164. Realizing Unrealized Potential Through Duty
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Summary
Today we have a real talk about what it means to be an entrepreneur and a citizen of the United States of America and why it s important to have an obligation to build the best life that you can be for this country.
Transcript
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what's up guys it's andy priscilla and this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the lies
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the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys today we
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have a real talk it's going to be short it's going to be quick before I get into it I want to remind
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you of the fee all right the fee is very simple the show made you think if it made you laugh if it
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made you see things from a different perspective it was good info if you think your friends should
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hear it if you're appreciating the fact that we're putting out all this amazing content to bless your
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eardrums and make you feel good and make you smarter and make you more money please share the
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show that's the fee all right now I want to get into something and it's something I think is
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important a lot of people when they think of America and they think of what's important in America
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they only think of themselves they think of building a career they think of making money
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they think of becoming a successful entrepreneur a successful businessman having a nice house having
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a nice car raising a good family those are the things that matter to most people okay being free
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to do what it is you want to do and it doesn't matter what religion you are what race you are what
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country you come from this country is made for everybody to have a chance to be better okay and when
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most people think of that they think when they're born here or that they come here that it's about them
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it's about going out executing and winning and that's true it is about you it is about your
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journey it is about building something great for you but something that's rarely talked about something
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that is rarely considered is something that I literally think about every day and I think that
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if you would think about it like I think about it I think it would help you stay motivated I think it
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would help you stay more disciplined I think it would help you stay sharper okay those of you who
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follow me you know that almost every day I post this big giant American flag it's in my gym all right
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and that flag is actually as big as our first retail store that we opened back in 1999 now when I look at
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that flag I'm not posting that flag for the people who've been elected in office I'm not posting that
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flag for the media who seems to hate our country and hate us I'm posting that flag for the idea of
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what this country could be and the idea of what this country should be and the idea of what we should
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be doing to help enrich that soil that makes up this country okay I look at it different I don't see
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my success and my drive and my businesses and all of these things I don't see that as a selfish quest
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I don't see that as oh Andy wants to make this much dollars that's not how I look at it dude
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here's how I look at it I look at it like this I look at it like this country was made for us to go out
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and build amazing things this country was made for us to take care of our communities when we build
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those amazing things this country requires people to go out and produce and create so that our economy
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can flourish and grow and people can have careers they can buy houses they can have families okay that's the
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purpose of growing a company here in America all right now when we think of you know us going out
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and you think of like achieving your goals and all these things you want to do it's real easy to get
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caught up into what you're going to get okay but what I want you to think about is what is your obligation
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to this country what are you paying back into the system right because entrepreneurs and successful
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people have a duty to build great things not just because it creates success for you not just
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because it creates wealth for you but because it provides unlimited opportunities for people to come
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and build their dreams within your organization because it solves real problems on the ground level
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because it makes life better for other Americans I see that as an obligation and the biggest obligation
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I see when I look at that flag when it comes to being an entrepreneur is and really just being a
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citizen of this country if I'm being completely honest is this when I look at that flag I realize
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that lots and lots and lots and lots of people have died for this country and the least that I could do
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to pay them back is to go out and set a fucking example for what it means to be great in this country
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and I think that's the biggest obligation that all of us have every single one of you listening
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every single one of you listening right now that lives here in the United States of America
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you have an obligation to build the literal best fucking life that you can it's an obligation it's a duty
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it's a must do just like people serve in the military just like people are supposed to serve when it comes
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to politics which a lot more regular people are getting into that's great okay but when it comes
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to your daily life when it comes to building your life out when it comes to your family when it comes
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to your career when it comes to how you treat people with how you live and what you stand for
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you have a duty to build that out the very best you can because that's what causes real change
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real change in this country will not happen until the individual changes and embraces the opportunity
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that our country affords every single person that comes here and if it doesn't afford every single
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person that comes here the same opportunity then we work to make that happen okay that's something that
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we should all be committed to but when you guys go out there and you point your finger at all these
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people who aren't doing shit and you're fucking 100 pounds overweight your business is half-assed
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your career is half-assed you're half-assed than it to fucking work you're a shitty fucking family
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person uh you're a shitty partner you're a shitty parent okay and you point the finger at all these
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blue hair people and shit that you say you don't like guess what motherfucker you ain't any better
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than them you ain't any better okay because our biggest problem in this country is not this person
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or that person or these people or that people it's this it's that the people who actually believe in
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america who actually believe in this country who believe that this is a country that should be could be
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and will be great and inclusive to people from literally fucking everywhere getting along for the
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common good those people who believe that idea those people who believe in what i call real america
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okay you're leaving a lot on the motherfucking table and that unrealized potential from that group of
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people is what's creating the fucking problem here all right we have a big group of people who believe in
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all the things this country should stand for freedom okay doing the right thing equality of
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opportunity hard work sacrifice reward kindness for your neighbor service to the country we have all
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kinds of people who believe in that but those people that group is leaving so much on the fucking table
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mainly because you're waiting around for someone else to come around and fix it and what we have here
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is a degradation of societal values that have regressed over time to where we have become
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complacent to being fucking average motherfuckers what was the last thing you did that was fucking great
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how's your bank account what's your fitness look like how's your family life do you talk to your
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neighbors about getting better or do you talk about the fucking football game
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we have a duty to this country and to all the people who have sacrificed literally fucking
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everything to be the best that we can and that's the difference people ask andy how do you stay
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motivated andy how do you stay going after 23 years of business what keeps you going because i have an
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obligation to keep going many people came before me including people in my family who have fucking died for
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this country i have an obligation to show up i have an obligation to do the best i can do i always
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execute perfectly no but i at least fucking try the hardest i can and that's our fucking problem right
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now so when you sit there and you think about what it is you can do the best motherfucking thing you can
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do is to start realizing the unrealized potential in yourself because it sets an example not just for your
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kids not just for your spouse but it sets an example for your neighbor and when your one neighbor
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catches it their neighbor catches it and when their neighbor catches it soon you got a group that's
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caught it then you got a community that's caught it then you got a city that's caught it now you
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got a fucking state that's caught it and after you get some states that have caught it guess what now
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we've got a country that's caught it we have a culture problem in this country and the culture is
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mediocrity and it's spoon fed to us from every single fucking outlet that we have available to
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us to consume content, whether that be social media, whether that be traditional media,
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whether it be commercials, whether it be movies, we are fed mediocrity 24 seven. Why is that?
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It's because of all the shit I just told you. It's because of all the unrealized potential
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that they want us to have. Because the less we realize our potential, the more they can realize
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their potential. You have an obligation to be fucking great being a citizen of this country.
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You have an obligation to do the best that you can. You have an obligation to be better than you
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were fucking yesterday. That's the difference. So when you ask me what the difference is between
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myself and how other people look at it or why I keep going or what I keep doing or what the fuck,
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why I'm crazy and fanatical about this, because it's a fucking duty for me. It's a fucking obligation
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for me. And I feel like a fucking bitch if I don't at least try to fulfill it. I don't want to be the
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person who's laying on their bed at however many years old fucking saying, God, dude, I could have
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done all these things, but I didn't. I don't want to be that person. When it's time for me to go,
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I want to be the person that everybody says, fuck, dude, that guy squeezed it all out, man.
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That guy fucking left it all on the field. He was a great fucking American. That's what I want to be
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known as. I want to be known as a great fucking American. And every single one of you can be known
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for that same motherfucking thing. Every one of you. Because it's not about how much money you make.
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It's not about where you end up. It's about the example you set for everybody else around you
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and what you contribute to when it comes to our American culture. So when you ask me what it is
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that makes me different, nothing makes me different. It's just how I see things.