Super excited to announce our third partnership with Empathy Wines for this holiday season. Following the sold-out success of our last holiday wine “Empathy Elephant Cabernet Sauvignon” to the smash-hit summer treat of “Meerkat Muscat”, this red blend will be the perfect centerpiece for holiday dinners. This exclusive wine features a highly popular character that sets to produce the “rarest” collaboration in the lineage, introducing the 2021 Napa Valley Rare Robot Red Blend! Come join us on 11/25 at 3pm EST!
Are you kidding me? We're gonna draw a better tune in than the U.S England World Cup I Don't know. it's Zero Zero in the 80th minute. We're live. Yep, we're live. How we doing. we're uh, you'll notice that in the bottom left-hand corner it says Garyvee but he's not here yet. He should be walking the door any second. In the meantime, me and Nate holding down as hosts Happy Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Thanks for joining with Uh 10 minutes left to go in the England USA game. Are we still Zero Zero? Still Zero Zero. We can do a little play-by-play before Gary gets here. It's gonna say call the call the football match before. Uh John is in the old Wine Library office. um John and Gary were doing a bottle signing there today. Well, John wasn't signing. Yeah. a couple big empathy drops today. Between uh, rare robot and Empathy sparkling wine it's available at Wine Library Currently all right for everyone just tuning in. We should be uh, should be diving into this in just a few minutes. we're just waiting on Gary should be on any second now. Be back. Much better looking isn't that right? Looks different but he looks great. So fun. Fun fact about the office trout he's in uh I've told the story before but I interned at Wine Library with Gary that's the first time that I met him in 2009. Um, and I interned at Wine Library in New Jersey where John is right now and I worked out of that office where Brandon used to work. So I went into the office every day sat next to Brandon did a bunch of random intern work in 2009 so I recognized that office very much. so. Few more grays in the beard now Nate a lot more grace than the beard was a young young kid at that time. Still look great though. someday. some days who? um I'm curious how many people have tuned in and actually bought the rare robot. It's available now, right? The site's live links are up. We're at Robots Live. Uh, pretty limited production on this one too. The smallest so far. right, far away, smallest so far. uh, only about 250 cases or so. I Know we've had some sales so far, but pretty pretty limited production for this. Black Friday offer Yeah. I Saw some early uh, full case buys come through from some people too. So I feel like this could go quick? Dustin Can we see all the comments as they come in? Or some of them not show? Uh, shall we? Um, you should have to see everything LinkedIn Facebook YouTube and Twitter got it? Still Zero Zero in the game. It's a nail biter? Yeah. Can we get some action from some people? Throw a couple comments up there I just feel like we haven't wanna make sure this is uh, working and coming through there. We go there, we go. Do we ship outside of the states? Not. Unfortunately, there's a something we've made. How long have we been working on that now? Three years trying to figure out? Yeah, it's been a little while we're working on it though. hopefully getting to International at some point in 2023. I Feel like we said that every year, but there's a path to get there. but um, it's a more complicated than one would think with uh, alcohol? yeah? Marielle you were just here so were you picking? Are you going pick up of the sparkling wine and then scooping the rare robot? Seems like the right play? Yeah, it's a good Black Friday Do we want to talk about um, the sparkling just for like a second before we get into the rare robot with Gary Yeah, you had it yesterday, right? I Did I got a couple bottles? Um so we made a again limited production but we made a sparkling uh, brute and a sparkling rose and have a exclusive kind of deal with um, Go Puff to distribute through Go Puff in their distribution centers and not every state in the U.S but I think it's about like 20 25 States So if you log into Gopuff and it's available in your state to search empathy uh, you can pick up a couple or however many want of our limited edition sparkling and Brew or sparkling or Brute and Rose and that's what Gary was doing at Wine Library for a little uh bottle signing for Empathy Sparkling So uh, first time that we've had any wine through distribution. Um, it's not available on Empathywines.com Um, the rare robot is and our other core Skus R but the sparkling is just through gopuff right now. Yeah, hi Nate I think I think you might have just said it but I missed it. How many states are we in now for? um, one second here I can get you the exact number. Um, so yeah. So if you are in, can you John can you hear me still? Yep, if you are in New Hampshire Georgia Massachusetts Maine Missouri Ohio Virginia Michigan Alabama Arizona California Colorado Florida Iowa Idaho Illinois Kentucky Louisiana North Carolina Nebraska New Jersey Oklahoma Oregon Texas or Washington Uh, you can log on to Go Puff right now and find our um our sparkling wines available. We should be live in Tennessee and DC in the next few weeks. but I don't think we're live there yet. So any of those any of those people it's and it's most areas of the state right? I believe So yeah Owns: BevMo So I think um, they do a lot of like their warehousing in BevMo I'm not entirely certain, but um yeah, most areas are those. States you should be able to go puff Uh, Empathy sparkling? yeah from the rare robot rare robots exclusively online on Empathywines.com but the the sparkling is through Bill Buff Yeah! which like 90 of all sparkling wine in the world is probably consumed between now and New Year's Eve So it couldn't have been a more intentional time for us to release that wine. But I Feel like it's one of those things where you buy it. Drink it. New Year's drink it Christmas drink it over any other holiday you're celebrating. Um, but for me, it's something to drink into the spring too. I Think that's what we were just talking about earlier. It's like people just don't drink enough sparkling wine. in general, you love sparkling wine. John I I Do you know that about me? Um I Saw someone earlier asking about that. They usually drink Bordeaux and so if they like Bordeaux what's uh, what's the go-to wine? Just saying. like earlier this morning, this is this one is maybe the closest thing that we've ever released that would have like Bordeaux like Tendencies I Wouldn't say it's you know, gonna fool an expert in a blind tasting, but it's definitely got that kind of like right. Bank Bold structure, good tannin profile to it, a little savoriness and it's mostly Merlot So this is, um, like a Merlot dominant blend. Um, so whoever asked that question earlier. like if you're on the fence and you're thinking about something that's Bordeaux-like I Would definitely check out Rare Robot. It's probably the closest comparison that we have end of price wise too. Like Toe to Toe with Bordeaux this is gonna pretty much blow the vast majority of Bordeaux out of the water dollar for dollar I think just great value. Where is the production facility for Robot Blend? So this is a Napa Valley one so it's sourced and bottled and uh in Napa Valley um in Oakville Specifically, All right, nobody wanted that dude I'm here now I'm so sorry for that mess because I'm sure that Trouty and they bored the out of everybody I don't know about that I don't know YouTube All right I'm here Carl Good to see you Chef was that teacher96 Sammy Good to see you I'm finally here I Apologize I mean I mainly apologize for the fact that you had to deal with these two characters. Uh, really good to see you Paul Let's go Giovanni Thank you Natalie Good to see you Carl m in the building Orenzy Tina Powell Seth Cunningham Cassandra Bright Jason Zhang Thank you so much for all of you being here. Uh I'm super fired up about this I apologize for the super late start I Think a lot of you know that I was in the store downstairs for the last five hours I Just the thought of somebody staying in line for three and a half hours and then me bailing on them was just unacceptable. So we had a late start. but thank you for everybody who's been jamming a couple things I don't know I don't know if anybody from the defense John trout did you see the email that I asked to be created? Did we make that email? Got it? We got it great. Correct. Thank you Salon! So is that does Dustin have that to throw up on here? Great! So team late last night I think or this morning when did I say anything? So this morning it was Yes it was yesterday. Yes we had an idea. So Nate I need you to be the straight man here and tell everybody to deal with rare robot. But I wanted to do an extra thing which is for anybody who buys rare robot today for them to email in the receipt in the next 24 hours. So starting right now for next 24 hours, anybody who buys a rare robot The packages that we have. What other packages that we have named um again three, six and twelve uh three bottles. is that 60 bucks a bottle if you buy Six it's at 55 and if you buy a case it's at 50 bucks a bottle. Great! So um I'm gonna do it for 6 and 12. I apologize to Three Bottle buyers. but if you buy Six uh bottles and send an email or if you buy 12 will be eligible I'm gonna give away some rare robot nfts tomorrow. um one of each. So one for the six group, one for the 12 group. I'll tell you which rare robots tomorrow. but um and so that's what's going to uh app been at this time. So if you buy six or twelve, please send the receipt to rareobot befriends.com your receipt and I'm going to draw one of you tomorrow. two of you, one in the six group, one in 12 group. The 12 group will obviously get a better rare robot. Nft. Uh, the six will also get a great one. It's just an added little kiss Little fun for anybody who decided to buy that. So let's go into the Wine Trout. We need such little of this wine compared to that are stunningly High Yeah, we made we made like 50 cases. so a fourth of what we did with Empathy Elephant. Yeah, right. So or somewhere now we did 800 cases. I think Third, but you know so this is far more limited. What? What can we? you know again? Nate John You guys are closer to this. What can we tell people about this wine? Um, that's allowed to be said? Um and no. International right? Like we like, did we establish all the rules because I know liquor laws are just possible. Yeah, we talked about that already. Yeah, let's repeat it for the people that have just joined. Yeah, so uh, us only I think with Empathy Wines now we can ship to about 42 States legally if you put it in your cart and you've entered an address and that we can ship to no problem. If you enter an address and we can't ship to it, it won't let you purchase. But so about 42 states in the U.S right now understand for everybody that's just the realities of this project. Um, just want to give a shout out to Traveling Picker. Um you know Cassandra I'm wishing you well. uh Jason cook uh Mitchell weeks? um sending you love? uh just sending everybody A lot of positivity. Um a couple things. One, the recession is looming so please do not over your extend this yourself. If you can't afford the wine, Do Not Buy The wine. Do Not Buy The wine. Do Not Buy The wine because of the contest for the Nfts either. You know lottery tickets is not a good idea. so buy the wine. You've got a real purpose for it because you're a Wine Drinker and you can afford it and you want to get super premium wine at a much better price. Um uh and that's important or number two for a lot of people. Um you know the reality is is that they're in GIF mode. You know that I do think the Rarity of this is pretty cool. So um I think that's important. So people asking in the in the comments where to buy the wine Let's uh Dustin can you change the rare robot? Can you go along with this dust and put where they people can buy like and then they're very nice and then can you add to that dust? The send send receipts to thank you brother. All right um dad Bob Wish I wasn't broke as that Bob that's uh, that's actually a blessing I Actually think finding happiness without Financial fruitfulness is actually the ultimate in life and so I actually think that there's a blessing in there if you actually go deeper. Um I Really Do receipts are coming in Very cool I Really. So listen, if you buy 12 like somebody's gonna get a monster I'll just be very transparent. it's going to be a series. one rare robot which is out of control. The six models are going to be a very good rare robot series too. so there is. You know if you're in the thought of like, well, I'm gonna buy how much is this again, right? So for the people that were gonna buy a case of hundred dollar wine this holiday, this is the person that should be buying 12.. you were gonna buy a hundred dollar bottle and buy a case which is very common this time of year because people are buying bosses and clients gifts. So I see a lot of At Wine Library people buy a case. they need eight gifts for special people. they keep four bottles for themselves. If you're that person, you should definitely buy a case of this because you're getting a hundred dollar quality wine for 50 bucks plus you've got a mathematical prayer to win tomorrow. That's definitely the person who should consider this. who should not consider this. Anybody who's financially tight. you do not need 180 on three bottles of this. just cause like, do Not buy this for that reason, it do not over extend yourself. Oh Vicky Is that true? Final Score: Zero Zero Us: England Done Yeah, after stoppage? Yep, it's done Zero Zero huh? And you ask? I Love Vicky Um, that's huge for you I'm pumped Now we just have to beat the out of Iran Don't cut that. Don't Don't be that you know. Please put that into context and not just Cloud I meant in soccer. Um, proper football. Uh, all right. I Really want to taste this one. Can we like I'm kind of sipping it without thinking about it. What can we talk about? Should we talk about how it came to be? Yeah. Go ahead. All right. Last year we came out with our first be friends collaboration. It's our first non-core Emphas one. Very successful. Very, very successful by all accounts. So we knew we wanted to do it again. We said, how do we replicate a similar style at a slightly better I Apologize Skg Sunil is asking the mechanics. Here are the mechanics of the giveaway If you buy six or twelve thus may be on the scroller you could be send 6 and 12 bottle receipts to if you buy six bottles or 12 bottles in the next 24 hours so you can share this in. um, the Discord Um, I'm gonna do a giveaway tomorrow at around this time 5 p.m in the Discord for one person from each. So I'm going to probably send all the names to a randomizing website. Have the team do that. Click a button. Click a button. Two people are going to win. one for six, one for twelve. The series. One rare robot will go to the people that order 12 bottles if you want. Somebody just asked if you want to buy four cases because you want four entries. Absolutely approved if you buy 48. I'm gonna put your name in there four times. um if you buy but they're gonna be separate. so it's not like if you buy like if you want to do the 6 out of 12, you have to do that in separate receipts. So um, that's how we'll do that and I'm excited about it. Be really fun. Go ahead brother. Yeah, um so we want to replicate the success that we had last year. The whole idea last year for people who didn't know about The Elephant was it was a wine that we sold for eighty dollars a bottle that was easily valued at two hundred dollars. Plus, we couldn't share what the wine actually was and what was inside the bottle because quite honestly, we sourced it such a such a great deal that we couldn't disclose any of the details. and that's basically a rinse repeat of what we did here where we were able to Source some wine it would cost a whole lot more and model it under the rare Robot for between fifty and sixty dollars. I Mean there's a lot of people here who've bought the Empathy Elephant Cab last year like we're blown away. This one is more. This is different than Empathy Elephant Cap Just so everybody knows, this has much more terroir has much more savoryness to it I taste beef jerky. there's soil components to it. This is more for Bordeaux and Barolo and old school Spanish Wine drinkers not California cult wine. Last year's wine tasted like Caymus and special and things of that nature and this year's wine is far more. The rare Robot wine is much more Bordeaux-like it's more Savory it's more classic It's Not Over the Top There's an elegance and a complexity to this wine that I think is really profound and so I think for people who like Bordeaux Pomerol comes to mind here Nate For me, like if somebody is like a right Bank Bordeaux Drinker drinking like to me when I tasted this I'm like oh, this is like a 125 Cline like that's what that's the first thing came to mind. What did I say before? Gary got your name the right day Bordeaux John Yeah I watched a lot of Gary content I'm impressed with your palette I think this one more than the Empathy Elephant last year too. You could pop and pour this over at Christmas and it's ready to go. I Agree, Somebody just asked a good question. Did you just buy the fruit or did you buy the finished wine? Chris Kelly Because this is part of the consolation family, we were able to negotiate with our partners well with our owners. They bought Empathy wines, but we were able to. This is fruit that's in the system. The kind of fruit that goes into the Prisoner and all the other. You know, not that this is that. Don't be confused. The same programs that go into other high-end wines. The schraders, the prisoners, things that nature. This is the by the way. It was one of the reasons we sold Empathy to Constellation Their Their grape programming aka the fruit was so much more advanced than anything the three of us would have been able to get to in a 20-year window that we were able to get dramatically better wine making and wine quality. And so you know you felt that a lot in last year's Empathy Elephant. I Know I mean I all year for the last 12 months I've been getting emails from people who pop the bottle and freaked out I Think the same thing will happen with a robot if people are listening very carefully to what we're saying here. which is this is a very different line. it's much more. Savory It's much more balanced in my opinion. It's more drinkable now, but it's much more Bordeaux than it is Cabernet It's actually for people who bought empathy elephant and didn't drink at all. By the way. I actually agree with this I Apologize for interrupting. The little guy deserves a chance at something Gary hook it up I Think the the three, the three Blaster three off bath or Blaster bath. You see that comment there Dustin Let's put that up there. He or she just compelled me. They're right. Send in your three bottle receipts as well and I'm gonna give you something as well. All three categories. That's exactly right. It's yeah. it's the Am. I bouging it up for six and twelve only dust. What about the little guy? And by the way, it's not the little guy. It's 180 dollars plus shipping. real money. So three bot give big shout out to the Blaster bath because this person completely just brought me into the realm. Three Bottle People are in the game. Oh the last breath. sorry I'm like incredibly incapable of reading a big shout out to the last breath. It's a blaster. Back for finish Four and a half straight hours downstairs I I Can't read All right? can't read uh Nate John Please say something about the wine while I gather my thoughts. Wait a minute. Is it true people said this? It seemed like the U.S was pressuring them more than the other way. Yeah, wow. Now they just have to beat Iran All right, go ahead. What I was gonna say is I think for anybody who bought the empathy elephant, they should buy this and drink them side by side because it's a great educational experience. They're very different ones. Well I think this person's right about the Blaster bath would make a good name for a band I was upset. It also does sound a hair inappropriate if I'm being really transparent. so sounds like a place Nate would be found and then go to jail Nate What do you have to say to yourself I Could I could see myself? All right. We're having too much fun at this point. Um, what else? Yeah, so again, 250 cases only. which is like a quarter of the production. Maybe a little bit more than what we did for empathy elephants. So um, really limited I Think we're gonna try and do things like this ongoing for the next couple years, but you know, one or two of these drops a year as long as we can secure the quality of wine that we want for the price. Um, but really? I think maybe Michael Michael C said wanted to buy but can't ship to New Jersey but Michael yeah like you know how easy it is to ship to Pennsylvania or Connecticut or New York like we're in Jersey All those places are easy You must know people. Yeah Michael You're like a very charismatic look at you. look at your photo. you're clearly a very charismatic guy. Handsome, You've got a Michael Please leave a comment that you absolutely know somebody in the state of. New York Pennsylvania Can we ship to all those places? Nate Uh Yep. great. Michael Put up Michael's photo again Dustin Michael please I'm not even gonna move on with this um without Michael confirming that he has somewhere that he can ship it to even though he lives in Jersey because that's the beauty of New Jersey I've lived in a lot of parts of Jersey like you know my my main man dap my great college friend Pete's in the room he was in that he's in that Philly range. he's down and it's an old school Michael yeah see Tap city ship it to him please Michael Please confirm I see old photo too but I need Michael to confirm that he has found a place to ship it because I'm not moving on until um until he confirms this right. Look the geek Mike is saying hit me up but like he doesn't need you to Michael C has friends in multiple places all right I feel a lot better. That was like really hard on me. All right. What else? Nate Talk to me about the wine. let's give a little more. Is there a lot more left? I don't really a good amount of merlot in this. again kind of more right? Bank Bordeaux Style there's a pop. Okay, hold on everyone, there's a PO app for this for this video. Oh that's fun. all right. For all you uh web 3 nerds, we have a PO app for this live stream I think I can see Dustin typing which means he's probably about to give some instructions to that. that is not what's happening. sorry how do we get the poet it who's doing what Dustin can you pull it? yeah one second I like this kind of getting some like black cherry action I get like a little like more Julio Garcia said they haven't answered any of us I want to make sure I'm answering questions here. that's what I've been looking for. um Julio get uh get your question and oh let's go Julio's question here. okay cool probably about the wine. yeah it's got Savory it's got like a little like herbal like. kind of like it's not green but like it's very important. like yeah like very Bordeaux like I actually am like surprised given that it's all Cali juice is it Napa yeah this is like really well made for like like this is like the kind of NAPA Red a lot of people who say they they're over Napa like need to drink more I think it's more old school right? I Actually am really glad you guys didn't blind taste me here because I think this would have been like a humbling moment I would have felt a little rusty because I don't think I would have pulled it which I think is it's also different than the um the red blend that we make. um so it's nice to have like something that's on a different end of the spectrum I think but from a similar area. Okay, here we go. Do you guys sell it by the bottle? By any chance? Julio we don't. it's in 3, 6, and 12 packs. The reason that is is just the way the costs. with shipping like Wine's tricky. like one bottle even if you look at wine text wine text is twenty dollars for one bottle shipping. but like what's up brother yeah we want shipping. one bottle of wine is really expensive. um from like a cost per bottle standpoint model basis. when you get to three, uh, company people can start making a little bit of money. um but I see a lot of people asking what a PO app is. Honestly I could go through it here, but this is where Google really comes through. I'm not kidding. like what is a poapp poap? Google that you'll get such a better answer? Um I think a lot of people there's a lot of people grabbing the PO app. I just saw that teacher96 got the poapp. Thank you people in the community here please! Uh um. teach people how to get a poapp or what a Pro app is and then maybe some links to a good poet. The Greek myth case of Threes is included. A case of Threes Was that mean four, two, three packs or a three? Three Bottle pack A three bottle pack will get a gift, a six spot, a pack of organic and 12 bottle pack will get a gift and then for twelves only twelves. you buy 24, 36 or 48. You'll be entered multiple times for three and six. I Don't want to do all the math, so three and six is. You know. Again, if you send in four receipts of six, you'll go in four times, but only 12 will be multiplied in, You know? Okay, I want to get this PO at Yeah, so get it. I'm going to Dick. That was just in my mind, but it doesn't. What did you? Uh, why don't we give everybody a little bit of what happened in the store today. Sid Dustin Andrew Sanan What did we see? What was our takeaway from what we saw today in the four hours on the floor. A lot of thank you, a lot of gratefulness. dad. you want to come on video in the building? Oh Sasha it's Sasha's building. Actually this building. Super true. it's me. Hey, how's it going? How's the golf going? You can have a bottle. Thank you. Let's see what Sasha's First Take is on rare robot red so the OG's in the building. Here we go Dad, What was your observations from today's uh, today's event. Such a such a good wives and good I mean energy I wish we could do it this every week I I I'm serious, someone may come every week. you don't have the time but it was great. Everybody was so happy and you know even the line. Well the line was obviously but I saw what's going on I mean where did everybody? Park I'll be honest with you I wouldn't I Don't think we'll stay in the line for four hours, four and a half hours. but that was great. That's really? hmm. it's on the light side. Yes. definitely. Yeah, it's not not. It's not a Cabernet correct right? It's a blend. It's a blend. Yeah. but do you sense that it's like feels more old world? all right? Oh Richard parked at Walgreens Oh wow. a little little gig got a parking spot in the front. Thank you some people it reminds me of some yeah, some older style I Hate to say this even it's not the same like barola old yeah I mentioned it yeah I I felt like it tasted like Bordeaux but a hint of like I mentioned rural no I agree like I would have done poor if this was blind I would have uh been uh confused Vicky who's one of my favorites says tell us a story Sasha uh which one do you want to know Mangara brought the family to America Is that true? It's time to come to America I was a Visionary at a young age at three years old. no dad. Tell her tell a Wine Library story they're like Why? Well I've got something from Gary Kim to the business. Tell me you fired me. Well I did for for five six hours right? I think like 48. let me let me tell that story. I worked every minute of my entire childhood and then I asked to leave at 6 PM instead of 8 pm on a Saturday to go to one high school party right? And my dad said you're not committed to the business, you're fired right? True story. She went home and had the best 48 Hours of my life. I'm like wait a minute. This is amazing No I cried yeah I was very upset with you because of course in the whole thing. what did she say She said you can't do that Okay, she's mom's the chairman of the board. You fired me for asking for two hours out of it. First of all, people shouldn't be 15 years old working 12 hours days. Why? It's illegal. You can do anything. You can start you at five years old. That's right. I Agree! Yeah, By the way, you know my family, you need to work 18 hours a day. Of course it's the best. She's the best. I'm surprised he never gives you this person. yeah, what's that? What do you do with the 24 hours? I went to the party which was awesome. Like you said, that's the greatest thing my dad did for me and then the next day I didn't go to work which was the weirdest thing and so I hung out with AJ played video games. It was like I didn't I hadn't had a summer vacation day in so long I didn't know what to do with myself and then the next day. this is classic Sasha he just walks in my room he's like coming to work I Go Yeah, that was the whole that was the whole interaction. Nah, it was I mean but it was. it was. That was a really classic story. I Also fired my daughter. well she deserved it. Don't tell me what to do, but that's not by a fire. She got to an argument by the way. Mike Michael yes with the red skin. Whatever. Yeah, she got an argument with him. Well, who knows why I was a superstar, right? I was I was a superstar right? Right or wrong right? right? now? Tell them Yeah, so tell them about Kenwood Chardonnay You know what pisses me off the most is that I'm underrated. No, What pisses me off the most when somebody said well, Gary is so successful You? You? your father had the liquor store, You had a great start that's so not true. that's so natural and thrill piss me off. and I'm staying away from right because I I would be I would be the worst if I start writing things responding back to some people. He's a superstar like this country. never ever had in 200 What? how many years from now Guys: 250 Okay, yeah, okay, it's coming for me. Cheer Cheers that thank you Yeah Nate uh Sasha never fired me as an intern as far as I know. yeah was Nate a good internal. he was the best. What about Simone You respected him a lot right? Yes, he slept from New York Walked yeah, walked. Yes, you really respected me I had a lot of respect for for uh, both of you guys. by the way, What about trout? Oh trout? Not really. It was around a lot though. He worked at the main select but he was around a lot. Yeah, Oh yeah, that's right. he worked. Uh, the best story when we're worth become. Oh don't tell that story. don't tell that story. I'm taking the fifth I'm not that one. All right. We gotta get back on track here. now. what's going on with them? What's going on is it people buy 3, 6, and 12 and send in receipts. They're gonna get a V friends nft raffle. That's a big deal. The other thing is it's Sixty dollars. Fifty Five dollars. And Fifty dollars depending on how many bottles you buy. In terms of what you meant by if you buy 12 multiple times, if you buy 12 if you buy 12 if you buy 24 if you buy 36. Because people somebody asked, what if I bought, you know, uh, three or four cases. If you buy cases, you're entered multiple times. So if you buy 24 bottles or 36 bottles, you'll be in the raffle two times. Three times. Whereas if you buy three and six, that's only just just do that once. So there's that's the. That's the clarity on that. There's a PO app. Um, let's see what's going on. I Want to ask a question? Hold on? Dustin Dustin Yeah. 24 hours. So I don't know. Oh, did you hear what happened? Did we win Zero Zero? Oh no, that's good. Yeah, it's good. No. but I mean and it sounded like the U.S had more opportunities than England right? right? Once it's went to, they hit the post right? Yeah? Or crossbar crossbar. That's a surprise. this morning I was talking to somebody. We're going to probably lose one. nothing. Put nothing to one something like that and you know what? That's a huge thing. It's such a huge Tuesdays with Iran we need to visit the ship. That's what I said The same exact thing. It's the same exactly DNA DNA You get it for me. All right. Get out of here. you're still in the show I Need trout? We gotta I Need I need to blow it? Yes, you can have them all right. Good for you. All right. It's a great result for the U.S South Dakota Um so when I said the wine is sweet, the smoke. the wine is not sweet, the wine is dry, bone dry actually very dry and the fruit is very balanced. and so um I think it's a it's really well made I I Have one a question. Yeah, you're going to have multiple characters on the labels down the road. As you know, this is the third collaboration we've done with Empathy Empathy Elephant, the Meerkat Muscat right? and now this is the third one. Rare robot. No, they're out. Nate and John are gone from constellation of course for my Personal Collection look at this. Yeah. Mensch he's a good boy. You know what it meant Yeah, what about Sid Dad? Yeah, what about little? Lou I Oh blah blah blah. What about old Lou Oh, a little bit of Rocky whatever. but a rocky decade. You love them for a little while. then it was a rocky decade. but now you're back. All right. I Gotta read some stuff. You really need to sort out the shipping in the UK You know what gas Ferry The problem is, we've got such an incredible relationship with Consolation. The international shipping with alcohol is just incredibly challenging. Um I will say this. this is some Alpha um I've got multiple trips already locked in traveling abroad next year and we'll be doing a lot of V-friends events around those trips. Uh, so I'll be in the Middle East in March I'll be in Dubai I'm going to do a meet up there details to come. um our UK offices exploding. so I'll be in London Quite a bit. that will happen. We have an office in Amsterdam now I'll be there as well. We're working on one in Germany we'll be there I have a major trip to Asia so I'll be doing a meet up in Singapore potentially in Malaysia and Indonesia. So I'm gonna be making my first trip to Japan ever. It's one of the few places I've never been you want to come. Okay, so a lot of a lot of travel. Next year that is going to lead to a lot of meetups and I Also, as some of you saw the other day, we're working on a very interesting live streaming platform for you friends. so a lot of exclusive live streams if you own the Nft with very remarkable people from Shaquille O'Neal to Sasha Vaynerchuk. All right, What else in here? Look, are you out of here? Are you going home Okay, good goodbye bye, are you playing or what's going on? Yeah, he wants to know how your golf games going Nate Yeah the golf game's solid. The winter always you know is a drag me tell Dad that you know AJ's obviously got his golf came much stronger but tell them what you see in my natural Talent Even though I've only played like 10 times, uh, Gary Played a full round at 18 holes and I was very impressed by both his swing and his score. He's a multi-talented kid. He's got the town. He's got the talent for it. I Don't know? Yeah, tell everybody when I when we? what about? what about Chappelle What about his draw on the at? Christmas I mean that's unbelievable I've been talking to my wife at 47 and nine months we've been married I said we have to do a DNA test because I'm not so sure. it's my son and she said, you know what? Some days I wonder if it's myself I'm there I'm absolutely I'm the best of both my parents. It's actually true I literally took the best of their attributes because their shortcomings are pretty profound and luckily I didn't get any of them. No listen right? I have shortcomings too. Yeah, Okay, all right. I love you guys! Great to see you have a great holidays. Happy holidays! Okay, what's going on here Jennifer Great to see you proven great to see you! Uh Adrian thank you so much! Um, uh. questionnaire. What about Book Games Book games is played forever. Um, we've got some book game stuff brewing for the first time in a little while I Want to remind everybody that was only a couple months ago that we did stuff six months ago with book games. so there's more on the horizon. Yes, for the person who's not minted in Book Games December 31st and they go into a kitty. the wheel control I am coming. Uh, Akash I'm going to Toronto as well. multiple times Next year we're opening an office of Vaynermedia office in Toronto right? Vaynermedia is exploding. So we're just kind of like doing a lot we have India now work. You know, just a lot of good stuff going on. Book games This forever. The PO app is expiring at 4 25 PM which is what time is it now. five minutes is there a link to get to the bow app. Just the secret word that you just entered. So go to the Poapp app. Somebody can link that and there's a secret word and what's a secret word? Rare Robot 1155 Rare Robot 1155. Understood. All right. That's the Poab stuff now. Uh, I'm from Toronto Will there be an opening party? Maybe. Barry We'll definitely. Uh. I'm a Zach Wilson guy I think it's still early in the equation. but I like Mike White I Like every jet you know, so that's that. Um, any final thoughts as we wrap up here. Sorry everybody, that's done. It's 4 20 now, right? It was supposed to be three to four. I was late so we'll hang for a few more minutes only. OG's will recognize Trouty Sid and Dustin Today at the store he made a point that me it was so nice to say hello to him question a Trouty Gary favorite cheese to pair with rare robot to me this is I think like a soft truffle cheese would work for me on this some Murphy like uh, hard cheeses, parmesan maybe something like that I like your pick better but I had to go somewhere Nate Any part parting thoughts: um just want everyone to have a nice happy holidays you know, enjoy some time friends and family. Good wine, good food. Oh tell them about the Macy's yeah. for anybody who watched the Macy's Parade yesterday you probably saw them driving everyone oh my. God Nate look hold on, it's cute Nate Tell this story, tell this story I'm in a meeting I wish I could find the photo right now. This was like five six years ago Gary much later later eight, eight, nine eight years ago EJ was still working on Vayner uh Gary sends me and AJ a photo from a meeting he was in. It was like the guy meeting in somebody's office like this: I see a photo of a human being in a frame. It's like a person's cousin or brother or something. Me: I take a photo of it I'm gonna try and find it. it is a photo. oh man on Earth it literally looks like like me and AJ Message: had a baby in the basement baby and this human came out. It is so profound. they keep looking. It is so wild. It is so wild. it looks exactly like that. I Feel like you pulled it from the archives not that long ago. I'll find it. There we go. I got it. It's exciting. three. This excites me too. This is a photo Zoom in Yep this is H ussain scroll. Go closer to the screen. Extremely Yeah there you go this. I See this photo and I'm like oh my God this is if Nate and AJ had a child right? Do you see it guys? It is crazy crazy Yeah that was that was funny. How do we deal with the rising cost of shipping and Logistics and e-commerce business? You've all got to pass on the costs. This is what inflation is. You either need to make more margin on your core product or you pass on the costs to the consumer. and I mean we locked injury asks? why is it so hard to ship to Toronto Because Canadian law. Go ahead. Nate Um, Shouty and I are no longer full-time at Constellation but also locking in contracts with 3pl's um and you know as. The good thing about Constellation too is we could negotiate, have a lot more purchasing power. Tell everybody what you guys are both up to now that you were no longer a consolation with the empathy deal. Yeah, so where Trouty and I are both no longer full-time at Constellation? However, we're still uh, working on our baby Empathy wines and obviously in an ongoing capacity. So that's going nowhere. Um, but it's unreal robot Brett Go ahead. um I Don't know if people saw Gary's uh, birthday a couple weeks ago. Um, but we or Gary um, did a lot of individual kind of Charity through GoFundMe and then going forward. I'll be working with Gary on a private Foundation where we're hoping to help individuals and families that need it the most. Can you? Uh, I'm working with the V Friends team, right? So Nate So let me get this right. John You're trying to help me to create money and then Nate is giving away all my money. That's right. So who's that? It's just a circle, you know, right? right? So child's working hard to try to generate it and I'm working hard to try. and okay, it's a really good way of putting it actually. I Like that. I wouldn't I wouldn't say giving it away I'd say that's exactly what I'm doing I'm giving away my money. it's a you know, there's there's other ways to spin it. How would you spin it? Uh, helping people with the money that Trouty generates for you I Love it anyway. I'm excited about the private Foundation I'm going to be doing a lot more it's going to need. obviously family. We've been together a long time I needed somebody to come in who really knows me and so I think we're going to be able to do a lot of positive impact on the world and then and then very seriously because I think about the selfish and selfless part of my world. It's really cool that Nate and John are working at like I Think be friends will be the business that creates my opportunity. Buying the New York Jets I think will be my professional Legacy Be friends is especially exciting because it's selfish and selfless because it's a business. But I do think as we build accountable and and as we build an ambitious Angel as we build all these characters I think we have a profound impact on the world. I've been spending a lot of time on Sesame Street lately I think a lot about what Sesame Street meets Pokemon means. that's how I think a lot about with B Brands Marvel Disney So I'm really excited about it Bob I grew back in the driver's seat of Disney some interesting stuff. um anyway we're gonna be heading out and I agree a machine I desire to care? um all right. Final recap: Final recap: Wait a minute Show me Han's question for Jeremy's question is Jeremy can you re-ask it I don't see oh why evolving pose on this bottle Ah very good question Jeremy look I think I've been alluding to evolving posts I've been seeing a lot of you Big shout out: Yeah I haven't really talked like this because I don't want to create speculation but I have noticed several of you on this um on this live stream have been very clever in picking up evolving poses in series two on the open market during this winter. and I think it's because I have very specific thoughts about what we're doing with evolving poses, Poses and scenes in series two will continue to play out like I've said. but the evolving pose is the one to me. I'm very fascinated by people who got that because it was remember it was a free surprise. Series one holders got that for free. It's a very important one for me. It's very important for the people that have the series one and the evolving together. That's a little Alpha but a valve imposes matter to me and so I wanted both looks on the bottle. um and so yeah I don't want to give too much I continue to not want to create speculation but I appreciate all of you Happy Holidays! Thank you for being here. We love you. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you John and Nate Um, one last time to buy the winesgaryvee.com Rare Robot: If you buy three, six, or twelve bottles, please send the receipt into rareobot befriends.com People that buy 12 bottles uh will be entered to get a series one. Rare Robot, Three and Six will be series two. This will end tomorrow at 4 P.M Eastern So all orders before then and submitted and then somewhere between five and midnight. Tomorrow we will give away those three Nfts. Um I Love all of you! Thank you for being part of this community. We're very thrilled. Thank you for everybody who's picked up some uh, the wine is spectacular. You know if you're really a serious Red Wine Drinker I Highly recommend especially if you like Barolo. and Bordeaux this is that style balanced medium body. um and uh and thank you John Anita Love you guys! Thank you for the rest of the team. Thank you for all of you guys! I Know it's a holiday weekend. The whole crew here that's been with me at the store. Thank you for all of you that came to the store today. It was just love. Lovely to spread love and positivity and we'll see you guys all soon! Thanks guys and gals! See ya hustling hamster Alpha you know.