REAL AF with Andy Frisella - February 03, 2022


225. Q&AF： Starting Or Finishing, Technology Taking Over & Creating An Impact


Episode Stats


Length

25 minutes

Words per minute

201.52509

Word count

5,083

Sentence count

2

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Hate speech

61

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

In this episode of The Realists, Andy Frisella and Q discuss the importance of the "start" and "finish" when it comes to starting a business, and how to balance the two.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 what is up guys it's andy frisella and this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the
00:00:21.440 lies the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys today
00:00:25.880 we have q and af okay and this is where you provide the q's and i provide the afs and that's what we're
00:00:34.420 gonna do i like that yeah all right now we do have a fee fee is very simple share the show if you found
00:00:41.140 value in it if it made you laugh it made you think if you if it learns you some stuff all right share
00:00:47.160 the show fuck man that hoosier's coming out bro it is what it is see people here don't know what 0.80
00:00:52.340 hoosier means it's that's the term for redneck here in missouri right right indiana people don't
00:00:58.100 understand that yeah they use it in a different term it's a different thing up there yeah so anyway
00:01:03.840 let's learn them yeah we got some good ones for you all right i mean guys as always you can email
00:01:10.180 your questions into ask andy at andy frisella.com and uh with that being said here's question number
00:01:15.360 one andy what's more important the start or the finish so i've been planning and planning to run my
00:01:22.980 play and i just don't feel like it's ready to go just yet but should i go regardless and focus on
00:01:27.920 the finish or should i focus on the start i you know that's a pretty good question i think they're
00:01:33.880 equally as important you know and again i think a lot of you guys who are you know new on new projects
00:01:40.540 and you know new to wanting to create something of your own um overthink things right they're both
00:01:48.560 important uh the problem with starting is that most people never do so in the beginning the start is
00:01:56.200 the most important right because if you don't get fucking started you can't ever get to the finish 0.80
00:02:00.020 um but i will say i think people have the wrong idea about the finish you know people have this
00:02:07.680 idea of entrepreneurship making money etc where they're trying to create a means to an end and
00:02:17.320 you know they visualize themselves at 40 years old or whatever right 50 years old or whatever they
00:02:23.700 you know sitting on a beach somewhere with a corona like with fucking snoop dog right fucking my time 0.98
00:02:29.340 yeah right so like dude the thing is is like how long are you going to do that for you you go sit on
00:02:36.540 the beach for how long you know like you're going to sit there for a fucking week and you're going to 0.98
00:02:41.600 be bored right and so i think people put the wrong emphasis on the end where i think the emphasis
00:02:50.740 really should be and i'm speaking from my own experience here should be on the process and it
00:02:56.760 should be creating a process that you enjoy um that contributes to people that helps not only your
00:03:03.460 customers but also the people that work for you um that are helping build and so if you could get
00:03:09.780 yourself to a point where you truly enjoy the process like for me dude i fucking love coming here 0.82
00:03:15.620 every day and people are always like well why don't you know if you sold you could get billions of
00:03:20.820 dollars that's true yeah but what the fuck would i do you know right you know what i'm saying like i love 0.74
00:03:26.680 coming here i love uh what we do here um whether it be you know working on any of the companies that
00:03:33.620 i get to work on i love creating i love the people i work with um and so you know the end that i thought
00:03:42.740 that i wanted when i started is not really what i want now because now i can have it it's within reach
00:03:47.700 i can make a fucking couple phone calls and you know be wherever the fuck i want tomorrow right but 0.97
00:03:52.940 the truth is is like that that's that that's how i would become miserable right because i would remove
00:03:58.420 the entire identity and the entire purpose of my life having to find a new purpose right and so for
00:04:04.380 those of you guys uh who are at that position where you're thinking like fuck dude i built this it's good 0.64
00:04:09.580 my advice would be not to exit it until you have a new purpose already lined up um because i see a lot
00:04:16.360 of people who who exit and we hear these things all the time right the millionaire who committed suicide
00:04:21.020 because he was unhappy well that's because money is only a small part of that happiness it's purpose
00:04:26.680 it's it's the community it's the people you get to be around it's the energy it's all these things and
00:04:32.500 i think if people spent more time working on building something that they enjoyed in that regard
00:04:37.140 they'd be a lot happier and a lot more probably wouldn't want to escape that that's what i'm saying
00:04:41.080 so like you know why why would i and and that comes with time right um when you're young and
00:04:49.020 you're just wanting to make and by the way you know when i say young i mean young in the fucking 0.96
00:04:52.800 game right you you could be 40 you could be 50 you could be 60 listening to this and just getting
00:04:57.480 started and that's okay but when you're young in the game dude you know we think about like fuck dude 0.89
00:05:02.520 i want to get this place where i can live my dream and shit like right now dude like you know there's 0.80
00:05:06.980 all kinds of things i could do but i don't want to do that you know i'm saying like it's so it's so
00:05:14.860 weird like i was just about to buy this house from florida and and um this is recently and i just
00:05:22.320 came to the realization i'm like when would i go there and and how long would i spend there right
00:05:27.300 why would i go there and like you'd have to copy any fucking thing yeah i'm not there yet to where 0.98
00:05:32.180 i want to do that you get what i'm saying and like i do want to do it but i also take into
00:05:36.540 consideration the collateral cost that's going to cost me i don't get to see my friends every day
00:05:41.040 right i don't get to be around people with that energy every day i don't get you know so like
00:05:45.400 you know that's how i'm starting to see things and that changes as you go you know and what you
00:05:51.100 think you want in the start is not exactly what you end up with when you can do those things right
00:05:56.380 so you know i would say the long answer the long short answer to that question is the start
00:06:01.560 because the finish is always going to change it's going to evolve it's going to get bigger your
00:06:05.100 vision is going to get bigger and once you figure out how much you can actually do the new game
00:06:11.460 becomes doing that yeah right so you know i never imagined i never truly imagined in the beginning
00:06:18.400 that we'd be building a company that would one day rival you know under armor or nike and that's
00:06:24.740 what we're doing now you know what i'm saying and like we're not there yet we got a long way to go
00:06:29.000 but we're gonna get there closer than you were yes yeah exactly and and so you know i would say
00:06:34.680 get fucking started bro and see where it takes you yeah you know and that's that's what you have 0.91
00:06:38.500 to do most people just don't ever start and then the other thing is is you know make sure you stick
00:06:43.520 with it don't be one of these people that start something new every fucking six months or every 0.97
00:06:47.940 two years when you get burned out the first five or six years are going to be really hard yeah nobody's
00:06:53.420 going to believe in you nobody's going to want to work with you there's going to be cooler companies
00:06:57.440 than you that already have traction you're going to have to eat a lot of shit and people just aren't 0.87
00:07:01.620 prepared to do that you know so i would get in the mindset of like hey all right i'm playing a 30
00:07:06.700 year game here what do i actually want to what do i actually want to do you see yeah yeah that's
00:07:12.360 awesome yeah any question number two so you you've talked a lot about you know technology and while
00:07:19.740 there's great leaps and bounds that we've made in fucking technology not all of it can be good right 0.87
00:07:24.660 but specifically when you're talking about businesses right what is your stance on saving money
00:07:31.080 by using automation or spending the money on actual people where do you stand on that well
00:07:37.400 there's a number of ways to look at that you know i personally my personal views i believe in providing
00:07:43.780 jobs i think it's a moral obligation of a business um i think that you know technology is becoming so
00:07:52.260 advanced to a point where it's eliminating real jobs and i think that's by design i know it's by design
00:07:59.700 after what i've observed the last couple years going on in the world you know they want to replace
00:08:03.640 the human element with the technology element and they don't know what to do with the human element
00:08:07.680 so what they're trying to do is impose you know all this government aid and basically communist type
00:08:12.880 uh society onto our society so that people can actually like you know their their their solution is
00:08:21.120 well the government will take care of it right and that's why you see them shutting down businesses
00:08:26.500 and you see them closing small businesses and making it real hard with these mandates on all
00:08:31.400 these small guys because they know if they put a lot of these people out they won't be able to get
00:08:35.500 back going and their plan of replacing human element with technology element will be easier to implement
00:08:42.280 yeah you follow what i'm saying 100 all right so so i think we as a as business owners um american
00:08:49.260 business owners here in this country have an obligation to resist that and to provide actual
00:08:55.860 careers and jobs i think that's the right thing to do um will everybody do it no but i think it's
00:09:02.020 going to take a and and people's argument to that is you know well if you don't do it then then they're
00:09:08.620 going to do it and they're going to beat you but i don't actually believe that i believe that the
00:09:12.540 culture of america is starting to get really smart and they're starting to wake up to what's happening
00:09:17.260 they're starting to see the censorship happening on social media they're starting to understand how
00:09:22.720 much control they've actually given up um they're starting to see how unethical some of these other
00:09:27.360 companies are that manufacture with like slave labor in china and other places like that and i think
00:09:32.560 people are willing to support companies who are doing things ethically correct as much as possible
00:09:40.220 right working to like like right now not every single product that we make is american made but we're
00:09:45.460 working towards that um we're building cut and sew facility we're building manufacturing facilities
00:09:51.460 uh another company doing that is jocko and pete's company origin these guys are creating american made
00:09:58.100 goods and i believe that's the actual trend that is going that's where i'm betting my money and my
00:10:03.580 livelihood it's not just me talking out of my ass i just signed papers on two new buildings the same 0.82
00:10:09.040 size as this building right across the street for jobs okay so this isn't me just spouting some shit 0.80
00:10:15.400 off i'm putting my money where my fucking mouth is because i believe that the i believe people in 0.99
00:10:20.040 america will support that i believe that people will pay a little bit more for america made goods and
00:10:25.460 america made jobs because they understand what's why it's so important especially after what's going on
00:10:30.420 the last couple years um will there be customers for these companies that automate everything sure
00:10:35.980 there will but the truth is is like i could beat the shit out of these companies that use all the 0.85
00:10:42.560 technology with my human element when the human element is properly trained uh properly understands
00:10:48.720 the mission because these people fucking care they care that automation don't care right and that's 0.78
00:10:55.260 a big advantage that you have when you do things that way and i believe you know customer experience
00:11:01.160 trumps everything else i i believe that people pay um for really you know a few different things but
00:11:09.300 one of them is convenient and if you can if you could be convenient and care you could beat a company
00:11:14.200 that's just convenient or low price so um those are my thoughts on that i think there's an ethical
00:11:21.160 responsibility uh for every single person out there that owns a business that listens to this to really
00:11:26.640 think about what i'm saying because the future of humanity faces a massive problem when it comes to
00:11:32.060 this um you know just take the metaverse for example right they're they're trying to create this whole
00:11:39.780 entire virtual world well i don't think you could really find someone out there who is actually productive
00:11:48.160 in real life who would not agree that this cell phone that we have takes away from the human
00:11:56.120 experience i think every single person would would argue that they spend they would they would agree
00:12:00.840 they spend too much time on their phone they're not present enough and that you don't think that go
00:12:05.060 check your settings and you can see for yourself what i'm saying is the trend of people being aware of
00:12:10.540 that is growing right like we see more and more people talking about health and not just health in a
00:12:16.280 physical sense in a mental sense and removing themselves from being present on social media to being
00:12:22.240 present in real life that's a value trend that is starting to happen that you know is unarguable
00:12:29.740 you know and i think there's a lot of people that are trying to use their influence to push technology
00:12:34.100 um even some of my friends they want to push the technology because there's opportunity to make
00:12:39.220 money there but here's at the end of the day as an entrepreneur people still got to live they still
00:12:43.820 got to eat they're still real world and when you have all these fucking uh people focusing on nfts 0.88
00:12:49.500 and bitcoins and and metaverse and all this shit which is fine there's massive opportunity there
00:12:55.260 that just creates when they focus there that creates more opportunity in the real world and
00:13:00.000 i'm all the real world's always going to make more money than what the fuck is going to happen over 0.79
00:13:03.760 here so from a monetary standpoint you know i'm going to focus on real shit i'm going to focus on 0.59
00:13:10.160 real solutions for real humans real products real goods real solutions uh kanye just posted the same
00:13:15.880 fucking thing i posted it and you know a lot of my friends who are in the tech world you know they 0.65
00:13:21.260 they think i'm fucking insane for saying what i'm saying but like dude look um i'm kind of undefeated 0.71
00:13:26.780 so you know maybe you should ask yourself like if i have a point or not i i know where i'm putting my
00:13:34.120 money yeah i believe that there's going to be a cultural movement that is going to circle back to
00:13:38.560 family values it's going to circle back to real life uh i believe that one day we're going to look
00:13:44.220 at cell phones as as um we now look at how cigarettes were advertised and marketed back in
00:13:50.520 the fucking 50s and 60s and we're going to realize how unhealthy it is to the human experience
00:13:54.840 and i think people are going to move further away from it and then more into real than dive further
00:14:01.900 into it yeah you see what i'm saying and by the way this is for productive people of society yeah
00:14:06.960 like there is going to be a whole bunch of people that are totally happy putting those fucking goggles on 0.85
00:14:12.600 and sitting at home right okay right and and then that creates another question okay well then the
00:14:19.600 workforce is diluted well sort of because there's enough technology to to bridge that gap right so
00:14:26.000 what i want to do is use just enough technology to bridge that gap to where i have an effective
00:14:30.980 company that is competitive that works that provides solutions provides jobs provides careers
00:14:36.500 but also i don't want to be hindered by the people who leave to go live this fucking fake ass life 0.94
00:14:42.000 right right like you know they want to go grab virtual titties i'm trying to i'm trying to grab
00:14:47.260 regular titties you know i'm saying so like that i'm just saying like it's real man i know it's real
00:14:52.940 it's so funny i was just side note it's so funny you say that though because i was i forget who i was
00:14:57.720 just talking i'm just saying like that's the truth like there's a whole bunch of people that have
00:15:01.400 given up on themselves sadly to making it out here in reality yeah you know and and there's people
00:15:07.500 willing to capitalize on that misery yeah as opposed to trying to show those people that they can
00:15:12.640 actually be successful in real life i'm one of the rare people who do the latter yeah and that's it
00:15:18.740 you know and and i care about people i care about their health i care about their existence i care
00:15:23.540 about their financial well-being that's why i donate all this fucking time to do this shit yeah and um 0.90
00:15:28.280 i think there's ethical responsibilities that we are going to have to
00:15:32.440 address when it comes to some of this technology yeah because it's ruining the human experience it is
00:15:39.740 and and you know i'm a little disappointed in a lot of my friends and shit because like 0.89
00:15:43.820 they're they're jumping in this for the money and not thinking of the ethical consequences long term
00:15:49.900 yeah just like they're just focused yeah and like dude that's not to me i don't i don't roll like that
00:15:55.140 yeah no i get it man yeah i agree i was just talking to somebody who's like in the movie uh the
00:15:59.560 patriot bro like like could you imagine like right now we can fucking pick up this phone and dm literally 0.88
00:16:03.960 anybody in the world instantly back then they had to fucking send the letters and it was a hand 0.95
00:16:08.640 like when's the last time you wrote a fucking handwritten letter like what if i would i wouldn't 0.97
00:16:13.220 i would be okay bro people got back to that dj everybody feels that way and people are losing
00:16:19.160 the ability to write right well they're not even teaching cursive anymore in schools like i mean
00:16:24.420 it's definitely i would be okay if society regressed in that way look i think people
00:16:29.320 that listen to this show and other shows like it are starting to realize the damage that some of these
00:16:35.260 these crazy fucking tech people are willing to put on society for their own benefit yeah yeah and i i think
00:16:42.340 we have an ethical responsibility to ask ourselves how much more we want to invest of our lives into
00:16:48.640 these fucking science projects that these fucking nerds have created that's fucking real okay so 0.90
00:16:53.820 yeah that's my take and and that could change bro i've been wrong about i've been wrong about shit 0.83
00:16:59.880 you know but like i don't feel like i'm wrong and i i'm putting my that's where i'm putting my
00:17:04.120 myself i'm going that way and i get made fun of and i get you know told i'm missing shit and this and 0.82
00:17:09.960 that look dude i had listen i had the opportunity to buy a fuck ton of bitcoin at fucking two thousand 0.98
00:17:16.500 dollars and the money i could have put in i've made 10 times more money betting on myself i'm probably
00:17:22.200 one of the only people in the world that's able to do that because i have the machine to do that
00:17:25.520 but the point is is that i'm running my play and here's what i want you to understand if you do go
00:17:32.900 into that all right if you do go into that you know you dive deep into that because a lot of people
00:17:37.920 right now are being like fuck andy he's fucking wrong he's an old head he doesn't get it bitcoin 0.99
00:17:41.880 to the moon what you should do is consider that the fact that i've seen all this play out and maybe
00:17:46.680 understand that i see something that you fucking don't okay but even if you don't agree and you want to 0.94
00:17:51.920 go that route you are still going to have to to understand how to have real entrepreneurship skills
00:17:58.740 all right just like when a lawyer graduates law school not every lawyer makes it because
00:18:03.560 they have to know law and business same thing with doctors doctors have to know doctor stuff and
00:18:10.000 business stuff and a lot of them neglect the business side and then they make they're a slave 0.89
00:18:14.980 to their own little system right so my i'm not knocking this okay i'm saying you should approach
00:18:22.080 it with an ethical thought in your brain is this right is this good is this something that will
00:18:28.380 benefit humanity 10 20 30 years from now i don't think it will all right that's for everybody to answer
00:18:34.860 but what i will say is that if you are going to go into that do not abandon the actual skills of
00:18:42.060 running a company because you're going to have to have those skills anyway and i see a lot of younger
00:18:46.060 people they see this opportunity as like a fucking i can print money print money print money but the 0.91
00:18:51.860 problem is you don't have the skills to keep it you don't have the skills to reinvest it you don't
00:18:56.520 have the skills to grow the company around whatever it is you're doing and if you did you could make a
00:19:00.040 lot more fucking money and do a lot more better with it so you know there's there's all kinds of
00:19:05.760 ways to look at that um but i see how i see it that's how i'm gonna roll and if i if i crash and burn
00:19:11.880 on it i'm cool with that like i don't have a problem but like i'm not going to ethically
00:19:15.220 contribute to humanity being enslaved by a pair of fucking technology goggles i'm not doing it
00:19:21.440 that's real yeah and even if i'm the only one 100 years from now that they say and i was completely
00:19:28.560 wrong i'm going to be able to live with myself and say i didn't contribute to that well you're still
00:19:32.520 on what you believe yeah yeah that's real andy our third and final question for you
00:19:37.680 andy what is something or someone that if you didn't have you would not be where you are today
00:19:44.340 wait what what's something or someone right that if you didn't have in your life you would not be
00:19:51.940 where you are well i mean fuck look around here bro there's fucking hundreds of people here to 0.95
00:19:55.980 contribute to what we're doing you know any of that like all the things that i have you know my dad
00:20:02.140 and my fucking mom my brother like my business partners like the community people in this 0.99
00:20:08.140 building i mean it's all listen people try to a lot of guys like try to take credit like that like
00:20:14.720 they they built all this shit you can't build something like this on your on your own you
00:20:18.960 fucking can't like the best like my job is to fucking you know steer the boat and not hit any 0.99
00:20:23.880 motherfucking icebergs that's real right yeah and and like i have to maintain all these other people 0.68
00:20:30.040 who are making the ship run you know and and and we all have our responsibilities and we all work
00:20:34.760 together so the answer to that is like yeah everything you see in my life every single person
00:20:39.980 you see i'm with like those are the people that make me who the fuck i am you know you know like 0.72
00:20:44.660 it's not me it's it's everybody it's a team effort and and that's real shit that's not like 0.78
00:20:49.080 it's not like no that's not bullshit like that's real shit and a lot of people like to say oh i did 0.71
00:20:55.140 this i did this i did this you you might have done a lot of it but you can't get to the level
00:21:01.280 that we're at here without a complete fucking team effort i mean bro how many superstar people do we 0.88
00:21:07.580 have here working i mean everyone yeah right that's what i'm saying so it's like you know i don't have
00:21:13.940 one person who was you know i hate to say it like more than that you know what i mean i got i got i got
00:21:22.240 the right support at home i got the right support here i got the rights all that shit intertwines 0.66
00:21:27.160 together bro you know what i'm saying and like people don't people don't uh people don't really
00:21:34.060 consider that yeah you know and that's why it's important to to surround yourself with the right
00:21:39.560 kind of people the people like like a lot of you guys put way too much or way too much attention
00:21:43.980 on people that don't have ambition that don't really want to be anything else you're you want to hang
00:21:49.340 with with your old friends from high school because that's what everybody does and they make
00:21:55.500 you feel bad if you don't and like that's dude it's just gonna get you in a place that you're not
00:21:59.880 truly happy you know so you really have to work around to create a circle of people who have the same
00:22:06.980 uh at least ambitions to be better than to just live in our glory days from 15 years ago or 20 years
00:22:16.060 ago whatever right or at least support your ambition yeah but like dude even then like
00:22:20.120 people people people that don't have the ambition they're not very good supporters because they don't
00:22:27.600 understand it it's just the reality you know i never thought about like that yeah they can't
00:22:31.920 understand it because they don't have it and so like i try to limit my interactions with people like
00:22:37.020 that because dude they're talking about things that are wasting my energy you know they're talking
00:22:41.320 about things that don't really matter uh to what i'm trying to do you know and that might sound
00:22:45.620 selfish but you have to be a little selfish if you're going to create something that affects
00:22:49.780 big change in a big way so you know i don't try to surround myself with small talk um i'm a bad
00:22:57.640 small talker um you know that how's the weather today yeah fuck the fuck you mean bro it's fucking 0.97
00:23:03.720 raining exactly like you know and and you know sometimes people get mad at me about that but i just
00:23:10.500 don't have any interest in bullshit you know i want to talk about real shit i want to talk about 0.93
00:23:15.100 i want to talk about making money i want to talk about making fucking change i want to talk about 0.97
00:23:18.480 making things better and then i want to talk about the rewards of those things and if you ain't want
00:23:22.960 to talk about those things i don't want to talk you know so um i think it's important for you to
00:23:28.960 audit your friend circle because there's a lot of truth to that saying you know um if you hang
00:23:34.120 around five broke people you're going to be the sixth you hang around five rich people you're going to be
00:23:37.960 the sixth if you hang around five fucking criminals you're gonna be the sixth right yeah i mean that's 0.86
00:23:42.680 that's reality and and so dude you really need to look at who you're spending your time with
00:23:47.120 because you may think that you're that shit doesn't affect you but it does and it creeps in 0.75
00:23:53.420 you know little by little by little by little and you know people are gonna people are gonna say
00:23:58.400 you know shit like oh you've changed or oh you don't care about it or oh you're too big time 0.93
00:24:04.080 it's not about that it has nothing to do with that i still love all my old friends that i that i
00:24:08.860 haven't talked to in years i fucking love them the same they just don't really understand where 0.84
00:24:13.720 you know what i'm trying to do and so you know we what are we going to talk about you know i mean i
00:24:21.240 don't give a fuck about sports i don't give a fuck about high school sports i don't fucking care i 0.99
00:24:25.620 don't want i'm not talking about the neighborhood like i'm not i want to talk about big picture
00:24:30.180 shit that i can affect change in i want my life to actually mean some shit 0.91
00:24:34.080 and i don't have kids so it's a little bit different for me so instead of making my
00:24:38.260 mission my kids i'm making my mission everybody else right you know and that's that's a big mission
00:24:44.420 it's probably gonna take my whole life but um you know that's that's that's how i see it
00:24:50.600 so that's fucking awesome yeah well andy that's three so guys go pay the fee yeah do that now 0.58
00:24:58.140 went from sleeping on the floor now my jewelry box froze fuck a pole fuck a stove counted millions 1.00
00:25:04.420 in the code bad bitch booted swole got her on bankroll can't fold doesn't know headshot case close 1.00
00:25:11.920 close
00:25:12.780 close