268. Q&AF： Franchise Business, More Money, Different Problems & #75HARD Surprises
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In this episode of Q&A, I sit down with my good friend and former co-host, Vaughn, to answer your questions and talk about the differences between owning a franchise and owning your own business. I mean, is it the same as owning a business?
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What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realest, say goodbye to
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the lies, the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality.
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Guys, today we have Q and AF. This is where you submit the Qs and I give you the AFs.
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Sometimes we have other shows. One of them is called Cruise the Internet. This is where we talk
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about the topics of the day and make fun of them. Then sometimes we have Real Talk, which I haven't
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done in a while, where I get on here and I kind of yell at you and only for to make you better.
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And then we have Full Length, which is basically an interview of other badass motherfuckers and
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you're going to learn some shit. So that's the show. So today is a personal development
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show for the most part. You can submit your questions to email them in to askandy at andyfriscilla.com.
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And as a special surprise, we do have the pastor of Disaster in the house to help with Q and
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Happy to be with you. I'm excited. I'm hoping there's going to be deep, meaningful,
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existential questions that I can help contribute to.
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Probably not. If you guys are unfamiliar with Vaughn, Vaughn was my co-host for a number of
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Yeah. Number one entrepreneur podcast in the history of iTunes. Still one of the most popular
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entrepreneur podcasts. It's actually at the beginning of the feed that you will find this
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podcast on. It's 300 and something episodes. And if the answer is not in there, it's because
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the answer doesn't exist. But we are going to answer your questions today.
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Now there's a fee for this shit. And the fee is when I bestow my wealth of fucking experience
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on you that can make you literally tens of millions of dollars or whatever. There's no
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cap. Share the show. Okay. A lot of you guys think I'm a podcaster. I'm actually an entrepreneur.
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I actually know a couple of things. So today we're going to talk about those kinds of things
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Von, question number one. Is starting a franchise, okay, and starting out as a franchisee, is that
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the same as starting your own business? Right? Like if you would just start your own little
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individual niche. Are they the same? What are the differences? Can you walk us through that?
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Yeah, for sure. So you have franchisors, which are the people who come up with the actual
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concept for the franchise. So that would be like me, okay, with Supplement Superstores,
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our retail program. And then you have franchisees, which would be people who would want to come
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buy this design, all its systems, all its processes, all the knowledge that I accumulated
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from building the system, right? Because what you're really buying when you buy a franchise,
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a proven system, you're not buying, you know, you're basically skipping ahead a decade is what
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you're doing. And that's called a franchisee. So that's someone who buys and owns a franchise.
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Is it the same as owning a business? Of course, it's owning a business. Is it the same as
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entrepreneurship? No, it's not the same as entrepreneurship. Because entrepreneurship is
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what I just described a minute ago, where you're discovering all the nuances,
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you're learning the business, you're developing the systems, you're developing the teams,
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all the things, the culture that make up the business, you're creating to solve a problem.
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When you own a franchise, that problem, you already know the problem you're trying to solve,
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and you know how to solve it because somebody like me has solved it, okay? So you're a business
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owner, and there's a little bit difference there. But like from a standpoint of like pride,
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should you feel like a business? Fuck yeah. Like there's lots of people out there that are
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billionaires, and all they do is buy other people's shit and operate it. It's a very valid way to create
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an amazing business for yourself. I know people who that's all they do. My friend Aaron Wagner,
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that's all he does is create concepts and then franchise them out, you know?
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And they're fucking awesome. Yeah, they're great. I mean, we've eaten at a bunch of his restaurants,
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you know? So yeah, that's the main difference. But you know, here's the thing. A lot of people
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like to feel like, you know, oh, well, that's not, I'm not as good because I bought the franchise and
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I go create my own. And a lot of people, because of that, they feel like they should go create their
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own and they get in way over their head. And what I learned, I learned when we first started building
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our company for a franchise model, this was back 2008 or nine, we had this really awesome
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consultant. Her name was Kay, help us. And I remember meeting with her the first day.
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And like, I'm sitting there and I'm listening and they were doing Zaxby's at the time and nobody
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had heard of Zaxby's. Okay. Well, no, at that time I had never heard of it. Yeah. Right. Now
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Zaxby's is pretty well known. Pretty amazing. Yeah. But we were, we were talking to her about a
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bunch of different things and she, she basically, I couldn't understand. I was like, why the fuck
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would someone buy a fucking franchise? Why wouldn't you just create it yourself? Because I was in it
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at that time. Like I was in the creation process and I was young and I didn't have any money. I was
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still broke then. And I'm like, why, why would someone do that? But now here I am, uh, you know,
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a decade later or more. And I realized very, you would be very intelligent to do that because I
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wasted 15 years of my life trying to not wasted, but invested 15 years of my life trying to figure
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that model out. Right. And now all you would have to do is come in and get one and go fucking operate
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and you would be up and running and making money immediately. Yeah. So that's the differences.
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If that makes sense. No, no. 100%. What would you say the challenge though? Like as a franchise,
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like what other risks, like what are the risks of being a franchisor? Right. Like, well,
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franchisor, you got to solve all the problems yourself. Like when the problems happen, like you
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don't have any support. It's on you. It's on your corporate staff. Um, you have to scare you though,
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when you had to give your first, like when you gave your first franchise out, like, no, because I only
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franchise to people who come from within my company. So I already know that people know how to operate
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it. See, I have an ethical problem selling a franchise to someone. Um, even though our, our
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store model, uh, we, we do more per square foot sales than any other retail model. People don't
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know this except the Apple store. Yeah. So we have a very successful model, but I only sell it to people
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who have come up through my system so that they understand how to operate it so that they can be
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successful at it. Right. So we don't sell, like, I don't, like if you just came into me and you say
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you had a billion dollars and you say, I want to open up a hundred stores, I don't do that shit. Right.
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Chick-fil-A does the same thing, I believe. Do they? I think they have a very similar model. Yeah.
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Domino's did that for a long time. Yeah. Where Domino's, and that was actually where this woman was
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from. She was from Domino's corporate structure. Damn. But, uh, what they did was they, they, and
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you know, now, uh, we have so many more people coming up through our system. You will start to
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see these stores start to go out more. Yeah. Um, but you know, I don't, a lot of franchisors,
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you have to be real careful because they don't give a fuck who they sell to. Right. But see,
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I want a hundred percent success rate. I don't want one fucking store to fail. And I'm not willing to
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allow that because like, dude, to me, I'm responsible for those people's livelihoods.
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So I'm not going to sell you just cause you have the money, my model. If I don't think that you can
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run it successfully, because then you're going to blame me. Right. Right. Right. What the fuck can
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Andy for sale? Andy, do you think that people intuitively know whether they're a system creator
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or a system applier? And if they don't intuitively know that, what are some things that they could ask
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themselves to kind of determine whether they're more of an entrepreneur or more of a franchisor?
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Yeah. I think, I think, I think for franchisees, um, typically the people who own them,
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this is just my observation. I don't know the data on this, but it seems to me that these are
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from, and bro, I've encountered thousands of these people, but they're all, they're almost always
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formally educated, meaning they have a degree and usually a high level degree. And what they've
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decided is they want to be an entrepreneur. Right. So they, they are, they are aware enough
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to understand that they are not an entrepreneur by nature, but they want to be an entrepreneur.
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And so they're intelligent enough to, to like look at and to squash their ego and say, Oh,
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you know what? I like that guy's system. I want to buy into that. And that's where I see most of the
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franchisees come from. And they make a fuck ton of money that way, because that's an intelligent
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way to look at it. Um, where I see people get really hurt is when they, when they let their
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ego get involved and they say, well, fuck, I could just create my own shit. Like I did back then.
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Right. Like I thought, well, cause I had already been 10 years in by the time we started talking
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about franchising. So of course I fucking felt like I knew what I was talking about. Um, but people from
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day one, right. They see something, uh, they don't really understand it. And they say, well,
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I'm going to do it on my own. And a lot of those people do that strictly for ego. Like they do it
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not because they think they can do it better, but only, but because they feel like they're not a
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real entrepreneur if they buy into someone else's shit. And like, that's the kind of ego that gets
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you financially hurt. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know that people intuitively know, um, because I
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didn't know. Yeah. Right. Like I didn't know. I just kept going. And I think eventually you get to a
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point, you know, 20 years later, you're like, Oh yeah, I'm that guy. Like I'm the guy that creates
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shit. Right. Which I am. I am that guy personally. Um, but I think it would be, uh, I'm not the only
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guy out there like that. There's lots of guys like that. There's lots of girls like that. Right.
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Um, but you know, I was always the kid doing things on my own. Like I was always the kid
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doing lemonade or doing baseball cards or doing some sort of like selling light bulbs or whatever,
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like all the shit we talked about on MFCEO project for years. Like I was always doing
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that since I was a little kid. So the entrepreneur thing for me personally wasn't, was a natural.
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I mean, it's the only dude, it's, it's literally the only way I could fucking survive. Like people
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don't get that. You know that like I couldn't fucking work for someone. There's no fucking
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way. Right. Like it's all, this is that's for me. Like when I say zero options, I literally
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have zero options because I could not work for someone. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm unemployable.
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No, I'm being serious. Well, it seems like with the franchise situation, you have a little bit
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more stability and security, but you don't have the flexibility and freedom of creating your own
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thing. Yeah. But, but a smart franchise model will take into consideration all the great ideas
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and the great creativity that the franchisees come to you with. Right. Cause while they may not be the
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person to create the concept from the ground up, these people are very smart to do this and they
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get in and they see holes and they see things that could be improved and they're not always
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right, but the franchise or, you know, usually gets most of their good ideas from franchisees,
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you know? And that's, that's, that's no different than if you were in battle, bro. And I'm the
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fucking general and you're the, you're the foot soldier and you go out there and I'm thinking
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like, Hey man, you know, I think this is the best way to do it. And you come back, you're
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like, nah, bro, listen, we can't go that way. Don't do that shit. Right. Right. Right.
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So, you know, there's there and there's good models and bad models, right? You have to talk
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to the people who own these current franchises to see what they say. Because like, dude, when you
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go look to buy in and you go to their discovery day and you're at their HQ and you're all impressed
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and you know, they're going to, it's going to sound real good. That's the point. Like it's marketing,
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right? You really want to know what's going on. You got to talk to guys that own the systems
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and get feedback from them. That's real. A little caramel sauce on that one. Question
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number two, Andy. Uh, question is the more successful you get, do the problems grow equally
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or do they just get easier to solve? Money solves a lot of shit. I mean, let's just be
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real. It just does. And people that say it doesn't there, you don't have any money. That
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it's just the truth. Yeah. Um, you know, money solves a lot, dude, like a lot, a lot of small
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shit that annoys the fuck out of you when you don't have any money can be solved with money.
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You know, um, a lot of good can be done with money, money as Vaughn and I talk about all the
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time. It's not a bad thing. It's a, it's an obligation. Like you're obligated to go out and
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become financially successful so that you, not so that you could buy Lambos and shit, but so you
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could change the fucking landscape of the world in front of your face. And that might not be
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opening a hundred, uh, homeless shelters or whatever. Like you don't have to be super rich
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to do this. It might be as simple as some people are now opening their own schools because they
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don't agree with the school system. Right. Right. So like you need money to do those things capable.
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Yeah. Yeah. So, so, you know, and people, lazy people like to say, Oh, well, pursuing money is a
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very, uh, materialistic and, and, and unfulfilling goal. Well, you're fucking wrong. You're fucking
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wrong. And the reason you have that perspective is because you've never been the person to
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contribute money for a hundred kids for Easter or build a fucking, uh, an underprivileged school,
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an entire fucking facility or, uh, you know, bring businesses back from the dead. All of which
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I've done in the last fucking, I don't know. Yeah. Months. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, money
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does a lot of good. And just because you, you, just because rich people that you've perceived
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to be rich, don't tell you all the good shit they do. Um, it doesn't mean they aren't doing
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it. Yeah. But on the flip side of that though, because people say people that have money don't
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have problems. Would you say that that's right, dude, you got everybody else's fucking
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problems, right? That's the problem. Yeah. I don't have fucking problems, but I got to deal
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with all your motherfucking problems. Okay. I don't have enough money to, to know whether
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that statement, no money, more problems is true, but I, I will say different problems.
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Yeah. But I will say in the last couple of years, frankly, putting into practice, what
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I learned from you and the MFCO project, uh, project, I've been able to generate some, some
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income that I hadn't previously. And what is absolutely true is while I don't know if it's
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true of more money, more problems, it is true that with great cash comes greater responsibilities.
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And the more money you make, the more responsibility, if you're handling that money, well, you're
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going to necessarily have more responsibility. And it's funny, even in the short last couple
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of years, I feel more responsible for certain people in my community because I've been able
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to make more money. That's right. And, uh, and it's not a, it's not a guilt thing. It's
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not like, you know, society telling me, Oh, you got to do this. It's no, I've used my God
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given potential. I've, I've maximized, you know, at least started to maximize my gifts and
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I've been blessed with some results. And so the, uh, the, the, the end result of that
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is, okay, now I have some wealth and I've got to, as you've said multiple times, I've
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got, I have some wealth and I've got to reinvest it in other people and, and, uh, see them grow
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It's not, people don't understand that. Like they, they see guys like me who live a big
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life, right? I got a big life. It's just reality. I have a big life. I love my big life.
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All right. Um, there's lots of problems that come with that. First of all, public
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perception. Lots of people don't like that. Right. Okay. They expect me to work my whole
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life and then live like they live. Motherfucker. That's not why I did this shit. Okay. So let's
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get that fucking straight right now. Right. I enjoy very much rolling to work every day
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in a motherfucking car that costs more than most people houses. It reminds me every
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motherfucking day that the work I fucking did was worth the fucking effort and the
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headaches that I'm about to get out of my fucking expensive ass car and walk into are
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worth solving. All right. That's reality. And all those headaches that I solve that benefits
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other people and other people's families and their jobs and their careers. It's a noble
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thing to be a successful entrepreneur, dude. If you're doing it right. Oh man. It's the
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truth. You know, you know, I think it's the coolest thing, man. I got to share this story
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with you real quick. And we haven't really, bro. How many dudes I got in this fucking building
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that live in million dollar houses now? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And they're growing
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by the fucking week it looks like. That's fucking right. You know what I'm saying?
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Like it's fucking awesome. That's fucking right. I think one of the coolest things,
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bro, because we've also talked about this too, like the perception that most of the time it's
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parents that they put onto these kids about success, right? About they put all these misconceptions,
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right? And, you know, being with you for the last two years, one of the coolest fucking
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experiences I've ever had, right? With you. And this was just recent, bro. It was when
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we were at fucking dinner at Twisted Tree. You know what I'm saying? And like just knowing
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like the amount of good that you put in and how instant karma can be, right? Oh yeah.
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And we were at fucking dinner, right? And it's probably 10 of us at the table.
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It was an expensive dinner. It was an expensive dinner. It was a thousand dollar dinner.
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And, you know, end of the dinner comes, right? And like Andy talked before, he didn't like
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to do the whole weird who's paying, right? Like he just puts it all in there and the waiter
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comes back. If you go to dinner with me, I pay. Yeah. Okay. That's like a pet peeve of mine.
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Like I don't, seeing people fight over the bill or get awkward about money and shit,
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I don't do that shit no more. Yeah. So like I pay. Right. And so Andy, you know, he asked
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for the check and the waiter comes back. He's like, it's been paid. And he's like.
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Which never happens. And I'm never, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, well, some big
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dick style. I'm trying to, you know what I'm saying? You know, flying, whatever it is,
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right? And he's like, yeah, no, it's the guy sitting over at the bar and we go over
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there. Shane. And it was this gentleman who owns a restaurant that Andy had helped out
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during the, when COVID first, you know, got going, did the businesses, you know,
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a thousand dollars shut down during COVID and it was fucking cool. But what made
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it even crazier is like, you talk about putting good shit into the universe,
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right? Andy didn't even have his fucking wallet on him that night. Do you remember
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that? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, he's like, dude, that's fucking crazy.
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I didn't even have my fucking wallet. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like,
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and like, just like, dude, I was going to have to tell, I was going to have to,
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I had told JB. JB get his fucking car. I'm like, Hey man, you got a car? Cause I
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have my wallet. And, uh, yeah, it's just a cool fuck. You know what I'm saying?
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But like, it's, it's, it's, it's so cool. And it's like when you, cause I came from
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that, that household, right? Where I had the misconceptions about money. Yeah. Let
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me tell you why that is. Okay. We talk about this. Why is that Vaughn?
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Why are, why are, why are people taught growing up that money's evil?
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Oh, because there's the stereotype that the only way you can make money is to, is to be
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some sort of shady character. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do we know why? Do we know why that
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is? Look at my tinfoil hat out. All right. This is what you motherfuckers fail to
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realize and why I can see what's going on now for 70 fucking years. We had, uh, we
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had three news outlets. We have fucking TV, we have radio and we have print. Okay.
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We didn't have social media. We didn't have shit. So the companies that were of that
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could afford media when media first came about became infinitely fucking huge
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because they were the only companies that could afford to advertise. And these
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companies became so successful and so powerful that they literally, because there
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was no back channel to give feedback, there were no reviews, there were no
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internet, there were no social media. You, you couldn't know if someone did like
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something negative right away. Like it is now it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's
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incredibly more difficult to be a successful business now because you have to be
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the real deal. Whereas for 70 years, these big companies were able to lie in
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their advertisements. Oh, cigarettes are good for you. Cigarettes are fucking
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healthy. This, that right. Coca-Cola with cocaine. Yes. These companies could
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blatantly lie in their ads and people knew it on the ground level. They knew that
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people were lying. Right. And so what's the result of that? The result of that is
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70 years worth of generational conditioning that any wealth is fucking, you had to screw
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people over to get it. All right. And with the advent of facts and then the internet
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and then social media and then texts and all these things, now we're starting to
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realize, Oh wait, it doesn't have to be that way. That's not the actual way to succeed.
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And what we're seeing now is a business revolution, uh, of company of, of customers
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shopping with companies that may not be exactly perfect all the time, but they trust to
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that they are doing the best that they can. Right. No longer are people championing these
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massive companies anymore. Does that make sense? Okay. Does that make sense as to why
00:21:11.900
people think this? Yeah, for sure. So your, your parents or your, your people that you grew
00:21:15.940
up around for their whole lives as adults, they recognized that these rich people were
00:21:21.840
screwing the poor people. Right. And so what are you taught? You're taught that the only
00:21:26.980
way to get rich is to screw people over and it's just not true actually. And nowadays with
00:21:33.040
the, the ability, uh, for feedback with accountability, with social media, with, uh, reviews, with instant
00:21:42.080
access to information everywhere, you have to be excellent to make money. So now we are into an,
00:21:50.340
we are in a situation where, um, unless you're one of the massive and see what they're trying to do
00:21:55.420
now, what they're trying to do now is re-corner that market. These big corporations trying to
00:22:00.620
re-corner the market. They're doing that with censorship or de-platforming or this and that and
00:22:05.120
this because people are realizing like, fuck dude, these big companies really are fucks.
00:22:09.560
Right. Right. So now as a small business, the ultimate badge of being a great ethically run
00:22:17.160
business is success. Yeah. So it's, it's, um, yeah, it's, that's why. Yeah. So fucking love it.
00:22:27.260
Yeah. So let me take off my tinfoil hat. You guys, maybe you fucking believe I know what the fuck
00:22:31.720
I'm talking about. That makes total sense. And we've been talking about that for less
00:22:34.940
absolutely a while. Yeah. All right. Question number three, our third and final question, Andy
00:22:39.680
75 hard. Okay. Over a billion hashtags. Okay. Millions of fucking lives changed. Right. When you look
00:22:50.780
back and you look over this, this, this, this, this, this life changing program, right? What's something
00:22:57.720
that you would say has surprised you the most about 75 hard about the whole, the whole program
00:23:04.080
itself? What, what, what is like, Hmm, I didn't expect this or I didn't, you know what I'm saying?
00:23:07.740
Like what, what has surprised you the most about 75 hard?
00:23:14.360
I don't know, bro. I mean, I don't really get surprised. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
00:23:19.000
Like I kind of know what the fuck I'm doing and I know how it's going to react and I know
00:23:22.620
what's going to happen and I don't know, what would I be surprised by? Can I share what I was
00:23:30.140
surprised about? I would tell you the one thing that, well, here's what I will absolutely say.
00:23:34.520
Yeah. Yeah. What most people are surprised by is how much it improves the relationship with their
00:23:39.760
spouse or their significant other. That seems to be the thing that they're most surprised by,
00:23:44.940
but you could go ahead and, well, mine's an extension of that. I mean, I, I cannot even
00:23:52.660
begin to explain, you know, I've been a Christian my whole life and I've been a pastor and 75 hard
00:23:58.440
took my relationship with God much deeper simply because, you know, when you commit to certain
00:24:05.560
things and you do them over and over and over, you begin to form this structure in your life.
00:24:12.900
Life and, um, structure is not the enemy of spirituality. I think people think of spirituality
00:24:18.660
as, you know, to really enjoy your relationship with God, it's gotta be this free for all. And
00:24:24.460
that's not what I've experienced. What I've experienced is when 75 hard helped me discipline
00:24:29.460
my day and helped me commit to doing something over and over, whether I felt like it or not,
00:24:35.800
it helped me commit to those daily activities that brought me closer to God. And whether it's prayer
00:24:42.400
or reading the word or whatever, um, I would say to me for anybody, you're going to deepen
00:24:49.740
as a human being and you're going to, you're, I mean, if you have any sort of faith, your faith
00:24:54.380
is going to go super deep being on 75 hard. And I think, I think, you know, obviously it's a mental
00:24:59.640
toughness, um, challenge right now. No, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, I got killed.
00:25:05.860
You know what I'm saying? Mental toughness, uh, mental toughness program. But, but I just
00:25:13.340
don't think people understand the connection between being mentally tough and spiritually
00:25:17.940
alive. And so, um, that for me, what do you think, uh, what do you think in regards to
00:25:27.040
that line of thinking that the self accountability and integrity factor plays into that? How do you
00:25:33.520
think that plays into that? Meaning like no one knows if you really did it or not. Right. Yeah.
00:25:38.180
But God knows. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, full of shit in front of God. Yeah, exactly. And I mean,
00:25:43.240
I mean, the, the reality is, is you're saying you're, yeah, but you're cheating yourself.
00:25:49.240
Yeah. You're cheating yourself. And, and, uh, yeah, I, I, I never really thought about it that
00:25:54.000
way. Cause yeah, I got, I mean, God knows if you're not doing it or not, but, but, uh, well,
00:25:58.340
it is God or Andy. Cause some people tell me they got PTSD from your fucking picture in the app,
00:26:02.780
bro. Oh really? Did you, did you really do it? You know what I'm saying? They get fucking,
00:26:06.680
yeah. I mean, it's a, it's a big deal, man. It's a big deal. I don't know. I think, I think
00:26:11.700
for me, what I was most surprised about was the amount of people that are willing and what I'm proud
00:26:20.040
about as well as the amount of people who are willing to admit to themselves that they're not very
00:26:24.600
mentally tough and then they need to get tougher. You know what I'm saying? I, the, the straight up
00:26:29.300
understanding that that's lacking in their lives actually gives me hope for the future of humanity
00:26:35.440
because this program is not just about like getting in shape. In fact, there's very little
00:26:42.160
about that. Really what it's more about is figuring out who the fuck you are and how to operate
00:26:46.460
effectively and what's real and what's fucking fake. A lot of people I find, um, tell me that when
00:26:52.880
they started, they didn't like me like that. Like I liked the program, but I don't, I didn't like
00:26:56.860
you. Like, I don't like the way you talk. I don't like your perspective. I don't like this,
00:27:01.080
but I gave the, and by the end of it, they're like, fuck dude, you're telling the truth. I'm like,
00:27:05.160
yeah, bro. Like it's different on the other side. Yeah. You should have a podcast called
00:27:08.780
a podcast. But yeah, dude, I don't know. You know? And, um, so that was, that's a little bit
00:27:19.400
surprising. And then I think the other thing that's been surprising too, is I've never, ever,
00:27:23.820
ever created anything that like quote unquote went viral, I guess. Like every single piece of
00:27:31.120
content I've had, every single follower, every single thing that I've done, I've chipped away
00:27:37.460
at. Like every business I've built, everything's been hard, everything. And, um, you know, that 75 hard,
00:27:44.080
it, you know, it, it, it sort of took off, I guess at a fast rate. And, uh, that was something
00:27:51.300
that I didn't, I didn't expect, you know what I'm saying? Like I didn't expect it to, to become,
00:27:56.220
but I think the reason it did is because people realize they're fucking soft and that the world's
00:28:01.500
soft. And I think they also realized that in order for the world not to be soft, we have to unsoften
00:28:06.760
ourselves first. And so that's, that's what I think, um, surprised me is that so many people are
00:28:13.940
willing to like understand. Cause like, we talk a lot of shit about the people who don't
00:28:17.380
understand, right? Like they don't get it. Like motherfucker who says, Oh, does this count
00:28:21.360
when they're in their fucking garage? Like, you know, is this code is all through cardio?
00:28:25.720
Yeah. Right. We make fun of those people, but the truth of the matter is there's far,
00:28:30.460
far, far, far by a factor of 1 million people who understand I need to get fucking harder.
00:28:36.520
I need to get tougher. I need to fucking get aligned and they do it. And that's been really
00:28:41.520
cool because what that tells me is, um, what I can like deduce from that is that people are
00:28:47.540
not satisfied with what's going on in the world. Right. They're not. And it start and it starts
00:28:51.900
with you. So fix your shit and then get to helping other people fix their shit instead of attacking
00:28:57.760
them and calling them names and fucking saying they're this or that and falling into the, the,
00:29:02.940
the globalist agenda of division, right? Divide and conquer and start saying, you know,
00:29:09.700
that guy across the street is a lot different than me. I want to share some of the things that
00:29:13.860
help me with him and we'll become closer through that. And like, dude, it's all, it's really cool
00:29:19.740
because in 75 hard, there's like a, there's like, yes, there's some people that get called out
00:29:24.420
because they're fucking bullshitting. But amongst the people who actually did it, it's very tight
00:29:28.640
community. It's really cool. And it's like, there's no, there's no, we don't care if you're
00:29:33.660
fucking gay. We don't care if you want to be trans. We don't, we don't fucking care.
00:29:38.600
We don't care if you're black, right? We don't care if you're white. We cared if you did that
00:29:42.300
fucking workout and it was outside. Exactly, bro. And when you, when someone finishes and
00:29:48.180
accomplishes that sort of feat, I mean, look, dude, I would, I would argue like, you know,
00:29:55.060
an Ironman, a marathon, that's one day of fucking all out effort. That's a hard thing,
00:29:59.160
but doing something for 75 days or even, you know, if you tag on phase one on the end of that 105 days
00:30:06.440
in a row, that's fucking, that's a different kind of hard. Yeah. It's a different kind of hard.
00:30:11.420
Okay. And I'm not saying that one's harder than the other, but they're both a different kind of
00:30:15.620
test. Yeah. And you know, a lot of people, I've seen a lot of people who show up for a marathon
00:30:20.080
and got their way through for one day, but what about the, what about the 105 days? You know what
00:30:25.320
I'm saying? Right. Right. Like that's a different thing and it changes you and it changes how you think
00:30:29.600
and how you see the world and what your perspective is on investing work to get results. Like bro,
00:30:35.060
just the value that someone would grab out of understanding the compounding, uh, the compounding
00:30:43.120
effect of small little daily tasks that are critical to your success. Like you could see that in 75 days.
00:30:48.980
And what I see in people that I think is really cool is that once they accomplish that, they start
00:30:54.400
to realize, okay, it's not just 75 days. It's the next 1000 days. It's the next 10,000 days.
00:31:01.680
And they start to understand that their life is not floating around like some piece of litter in
00:31:07.960
the wind. You are in control, but you're just not in control to snap your fingers and change shit
00:31:13.600
today. But if you snap your fingers every fucking day for a hundred days, shit's going to look a lot
00:31:18.820
different. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So it's cool that people are starting to, cause what it does is it
00:31:24.020
teaches you how to operate in this realm that we call the universe and life and everything,
00:31:27.760
right? How to become something that you aren't currently. And it's small, it's consistent,
00:31:34.460
daily discipline actions over and over and over again. And anything that's great, anything that
00:31:40.200
changes the world, anything that's, you know, made someone fulfilled in life is all built that same
00:31:46.360
way, all of it. So it's a good teacher for people to get the fundamentals,
00:31:54.020
down of how to operate. And, and dude, what, what I think has been cool is the, like, I got tagged
00:31:59.500
yesterday and I get tagged. Now it's been a few years since we've had it out and going.
00:32:06.280
It's cool because like, I get tagged in these posts of people who are like, yeah, dude, I did 75 hard
00:32:10.800
two years ago or three years ago. And this is what I've done since then. That's fucking cool.
00:32:17.500
You know what I mean? Yeah. And then you got these fucking fat corn dog eating fucking bloggers
00:32:22.540
saying, Oh, it's just a trend and it doesn't really change your life. It's not happy. There's
00:32:28.460
a whole bunch of people that will fucking argue that. Yeah. My favorite one was seeing somebody
00:32:32.580
post about how she has clients who have suffered severe mental damage from doing 75 hard. And I'm
00:32:39.200
thinking, all right, let me think. First of all, they didn't do 75 hard, right? Exactly. And I'm thinking,
00:32:43.380
okay, so a gallon of water, is that going to cause severe mental damage?
00:32:47.880
Is Andy's pictures in the fucking app? I mean, bro, it's crazy. The whole, the whole, the fucking
00:32:53.400
thing isn't called 75 pussy motherfucker. Okay. It's called 75 fucking hard. All right. If you,
00:33:00.640
if it's too hard for you, go do fucking weight watchers. I don't care if you can't recognize
00:33:04.620
that you, that you're soft, don't do it. The whole point is to say, man, I'm fucking weak
00:33:10.760
and I need to not be weak. And I need to gut my fucking way through this. And for those
00:33:15.220
people, it changes them for the people that tried to quote unquote, try. I tried it 4,700
00:33:21.220
times. Then fuck off. It ain't for you. You clearly don't understand what the program is
00:33:27.440
about because if you truly understood that in 75 fucking days, you could be a different
00:33:32.460
fucking human and your entire existence will change from here on out, you would fucking do
00:33:37.200
every motherfucking thing on that thing. No, the people who tried over and over and over
00:33:41.220
and over and over and over and over. You think it's weight watchers. You are, you're
00:33:44.780
misunderstanding the fucking program. This will fucking change you. It dude, I can't stand
00:33:52.480
getting lumped in with these fucking people. And they're like, Oh, this is a diet. It's
00:33:56.580
not a fucking diet. You haven't even read the motherfucking book or listen to the podcast
00:34:01.340
or done shit. And that's why every single time someone posts a negative fucking thing about
00:34:06.040
it, they end up having to delete their motherfucking Instagram account. Imagine if before you go
00:34:10.660
and criticize 75 hard, imagine making a post saying everybody who completed an Ironman is
00:34:16.560
a pussy. Right. Just remember that. Right. Just remember that everybody who's ever done
00:34:22.880
a marathon, it doesn't really count. It's bullshit. Just remember that, that cause that's what
00:34:27.420
the fuck you're saying. You would, you would not post that. So when you make a post talking
00:34:33.120
shit on 75 hard and the fucking billion plus people come after your ass and sink your motherfucking
00:34:39.800
account, that ain't on me, bro. That's you're stupid. Right. That's real. I would never stand
00:34:45.340
at the end of an Ironman and say, man, that was fucking waste of your time. It was super
00:34:48.460
unhealthy, bro. You probably shouldn't do that. Yeah. That was no shit. Like an Ironman isn't
00:34:53.520
fucking unhealthy as fuck. Right. Right. Bro. People are just fucking idiots, which is
00:34:58.360
they're making the case for the program with their complaining. I do like corndogs
00:35:03.140
though. Yeah. Well, no comment. That picture was pretty ironic. I have a small question related
00:35:09.680
to what are you guys talking about? So this happened to me about. If you're going to ask
00:35:13.720
me about like schematics or design or some shit, bro, like statistics or math, cause that's
00:35:18.520
what I feel like you're, it might be the accent. Yeah. Right. Is he trying to turn it off
00:35:23.760
and on yet? You're racist. Yeah, that's right. So, uh, one of my friends and I were talking
00:35:31.620
about a job that we needed to get done. And he referred to me, someone who I and he both
00:35:37.540
knew that he has completed 75 hard. And as you know, you can see someone and you can see their
00:35:43.140
words and their pictures and you can understand if they've done or not. Yes. And we know a lot
00:35:47.880
of people in this room and personally who have done this. There was something inside me that told
00:35:53.900
me I can trust this person. I feel like 75 hard is kind of becoming a social currency.
00:36:00.540
If I know somebody who has done 75 hard genuinely, I personally feel I can trust that person more.
00:36:07.260
What do you think about that? I think, yeah, I think that's a great point that never gets discussed.
00:36:12.660
No, I think that's an excellent point. Um, you should start a 75 hard dating site. No 75
00:36:19.480
hard should be a prerequisite for fucking hiring people. Oh, you want a job here? Come back in 75
00:36:25.800
fucking days. Yeah. Well guys, Andy Vaughn, that is three. All right. Go pay the fee. Yep. You guys
00:36:33.600
like the show? If you gain something, if it made you think, if it taught you something, if it made you
00:36:36.700
laugh, um, share the show. If it didn't fuck off. Went from sleeping on the floor. Now my jewelry box
00:36:43.740
froze. Fuck a bowl. Fuck a stove. Counted millions in the cold. Bad bitch. Booted swole. Got her on bankroll.
00:36:50.960
Can't fold. Doesn't know. Headshot. Case closed.