- Let's do it.
Bavaro's the gum. - [Man] That's a rookie.
- Am I allowed to eat this gum?
This is, what now, '86--
- [Crewmember] '86 is 14, 32 years old.
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- You got your perspective.
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I get very upset when people try
to suppress people from hard working,
without realizing that, that's what makes that person happy,
and do I believe that hard work is an essential part
of the kind of success that people define?
I do.
Do I think working so many hours that it burns you out,
that you need to retire, or quit,
or you're unhappy in perpetuity is bad?
Of course I do.
I think this is a self-awareness game,
and actually I think it's a much more interesting game
of do you know why you're working
or what are you trying to achieve?
I would go crazy sitting on a farm in middle America,
or doing 28 weeks of vacation's not what makes me happy.
But I unbelievably am happy for the people makes it happy.
I love the process of building something
the way I wanna build it.
I think it's about self-awareness.
I think the cool part for me is Clouds and Dirt
was really the entrepreneurial framework that I live in,
which is like, have your dreams, your aspirations,
like live in the clouds, but if like,
one thing I admire about you
and the other people that we've given 'em to,
is like, you're willing to get in the dirt, right?
You're background of how you were successful speaks
to that athletically, but then like,
as you made the transition to an entrepreneur
and a personality, I see that in you.
Work ethic, like, not being too fancy,
like putting in the fucking work.
- Yeah. - The dirt.
One thing that I try to remind people
is like, talent is part of this.
Also, for whatever reason, you were fortunate enough
to figure out a talent you had.
- Yeah. - And like, went all in on it,
and oh by the way, you gave up
your fucking childhood to do it.
- There you go, yeah. - Like everybody thinks I'm
so lucky and I'm like, you're lucky!
You went to high school parties.
- Yeah. - I fucking worked.
I went home 75% of my weekends during my college career,
taking Amtrak, not even fucking Acela.
No fucking first class.
Shit Amtrak, eating a bull shit sandwich,
which I kind of loved and I miss that sandwich.
(laughs)
Get into New York, not New York,
not even New York, which would be fun,
fucking Woodbridge New Jersey Train Station,
at like 8 o'clock.
My dad would pick me up, we'd drive home,
and then I would wake up at 6:30 in the morning
and work in the liquor store on Saturday,
and then leave back to Boston on Sunday,
and now I'm lucky.
It's hard to think you're lucky
when you fucking eat shit when nobody else is eating shit.
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If you look at the current state of social media,
you would think that 98% of the time in entrepreneurship
it's sunny and rosy and fun, when reality it's the reverse.
I mean reality is entrepreneurship is extremely lonely.
The reality is most people spend a lot of their time, day in
and day out, in dark clouds, not sunshine.
It is, you know I always say, I even make jokes when I enter
back into the country, it used to say "occupation".
There's times when I've written firefighter.
I wake up and expect texts of negative things.
When you own your own business,
every thing is your own fault.
Everything the business is struggling with is your fault,
and you are basically in the business of putting out
negative fires, anticipating negativity.
Getting prepared for clouds to come over.
You are basically always looking for shelter,
and umbrellas and rain boots.
You are living in that.
And I think that something I make fun of a lot,
which is swans in pools in the Hamptons.
And I think if swans represent fake entrepreneurship,
I literally think that worms and frogs represent
real entrepreneurship to me.
Because I literally think about
who comes out when it rains a lot.
In Jersey as a kid, I would see frogs and worms more often
after rainstorms or during rainstorms, and I feel like those
animals represent entrepreneurship dramatically more than
a fucking blown up swan in a fake environment
during a fluffy economy.
Look, we're all trying to achieve and enjoy the
sunshine and the prosperity of it all,
but the reality is disproportionately our time is spent
in navigating or anticipating dark clouds.
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- Alright we have the goat, the legend right here.
So Gary, what would you tell these young athletes on when
they want to inspire to be something
and get to the next level.
- First of all realize how ridiculously impossible it is.
I think the biggest issue that most young athletes have
is that they don't realize the math.
0.01% make it.
So I think 1,
It's not about be practical and have a Plan B,
I don't believe in that necessarily either,
it's just that, really be thoughtful about how much
extra work it takes.
If you're not in the gym, somebody else is.
- Facts.
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- Here's the best advice.
Live your fucking life and tune out everybody else.
Everybody out here is so fucking worried about
everybody else's opinion but you're all full of shit
on social media, PR'ing yourself, when in reality you
got a lot of real shit going on in your head.
So stop fucking fronting and start living.
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You're valuing other people's opinions about your L.
It's a scarlet letter.
The reason I'm always comfortable,
I lose all the time.
I just don't care about what your comment is about my loss.
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The second you don't care about other people's opinions,
like you mom, your dad, your friend, your homies,
social media, people you told you're going to be successful,
the second you don't care about anybody's opinion,
the second that self doubt just ghosts,
because it has no value, 'cause I'm just playing.
You know, I think that there's a deep inherent understanding
in my mind, that there's only one at bat and I don't want
to leave anything on the table.
Most people don't want to work.
Most people don't find what they love.
Most people don't have enormous ambitions.
Most people prefer you to stop,
because it makes them insecure while you keep winning.
There's no greater gift in life,
than to have the people you love be happy and healthy.
The second biggest gift in life,
is to fucking love what you do so much,
that you only want to work.
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People struggle with contextual lies in time.
- 28.
- At 20 years old, I was the liquor store,
that's holding this event tonight, in the basement,
packing packages at night.
I worked every day, I just was patient.
The biggest thing is what're you looking for.
The biggest issue that somebody as young as you has,
is contextualizing patience.
The way to get most happy,
is to be held accountable for everything.
What do you want?
Everybody here, everybody, from 68 years old
to the youngest person here, we all can have 4 years of
not producing a whole lot and still have time do shows.
Like I get so pumped when people start finally quantifying
how old they really are.
People out here, 45 years old, like thinking it's over.
You're gonna live to fucking 100.
You're gonna live 40 more years.
That's the best part of entrepreneurship,
it's just in perpetuity right?
- People always ask you stuff,
how do you have the answer for everything they ask you?
- Because there's only like 7 answers.
- Wow.
(laughing)
Thank you.
- Your welcome man.
Somewhere along the line, I realized I had something to
give, like I'm kinda good, and I have an abundance of
energy and thoughts, and I'm thrilled to feed it.
It obviously feeds me, I like the attention and the
positive reinforcement and whatever else it may be.
It just feels very...
I love to communicate.
To me to be very frank, the thing that's really brought me
a lot of energy is, being able to get through to 15
to 25 year old guys, because they think I'm cool,
to then push to them the propaganda of kindness and
patience, and high work and empathy and caring.
I'm not sure, in the world, this will make sense to you
based on what I've been talking about tonight.
In a world where I know,
when you have the right thing, squeeze it hard,
I may never have another time in my career,
because of what's happening on YouTube and Instagram,
with me, to affect what a lot of 15 to 25 year old guys
think is the right thing to do,
and I feel an enormous sense of responsibility,
they are the hardest group to get through.
So, I feel huge responsibility right now.
And I don't know if I'll ever have a moment again,
where they're listening at this scale and I'm very
energized right now because I know I'm making things,
I'm putting things on a pedestal, like patience.
I'm really invigorated by it.
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Of course.
- So we did this a few weeks back, we had 1500 people
watch us live on Facebook, on a cross-platform,
that's 1500 people live,
watch us open a 1954 Bowman Nickel Pack.
And what's great is that I always get nervous
that you're gonna get shit, and no one cares.
They're like, where's the fucking thrill of the hunt.
- Hey Gary what's going on bud.
- 86 baby, Al Toon,
I know the rice is what people want but I want Al Toon.
Let's do it.
Alright here we go.
86, 86, 86 cello.
- [Man] This is by the way, Gary, our first ever live
vintage break on location.
We're starting that series.
We want to do it outside Yankee stadium.
- First of all, Bavaro's the gum,
am I allowed to eat this gum?
- Of course you are.
- Oh I'm gonna do it, this what now?
- [Man] 86, is 14, 32 years old.
- [Man] Do it!
- You could get sick.
- [Man] Oh, wow!
What's the odor on you and how long...
Hey Chris how's everything what's up bud?
(laughing)
It's no good.
- I'm good.
- [Man] Mike quick, 1000 yard club.
- [Man] I used to love 1000 yard club.
- [Man] Penny, easily a solid safety,
- [Man] Made the hall of fame.
- [Man] Greg Coleman, the punter,
I don't remember him at all.
Bryan Holloway, all-pro patriot,
That's a problem for me.
By the way, I've swallowed the gum.
(laughing)
Just if there's any confusion.
These are really off center.
(cheering)
- That's a nice Pete Rose!
Now you'll give that back to me later.
- Of course it's all yours.
- Get out of here, how cool is that?
So this to me is a solid PSA8,
It's a little bit off center Gary.
- Way better in center than this fucking Mike Caldwell.
- Yeah exactly, that's a nice card.
That's Valentine.
- Look how fucked up this--
- Yeah.
Oh.
Wow, that's a nice pack.
- We should get them grayed though.
- Yeah we'll see that.
So what we're gonna do Gary,
we're gonna gray these,
and you're gonna give them out at some point
in the future to any one of your many fans.
- What is going to go down at the national
in Chicago this year--
- I'm so excited.
- I'm coming guns a blazing.
- Oh.
- I'm coming, I'm out of control for four days.
I'm gonna do crazy shit, I'm gonna have like Drake there,
I'm gonna try to break the place.
Brother, such a pleasure.
- Pleasure.
- Ryan, we'll set this up, I love you brother.
Good to see ya.
Alright, Tyler get me the fuck outta here.
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