71. Stop The Slide
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how I ve been dealing with the stress of being on a "condoned lockdown" for the past 7 days. I also talk about the struggles I ve had to deal with while being on this lockdown and how I dealt with it.
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told my teacher dumb bitch i'm gonna get millions watch this in the project living
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spoke it till existence mold changed to 50 got mold cost than did i only weigh 180 but my watch
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cost 250 what's up guys it's andy priscilla and this is the show for the realist 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 a little short real talk for you um not sure how long it's gonna take uh but
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i want to let you know where this episode came from um this morning now during this covid lockdown
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i just want to let you know uh there's been very few places that i've gone all right uh you know
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the places i go to eat i haven't gone to um the social gatherings that have been going on i really
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haven't gone to and the reason for that has been because i am not going to go along with all the
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things that people want you to go along with so i've chosen to kind of remove myself from normal
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activity uh until recently recently i started to um have like almost like a little bit of i don't know
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if it's like depression or anxiety or what it is but something like this weird uneasiness from not
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seeing people uh in real life and i don't think i'm alone with that i i've talked to a lot of people
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who have kind of shared that sentiment you know where they're they're it's not like depression
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they're not mad it's just a weird this weird feeling like what the fuck and you know today i woke up
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and i decided that instead of training at uh our headquarters facility here which i've been training
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at and been fortunate enough to have during this time um i was going to go to my my regular gym and so
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i went to my regular gym and i saw a lot of my old friends a lot of my friends who have been friends
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for for 10 years 15 years man people i've seen day in and day out for for a decade and i was talking
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and it was interesting because um you know a lot of the people had used this time to get better and
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uh a lot of the people had it and you know they were frustrated and they felt you know like it was
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something where they were starting and going and um things just didn't seem to get in a rhythm for them
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and you know uh a lot of people were struggling and and so i had some interesting conversations
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on both on both sides of the spectrum and as you guys know if you follow me i committed you know on
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march 9th to doing 75 hard uh and then basically i've just kind of been doing it the entire time
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um i said publicly that i was going to use this time for the best of my ability to improve the best
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that i can and i've been doing my best to uphold that you know i've taken a few days off i think
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i've been off three days total this this entire time uh and i'm in what i think is the best shape
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of my life um i still got a lot of work to do i've still not you know excited uh about where i'm at
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but i'm excited that i didn't go backwards during this time and i i wanted to basically share with you
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guys a couple things first off you have to understand this is this has been hard on all of us
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okay um everybody here you know even though it may seem like i have my shit together right i'm still
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struggling like this has not been easy for me it's been the hardest i've had to dig deep uh to stay
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onto a program ever in my life and i mean there has been a number of times where i wanted to quit
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a number of times where i'm like fuck it a number of times where i was so angry with what's going on
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that like it all it it almost kept me from doing what i needed to do and i want you to know you know
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and i want you to hear from me directly that this thing what's going on is not normal this is not how
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we're supposed to live it's not how society's supposed to be we need human connection we need
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opportunities to uh you know interact and all these things and even though i'm a i would say a pretty
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extreme introvert um we all still require that you know so if you're feeling like that uh understand
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that this has been hard for me too and it's been hard for everybody i've talked to everybody around
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the office you know all the people that you see uh smiling and and you know do do these people you
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know a lot of these people are are struggling to to show those smiles you know what i mean we're
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struggling to show that we're happy and i want you to not feel alone okay and so uh but that's not
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the main message that's just the the the main thing i want you to understand is that like
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everybody's having a hard time right now whether you know no matter what's going on it's just a
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fucking weird time for everybody um but what i really wanted to do is i wanted to take a minute
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and talk to you guys especially you guys who haven't been doing what you know you should be doing
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during this time now if you follow me for a while you know that i have no problem telling you the
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truth okay and some people don't like that some people don't like a direct truth all right but i
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want you to understand where that comes from that comes from me talking to myself that way so i talk to
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myself that way and that's how i coach other people so if you come to me and you say hey i fucking want
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to lose weight you know or you're fat and you ask me if you're fat i'm gonna tell you you're fucking
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fat just like i tell me i'm fat just like i tell me when i'm lazy just like i look in the mirror and
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say andy you fucked off today you didn't do what you were supposed to do okay and that's where we
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start so if you found yourself off track the first thing you have to realize is that you got to tell
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yourself the truth all right and the truth is this you didn't do what you know you should have done
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you didn't do it that's why you're not where you want to be okay if you're soft if you've if you've
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been soft if you've been lazy if you've been uh you know not following through on what it is that
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you know you should be doing tell yourself the truth don't surround yourself with people who are
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going to make you feel good for not doing what you know is good for you okay we have to learn
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that we have to address the truth and the issues before they can be solved and society has created
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this like soft cocoon around people where it's it's not okay to tell the truth to each other anymore
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it's not okay to say hey joe uh you're a little fat bro it's time to take care of it and joe's down
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40 fucking pounds okay this is the point we have to be able to tell each other the truth
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truth and then be able to take the truth all right the truth is the truth now we can sit there
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and pacify ourselves and say oh yeah but you know it's covid or yeah but it's this or yeah but it's
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that there's always going to be something guys there's always going to be something okay so we have
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to take ownership of the truth are you doing it or are you not doing it did you do it or did you not
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do it and for a lot of you you didn't do it and guess what that's okay that's okay not everybody
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gets a hit every time they come to the plate a lot of people fucking struggle they go up and down and
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up and down and up and down and the reason i wanted to talk about this is because i talked to a couple
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people that have basically told me they're like fuck dude i've let so much go by i feel like i'm
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starting over i don't even want to fucking start and they're demoralized dude you guys cannot
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allow that to happen all right a lot of you have worked very hard to even be where you are
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and you've let it slide and you're letting it slide day by day by day by day saying oh you know
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what after the election's over after this is over after that's over i'll get serious and this is no
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different than what you did last year only last year you were saying after new year's okay after
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halloween after thanksgiving after that wedding i have to go to after this vacation after the after
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this after this after this after this guys that's why you are where you are okay and that's the truth
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so you're not doing it and it doesn't really matter why you didn't do it you just did it and so bottom
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line the truth with yourself okay that's the place to start and then the second step is real simple
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the second step is after you've owned it and you've said hey you know what i didn't do what i was
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supposed to do i was fucking soft i was kind of a bitch i have used this as an excuse after you've
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owned that and you've taken that sting the next step is to put that first foot down okay and take that
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first step the first day you're gonna have to force you're gonna have to force yourself through
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that diet you're gonna have to force yourself through that workout you're gonna have to force
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yourself through that first day and then probably through that second day and then probably through
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that third day again and then the fourth day and the fifth day and the sixth day and the seventh day
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and before you know it, it won't be force anymore. You'll just be doing it. And when you get to that
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point, you've got the momentum. Okay. So we have to a tell the truth, B start moving the right
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direction by force. It's not going to be easy. It's going to be really fucking hard. You're
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going to be thinking about that fucking pizza and that beer and that sitting on the couch and all
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these habits that you've ingrained during this time. Okay. Whatever they might be, you're going
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to be thinking about that because it's not going to be feel natural to you to do new stuff,
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but you know what happens once you gain this momentum, once you gain the momentum, it gets
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easier. Once you gain the momentum, you start to feel good about yourself again. Once you gain the
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momentum, you're not struggling through every fucking minute of the day to make sure that these
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things get done. Okay. And you can substitute your fitness for anything. A lot of, a lot of you guys,
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this might apply to your business or it might apply to other areas of your life. But the point
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is, is that we have been conditioned to be soft with ourselves and to tell ourselves, you know,
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soft lies. And where does that get us? It gets us to an unhappy place. It gets us to a place where
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we're afraid to look in the mirror. I know what the fuck that's like, guys. I know what it's like
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to go to a store and not have any fucking clothes that fit. I know what it's like to go to a pool
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and be afraid to take off my fucking shirt. I know what it's like to be embarrassed because I got to
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wear the same clothes every single day. Cause it's the only outfit that fucking fits me.
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I've lived that life, bro. I fucking know what that's about. Okay. And I know how it makes you feel
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and nothing bothers me more than when I see people I care about, which is you guys who are allowing you
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to go back to that place. So this message is for you guys. All right. If you're one of these people
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who has slid off during this pandemic, who has, you know, let's just call it what it is. You've
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gotten fatter. You've gotten worse off. You've gotten lazier. You've gotten softer. All right.
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That's the truth. Now, what are we going to do? We're going to force ourselves to fix it because dude,
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I'm going to tell you, I've made the wrong decision here and I'm trying to save some of
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you guys, man. I've been the guy who's just said, fuck it and just ripped off and let it go. And
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then before I know I'm fucking 50 pounds up, 60 pounds up, a hundred pounds up. All right. Now it
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may not be that like that for you, but that's how it is for me, man. I walked by a pizza. I gained
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fucking 10 pounds and, and dude, the only thing that's kept me going this whole time is, is being
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totally fearful of going back to where the fuck I was. And I haven't, but I've had to do it by force
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literally the whole time, almost this whole year. All right. And so my, my little, this is, this is,
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I don't know, like a plea almost to you guys, like guys, fuck what you've done so far this year.
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I don't fucking care. And you shouldn't fucking care either. Call it what it is. Address the truth,
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wake up today, tomorrow and handle fucking business. Because the last thing we want is to
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be three or four more months worse off than where we are now. And then to have things kind of go back
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to normal, which I think they probably will. But why do you want to have to fight off four more
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months of fucking bullshit when you could just address the issue right now? All right. This is hard.
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This is not easy. Stop surrounding yourself with the people who make it easy for you. Stop
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surrounding yourself with the people who tell you the things that you want to hear that make you feel
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better in the moment. Stop surrounding yourself with people that make you think it's okay. Stop
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surrounding yourself with people that enable you to go down these bad habits. Stop. All right. It's not
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making you happy and you know, it's not making you happy. Stop sliding. You guys have unlimited
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potential. Okay. And just because a bunch of fucking politicians on both sides want to fuck with the
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country because of their own selfish reasons. That's my opinion, not to bring the politics into this,
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but if you listen to the show, you know what the fuck I think. We can't control that. Can you control
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it individually? No, I can't control it individually. We can control it together, but until everybody gets
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on the same page, it doesn't matter. But I'm going to tell you what you can control. You can't control
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what you put in your mouth. You can't control what you read. You can't control the work that you do.
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You can't control the workouts that you do. You can't control what you drink. You can't control a whole
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bunch of shit that'll make your life personally better during this time. And guess what? We've
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got three and a half months to go in this fucking year. That's plenty of time to turn your life
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around. So my message for you is really simple. One, tell your, tell yourself the truth. Are you doing
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it? Are you not doing it? I don't care why. And you shouldn't fucking care why either. It doesn't
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matter. All right. Two, what are you going to do about it? It's time to handle business.
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It's time to stop sliding. It's time to stop letting the world situation affect your personal
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life to the maximum degree. You should be thinking right now, I do not want to come out of this
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fatter, slower, weaker, dumber in a worse place than I was when I went into it, which a lot of
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people are gonna. And you might too, if you don't stop the slide. So my message for you guys
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is this, man, I love you guys. I want the best for you guys. And I recognize that a lot of people
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are sliding right now. And I hope that you listen to this and I hope it'll make something click with
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you. And I hope it'll get you to fucking address what's going on. So that in four more months,
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you're not looking back and saying, fuck, I wish I would have listened to that message then
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because the time is going to go by either way. We're the time is going to pass. What you do during
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the time is going to affect where you are in the future. Everybody knows that. Are you going to
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continue to slide? Are you going to put your foot down and stop it right now and make sure that you're
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one of the people who says, you know what? That was tough, but I made it through good and I made
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progress and I improved and I didn't get worse. At the very least, you want to be able to say,
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I didn't get fucking worse. All right. That's where we're at right now. Okay.
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It's a choice. It may not feel like a choice. It may not seem like a choice, but you know,
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deep down, it's a fucking choice. All right. I want you guys to win. I want you guys to win big.
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My message might not be for everybody. My message might be too hard for people. I get it. That's
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society right now. But at the end of the day, until we address the fucking truth, nothing changes
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on the back end. That's what you have to remember. So learn to deal with the truth. That's why this
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show is called real AF. That's why I say it's for the realists. It's not for the pretenders. It's not
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for the fucking fakers. It's not for the people who lie to themselves. It's for people who can tell
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themselves the truth. And once you could tell yourself the truth, no matter how hard it stings you,
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you're in a better place than you were before, because now you can address it. All right. Now
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you have to just make the decision. I can't do the work for you, but I can tell you this.
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I will be there with you day in, day out, sweating, working, grinding, fucking putting myself through
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this shit to show you guys that it can be done because it can be done and you can do it. All right.
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So that's that. Now, if you like the message, if you like the show, if you got something out of it,
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we appreciate the shares. We appreciate the subscriptions. And I just want you guys to know
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that we appreciate you guys. We love you guys. And we want you guys to fucking win.