Everyone welcome back to the Gary Vee audio experience once again, I'm jacob from team gary and today we have gary's appearance on the my social life podcast hosted by Jacob Kelly. This is a really awesome interview, it's short, but it really encapsulates some unique moments in gary's life in his childhood, and he gets asked a lot of questions that are not very common for interviewers or podcast hosts to ask Gary. So we really hope you enjoy this one, and if you did, please drop your comments in the spotify comment. Section down below also tweet gary on twitter at gary v make sure you join the discord and we'll see you in the next one. This is the gary vee audio experience. What's going on but he will come back to my social life. I'm your hosted Jacob Kelly did in the podcast. We are joined by dairy vainer chuck. Some of you know him as Gary these some.

might know him as Gina. It's been aware that what you know him as I'm very excited to have him on the podcast today. Gary welcome to the show. Thank you, I may say to having what I want to talk to you about. Today is a lot of nostalgic things, and so before we kind of get into that, I want you to describe and you want to start a feels like to you, but I wanna know, but in a very specific context, I know every every few years and know the last time you did this, but you to drive by your childhood home and just broken into stouter. Yes, someone europe staring at the car window at fifty three temporary dr believes in a trap lacks the one on the left yeah. What's that feeling when you're? Looking at your childhood home, I think nostalgia overall and then specifically when I go to my childhood home and, ironically brought it up, because I haven't done a long time. I ve been thinking about doing it recently in I go garage saling this spring to do a couple of trash talks. I'm going to try to get the edison and look at the home. It makes you think about simpler, better times

it's right. Like the reason you love your gremlin or your spiderman or your house that you grew up in is it makes you think of simpler, better times it's as simple as that at it's best. That's what estancia does or like me may be simpler. It's just good times right it might, it might be. High school might have been complex, but it was when you got your first kiss and maybe so it's just it invokes emotion that makes you smile. I've heard you see the eighty two buddha, eighty, eight, eighty, nine and some of the fondest years of your life. So I kind of want to stick in that pocket. For this interview- and I know you used to set up science down oak tree road and tingly lane for lemonade stand. I know, you used to specifically set them at a certain heights of the drivers would see them. I'm curious what was actually on those signs that attracted the drivers. He knows very smart, flee intuitive about marketing. Even as a young kid I remember, taking,

So when my mom would drive me to the supermarket or just drive when I would be in the car, I would pay attention to other people's lemonade stand and garage sale signs looking out the window and I quickly at like seven or eight knew that, like you, couldn't read them most of the times. I still take note of this by the way. So what I would say, as it would say, ten cents as big as you can imagine, like literally the entire sign, was like lemonade ten cents, and I would use black marker like multiple times like. I knew how to make a thick and big and simple, and I level and I don't need the public what time it would be. I would take them aside. I didn't we step. I just knew what was doing, and so like its. While. That's really fun question for me because, I have it. I haven't answered anything about that. Every my wife's, it's a great job and jake and try to bring us.

And stuff the signs on my lemonade were very inspired by me. This is me as a theme I watched as a five and six and seven year old. It took note and then when it's time for me to make my signs, I'm like I'm not going to make those same mistakes, I'm going to be able to my people to be able to read it, and I brought that skill to the wine store before we got a computer with a printer. We used to make the signs on the displays by hand and so on. I was at the register when it'll be downtime, I would make the site regularly. Ninety nine on sale for five. Ninety nine- and I remember like how different my signs were when I first got to the liquor store versus what my dad had like. They would take a regular, sharpie and put five. Ninety nine mine would be like

Three times the size of the sign, the five ninety nine was like bigger than the previous sign itself like. It was all that out and q's another place that you kind of look and watch and then replicate yourself or do better on is with with baseball cards. You got into baseball cards at John Adams, middle school right in the baseball card clip that's exactly right. John Adams had a baseball card club. I think I was our science teacher, can't remember exactly what the teacher was, but it was a huge huge thing for me and six I didn't grade. I I would say. Sixth and seventh grade is when I became that like that's when you know I talk a lot about lemonade. I talk a lot about washing cars shoveling snow, but that's when there was a maturity to my my life. That was a step and that baseball card club was huge because you know that's what that's what isn't that's what a school can really do like brought people together as multiple kids in that club. I know from other classes other grades and I dont

we understood that I was like I remember very quickly saying, like I know more than these guys. I know more about baseball. I know more about I've, memorize the prices and the price guide. I and then that's what I'm starting to learn like. Oh, I can talk my way and like I could, then stand by their gimme. That card for this card that I learned a lot during that era. So when you're at your first baseball card, show at the jcc on oak tree road, how do you set your table up there versus how you would set your table up now?. you know I I dont really remember the table. Well desired. I remember vividly pretty early and it gets a little blurry right cause. This is forty years ago, but like or or so like. I I remember quickly. I don't think it was that show but I think quickly. I learned how I why doubly am always watching it's what I do for a living. So I room, I remember not knowing

the fuck I was doing, and I remember knowing what I was doing at the end of that we get so came and super raw had no idea price. Tag steak. I do I remember actually now this is a fun interview. Thank you for being so prepared. I remember not having sticker pricing on my cards and We're looking at the other table like oh, they got price tags on it like it was like like, like you know, just like this is where, like not being scared and businesslike went to a deal or even remember these like forty thirty year old man, and only eleven unlike can make its stickers. Thank you, like you know, like dickering, my stuff, it was you know it. But but what that all evolve to it back to the liquor store, I'm a merchandise her. I think about and capps, I think, about what product goes at the register versus the shell. For the first time campers, what do you

when you first walk in all of that. I learned at baseball card tables and chosen by you to buy eighth grade item in the matter dicky plan of like profit margin. What I wanted to sell a new people bought from the middle, not the bottom and the top that I needed one big thing to catch people's attention because they would have what the tables and they're just gonna walk by yours. If you just have display cases, I would always have something: fucking crazy, like you like I'd, buy like a stuffed a I'm just put on my table anything to stop you from walking by and that's that I recall soon learned a lot from the lemonade stands. You learned a lot from the baseball cards shows I'm curious what you learned from the pig farms If I'm not mistaken, your dad bought a pig from you in the eighth grade and you were shoveling pig shit, your eighth grade summer yeah, it wasn't a pig farm. It was my dad bought like we moved to the woods and there was a farm on like it wasn't like an act that far, but it was a run down farm stuff and my dad

You know this is like an eighty nine, so my dad is only is thirty six and so he's only came to merits, eighty nine came to american seventy eight solely eleven years, move from him being in russia. A night seventy ussr, like everybody and roosters and pigs, and you went to link the bizarre till I like it, was clean eating and old school such now trendy inexpensive, like uniform, to table for real we'll. So he was that he thought that was cool. I was like this is the worst I like lost. All my friends were in the middle of nowhere, and then he gets a pig and then he tells me I have to clean clean up the pig shit and I'm like what the fuck, that was like real hard manual. Labor like every drunken three days. I'd have to go in there to be a ton of hay would all be shit. Infested I'd have like some bullshit boots on that. Like fourth generation pass downs, I'd fucking reagan, once in a while like you'd, go in and like the fucking shit, would hit your lip and I'd be like I'm eating, fucking pig shit? What is my life and, like you know,

These are all the things I look back on the like, of course, I how work everybody fuckin work, my whole life, everything was work, work work, work, work, it's what my parents knew, they still good values and hard work and like nothing is going on with me, is confusing. It was all built from scratch. Can you told your feet and the trip to disney world that you took with your mom and your sister me and my sister and my mom, my dad didn't go because he was working took our first family vacation in eighty five. Eighty six, I was like fifth. My sister was second grade, something like that like us, winning the lottery and getting a private in plainly mansion and meeting every slowed going, the disney. What would you have preserved mcdonald's was like going to like aspen for a month for our immigrant families, some four disneyworld we said in the holiday in my family dinner

credit cards back then. My mom ran out of cash by the third day, because the disney tickets were more expensive than she thought she didn't eat for days. I like, I, have a sandwich, I'm not playing punch out in the arcade. I remember being scared to swim, so I was gonna, kill people like to europe I remember it. I remember seeing Phil collins more night. The navy when we went- and I remember it's like that's my that's my crew. Right. That's eighty, two, eighty nine it was me my mama sister agent was age. It was more than seventy he wasn't able to majority and when he was one in to my gavel, every minute? A barely saw him, and so my life was my mom and sister. My childhood is my monetarist are now

was the crown jewel moment of our childhood. We went somewhere and for cellos on the plane that I remembered. Obviously, when I immigrated I was on a plane, but I recall and like it was just a big deal and I'm just grateful for it like I again I had dinner with my sister last night. I had a really nice bottle of wine. We are in a fancy place here in hudson yards and I looked at the bill and I was like this is more money than me and this girl, my sister who'd, like, were spent on for eating at the dinner in our childhood, like red lobster, is only so expensive that was about his fancies. We got during those times isn't so. It's really cool. I'm really grateful for my elbow beginnings and I'm really grateful for you to make this interview be about those early times. I appreciate they'll. Ask you one last question or police overtime here. How do you think about creating those moments for your kids rate in a world where they can probably have everything meet everyone here,

experience they want. I don't want them they're not going to be built on the hard times making it in america every story. I just told you isn't a story about the struggle and the oppressed nation and the humility, even though they are there. A story about love. The love of my mom, the love of my sister right, the love we had for each other. I can replicate that for my children it might be a fancy or seen my son might said court side instead of last row, but it still love, and so I think that parents that go through or people that goes through generational changes. If you how I feel too many my friends from that you're that came up with nothing hold on two march and try to creep fake environments for their kids, but he can't replicated thing,

change, but you can hold true values and that's I focus on the other had other someone waitin for you here there I'll. Let you go gary. Thank you I've got another user, real pleasure, which I will take your back.