– Dimitri, the way I
prepare for a keynote is to think about punching every audience member directly in the mouth. I look at the audience as
my enemy, yet my child. There’s this kind of weird mix between loving them with all my heart and really wanting them
to get the message. There’s a disrespect and there’s a love, and that mix is what I do. I’m literally like a boxer
before hitting the ring six minutes before I take stage. Maybe that’s where Jab Jab
Jab Right Hook came from in some ways, because I’m
literally in this crazy zone. Eight minutes before I’m talking, I don’t even know that I’m giving a talk. I’m like just like doing
my email, I’m just like laughing, crying about the Jets, like you know whatever it is,
but around six minute zone, I go into this weird place
and I get very focused and I say to myself, “You’re only
as good as your last talk.” And so even though I’ve
had a great seven year public speaking career,
none of that matters the second I take that
stage for the next time, because you’re only as
good as your last at bat. And so, my friend, to answer
your question, Dimitri, the way I prepare for
a speaking engagement is the same way I would prepare for war. – [Voiceover] Jared asks,
“Gary, you said ignorance

“the #AskGaryVee Show in the evening? “Are you trying to target
to East Coast commuters?” – Robert, great question. I appreciate you having the respect in me to think I have that much strategy. I do like to say, everything
I do is on purpose. This one though, on the other hand, happens to completely
be on the heads of Zak. Not usually Zak actually. (Zak laughs) You actually have very
little to do with it. – Yeah. – It has a whole lot to do with DRock who’s on the other side of this, and it has to do everything
with my schedule. Here we are at 9:30 or 9:40
taping today’s episode, yesterday when did we tape DRock? – [DRock] One. – 1 pm yesterday, obviously
that came out later. It’s 9:48, I expect DRock’s mission, with only one video question
today, to bang this out and it should be up by 2 or 3
or 1, and we’ll be out soon so completely predicated on the insanity that is my schedule.

uh, uh, you know, my
question for you is this, uh, um, do you speak Russian? (speaking Russian) And for all of you that
don’t understand that, that was Russian with a
very heavy English accent predicated on the notion
that it was important for my parents to become Americanized and so we didn’t live in Brooklyn in Brighton Beach with
all the other Russians. We went to New Jersey. We were very proud to become Americans and very much pushed English
language in the home.

– [Voiceover] Trey wants
to know what situations do you find yourself most comfortable in? – Trey, this is a great
question, you know, I loved it when Steve brought it up, like how he wanted to do this
question, of course, this is like a humble brag question. (bell) You know, I mean, where am I most awesome? You know, listen, the
thing I take most pride in is I’m probably probably
best when it’s chaotic. And I think a lot of
people fold in that sense, but to me I take enormous pride, what I don’t know is I’m really great in chaotic non-threatening,
I’m being very honest here ’cause I don’t I wanna (bell)
disguise this humble brag with a little humility, ’cause
that’s how I like to roll, you know, I I’m great in
business when we’re in real trouble, like I’m
great, that’s my world. I’m really good when people
are upset, you know, like, a kid in my class died in
a car accident senior year and like I like I was
proud in the way I helped a lot of people I’m
really strong emotionally. What I’m not sure about is
if like somebody came up and punched my wife in the
face, like, what would I do? Like I’m such a lover not
a fighter, that I always question myself in that
moment, I actually think I come out guns blazing, but
it’s never really happened. But I’m most comfortable in chaos. As a matter of fact, and
people can tell you this in the office, these guys
can mention it, I mean you’ve seen this stop, I’m
like rolling my, ringin’ these, I hate quiet and standard. I like walking into
VaynerMedia everybody’s got their headphones
on, like, can somebody play some music? Like, all this is like
way not enough for me. My wife actually like
keeps making fun of me because the other day I
somehow said something like New York’s too slow for
me, she’s like “shut the” you know like like I I’m best when there’s a crapload going on. My friends, I really appreciate
you watching this show.

you learned as a result
of taking an interest in someone else’s passion, hobby, or job? – Erick, this is a really
interesting question. I’m tryin’ to figure this out. You know, one that’s
emerging, a little bit, believe it or not, but I’m
not gonna accept it, is golf. A.J. has fallen in love with golf, my bro. And, you know, I don’t know
if I’m picking up a skill, but I guess I am a little
bit, I’m out there. I’ve been thinking, should I get into it? I just can’t commit to the five hours that it takes to play, and so, I’m scared. People get addicted with golf, so, that would’ve been the
answer, but I’ve been luckily able to hold off that
insanity of the golf drug. I would probably say, and
this is a weird answer, I’d probably say respecting data. You know, I think that
I believe in targeting, and big data, and all
this new digital stuff because Eric Caster and John Casmanus when they started
VaynerMedia as developers, showed me the other side of marketing, which was retargeting, and CRMs, and all these things, and so, that was probably the last skill that I remember really picking up. Yeah, I would say respecting data. – [Voiceover] John asks,
when you’re in a funk,

who keeps accidentally
calling my house to stop?” – Chad, one thing I pride myself is in is actually really paying attention. I’m really good at paying
attention to mannerisms. I feel for the room, I
also listen to words. You said cute old lady, which means you actually like it. And so what I would tell you to do is flip the script. I would say go on the offense. So the next time she calls, why don’t you try to engage
in a 25 minute conversation with her and actually form a relationship? One that can go deep into your heart and maybe bring value
to your overall soul. – [Voiceover] Matthew asks, is it
better to update your social

Daniel. Edge. – [Voiceover] Bill asks, “What’s the
best way for a right hook

what’s the one thing that
keeps you up at night?” Eric, this is interesting. I promised myself when I started this show that I would go really direct, right? I mean, I already have the benefit of Steve picking the questions, so, meaning that, you know, there’s no reason not to go
direct and honest on these. This is gonna be a little
bit of a douchey answer, so DRock, I know you know how to edit, can you create a little
douche alert thing here? Can we get some sirens going.
(sirens blaring) It’s gonna be a little
bit of a douchey answer but it’s the truth. As a business leader, the one
thing that I most worry about every day is my health. Because the truth is, if I am healthy, I am completely unscared of
any of the landscape or shifts, definitely the competition,
internal issues, like, I feel like I’m in complete control. There is no place in the world that I feel more completely
and utterly in control than running a business. – [Voiceover] Daniel asks,
“center or edge?”

Jon, the answer these days is water. But, you know, overall,
you know, it’s funny, I would say tea, and it’s wine. It’s wine, out of those beverages. Now, root beer would have
been more interesting, but I would say it goes wine, tea, coffee. – [Voiceover] Eric asks,
“As a business leader,

– Thomas, this is quite simple. For me, this is pie. I’m obsessed with blueberry and apple pie, though I don’t eat those
kind of things anymore, but, pie. – [Voiceover] Liz asks,
any tips on how to make