Gary Vee

You know, over the last 15 years where it started to get more obvious that we were collectively getting away from purple and getting more and more entrenched in our red and blueness.

You know, I'm very – I really – I was a terrible student, brother.

But I was really good at history, like A's and B's and literally D's and F's and everything else.

My report card that's hanging in my office right now, it's a ludicrous – it, like, makes no sense in some ways.

And then later in life, I figured out why it made sense.

But it – I remember in 2000 –

you know, eight to 10 to 12, even before the Trump election, the first one, it became very clear to me that we were pulling more and more and more apart and over intellectual dinners and talking about society and,

I just really started to reference my concern that we would go into an era that looked more like the 60s where so much of what – how old are you, bro?

Great.

Me too.

So I'm 49.

So much of what we grew up with where like you don't talk about politics and religion in the workplace or public settings.

If you really understand it, it was a reaction to the sheer violence of the 60s.

You know, we had so many assassinations.

And then people forget that, you know, Ford had an assassination attempt on him.

You know, obviously, just so many devastating moments on college campuses, Kent State, all this.

And so...

I just remember telling friends, I'm like, you know, if this is where we're going, we're going to see famous people, public figures, politicians have assassination attempts again on them, which we were so fortunate to not have from Reagan.

you know, to Trump, the kind that we saw in the sixties.

And obviously we had the, you know, the attempt on president Trump, which was super scary and ridiculously lucky that he just turned his head.