Episode 282 - Gary Vee

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Arts, Food

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Today Gary Vee joins us at the table! The two Jersey boys dive into all kinds of discussions - the best way to parent your children, how to start a business without any money, and how to use AI to make you money. Enjoy and take notes! ------------- 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:05 TomPapa.com and Patreon Shoutout 0:02:09 New Jersey 0:03:40 Bread 0:04:45 Say hi to everyone in college - life is people 0:07:22 Talking about feelings, life then vs now 0:12:19 Don't tell kids that things don't matter 0:15:56 Other people's opinions, Twitter in 2007 0:22:50 Self esteem convo w/ kids 0:28:03 Hypocritical parents, parent's don't punish 0:32:35 Balancing business and media, building business 0:41:22 Moving people 0:46:01 First step is social media, choosing niche 0:53:40 Uncomfortable moment 0:57:03 Life isn't as bad as it seems 59:00 Comedians 1:00:00 Break the web app, idealizing young people 1:04:20 AI revolution and financial opportunity 1:07:19 Gary uses Chat ------------- Tom Papa is a celebrated stand-up comedian with over 20 years in the industry. Watch Tom's new special "Home Free" out NOW on Netflix! Patreon - Patreon.com/BreakingBreadwithTomPapa Radio, Podcasts and more: https://linktr.ee/tompapa/ Website - http://tompapa.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tompapa Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tompapa Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/comediantompapa Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/tompapa #tompapa #breakingbread #comedy #standup #standupcomedy #bread #garyvee #parenting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think I'm a vessel of what I'm reading at scale.
0:03.8	And what is very clear is we are completely stuck keeping up with the Joneses, the Kardashians, and any other person in the world that you're throwing at us.
0:15.1	And unlike when you and I grew up, when Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was on, that would be like Fantasyland.
0:37.7	And you'd be like, oh my God, Robin Leach's. Look at these people. It was almost like, it wasn't that it wasn't achievable. I can tell you that when MTV Cribs came out, you know, later. Yeah. And Lifestyles of the Riff and Famous before that. People did not consume that content and felt like shit. Right. That's right. That's right. It was like, oh, that's cool or that's interesting or maybe one day, right?
0:43.0	Yeah. We've gotten into a place of insecurity where when somebody's going through their social media stream and they see someone else's success, it's triggering really deep unhappiness.
0:57.0	Yeah.
0:57.4	And that is not the algorithm's fault.
0:59.8	And that is not Instagram's fault.
1:01.9	That is modern parenting's fault.
1:04.4	It's breaking bread.
1:06.1	Hey, everybody.
1:07.4	Today's episode is brought to you by the good people at tompapa.com wow it's really hard to
1:15.1	get these guys we feel pretty lucky uh my tour dates i'm going heavy starting in september
1:22.9	we're doing a whole bunch of days we're going to erie pennsylvania we're going to pittsburg
1:27.3	morgantown west virginia then We're going to Erie, Pennsylvania. We're going to Pittsburgh, Borgantown, West Virginia. Then we're off to Canada. We're doing a bunch of shows in Regina and Winnipeg. And then, ooh, St. John's and Moncton, a bunch of places up there. Big shows coming up in Philadelphia, New Jersey, a whole bunch all the way through to the end of the year on the Grateful Bread Tour.
1:45.3	Go to tompapa.com and look up all of those beautiful tour dates.
1:49.7	We'll be doing book signings.
1:51.0	There may be some pugs involved.
1:53.5	We're very excited.
1:55.1	Also, if you're not a member of the Patreon yet, you really should join.
1:59.6	It's a great way to support the podcast. And we get
2:03.2	extra bonus material. A lot of it's silly, a lot of it's fun. And we were really starting to grow
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