Hey guys, it's Gary Vay, Nerd Chuck, and this is the GaryVee audio experience.

I guess I've gotten some interesting comments from the Larry King episode that I did.

Interview where people said that, you know, they're like, oh, you really give your dad some good daps.

And you know, it's funny, dad.

You know, as I sit here right now writing this article, or at least memoing it, because that's how I do it.

You know, I'm giving a lot of thought to life, you know, I'm 40 now, I don't know if you heard.

And my kids are getting older and becoming a more experienced dad.

And I think that, you know, what we did together, really from 1993, from 1992 to 2012,

in that 20 year period, obviously most intensely from what I would say, 1996 to 2010,

was we built something together, right?

And we spent a lot of time together, and it's, you know, obviously we got to know each other in the late 90s and early 2000s,

for the first time, a lot more, because we didn't get to know each other as well in the late 70s, early 80s, 80s.

Because you just worked so hard. And I thank you for that, dad. I thank you so much for sacrificing.

And I know you did it in a selfish way, because I do it too in a selfish way.

I know that it's your natural state to be an entrepreneur and build for yourself, and that you love wine library, heck, more than you even love very close family members.

But it doesn't take away from the fact of what you did, and what you established, and how you started the process of our family being here.

It doesn't take away from the fact that when your great uncle came to America in the late early 70s,

it inspired you to want to go to America, and in a time where many people, even though it should have been so obvious, didn't want to go leave and take the risk to go to America,

or somewhere outside the Soviet Union, not only did you, but you brought the whole family along with you, including your mom and your grandparents.

And you came to this country, and you worked so damn hard. And you know, it's funny.

I think through all our frictions in building the business, it's super easy, and has always been super easy for me to focus on how we're different, and what I don't agree on.

But I've been noticing a trend, especially maybe because I don't see you every day like I used to, and I'm not around as much on a everyday basis with you.

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