CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD, BLACK PRIVILEGE & STARTING TO LOVE YOURSELF | #AskGaryVee 248

on this episode Charlamagne the god comes by and talks black privilege opportunity comes to those who created in book stores now you ask questions and I answer them this is the Ask Gary show hey everybody this is Gary Bay ner Chuck and this episode 248 of the Ask Gary ve show we flip the script usually I'm in your world y I'm excited about this yeah man uh for the three people that don't know who you are let them know uh sham the god the prime minister of pissing people off the ruler rubbing you the wrong way the architect of aggravation that's me now author of black privilege opportunity comes to those who create it radio personality TV personality professional slang spitter heavy- hited [ __ ] talker wow M you you know you really got your thing down that was really strong so listen one thing that excites me is you you're interesting to me because I think you really really get it mhm the reason I've really enjoyed getting to know you and your crew is like I just think you get it and what I mean by getting it is I think you're intent is good I love that everything's about intent and then I think you understand where attention is and I like the way that you put yourself in positions to be heard to hack culture MH uh I just think you're smart and I think you're a nice guy yeah thank you I appreciate that my grandmother always told me manners will take you where money won't so I mean you know I don't have like a formal education I didn't go to college or anything like that so all I have is like what you got that's what I got so when I walk in the room I just try to you know show love to everybody treat every the way I would want to be treated treat him with respect and you know it seems good things come from that now you you're pring this book this is coming out now it's shortly when April 18th I don't know when this podcast is going to at but now live questions get ready Facebook get ready we're about to do some calls uh start are we live oh we're Facebook live oh what that wakes you up a little more ready okay good the book is out April 18th okay you can pre-order now at uh Amazon Barnes & Nobles see book. com how' you get all these fancy people to give you quotes that's just years and years of networking man I mean I got Lena Dunham on the back Lena Dunham is somebody I met um maybe like a couple years ago I call her my problematic princess you know cuz I've always been a fan of girls and then she started responding to me on social media you know connects the world if it was Six Degrees of Separation before now it's like one or two true um EA Ray you know somebody who I a lot goes down on the DM yeah ister Ray I don't know if you know Easter Ray ister Ray has a show on HB called insecure and she's one of those people that has just utilized the digital world to her Advantage cuz she started off with a web called award black girl turned into a book now it's a hit television show called insecure Steven Co South Carolina Legend I've done the coar show how' you feel about South Carolina losing final four were you sad you really into it right yeah my wife went to the University of South Carolina I had a lot of sex in the quad house you know a lot of unprotected sex back in the day on on the University of don't promote theot you're going to get in trouble promote unprotected sex I'm married now no Trojan the brand is so you know could be watching I'm not talking about people I def used to wear Magnum when I was you know having sex with other women you know I see this book every like you're really doing it I'm trying man I'm trying to follow your lead well you did you follow that little hack direct to Amazon absolutely so what is exciting you right now you've OB got this what is the premise of black privilege is uh black privilege opportunity comes to those who create you know it's this whole concept in America of white privilege which is a very real concept you know um but I feel like wealth privilege no matter what you look like that's real wealth privileg is real celebrity privileges it's all type of celebrity privilege may be the realest of them all might it might why Donald Trump is President them all I absolutely agree with that so I just feel like you have to embrace what you have like I was created a black man like how you always talk about you know when when a person had sex one sperm sell out of M Millions it's just crazy Millions created us so it's a privilege just to be alive and be breathing so for me I am what I am I'm a black man in America so I have to find privilege within that like I can't look at a white person and be like oh he's got more privilege than me because of the color of his skin even though that may be true I still got to live it's a mindset like it's just like sports right like okay he's faster so you know drill into him cuz he's not as strong like yeah so I shouldn't run I shouldn't even compete just cuz he's fast me or I actually

genuinely think like look he's faster so like I'm stronger I'm going to bash him down for three qu and by the end I'll win like and by the way to Black privilege which I genuinely believe that in a world that we live in and by the way I believe in all those privileges wealth white celebrity it's a nice it's a better time to be black than it was 30 40 50 60 70 80 years ago especially when hip-hop culture there's not a white kid that works in Vader media that isn't affected by hip-hop culture oh yeah I mean black people have changed world I mean you know it's so funny uh you know they talk about people co-opting our culture but you know you look at a movie like get out like they want to co-op our Consciousness period they want to co-opt our spirits and I just feel like it's a spirit that is uh permeated the whole planet like everything starts and ends to me with hip-hop culture like they still like to use the term pop culture but pop culture just means popular what's the most popular culture out right now hip-hop let's go to the phones Andy and so and let's talk about hip-hop while Andy gets the first call who's exciting you right now um right now I still love Big Sean I think Big Sean is the best Rapp out right now kendri why do you think he's the best rapper like cuz I'm just simple with it lyrics delivery bars you know different flows I think Big Sean got that for whatever reason people don't take him serious enough why I don't know it's interesting with him like somebody like Kendrick can say something and everybody holds on his every Kendrick plays that role where he's like you know he positioned himself like thoughtful like that hello true hello what's your name hash Hashim Leon my man you're on the ascar V show with sha yes what's up my guy the God what's up brother how are you I'm good man I watch The Breakfast Club all the time I watch G all the time you sound like a very smart man you got good taste trying to get my life in order so what's your question my man all right so my name is hasm I have my wife Jetta um been together a high school s art um I have two baby girls right now 2-year-old and one-year-old another one a boy on the way and we've been documenting our life on Facebook so far for a while now what's a while since it first came out okay so you mean you've been put pictures of us yeah you've been putting up pictures okay so you mean like every other person on Earth yes okay just want to establish that my yeah my two-year-old daughter just like had a video that had 8 million views of just saying her saying goog Gaga oh God now you think she's going to be famous well she is famous no oh it's definitely I'm an artist but I'm an artist I'm a filmmaker I do as much as I can to provide for my family so do your thing I do things that actually get me famous but my kids are Naturals and they become they became models and stuff like that I love it now my question is how do I monetize something like this we have a huge following and I want to figure out how do you monetize that have you Brands reach out to you we've reached out to Brand my wife does that she reached out to different baby products and stuff like that and they've been giving us fre things to take pictures of with and stuff like that but how many followers do you how many have on Instagram and your Facebook fan page on Facebook I have 16,000 and on Instagram I have 1,300 you're not big enough I'm verified on Facebook I mean I'm that's always a difficult question for me cuz I don't think you should try to monetize Fame there's nothing attached to it like what are you famous for like if she had an actual skill or a talent or well she does it's I think so I think this is actually an interesting debate because I would say escapism is the fame right so like when people say what is she famous for like is watching Men run around and throw a ball into a basket or throw it around and run over each other when was that considered a h huge skill and when wasn't it you see where I'm going it's a really interesting time right like what becomes you know what it's amazing to watch America this Market make certain things skills kids did not get paid to be good at skateboarding in 1960 they do now because people will watch it so famous for the sake of famous has been around forever an icon named Jaa Gabor but they are zaja Gabor was didn't wasn't known for everything she tried to act everybody try to act I think it just comes down to attention so Zabo is the original Kim Kardashian is what you% okay got you it's true I just feel like you still have to have something attached to it listen the attach is escapism I think like if you're pretty that's escapism like eyes are on you mhm it's called modeling pretty girl privilege that's real that's that might be actually let's take the fame one out that might really be the one that might be the one my man listen here's the punch line I think you might be slightly delusional in a very sweet way I feel I can already tell you're a good guy you're just like

the numbers and I haven't even looked at the engagement rates against that Topline following account but like everybody's got 2,000 followers everybody's got 16,000 followers you can't monetize cuz Brands don't think it's special enough because you don't have enough of attention you're a TV show bro you just don't have enough viewers okay right so I think of course you think your kids are the most talented I literally think mine two are as well it's just what we do right like you got to let the math speak it's great that you're getting free stuff at those numbers that means your wife's a hustler and a salesperson and she's doing her thing getting free stuff at those numbers is already an accomplishment I kind of want to hire her send her my way cuz that's a good job for that small of a base to start getting paid 5 10 $15,000 by a brand you've got to get those numbers and engagement up period all right good luck what you said is interesting too about escapism though cuz I think some times you can have those numbers just because people are bored I don't know if I want people just to be tuning into me just cuz they're bored but they're tuning into everything cuz that board is the slang term for I'm not doing something right now and I want to do something else you know what's really interesting I'm also fascinated by when the political climate is rough like it is now like you know when people are scared during times of War these so during World War II one of the things that grew was the circus people had no money for porridge and they were going to see the circus because when life's hard you need to just do [ __ ] that doesn't matter like the Jets like the Jets mean so much more to me than people realize because it's the one place that I really care about something that really doesn't matter it does though it's a different level of excitement you get dressed you go some people feel that way about Runway shows about a new album dropping kids playing hacky sack everybody's got their different interests rap wasn't music remember until it was like everybody tried to diss the new thing Esports right Instagram models hello my man this is Gary ve and you're in to Ask Gary ve show he said Instagram model holy Christ okay what's your name man uh I'm Jonathan all right Jonathan lir from Rich Washington I love it man what's your question um okay so uh when you started the 2017 flip challenge I decided to try doing that some book let me just say one thing let me say one thing Jonathan I apologize because it just has to be mentioned for everybody who might not know this the reason the 2017 flip challenge happened was because I was on The Breakfast Club we were doing our thing and be said okay give a practical piece of advice because I'm good and I didn't fold and feel sad I came up with one on the spot which was go buy stuff at the dollar store and thrift stores sell stuff in your house and now there are tens of thousands of people selling stuff I'm getting crazy emails of like I had no money now I have $4,000 cuz I sold all my clothes that I don't wear so it's been huge I'm glad you jumped on it and thank you charlem for having me show to create that little micro movement go ahead Jonathan yeah okay so um made progress on that but it's going slower than I'd like we only made a couple thousand oh my God punch him come on bro how much did you have before zero well we put in like 2,000 so okay and so you good and so what what's how much are you working like spending time going to thrift stores or whatever you're doing to get these books and then flipping how much time are you allocating uh not as much for the result I want right now not as much time for those okay that's fine keep talkinging that yeah so um I wanted to because books though like the return for the time wasn't where I wanted to be y um me and my business partner for the um idea cuz we made a like an MC around it and anyway we were um wanting to scale up idea and so essentially just create um so because for the bookselling industry you have to like go to everyone who gets donations goodwi and so we just wanted to access the mainstream of donations ourselves and set up a system around that and like create a f Shop eom store and so I was wondering what your thoughts on the best way to do that would be well if you were impatient flipping books you're about to get really impatient because the ambition you have to build this to ARB out the Goodwill and the Salvation Army uh and Amazon resell is a beast so you know what I would say is you're going to need to really play and build something big it depends on your ambition right um so look to build a real platform like that you're talking about millions of dollars in development uh advertising and a decade see you don't see that's the problem with a lot of these kids nowadays they want it now instead of

realizing that you just got to appreciate the process and I'll say something about Jonathan I can tell that him and his homie wanted to be smarter they said wait a minute right like I can feel it from him Jonathan here's what I'm going to say if you want to be the platform that's such a big game everybody wants to be Uber and Airbnb and Amazon and Google right I don't want to be the platform like I want to still use Amazon for reselling I just want to get the donation so I don't have to pay over for the I know that you want to be a platform collection platform for the inventory so you can flip it the problem is you have zero awareness nobody knows you exist and to build real awareness you have to spend real money and do a lot of things or be very bright or things of that nature I would tell you there's a lot of different ways to think about it so for example you'll probably succeed quicker if you put up signs on trees all around your neighborhood and paid kids $5 an hour to garage sale and buy every book and then Arbitrage the garbage out all right okay you got to be annoying like DJ khed levels of annoying you've got to be like seriously charl man is a [ __ ] but he's myor my favorite one absolutely you got to be a lovable [ __ ] there's nothing wrong with selling yourself Jonathan before you worry about scale like I'm worried that you didn't put enough like you could like one thing that people don't realize is there's a lot of different ways to flip meaning you went to books that homie resi resells made a lot of money cuz he just went all macro he just bought every book and just made the ARB and then decided what to do with the bulk books every single person watching this right now can go to Marshalls buy sneakers flip them on Amazon and make money every single one now some people are happy with $22,000 for 11 hours of work this week others aren't you've got to figure out if reselling fits your ambition or if you need to be doing something altogether different what reselling is really good for in my opinion is for people that want to make under a 100,000 a year with the 19 hours a week that they waste that's set if you get really good and you're lucky I was giving that advice cuz thatb was pushing me like I got nothing so I was doing that I said Dollar Store I was like six bucks buy Six chachkas make 11 back go back buy 11 chachkas 19 back go buy 19 chachkas $43 back when I hear two kids got 2,000 the start you can make you that's a $10,000 sneaker flip from Marshalls I wonder what he wants like what what's what would be a number that's that that's a good goal for you like what do you want what would make you happy well what time scale yeah but like so okay let's go there what's your time worth bro what per hour Jonathan um like this last week no you've got this thought in your mind of my time is so [ __ ] valuable that I've got to make it efficient in your mind what is the money you want to make per hour well I don't like to have a time workk per hour I just have a goal for like about 15 years from now what's the goal um couple hundred million a couple hundred million good man okay not like B I have an actual specific number it's 440 but that's because my ultimate ambition is to go to Mars yeah well then dude then like so you're telling me your ultimate ambition is to go to Mars not the 440 million right but I want the money to be able to make sure I have three times as much needed so you're hustling to go to Mars the way Gary hustles to buy the Jets he's hustling to go to Mars nothing wrong with that I'm not mad I'm super happy I think you should document you should you should literally document your Journey to Mars bro I'll watch it all right man good luck let's move on I mean listen I think that would listen that's an interrup I've never heard that before he's selling books cuz he wants to the world Wow Let's get one more no but listen I think look let's make this valuable for everybody Jonathan is super valuable to so many of you the same way Taylor really hit a nerve for so many of you Jonathan is so worried about something so macro do you know how much I worry about buying the New York Jets goose egg Robert Parish it's what I'd like to happen but I don't think about it every second in every little transaction macro transactions when I sold a piece of this [ __ ] Empire to Steven Ross I thought about that cuz he's the owner of dolphins and that whole thing but not on every little transaction not when I was selling books doing every little thing Stephanie L My Ghost Rider the best in the game did you use a Ghost Rider um no I wrote Stephanie Stephanie's responsible for

all four of those things actually becoming a real thing who's this Shandra hello this is Gary ve and you're in the Ask Gary ve show with Charlamagne the God what's up Sandra get the [ __ ] out here oh my God yo that's CRA yo y'all are like the two most like my most favorite people ever like that's it's so cra I never even put my number in here before until today like that's crazy wait a minute wait a minute you've never put your number before you didn't love me enough to put your number before it took Charlamagne to actually do it no I never really watched it live because I always listen to you at work respect I appr I'm always like watching the video I don't never watch it live but just today it just so happens that I was able to watch it live true this is crazy all right what's your question and what's your name I didn't catch it okay it's sha Shira got it great what's your question okay um ah God uh my mind just went blank okay uh one question I have for uh Charlamagne right yep yes um okay I got I pre-ordered a book already um black perose book appreciate everyone should and G I have all of your books already everyone that came out so far Stephanie's very happy okay um so for Charlamagne okay I know that you're a big believer in the secret and um absolutely stuff like that so my thing is I think that what how do you feel about coming out with like a documentary video that's something like the secret but more for the quote unquote Urban type area CU I feel like that that's something that the black community in particular is missing out on like as far as uh keeping your energy High um being positive stuff like that and they it I think that would change a lot of what's going on in society just pattern no I mean you're absolutely right and I mean that's why I name my book Black privilege because I said that we have to start finding you know privilege in ourselves we have to start realizing that we're special too and I mean that's how I grew up with them teaching me about black power and black pride and black excellence and black Kings and the black man is God and who did that just studying like the 5% what about your inner in inner yeah my father always kept me you know watching uh you knowah Muhammad videos and Minister fron videos like they just kept pushing black excellence in my head so that's actually why I named my book Black privilege for that exact reason cuz I feel like we have to change our mindset cuz everything starts with a mindset like if you wake up in the morning and you feel like you can't do something it won't get done and I feel like all this talk of white supremacy and white privilege which is very real has created a black inferiority complex and our people so that's exactly why I name my book Black privilege and then the subtitle is very important too opportunity comes to those who created so I feel like yo we can start creating our own opportunities simply by changing our mindset that's exactly why I name my book Black privil there's two ways to build the biggest building in town one is and that's what you're talking about the other is to tear down everybody else's building and I think when you talk about black privilege or white privilege when you peel away at that 94% of the people are trying to tear people's buildings down people hear Black privilege and I've been watching how people have been acting they think that comes at the cost of somebody who's white or age and that's crazy when people Pure White Privilege look I understand the macro belief that it comes at the cost of except the people that have the mindset of black privilege this is not a black white girl boy issue this is a positive negative issue that's it and when like we all have Divine privilege cuz we're all here like I'm listen I know I keep going back to this but trilon to one that's it 400 trillion to one I love when Gary says that cuz it's so real like you almost got to see it for yourself next time you have sex and the guy buses off on you just look at all those sperm cells and realize only one wait a minute wait a minute knowing a little bit about sperm enough to talk about this how are you actually able to see it like we don't they don't you don't go you don't take it and put it into a microscope you can't really see it you never Bust It Off on a girl guy no I of course but I've never you can't see the 400 trillion sperm got you can't either what do you like taking it and then putting on a microscope got a microscope by your bed I just assume when I look at it when it's on my wife I'm like that's 400 trillion I just assume so did we answer the question um yes for Charlamagne did can I ask you a question Gary of course go fast okay um I'm trying to start a beekeeping company um a beekeeper yeah beekeeping wow this is dope cuz I this is new ideas where's my honey go ahead what do you think would be a good way to kind of promote that I'm trying to do like um kind of like Urban

beekeeping and stuff like that I'm trying to kind of push that to you know what I mean also to the uh like Urban and black community I don't like that word Urban like why does everything have to be Urban don't I know you don't I just hate to be so cuz I it's not just black people in particular that I'm talking about it's black people is uh Mexican like Spanish and there's not black bees Mexican bees white bees are bees if people got a bee problem they going want you to help them well you didn't call it human listen listen real quick if you want to be the black beekeeper I think that's brilliant are you good at it um I'm trying I'm trying to be well that's let's start there it doesn't matter if you're black white rich or poor if you stink at your skill you're going to lose okay so before you try to build this brand why don't you go work for a beekeeper for a year and get taught the proper way to be one okay yeah cuz you're ain't going to convince no black people that they need a beekeeper that's just an expense I don't need I'm GNA be honest with you I kind of figure that no but listen can I ask you a really interesting question because now I'm excited is there a reason you want to do that you like bees um tell the truth you think there's money in it somebody once told you something truthfully I know that there's money in it because there a lot to it's a lot more to The Beehive than just I agree you got um it's a lot of stuff it's beeswax it's royal jelly it's a lot to it and then it's services that come along with it like be remov my young man listen I like that answer a whole lot I'm going to give you a very how old are you 22 no 30 nice you're a very young man go work for a beekeeper I think there a woman guy oh sorry are you yeah I apologize thank you I get it all yeah I trust me good news I get the reverse of it all the time too I call down to the hotel they're like your towels be right up ma'am I'm like um listen to me you an extremely young woman go work for somebody for two years learn the craft and do your thing you can be on a 10-year Mission you'll be 40 years old a year younger than me how old are you 30 I'll be 37 this year good 30 years older than sha and you can absolutely win this game but you're not going to convince every anybody about anything unless you are actually the part we are living through the greatest fronting PR moves of all time because people think taking the pictures on Instagram proves it does not and if you have a passion for this and you gave a great answer you actually understand there's something there I need you to actually then get good at it and then you can actually succeed okay sound great thank you so much thank you I only know one person who had a bee problem and that was Dr Oz because when you go through Dr a show he gives you jars of honey and the reason he start gives out jars of honey cuz he had a bee problem so he hired some beekeepers to come in and they came in and started keeping the bees and now he harvested his own honey do you know Honey's actually one of the only things in the world that I don't like I love honey I put honey in my green tea every morning I and I'm trying to make myself like it because I did that with uh cilantro I didn't like it and then I just kept eating it until I loved it don't know cilantro is when you said that I thought that was the dude that saying Whi it n neander Miguel this is Gary V Ask Gary V show with charl the God man ridiculous charl what's going on Gary thank you so much for giving me a call brother of course my man what's your question all right so I'm a beginning loan officer in the state of Arizona all right so I I'm an analytics guy I'm one of those cats that you look at my Instagram I have 500 people following me and I get 120 130 likes per post that makes me happy right okay so I'm trying to jump that up I'm trying to be patient I have to learn patience from you Gary like nobody's [ __ ] business I don't think Gary has patience to be honest with you I surely do I patience is the my worst enemy by far I would stab myself in the foot if if I could not to wait for something MH so that's my question that's the problem you think you're wasting true you haven't calibrated time charlamagne's making a joke but like I'm so macro patient it's crazy like I think in 30 40 50 60 year terms all the time it's the only way I think and so you think you're wasting time and I'm thinking that I'm picking up context when I'm doing things that don't get instant results that 99% of people think

is wasting time I'm happy because I'm getting data from the reaction if you're such an analytics guy you're an analytics guy on the math front you're not an analytics guy in life if you're you understand that all the things that are doing things that don't create instant results are Frameworks and Bricks to the reality of what you're building yeah I got a chapter in my book and the whole chapter is basically based off uh you know there's no such thing as losses in life as you the winner you learn so it's like if you're not getting the results you want in that moment you should be learning something from that experience let's take a step back it's imperative that you figure out who you're trying to prove this to patience comes myself yeah so I think myself great then you need to start loving yourself a whole lot more absolutely you're judging the [ __ ] out of yourself in a very poor way I'm critical to myself I'm [ __ ] critical to myself and if I had to learn that a whole lot more too because now I'm me this is my first 100% Commission job gig ever right so for that for me coming from that corporate mindset to [ __ ] if I'm go out there and work and actually do my job now yep I'm gonna shoot myself in the so that in itself is a [ __ ] beast and me why do you hate your feet bro you want to stab yourself in the foot shoot what's wrong with your foot me what happens when you can't walk right bro it [ __ ] up your day life it [ __ ] up your mentality you can't run you can't jump that's so weird this is a funny thing about mindsets when you said that I was like I would dominate on a wheelchair that's it was I swear it's super funny like why can't lose I you know what I think that's right man I it's it was really interesting to me I heard you say that I was like man if I was in a wheelchair I would milk the [ __ ] out of it I would create stuff I would like I would come up with like a sneaker brand which would then be funny you know like I would do stuff that's funny cuz Professor X was in a wheelchair but he was the leader of the X-Men No Thinker I get it my man I think makes perfect sense because that makes perfect sense say that too because it's a small smart Market you can make yourself go into it I understand what you're saying listen my man it turn it up a little bit more I'm tell I'm telling you you're beating yourself up and which means immediately you're set up to lose so for example I'm listening to you and I like your Vibe and I'm like damn it he's probably not going to be successful at this thing cuz that's what I default into I'm always ready for the loss and I'm saying when he's not going to be successful at this 100% Commission job he's going to go through a shitty phase cuz he came from corporate where he was protected he went out into the real world I have no idea what he's selling right he may be selling that's not that good of an item to sell he might not be good at selling that item and he's going to decide in nine months that he's not good and that's going to take him three four years to get out of that cloud and so like I'm sitting here nervous my I'm kind of happy you called because if I could do anything please do this for me when you fail at this 100% commission thing be happy and that is going to be so ridiculously hard for you I can taste it already but remember I said that today tomorrow and 10 weeks from now what do you say about that I kind of forecasted that on my own too cuz I like to again analytics and seeing myself and analyz myself often and I had a position open up to me this last week for our team which I mean a lot of the marketing [ __ ] would get off my own back but at the same time I would learn and I heard you say that a couple weeks ago you know sometimes you have to take a step back so you can learn your trades become a Trad Smith on it I mean learn in and out I haven't been in mortgage since September last Year bro I can sell Sal to a slug if I really want to but at the end of the day not everybody needs a mortgage every single [ __ ] minute of their life that's exactly right you're the one you learn Mano the industry that I'm in is so [ __ ] detailed and it can go from A to Z so many different options that it's really impossible for me right now 9 three four months in the way that I'll learn everything because I won't see that much business come through my pipeline to be able to learn from so I come back so take a step back let's we're being very logical here so yeah if that's all true which it is why are you judging yourself on the first quarter in a triple overtime game you got to do this for a decade before you can decide if you did it right I guess I'm just being too [ __ ] critical of myself I'm just make sure I [ __ ] win you know what's so crazy about patience no real quick I apologize please don't forget because I'm going to yell that for interrupting you you're you want to win quick if you just wanted to win you'd be calm yeah I'm super calm cuz I just want to win and you know I just know it's a 50-year game the hell am I getting excited or bent out of shape of when I met Steph land cuz she's here and I like using anything that's in the room right people products we were talking about social media crush it in 2008 cuz it came out in 09 I will never forget that meeting Steph I was talking about stuff that nobody knew what it like you understood it cuz you'd work with Steph Goden and stuff you UND you were right for me cuzz you understood it conceptually but the

details in it was like silly it was just was really right the anomaly right that's ex you know what thank you I remember sitting there writing crushit and feeling the cynicism from the team not in a bad way because everybody was very nice as you can see she's lovely but it was like no but wait a minute no you can't go on YouTube and Twitter and just Live Your Dream Life like is this obviously if you were somebody right and what knew was the long tail would be there I knew there would be the hundreds of thousands of people on Instagram right now making 71,000 89,000 not everybody's going to make a trillion M so dude you got to be patient you don't you're not doing it because you just want to win you're want to win fast yeah and that's I basically was going to have the same sentiment the thing about life is you can't fast forward life it's going to take it's going to be 5 years 10 years an hours 60 Minutes like we can't speed up the process regardless of how much we think we can so you just got to live the process out word appreciate you guys keep killing it take care thank you Gary v a real pleasure man thank you man listen I need to sell 100,000 books in my first week like Gary ve 104 okay 104 what's the exact number 104 100 was it 10 and 500 100 10A 549 top left number that's an amazing feet way, 549 and that's for the asgary V book let's help this man sell 100, 550 books so he can always make fun of me black privilege opportunity comes to those who created it's eight principles that I learned in my life that I'm sharing with the people okay I'm not an expert at anything I just got a little experience in life cuz I've lived and that's all you can ask for once you live a little bit I lived a little that's it I've lived a little so question to day ask them you get to ask the question of the day any question you want they'll answer you'll get thousands of answers this might be a time to do market research this might an opportunity see something you're curious about this is your sh um my question is simple uh do you believe that there is such a thing as black privilege like do you believe that you can find privilege in your Blackness and can we use Blackness as an all-encompassing like it as a perceived shortcoming cuz that's what it is yeah it's perceived as a shortcoming and I mean I want people even when they see this I don't want them to think that the book is just for black people cuz it's not it's for anybody who's ever felt marginalized depressed anybody who feels like they lack privilege like I feel like it's a Divine priv you got Jets privilege you got mean it all these giant fans run around they think they're so cool and happy what they don't realize is the Yankees and Rangers won championships for me and I dropped them like a bad habit and now I'm all about the Knicks and jets cuz I love the climb so you giant fans you have it bad Patriot fans think they're so good I laugh at all these kids running around where they have their self-esteem wrapped up in their football team you know what's so funny about that football team's good are you good [ __ ] I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan so I always tell Patriots fans it's going to come a point where y'all down for like five six years it's going to happen trust me we dominated the 9s [ __ ] retires at 50 years old yes [ __ ] absolutely thank you for having me Gary you keep asking questions will man answering them