- On this final episode of the year
of The #AskGaryVee Show,
I talk about the Jets, Scooter Braun,
and cloning myself?
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You ask questions, and I answer them.
This is The #AskGaryVee Show.
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Hey everybody, this is Gary Vay-ner-chuk,
and this is episode 58 of The #AskGaryVee Show.
Before we get into the questions,
this will be the last episode of the year
because tomorrow I go away with my family
two weeks off the grid.
Super excited actually, I just told Steve.
Unfortunately, I couldn't finish everything.
This is ultimate hustle.
Monday while in Mexico, the way Steve says it,
I will have to do some hours of work,
but in the Gary Vee show world, 58,
that's what we got under the gun in 2014.
It was a good run.
We started when? September?
Help me. - [DRock] August.
- August, thanks, DRock.
Not bad, did a nice job.
Got a nice number.
That's actually gonna be the question of the day.
What is your prediction for the amount of shows
we execute in 2015?
We'll make this like the almond thing.
If anybody gets it right, actually, no, no, no.
I'm not doing that.
It's not gonna be that hard.
Somebody would definitely get it right.
So, I'm not doing anything.
That is not the question of the day.
Let's go into the show.
- [Voiceover] Akos asks, "When you're working on a project,
"with clients, how much is done online like Skype
"versus in-person meetings?"
- Akos, I can't speak for the whole VaynerMedia team,
and I think they're all individual,
but at my level, or what I do,
not even probably, probably not predicated in my level,
just the way I roll when I think about
the client stuff that I do, ya know,
I would say 10% on text,
40, actually I'm not gonna try to
make this round out to 100.
Let's see, it probably is predominantly e-mail,
solid amount face-to-face, I'm a big face-to-face kinda fan,
almost non-existent phone, and growing,
'cause I'm pushing them, into more text,
so face-to-face is probably 25%,
the rest is digital.
No Skype or Google Plus, any of that kind of stuff.
I'm just, I'm predominantly face-to-face,
e-mail is number one, face-to-face, texting,
and that's that.
No GoToMeeting, none of that stuff.
- [Voiceover] Erik asks, "Do you watch your own videos?"
- Erik, the answer to this question is no.
It was funny, Steve was just going through the questions.
DRock was like, "No, 'cause he..."
I've never watched a full episode of The #AskGaryVee Show
or any of the 1089 wine videos.
I made 1000 Wine Library TV, 89 Daily Grape.
Oh by the way, this is gonna pass Daily Grape
at some point pretty soon.
That is the fun fact, that I have actually had three,
I would say I have two shows,
it's actually three.
Anyway, sorry.
Me and Steve nerding a little bit about wine.
The answer is I don't.
I've watched some of my video stuff
because I'm showing somebody some stuff.
As a matter of fact, now that DRock,
Staphon are in my life, they make me watch edited things.
We have a big new edited video up today.
Sorry, DRock, I guess we decided we're launching it today.
Ah ha!
So now I have actually seen some of my longer form stuff
'cause I have to like look at it 'cause it's edited,
but I know what I do on the show.
I'm living it.
So no, I don't watch the show.
- [Voiceover] Glenn asks, "Can you elaborate
"on what the middle is and why it sucks?"
- Glenn, this is a great question.
You know, to me the middle is the commodity work
and thinking that everybody else does.
Meaning, it's what the market's doing right now.
Like, it's when start-ups pitch me,
"We're gonna do something in the photo app space."
You mean like everybody's been doing
for the last five years?
It's commodity work, ya know?
I think if you're not trying to break things,
you're not doing a good job,
or back to clouds and dirt, non-middle,
if you're not doing like, you know what's so funny?
I've sat through four pitches today,
and I've liked two, and one is because
the two guys are just doing the work.
They're like in the weeds.
They're not doing the big holistic branding thinking
game-changing stuff.
They're just executing, but at a raw level.
I just find that there's not that many
hardcore practitioners, and there's even less big
where's the world going, ya know,
one of those trends at the highest level
where am I doing the kind of things at the highest level,
and so I don't really know how to explain the work
but you're surrounded, I'm sorry,
I don't really know how to explain the middle,
but you're surrounded by it 99.9% of your life.
- Hey Gary, I have a question for you for #AskGaryVee.
- Who cares about that question, Gary.
This is a more important question.
How are you, if you were the owner of the New York Jets,
gonna turn around this team
and make us a Super Bowl contender?
Because we both know that's all that matters,
and he's a Giants fan.
Who gives a shit what he has to say?
- Go Giants.
- Thanks Brad and Scooter for the question.
Ya know, I mean the true answer to the question,
'cause I love, you know, we've decided to go straight
on this show.
The true answer is, I'd go in and audit.
That's what I'd do.
So, as close as I am working with the Jets as a client,
watching every play, staying on top of it,
there's still nuances that are just not, you know,
known to me.
You know, I think one thing I would do, for example,
if I bought the Jets today, I would mandate from the top,
and this would probably make it a little harder to get a GM,
and so that's something I'd have to quantify,
but I would mandate that we draft a quarterback
every two years in the first two rounds of the NFL draft
until we had our guy, right?
So like I think it's a quarterback league.
The rules go in that way,
and you have to reverse engineer to the league,
and so, for example, right now I would draft a quarterback
in round one or two this year because,
though I've given Gino the benefit of the doubt,
he's clearly not the overwhelming
this is Andrew Luck sitting in our pocket.
So, we have to draft another quarterback,
and if it's not politically correct to Gino and his agents
or to the New York media or the fan base,
I wouldn't care because I would dictate to victory
and I think that's the right strategy right now in the NFL.
If you do not have a quarterback first two rounds,
you draft one.
You bring 'em in, if you don't feel good about,
I'd give it 24 months, but after full 24 months,
after a second season of that player,
by the way, whether he played a snap or not,
I would draft another one and another one and another one
until I had one because that is the lynchpin.
I'd also work on the PR team.
I would do a weekly show, livestream show
with the fan base so they could pound me
with all their angers, and I'd pound them back
'cause that's the kind of owner I'd be.
I would do a bunch of marketing things,
you've heard me in the past.
I'd send a jersey of a Jets jersey to every six-year-old
in the tri-state area on their sixth birthday.
I would probably do a ton of inappropriate things
at this point there's, ya know, like
get into it with the media because they think
they're out of their mind with the way
they're handling the Jets in this Giants city.
I would like watch the game from the stands
which I think would be an interesting new thing,
but that would be tough because I'd curse at opponents,
and the NFL would try to reel me in.
So those are some of the things I'd be doing.
- [Voiceover] Evan asks, "If you could clone yourself,
"would you?"
- Evan, this is a tremendous question,
and a great one to end the year.
Especially 'cause I announced that I'm going away
with my family for two weeks.
This is as easy a question as they've come.
I would 100%, I mean this is the best,
I really wish this technology existed
because I would take that person, Gary Two.
Who is actually Gary Two?
The clone version, or?
Anyway, I would take the clone version
and I would make that person spend
every waking moment with my family.
They'd sit at home, you guys,
what's that?
(laughs)
Why is that funny?
- [Steve] I thought it was a nice answer.
- [DRock] I would send the first one first.
- What's that?
- [DRock] I would send yourself.
- Oh, I don't care.
Keep this rolling by the way, first of all.
No editing here.
No, no, I don't think you understand.
The fact of the matter is is they're the same person.
Are you saying that,
no but listen, maybe that was an insight that we didn't,
maybe I love my business more than my family.
Sorry, this is a tough way to end the show and the year.
The bottom line is, sorry that DRock has become
the cynical one, but,
Steve, the torch has been passed,
I would take the equal version of it
and have that person sit at home every minute
and be with my family because then I would
be able to accomplish the two things that I want
at one time, and so that would be the answer.
(laughs)
Question of the day.
How much do you hate DRock?
(laughs)
You keep asking questions.
I'll keep answering them.
(beep) Hey everybody, welcome to 58.
Oh, Jesus.
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- [Steve] We miss one day.
- Rusty, rust.
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