584. Q&AF: America's Election Integrity, Lessons From Dad & Customer Connection
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In this episode of Q&A, the guys talk about Costco, their favorite burritos, and how to become a realist. Q&AF is a show where we discuss the problems going on in the world and how realists can fix them.
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What is up guys it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the lies
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well other times when you tune in we have shows within the show we have CTI that's current events
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society news comedy all mixed into one big happy burrito all right and what we do on that show is
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be a hoe share the show all right what's up man dude you know you said burrito and it kind of tipped
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me off there a little bit yeah I was gonna throw some candy corn in there too yeah don't well no but
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like bro I fucking love burritos I know you love candy corn too no I don't fuck with candy corn man
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but no it just got me thinking like I just couldn't what's your favorite burrito well so right now I've been
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on this kick so so we're I'm a Costco guy all right so I think we've had our membership for
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about eight months or so now Costco's pretty nice I like it I do too now I will say this though I like
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it when nobody's there though that's the problem yeah that's the fucking problem the dude I've I get
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so pissed like I'm just walking in the fucking like the lanes and like well you're a celebrity
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now everybody's now you're a celebrity I don't know about that see DJ's a celebrity now now he's
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starting to bitch about some big time shit I already know what's getting ready to come out
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his mouth they just won't fucking move they won't leave me alone
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no man but like it's like Costco's full of NPCs bro like they won't move out the way it's very low
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aware if you ever want to know like why things aren't changing you know like like if you get pissed
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off right like if you get pissed off about what's going on in the world like I do sometimes and you
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want to know why things aren't changing and why it's important that we the people who are awake
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to what's happening are actually stepping up and becoming better and building better and being better
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examples if you ever want to know why that's important bro go walk through a fucking Walmart
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real shit real shit Costco counts as a Walmart Walmart with a membership fee yeah some nicer shit
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right 100 yeah I mean look bro and it's reality it's not that they're bad people no it's that
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they're low awareness people and by the way that's by design these people that you see that
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you get frustrated with remember dude most of these people are struggling so hard to just keep
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it together in any way shape or form that they don't have the ability to like look below the
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surface in anything yeah no that's real man that's all it's fucking real man yeah man but no so
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Costco got anyways what kind of burritos yeah so they got these breakfast burritos bro all right
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the macros are fucking great there's like 18 the turkey too right so it's like turkey breakfast
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burritos it's like 18 grams of protein bro I pop that shit in the air fryer in the mornings yeah
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not every morning but most like most mornings yeah bro they're good they change your life yeah well
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look man change your life I love some breakfast burritos I like chicken burritos I like shrimp
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burritos shrimp burritos bro yeah bro they're fucking good it's like shrimp rice some guac a little bit
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queso okay if you're getting fancy a couple crunched up tortilla chips in there that's real
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fancy I know bro I'm fat I know what the fuck's good okay like I know fat kid delights a little hot
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sauce in there yes Frank's yeah I'm with you on that one yes yeah if you can get your hands on some
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Taco Bell fire sauce though that's even better push it up Taco Bell fire sauce is the best thing
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about Taco Bell comes in and goes out yeah oh well I don't know I don't know about that I just think
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it's a good hot sauce yeah but uh you know the the burrito thing man like it's the ultimate like
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I mean it's just so convenient bro you could make like Thanksgiving burritos like you could put turkey
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and and mashed potatoes and corn and like all this stuff in a burrito and it's still fucking good like
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you really can't fuck a burrito up like you could even make a peanut butter and jelly burrito I've done
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those that I've done those was it good okay so that's what I'm saying so like when I get heat
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for putting Slim Jim's in a burrito with some sprinkled cheese and throwing that shit in the
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microwave I feel like that's unjustified I feel like that's a little different I that's a little
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different you want me to make you one no no listen listen man you can have your candy corn or you
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could have your Slim Jim I'm just telling you it's really hard to fuck up a burrito yeah now there
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are better burritos it just goes with anything I get that well there's better burritos what's the
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better one well I mean like you know an actual authentic good like burrito with chicken you know
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yeah but I mean but even the worst burritos American things though bro listen that's not a real like
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Hispanic thing even the worst burrito is still pretty fucking good yeah you know what I'm saying
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no hey they're convenient man yeah like you just fucking you hold it it's great all right yeah well
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hey listen yeah I just it just set me off you just can't mess it up I didn't have my burrito this
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morning so it's just like I'm like fuck like that man burritos are good yeah yeah well
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listen I got some good ones for you all right let's knock these out man guys Andy question
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number one Andy you've talked about the possibility of Trump not being allowed to run or them possibly
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still in the election if this does happen what does that mean for us and what does that mean
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for America you know I don't know what it means um I think this is very uncertain times I think that
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there I think a lot um you know I think there's a lot of people you know I think Trump's making a lot
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of mistakes with his messaging I'll just say that um I don't think there's any arguing over his policies
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and the things that he put into play uh that we were in the best economic position that we'd ever been
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in in this country uh in our lifetimes um and then the good economic position really flows down to all
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the areas of our life right I was just having this discussion uh with a buddy of mine you know
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he was talking about pro-life pro-choice and you know people care about pro-life and pro-choice
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when times are good but when times are bad and they have trouble surviving that issue goes way down the
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list right and even for people who are on the left it still goes way down the list I mean these people
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got to eat they got to survive they got to do these things and so you know a lot of these uh
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identity politics social issue voting points I think are losing favor and I think the main thing
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is is people are scared that a couple things I think the migration issue is scaring people that
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we're actually going to be overrun by migrants and crime and you know that's a united issue that
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both sides of the aisle are scared about and nervous about and pissed off about you know um the economy
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is another issue right people want more money in their pockets they want to pay less for their
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groceries and for their gas they want inflation to be low they want interest rates to be low we want to
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go out here and win and achieve and live the best life that we can economically and these are real
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concerns on both sides of the aisle and I see those two things along with the crime um being the top
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things because those are the things that touch people right those are the things that people have
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to deal with and so whether it's Trump or or could be DeSantis or uh Ramaswamy or whatever right
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uh or whether it's Biden or uh Obama Michelle or Newsom really it doesn't matter because what we're
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dealing with in my opinion is a communist revolution that I believe we're right in the middle of
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and if we pay attention to communist revolutions of the past everything that's been happening
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over the course of the last 15 to 20 years and if we really dig deep it's been going on for almost
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100 years uh has been geared towards the precipice of what these globalists the Klaus Schwab world
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economic forum globalist types are calling uh agenda 2030 right and we saw this accelerated with
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covid uh we saw that we're seeing our rights being trampled on we're seeing people in other countries
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get sentenced to actual jail for misgendering people or speaking out and these are all things that
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weren't happening just even five years ago and so we have this big shift of these globalists towards
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this communist uh revolution that's happening here in America so like in my opinion you know it's less
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important about who the candidate is because we only have certain choices right like yeah we could sit
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here and criticize Trump and we could say I fucking don't like this and that and this or we can
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criticize DeSantis I don't like this and that and this or we could say Ramaswamy oh he's this or that
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right or we can go over here and talk to Biden but at the end of the day we have to make a choice and
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the choice is we're either going to go this way or we're going to go this way we're either going to go
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the way of more censorship more big government more control over us less freedom for us more stress
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financially more stress economically higher costs of goods more pressure uh our kids being manipulated
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and taught things that we don't necessarily want them to do as parents or we're going to go this
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other way and this other way is you know more towards the traditional way that America has been
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over the history of America and if I'm being honest I think that that way the the way of the conservative
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because I'm neither people mistake this a lot of times they say I'm I'm conservative I'm not a
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conservative I'm I'm a I'm a libertarian moderate in the middle who happens to lean conservative
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because I'm not a communist when they push so far the other way correct so like I'm against communism
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and I'm against progressivism and I'm against shit that doesn't make sense and so for that you know
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reason I look to the right and when I look to the right and I look at who the candidates are
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the only person that has a chance to be the nominee without some drastic interference is Trump
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so that's the reality we're dealing with right it's Trump or this other path whether that be Biden
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Newsom or Michelle Obama and this other path is elite tyrants oppressing the rest of us and getting
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the rest of us to hate each other for the rest of our lives taking everything from us and higher taxes
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uh a squeezed in economic you know quote-unquote free economy that's not even free that's owned by
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the biggest conglomerates in the world where their culture is pushed down into our communities through
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their business structure um this is happening this happens you know through ESG and DEI and and CEI and
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all these things that we talk about it's it's culture and so when we look at culture and what we want
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we have to decide do we want this new culture where like you know these people are bust in from
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these other countries that aren't American and don't share our values and it's in the sake and for
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the benefit of whom and what because never have we been told ever what how that benefits us they say
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oh it's just diversity well this diversity for the sake of being diverse isn't necessarily a good thing
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yeah all right that doesn't diversity doesn't equal good all right there's American culture and American
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culture doesn't have to do with skin tone it has to do with a set of values that we all believe in
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all right so it doesn't matter if you're black white Asian uh you know Indian uh what it doesn't matter
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right but if you have this value system of being an American and you believe in the things like
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you know what America has traditionally stood for which is equal opportunity the pursuit of happiness
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the pursuit of a of a higher level life better than our parents uh and leaving the country in a
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better place than it is you know making the most of our life the American dream all of these things
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that's America bro treating your neighbor regardless of what their race is as a fellow American that's the
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culture of America and the left is destroying that intentionally and not giving us any reason as to why
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right okay so so my inclination is to look over here and say okay well we definitely need to go down
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this path but here's how I feel about it I don't feel that any of these candidates on the right and by
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the way if the candidates are you know fucking whoever whoever I'm voting on the right because it's the
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opposite of what the fuck they got going on that's our choice but how I actually feel about it is that
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like we have a lot to fix and a lot to clean up and it's not it's not just you know let's go to the
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conservative side like there's things there's major reformation that needs to happen in this country
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way before the election it bro it's before and after the election right there's like we should not
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be taxed at a rate of higher than 50 percent when we add up all the tax that we pay over the course of
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the year which is the case for every single person that pays taxes it's not just income tax it's not
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just your withholding tax it's when you buy gas when you buy a car it's your personal property tax
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it's etc etc etc etc all these things add up to more than 50 percent which makes you a fucking slave
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all right you don't understand that most people don't get it you are a slave of the United States
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and the United States government is intended to serve us we are not intended to serve them so it's
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backwards right now we're serving them they're not serving us and so like our taxes need to go down
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to a reasonable level the government needs to shrink to a reasonable level new reforms need to be made
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in terms of you know term limits and you know old laws and over litigious society like there's so much
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change that needs to happen that I'm not sure that even the voting of the right can fix it but here's
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what I think I think voting of the right can stop the progress of this communist action which gives us
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a chance to maybe turn America into what it's supposed to be and that's how I feel about things
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you know like when I say I'm voting for Trump people say oh you're a Trump you know loyalist
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no actually I'm not if you listen to my show I criticize him plenty there's a lot of things he
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does wrong there's a lot of things he could do right now that if he came out and did the entire
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country will unite around him but he refuses to do it and doesn't do it the proper way and he's got
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bad people around him giving him bad advice who are out of touch with the reality of the people on the
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street the pain they're feeling and what they actually want from a leader okay we don't want
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this shit where you come on TV and give us this fucking walk the line shit when someone asks you
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if a man is a man and a woman is a woman we want you to say fucking yes not well that makes people
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not trust you right when you take money from the vaccine companies and then promote a vaccine where
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there's many people that I know and many people that you know and many people that these guys know
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have gotten sick and fucked up and you continue to come on the fucking television and talk about
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how safe it is and how effective it is and how you did it that pisses people the fuck off bro and
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there's a lot of shit that fucking pisses me off about how they do things over there but at the end
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of the day do I want fucking American culture or do I want communist culture I want American culture
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so I'm gonna ride that way and that's how I feel about it and so I do think they're gonna steal the
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election and I do think they're gonna fucking defraud the people and I do think they're going to do
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that because they understand that if culture goes back towards American constitutional republic style
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culture by the letter of the law traitors are executed and in prison and they understand that
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that's who they are that's why they call people like me and other people who are just common sense
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Americans who want things to get better domestic terrorists and put us on watch lists and have our
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own government listen to our phone calls you know what I'm saying like bro that's that's fucking wrong
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okay so when we think about what we're dealing with here we're dealing with a situation that if
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we don't fucking come out on the American culture side of things this next election I don't think
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America survives in the way that we've known it yeah and I think people don't understand what that
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means you know we've seen how many examples of this in the last two weeks like how many of these uh far
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left progressive activists have literally gotten killed in the streets by crime by their own beliefs
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correct okay they're wrong that the progressive ideology is wrong it's fucking wrong it doesn't
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work it's called idealism that's why this show is called real as fuck because we're realists here
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all right there's thing there's way things work and there's way things don't work in this progressive
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ideology that criminals criminals in this country are just somehow disadvantaged and that's why they
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commit crime is not fucking true there's such a thing as bad fucking people all right and bad people
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come in all races and all all sizes and all backgrounds from all countries we have bad people
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and we have good people bad people are going to have to be withdrawn from society they're going to
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have to be imprisoned or executed or removed from this country that is a fucking reality that no one
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wants to say and we have all these bleeding heart people that want to say well they didn't grow up
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like we did bro because they grew up in a mick mansion out in the suburbs somewhere all right they've
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never touched real crime they've never been around real hardship and those people feel guilty for how
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they were raised not making a massive mistake that these other people that they're sympathizing for
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will actually fucking kill them to take their shit okay so we have to get real about what's happening
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in this country and what's how the world works the world works like this natural order kill or be killed
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the strongest survive strength through power all right that's what that's the world okay that's the world
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we live in high level competition good and bad these are these are things that are real and we have so
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many people in this country that still want to argue over nuance and and um ideology that's not real and
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i just don't i think that's a waste of time i think that's a waste of argument i think that's a waste of our
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breath like what are we arguing over okay you don't like this and this and this about trump so you're
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gonna vote for biden you see what i'm saying right like you did that last time how'd that work out for
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you bro i don't know like i don't know what's gonna happen i i think people are i think they're
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gonna steal the election and i think america is gonna have a real gut check because i think they're
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gonna steal it right in our faces i think their goal they're they're not hiding any of this shit
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anymore they're not they're not like pretending like this is why all these social media influencers
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that come out and they keep saying oh my god can you believe this is happening dude you're helping
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it happen you are helping it happen by saying that these social media influencers that come on the
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internet every day for likes clicks shares and views to build their own brand so that they can sell some
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swag those people are perpetuating the problem by continuing to pretend like they're surprised that
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these people continue to do this these people are doing this it's intentional they're not going to
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stop and they and if they get full power they will kill you that's reality so that's how i feel
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about it and what do you think bro no 100 well so i i'll say this too on the culture part right like
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and it's something i've been thinking about because the last couple of weeks we've seen what this
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migrant crisis has done to these other countries right we're we're a matter of weeks from being in
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those same position in my opinion and you know i think that the argument of like you know the even
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with the diversity stuff it's like how so how is the solution to fix if we're saying there's a
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problem with american culture right now how is bringing in an external culture going to fix that
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internal like they're not trying to fix that's not the point they're trying to put the extra nail in
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the coffin right right so they understand that american culture is weak yep yeah man so i think i think
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we as americans man we got a lot of there's gonna have to be a lot of reflection and but more
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importantly just understanding what the problem is that's one part of it we we have a lot of things
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that we have to fix in our own households and our own lives we got months before that election and if
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we don't do anything between now and that time whoever wins the election doesn't even fucking matter
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because we'll still be fucked yeah that's why this is a cultural revolution that needs to take place
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this is why when i talk about personal excellence being the ultimate rebellion it is the ultimate
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rebellion because their entire premise of conquering america is built upon the dependency of the american
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citizen on them and if we become independent of them they cease to have the power over us so if they
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want us to be unhealthy we become healthy if they want us fat we don't become fat if they want us broke
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we don't become broke if they want us stupid we consume things that make us less stupid all right if they
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want us to hate each other we don't hate each other we help each other we love each other we pick each
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other up like we're supposed to do in america all right we have to be the opposite of what they want
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because their entire power structure depends on dependency that's why when i say it's the ultimate
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rebellion i mean literally it is the rebellion the rebellion starts with each individual in this
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country living to a higher standard and working to become independent of their system the more
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dependent you are on the system the more you take from them the more they own you that's reality
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and so if we want to fix this we have to look inside ourselves and ask what am i doing to fix this
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what is my role in this and the role isn't just go on the internet and post the role isn't just show up at
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the school board meeting which you should do the role isn't get engaged uh in politics which you should
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do the role is to live a high standard that literally inspires every single person around you to be
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better and that's what's going to fix this country in the long term it's not going to be a politician
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it's not going to be trump it's not going to be fucking it's certainly not going to be biden
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okay and it's not going to be andy it's not going to be uh vivek it's not going to be anybody nobody's
00:23:48.740
going to come and fix your shit and until you fix your shit and your neighbor fixes his and his
00:23:54.840
neighbor fixes his this is not going to change this is this is this is this is this is the thing that
00:24:01.380
people are missing dude they are missing this okay they wanted to be somebody they wanted to be
00:24:06.180
someone else because it's hard it's hard to take responsibility for your own life it's hard to say
00:24:12.820
hey i'm not living to the standard of what the previous americans before me died for i'm not
00:24:19.980
taking advantage of the opportunity that i have as a free american i'm letting myself be taken
00:24:25.320
advantage of by a rogue government that wants me to be fat unhealthy sick dependent
00:24:30.700
financially handicapped so that they can get everything from us when you ask yourself
00:24:37.240
what role you are playing and you can't say i'm taking care of those things you everything else
00:24:43.800
you do on top of that is irrelevant so you have to be real with yourself and we all do are we living
00:24:49.620
to the american standard did my grandfather who was killed and never met his own fucking kid
00:24:55.700
die for nothing that's how i feel about it okay and and when i look at my life and i look in the
00:25:02.680
mirror of my life i might not be the best at anything i do but i try really hard i try hard i try hard to
00:25:09.720
come in here and share a good message i try hard to live to a high standard i try hard to you know
00:25:13.960
build things that matter that help people that contribute i try really fucking hard and there's
00:25:18.880
plenty of criticisms that can be made about me but i can tell you this when i look around at most people
00:25:23.600
most people ain't trying as hard all right and that's a reality and if we want to fucking change
00:25:28.060
this you guys listening to this show just by stepping up and trying a little bit fucking harder
00:25:33.800
we can change a whole lot of shit yeah absolutely man uh guys andy question number two andy uh hey
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andy what are three important lessons that your dad taught you growing up that you still use to this
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day oh man uh the big the big one well fuck there's a lot
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make friends not enemies that's that's a big lesson that that he always beat into our heads
00:26:00.600
you know a lot of people especially nowadays with the contentious nature of society
00:26:05.760
love to hate other people right how many times can we even have a conversation
00:26:10.580
about you know differing opinions and viewpoints without walking away being like i'm done with
00:26:16.920
that person like everything has to be these extreme i'm leaving i'm breaking up with you
00:26:22.820
fuck you you're a piece of shit over basic discussions that five ten fifteen years ago would
00:26:29.660
have just been differences of opinion okay and so that lesson make friends not enemies has been a
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valuable lesson for me because the truth of the matter is there's been a whole lot of people
00:26:40.260
that my first one or two run-ins with them were not very good who ended up being great friends and
00:26:45.360
great assets in my life and i was a great asset to them you know so so i think that's a big lesson
00:26:51.340
you know like when i met my business partner chris we didn't like each other we both played the same
00:26:55.540
sport we were both good we were competitive and we we were not friends okay but we became friends and
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a lot of good came from it right and i can list down many relationships like that in my life where
00:27:05.580
you know that's happened so i think that that's a big lesson for my dad um you know my dad used to
00:27:13.020
always say this thing you know make a list call the list when now that's what he always said make a
00:27:20.700
list call the list when now all right and what he's saying is execute he's saying execute right now
00:27:26.600
he's saying what do you got to do you should do that right now and and that's you know it's it's a
00:27:31.640
version a very simple version of my powerless system uh which is the ultimate productivity
00:27:36.260
system which i give away for free which you can get in episode 16 on the audio feed um it's it's a
00:27:41.720
fail-safe system it's the only way i know for sure that guarantees you to continue to move forward in
00:27:46.660
life um and and i think that's where that came from so that was a big thing and then you know uh the
00:27:53.240
third lesson i probably got from my mom which is do the right thing uh which i learned because i stole
00:27:58.820
some kool-aid from a grocery store when i was you know like eight years old yeah so uh i stole this
00:28:04.840
kool-aid uh it was mountain berry punch and we you know back then dude we weren't having kool-aid we
00:28:10.600
were having like you know fool-aid you know what i'm saying right and uh we were walking through the
00:28:16.140
grocery store and i remember there was mountain berry punch i had seen a commercial for it on tv you
00:28:20.500
know back then the kool-aid man was badass because he like bust through the wall fucked up your house and
00:28:24.900
he's like oh yeah like dude it was just badass right and so the kool-aid man bust in he's mountain
00:28:30.220
berry punch kool-aid and i saw it at the store i'm like dude mountain berry punch i gotta have it my
00:28:34.740
mom's like no can't have it and uh and so like i put it in my pocket right and yeah i didn't think
00:28:41.920
it through though so i went home i wanted the kool-aid but i didn't know how to make kool-aid
00:28:46.520
so i had to ask my mom to make the kool-aid right and you know i ended up getting my ass beat for that
00:28:51.420
and then she made me take it back to the store and uh and tell the tell the person i stole it
00:28:56.780
yeah and that was a lesson i'm very thankful for that because that was a lesson that stuck with me
00:29:01.160
my whole life um and you know i made a lot of mistakes in my life i've not always done the right
00:29:05.800
thing i'm not always done what was right but i've always done my best to make it right after i've
00:29:09.780
realized that i was you know that i made a mistake or i fucked up and i think that's been a guiding
00:29:14.180
principle in my life as well and i could go down the list from with my mom and my dad um of different
00:29:20.260
things that i learned but i think those three lessons are a good foundation to build upon i love
00:29:24.220
that man make friends not enemies executing right now yeah and always do the right thing yeah those
00:29:28.880
those three lessons have have have really um helped guide me to a place where you know um i'm doing okay
00:29:36.600
yeah i love that man i love that uh well guys our third and final question and question number three
00:29:42.780
uh andy i connected with 99 of my customers and grew my business one customer at a time
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but two years ago i moved my store into a high traffic location and now i can't remember anyone
00:29:56.680
that comes in resulting in every conversation feeling not genuine uh at this point i treat
00:30:02.500
everyone the same like i know them but it doesn't feel right how do i connect with people when i can't
00:30:08.540
remember them especially when they come in multiple times a week i feel like an idiot no bro listen and
00:30:14.220
and the bigger you get the harder that is it's really hard it's really really hard to grow from
00:30:21.740
a small business when you really care about people into a big business when you're that person that
00:30:27.300
built it uh and i can i can understand that because i'm in that scenario as well and like bro i meet
00:30:32.200
thousands of people a week you know what i mean if i leave the if i leave here to go anywhere i mean
00:30:37.800
i'm meeting lots of people and so yeah of course i can't remember every single person dude right but
00:30:45.720
but what i try to do is the best i can i try to i try to remember you know as much as i can if i
00:30:50.920
remember them sometimes they'll say things and they'll be like oh we met here or there and i'll
00:30:54.840
try i'll be like oh yeah and i will remember right but i but here's what i've discovered most people are
00:30:59.440
pretty cool and most people don't take it personal and if you if you are in a business environment
00:31:04.460
especially dealing with customers and you can't remember them then they understand that because
00:31:08.860
remember wherever they go nobody gives a fuck about them so the fact that you're doing 90 of it
00:31:14.180
and you just can't keep up with it they're still walking out saying dude that guy cares and so um what
00:31:21.060
i try to do is just to be present in the conversation i try to look them in the eye try to listen to what
00:31:26.240
they're saying um and and and dude that can get hard for me because uh you know the sure volume
00:31:34.240
of it is is is emotionally taxing because when i meet people it's usually at this point they want
00:31:39.820
to tell me about how they did 75 hard a lot right or they want to tell me how the mfceo project helped
00:31:45.640
them build their business or they want to tell me how you know me sharing a story about you know like
00:31:49.980
how i'm going through hard times help them through hard times so when i recognize people or people
00:31:55.120
recognize me in public it's not it's not um it's not like hey i just want a picture it's like hey i want
00:32:01.280
to give you some gratitude right and when that happens at scale bro it drains you and it makes
00:32:06.880
you like every time i do a meet and greet i feel like i fucked up i walk away and i'm like fuck dude
00:32:12.920
like i hope i gave him enough i hope i made you know what i mean because i understand how important
00:32:18.420
that is and like i think about like you know like sometimes the line is hours and hours and hours long
00:32:25.320
you know like like sometimes like eight nine hours some places okay so like it's real shit like summer
00:32:31.780
smash this year we expedited it was still three and a half fucking hours you know what i mean so like
00:32:37.560
it's hard and i always feel like i didn't do a good job and and so i can relate to that feeling and my
00:32:43.860
advice would be for you guys that are getting to that phase where you're really building something
00:32:48.560
based upon how much you care to give yourself a little credit and just do the best that you can
00:32:55.100
man make these people understand that there's people here at this place that care about them
00:32:59.140
and what's cool is and like this has happened you know with my businesses um is that the culture and
00:33:05.780
the business kind of starts to fill in and have your back on that so we're like you know here like
00:33:10.640
if you talk to someone from first form on the phone or in person chances are bro they're gonna get
00:33:15.660
they're gonna give a lot of fucks about you okay and the reason that they do is because they've
00:33:20.100
watched us do that for many many years and they understand it's overwhelming and they do care and
00:33:25.500
that attracts these people right like the people here at first form are a product of the the culture
00:33:32.920
of the business bringing people to us right there's people here from all over the country uh they move
00:33:39.300
here you know these people have somehow been touched or affected by people in the brand at this point
00:33:44.120
and so it kind of scales out uh through your people so my advice to you would be do the absolute best
00:33:51.800
you can if you can't remember someone's name understand that you're human and there's only
00:33:56.880
limited mental capacity um if you can't remember details and somehow you get embarrassed like you
00:34:02.100
talked to someone before or you know and you don't remember a detail or something like like there's
00:34:07.420
often times where i've met people and then i forget that i met them before because the fucking volume
00:34:11.480
of people that i meet and i'm always embarrassed like it's mortifying like because i fucking don't
00:34:16.100
want to ever be that guy but it's just math right it's just math man yeah and what i found here's
00:34:22.280
what i found most people are very fucking forgiving because they get it yeah they understand i'm doing
00:34:28.020
the best that i can like they see me doing the best that i can and so like when i fuck up they give
00:34:32.800
me the benefit of the doubt and they're going to give you the benefit of the doubt too as long as
00:34:36.020
you're working the best that you can i love it so it's a heart i can relate to that bro i spend a
00:34:40.840
lot of time feeling guilty about that like my favorite part of business is the customer my
00:34:46.400
favorite part of what we do was working in the retail stores back when it was just s2 before first
00:34:52.020
form ever existed right um those are my favorite things unfortunately i don't get to do those things
00:34:57.500
anymore and so those of you who are in those positions who are owners and operators um you should
00:35:03.400
you should appreciate the time you're in because every time you scale up past the actual customer
00:35:10.060
relationship part if you actually care about the customers the business gets less fun because you
00:35:16.100
don't get to do that part anymore like i don't get to see people anymore like in my face or actually
00:35:21.000
help them like yes there's a lot of you guys who are helped by 75 hard yes there's a lot of you guys
00:35:26.420
that listen to the podcast and take the advice and go build things but like that's that's different for
00:35:31.480
me because remember all i see is this right all i see is what i'm seeing here in my life through my
00:35:36.720
eyes i don't see out here in the world it's i can't see what's happening and when you're working
00:35:41.680
with people directly you get to see that and it's very rewarding so you know and there's a case to be
00:35:49.060
made real talk that if you're operating a business and you know you're thinking i just want to get the
00:35:56.000
business as big as i can there's a case to be made that's that might not be the right move for your
00:36:01.660
own happiness right in my case the reason that i'm working to grow our business as big as i can
00:36:08.100
is because i understand the cultural ramifications of what we're building here right i understand that
00:36:13.040
the way that we operate our companies is actually the way that most companies should operate and i want
00:36:18.380
other companies to look at me and start operating that way so that we could change the culture because
00:36:23.980
i believe that entrepreneurship controls the culture in the world okay so when i think of like
00:36:29.500
the play that i'm running i don't think of it like oh i'm just trying to run a business to make a whole
00:36:34.940
bunch of money bro i've been over money for a long time i have every motherfucking thing you could ever
00:36:39.660
have i got a fucking tank i was just driving in an hour ago okay like like okay and i don't say that
00:36:46.880
to brag it's just fact all right all the cool stuff i have everything i do now is is purpose-driven
00:36:55.060
mission-driven shit and so when i look at what i'm doing even though i would prefer to spend my time
00:37:02.120
in a store right that's not the best way for me to spend my time when i think about the big impact
00:37:07.920
that can be made we change people's lives here we help people go from what they are where they're
00:37:13.600
completely unhappy and we teach them how to do the work to get them where they want to go there's
00:37:18.520
no magic in anything we do we provide very very very high quality products the best possible products
00:37:24.000
that i know how to make and that we know how to make we provide and we give people the real game
00:37:29.500
plan and we work with people to help them change their lives and and this is the play that i'm running
00:37:34.700
my goal is to create a company that is so impactful and so big that it literally changes the culture of
00:37:44.140
all the other companies and that culture change will change the culture of this country and that's
00:37:49.840
that's what my mission is and if we change the culture of this country that changed the culture
00:37:53.240
of the world so like when i legitimately like if you sat down with me and you said what do you think
00:37:58.460
you're trying to do with your companies i am legitimately trying to change the world with my companies
00:38:03.160
i am trying to change the way business is done i am trying to change the way customers are treated
00:38:08.220
i'm trying to change the way business looks at customers i'm trying to change the way that your
00:38:12.840
employees take home the core values and the culture that they live every single day i'm trying to change
00:38:18.220
fucking everything and it's not about money it's about mission and it's about impact and while it may
00:38:23.500
not be as fun and it may not be as enjoyable it matters a whole lot right now and i recognize that and i'm
00:38:29.700
very aware of that so i can come on this podcast every single day and i can talk about you know
00:38:35.000
what we need to do or i can bark orders and say what you need to do and those are all true but the
00:38:40.960
reality is unless i go build it and it's so obnoxiously impactful and big that everybody else wants
00:38:45.800
to be a part of that it's a fail you see what i'm saying so there's there's there's a lot of
00:38:55.060
i don't know there's a lot to think about when you're thinking about your own business and where
00:39:01.440
you want it to be right if you're just someone you know and by the way you the guy who's just past the
00:39:07.740
point of you know being able to remember their customers names but still engage with the customers
00:39:12.940
you might be able to make a very deep impact with all of those customers and your employees at that scale
00:39:18.820
and it might make a huge difference okay but i happen to be in a position in my life where i cannot
00:39:25.780
have kids okay um i don't have that part of my life that most of you have and i feel like i'm here to
00:39:34.640
do something that matters and that impacts and that changes things and i feel like that's done through
00:39:39.580
entrepreneurship and so i feel that all the entrepreneurs out there have an obligation
00:39:43.820
to set the culture that they believe should exist in america inside of their own business
00:39:49.900
and no matter what the internet says no matter what the fortune 100 companies do we have an obligation
00:39:55.860
to build our companies exactly as we would like america to be all right and if we do that those
00:40:02.900
employees will take that culture and live that culture and that culture begins to spread into the
00:40:08.980
community and this is how things change and so entrepreneurs in my opinion legitimately are in
00:40:14.680
the driver's seat for changing and having the cultural revolution that we talk about all the
00:40:19.520
time on cti episodes all right and i'm trying to live that and it's not as fun it's not it's not as
00:40:25.980
cool as being able to work with people one-on-one it's not that it's not it's hard it's fucking super
00:40:31.060
hard bro it takes everything i got and uh but i think it matters you know and and so like there's
00:40:37.140
different ways to think about it and if you're a guy or a girl who's running a company and you're
00:40:42.120
in that middle size and you're you know relating with your customers and you're enjoying it uh and
00:40:47.320
you don't want to get any bigger there's there's nothing wrong with that just make sure that the
00:40:51.020
people that you're dealing with are you're impacting and you're providing and you're creating
00:40:54.900
careers and opportunities for the people who are helping you do this and um you know that i don't
00:41:02.740
know i think it's a cultural i think it's a entrepreneurial cultural obligation for us
00:41:06.880
to put the right things into the world through our companies to build careers for our people
00:41:13.160
to literally put the motherfucking shit that's going on in the world on our fucking backs and carry it
00:41:18.740
across the fucking goal line and that's what i'm trying to do yeah i love that man yeah well guys
00:41:23.660
that was three man yeah go pay the fee went from sleeping on the floor now my jewelry box froze
00:41:31.760
fuck a pole fuck a stole counted millions in the code bad bitch booted slow got her on bankroll