Unlocking NFT Utility with VeeFriends Access Tokens | WeeklyVee 013

i think people are incredibly naive to what i'm up to so the i think the best buy in all of v friends were the access tokens if this is it i'm pumped this is why blockchain's profound this is the jammer here so i want to give you guys as much info as i can this is why you bought a hangout it's a big [ __ ] fish i think a lot of people misunderstand how valuable access is you [ __ ] that was nasty i really do believe when you say you're just getting started like 100 you do not love losing you i lost lose

heading up to uh milo's right now here with may who i adore we're at milos in hudson yards about to do the dinner gear session which was one of the access tokens in uh series one friend so let's go see how this combo goes i might be the most ambitious and content person ever it's super rare it's why i'm weird it's why i pop it's why i'm different you're talking about massive contradictions i am if this is it i'm pumped yet i want to be number one of all time i don't want a contradiction at all it's fun it's just i enjoy it for the fun i enjoy the complexity of trying one two touches all right just getting out of the dinner here with the boys we're kind of getting back super excited about the v friends access tokens really looking forward to tomorrow big day the series two starts we've got the video games and the bubble hockey i'll take that back drock i love you see you later instagram what's good i'm live no we're not oh we're super live it's a lovely lady came she wanted to play some uno actually you know what i'm gonna let people show up to the live i'm just gonna sip my really yeah i'm gonna just sip my coffee here be friends uno was played we played for an hour played three games why don't you tell the fans at home how many you won in three games zero victories for the visiting team three and oh baby such a pleasure nice to meet you yes sir have you been practicing yeah i know i'm [ __ ] you played as a kid i did mom and i played when we first came to america a lot uh and i have really fond memories of it when i first started working with my dad it was a big transition period because they were still coming from dvds and like our industries in a time yeah a lot of niche industries get stuck that's where the opportunity is there was no liquor store i talk a lot about being early my direct 10 competitors didn't build a website for two full years you know how much of an advantage that was yeah it's crazy hey bill i'm in the mood for a switcher i hit the function hit the roads i hit the staging nintendo time nintendo damn it's in an xbox controller no all right let's start with ice hockey this is the jam right here did your dad support your ideas like all the way through the business or more just later pretty early on i was putting winds on the board okay yeah from day one even at 14. he was like sell this wine and like at lunchtime he'd be gone and be like what the [ __ ] so like right away i kind of got a lot of clout with him yes my dad definitely gave me the room but what i love about that it was earned because my dad wouldn't have done that if i was a schlemiel they wanna knock me down but somehow

i need bigger pugs i won like nine out of ten bubba hockey games you feel like that was right maybe seven that didn't quite get the shutout yeah and we enjoyed the games but now to go to a climb somehow i meeting stay up

i finally figured out what i'm going to do i think i'm going to make like one of the best pfp projects ever i know that sounds kind of audacious but it's the right way to think if you don't think it for yourself who the [ __ ] gonna think it yeah you're right but i'm more like practical you know what i mean so well i'm uncomfortably practical yeah and i always think i'm gonna build the best yeah i hope that's like i don't think i think too many people think that's a contradiction i actually think it's the punchline really i do i think people struggle with things that seemingly on paper seem opposite when in reality it's the thing meaning to your point going out and saying i'm going to build a business that sounds outlandish yeah the reality is 99 of people in the world that have ever said things like that don't mean it and it's a cover-up for their insecurity but everybody who's ever done it also thought it yeah like tom brady really did go i mean i hate this keep using it pisses me off but i know the stories and you have to use the stories you know he really got drafted in the sixth round he really in the first practice went up to the owner of the team and said this is gonna be the best decision in your life that really happened yeah it's a michigan difference but you know to me that's real stuff so i when i hear it as an optimist i'm like yeah okay vlog just did uh the brunch bears so the whole fun thing to show the utility nature of nfps i think a lot of people misunderstand how valuable access is and it was important for me with be friends to create an access level not just the conference not just building out the ip from a collectible standpoint so it's kind of fun living the access life all right everybody love you okay what do we got for me can i do a rant video my friends i am running around this world getting dm'd 24 7 running into people in the street dabbing it up 24 7 in meetings one-on-ones groups keynotes dm private email it's all the same game everyone's trying to figure out how to be [ __ ] happy and they think it's the bag cash the wallet they think it's stuff sneakers and [ __ ] they think it's a relationship a validation like a blue [ __ ] check mark they think it's all this outside [ __ ] new york times bestseller million followers ceo it's all [ __ ] the only way you can get happy which is what you're all asking for is to go [ __ ] inside with yourself outside validation is a zero-sum game people are gonna boo for you if they're in a bad [ __ ] place people gonna cheer for you if they're in a good [ __ ] place that has nothing to [ __ ] do with you and your process to get yourself happy you wanna get happy start talking to yourself simplify [ __ ] make it about you yourself not your parents not your plus one not the [ __ ] world you with yourself by yourself for you simplify that [ __ ] get happy love yourself love your [ __ ] self everybody else sucks too everybody else is good at other stuff too just love your [ __ ] self

this is why the blockchain's profound i could in nine years say okay if you have one of each of the three b-con tickets from that original thing go here burn them do this happens and this happened that's fun yeah it's game play in perpetuity yeah i don't know who has my wine sneakers but i'll always know or can always check who owns a b friend yeah and i can do things it's cool yeah it's really game-changing it's game-changing that's why i like my gos that's why i branded them because i think about like watching the providence of where they end up and they're like do i want to do things with that like it's really just fun forgot mine yeah i bought it directly yeah i know i just don't you know that's what's also cool you don't have to pay attention where they go no of course you think you're [ __ ] down anytime you look yeah that's really cool the blockchain's amazing like [ __ ] amazing yeah like fun

i'm in the midst of dropping series 2 but we're doing bowling boa a bunch of people bowling i'm really excited about it and so i'm going to pull my ass off i'm not as confident i'm a i'm an 80 to 120 bowler [ __ ] you [ __ ] i know i've been dominating the games don't expect too much for me here but i'll do what i can but i invested in twitter in 2007 by 2011 people were like oh you did a good job four years ago and then it was like and it wasn't like a really great win until like eight years later 99. 9 of the world doesn't know about be friends today and in 15 years like 25 will for sure in that delta is like [ __ ] insanity people are bad at that everything's so condensed by the hour by the second by the moment nobody even knows what other teas are yet i got very lucky i don't know if i would have known my dad if i didn't

go into the family business like it's almost hard for me to remember but like my dad a very challenging childhood lost his dad at 15 never saw him and his mom who i knew very well was a beacon of negativity you know my dad in a lot of ways got dramatically more positive once i came into his life like i've been having kind of memories of it like he progressed a lot you know in the 15 years i was with him every day kind of thing so i'm very empathetic to it my mom is such a positive energy so i've seen both and i was very close to my parents so i got a real view of it so i'm very i feel like i'm always able to resonate with people because i've got real [ __ ] experience on both sides of the equation i'm sorry i hurt my back no need to apologize it's my birthday happy birthday that's awesome happy birthday thank you sorry i'm just being in an awkward position i'm rolling my ass would you remind us about the vision like what is viking what does it mean to you that this is happening the deepaks the spike lees the pharrells me included maybe me most of all included all of that is seven percent of the vision 93 of the vision is summer camp that's why it's three years i have what people don't know about the ida crew iraq eric and glenn to the guys that are you know pop up and like some of this stuff very limited content but people know both got kicked out of school in the first semester i went to school with them for 12 weeks i'm still talking to them 28 years later by the way back to my point it all happened the first weekend all of it i knew that discord would build a community i can't even imagine the excitement that people are feeling right now to meet each other in real life yeah family reunion vibes 100 wait to the third day of actually hanging out for three straight days now you're fully in family mode what the [ __ ] do you think the con 2023 looks like i think the relationship graph with each other be friends with me friends is gonna be profound i think people are going to find the love of their life being dead [ __ ] serious i think people are going to find their business partner of the future i think people are going to find creativity trading partners i believe we're an actual community in a sea of non-communities and i think it's going to be unbelievable please let's make sure we protect people that have won for the first time during this era there's a lot of people running around their friend circles right now with a little bit of like a haha told you were stupid you should have listened to me and bought a board ape their self-identity their self-worth is tied into the fact that they played the nft market properly in the last year when when they lose because they're gambling and they haven't fully seen it they'll be a big percentage of that some will sell that but when that person that i just described loses they're gonna have a very difficult time facing their friends and family because they've been gloating when there's a market correction and they lose they're going to be in a very bad emotional state and i don't want to lose any of our community to darkness depression unhappiness or worse the ultimate crime and this has all the elements of that the reason i'm bringing this up is i hope we start talking about things like hey if you're winning in nfts don't make fun of your non-nft winning friends build them up and teach them what's good bad and indifferent because i see a ton of youthful energy misplaying it and i've seen this in wall street web one i've seen this on web2 the amount of money that's about to be lost over the next three years is profound their self-worth is gonna go down with it and when your self-worth goes away you become incredibly vulnerable to isolationism so let's be more thoughtful in this space there's incredible stuff going on it's amazing but there's a lot of money integrated into this and with money comes a lot of danger we need thoughtful combos in the space and that's why i wanted to give that spiel right now thank you everyone love all of you yeah i have so many og friends like from the wine world and like 70 80 90 year olds gary can i speak to you for 15 minutes and you know they're the ogs that i grew up with so i'm like i got you know johnny and then they spend the entire 13 minutes [ __ ] on crypto and i love it because i understand the essence of it but i always end the same way i'm like kind of take the punches and then i'm like johnny how much cash do you have on you right now i'm like you do know that your grandfather said the same thing about credit cards like that's where history's a [ __ ] son of a [ __ ] go read the quotes from people interviewed in newspapers in the 60s about credit cards oh dude i've got one better for you want to hear something crazy listen to this is a true story back in the day when they made the transition to canvas paintings there were haters that came out because they said it's not permanent it's not on the wall it can be damaged everyone discounted canvas paintings and thought they were a cheaper knockoff than having something done permanent on a wall or a structure so how quick is how crazy is that isn't it great because now what's happening with nfts today was a good day i enjoyed it you know typical 12 hours of passion by the way how does it feel for you to be an artist now do you think of yourself as an artist you know i used to always think of entrepreneurship as art like i really think being an entrepreneur is incredibly artistic the tough part of being an artistic entrepreneur is the money part clouds it and it can look dark but it's such a pure game of art yeah the motivation for the person running it if they're doing it well they almost certainly don't just care about the money right like i'm in a weird place where it's outside collateral noise to the process yeah i'm aware of it i'm grateful for it it's not like i'm not demonizing it like i love it for people for me it's all about freedom which i don't think is just predicated about money but of course money is one of the pillars of freedom depending on how one looks at the world i just like being artistic i fell in my pocket with legal tend to cost me to be the winner fly out before i can see the winner no more tv then call time gang good to see all of you v friends series one is my alpha pass so i will continue to build on top of that in perpetuity series two because i know we're right in the storm right now so i want to give you guys as much info as i can this is why you bought a hangout hawk series two is very special because this is how the world's gonna really know this legendary character not my drawing series two was always planned to be very close to series one the reason i in the discord have been talking about series three being far out it's because it's far out like i know a lot of you do pay attention i alluded to not having series two early more to make sure that people like held onto their series one because i knew that would be in their best interest but series two was always in play because i knew to build out the ip i had to create series two because the animations and the toys and the video games and the candies needed series two it couldn't be built on series one but series three is not happening next year i want to inspire educate or nothing else try to take risks that can help the beautiful faces in here because this community in here this 2700 person group doesn't understand how early we are i can't believe how many people feel like they're competing with other projects when i see moon birds go bananas i have friends reach out to me and say hey are you upset about moon birds it took so much liquidity out of the market for the series two like first of all kevin rose is not only someone i admire he's actually one of my truest dear friends a b even if i didn't know him from adam no nobody's winnings come out of my winnings and we're all just starting we need to build each other up and so let's just talk some facts right now people are talking about community in this space but they're not acting that way i let them think what they wanted cause [ __ ] i got bundles of bread and they bothering headed to wine library the original stomping grounds for wine shopping spree woodchuck right it's going off from memory uh but i'm excited about it so we're gonna go do that i was gonna say something i'm gonna wait till you get there because i wanna see if we do it okay that's funny i can't wait to see what that's about tell me when hello everybody and welcome to wine library tv my dad is a piece of work this is a classic sasha special russian sardines sam what's the strategy of russian sardines in the most prime spot i can't fight i'm over there that just feel like overkill

so that was what you were saying it happened it's still a real passion of mine i'm such a retailer shining so hard to go see me in there no more tv dinners all that i know is i know what i know and i gotta go learn what i don't i've been the middle of the night got a new riddle to write that's the life of an artist 2009 most influential people in jersey i made noise right away think about that like think about like in 09 like winning that honor but like most people didn't even know who i was until five years ago and that's like [ __ ] 13 years ago you know what i mean it takes time people don't get it i really do believe when you say you're just getting started 100 basically that 2009 most influential people in new jersey is how i feel about myself right now no matter what everybody thinks but you don't get it i like coming here it's cool right it is history it's definitely my history

just now we're talking yesterday we went to wine library for the wine shopping spree which getting the store is so different than when i was there but there was a plaque hanging still outside one of the offices of me being 2009 new jersey's 101 most influential people and it was kind of i just kind of reacted to the way dustin reacted i'm like yeah man it takes time like 2009 i get that little like micro local acknowledgement that's 100 000 years ago and like nobody on earth knew who i was in 2009 in the scheme of things and it's kind of like what i'm really spending time on with myself is it's obviously a very different scale today but god willing like it's going to be very different in 10 years and so like it's just trying to like continue to be able to absorb it because it gets different every time it's definitely at a real level now where it's like changed the way my life is on a day-to-day basis and then just trying to anticipate what that is ten years from now and then also trying to navigate maybe it won't be as aggressive it's already happened my content as garyvee is quite down from a year ago because so much is going into developing the characters i believe that emotional intelligence has now become the only variable in business success that everything else is a commodity that i can find a million people that know how to work in an excel sheet and manage inventory but i think i can find 400 billion people that understand how to run costs on product like that everything has become commoditized in a global economy except the ability to understand humanity so we're on the boat

i'm gonna do some fishing another uh experience in the uh v friends series one access tokens timing is deep in the series two launch right now see how it goes plenty of things i can go with this morning but most of all i'm just gonna go with gratitude what an incredible fuel for everything remember in my childhood i would just be grateful every day that my parents didn't die i was so scared of my parents dying when i was a kid and so life was so simple i didn't have [ __ ] but i'm just happy my parents were around and i think simplicity is such a superpower and i think gratitude and simplicity in a relationship are profound right now as you're watching this video this morning you're worried about something at work or something with a neighbor or something financial and it's really small in the scheme of actual life it's definitely not something you're going to care about when you're 88 so on this friday morning the simplicity of being grateful for the simple is the chat are you relatively good bishop i'm one of the best of all time it's a big [ __ ] fish oh look at it wow thank you sir this is an enormous topic of conversation luck you know anybody who succeeds there's incredible pushback you got lucky and a lot of people struggle with it and by the way me and my youth as well because the sheer amount of work it actually takes actual work ethic execution for someone to succeed in our society it's incredibly difficult for that person to accept when people throw luck at them because they know the truth of their work ethic however as somebody who's worked very hard eight human beings in russia in 1970 decided an outlandish plan to get out of the soviet union by hijacking a plane and acting like they were going to a wedding got caught by the kgb luckily golda meir in israel and franco and spain decide to care about this singular event and creates enough pressure on the ussr that hasn't blinked at that point in 52 years to let brezhnev say you know what let's let out a couple of jews appease the world and we can continue on our path and i get to be one of those people you have to be able to accept both sides of the coin everybody this is uh the end of this episode and the end of weekly d the team and i have decided it's just okay and so we're gonna adjust and we'll go back to dailyvee we like the context the speed the output it won't be it'll be dailyvee because it's a day in the life it won't be dailyvee from what you knew before where it was every day always just not the reality of our world these days but please leave some comments and let us know about your excitement of dailyvee coming back your thoughts on weeklyv your thoughts on this episode and we'll see you soon