– [Voiceover] Charles asks,
“is the #AskGaryVee show “your version of meditation? “It seems like it helps you
organize your thoughts.” – Charles, this is a really good question, I saw this one come through the stream, and it took me a step back,
because I’m like, “does it?” What I can tell you is this,
I think the brilliance of the #AskGaryVee Show, when
the business historians look back at it is (laughs) so awesome, any way, when people look
back, when I look back, when the team looks back, when
you, the collective audience, looks back, when you, the person
that’s watching this video three years from now, looks
at this show and realize, when I was on it was, we’ve created this show
as a foundation point to all the other content
that I’m putting out, and so the ability to use
this show that then allows India and Steve to help me
write Medium forum content, I mean, I think all of you have seen that over the last six to eight weeks, my ability to pump out Medium
and GaryVaynerchuk.com animated gifs, all these things all coming
from this central seed, so the ability to put out this show, which brings a lot of
value to a lot of people, it’s one great jab at the highest levels, for people who know what I’m referring to, and then it’s also a
gateway drug to more content that is content made to be
gateway drugs to awareness about me and to create leverage. It’s just one big machine of brilliance.

with You Too Can Be A Guru. You asked for more questions, here’s one. You’re going on vacation. So, you’ll be gone for, let’s
say just for this scenario, more than three days. And the question is, do
you schedule your Tweets and respond when you
get back from vacation? Do you schedule your Tweets and then respond as you’re on vacation? Or do you just not Tweet at all? Remember, ♫ You too can be a guru ♫ Thanks, Gary. – You’re welcome, Bridget. I think it’s number four. You Tweet, and you respond. ‘Cause that’s what I did. I was just on vacation for two weeks. First of all, you never schedule. I’ma say it again. Never in your life schedule a Tweet. Here’s why. You’re on vacation for three days, you schedule a Tweet of like, “Hey, what’s your favorite book?” And at that exact moment, we have the next national-tragedy
happen at that second. I had multiple friends schedule Tweets during the Boston Massacre. So, here’s the Boston Massacre; it’s a terrorist event on US soil. The whole world shuts down, right? And my friends are Tweeting like, “You should buy my new book.” It was disgusting at best. And it was just devastating. And that’s the extreme. What about, like, a lightweight version? Like, you schedule a Tweet, and right at the moment, on Twitter, The Cowboys score an important touchdown and the governor of New
Jersey is bouncing around and hugging Jerry Jones and that’s all that anybody
wants to talk about. And you’re a Cowboys
fan, or from New Jersey, and you’re Tweeting about like, “What’s your favorite book?” And it makes you seem out of touch. There is no value in scheduling a Tweet. I’ve never done it, I don’t believe in it. I will never believe in it, period. Now, you’re more than welcome, like I have on half my vacations,
to check out completely; and I highly recommend that. I was so excited about doing that. I told you that’s what I would do. But unfortunately, or fortunately, I caught the Wine Library-bug, and I enjoyed myself talking about wine constantly on my vacation when Xander and Misha were in the kids’ club and doing their thing there. Or, you know, while Lizzie was
getting ready for the dinner. Or, finding my pockets going my way. So, I think that it’s a personal thing. But, boy, do I hate, ♫ Do I hate scheduling a tweet ♫ Like, don’t do it. Please, don’t do it. Question of the day.

– [Voiceover] Evan asks, “If
you could clone yourself, “would you?” – Evan, this is a tremendous question, and a great one to end the year. Especially ’cause I
announced that I’m going away with my family for two weeks. This is as easy a
question as they’ve come. I would 100%, I mean this is the best, I really wish this technology existed because I would take
that person, Gary Two. Who is actually Gary Two? The clone version, or? Anyway, I would take the clone version and I would make that person spend every waking moment with my family. They’d sit at home, you guys, what’s that? (laughs) Why is that funny? – [Steve] I thought it was a nice answer. – [DRock] I would send
the first one first. – What’s that? – [DRock] I would send yourself. – Oh, I don’t care. Keep this rolling by
the way, first of all. No editing here. No, no, I don’t think you understand. The fact of the matter is
is they’re the same person. Are you saying that, no but listen, maybe that was
an insight that we didn’t, maybe I love my business
more than my family. Sorry, this is a tough way
to end the show and the year. The bottom line is, sorry
that DRock has become the cynical one, but, Steve, the torch has been passed, I would take the equal version of it and have that person
sit at home every minute and be with my family because then I would be able to accomplish the
two things that I want at one time, and so that
would be the answer. (laughs)

– Who cares about that question, Gary. This is a more important question. How are you, if you were the
owner of the New York Jets, gonna turn around this team and make us a Super Bowl contender? Because we both know
that’s all that matters, and he’s a Giants fan. Who gives a shit what he has to say? – Go Giants. – Thanks Brad and
Scooter for the question. Ya know, I mean the true
answer to the question, ’cause I love, you know,
we’ve decided to go straight on this show. The true answer is, I’d go in and audit. That’s what I’d do. So, as close as I am working
with the Jets as a client, watching every play, staying on top of it, there’s still nuances that
are just not, you know, known to me. You know, I think one thing
I would do, for example, if I bought the Jets today,
I would mandate from the top, and this would probably make
it a little harder to get a GM, and so that’s something
I’d have to quantify, but I would mandate that
we draft a quarterback every two years in the first
two rounds of the NFL draft until we had our guy, right? So like I think it’s a quarterback league. The rules go in that way, and you have to reverse
engineer to the league, and so, for example, right now
I would draft a quarterback in round one or two this year because, though I’ve given Gino
the benefit of the doubt, he’s clearly not the overwhelming this is Andrew Luck sitting in our pocket. So, we have to draft another quarterback, and if it’s not politically
correct to Gino and his agents or to the New York media or the fan base, I wouldn’t care because I
would dictate to victory and I think that’s the right
strategy right now in the NFL. If you do not have a
quarterback first two rounds, you draft one. You bring ’em in, if you
don’t feel good about, I’d give it 24 months,
but after full 24 months, after a second season of that player, by the way, whether he
played a snap or not, I would draft another one and
another one and another one until I had one because
that is the lynchpin. I’d also work on the PR team. I would do a weekly show, livestream show with the fan base so they could pound me with all their angers,
and I’d pound them back ’cause that’s the kind of owner I’d be. I would do a bunch of marketing things, you’ve heard me in the past. I’d send a jersey of a Jets
jersey to every six-year-old in the tri-state area
on their sixth birthday. I would probably do a ton
of inappropriate things at this point there’s, ya know, like get into it with the
media because they think they’re out of their mind with the way they’re handling the
Jets in this Giants city. I would like watch the
game from the stands which I think would be
an interesting new thing, but that would be tough
because I’d curse at opponents, and the NFL would try to reel me in. So those are some of
the things I’d be doing. – [Voiceover] Evan asks, “If
you could clone yourself,

– [Voiceover] Erik asks, “Do
you watch your own videos?” – Erik, the answer to this question is no. It was funny, Steve was just
going through the questions. DRock was like, “No, ’cause he…” I’ve never watched a full
episode of The #AskGaryVee Show or any of the 1089 wine videos. I made 1000 Wine Library
TV, 89 Daily Grape. Oh by the way, this is
gonna pass Daily Grape at some point pretty soon. That is the fun fact, that
I have actually had three, I would say I have two shows, it’s actually three. Anyway, sorry. Me and Steve nerding a
little bit about wine. The answer is I don’t. I’ve watched some of my video stuff because I’m showing somebody some stuff. As a matter of fact, now that DRock, Staphon are in my life, they
make me watch edited things. We have a big new edited video up today. Sorry, DRock, I guess we
decided we’re launching it today. Ah ha! So now I have actually seen
some of my longer form stuff ’cause I have to like look
at it ’cause it’s edited, but I know what I do on the show. I’m living it. So no, I don’t watch the show.

– [Voiceover] Antoine asks,
“What keeps you up at night?” – Antoine, that’s a very
quick and easy question, literally, and I think
at some level the reason I took this question ’cause it’s not– I’ve probably even addressed
this before with VaynerNation, but every so often it’s a worthwhile venture to bring it up again, which is the only thing that keeps me up at night is the things that I can’t control and the only thing that I can’t control that really cripples me is
the health of my family. The health of my family is
what keeps me up at night, which is just something I can’t control. I can do everything right, but an accident or something unfortunate or a disease that we all hate so much can come along and change the course of my life. When it comes to business, when it comes to my relationships, I
feel in utter control and I really, really recommend
to a lot of people here… It’s amazing to me in
the stress-filled world that I live in, by outside
standards, my calendar, what I’m trying to achieve,
my own stress on that, all the things that are pulling at me, none of it stresses me because it’s gonna be what it’s gonna be. I’m gonna execute
against my skill and some of the serendipity that
comes along with the game and I’m very comfortable
and zen in that game. But the thing that does bother me, the thing that makes me
upset or I’m concerned about is 100 percent the
well-being of my family. – Gary Vaynerchuk, I have
an #AskGaryVee question.

“What actor would you want
to play you in a movie about your life?” – Lisa, when the movie of my life is made, which I’m pretty substantially
betting on it happening, you know, what I’m
looking for in 25 years, ’cause I’m a slower grinder, right. Like, don’t get confused VaynerNation. 99% of the world has no
idea who I am, minimumly. But I’m a grinder and I
feel good about where I sit in the “is this worthy of a movie” lexicon in 25-30 years from now. So I don’t know who I want to play me because obviously there’ll
be different versions but whoever is the most attractive would be the direction I’d be looking for.

– Tanova, this is a great question. I personally selected this one. I saw it in my Twitter
stream and sent it to India. Show India, I like when we do that. – Eh. – That’s my favorite part of the show. You know, it’s really funny,
this is a funny question. I burn out once every six or seven years, I hit a real like ugh
spot, like where I wanna just check out and I go to sleep. I actually go home and go to sleep. It hasn’t actually
happened, actually I’m on a real good run right now, I
think the last time I did was when we lost Texas at Wine Library, and couldn’t ship there anymore and we lost like four million in revenue and I was just burnt out
like fighting the fight of like in that world,
and so I just literally went home at like 6 PM and went to sleep. I haven’t done it since then,
and that was like 2002 or 3, so it’s been a little, maybe it’s not even six or seven years but,
when I hit my lowest point, I do two things, I go to sleep immediately and two, I make pretend
that my mom was killed. And I know that’s an intense statement, and you should have just
the collective reaction, but when I burn out from work. (laughs) It’s intense. When I burn out, it means that I’m hurt by whatever’s going on in business and I’m focusing on business
instead of the big picture and I directly put my
brain into a place of what do I really care
about, and the second I do that extreme move,
I’m already in the process of going back upstream and so look, I’m a positive person, I
put things in perspective in a very healthy way, I think and so I don’t tend to burnout that often, but the couple times I’ve hit rock bottom, it’s been sleep and recalibration. – Alright, here’s my real question.

– [Voiceover] Michael asks, “Hope you had “a great time at last
night’s holiday bash. “What’s your favorite holiday tradition?” – Michael, hands down, my
favorite holiday tradition is Thanksgiving, just
goin’ to my parents’ house in Hunterdon County. It’s just somethin’, I
don’t know, I just love it. Obviously, we talked about
it a couple episodes ago, but it’s really just you know,
I think you get the theme, it’s happened twice here,
I’m a people person, I’m a family guy, that’s the one that’s almost like the non-debatable. My dad screwed up birthdays
a couple years ago by taking my mom to Italy on the birthday and breaking up the family dynamics, and now I always razz him for that, because then I had a really
dear friend get married during my mom’s birthday,
and we went away, and so now it’s broken up a little bit. Birthdays used to be pretty sacred. The family shifted a
little bit on that one, but Thanksgiving is like,
“We’ve got to be together, “we’ve got to be at mom’s.” And it means a lot to me, I get to see everybody I love so much,
and there’s so, you know. The football games, and the me and AJ doing something crazy like we bought expensive basketball cards this year. You know, just, it’s always a lot of fun, my sister’s kids, blah
blah blah blah blah. So, Thanksgiving, getting together, nothing too crazy, nothing
too, you know, wild, but that’s the scoop.

– [Voiceover] Jimmy asks,
“What’s your favorite “city in the world to drink wine in?” – Jimmy, my favorite city in the world to drink wine in is the city that has my friends and
family in it at that moment that I’m sharing that wine with. There is no, like you know, atmosphere that dictates my happiness of drinking wine, there’s
no pretty french riviera, or the gorgeous mountains,
I don’t give a crap about that stuff, what I care is who am I drinking it with? So, I could be in Newark,
big ups to Newark, not dissing, if it’s with somebody I love, and we’re enjoying wine, then that’s what is the driving force,
and so then it would be Newark, the hotel lobby in Austin, in south by 2007 is one
of my favorite times of all time of having wine. The parking lot of a Jets game, you know, inside the caves of wineries in Tuscany, like it’s happened in a lot of places, but
it’s never been the setting. I don’t care about that stuff. It’s been the people I’m sharing it with. – [Voiceover] Bill asks, “I’m
in sales for third generation