REAL AF with Andy Frisella - The Greatest Thing To Come Out of France Besides French Fries, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO228

00:00:00.340 I can stack them hundreds to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon.

00:00:04.800 Without me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me gotta lose.

00:00:12.320 What is up guys? You're listening to MFCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host and I am

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00:02:13.940 I want to talk to you about something that is more of a cultural concept that I learned about

00:02:26.280 a while back. You know, I've always heard this joke among Europeans and it goes something like this.

00:02:32.320 What do you call someone who could speak more than one language? And the answer is obviously

00:02:36.780 multilingual or bilingual. What do you call someone that can only speak one language? And the Europeans 0.97

00:02:42.720 will always say American. Ha ha ha. Yeah, I fucking get it, right? We don't speak a lot of other

00:02:49.660 languages here. But here's the thing. We're American as fuck and you would be American as fuck too if you

00:02:57.660 lived in the greatest country on earth. All right? But yeah, I'm guilty, right? I'm a redneck

00:03:02.180 from South County, St. Louis. My only interest in, you know, Asian culture growing up was eating at 1.00

00:03:08.960 the Lime Walk, all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet on Lime Ferry Road, right up from where I grew up.

00:03:14.920 In college, I dated this attractive girl from Belgium for, I don't know, four, five, six years. I can't

00:03:21.200 remember exactly. And at the time, you know, I didn't care much about learning about Belgium. And truth

00:03:26.780 be told, I can't remember a whole lot of what I did learn. Um, she spoke Dutch. I learned a little

00:03:33.400 bit about beer. They do these shots over there called Geneva shots. Uh, you know, and, and they

00:03:39.120 eat wild game. Um, they do some interesting things, but I didn't like at the time really put myself

00:03:46.160 into their culture. Uh, you know, one time, and this is a true story. Uh, this girl wanted me to go to

00:03:52.560 like this really nice French restaurant. And, and, you know, all I could think about was the only

00:03:56.440 French food that I like is guess what? French fries. And I think, you know, a lot of us American

00:04:02.120 people are like that. We don't know much. We grow up in short, sort of a sheltered, you know,

00:04:08.760 uncultured, unrefined situation. You know what? That's fucking fine with me. Okay. So I'm not the

00:04:13.660 most multicultural person on the planet. I admit it, but I learned something about French culture that

00:04:20.940 really, I think is useful and helpful to think about to anyone years ago during the 1800s, the

00:04:29.740 people in France who were the wealthiest and most influential people were guided by this concept

00:04:36.300 called noblesse oblige. Okay. In English, it means nobility obliges or noble obligation. The easiest

00:04:44.460 way of explaining it is to ask you this, have you ever seen the movie Spider-Man? All right.

00:04:50.080 You know, Spider-Man is like the big thing. And, and, and, and he always says with great power comes

00:04:56.260 great responsibility. He had the ability to climb walls and shoot webs and, and, you know, he was

00:05:02.000 obliged to use these abilities against evil. Well, that's basically what noblesse oblige is about. Okay.

00:05:09.920 The elite French people thought of it as with lots of wealth and social status comes responsibility.

00:05:16.800 Now, with that being said, we're the elite, most privileged members of society. They said and

00:05:24.340 thought and live by the attitude of, Hey, we're the elite. We're the most privileged members of society.

00:05:30.080 So we need to do everything we can to help those that aren't privileged and don't have as much.

00:05:36.060 And I like that attitude a lot, except for one thing, this isn't 1800s France. It's modern day

00:05:42.760 America. We don't believe in royalty and Lords and ladies and Dukes and Dutchess and all this other

00:05:48.620 bullshit. We believe in equality. Not that everybody is the same. Some people are smarter

00:05:54.360 than others. Some people are superior to others in their discipline, in their character and in their

00:05:59.640 work ethic. So it doesn't mean equality of people. People are going to have better skills than you.

00:06:06.400 They're going to be better than you. What it really means is equality of opportunity. So in other

00:06:11.720 words, there's no social class that we're born into that we can never move out of. All right.

00:06:17.200 No King is going to sit there and say, you're noble and you're not, you're elite and you're not.

00:06:21.740 There is no law like in most other countries in the history of earth that prohibits us from rising

00:06:29.240 out of the level that we started at in life. And I think it's funny because so many people think that

00:06:35.820 the presidents of the United States were born into blue blood, rich families with silver spoons in

00:06:41.580 their mouth. Like the presidency is some sort of billionaires boys club. The reality is, is about

00:06:46.840 50%. And this is, by the way, statistical fact, 50% of the men that have become president and of the

00:06:56.100 United States and leader of the free world were born to poor, not wealthy, not middle-class poor

00:07:04.140 homes. Okay. And a lot of them came from very fucked up families. All right. Dwight Eisenhower,

00:07:11.560 who was America's 34th president and the general in charge of the allied troops in world war two

00:07:16.980 was raised by a very, very, very poor family where he had earned money selling vegetables and working

00:07:23.960 in a creamery. Ronald Reagan was born during the depression into a lower middle-class family. And

00:07:29.160 his father was a traveling salesman who was also an alcoholic, Bill Clinton born to a totally fucked up

00:07:35.960 family. No surprise there. Right. He was born into a poor family situation with a single mom and then 0.56

00:07:42.700 an abusive alcoholic stepfather. Look at Barack Obama. All right. Not everybody likes him, but it's,

00:07:50.060 here's the thing. His dad took off early in his life. He was raised by his poor single mind and moved

00:07:55.100 all over the place. Okay. You guys who are sitting there making excuses, making, looking at your

00:08:01.840 circumstances, becoming victims. Here's these guys who are presidents of the United States,

00:08:08.100 the most powerful fucking country in the world. Okay. All these guys were different politically,

00:08:14.480 but they have one important thing in common. They didn't let being born poor, keep them from becoming

00:08:20.600 the most powerful leader on the planet in their time. And truth be told, I've had guests on this

00:08:27.640 podcast. They had the exact same kind of stories. If you listen to the Bedros podcast, his family

00:08:33.060 escaped from communism, Armenia. Okay. They came to the U S and had nothing and literally had to 0.96

00:08:39.140 scavenge in dumpsters for food. Now he's a top fitness entrepreneur and multimillionaire.

00:08:44.660 Randall pitch, his mom escaped from communist Cambodia. Pol Pot's killing fields were one of the worst

00:08:52.120 genocides in the history of earth. And he grew up around gangs and poverty and shootings and murders

00:08:58.460 and drugs. And now he's killing it. It's one of the most influential entrepreneurs of our time right

00:09:05.280 now. Okay. The stories go on and on. And the people we've had on the show, like Dean Graziosi,

00:09:11.120 Tyron Woodley, Ed Milet, you name it. They rose from the ashes, rags to fucking riches. They moved from the

00:09:18.660 lowest social class and economic status to the highest. Did they get any help? I don't know.

00:09:24.120 The truth is, I do believe sometimes people need a little help and I'm not opposed to some basic

00:09:30.100 government programs that can help a little for people who really need it. But there's no question

00:09:34.800 that all those guys that I just mentioned didn't succeed because they got fucking help. They succeeded

00:09:40.580 because whether they call it this or not, they believed in the concept of noblesse oblige. They

00:09:47.680 believed that they had a noble obligation to pursue wealth and success. And they had a responsibility

00:09:53.760 to work as hard as they can and use that wealth and success to help others to make a huge impact

00:10:01.220 on this earth. We're talking about legacy, but here's the thing. They didn't believe that

00:10:06.020 because they were born into privilege. They believed it because they embraced the fucking privilege

00:10:12.720 of being born. They said, I'm alive. So I have a responsibility to make the most of my fucking

00:10:19.760 life. Think about that. I want you to seriously think about that. I'm going to shut up for a second.

00:10:26.160 These guys embraced the privilege of being born. They embraced the obligation of being fucking born.

00:10:36.000 Guys, the truly elite of the world, the movers and shakers of history, they believe they have a noble

00:10:42.400 obligation to pursue wealth and success. Do you? People like Eisenhower and Clinton and Bedros and 0.99

00:10:51.480 Randall, they did it and they continue to do it. Will you? People like Eisenhower and Clinton and

00:10:58.740 Bedros and Randall, they did it and they continue to do it day in and day out. They don't make excuses.

00:11:05.640 They don't boo-hoo about where the fuck they come from or how hard they fucking had it.

00:11:09.880 They use the resources of the lessons they learned from being fucking poor to make shit happen.

00:11:17.860 All right. You never hear about somebody great talking about how bad they had it in a way that

00:11:22.680 wasn't something that benefited them. Okay. These guys do it. They continue to do it and they're going

00:11:30.380 to continue to do it and dominate for the rest of their fucking lives. Are you? I fucking hope so

00:11:37.740 because you're alive. So living with all your fucking might, all your will, all your determination,

00:11:44.860 all every fucking thing that you have is your responsibility. It's your noble obligation.

00:11:52.460 It's your noblesse oblige, so to speak. And other than French fries, noblesse oblige is the fucking

00:12:00.080 greatest thing to ever come out of France. I guarantee you that. So guys, next time you think

00:12:06.500 about how hard you have it, next time you think about all the negative things that you have to

00:12:12.560 overcome, next time you think about how tough the road is or how long the road is, why don't you think

00:12:18.620 about this? Being successful isn't about you. Making a lot of money isn't greedy. It's not about a

00:12:29.280 fucking Lamborghini. It's not about a Rolls Royce. It's not about flying around on private jets.

00:12:36.720 It's about being able to impact the world with your fucking legacy. It's about inspiring people,

00:12:43.100 not through your fucking words, but through your fucking life. It's about taking what you were given 0.91

00:12:50.880 the privilege of being fucking born and turning that into a message that inspires hundreds, if not 0.64

00:12:59.800 thousands of people. And anything less than that is unacceptable. Anything less than that is weak

00:13:06.060 and anything less than that is a fucking failure of your responsibility. You have a responsibility to 0.73

00:13:14.420 make the fucking most of your life. Are you?

00:13:36.060 Thank you.

REAL AF with Andy Frisella - April 05, 2018

The Greatest Thing To Come Out of France Besides French Fries, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO228

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