hyping up dudes. So shout out giving compliments to your boys.
That's been a staple bust with the boys for the longest time. But it's an oldie and it's an oldie but a goodie, dude. There's always, by the way, it's an oldie but a goody. Every time you get the chance to tell your boy they're doing something right, it's great because it it hits you on the scale of because we all like to shit in each other too, right. We just had a five minute deal about SNL and how it's fun to shit on your boys and it's
not fun to get shited on. But there's a pendulum swing when you get to give you boys a couple of compliments too. So when you do get in the nitty gritty of coming at somebody for going to work out it on Friday at noon, they know they're your fucking boy no matter what. And that's the beautiful thing about it, Dude.
I love that one.
Mitch Jackie, what you got for us? Baby?
Um?
What do I have?
Do you want me to go?
Yeah?
Go ahead, all right, shout out dudes being prepared for a podcast, dada, And I'm just fucking with you. I want to shout out. Lucy, listen to this. I've a breaker. That's a breaker. I got mine. I swimp another one. The thing I noticed about these Lucy's get better the old brand, and I use like these are more milligrams, but I keep these in way longer because the flavor
lasts for such a long time. Yeah, my last ones, I was going through to Kansas Day and with these ones, I'll go through one canaday and it's a it's a tremendous difference as it balances out. This is one more milig my last brand. But my shout out no free shadow goes to establishing family traditions. So in October of this year, I think I mentioned this already, Taylor's grandmother passed away, and Miss Connie, she was a phenomenal woman. Irish lady lived on the same plot of land her
entire life. That's not true that she lived down the road too, but she lived in this house that Taylor and I when we first met, we bought and we was like, hey, you just live enjoy your life type of thing. And when I would go to Canada with her, I would always go and make time with Connie to
go get some tea and I would sit there. It would just be me and her, and she'd make me tea and we would drink it and she would just I would sit there and just listen and she would talk and talk and talk and talk, and I didn't see her a whole lot because obviously I'm traveling a bunch and I live in the States. But always a pleasure to be around that woman. So she passes away.
And one thing she always did for tailoring and the kids was and even when Taylor was a kid was she would make homemade spaghetti and meatballs and so ever since then, every Sunday Taylor make it. Like true, it makes noodles by scratch, like the flour, the egg everything. She makes meatballs by scratch. She sets up this entire dinner. They all go out and buy red flowers because it
was Connie's favorite color. And Win is in charge of setting up the entire table, which she takes the most amount of pride in to the point where will and aren't allowed to be in the room, which hipes me up because that's less work for me to do. Are like, we're't allowed to be in the room because she's so excited to show us. And every Sunday we have this
giant meal of just meatballs and pasta or whatever. And uh, that fires me up because I think about it as like when I grew up, I can't remember one time, one time ever sitting with my mom, my dad, and my brother and having a family meal. Not once. But I know that my kids when they're older and they go somewhere, they're gonna miss the meatballs. They're gonna miss this. And like the small traditions that hey, what are your
parents doing today? Well it's Sunday, you know, they're having their Italian dinner the two of them right now, or something like that. Establishing traditions. I feel like it's like the best, one of the best core values of having a happy family. So shout out family traditions.
Thank you boys, that was a good one.
I'm gonna shout out finally caving to your friends who's been convincing.
You to watch a show that you've put off for a while.
In mind, the specific show is Masters of the Air if you haven't watched it yet, very very good show on OH TV.
Have you seen it?
I'm caught up?
Yeah, I last night.
I watched like four episodes in a row, so I think I got like one more maybe to get fully caught up. But it takes me a second. Like I like to stay in my lane of shows and even like if like a guy you respect. Their opinion on whether it's movies or TV, tells you to do something. Part of you just sometimes is not there, you're not
fully invested. So last night I finally took the commit jumped off and it is a phenomenal show and just that era of World War Two and just kind of like how life is so much different and like it moves a little bit slower when they're just kind of in their off time. I really appreciate that, kind of like the charm of that era in the meantime while they're going to bombing the Nazis. So it's been a great show and I'm excited to see see where it goes.
Hey, for those who have seen the show, this is a spoiler alert, But I'm gonna ask you a question, what part do you want?
Right now?
I'm trying to think what was the last thing I saw because I kind of dozed off in the last episode.
But I don't want to give away.
Like yeah, yeah.
Because my specific reference is going to be somebody who's no longer that I.
Yeah, everybody loves yeah, everybody loves this guy.
So I'm not sure exactly where we go there, but I just want to get caught up. I'm gonna get fully caught up because I believe there's six episodes out right now.
Six episodes. The next one comes out March first.
March first, and is do you know how many episodes there are in the full season.
I don't.
I'm sure there's eight, maybe ten, hopefully ten.
I I'd hope ten, because like, yeah, the show's amazing, and you guys know, I love I absolutely am obsessed with aviation and to see these boys in the air bombs going off, coming back, most of them coming back actually sometimes holding on a couple, yeah, coming back, and their planes are like hanging on by a thread and they're still able to get back home.
Dude.
It is insane, he city because you got these old bombers, and in the forties and then during World War Two, it's like six dudes in a plane, two pilots, two gunners, a navigator and then oh there's two more, one guy in the bottom with a little gun thing, which that's gotta be the scariest one.
And in like that first episode that I guess there's like a breach in it. It's like negative fifty while they're flying and he's just getting like frostbite.
Yeah in the tank, so Bro and.
All those guys like imagine being like, I never thought about this, but being the pilot's one thing, but being the navigator where got bulls are just going off and you're like, hey, uh Charlie blah blah blah blah, just went down. You gotta like while we're getting.
Shrapped like two degrees north.
Yes, bro, and you're like, tell us where we're going, Hey, Crosby, where are we headed? You're like, oh, and he's like freaking out, like doing his little That's gotta be the most stressful job.
Because nowadays it's just fully automated, like.
You got two boys in there doing their thing, but.
Then they're a little using like a pro tractor and like a ruler to just make sure they're on the right degree of angle.
Yeah, and being a pilot tune when when all that flax coming in and you're just like, we were just gonna fly straight straight, just yeah, and it's like one thing that blows out one part of the thing with the plane still rolling.
A engines out, Yeah, three engines, we got one, cut.
It off, start threading it. They just say the same shit every single time. It's like, damn, bro and you're just on the edge of your seat, like truly like heart rates at one twenty watching these boys try to bomb a sight. It's just crazy crazy. So yeah, that's an outstanding one. Have you seen it, Mitch, bro You need to jump on that.
I think the strategy of it to school where they're like they're going for like the ball bearing factories, like they will like slow the production of all the war machines.
In Germany, the railroad.
It's going for like the army bases.
They're going for the like production sites that are the reason the armies are thriving.
And I like the strategy aspect of that.
Yeah, I I dude, my heart goes out to you though with what's his name? Yeah, I know, I mean.
It hurts, dude, and it feels like it's not over. But I don't know. We're gonna in.
Your head though, it's like it can't be over because if that's the guy, it's like there would have been way more of a we we talked about a story about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fu is he the coolest actor out there right now?
Maybe he's got to be.
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It seems like we're rolling right. Good to go. Nice man.
To kick it off, I have to say, like you, you've been a very indirect influence in like the ascendence of busting just I came upon you. Probably a lot of your stuff was getting in front of me like my first or second year in the league. Yeah, but just to give you those flowers like it is it's just hard to have you thank you on the podcast.
Thank you for saying that means you know this whole era now because I was in it early, Like it feels crazy to have a positive impact on people from Afar and so I appreciate that makes me feel super nice. You pumped to be on the show.
By the way.
Yeah, you talk about like, uh, obviously people seeing success. It's like that, like that kind of dumb chart you see like a teacher's on a teacher's wall, Whart, it's an iceberg and the success and everything starts all the hard work and a lot of your videos you talk about like from six to seven, how like you started to get into the content game, not knowing that's really that's what it is at the time, but the struggle of doing three hundred and sixty five days before you
get a call to go on a late night show. Yes, people don't understand, Like your wife's looking at you, your friends are looking at you. You're like, yo, Gary, what the hell is he doing?
Man?
Like he's just out here acting crazy.
Especially back then. Yeah, when I told everybody I'm gonna do this, YouTube was four months old when I started my show, so like it like, people like what you're doing now. People are like, oh, podcasts can hit, like it's known. When I was like I'm doing this, people thought I lost my mind, Like it can't be overstated. Ye, Like my brother, excuse me, my best friend Brandon, and my Dad, because we and my cousin Bobby, the core four of us who were running the liquor store at
the time. I was the guy. I was buying the wine, I was selling the wine, I was marketing. I was on the floor. And now I'm taking all this time to record in front of a camera and put it on the internet. That would be like me telling you right now, listen, the three of us have to go to Mars set up a lemonade stand and it's gonna work. It was that far fetched to them, and so yeah, but for me, my whole life. You know, this may really resonate with you in a lot of the audience.
I'm almost like reverse Alan Iverson, Like I like the practice. I like the crap that no one sees. It's a really important part to me. I enjoy when it's small, like I'm doing Twitch right now, live streaming? Are you doing it right now? Actually doesn't a little something in and out, But like in my office, I'm sitting in my office doing ten hours of meetings and Twitch is running in the background ninety percent on mute, and people are watching it, but not a lot like why would
you watch that? It's like almost ASMR for entrepreneurs. I mute a bunch, I do questions, I give away stuff, we hang out, but I watch it. I'm like, Okay, hundreds of people are watching now, but I already know my brain tens of thousands of people are gonna watch me go about my business day in six years, and like that gets me off more than anything. I love the hundred views, not the millions of views I have on social I'm almost like, it's almost why I think
I love the Jets so much. The chase to finally get it is more interesting to me than getting it. When the Yankees won the World Series, I stopped watching the Yankees, But like the climb, the behind the scenes.
Layers to everything you just said, because we can go into the Jets thing where it's like when you finally get to the result of your process has been all the way apart of like, is the fulfillment going to be there? Or you're gonna look back and be like, damn, the process was truly the best part.
I already know the process the best part, but you haven't bought it yet.
I know sitting there, I genuinely look with a green suit on, yeah, signing the piece of paper yeah, you're gonna be like that process was tight, Like.
I believe that that is at forty eight. I believe that it's I'm very confident telling you that I already know, like to the point where like I almost and I'm gonna say this, this may sound weird to a lot
of people. I'm curious if I get some DMS or emails about this from people that have experienced I'm actually so extreme on process over the thing that I sometimes almost get like this weird not depression, but like I like, I don't know, I don't even I'm gonna try to articulate it because it's what I do, but like I'm almost weirdly scared of how not great that moment might be, almost to let that like I don't know, I'm so into the chase that getting it is like like like
I don't it's actually I think it's a little fucked up. And I'm working on this. I'm trying to be better at smelling the roses and enjoying. My brother, who's eleven years younger than me, has been very wise on this with me in my whole life, Like we would just
do these things. When he was twenty two, we started the company and like a lot of great things have happened over the last fourteen years, and like he kind of he's like bro like like good things would have We sold a piece of our company to Steven Ross WANs the Miami Dolphins. That was like a meaningful event at the time, University Michiu. That's right, big event, like
change the course. Mainly, I was very enthralled to do it because I knew it for Aj would be money that really changed his life at that point, being in his young twenties. Like it was a real catalyst, Like it hits the bank account. It looks weird when you've got those kind of dollars in your account and you've been had it. It's and I was like like like I don't know, like I didn't even like, I don't know, like it's very consistent in my life. I just I'm
obsessed with the chase. And I think a lot of people listening can resonate other people enjoy the winning it over and over it and it is about the trophies and the success. I like the process, and by the way, I'd like to be a little bit better about smelling the roses and enjoying these big moments. But I just like the game. I like the practice. I like the grind.
When you say you work on it, how do you work on it?
Meaning how am I working on trying to by talking to myself about it? I think we all do that, Like I think everyone has an inner dialogue. We all talk to ourselves about shit. Every one of us right now, us in front of the camera, the crew behind the camera, and definitely everybody who's watching. We know some shit right now that we wish we were doing better, or something that's bothering us. And you know this, we all talk ourselves into a tipping point where we do something about it.
I try to get better and better at making fixing it or making it better happen faster than dragging it out. That's what I'm working.
On, utilize like a resource, like a mentor or a group of guys, or therapist or.
Ish on all fronts. You know, I think not having a true like my parents in a lot of ways are the only thing close to a mentor. You know, I need to be better at being a little bit more vulnerable with my inner circle. Like I'm like, I've you know, I was trying I was born in the Soviet Union. I came to America, my dad starts working every minute. He was never around because he was trying to provide for the family. My mom was only twenty
years older than me. I had a sister who was three years younger, and as long as I can remember, I'm talking like six seven, my mom's like, you're the leader for your sister. And I grew up in the eighties. We go outside and play all day, so I actually like actually had to keep an eye on her. And I was like eight and she was five, and we're just in the wild, you know. Back in the day.
We did it different. Yeah, you know, like crossing the rail I mean we would cross the street cars are like like like kids frogger like you know, like that really like And it was just like ingrained at my mom by my mom, like you take care of her, You take care of her. I naturally had my personality, so I was definitely also like a leader amongst our
friends and so like. And then I started being very important in my family's liquor store business as a teenager, and by the time I was twenty two, I was running the business. It's always been on my shoulders and I always felt like I was the guy emotionally and financially for everything that I've ever been a part of, and so you know, I didn't feel like I had permission for the vulnerability. I felt that if I showed cracks,
everything would tumble. And so that's the era I grew up in that, you know, and honestly, a lot of it works for me. Ninety five percent of time it works perfect. I like it. I want to take the last shot at the buzzer, like I want to be down. I want the Montana versus Bengals moment, like if I was ever a quarterback, please give me super Bowl, last drive of the game, go to win it, like I live for that, right, I live for it, even the pressure I put myself on when I do something like this.
This is in super Bowl game winning drive. But I walk in subconsciously saying I'd like to say something that really helps someone on the other side. When you say that to me when I first walk in, that's everything, Like why wouldn't you want to have a positive impact on other human beings? It's the best. So I like pressure. I like putting it on me, but I I I'm very self soothing meaning this is very left field, so
bear with me, audience. There's something weird when I see a cat licking themselves, like, right, I've always been fascinated by I never just why. I'm like, that's weird, like like I was, but I always would take note of it. That's yeah, judging him. I'm really in third grade. I always wonder. But I told him not to do the cat thing.
He's doing the thing again.
It's funny. The cat thing is like something a lot of people. Have you ever heard me talk about this maybe once or twice, right, this is not a thing I bring out often, but it's been in my mind.
There's something I really enjoy of when I most am feeling pressure the most it's not going well, I kind of like going into like the shower and like just like thinking and like it's almost like a action movie or like a superhero cartoon, Like I feel like I can fix myself, you know, like those sci fi things where like the cut off the arm and the arm gets grown back in seen. That's me emotionally, like I get a lot of I have this thing where I'm able to do it right, and I rely on that
almost more than anything else. And I'm not sure if I look back at this clip in twenty years and like that was naive. I should have used and I can sense a piece of that right. But you know, it's really hard when you're forty eight and you're this happy and you're not happy. I'm not happy because of my notoriety or financial reasons. I've always been like this, you know, I've always been happy because I keep shit simple.
I think people complicate life like you can have all the money, all the fame, all the sponsors, and then you guys are having a crushing week right now. It's cruising. I love watching you from a far building. But you know this, God forbid if you get a text right now and someone you love is in trouble, like health, like real shit, you don't give a fuck about this. And honestly, I think about that every day. Nothing i'm
doing professionally matters. I'm completely detached from my success and notoriety. I just want the people I love to be healthy and good. I just want to wake up and play my game, which is being an entrepreneur. I always envied. I always wanted to be an athlete when I was a kid, Like a lot of guys. But then when I got older, I was like, wait a minute. Athletes go through this such hardcore transition, like the thing you loved and we're best at, you're going to stop in
your football late twenties, you're a child. If you're lucky, if it goes phenomenal, all time phenomenal mid thirties, late thirties, you're a child. A thirty seven year old that's watching this right now has no comprehension of how young they still actually are. Society has taught us the wrong shit, Like you're supposed to have life figured out at twenty two. It's ludicrous, Like I don't know. I think so these are the things that run through my mind and like are my emotional framework.
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Yes, and I'm my therapist, and there's something really powerful there. That being said, I've gone to therapy. I find it very valuable. I'm pumped people are doing it. I love that people are doing ice bats. I love that people are doing, you know, meditation. I love that people are doing walks and exercise and reading and like, I think, just like anything in life, everybody is watching of the seven to ten things that we all know can make your life better. We all have a mix of the
one or two that works best for us. My big thing to myself and to everyone is try them all and see what works for you, like for you know. And so I'm pumped when people sit and set out to meditate and that works for them. I feel like I'm meditating every minute. I feel like I'm meditating right now. In the meta of this interview, I'm locked in with y'all and the audience, But there is a part of me in the back of my head right now that's also kind of like zending out and was just like,
isn't this great? Be grateful? Like gratitude, I think is a currency that runs heavy through me, and I think it's something I want the world to be thinking about more, because I think we spend way too much time complaining of what we don't have versus spending our energy on being grateful for what we do have.
You said something during all this about your process and everything, talking about the cat and being like I might look back on this in ten, fifteen, ten years and be like I probably should have got about that. Yeah, since you've been in the internet game for so.
Long, Yes, look back, Yes, and essentially.
Watch film on yourself.
Yes, is the way you Approacheduff.
What are some things you've looked back on in the past where you're like, Okay, I can see where I navigated that incorrectly or not incorrectly, but I see things a little bit differently.
Now. This is a great question, and I really need people you should be It's a great question. It was really well done. It was pretty well done. It was very contextual to the moment, a little improv but Macro I thought it was really good. The one the thing that stands out here and I this, I'm excited about answering as well. Things are contextual. So I think a thing that people people up about. This is why cancel
culture is so flawed. People trying to rewind shit from twenty nine years ago and yell at people for what is a social norm. Now shit changes. So when I was making videos in two thousand and eight and being like, yo, you gotta go hard at nine pm to midnight, at that point everyone was out of a job, the economy collapsed, and the Internet was exploding, I was right when someone like brings it up now fifteen years later and be like, oh,
people were burning out. I'm like, people didn't even know what the fuck burning out was.
Then.
People weren't worried about burnout. People were worried about fucking paying their bills. So I think a lot of what I look back at, what works for me that I highly talk to a lot of content creators influencers about is like, never say something you don't believe the amount of people that say shit that they don't believe in only with the hope of going viral is a fucking disaster. No million views is worth looking back at it and
being like you're an idiot. So the reason I don't have a lot of answers to your question is because everything has ever come out of my mouth. I mean, so I feel good there, But I think what's interesting is to look back at context. I think the things that I think about is I think the middle purple is the game. I think America's gotten way too red and way too blue, and purple is the magic. So when I look at things back, sometimes I didn't create a hedge or a context point to my overall thought.
So I'll give you a great one that's happening now. I'll break it fully down since we have a minute. As you two may know, and as some of the people who are watching who have seen my content, I believe in volume of content. I believe it's crazy for you to do this show with me and not put
out one hundred and fifty clips from the show. But when I say one hundred and fifty, people take it, and I don't do a good enough job to say not one hundred and fifty On Instagram one hundred and fifty for example, I think twelve YouTube shorts posts from this or important because if you title it properly, YouTube's the second biggest search engine, and somebody might watch a clip from this in three years and discover you guys,
because YouTube works differently than TikTok. Then there's TikTok, then there's Facebook. Do you guys post clips on Facebook more? Because it's a supply and demand issue Right now, I'm pretty sure you don't post on Pinterest. It's probably unlikely that you post on LinkedIn. LinkedIn, I would argue, is your biggest opportunity for your audience and how you roll.
So when I think but I'll say in a clip, I'll look back and be like post forty times a day and people let people take it as like in their one channel, and they're like that's stupid, or I don't get it, or I can't. Another thing that I've been thinking through, for example, because I've been speaking of volume of content for seven years, is I take for granted that I've made good content. You're making a good show.
It has the potential to have seven or twelve or fifteen pieces of content things now more, and I haven't art. I've always thought of it this way, but I didn't articulate it that it is a quality quantity framework. You should post forty times a day over seven different platforms. If you have quality posting for the sake of posting
is not going to do anything for anyone. So I think about those kind of things, where in the speed that I talk because I get hyper and excited, and the fact that sometimes it's limited, you know, you only have limited time. We're trying to get to a lot of stuff. Sometimes I don't finish out all the sentences or all the context, and that sometimes out of context, I'm like, oh crap, I wish I added two more sentences, because I know the audience took this out of context.
There was when people were making fun of me of like I was like, imagine your family being dead, and that when super viral and TikTok, I laugh at that because kids will roll up on me in the airport like, imagine your family's dead, and I'm like, I realized that they didn't get the full context of what I was trying to say, which is like, if if you actually did, you could imagine how grateful you'll be. But out of context and the clip or stitch it can seem a
little silly. So it's those full thought out things that I leave on the table at times that I would look back on and be like, ah, I wish I haded three more sentences of context because what.
Was that quote is like like shoot him in the fuck yeh.
Or something someone exactly I'm trying to make it. In that talk that that got clipped on, there was just a lot of like complaining, like just complaining and complaining. So by the time I got to the eighteenth question, I'm like, I'm like, you guys are so entitled imagine
horrible things, because horrible things do happen. As we sat here during this podcast, some bad things happen to people that is sad they lost someone they loved, like bad stuff, and like, you know, I think of I don't know how not to think about that, Like there's almost a billion people on Earth that don't have access to clean water? Do you know what insane that is? Like Like I don't know, I don't I don't know how not to
I don't know how to unsee that. There is literally seven hundred and eighty million people right now predominant Africa and parts of India and parts of Asia that literally within a twelve hour window can't get to a cup of fresh water. And then I have to listen to DMS about like why don't have a million dollars? Yeah, Like I just don't, Like, do you understand that every human being that's in Las Vegas right this minute, for this week should fucking kiss the ground and be fucking
thankful as fuck? They have nothing to complain about in real eight billion people in life. But that's not how life works. You live in your little reality, right and when shit goes awry within your reality, it's annoying because you have it so good and you haven't contextualized the macro perspective of how remarkable. There's no human watching this clip right now that doesn't have it awesome. Yeah, but
many think they have it horrible. And especially with the way mainstream media and content creators on social media are talking, everyone's looking at the downside without looking at the upside.
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Yeah, I was just gonna go back to when you were talking about working on being more vulnerable with the people in your circle. Yes, you obviously have a mind for business, like that's what drives you process, like you are obsessed with it.
You love it.
You have a good piece out there talking about balance, like there is no balance to what you love, like all those sorts of things, but as like you spoke to it too, like being the leader in your household, growing up, being the leader, being the leader of your.
Businesses, being the lead leader of your family.
You do so well compartmentalizing and self soothing and everything else.
How do you like talk about the times you got to check yourself with checking the pulse of the people, like in your family, in your household, to where your drive and your balance might be indirectly affecting them in a way that it just the wall has been broken down to be like, hey, me being vulnerable here actually makes me feel better that I'm actually hearing this from you, Gary, because I didn't know you were actually going through that.
And that helps the family grow with you, because there's this bridge that starts to talk with you with your work ethic.
Yeah, I mean I think I think it's still a work in progress for me. And I also think people get comfortable in realities, Like there's a lot of like peace of mind that I'm able to bring to the people I love the most by holding it fucking down, you know. And so like people love to say to the alpha, I'd love to have you be more vulnerable and tell us, But then when you go there, it's like fuck and it's shake. Like it's a really fascinating
thing that's happening in society. There's this big conversation of like we want our alpha's mom, Graham, my dad, uncle, whoever it is boss to be more vulnerable. The reality is is that there's a lot of insecurity in the world right now, and when the person that is your foundation starts to show cracks, people want to step up for that person, but often they're not the leader because they don't have the capacity to go there. I've flirted
with vulnerability with everyone. I've also seen the reactions to it. Yeah, you know, we want more from bosses. Do you know if a boss went on and did an all company meeting, if she or he just said, all right, let me tell you what I'm dealing with, and here's all my pains and struggles and concerns, and we only have a month worth of cash flow. So if we don't get this again, people are scared shitless.
Yeah, and so lead.
There's a real balance to this game. So I'm trying to find the purple right. A lot of people are talking shit that they want their alphas to go more vulnerable, but they don't if you really pay attention to what people want and so like, this is a conversation that will play out in lot next twenty thirty years. There's been a There's been plenty of razzing and demonization of alpha men over the last twenty years until we're in
a war with China. I have a funny feeling that those alpha dudes and everybody likes to raz on, when shit hits the fan, they'll be cheering the fuck out of them, right, So that's just the way the world always worked. People just are very bad at history lessons.
I love that answer, and I also love the Gary V smirks that he gives, like yeah.
Yeah, when I know he gets that, yeah, sit there and be like that jes Air for a second.
The dramatic pause is a go to how about how about imposter syndrome? Is somebody with the new funny word that we've made it imposter syndrome.
I'm sorry to interrupt, imposter syndrome. You mean what we used to call insecurity? Yeah?
Yeah.
Packaging of insecurity as imposter syndrome has me laughing my ass off, and I'm glad I got to finally address it. I don't I've said it maybe one other place, like, yes, what about insecurity?
I was gonna say, I was gonna say in your very like early stages like YouTube, and you're taking your your sick in escape ethics and putting it out there in the status signal and.
Hitting on girls in high school. Yes, I know what insecurity looks like, but not in business. Okay, every day the day I did that social media if the day I did that first video, in my head driving home, I said to myself, I'm gonna fucking win this. I'm gonna be known. I'm going to be the most important in wine business literally first one, because I knew I was going to grind it. I don't know if I'm going to buy the York Jets. You know, I'm not fully in control, but I know I'm gonna give it
a real fucking run. You know, if the Johnson's put it up for sale tomorrow, I'm mount. I just don't have enough money yet. But if they hold on to it in the range that I think they'll hold on to it eighteen twenty sixteen, twenty four years, I'm in the mix. I believe that to be true.
So you're saying, your foundation, your cloth was built as this world of social media comments feacing negativity was there, but like as this stuff transpired and transcendent into what is to.
What in high school no one's opinion or peer pressure even remotely came to penetrate the way I walked around. I think that's the toughest environment. Yeah, yeah, I didn't know it. This is fun to say as a forty eight year old man in my late twenties mid thirties, when I started being like whoa, I was a weird kid in high school. I was friends with everyone that was based on me not caring that my cool friends were making fun of me for hanging out with my
not cool friends. I didn't care. I wasn't willing to compromise on kindness. In the nineties in New Jersey, in high school, there was no way to get to the upper eche line of popularity without being a dick face. You had to make fun of people. It just was the currency. I wasn't willing to go there. And where where'd you learn that? Like, how did you have that? How'd you have that?
In high school?
My mom?
Because it's like everybody deals.
With I can't even think of myself being like, damn, you see somebody talk shit about how you played in the game.
I'm thinking I'm in my twenties at this point.
But in high school, that stuff I'm just trying to imagine somebody that's just uncompromised about.
Like you know, I don't.
I'm detached from results even though I want them. Meaning when someone says stuff, I'm just first of all, there's a lot to it. Let's break it down. Let's because we're bouncing. People shitting on you in social media should not be met with you being upset for you. It should be met with you being compassionate to them. Do you know how fucking sad a life is that you walk around the internet and make fun of people or try to hurt people because you're in such a bad place.
Saying that you guys suck it. This podcast is a little endorsement hit for that person for a nano second to feel better about how bad they feel about themselves. All they're doing is tearing you down. They're just misery loves company you. I swear to God, every single negative post that I see about me or in the comments, I literally my brain fundamentally only says, man, I hope that person's gonna be okay one day, not one thing about me that has nothing to do with me. But
there's a key to that. I also don't take in when people give me the flowers. I'm appreciative as fuck.
Live for the cheers, the booze type of thing.
Bro that shit. If I could, if we could get the kids, fucking forget the kids. Everyone who's watching this every grown up to understand. If you become susceptible to the fucking cheering, you're dead because the booing will kill you. I'm grateful for when people leave goa to emojis.
I'm fucking great.
I mean, I wish you could see what I felt like with your opening line on the show. It's like, thank you, so it's so nice. But I don't think I'm special because you said it, which means I don't think I'm a piece of shit when you say the return, I know who I am the end, And unless you really, really, really really know me, how the fuck can I even count it? Do? To me? Famous people that are universally adored are straight pieces of shit?
Probably a lot.
Yeah, you always hear the stories. You never want to meet your heroes, right.
It's real.
So far it sucks.
I mean, like you like currently right this second, universally adored. They're a mess. No they're not. They sure aren't. They do not treat their people well. Everybody that's close to them does not love them. I can go to sleep every night and put my head on a pillow because the more you know me, the more you like me. Those are the results I see.
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Probably subscribing to this podcast, Go ahead and get back to those episode. Boys, when you talk about people that really, really really know you, how many people would you say, really truly know.
Who Gary V is?
Zero? And let me break down where I was going with that.
That's a context one. Yeah, that's a podcast.
You said that.
Hey, we're clipping that just so if you get the context and you'll have you come on again to explain.
Zero, I'm obviously going ton of chee because I wanted to make two points. Yeah, So they answer your question on that one the way you actually asked it, probably
one hundred. Yeah, like if it's a good number, if I'm going to like where I'm really going, like, would you bet You're like if they went to someone in that So if they went to Brandon Warnekey, my best friend who I've known since fourteen and talked to every day and still runs wine text dot com, Like if they said bet your life on him, he would yea, like one hundred right, seventy to one hundred. I'm very fortunate. Like I always judge leaders of business on the longevity
of their team. We took a flight out here a lot of the vainer people We've been in business for fourteen years, seven, ten, twelve people that have been with the company for ten in advertising that has an average of two. Like that feels great. But when I look, I'm like, man, I'm so proud of that. That's only a reflection of how much I actually care about them. So I would say one hundred to the way you
asked it. The reason I said zero was I wanted to make a point that I'm curious to ask you to the thing that I'm most fascinated by is that the only person on earth that fully knows you as you because you're the only person that's been there for every single actual thing. Everybody can watch this in YouTube as well. There's certain things that nobody on earth knows about you besides you. I think that's fast, and I've been thinking a lot about it, which is why i
wanted to throw out that funny answer. It's interesting, Yeah, you.
Say your point, Like Taylor and I we have this saying like nobody's coming to save you. Like you know, if you think about it, you're the only one who lays your head on your pillow and no matter who's next to you, with whatever stresses you have in your mind, and ultimately it is just truly true you and you like that one player game of you knowing yourself.
Oh, in such a real way. And my big thing is like, how do I you know? One of the things that drives me is I feel a little bit of guilt of how lucky I got with my DNA, how lucky I got that I was born in a shit country and came to America with nothing and had a really humble beginning. Because I think it's advantage at versity's foundation of success.
I believe that.
And then, on top of everything else, with those two good things already going for me, fucking the world gave me the best mom of all time, that fucking molded and built me. I feel a level of guilt about it. I believe that gary Vee exists because of that guilt
and gratitude. It's a mix of those two. All I do is try to figure out how to do what my mom did for me, Like all I want to do with my content is build true self esteem, not eighth place trophy self esteem, which is actually leading to a lot of insecurity merit self esteem, and a lot of that led to me with me, I like myself. Most people don't, and it shouldn't be like that. Everyone watching should like themselves. They're just focusing on the wrong
things right. Parents are beating themselves up every day. They're like, parents are trying, like, of course, you're not gonna be perfect. There's not a soul on earth that becomes a grown up that doesn't have plenty of things to say about their parents. It's the rules. No matter how hard you try, you had you had a unique conversation.
I believe it's like a Ted Talk type of situation where you're talking about, like work life balance is almost non existent, but just if you're trying in all phases, you're phenomenal.
I think, so what's work life balance? Everyone has their own rules. Like I have friends that think work life balance is nine to five Monday through Friday, okay. Like I have other friends that think it's nine to seven Monday through friting.
Okay.
I have other friends that think it's nine to nine Monday through Saturday, okay. Like as long as the people in your circle are cool with it. Like there's all sorts of there's a cost to everything. There's just real life circumstances. Like the big thing that I focus on is when I talk about shit, I'm not trying to tell everyone that I'm right about what I'm talking about. I'm not trying to convince anyone. I'm trying to share observations with the hope that it helps someone. That's a
very different framework. I don't think the thing I talk about is applicable to everyone that's insane. I just think that I love observing and have been doing it for a long time. I don't even talk from my framework. Most of the stuff that comes out of my mouth is not just me, It's what I've lived in combination to what I've observed for the last thirty years, because that's what I do for a living. I pay attention
for a living. That's why I'm an advertising for Like, I'm interested in the collective, but that will never be the reflection of an individual. Gen Z would be like gen Z, So I'm like, are you a fucking idiot? Do you know me? Gen Z? Kids I know right now are grinding their asses off and have incredible work ethic And do you know many lazy boomers I know to just blanket paint these observations as wild? Are there
rationales to why there's general statements? Sure? Are those things sometimes like pretty close time and knows, Sure, like I get it, but like nothing is directly one by one right that goes to one on one you with you only you know, And you have to make yourself happy because you can't make anyone else happy unless you're happy. That's real.
I love it.
I know we're getting the spinning wheel of death in the back there, so.
Oh, come on here overtime.
I have another game too that I think would be a lot of fun with. I say nothing. He was talking about you.
I was wanting to get into Okay, you have a vater sports media. Yes, you have your agency, Yes, n I l yes, getting into that. Like you obviously represent or your your company represents plenty of NIL correct and pro athletes, and so you're getting into the world of college I just got off the phone this morning with a college coach. It's like, man, you know there's always a new a new thing of like how the NIL is just out of control?
He's like, bro, I am telling you.
Every player in the end of year meetings sat they gave a number and said, if they don't get that number, the trans world because they all have representation, love it.
What is your thought on the NIL world?
Love? Here's why not? Because I'm in the NIL business. That's called capitalism. I love all my capitalistic friends. I have a lot of This is the my number. I've got such a funny answer for this. Ready, Yeah, my life because I'm in the business unlimited entrepreneurs, unlimited dinner and drinks with the very well to do individuals who love their universities at our boosters to the universities complaining about nil unlimited. I'm let me get this right. You
are a real estate mogul. You add a free, capitalistic American market to make money and you loved it. You have benefited from being able to have the market be an open market. And now you're going to sit here and tell me that you like communism. What do I think about an al I think it's fair. I think the University of Alabama made a fuck load of money over the last twenty years. And do I think that the humans that directly impacted that are entitled to an
opportunity to be a piece of the action. I sure do, because I love capitalism. And for every hypocrite that is into entrepreneurship and capitalism and fucking alpha this and winning and competition, you better shut your fucking mouth about NIL because you are a fucking hypocrite. If you don't like oh, you mean you don't like that. You liked it in the past because your college was good and these new
rules may reset the deck that I understand. You're a diehard UT fan and you're sad or you're die hard note like, I get it.
Nebraska.
I get it. I see it. I'm going for some razzy stuff. I'm trying to get some emotions. It worth it, you know, like, yeah, man, I think it's what do I think about it? I think it's fair. I love it, And people that are crying about it, fucking buckle up. I compete.
I love the answer.
Now, put yourself on the board of looking at the structure compared to like you look at the professional market in the NFL contracts and everything else. The college world is more of just anybody can leave at any point in time. If you're on the if you're sitting on the other end of the table advising that board, what would be your what would be your opinion about it?
Let's push for contracts. You know what the best part about merit is you can adjust. Notice how they're notice how they're not running fast to contracts. Why it works for them too.
That's a great point.
And he get me, gave me so it's almost like, yeah, that sounds like.
If you don't like n L, you hate America and you hate capital by the way, by the way, and pretty non debatable.
I can't wait for the rebuttal to why not you? It's either merit and capitalism or it's not. Hey bro, that's it's it's binary.
Yeah, because I was.
Always sat there, I was like, you know, maybe some rules and regulations would be great. Literally, it took this conversation.
Because I think myself, I'm like, yeah, they do have to get it figured out, because it.
Is kind of.
It's the wild West, like every other business on earth.
Because you think about as as football players, we look at as.
Like, of course we went to school.
Of course there was like there's gotta be a sense of loyalty kids, the rest of these kids nowadays.
Course all it takes.
Is one second answer and you're like, well, funk.
Here, let me let me say with a little and me smiling, let me give you something. Let me give you Let me give you a little something on top of it that you guys are gonna like because you've met the ogs. You're doing that, and I get while you're doing that, what about the Hall of Fame offensive lineman who played an entire career and made less money than the seventh offensive lineman of every team in the NFL right now.
Which is a great point because we had it, so we head on.
Also, the economy is worse than Yeah, you guys should say this run the inflation numbers, y'all did. You're right, we did better.
I see what's going on here. Maybe in the house now it's like two hundred and seventy percent last ten years though.
Yeah, because what we've said with We've had a Ed McCaffrey on Marshall Falk, we had an older interview with Mike Alstott, and it's like they walk out of the room and you're like, man, we are in our world, in the whole alpha, which, like ye know, we are so much softer than that. What that iteration was based on the things that.
And their granddaddy's literally were playing at college football and then an hour later had to go to Germany and die. Like, I don't understand how people don't have history lessons.
It's so funny, you say, even when I was playing.
History lessons, Gary comes in.
The show where you put a camera behind you.
Now my team's yelling, but I'm rooting for you guys. Heavy congrats by the way, real flowers. I also love your audience. I read comments for a living the way your audience love y'all. The demo and just the vibe of this whole thing. It's real. God, I'm so glad we did this.
Thank you, dude, Thank you so much, all
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