Gary Vee
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Podcast Appearances
of being a contributor to someone else.
It feels better for me when I... Here's one.
This is just a real life story.
This was, I don't know.
I didn't think I was a public figure when I was 10.
On my sister's seventh birthday, we went to Toys R Us to buy me toys with my 20 bucks because that's what we did in the 80s in New Jersey.
I don't know if you remember, but Cabbage Patch Kids were impossible to find.
It was impossible to find.
We go to Toys R Us, and for whatever reason, miraculously, there's some there.
My sister, seven years old, loses her fucking mind.
And I, without a fucking pause, was like, mom, grandma, let's use my birthday money to buy Liz a Cabbage Patch kit.
That is not me trying to figure out what the right โ like that's just in you.
That is โ I was parented.
And I am telling that story today not to be like, hey, everybody, I'm a great guy.
I'm trying to explain โ
That it felt better for me to do that as a human, as an animal.