Hey guys, hope you're enjoying the podcast. As always, obviously, I'm sure if you're following me on social, you know about this, but if you don't, I am doing T with Gary V.

I've been doing it for about a month. It's been remarkable. If you're not following it, you're making a huge mistake. 9am Eastern time during this crisis.

We're doing some incredible stuff. Please check it out. T with Gary V live on all my social platforms every morning at 9am.

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This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

He is Gary Vanerchack. So give it up for Gary V.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Welcome.

I want to thank my mom for writing that intro.

Well, it is great to have you here.

Thanks for having me.

Truth. I am a big fan and a follower. So it's thrilling to be able to sit here and ask you a few questions.

Thank you.

So just so you guys know the format, we'll spend about 45 minutes together going back and forth a bit.

And then we'll open it up for Q&A for about 15 minutes. So get your questions ready.

But I thought maybe we could kind of open it up and maybe explore a little bit more about your background.

And another classic entrepreneur story is I understand you came to America at the age of three, selling lemonade and trading baseball cards at the age of six, to now really building a media empire.

So maybe for those who aren't as familiar with your story, can you just take a moment to show us some background?

I don't want to take up too much time because I want to get into the meat, but it really is an old school story.

Probably one that's more similar to a lot of people that came over from Eastern Europe in the 30s and 40s, more so than in the 70s, came over, super poor, you know, 10 family members in a studio apartment in Queens, real, real difficult times.

My dad got a job as a stockboy in a liquor store in New Jersey and that's really an essence where the American Dream started.

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