- I have the perfect NFT of Gary V just for me.
I got the positive where you buy him.
- I'm rolling.
Okay, keep it there.
Today I'm at Lucas Oil Stadium.
This is a football stadium
where the Indianapolis Colts play.
It's hard to say Indianapolis, you just wanna say Indy.
I am here for GaryVee's conference.
It is called VEECON.
Last year was year one of VEECON
and I went to it but I got really, really sick
and I didn't finish filming the whole video
so that's why I haven't seen a video.
But this is year two.
NFTs are not as popular anymore as they used to be.
The prices on them have come down.
I bought an NFT. I traded a car for it.
I'm gonna show you how busy
NFT VEE conference is on year two
because I did go to year one,
and then also we're in this book
but we never got a signed copy.
So I would like to get Gary Vaynerchuk to sign this book.
And this is "NFTs are a Scam, NFTs are the Future"
by Bobby Hundreds.
This just dropped this week.
Both of these guys are here today.
Both of them are speaking.
But in order to show you what it's like this year
and to see the opening keynote and all the madness,
here's what VeeConference looked like last year.
I bought an NFT, I traded a car for it.
Today I'm at the world's largest in history,
NFT Conference, VeeCon.
What types of people actually go to an NFT conference?
And that NFT that I bought or that I traded for,
is my ticket to get in.
Is this thing gonna be like a huge bust
or are there gonna be lots of people here?
Am I gonna learn things?
Network with people?
This one is actually at a football stadium.
They're gonna use the entire stadium for three days.
Check out this jacket.
This is from one of my favorite NFT projects
called the Atom Bomb Squad,
and they collaborated with the NFL for the Super Bowl
and made this super cool jacket that is way too cool
for me to wear.
But there like there's the date of the Super Bowl
and it says the hundreds on it.
I have lots of these bombs.
It's my favorite project.
The guy that created this jacket,
created this NFT project,
is speaking three times here.
So hopefully we can find him.
His name is Bobby Hundreds.
But for now, this thing's about to kick off.
Let's go see if we can find GaryVee, see this conference,
and see what is an NFT conference like
whether you like NFTs or not,
I think this video is gonna be interesting.
Let's go.
Well look at that guy.
Look at his shirt.
Oh this is actually from Atom Bomb Squad.
Sir, do you have a VeeFriend?
- I do.
I have the rare polar bear.
- [Dan] Rare polar bear.
And then the other question,
do you own any bombs from Atom Bomb Squad?
- I do, I own six.
- [Dan] Six bombs.
- Six bombs.
- [Dan] That's a lot.
- Yep.
- [Dan] Yes, this guy's awesome.
Here we go.
This is like a little exhibit area
where we've got like toys of the characters.
They started over there with Gary's like
little tiny doodles that a lot of people are like
this is terrible art.
This fearless fairy right there.
The competitive clown.
These are the actual original drawings that Gary did.
Well they're evolving.
We're like one year into him making his original art
and now he has version two where they're actual characters
that you might see somewhere.
A nice collectable, he sold some at Christie's,
like five of his original drawings
and they sold for like over a million dollars.
Kind of crazy.
So the evolution of Gary,
his goal is to make it so that someday
these are like bigger than Disney.
Will he make it happen?
I don't know but I love the ambition
and it's hard to bet against GaryVee.
He's super smart.
So Jace, we just consigned all of our cards
and they've figured out the prices
and what's crazy is they know,
this guy's been trading new friends, one - Dude! Crazy!
- What would you say the total amount,
if we sold all of them for the list price, which we won't,
it'll be less, if we won't sell all of 'em,
but what do you think our merchandise is worth?
- Between 30 and 50 grand.
I know that's broad, but from what it was,
it was over 30 grand.
- 30 to 50 grand in our cards of VeeFriends
that aren't even NFTs. - C'mon, baby, please!
- But we're gonna sell some stuff.
- Yeah!
- Okay, we are coming down.
We're gonna go down to the floor because
in a few minutes Pharrell is singing or just talking.
I don't really know.
There's a lot of big names that are at this thing.
Snoop Dogg. Pharrell, Eva Longoria,
GaryVee, Bobby Hundreds.
So this is the floor for the VeeCon.
Gary just got off the stage and spoke.
It is packed on the floor.
There's even people like up in the stands.
There's only a max of 10,000 tickets
at this entire event and it's impressive to
see how many are actually here right now.
- [Dan] How is Coinbase on here?
That's awesome.
They've got a bomb.
(techno music begins)
I am impressed at eight o'clock in the morning,
how many people are actually here for the beginning.
Alright, so we are in the ledger lounge right now.
Bobby is about to speak.
- You've done
- You've done so much and I feel
like maybe the first time we
connected was through Mike.
- Check it out.
We found Bobby right here.
Bobby himself.
This is Bobby Hundreds.
We're ready to go.
You guys ready?
- [Bobby] We're ready.
Yes.
- [Dan] Get my gum, get outta here.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes.
- Okay, so I told you I got this super exclusive jacket
that you could only buy at the Super Bowl like this year
inside of the stadium.
That's pretty much it.
And I'm walking along and
check out what I just found.
Another Super Bowl jacket right here.
This one is like the navy color and then this one's
the royal color.
That's the only two colors they made, but I don't know how
many they sold but it wasn't very many
'cause it was very, very exclusive.
So it's pretty cool that we got another one here.
And you are a bored ape.
- Yep.
- [Dan] You are.
Do you have VeeFriends?
- I have VeeFriends, bored ape-
- [Dan] And then you have 50 atom bombs.
Dude, this guy's killing it in the NFT space.
This is so fun meeting people here.
Like this guy right here, - What's up, guys.
- [Dan] this is Sasha.
He has a podcast and I would say, I'm just
gonna say it's the best vlogging channel
of any sports card person. - I appreciate that.
- Thank you, I'm excited to be here.
It's gonna be a week.
- I've been watching him long enough that he had a beard
and then he shaved his beard off
and now it's grown back to that,
like that's how long I've been watching
his card stuff.
So a lot of things that I learned, I learned from channels
from people like Sasha.
He's got cards here that are like hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of cards,
but he doesn't have any VeeFriends cards
so I think he needs to get some of those.
And here we go, another shirt.
Check out what's on the front of this thing.
Atom Bomb squad hoodie.
- My bomb.
- [Dan] His bomb. That's your bomb you have?
- There's a red sticker of that one too.
So I got double royalties.
- So yeah, if you have a red sticker on your NFT
you get royalties whenever somebody buys the clothes
with your thing on it.
So he gets tons of royalties for that one.
That's pretty good.
So yeah, we're meeting lots of people.
I just keep walking and finding cool people.
It's like we're all part of this weird community.
Some call NFTs a cult.
Kind of get that vibe a little bit
'cause everybody's so nice to each other.
Check out that mustache. That's legit.
- My great hope for this weekend is what happens
to you is what happened to me
when I started to go to conferences in web two.
But I started to go to these conferences and I heard things
I'd never heard before,
conversations I'd never heard before.
And it really changed the course of my life.
VeeCon! (crowd clapping and cheering)
- [Dan] Got my ticket right here.
(upbeat music begins)
We are in.
(upbeat music continues)
Okay, just like last year
I have walked down very many steps to get
to the floor of an NFL football stadium.
Last year, maybe it's because I was sick,
but those stairs felt really,
really hard to go up and down.
We need to go find where the keynote is.
This is, looks like the floor
where all the companies that are
like sponsoring the event are.
Got a hat company over here, Lids.
And just a few companies that Gary Vaynerchuk
with VaynerMedia works with.
So all right, let's go see the keynote.
See how many people are here.
Listen to Gary talk.
Oh, there we go.
(upbeat music continues)
Got a good crowd.
Everybody holding up their phones again, Gary.
(crowd cheering)
- First I just wanna thank everybody for being here.
I'm so excited about 2023.
By show of clapping, how many people
is it your first VeeCon?
Clap it up.
(majority of crowd claps)
(upbeat music heightens)
- All right, we listened to the GaryVee keynote,
we also listened to Jesse.
I don't even know what his Instagram is
but the guy is super motivational.
That's one of the best things about coming
to a GaryVee conference is that
you are going to get out
of it some really positive things
that are gonna help you in whatever area of life.
This is the part of the day
where we go down the rainbow slide.
Okay. Woo! (Dan laughs)
Yeah, that's way better than walking down the stairs.
Little p-potato sack racing.
Why can't I say potato sack?
So this is the part where we go
find where Bobby's speaking.
There's side stages everywhere
and last year the rooms were a lot smaller
and they were packed.
They were full of people.
But also to be fair, this space
of the side room is way bigger than it was last year.
So we'll see how this fills up.
I'm just a nerd and I might as well get a close up seat.
We've got, yeah, about 40 minutes until the talk starts.
We're underneath the football stadium right now.
It's starting to fill in here,
we're about five minutes before.
Still a lot of empty seats, but it is
filling up like there's a
pretty big crowd coming in.
The question is, should we ask a question?
I feel like I have to, like we're sitting right
here next to the microphone.
Should probably stand up and ask a question.
I gotta think of something.
What's something smart I can say?
(crowd chattering)
(crowd clapping and cheering)
- I believe that he can sustain and
survive through so many cycles.
The reality is that especially in fashion and art
anything that is based on culture,
it's very finicky as far as-
- That we work with,
whether it's talent or whether it's a branding
- And that it could really enhance
the experience is the key.
- [Presenter] They initially said no,
but you were able to get
over the hump and get a yes.
- They did a great job.
No questions from the crowd, which is good.
We want to hear them speak.
A lot of people like flood their own thing on there
but we're not gonna do that.
So now the crowd is going up there.
We gotta go.
We gotta go to the, a signature booth.
The goal is to get to the booth to get an
autograph in the book and we'll say hi to Bobby there.
And to be fair, like Bobby does know who I am.
We're friends in a way I would say.
But he's friends with everybody.
He's all about that.
That's how he's built his brand.
(chill music begins)
The line is definitely growing.
- Whatever name you want on the book. (crowd humming)
- [Dan] Why do you get the Sharpie?
- 'Cause I'm special.
- [Dan] Question mark! Question mark.
- Oh my gosh.
- Yeah, that's a nice shirt. Chinatown. Hundreds.
There's a lot of people wearing the Hundreds
clothes from like last 20 years
of them having clothing.
They usually only make clothes once
and then that's it.
And Bobby is here.
Bobby talked about people that get tattoos.
Travis Scott the rapper has a tattoo of a bomb.
Check this out.
Boom. There is a bomb tattoo.
All right, what's the plan?
You gonna have Bobby sign your tattoo today?
- I'm gonna have Bobby sign the tattoo,
and the tattoo was done at
Black Spot Tattoo Company in Luka, Texas.
- [Dan] Oh there you go. There's the plug.
Oh, there we go.
- [Ben] And Gary signed it last night.
- [Dan] Yes.
- Sign your tattoo?
- [Dan] Check this guy out.
- This guy. You can't just sneak up.
Oh what? Yes! When did you get that?
- When Atom Bomb Squad came out.
- This is hilarious.
- [Dan] Look at this guy.
Alright, good to see you.
- [Bobby] Good to see you.
- Okay, so here's the deal.
I got this book in the mail
for free from Bobby and Atom Bomb Squad.
- Yes.
- You are all out here,
but Ben has a tattoo on his legs.
Take my book, sign it.
Bobby, I'm gonna buy another book
and I'm gonna actually buy one
and then you can sign that one.
- All right.
- [Dan] All right Ben, that's your book.
- [Ben] Thank you so much!
- [Dan] Doesn't, doesn't have to
be what's inside though.
- I didn't know that.
I appreciate you.
- [Dan] Yeah, you're welcome dude.
- And I was like (unintelligible)
- [Dan] Thoughts on the conference or NFT in general.
Difference between this year and last year.
- Well yeah, I mean look, the market is different in terms
of trading volume, trading activity
and especially mainstream hype.
But this year I'm a lot more bullish than I was a year ago.
Last year was more fraught, more nervous energy.
People were maybe doing it for reasons that had nothing to
do with why I was doing NFTs.
And so I love that the real builders are still here.
There are people in the background who just put their head
down and just continue to build brands and projects
like us and Atom Bomb Squad through the Hundreds.
- I love it and I feel the same way.
Like GaryVee fans are awesome.
Yeah, it's VeeFriends, they're all friends.
It's all about community and I think the community is
a little more authentic this year because it is people
that aren't just here to flip and to make money
and to do some gambling.
They're here to collect, they're here because they
love people like Gary they love people
like Bobby and a lot of the other speakers,
So, I don't know, it feels nice.
It's a community.
It's a little bit smaller of number of people here
but there's a lot of love between the people here so.
All right, okay. - Thanks, Dan.
- Bobby's got an important thing.
He's gonna sign autographs.
I'll get a book sometime, but alright.
Thank you, Bobby.
That was a little stressful.
I gotta be honest because
there's a big old line of people.
I know I'm a YouTuber.
I still don't like to be disrespectful to other people
that are waiting line to take more time than I need.
Whew. Okay, we have a couple of hours and then
we're gonna meet with Gary. (techno music rises)
I have the book that we are in
and I've gotta get him to sign it.
I've already gotten one of those goals accomplished.
I got one of my books signed, but I don't have it anymore.
Will I get this one signed, number one
and then number two will I take it home
with me or give it away to somebody?
I don't know, we'll see.
The Wizard Trading as he walks around from his iPad.
All right, this is the moment.
I've got the book, crushing it right here.
There's Gary, this is the GaryVee meetup station.
Last year you just had to stand in line.
People were waiting for hours.
So I love what Gary did this year.
He's like, you know what, go into the app.
It's like a 15 minute window
and then people come and line up.
It's truly impressive how many people he talks to.
It's amazing that by the end
of this conference that he even has a voice
and he's delivering a mega keynote Saturday night.
- What's happening?
Hi, good to see you, my friend.
Good to see you.
- You're doing great.
Awesome conference.
You're killing it.
- Such good energy,
every time I see you getting involved.
It makes me smile. - I appreciate that.
- You're good dude.
- I appreciate that.
You're the best.
I got a favor.
- Happy to.
- We got, we're in this book.
- Yes.
- But we don't have a signed one of you.
I'm like you gotta get this.
This is like an epicness.
So we went to Barnes and Noble, got one.
There we go.
Here we go.
Alright, it's done. (camera clicks)
All right, I got get a picture of you and Grant.
Woo, we did it.
I had a few questions I wanted to ask him
but you see this line and then he threw me
off guard because he started saying nice things to me.
He's like, "I always appreciate you.
You always have the most positive energy."
And I appreciate that.
Like that's really nice and fun fact
that I don't think he realizes I have a positive porcupine.
I have the perfect NFT of GaryVee just for me.
I got the positive porcupine.
- [Dave] Let's, let's get on stage.
- [Dan] Can we do that?
- Let's get on stage.
Let's, let's get on stage.
Come on.
- I asked him if we could close out the video
on the stage and he's like, let's make it happen.
We got my friend D Rock over here.
He is the man behind GaryVee's YouTube empire.
There he is.
We literally had to get the CEO
of VeeFriends to get us up on stage.
- Gary's the CEO.
- Okay, we got the friends.
Thank you. Awesome.
- Nice meeting you
- Yeah, we're going on stage.
Thanks Dave, we'll be quick.
Okay. Alright.
We snuck on stage.
We have three minutes. Check out behind us.
Mission accomplished.
We got the book signed by the man GaryVee.
Overall I would say if you are considering VeeCon,
next year is the last
of the three years that were promised,
based off of the original NFT drop.
No matter what you're into
like I feel like you're going to learn
and grow from the different things that are said.
The speakers are motivational, inspirational.
It goes in line with like the whole ethos
of what GaryVee's trying to do with VeeFriends.
Everybody here is nice to each other.
They talk to each other.
You walk around, people are introducing themselves
to other people that they've never met before,
becoming friends.
Gary wants us to be like your VeeFriends.
You guys are all friends.
I hope that in some sense this lives on beyond year three.
So we know that for sure I really enjoyed
VeeCon year one and two.
I think I enjoyed two a little bit more
because personally I wasn't as sick.
If you want to go to VeeCon, I definitely recommend it.
I think for a lot of different areas
of your life there are things you can learn and you can grow
from and you meet some cool people and make new friends.
And I know a lot of people are like, oh NFTs,
NFTs are the devil.
We don't love NFTs.
That's okay.
You don't have to love NFTs to come to this.
It is a strange technology, it's new and I'd recommend
that you go and read Bobby Hundred's book
on NFTs Are a Scam and NFTs Are the Future.
And he kind of lays out everything from both sides
of it with experts talking about it, whether the good things
about it and the bad things about it.
We're gonna exit stage right.
Because somebody's speaking in 10 minutes, 24 seconds.
But that was really nice of them to let us come
up here on the stage for a few minutes.
This year was just as good or better than last year
even though maybe there's not as many people here.
They're figuring out how to
make VeeCon killer every single year.
I didn't get paid to come here or anything.
They did give me a ticket for one of my employees.
Grant is awesome.
Grant's been working with us for,
since like January and
it's been really good to have him around.
He's super smart.
He has his own YouTube channel that he's done for years.
He hit us up through an email saying,
"Hey I have some ideas for What's Inside."
And I was like, "Hey, you're pretty good.
You're a fan.
You, you do your own YouTube thing.
Do you want to come work for us for a little bit?
Do an internship?"
So he's been working with us.
This is his last week and this is the last trip he's going
on is here to VeeCon.
But something a little awkward is
a lot of people like Gary
that haven't seen Lincoln since he was like really young.
They might think that Grant is the grown up Lincoln.
He does have a younger face and we're both the same height.
Like you could think that maybe he's my son in a way
if you knew who Lincoln was.
And so at the end, after Grant was filming, I was like
"Hey Grant, lemme get your picture with Gary."
He goes up there and Gary kind of looks at him
but doesn't really know.
He kind of, he totally thought he was Lincoln
but it was super awkward.
So Gary, if you watch this, this is Grant,
introduce you to Grant.
This is not Lincoln.
If it was Lincoln, it would be a different conversation.
And sorry for the awkwardness during that moment.
That's on me, bad communicator in the moment.
And we'll, we'll have you meet Lincoln at some point here.
He's just back home golfing right now.
- And so I want everyone to be as loud as humanly possible
for each other right now and wanna keep that going.
(crowd cheering and clapping)
- Ben, if you're watching, I'm gonna get you the picture.
I took a picture of you with Bobby.
Enjoy the book.
The community's great.
Why can't I say potato sack?
I don't know.