MIAMI MUSINGS | DailyVee 142

("Monday To Monday" by Saba) - Saba mother fuckers. I've been telling you. - [Gary] There's so much good. You know, one could argue that they don't like fake news. I could argue is the world better of two or three old white dudes dictate the entire conversation in media and where we go. There's a pro and con to all this. All the people that find love and great relationships that never would've because of this technology. All the people that are on this trip right now that can FaceTime their family and have that connection that we could've never done before. This is a net positive. The world is never been better yet we continue to look at the negatives. It's what happens, it's what happens as we get older but the technology changes in the social changes have just begun. The upside is an enormous. One could say virtual reality sounds scary and not fun. I could argue like what's wrong with living your life and then living in a nicer place and lowering the cost of where we live because that becomes commoditized and live healthier and who's in be able to balance getting off of it. We're living in a virtual reality world now. There are people that spend seven, eight, 12, 13, 14 hours of their day in the screen now. This is the way it is and so either we can cry about it and put our head in the sand and think it's a negative or we can grab it and understand all the great changes. My brother left my business because he has Crohn's disease, right? There's been no way that I could impact the change of that disease the way I am now because of these devices and technologies 10 or 15 or 20 years ago. The impact was this big compared in this big because of the amplification and the messaging that can be done and so you as an individual person here are gonna decide that all of this is a negative or positive. I've chosen this to be a massive positive. It is good. There's so much opportunity. There's so many great things we're doing for so many people and if you look at the data, if you like data, the world is better than it's ever been across the board. Right? Now, what we have to do is make this micro and bring it home. I am so passionate for everybody to understand that before you critique or judge the generations below you, take a look under the hood and really understand it. Go look at studies like the average 14-year-old girl 20 years ago claimed to have 1. 4 best friends and now claims to have 6. That because if you did have the serendipity of being in a school where people were nice to you and maybe you didn't have any outlet and you were gonna get bullied, you now can go online and find your actual friends and spend time with. So I think we spend a lot of time on the negatives and we don't talk about the positives. What I would implore you to do is think about the benefits of positive versus negative. I would implore you, especially if you care if it's underneath you, to start getting on the offense around things like self-esteem because that's where it comes from instead of looking at the other way. - [Woman] (inaudible) screen-free zone in your home. - Yep. - [Woman] Dinner, everyone puts their device down. - Yep. - [Woman] Or couples, a therapist would say, put your phones down and have one hour together. - Yep. - [Woman] Where you're not looking at your phones. - Yeah. - [Woman] I'm sort of curious about your family dynamic. - Yeah. - [Woman] Do you all have phones at your dinner table? - We run the, so couple things. We run the gamut. First and foremost, I think we all know this. There's a couple places, I'm talking in general terms if you've noticed. Like, to me, the least interesting thing in the world is to tell people how to parent their children, right? I mean there's so many individual contexts here in this room. Everybody's got their own dynamics. I think it's a lazy and convenient thing. Now, here's what I believe. I believe, there's a great Russian saying so (speaking Russian). I believe everything is best when it's balanced. Anything, you know, balance is great but I also think you have to understand so many variables and I think that therapists if you look at the history of the feedback of therapists over the last hundred years, the consensus has been wrong plenty of times because therapists are collectively poor at predicting what happens next as are most people. We make a lot of decisions without understanding what happens next and so, you know, my family, first of all, I'm a workaholic. Monday through Friday I barely see my family. That's just true. So on the weekends it's extreme the other way. We take seven weeks vacation all-in phones locked up because I'm playing such extremes. I'm so politically not correct on the current state of parenting on just the framework of where I am with them Monday through Friday, let alone am I sitting there with the phone or not during dinner time. Right? Here's my big thing, parents always think they're protecting kids. The amount of parents over the last 20 years who took their kids away from making $15 million year being in an e-sports superstar who is now making $81,000 year in middle management and wants to kill himself is enormous. (audience laughter) So, what, you know, there's been more parenting books written in the last seven years than prior of the beginning of mankind to those seven years ago. America is very good at one very interesting thing, telling people and selling on fear and telling them what they're not good at. And the current state of parenting has completely gone into that direction. I've no interest in the collective, you know, current politically correct POV on parenting. What I'm interested in is reverse engineering my kids. I don't need them to be entrepreneurs. I don't care what they want to do, I just want to pay attention to their behavior at scale and reverse engineer that and instill so much self-esteem into them that they're borderline delirious because that is the drug that stops them from the dumb shit that we all fear. But no eighth place trophies 'cause that shit has fucked us up. (audience laughter and applause) Thank you. - [Woman 2] I have a question for you. Education-- - Education. - [Woman 2] you're friends with these guys who like dropped out of college. - Yeah, but a lot of my, I was a bad student. Let's remember the famous dropped out of college 98% of them, not me but 98% of them, are dropping out of Stanford and Harvard. - [Woman 2] Right. - You know, the whole dropped out of college thing has been very romanticized. These are really smart individuals. - [Woman 2] So you still value a formal education? - I don't. - [Woman 2] You don't? - I do not. I'm super comfortable, so first of all, I speak at all these top universities. I'm teaching a class at Stanford this and that, the lack of practicality that is being taught in our universities to the reality of the world is staggering. It's a bigger version of what I said here with the kids, what world do you think that they're gonna live in? Now, if you want to do a certain profession I understand the practicality of having to own a diploma that gives you the at-bat. I spend a lot of my time in the business entrepreneurial world, there's zero mapping for that. The MBA or the business school mapping to the reality of success has been completely blown out the water and the other thing that we don't talk enough about his how this debt destroys individuals. They don't get it sometimes until their 40s in a proper way. - [Woman 2] Do you think these online school programs will end up replacing-- - So here's where we're going. I think the thing that is not been talked about that is probably more interesting than things I just said is colleges are built on brand. Like at their, the biggest thing they're doing right now is they're creating these online courses that are diluting their brand. Penn and Stanford and Harvard have these online courses and if you look at the way the people that are taking them are positioning their certification from these courses, they're not giving it the proper, they're just saying I went to Harvard. And so, I think the biggest universities in the world right now for short-term income because they're are getting scale of $18,000 online courses that are four weeks and they're bringing in revenue are actually diluting their brand so much and I don't think that Harvard and Stanford actually understand that their only trading on brand only 'cause the education has been commoditized. 'Cause the professors have that and they're putting out their content online for free. You can see it for free when you're giving a TED talk or doing four interviews so the actual education, the words what I did up there, that's commoditized. That's zero. The only thing these big universities are working on is brand equity 'cause you grew up believing in it so you're forcing your kids to believe in it. That's very close to the newspaper revenue model of collapsing so I think they only have 30 to 40 years left. ("Dreams" by Cartel)

I mean don't forget, don't forget lost in history is like when we definitely felt like, you know, what should to sell Vayner for a million dollars? We had that discussion. You are out and I was like I don't know. (laughs) You know, it was there. You know? I wish fucking DailyVee was there for that scene before that speech at TechStars. You know? That'd be funny to look at. So I mean, I think, you know, I think there's a million things to go through. And we, it's always fun to, I think this is a perfect example of like not my first rodeo, right? Isn't it fun for you like have all that context, right? Mhmmm. The ability for us to do a commercial, a two minute and now I'm also creating this whole Facebook commercial thing. I think we're gonna be able to do some really good deals where (censored) Troy and he's doing it for the seven location pizza shop and we send Staphon and make a two minute video for Facebook that's why they're gonna want to do it. Every single day, people should open the explore feature in Twitter, look at the hashtags, click the trending hashtags and make a piece of content that if this was, if I had more time, I would be doing that every two hours. It is an absolute way to build up on Twitter. Nobody's really paying attention as much to Twitter where it's Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat but just even looking at my own dynamics when I leverage a trending hashtag, it's just exponential. And I'm on this real kick for this video. This positivity video. - [DRock] Mhmmm. - This one. When I think about our capabilities to eliminate each other, I'm being serious. I know it kind of a weird place to go but the fact that we're still here. We are hard wired in a way that allows us to protect each other in a net game. Yet, the mainstream media and the way we hear, all you hear is negativity. All that mainstream media does this tell us about the. 0001% worst of us. I think we as humans are going to have some level of a sense of responsibility that if you're a good place, it might be good to Tweet or Instagram or Snapchat about that versus what we default into which is there are people's Twitter feeds that are basically every seven or 10 days when they're complaining about an airline or venting about work. Like the volume of negativity is just way too high in reality of what's going on. Every empire falls when the silent majority of happy isn't loud enough and they use the branding game. Oh, we love the third wall, DRock. That third wall. Yo, I just pulled up. Where do I go? Alright, right to the left here. That first building? Like right by the baseball stadium sports complex. Do I go towards the football field, the field house? Excited to go see Alvin Kamara right now. Beast, bunch of you watching this right now he's about to be your favorite football player. So crazy to like watch this in a year, right? Good to see you. - Yeah, dawg. - [Gary] Who's this? - [Alvin] Isiah. - Isiah, what's up, man? Gary. - Isiah. - Real pleasure. How are you? - Pretty good. - Good, man. - [Alvin] What's going on? How'd the speaking thing-- - [Gary] Real good. How you feelin'? It is, it is. Look who He's about to roll up that way too. (loud music) Is there just a mix of people working out here? - [Alvin] Football right now. - Very nice to meet you. - [Gary] Real Don't freak out. - [Gary] No. I'm comfortable. I love it, man. I fucking love team sports, man. - Yeah. - Oh, God I wish I was dramatically faster and dramatically stronger. I'd give up all the business riches. You know what it is? The competition. - Yeah. - That's the reason I love business so much. 'Cause I can replicate it a little bit 'cause I'm trying to put fuckin', people out of fucking business. You know? You were there definitely when I was like, "Listen to me mother fucker, you can win or you're gonna lose. " - One or the other. - That's the problem when you're doing sports and music. It's... There's just not a lot in the middle. So what's on your mind? What's important to you? Anything? Like how you thinking? - All good. Working. - Just focus on, right? You still got a black, can we change this logo? - I don't know what to change it to. - [Gary] Your fucking face. You got a pretty face. Why you scared? - I'm still in the basement. You know what I'm saying? - Change it to a Jets logo. It's funny how I feel about gyms now. Now that I actually work out I like it. Ty, you can do some pull ups? Show me. Yeah, I want to see your pull ups.

Two, good. DRock, you can do pull ups? I want to see how many Ty can do. That's six, that's good. Let's go, Ty. I'm impressed. Get that tenth baby, one more. Let's go. That's gonna be some good shit for the vlog. - That's the first thing I've done since fuckin'-- - Oh my God! Alvin, Tyler should be dead. Got hit by a car in New York City. Hit. Should be dead, straight up. I'm dead fucking serious. I got a good idea, I'm gonna go Facebook Live, I'm gonna make people try to get Alvin go on their team. (air siren wailing) This alarm. What is that? - Fucking purge. - Yo, yo, Instagram. Alright football fans, it's time to plead your case for the best running back in the fucking draft. Alvin. - Damn right. - Who wants Alvin on their team? Show me. Tell Alvin what team he needs to be drafted by. I'll start first. The Jets. Legendary's there, let's see. One of you is about to be real happy. buy a jersey of this man. Ravens is first. Big fans. Yes, mister. - He got it. - That was (laughs). Let me save that one. I think, by the way, I think the Packers actually. - (inaudible) - Yeah, that could be interesting. (siren drowns out all other sound) - Seahawks. Oh, Kevin Rose. K-Rose. K-Rose, if you guys draft this man it's gonna be the greatest day of your life. This guy's a super star, Hall of Famer, get ready. Tell 'em. Guys, imagine if your career was predicated on two random days in Indianapolis where millions of dollars are at stake for a hundredth of a second. - Running and jumping. - K-Rose, imagine you have to write code for an hour and that predicted if you were gonna be good or I had four minutes on the liquor store floor and however much wine I sold, they predicted my whole career on that. Crazy. Anyway. Alright fellas, Alvin's got to get to work. He's still in the dungeon. That's why his profile is still all black. This guy. Alright, talk to you guys later. I was impressed with those chin ups, Ty. And they weren't bullshit ones too. You were trying to do them proper. - Come on. - You know I'm starting boxing in a year and a half. - Year and a half? - Yeah, when Jordan's done I'm doing three years of boxing. I'm gonna box every morning. I'm gonna do boxing. I'm gonna go in the ring at 45 and knock DRock out. - [DRock] Probably. - [Gary] How do you think about it? - [Man] I always dreamed to play football. Shit, it's here now. - [Gary] It's like right there, right? - [Man] Right. You know, I started playing when I was four. - [Gary] And from the get you were like this is what I want to do. - [Man] Yeah. - [Gary] Yeah. - [Man] Had a gate about this high, across the street from my house and I was this tall. I used to kick the ball over the fence, from a little angle, kick the ball, throw the ball. - [Gary] Try to jump over it, go get it. - Yeah. Everything and I mean I was small back then. You know what I'm saying? - [Gary] Mhmmm. - [Man] My mother didn't trust the process. - [Gary] Mhmmm. - [Man] She used to tell me-- - [Gary] You gonna get hurt. - [Man] yeah, basically. - [Gary] Yeah. - [Man] So my grandmother, she snuck me on the field when dropped my mother off at work. She like, he got those clothes on and he bought that from Walmart or something. My mom would go to Walmart and pick up the same clothes and bring me to practice and change me up back in those clothes. - [Gary] I love that. - She'll call you and she'll be like, you know what I'm saying? - [Gary] I know exactly what, you know it's so funny. I was just reading about that Uzi Barrett up in Philly. Yeah, how his mom wouldn't let him. Like nobody believed in him. His grandma got him that Mike Jones album. - [Man] Right. - [Gary] And she's like, "Keep going. Keep going. " You need somebody, you got to have somebody. - [Man] Right. - [Gary] You know? Yeah, I'm watching that too. (wind drowns out speaker) 12 month a year sport. That's why these kids play longer. You know? Gary. - West Moss. Big fan of yours, man. - [Gary] Oh, thank you. - [Gary] I appreciate the love. - Thank you for everything you do. - [Gary] Thank you man. - DRock. - [Gary] (laughs) You're on your shit. - [West] How long you in town for? - [Gary] Oh, I just came to see Alvin and I'm heading back to New York in a second. - In a bit? - Yeah. - Thanks for coming down. - Of course. - I'm the assistant vice president here. I oversee our academic units. - Fantastic. - So I saw you come in, I thought I'd come by and say hi. - I'm glad you did, my man. - You need anything? - No. I'm in great shape. Thank you, real pleasure. Thanks for saying hello. - Thank you. Can I get a picture with you? - [Gary] Of course. - Thanks man. - Love it, man. Thanks for the love. - Thank you very much. - Yeah, talk to you soon. Continued success here. That your iPhone? - Yeah. - Yeah, there you go. I'm gonna get to 225 eventually. (laughs) - [Alvin] He'll fuck around and test us like random. We'll be in the middle of workout, he'll be like vert. - [Gary] Really? - [Alvin] Yeah. You don't know when. I won't get fucking used to, it's just like the Combine, that pressure. When you all get there it's not gonna be no pressure. - [Gary] Well, that's exactly right. - [Alvin] Y'all ran through it so many damn times. - [Gary] Did you guys hear that they're doing fans for the first time but they can't say shit. - [Alvin] Nuh-uh. - [Gary] That should be the weirdest shit. There's gonna be like-- - [Alvin] That shit gonna be-- - there's gonna be a 1,000 fans watching but they can't say a word. - Fucking death penalty. - Yeah, the whole thing's so weird. ("Dreams" by Cartel) A lot of times actually happen in the comment section around the creative where then we can go in and business develop. And we start with leverage 'cause it's people reaching out to us that want to be involved with. This is an extraordinarily big difference between the way marketing has been done for the last 70 years where we as marketers and businesspeople sit in a silo and try to create the business development instead of letting the lead creative become the platform that creates those opportunities and for my personal brand and for the startups I'm working with so much of the extension of campaigns have happened in the comments section of the creative once deployed. ("Dreams" by Cartel) L. A. stand up. 6 P. M. Wednesday, 15 of you, right? 'Cause I'm taking 10. - Yep. - [Gary] 15 of you are gonna be part of something remarkable. Intimate access. I got to do this crazy fucking thing and I'm gonna do a random contest for 15 of you to come and join and be a part of it so Wednesday 6 P. M. Fucking call out sick, cancel your vacations, lie to your mother. Wednesday 6 P. M. 15 of you, I'll do something on Monday or Tuesday in Instagram as a contest and that's how I'm gonna pick my 15. See you then. Wednesday 6 P. M. next week Los Angeles. - [Tyler] Boom. - [Gary] Boom. You got them working, Coach. - What'd you think, man? How'd he look? - He (sighs), he always looks good. Just the way he talks about you. I'm just so thankful and grateful. Thank you so much. - Yeah, yeah. - [Gary] I love the way you do it. I love, now that I'm learning this game all these fancy guys selling on bullshit. - Oh my God. Yeah. - [Gary] 90% bullshit. - Yeah. - [Gary] Nothing that's gonna make you real money, real happiness on the field. - Right, right. - [Gary] So we just appreciate it. - Nah, definitely man. - [Gary] He's a good kid. - Yeah, good kid, man. You know we're doing some hard core stuff. - I know you are. You're doing him really right. - Yeah. Really right. - I appreciate it. If I could ever be a help to you, let me know, okay? - Okay. - Thank you, my friend. Al, I got to go. - [Alvin] Alright. - [Gary] I love you. Hit me up (mumbles). - [Alvin] Yeah. - [Gary] Take care of yourself, alright? - You too. - [Gary] Good luck on everything. - Appreciate it. - [Gary] Hit me up if you ever need me. ("Dreams" by Cartel) Yes? - [Man 2] Can I ask for a selfie? Huge fan. - Is that right? Yes, of course. No problem. It was a big pleasure to be your driver. - Thank you very much, man. Transforming into airport Gary. Look at that guy's kicks. Legit. I can do it, a selfie. Thank you very much. - My pleasure. Thank you, my friend. - All the best. - [Gary] Thank you, thank you. - [Man 2] Bye-bye. - It's warm out. This is how Tamara Vaynerchuk taught me how to pack. Thanks mom for packing me all the time. Airport Gary, what? I thought you said phone call. I'm so wired for action. I'm like, "Phone call, what? " Mother fucker. Alright, get me the video. Yeah, great week. Actually fairly rest week. You know? You know what's so weird? This was such a rest week yet I was like tired because, I was tired because it was a rest, it wasn't that late every day. Oh, people are going to love the video of my sleeping. That's gonna go bat shit crazy.

Red eye time for me and DRock. And that dude, right there. Just looked.