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Fake Carrots: Blue Collar Jobs vs. the Gary V Dream, and 9/11 Questions to Gary Vee
from Fuck Gary Vee · #46
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7 minTim argues people ignore lucrative blue-collar jobs chasing influencer fantasies fed by guys like Gary Vee, then does a bit imagining asking Gary Vee about the 2000 Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda summit and pre-9/11 intelligence failures, spiraling into a bit about ISIS as Gary Vee fans and charismatic radical clerics.
- 35:10Tim on Gary Vee listeners: nobody who listens to him is actually fun or has time for it.
- 35:22Home health aides from recent immigrants make 70-80 grand a year wiping someone's asshole, but people won't do blue collar work.
- 35:49Gary V tells people they'll be the next Deepak Chopra, but he's bullshit—there's no secret to getting ahead.
- 36:41The fake carrot: people need Gary Vee's lies so they can stay lazy and not actually change.
- 36:56Most people don't derive happiness from careers—they get it from family, which we destroyed to replace with writing for Reductress.
- 37:20Tim asks Gary Vee about the 2000 al-Qaeda summit in Malaysia under FBI surveillance and why known terrorists were allowed into the U.S.
- 37:58Gary Vee's hypothetical response: build your brand through social media, just like ISIS has done phenomenally.
- 38:54Khalid Sheikh Mohammed supposedly emailed Gary Vee saying he hustled because of him—'rise and grind' by grinding a dull knife to decapitate slowly.
- 39:26Low-level terrorists in positions like Anthony need a Gary Vee for the Muslim world to convince them to wear the vest.
- 39:44Radical Islamic clerics are charismatic and hook people; they hook you with "we all want to live luxuriously, I love first class."
- 40:28Catholic priests are boring and tortured, but one priest told Tim's grandmother she'd been preparing for death for decades—Cotton Mather energy.
- 41:19With the collapse of traditional religion, the vortex is being filled with Gary V and ISIS.
- 41:35Tim and the show have said "we prefer ISIS" so many times it's become a running bit.
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