Name: Joe Rogan Experience #910 - Gary Vaynerchuk
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #910 - Gary Vaynerchuk' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-02-01. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #910 - Gary Vaynerchuk

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Gary Vee ladies and gentlemen, dude
I have gotten so many fucking tweets about you ever since I said we're gonna do
this podcast or I don't know if I announced it
Online or tweeted or something man that you you're doing something out there,
dude
You got a lot of people behind you a lot of people excited about you. Well,
listen, I'm super thrilled to be here
I really appreciate it. I appreciate you being here. I'm thrilled to talk to
you. Thanks. You're a motivational motherfucker, man
You got a lot of people up and at them
I'm super grateful. You know, I do you know, it's funny. I
I spent the three years for last year. I've been okay with it
But the three years prior to that I
Specifically didn't want to be a motivational speaker
How come? I was selfish in deciding like that. I just didn't want to be that
that I was more proud
In my own mind of being an entrepreneur business builder who happened to have
entrepreneurial tendencies
And I feel like the motivational speaker thing you know by percentages can get
a little ugly gets a little kind of hollow
Yeah, a little spammy and for my own mind the way I had it my brand was I
suppressed and stopped putting out the content
Like that I would tell my boys and my internal employees
But for the last year I embraced it a little more and so
You know, it's got a place, you know, I mean
You can't and I know you feel this because as soon as you announced it too
I've I got so many emails and tweets and dms of the same thing
If you're lucky enough that some way
The way you communicate brings value to others
You need to be smart about that and so I'm trying to figure it out
Yeah, um
Yeah, I mean I definitely think you need to be smart about it
You definitely don't you don't want to get greedy with it or stupid with it or
There's a fine line between manipulation and you know and doing the right thing
for sure
And for me when I go on stage
That is my zone like I that's like that's my arena. That's my court
I just don't think anybody does it better
Like when you give uh, you give motivational speeches
Yeah, I mean they're usually business talks, but I'm so like rah rah that it
takes, you know
I feel like I'm a defensive coordinator that's giving you the plays
But I'm gonna give it to you like we can do this. Let's rip their necks, you
know like out of their body and so
When i'm up there that and the youtube videos and things that nature that's the
majority of what people see of me
And that's only one version of it and uh
Yeah, I I I'm very conscious of the motivational thing
I think a lot of people use motivation for their own selfishness
And i'm trying I know it all plays out in 30 or 40 years
But along the way for my own appetite
I want to balance it the right way well, there's a lot of people that are doing
it that haven't
They don't really they don't really do anything else like I know a guy who does
motivational speaking used to be a shitty comedian
And now he's just doing these weird motivational speeches and they're like
They're sort of cobbled and cobbled together from other people's shit, and it's
like
It's fake, you know what?
Listen, I don't judge anybody very honestly. I don't give a fuck really. I
really don't really I don't but
About what other people are doing entertainment escapism
You know people can say reality stars of this people say watching football like
my beloved jets for three hours is stupid
Like people can judge escapism any way they want here's my big thing. I'm a
businessman
So I talk about business content. It's not just finding your inner peace
What scares the shit out of me is everybody who fucking says that they're you
know a business coach
And they've never made a fucking dollar outside of selling other people how to
make a dollar and that whole scheme is basically
Sell other people on how to make a dollar. Yeah
So I just don't want to go down that path and I think I can look the part very
quickly
And that's why I suppressed it for a little while, but then
In the last three or four years i've built a very large agency a media agency
And so I think I felt good that I went and executed again just like I did when
I built the wine business
So I filled that bucket of building another big business which makes me feel
more comfortable
To go out and do the content and being out there. Well, there's definitely
value in giving people motivation
There's definitely value that other people get from it. It's that it's a real
positive thing and there's ripples that come off of that and I feel like
I gain a lot from a lot of people that are motivational. I get a lot out of it
I love it when they're real when they're real. Yeah, it's just it's hard to
find
You know, you got to separate find out who's a bolt, you know, who's a real
Health expert and who's a bullshit artist that is sort of
Compiled and remembered a bunch of things that other health experts have
actually studied and done
Headline research on yeah
Practitioners right and I can't imagine what you guys are dealing with being at
the top of the sphere of this important medium
You must get bombarded and it takes work
Like I've been able to navigate who I want to fuck with and have drinks with
and who I stay away from
Yeah, it takes a lot of time. Yeah, it does because it can look the part and
you got to like dig
And then you got to like take and you know, you know this there's people that
you actually respect
Who haven't done the work and are lazy about putting somebody else on and they're
like, yeah, that's a good guy
Right, they're not. Yeah, and they're like fuck and like, you know, the whole
thing is really interesting. And then there's hosers
Yeah, there's a lot of hosers out there. There's just no there's no getting
away from that though
And kind of all walks of life and I think you're right though to not
concentrate on the negative ones
Because it's really just a waste of resources. It's a waste waste of energy
But this is an amazing time though to get a message out there and to motivate
people and to show people that
You know, there's there's something positive not just in being inspired, but in
inspiring others
Yeah, I mean listen, uh, you know, the communication
Infrastructure of society is incredibly interesting right now. Yeah, but you
and I are doing do you know?
I mean like if you map what you're doing right now
Like it's insane you you basically had to give up all the economics to the
biggest radio show station in the world like like
Everybody can reach so many people and of course everybody's gonna head's gonna
go to what's going on in politics and what's going on
And it's true like the reason a dictator when they're creating a coup d'etat
wants to take control of the media
Is because people go with what the media is telling them and so yeah, I mean, I
think it's imperatively important
To try to navigate and distinguish yourselves
To me, I'm saying this quite a bit lately which is if you're feeling good
Right now, like for example, I am I feel enormously optimistic
You have a massive sense you have responsibility to communicate that because
the wave of negativity is extreme. Yeah, I agree
I agree and I think it's super beneficial and
You know what you're saying about the media being powerful
I mean the the most powerful thing about it is everyone has access to it now
There's nothing keeping anyone from
Starting an instagram page and just putting up little videos every day of how
they feel and how they think
And it might only affect one person it might affect a thousand people it might
get to a million people and it builds and what happens
Joe is I think people look at this in a cynical way. They're like
Social media is bad. That person has no talent. Why are they successful? This
political thing is going and that's bad
This is bad and what they don't realize is these social networks haven't
changed us
They've exposed us. You know people like twitter didn't change your opinions
Twitter allowed you to express them. Yeah, you know back in the day when
something was on tv or on the radio
We were yelling when I used to listen to sports radio mike and the mad dog in
the 90s in jersey
I was yelling back at mad dog like you idiot. No the jets should do this
But now that voice is in play right right
And it's one famous person away from retweeting it to getting the foundation.
That's the you know, that's the match that can start your infrastructure
Not only is it in play, but if you have opinions on sports
You could start your own podcast and it just builds and it could be
Massive and bigger than anything on the radio because it's such a superior
medium people forget that blogging was a precursor to this
I mean, where do you think bill simmons came from? Yeah, yeah, people are
confused like like people forget real quick
I mean, that was my story. I owned a wine store in jersey
YouTube came out it was five months old and i'm like this thing's gonna be big
And I decided to sit in front of a table drink four bottles of wine for 20
minutes
And it was good enough that a lot of people wanted to watch that's where you
started out
That's what you started doing my my so my if you want to take it all the way
back
I was born in belarus in the former soviet union
So I have a very immigrant story came to the states in 78 lived in a studio
apartment half the size of this
Studio with eight family members real immigrant shit
My dad got a job as a stock boy in a liquor store for two bucks an hour in new
jersey
Wow
Became the manager of that store eventually you know that immigrant thing just
work every hour
Right
That's what my dad did I didn't even know my dad until I was 14 even though he
slept in my home every night
And uh and we moved to jersey
I was straight entrepreneurial dna like lemonade stands like shoveling snow
I used to rip people's flowers out of their yard and ring the doorbell and sell
it back to them
It was real raw entrepreneurship
And then I'm 41 baseball cards were like
The thing in 87
88
89
90
That was culture
And I became a baseball card dealer and I was making two three thousand dollars
a weekend selling baseball cards
In the malls of new jersey
Then my dad owned a small liquor store eventually in springfield new jersey
dragged my ass in
I hated it
But around 16 I realized people collected wine that was connected to what I
liked which was collecting baseball cards and football cards
And I at 16 years old spent every minute of my life trying to become the
foremost expert in wine
I would go into like science class junior year and not give a fuck about Saturn
and would just sit there and read the wine spectator and decide
I was going to be the greatest wine retailer of all time
Heard the internet in 94 in a dorm room playing mad in 94 my friend came in
He's like you got to see this went to a room heard
That whole thing
And 15 minutes in was on a bulletin board and uh
Seeing that people were selling wine and decided that I would launch a wine
website and in 1996
I launched one of the first e-commerce wine businesses in america
wow
And so then in 98 I came home full-time and from 98 to 2003 in that five-year
window
I built my dad's business from a three to a 60 million dollar business on the
back of email marketing
google adwords
and just having a website
And that became my first foray into using technology to grow very quickly
So do you sell wine through that website?
So buy and sell I don't know jack shit about wine
I go to I just ask the guy what's good dude
Do you like it?
Love it
That's all you need to know
Yeah, I like wine
The number one reason I broke out in wine everybody who's listening right now
real quick take a step back
Do you do you know anybody that's into wine?
Everybody probably knows one or two people
They know what I know every one of those people are a straight douchebag
Anybody that's really into wine thinks like it's some magical information that
they impose on others
And they become a straight dick
So I was since I knew so m