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Darryl Davis, the Bargain Basement Motivational Speaker
from Fuck Gary Vee · #46
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2 minTim tells a story about his old mortgage company bringing in has-been motivational speaker Darryl Davis, a cheap knockoff of Gary Vee who once did stand-up at Caroline's, and describes seeing him shaking and smoking outside after his seminar.
- 24:02Tim worked in mortgages during the 2008 collapse and saw his company get swallowed by a larger one.
- 24:22A motivational speaker named Darryl Davis was brought in to pump up the merged company.
- 24:38One of Davis's actual credentials as a motivational speaker was performing comedy at Caroline's Comedy Club in New York City.
- 25:08Davis gave a bargain-basement motivational speech at a Hilton in Melville.
- 25:49After the speech, Tim saw Davis outside shaking and smoking a cigarette, then getting into an old Dodge Durango where his friend thought he was doing coke.