238. Q&AF： Maintaining Standards, Seeing The Future & Business Trends
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In this episode of The Realists, DJ and Andy discuss the importance of discipline and how to maintain it. They discuss how to set a standard and when you slip on that standard, you automatically correct that right away.
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What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realists, say goodbye
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to the lies, the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking
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reality. Guys, today we have Q and AF. We answer your Q's and I do my AFs. That's how we do
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it. All right. I do free and then we ask you to pay the fee. The fee is very simple. If
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you learn something, made you laugh, made you think it was valuable info that helped
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you in any way or made you think this was shareable information, we'd appreciate it if
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you helped us out, grow the show. Okay. You could submit your questions where? Email your
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questions in guys to ask Andy at Andy for seller.com. Yeah. And that's DJ. Hey, what's up?
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What's up, man? All right. Let's do it, man. Let's knock it out. Yeah. Question number one
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for you. How do you go about maintaining standards once you have them set? Well, dude, that's
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awareness. Okay. Cause you know, what I talk about is zero compromise. Okay. Or zero option
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mentality. Now people are confused by what those phrases mean. They mean two different
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things. This one, what we're talking about here is zero compromise. What that means is
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when you set a standard, you have to live by that standard. And when you catch yourself
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slipping on that standard, you automatically correct that right away. Zero, zero compromise.
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Okay. Because once you compromise once you compromise a second time, a third time, a fourth
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time, and then, you know, you don't know where the fuck you are, how you got there and what's
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going on. And you're completely out of control in your life. Yeah. This happens to most people
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and most people spend their entire existence on this planet in that reactive state. Okay.
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So the standards that you set must be corrected the very second that you notice that you've
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slipped. All right. That's awareness. That means you have to audit yourself. That means
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you have to look at yourself and examine yourself regularly, not once a year on new year's resolution
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time. I'm talking about multiple times a day. For example, like I particularly look at
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little bitty things as a dilution to my own discipline. Like you will see me if you're
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around me do really weird shit that you wouldn't see a CEO do. Yeah. Like what?
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On cardio walks, picking up fucking nails. What else? Shit joints in the hallway or a bathroom,
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wiping piss off the toilet seat. Yeah. Like you'll come in here and you'll see me wiping down the
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urinals. Yeah. Okay. And you'll be like, why the fuck is this guy wiping down the urinals?
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Because if I see something that needs to be addressed and I don't address it, I just withdrew
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from my discipline account. Okay. And I, I, I compromised, which, which the next time will
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be more and the next time more and the next time more. And I literally tie my entire success
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on this planet to these things. So that, yeah. Yeah. So like, dude, you, if you start viewing
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your discipline the right way and understand that every time you look the other way, when you see
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something that needs to be fixed, your discipline is actually going down. Your, your self-belief is
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going down. Your ability to, uh, execute is going down and all these things are starting to,
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starting to happen because you compromise. You'll look at doing the little things a lot differently.
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Yeah. If you look at the little, little piece of paper that you walked by and understand that
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because you walked by and didn't address that, um, you're going to walk by 14 other things and
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one of Mitch might cost you actual money. You'll start doing the little things. Yeah. So it's about
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assigning value to things that other people think are insignificant and being aware enough
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to correct them the minute they get off course. Yeah. It's that simple. Yeah. So you walk through
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here, you think everybody has fucking OCD or something. Yeah. But they don't what they understand.
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Like I get asked that all the time. How do you get, how do you, why is this place so clean?
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Why is it this? Why is it that? Because these people here understand what I just said because
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I teach them that daily. It's fucking, it's contagious. No dude, it's self-serving. People
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don't understand. It's not teamwork to do that. Like people think, Oh, the team, the team walk
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through here all together. The team, the team, the team must be great. The team is great, but the
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team is great because the individuals are great. Okay. The individuals understand in this company,
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in these four walls that if they walk by something, they're actually probably going to make less money
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down the road because of that. Not because I caught them, but because they will slip on all
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their other things. Right. See what I'm saying? Yeah. And once you get people to understand that,
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it becomes a lot easier to get them to hold the line. So yeah, it's very simple. It's just people
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looking at it the wrong way. That's real. Andy, question number two, you've proven time and time
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again, and guys, if you listen to the CTIs and, and listened for the last two years, especially
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Andy, you've proven time and time again, that you have an ability to see the future and how things
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will play out. Is that a skill or is that a gift? And if it is a skill, how did you develop it?
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You know, I don't like using the term gifts. Yeah. Cause I think it discourages people,
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but I think if I did have a gift, my gift is the ability to connect dots and see corners that other
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people don't see yet. Um, other people call that like vision or they call people like that visionaries.
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I don't like that shit. Uh, I'm just a regular dude that happens to have a pretty nice little gift.
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Um, but it's not hard to develop that. I'm, I'm naturally, uh, able to do this. Yeah. Okay.
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But then also what I make sure I do. And this is, this is why most people can't see the shit that's
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going on, uh, in the world right now. And this is also why most people have trouble in business
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anticipating what's coming down the pipe. Number one, uh, they're not paying nearly enough attention
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to these things at all. Remember when I said, uh, in the episode earlier, uh, a couple of days ago
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where I said, um, you know, this is all I do. Okay. Well, when I'm looking into things, I get obsessed
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about them. Okay. And I, I don't just observe the things from the people I agree with. I observe
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the things from people I don't agree with. And then I look at the data. And so I draw, uh, you know,
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I deduce a, a, a, a, an outcome based off of all the available information. That sounds pretty easy
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to do, but the problem is most people don't, uh, aren't willing to like put their ego aside and
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listen to someone who might think differently. Like how many podcasters out there that talk
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about American shit or interviewing the leader of black lives matter? None. See what I'm saying?
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None. But his, but Hawk's point of view is very important because there was a big, there's a big
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part of the society. Now, you know, I got a lot of black folks that messaged me after that. And
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they're like, you got to understand most black people don't think like that. Yeah, but some do.
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Okay. So I want to hear what they say and I want to see where we can find the common ground.
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I also want to see things from their perspective. And I think that people are naturally closed down
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because of the societal nature of attack, attack, attack, attack, make my sound boy,
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make my sound point or my sound bite go viral. Um, Oh dude, you own that dude. Like all these things,
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they are anti solution and they were, they are pro divisive. Okay. So for you to come up with a
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conclusion that actually is the truth, you have to dig deep into all sides of the information,
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right? Like a lot of people who are conservatives, they will not watch MSNBC or CNN to even see what's
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being said, right? All they do is look at the memes where all, most of these people are just
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ripping on these people and they aren't trying to see what's happening. Right. And you have to do
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that. So in business, it's the same way you, you need to analyze all the data. You need to analyze
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every possible, every possible scenario that can work out. And then you decide on what the most
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likely one is. And so I could do that relatively quickly now because I've been doing it for a long,
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long time. And I think my business, my experience of business is what's really helped me be able to
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see what the fuck is going on for these last two years. And I think that's why a lot of people
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haven't been able to see it. I have experiences that they don't have that allow me to understand
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why decisions are being made at certain levels, right? Where other people just think these people
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are good hearted people telling them the truth. Does that make sense? So, you know, it's a little
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bit of both for me. You know, I think I do have a natural ability to see those things. Um, and I
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think my life speaks to that. My, you know, like you really can't argue with the results. Um, but I
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also don't think that if you're just, you're not more inclined, you can develop it. Yes. A hundred
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percent. And it really has to do with you observing all the data and be willing to look at all the data
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and not discount things because you don't like them. Does that make sense? That makes perfect
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sense. And then you connect the dots, bro. The bit, the, the, the, look, this is the, this is the
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truth I found that walks like a duck. It sounds like a duck. It looks like a duck. It doesn't matter
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what fucking CNN is saying. All right. It's a fucking duck. All right. No shit. And that's the same way
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in business. You have to be able to trust yourself enough. And I think a lot of people see what the
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fuck has been happening the last couple of years, but they don't want to say so because they don't,
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they don't have the experience and the confidence necessarily that I have. So they don't want to
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voice it out because they don't want to be wrong. Okay. And that's a whole nother thing. I don't care
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about being wrong. Like if I'm wrong, I'll say, well, Hey, I guess I fucked that up, you know,
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and I'll make it right. But that's, that's how you got to be. If you're going to be bold,
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if you're going to be bold, you got to be willing to be humble too. So does that make sense?
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Makes perfect sense. Absolutely. Andy, our third and final question for you today.
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What is your take on jumping on trends or bandwagons when it comes to business?
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It depends. I think, you know, in my business, performance nutrition is my main business.
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Health is my main business. And that's when I say my, my business, I'm talking about that. I'm in a
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lot of other things, but these, what I'm about to say applies to everything. Okay. In our business,
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there's all kinds of trends that have happened over the year that I ethically know are not correct.
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And so I've refused to jump on them where I could have made literally probably billions of extra
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dollars at this point doing so. Okay. But I didn't, um, because I think ethics matter and I think how
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you make your money matters. And I think if you know, something doesn't work, like for example,
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in the last question, when I, when I dig into all these different things and then I know for sure it
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doesn't work, how can I ethically put that out? Even if it is hot on a trend, that's just not how
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I do things. Right. And you know, there's other people in this industry who have done those things
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and made those decisions and it's come back to bite them where they end up going to jail or they
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end up in deep shit. And you know, that's the risk of jumping on a trend that you know is not right,
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even though there's money to be made there. So I think you have to be conscious of that
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because you're long, but it's a long game, bro. It's not the short game. It's the long game.
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Um, but I will also say there's, it's very important to follow trends that are real. Okay. Uh,
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you know, for example, um, you know, people are moving from a place of, I just want to look good
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to, I want to look good and I want to be healthy on the inside. Right. The pandemic scared the fuck
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out of a lot of people, dude. I've had a lot. How many people have you seen come through HQ?
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They've lost 200 pounds in the last two years. Yeah. A lot. Shit. Right. And the reason they've
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done that is because they're legitimately scared and they realized, man, I got to be healthy.
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And so, you know, we were, we were traditionally a performance based company only. And now we've
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become a whole health company that helps people do both. And that's a trend, but I think that's a
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trend that will stay. Okay. Um, but you know, I think, I think trends matter a lot and I think
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it's important for you to know what the trends are, but it's also important for you to be
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selective about which trends you decide you want to jump on. Yeah. You know, cause like there's some
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that will come back to bite you. Like the metaverse shit, like the metaverse shit. Well,
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yeah. That's just trending. Sure. Is it Facebook lost $239 billion in one day? Yeah. That's also
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true. Yeah. You know, is it, I, I, I stand by what I said. There's going to be a massive part
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of society that's not going to go further into technology than what they already are. This is
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a very good example. I'm glad you brought it up because the trend now, the trend, like all these
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gurus and entrepreneurs are trying to make the trend, the metaverse, and they're bragging about how much
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money they're going to make and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But if you're paying attention to
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the actual trend, the actual trend is that people are becoming technology averse, meaning they do not
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want to spend more time than they already do with that fucking phone in front of their face.
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So what makes you think those people are then going to surrender to putting goggles on and living their
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entire life on a fucking set of goggles? You see what I'm saying? So, and I stand by that. And like,
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dude, look, that doesn't mean that it's going to get rejected. There will be a lot of people that go
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into that and make a whole bunch of money. Um, but there's going to be a lot of people that don't.
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And, and I think we're at a time where there will be a hard line drawn in the sand between people who
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are wanting to go that way and people who aren't. And I'm betting on the people who aren't because
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it's human nature. People want to, people want to live their life. They want to feel the sun. They
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want to be healthy. They want to be active. They want to, they want to have experiences. They want
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to travel. And this whole shutdown for the last two years was geared to make people forget about
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those things. And what I think it's actually done is made people way more hungry for those
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things. They're starving. Right. So, so, so what is the actual trend? Right. You know,
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and people hear this shit from me and they think, Oh, well, he's, you know, he's old and he's stubborn.
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He's going to be missing out. You know, I don't know, man. Like I'm doing pretty good. Yeah.
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You see what I'm saying? Yeah. So I'm not shitting on anybody. I'm not going to argue with anybody,
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but I'm just telling you there's the, the big opportunity, the big trend is real world shit
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because a lot of people are abandoning it for the, for this shit. And like, I see this with
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young entrepreneurs all over the place. They're abandoning building brands in the real world to
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try to do NFTs and metaverse shit. And it's like, okay, but even if you go in there, you're going
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to have to have the same business skills in there as you do here. Right. And at some point,
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like, dude, it's just the short term battery is going to die on them goggles at some point.
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I think I charge that shit up. So, so, you know, there's ethical, there's, I think a lot of people,
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you know, after we put out the episode where I said that, uh, which was a number of episodes ago
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where I talked about metaverse, I had so many people who were already talking about what they
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were going to do in the metaverse actually messaged me back and be like, fuck dude. I never actually
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thought about it like that. Yeah. Like that gives me a real, like real hesitation to pursue that
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because I think it's wrong for humans. Yeah. I think it is wrong for humans. And so, but yeah,
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dude, trends are fine. Trends are great and trends are necessary, but you have to be selective about
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which ones you choose to operate on and which one's not. That's awesome. Guys, Andy, that is three. So
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we're going to go pay the fee. Yeah. Do that shit.
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Went from sleeping on the floor. Now my jewelry box froze. Fuck a pole. Fuck a stove. Counted millions
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in the cold. Bad bitch. Booted swole. Got her on bankroll. Can't fold. Doesn't know. Headshot. Case closed.