REAL AF with Andy Frisella - The Morality of Money, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO47

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, what's up? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy, I'm your host, and I am the motherfucking CEO.

00:00:27.060 I'm here with my co-host, Vaughn Kohler, the pastor of Disaster. What's up, my brother?

00:00:31.960 You're still sounding like DJ Khaled.

00:00:33.760 I know, man. My voice is fighting me, dude.

00:00:36.460 It is.

00:00:37.720 I'm doing a lot of speaking right now. I'm busy with my companies right now. My voice is getting in shape.

00:00:47.820 I wonder if you have vocal nodules. Do you know what that is?

00:00:50.740 Yeah, I just think it's just worn out, man. I'm talking seven, eight, nine hours a day.

00:00:55.920 Yeah.

00:00:56.400 So it's just, you know, it comes with the territory.

00:01:02.120 It does. It's a good sign. It says your vocal cords are in demand.

00:01:05.920 Yeah, yeah, man. It's, you know, it could be worse.

00:01:11.560 Yeah.

00:01:11.740 So, yeah, man, you know, I don't really have a question of the day this time. I've got more of like a thought of the day.

00:01:20.660 I read something on the internet last night, and it just pissed me off.

00:01:27.280 I read it from a person, and I'm not going to say his name because I don't want to just blatantly call him out,

00:01:33.840 but somebody who I know personally who's like trying to become a speaker and a motivational type speaker.

00:01:40.940 And the post was basically geared towards criticizing people who look at success as, you know, material things,

00:01:55.480 like as money or as cars or a big house or this or that or whatever,

00:02:00.800 and saying, you know, that that's not success and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:02:05.620 It was just very, very, very critical of anybody who desires anything that's material.

00:02:12.860 And, you know, it really irritated the shit out of me because I feel like that's the mentality that is being taught now.

00:02:22.860 That's the cool thing that's being shown now, and I felt like it was something that, you know,

00:02:30.980 if a 15 or 16 or 17-year-old kid reads, they're going to say, well, you know, fuck, dude.

00:02:36.220 I guess it's bad for me to want certain things or want this or that.

00:02:39.880 And, you know, I just wanted to come out, and I did a Snap story on this and a Periscope on this too.

00:02:46.140 You know, there is nothing wrong with wanting material things.

00:02:50.260 There's nothing wrong with having a big bank account.

00:02:53.500 There's nothing wrong with driving a nice car.

00:02:56.140 And what really bothers me about people that try to villainize this success, and I agree,

00:03:03.040 that is not quote-unquote success.

00:03:05.260 That's financial success.

00:03:06.800 Success is an all-encompassing, moving target of development and, you know, self-actualization,

00:03:19.200 the realization of your true potential.

00:03:21.300 That's a moving target.

00:03:23.360 No one has ever gotten to a physical place in life that is quote-unquote success.

00:03:29.940 You see what I'm saying?

00:03:30.540 And it is just an all-encompassing, moving place that you're trying to get to.

00:03:40.040 And when people try to define it as it's not this, it's not that,

00:03:44.820 and especially whenever they attack the material-type situations,

00:03:51.940 it really fucking irritates me because I feel like that makes people feel bad

00:03:56.300 for wanting the things that they want.

00:03:57.820 And there's nothing wrong with wanting those things, you know?

00:04:00.740 And then what these people do, too, is they villainize you for wanting those things

00:04:05.460 and then try to attach, like, there's moral issues with you, you know, that they don't have.

00:04:15.580 Like, this particular person was like, you know, I would rather speak to 25 people than 2,500

00:04:21.760 because I can make a bigger impact.

00:04:23.920 Oh, can you?

00:04:25.300 Can you?

00:04:26.400 Can you make a bigger impact?

00:04:27.620 You know, I would rather take walks with my grandpa than I would, you know, to make blah, blah, blah.

00:04:34.020 Well, what makes you think that people that fucking make money don't take walks with their grandpa?

00:04:38.880 You know what I'm saying?

00:04:39.620 Absolutely.

00:04:40.020 And it irritated me that somebody who has portrayed themselves as a success guru

00:04:46.200 is out there teaching people that, you know, it's not okay to desire whatever it is they fucking desire.

00:04:55.160 Dude, I'm not going to tell you what your goals are, and you're not going to tell me what my goals are.

00:04:59.000 Right.

00:04:59.280 But I know for fucking sure that one thing is for real sure.

00:05:03.840 You can't pour anything out of an empty cup, you know?

00:05:06.840 And if you don't take care of yourself, and you don't have money in the bank,

00:05:09.680 and you don't have the resources yourself, how the fuck are you going to take care of anybody? 0.78

00:05:14.040 You know what I mean?

00:05:14.840 Right.

00:05:15.220 And I get what people try to do.

00:05:17.360 You know, they try to like, they're trying to send the message of, it's not all about money.

00:05:23.720 You know, I get that.

00:05:24.700 It's not all about money.

00:05:25.720 But you need to be very careful about how you relay that information,

00:05:29.040 because a lot of people just try to attach these evil characteristics of people to that.

00:05:38.160 And when in reality, to you 16, 17, 18-year-old guys and girls listening,

00:05:43.800 those people are usually making excuses for the lack of progress that they have had so far.

00:05:48.940 So instead of saying, yeah, I want to do this, this, and this,

00:05:51.360 it's easier for them to say, you know what, I'm right where I want to be.

00:05:54.720 I'm doing everything I want to do.

00:05:56.100 And it's safe, and it's cozy, and it's something that makes them feel good.

00:06:00.680 But it's not the fucking truth.

00:06:02.360 And I felt like it was irresponsible for that message to be put out from someone

00:06:06.580 who's trying to send those messages.

00:06:09.260 You know what I mean?

00:06:10.320 Absolutely.

00:06:11.100 Yeah.

00:06:11.300 My take on this is that I think people make a huge illogical leap all the time.

00:06:18.240 They look at the people in the world who are rich and abuse that

00:06:21.600 and use it to pull people down, the Stan Kroenke's of the world,

00:06:24.600 the corrupted capitalists of the world, and they say,

00:06:27.400 oh, I don't want to be that guy, so I'm going to be the exact opposite.

00:06:31.040 Instead of saying, well, that guy has a ton of money and uses it for evil.

00:06:35.460 There's evil fucking people that are poor, and there's evil people that are rich.

00:06:38.820 Right.

00:06:39.020 It's not a marriage.

00:06:42.800 You know what I'm saying?

00:06:43.500 Money does not make you have certain characteristics.

00:06:47.860 Your character has that.

00:06:48.980 Right.

00:06:49.340 You know what I mean?

00:06:50.000 So instead of wanting to be the opposite of that guy,

00:06:53.100 they should say, I also want to be rich and use it for good.

00:06:56.900 Exactly.

00:06:57.460 I had the same conversation with a kid on Instagram last night going back and forth

00:07:01.180 because he wrote, and this is like, I want to do a whole podcast on this,

00:07:05.020 like the morality of money because let's be fucking real, okay?

00:07:08.460 You're not making money.

00:07:10.640 You, right now, listening to this, are not making money unless you're providing something

00:07:16.860 of value that's solving a fucking problem that people have, which in case you, 0.92

00:07:22.960 if you are making money and you're not doing that, it's going to be short-lived, okay?

00:07:26.980 So the only way to make sustainable long-term income is to do things that are actually morally

00:07:33.120 correct by solving people's problems, helping them find solutions, offering things that

00:07:39.020 help people do the fucking shit they want to do. 0.89

00:07:42.320 You follow me?

00:07:43.360 Absolutely.

00:07:43.700 So when people try to attach this immoral, greedy, materialistic, selfish labels on people

00:07:56.100 that have money, it really bothers me because the reality of making money is actually in

00:08:02.620 contrast to those characteristics.

00:08:05.520 You see what I'm saying?

00:08:06.420 Man, so how the fuck do you come up with these, like, where does this come from?

00:08:14.400 You know what I mean?

00:08:14.920 Like, it comes from these stereotypes and everybody's always got an excuse, right?

00:08:20.960 Everybody always has an excuse as to why they aren't where they want to be.

00:08:24.560 And a lot of people can't admit that they aren't where they want to be because they're prideful.

00:08:29.040 You know what I mean?

00:08:30.080 And they say, you know, instead of saying, hey, I'm not where I want to be, you know,

00:08:34.580 I should have made these decisions when I was younger and I'm willing to make these different

00:08:38.340 decisions now so that I can get where I want to be in 10 years from now, okay?

00:08:42.940 Instead of doing that and being a fucking man and taking responsibility for your life,

00:08:48.320 instead, they sit down, like I say, on the barstool on Tuesday afternoon and talk about

00:08:54.260 how so-and-so fucked them and this opportunity fucked them and this person screwed them over 0.99

00:09:00.780 and on and on and on and on and on about the world conspiring against them to be an average

00:09:07.940 person.

00:09:09.300 And then they turn around, right?

00:09:12.040 And they tell you that they love being average and I'm happy where I'm at and I'm happy driving

00:09:17.740 a fucking regular car and living in a regular house and working a regular job and working 0.90

00:09:23.120 my 40 hours.

00:09:23.880 I'm happy and that's what you should be too.

00:09:26.240 But they forgot they were just bitching about how the world fucked them over.

00:09:29.160 So if the world fucked you over, but you're happy where you are, it can't be both ways.

00:09:34.520 Which one is it?

00:09:35.840 You see what I mean?

00:09:37.220 So it's funny because these people, these young, young, the reason I want to hit this is

00:09:41.860 because young people are so, the society is so in general right now for the last 10 years 0.52

00:09:49.700 against people being financially successful that it's like become uncool.

00:09:55.740 Right.

00:09:56.220 You know what I mean?

00:09:56.820 Right.

00:09:57.060 And you listening, you're 17, 18, 19, 20 years old.

00:10:02.460 You've been raised in an era that is not America. 0.81

00:10:05.760 Okay.

00:10:06.480 America has always been what?

00:10:08.600 Chase the what?

00:10:10.380 American dream.

00:10:11.460 Right.

00:10:12.080 People fucking immigrate here from all over the world so that they can have the opportunities

00:10:18.680 that these motherfuckers out here in, you know, delusional fucking space are telling people

00:10:26.400 isn't even cool.

00:10:27.700 Right?

00:10:28.440 No, dude.

00:10:29.580 You know what's cool?

00:10:30.720 Being cool is going out, fulfilling your potential, going out and making enough money to help your

00:10:36.260 charity causes, going out and having enough money to help your family, going out and having

00:10:40.360 enough money to do the things that you want to do, to go on vacations, to enjoy your life,

00:10:44.560 to see things, you know, maybe you don't like fucking Lamborghinis. 0.95

00:10:48.900 That's fine.

00:10:49.580 That doesn't, that doesn't matter.

00:10:50.980 But for somebody that does, that's okay too.

00:10:53.580 You know?

00:10:54.080 And the point is that nobody should be telling somebody that this goal or that goal or this

00:10:58.480 goal is immoral or wrong because we all have different goals, but the word goals all represents

00:11:05.440 the same space that we're trying to get to.

00:11:08.900 Right?

00:11:09.120 So like your goals are different and we had this discussion, your goals are different

00:11:13.440 than mine.

00:11:14.260 Okay?

00:11:14.800 But the target of my goal is still the same for both of us.

00:11:19.640 You see what I'm saying?

00:11:20.380 We're trying to hit that target.

00:11:22.000 Those principles are going to be in play and for you to get where you want to go and for

00:11:25.940 me to get where I want to go, we're going to have to do the same shit. 0.65

00:11:28.920 Right.

00:11:29.320 You know what I mean?

00:11:29.960 Right.

00:11:30.200 And I get so upset and irritated and frustrated with the way the society fucks with people's

00:11:37.080 minds, you know, that like, dude, if you post a picture of a fucking Lamborghini, you know, 0.78

00:11:43.060 like, let's say a young kid, he's 17 years old and he says, Oh fuck, dude, I want to drive

00:11:47.380 in a Lamborghini because, you know, fucking Andy's driving one. 0.62

00:11:49.880 That's badass.

00:11:51.040 And he posts a picture.

00:11:52.400 I'm going to have this one day.

00:11:53.200 And I've seen this.

00:11:54.060 This has happened.

00:11:55.080 Post a picture, tags me in it.

00:11:56.460 And the fucking three first comments are like, they're either a, yeah, right. 0.69

00:12:00.680 Good luck.

00:12:01.260 Or B it's like, why the fuck would you want that?

00:12:04.060 That's fucking douchebag. 0.64

00:12:05.240 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:12:07.680 Realize the reason people attack those goals is because they aren't their goals and they

00:12:13.700 automatically, they're not thinking past their viewpoint.

00:12:17.400 And I want you listening right now to understand, I don't care if your goal is to make a trillion

00:12:22.920 fucking dollars and cash it all in and swim naked in it the rest of your fucking life. 0.98

00:12:28.820 If that's what you want to do, fucking do it.

00:12:31.920 Because what it does is that there's other people out there that will either be inspired

00:12:38.360 by it or they'll hate it.

00:12:40.300 And even the people who hate it will benefit because they'll say this, well, you know what?

00:12:45.280 I'm going to go out and make a bunch of fucking money and show this motherfucker how to do it 0.82

00:12:48.380 right.

00:12:49.260 You see what I'm saying?

00:12:51.080 Yeah.

00:12:51.640 So either way, good comes of it.

00:12:54.700 You know, success is a good thing.

00:12:56.440 Success is a great thing.

00:12:58.420 And dude, people who villainize it and talk shit and say this fucking money is and their

00:13:04.080 money isn't everything, but it's fucking important.

00:13:06.760 You know what I'm saying?

00:13:08.020 Yeah.

00:13:08.320 Could you use an extra fucking million dollars, dude?

00:13:10.680 I could.

00:13:11.440 No shit.

00:13:12.220 I could do a lot of good with it.

00:13:13.180 So let me throw this out there because you obviously feel very passionate about it.

00:13:16.480 You have a lot to say about it.

00:13:19.340 God is my witness.

00:13:20.280 We did not plan this, but you know what?

00:13:21.740 Let's just, let's roll with it.

00:13:22.900 Let's find it.

00:13:23.420 This will be our topic.

00:13:24.540 Yeah.

00:13:24.820 And so I'm going to, I'm going to play my role here and I'm going to back us up a little

00:13:28.080 bit.

00:13:28.740 Let's just start basic presuppositions because of course we have the asterisk holes out there.

00:13:33.000 Yeah.

00:13:33.300 So basic presuppositions.

00:13:34.640 You can just see me let yes and no answers.

00:13:36.360 Okay.

00:13:38.060 Will money make you happy?

00:13:39.500 No.

00:13:40.020 Okay.

00:13:40.480 Is money the most important thing in life?

00:13:42.560 No.

00:13:43.220 Are materialistic things really what life is all about?

00:13:46.340 No.

00:13:46.780 Okay.

00:13:47.140 But they're still cool.

00:13:47.460 They are still cool.

00:13:48.420 Yeah.

00:13:48.540 Okay.

00:13:48.920 So with that said, I want to back up because I love your connection to, to popular culture

00:13:54.920 in America right now and how it's not cool to make money.

00:13:57.380 It's not cool to, you know, to, to want to be materially successful.

00:14:02.160 How did that happen?

00:14:03.640 Fuck if I know, man.

00:14:05.560 17th place trophies for little kids in T-ball.

00:14:08.300 Yeah.

00:14:08.560 It's where it started.

00:14:09.200 It's been a 20 year movement.

00:14:10.500 Right.

00:14:10.960 You know?

00:14:11.320 So let me ask you this because true or false, is this, do you think this is the case?

00:14:15.120 I think in America there is this idea.

00:14:18.740 Okay.

00:14:19.900 Well, I mean, let's talk.

00:14:21.440 I mean, I don't want to get too into politics, but let's talk about the rise of Bernie Sanders.

00:14:25.700 Okay.

00:14:26.040 I don't know how much you know about him, but his, I mean, I've, I've seen, I've seen the

00:14:31.300 jokes and you know, look, man, you know, well, let me throw this out.

00:14:36.420 That shit is so far out.

00:14:37.480 He's so far away from what I fucking even would like.

00:14:41.440 I can't, dude, I cannot even pay attention to people like that because they make me angry.

00:14:45.700 Right.

00:14:46.280 Well, what's interesting about his followers and they're resonating.

00:14:50.900 There's a, there's a pretty large group of people that are resonating with him.

00:14:54.160 I mean, he wants to throw things, you know, he wants a lot of giveaways, a lot of stuff

00:14:57.940 for free, increased government spending, increased government programs, all that stuff.

00:15:01.420 But ultimately what it comes down to it is my perception of his, of his followers is

00:15:06.200 they think he's a kind, compassionate guy.

00:15:09.640 Of course.

00:15:09.740 And my thing is, what is your whole take on this idea that to be kind and compassionate,

00:15:17.300 you don't care about money, you throw things at people, but, but because, you know, and

00:15:22.260 again, I want to be clear, our, our podcast, and I know you feel about this.

00:15:27.220 We're not 100% endorsing Donald Trump, but the knock on Trump by people that hate him

00:15:32.860 is that he doesn't care about anybody.

00:15:34.480 He's Mr. Money.

00:15:35.900 He's Mr.

00:15:36.460 All right.

00:15:36.620 All right.

00:15:36.820 So, so where, I mean, what are your thoughts on that?

00:15:38.780 Let's fucking, let's look at this from a fucking realistic standpoint.

00:15:44.100 Okay.

00:15:44.620 Look, I'm, I look, I'm not going to sit here and fucking say, Oh, Donald Trump, blah, blah,

00:15:49.780 blah, blah, blah.

00:15:50.200 He's got his faults.

00:15:51.300 I think out of all the shit candidates that we have, he's the best one.

00:15:55.800 Okay.

00:15:56.160 That's what I'm saying.

00:15:56.860 And it's not because he's Republican or anything.

00:15:58.880 Motherfucker knows how to run a business. 1.00

00:16:00.400 Okay.

00:16:00.800 And we're, we're in a situation where that's what we fucking need.

00:16:03.920 All right.

00:16:04.600 So, and all you guys are going to write in and fucking tell me I'm wrong, whatever.

00:16:08.920 I don't really give a fuck.

00:16:10.080 So save your breath.

00:16:11.080 Okay.

00:16:11.380 I make my own decisions.

00:16:13.060 Here's the reality of that situation.

00:16:17.180 Andy, you know, it's not about how much money you give away.

00:16:20.780 It's about the time.

00:16:22.060 It's about the time.

00:16:22.900 I mean, you know, it's not about the fucking $500,000 that you give to your high school.

00:16:28.960 It's about the time, you know, think about going out there and putting your hands in the

00:16:33.080 dirt and actually doing the, okay.

00:16:35.780 I get that.

00:16:36.680 It's fucking, it's, it's romantic, right?

00:16:39.060 It's also a false choice.

00:16:40.280 Listen, it's a romantic idea that people fucking say when they don't have any money.

00:16:45.380 And I love you guys who are giving, even when you don't have the money to give, because

00:16:52.020 I, that's what you should do.

00:16:53.540 And I agree with that.

00:16:54.460 And I love you for that.

00:16:55.700 A lot of people are not going to hear what you just said just now.

00:16:58.300 What?

00:16:59.080 That you love the guys, those of you who do not have a lot of money.

00:17:02.840 I love the fact that you give your time.

00:17:04.520 They're going to wash right over that. 0.97

00:17:06.080 You know what?

00:17:06.860 If you're that fucking stupid and you can't get that, then that's not my problem.

00:17:09.920 But here's the, here's the thing.

00:17:12.720 Everybody has something to give, right?

00:17:15.780 But when we get down to it and we look at like, what really has an impact, let's look

00:17:22.520 at Bernie Sanders, who I know fucking nothing about, by the way.

00:17:25.880 So this fact, this, this little, what I'm about to say could be wrong, but I'm assuming,

00:17:31.100 all right, I'm assuming that Bernie Sanders does not give or have access to the sort of

00:17:39.200 money that Donald Trump has.

00:17:40.420 True or false?

00:17:41.320 I think that's, I think that's true.

00:17:43.080 Because I read somewhere that he was actually very, very middle class.

00:17:48.140 That may be true.

00:17:49.120 I mean, I think it's very fair to say he does not have as much money as the Donald.

00:17:53.360 No, no, no.

00:17:53.860 I read he was middle class.

00:17:55.240 Yeah.

00:17:55.420 He's a middle class dude.

00:17:56.400 I could be wrong.

00:17:57.340 If I am wrong, I'll gladly say I was wrong.

00:17:59.640 But I did read that somewhere.

00:18:02.240 And I'm not an expert on Bernie Sanders by any means.

00:18:05.180 I think the guy's mentally fucking ridiculous.

00:18:08.680 Okay.

00:18:09.740 And I'm not really interested in learning about him at all because it's so far outside

00:18:17.760 of what I think.

00:18:18.640 But let's take these two guys.

00:18:22.020 Let's just say, let's just say Bernie is a middle class dude.

00:18:27.040 Donald Trump is Donald Trump.

00:18:28.940 All right.

00:18:30.300 Who has helped more people in their life?

00:18:33.700 Well, depends on how you answer that question, right?

00:18:36.360 Maybe Bernie Sanders goes down to his local food shelter every Thanksgiving and every Christmas

00:18:42.360 and feeds the homeless.

00:18:43.920 A noble thing to do.

00:18:45.420 The right thing to do.

00:18:46.960 We do it here.

00:18:47.920 A lot of the guys here at First Form, our company, donate tons and tons and tons of time

00:18:53.020 to charitable efforts.

00:18:54.460 And dude, it's a great thing, right?

00:18:57.320 Just adopted a highway.

00:18:58.720 Yeah.

00:18:58.980 We just adopted.

00:18:59.640 We had Sean Montgomery, a good friend of our company, just adopted a highway in our name

00:19:03.660 that we all go out and help take care of.

00:19:05.720 All kinds of things.

00:19:06.620 We do things for the homeless.

00:19:07.900 I mean, it's just there are tons of shit that we do.

00:19:09.500 We do a lot for animal shelters because we're all animal people.

00:19:12.380 But the point is this.

00:19:15.320 Let's say he does that.

00:19:17.340 All right.

00:19:18.160 And then let's say Donald Trump doesn't do that.

00:19:22.520 But instead, he writes a $10 million check to whatever the same charity is that Bernie's

00:19:29.420 working at.

00:19:30.260 All right.

00:19:31.280 And doesn't go down and feed the people himself.

00:19:36.320 Okay.

00:19:37.040 Now, what's better?

00:19:39.200 That's a good argument.

00:19:40.820 All right.

00:19:41.300 No, I don't think it's an argument at all because the argument is you're giving what

00:19:45.120 you can.

00:19:45.960 You give what you can.

00:19:47.200 Right.

00:19:47.500 And who's helping more people?

00:19:48.700 That's what we're asking.

00:19:49.780 What makes the bigger impact?

00:19:51.960 That's what we're asking.

00:19:53.940 Real simple.

00:19:54.860 Who makes a bigger impact, Vaughn?

00:19:56.840 Well, I would guess the investment of the money, which supports a lot of other things.

00:20:02.060 Okay.

00:20:02.260 And you're going to have people now say, well, it depends on how much percentage goes to administration

00:20:05.800 and blah, blah, blah.

00:20:07.440 Assuming that you pay attention to how the money is fucking used.

00:20:10.160 Right.

00:20:10.460 $10 million is going to go a lot fucking further than you going down and scooping out fucking

00:20:16.560 turkey.

00:20:17.840 Period.

00:20:18.780 Okay.

00:20:19.340 But people will argue that and they'll get mad about it and they'll say, well, that's

00:20:24.000 not right.

00:20:24.420 You're just writing a check.

00:20:25.280 That's fucking easy.

00:20:26.740 Oh, it is?

00:20:27.660 Right.

00:20:27.940 It's easy?

00:20:28.580 Right.

00:20:29.140 Really?

00:20:30.040 Your ability to write that check is fucking easy.

00:20:32.420 Right.

00:20:33.080 So let me use an example and you tell me if this is a good illustration of what you're

00:20:36.820 talking about.

00:20:37.220 Can we just say it's easy to give away something that's not yours and you don't have to pay for it?

00:20:40.260 It's easy to look at somebody else's fucking money and say, it's easy to give that away.

00:20:43.920 Yeah.

00:20:44.120 Well, and what I'm talking about is like Bernie's like, oh, this should be free.

00:20:46.760 This is free.

00:20:47.420 It's not coming out of his pocket.

00:20:48.740 It's not free.

00:20:49.200 No.

00:20:49.460 That's the point.

00:20:50.440 It's not free.

00:20:51.200 It's not free.

00:20:51.740 Right.

00:20:51.980 Exactly.

00:20:52.440 It's not free.

00:20:53.180 Like, free healthcare, free this, free that, free blah, blah, blah.

00:20:56.820 I mean, we're getting off topic here, but motherfucker, that shit ain't free.

00:21:00.520 Somebody's paying for it.

00:21:01.620 Right.

00:21:02.340 Right.

00:21:02.940 Okay.

00:21:03.340 So here's my example.

00:21:05.400 So obviously it's known to the listeners of this podcast that I used to be a pastor.

00:21:09.020 One of my favorite singers was a Christian guy named Rich Mullins.

00:21:12.320 Okay.

00:21:12.580 He had a huge, huge concern.

00:21:14.300 Rich Mullins?

00:21:15.040 Rich Mullins.

00:21:15.740 Was he related to Dave Mullins?

00:21:17.700 Well, it's funny.

00:21:18.360 His brother's name is Dave Mullins, but I'm pretty sure it's not the same guy.

00:21:22.480 It's Mullis, not Mullis.

00:21:23.260 Yeah.

00:21:23.280 Oh, Mullis.

00:21:23.820 Okay.

00:21:24.340 Well, anyway, he was-

00:21:25.700 All those Asian names are the same. 0.98

00:21:27.560 I'm so racist.

00:21:28.920 Yeah.

00:21:29.080 Right.

00:21:29.320 Exactly.

00:21:30.900 He was hugely committed to the poor.

00:21:32.760 Okay.

00:21:33.000 And he was from a small town in Indiana, and he had a huge respect for his dad.

00:21:37.320 Okay.

00:21:37.800 So one day after he had had several years of huge success and was making pretty good money as

00:21:43.280 a singer, he said to his dad, yeah, dad, I'm going to, for now on, I'm not going to take

00:21:49.420 any money.

00:21:49.960 I'm going to go live on a reservation and minister to people, and it's going to be great.

00:21:53.640 It's going to be, I'm going to be really committed to God's work and, you know, among

00:21:57.960 these poor people.

00:21:59.360 And he was totally floored by his dad's response.

00:22:01.900 His dad was this farmer, real practical and everything.

00:22:04.300 His dad said, you're an idiot.

00:22:06.260 And he's like, what are you talking about?

00:22:07.380 He said, Rich, if you really want to help the poor, make all the money you can.

00:22:12.020 Yes.

00:22:12.380 Dedicate yourself.

00:22:13.020 Go live on that, that mission, you know, the, the reservation or whatever, but make

00:22:16.680 all the money you can and invest that money in their lives and spreading the wealth.

00:22:21.840 So that's what basically what you're saying.

00:22:23.320 Yes, it is what I'm saying.

00:22:24.340 But you know what?

00:22:25.460 It's, it's easy to pick somebody apart when you don't like them.

00:22:30.140 You know what I'm saying?

00:22:31.100 Right.

00:22:31.400 So like, that's what happens is people, people who are of average level, and this is where

00:22:37.080 all the fucking hater shit comes from too.

00:22:39.280 Okay.

00:22:39.720 People who are of average mindset, average income, average fucking lifestyle point the 0.97

00:22:45.760 finger at somebody like Donald Trump.

00:22:47.460 And this has nothing to do with him being president, by the way.

00:22:51.200 I'm using him as an example because he's rich as fuck.

00:22:53.440 Okay.

00:22:55.600 They point the finger at Donald and they say, oh, you know what?

00:22:58.600 Donald's this, Donald's that.

00:23:00.060 Donald's a shit bum.

00:23:01.160 He's greedy.

00:23:01.860 He's this, he's that.

00:23:02.900 And they come up with all these things that they attach to him because they don't like

00:23:06.940 him.

00:23:07.260 Right.

00:23:07.560 And he happens to have money.

00:23:08.820 Right.

00:23:09.620 And then what they say, then what it is, the backtrack to that is, well, you know, because

00:23:15.760 I don't have money, I'm the opposite of all those core values that I just attached to

00:23:19.760 him.

00:23:20.020 Right.

00:23:20.300 It makes me a great person.

00:23:21.440 Right.

00:23:22.260 Dude, fuck you.

00:23:23.500 It doesn't.

00:23:24.500 Yeah.

00:23:25.360 That's an excellent point because Michael Bloomberg.

00:23:28.120 That's how people justify Vaughn their fucking goodness.

00:23:31.580 Yeah.

00:23:31.860 They justify their goodness.

00:23:33.700 Well, you know, Jesus was a carpenter and he was, he was all about the poor and blah, 1.00

00:23:39.200 blah, blah.

00:23:40.000 Well, you know what?

00:23:40.820 How many fucking poor people have you helped making 30 fucking thousand dollars a year versus

00:23:46.640 the guy who makes 30 fucking million?

00:23:49.020 Think about that for a second.

00:23:50.860 Because if you haven't thought about that, you ain't fucking thinking.

00:23:54.540 So whenever you say, oh, you know, I don't want to make money because I don't want to

00:23:58.420 be like that.

00:23:59.600 Why don't you instead go out and make money and then just be a different way to set an

00:24:05.300 example for what you should be?

00:24:09.000 Right.

00:24:09.640 You see what I'm saying?

00:24:10.060 If you hate it that much, if you fucking hate that that much, then go out, make your

00:24:15.600 money because it's so easy because it was so easy and they were so lucky, right?

00:24:19.720 It's going to be lucky for you too.

00:24:21.640 So go out and do that and then give it away and show everybody how fucking great and moral

00:24:28.440 and fucking good you are. 0.94

00:24:30.680 And then set, and dude, you know what?

00:24:32.600 You'll change the fucking world.

00:24:34.120 And I'm not being sarcastic here.

00:24:35.700 Be that guy.

00:24:36.420 If you don't like the way quote unquote rich people do shit, then be the guy who fucking

00:24:41.200 does it different.

00:24:41.980 But the reality is, is that rich people are already doing that shit and people just don't

00:24:46.080 want to fucking admit it.

00:24:47.100 Right.

00:24:47.660 When your point about them being critical of Donald's money because they don't like

00:24:52.280 him is huge because you have people like George Soros, you have Michael Bloomberg.

00:24:55.940 Those guys are all far left.

00:24:57.500 They're committed to taking away gun rights and all that.

00:25:01.620 Do they get criticized?

00:25:03.180 No, they don't.

00:25:03.820 It's because the people in positions of power in the media, it's not that Donald has money.

00:25:08.820 They don't like how he spends his money.

00:25:10.920 And they think it's their right to tell.

00:25:12.740 It's not even that.

00:25:13.240 They don't like him because they, I don't even think it's what you said.

00:25:16.560 I disagree.

00:25:17.180 I think what it is is they just don't like him.

00:25:19.740 Dude, anybody who has a voice and uses it, there's going to, like I talk about all the

00:25:24.240 time in branding, when we talk about branding, there's going to be 50% of the people that

00:25:28.800 don't like you, no matter what you do.

00:25:30.800 And your job is not to appease them.

00:25:32.840 Your job is to take the 50% that like you and make them love you.

00:25:36.760 And Donald Trump fucking gets that.

00:25:38.940 Okay.

00:25:39.340 And that's why the 50% and when you make that 50% love you, that automatic that like

00:25:44.120 you, you, you make the other half hate you.

00:25:46.380 Right.

00:25:46.860 You see what I'm saying?

00:25:47.440 Right.

00:25:47.700 And that's the deal.

00:25:48.400 And so like, you know, but this isn't just exclusive to Trump.

00:25:52.360 This is exclusive.

00:25:53.380 This goes into anybody who makes anything and shows any kind of like fucking, you know,

00:25:58.580 materialistic, whatever prize.

00:26:01.460 Like I know dudes here in St.

00:26:02.660 Louis that I'm great friends with that make a lot fucking more money than I do.

00:26:06.080 Love cars, love cars, but instead of buying their own car, they come to my house and look

00:26:11.080 at my garage.

00:26:11.760 Right.

00:26:12.180 You know what I'm saying?

00:26:12.860 Right.

00:26:13.140 And I'm like, you know, I'm not going to name the dude's name.

00:26:15.540 He's a very good friend of mine, but I'm like, bro, what are you doing?

00:26:20.280 You know?

00:26:20.780 And he's like, well, you know, people are going to, I'm like, why the fuck do you care

00:26:24.480 what people are going to, you know what I mean?

00:26:26.980 Right.

00:26:27.240 And that's why this message is important to me because material things can be very good

00:26:34.920 motivation.

00:26:36.400 You know, they can help you drive yourself to do things that you would ordinarily just

00:26:42.960 say, fuck it. 0.93

00:26:43.540 I'm going to lay on the couch.

00:26:44.820 You know what I mean?

00:26:46.020 When I was a kid, you know, and I saw my first Lamborghini, I was hooked on Lamborghinis

00:26:50.960 and cars and shit.

00:26:51.900 And if it, if it wasn't for that, that external prize that I love and I'm passionate about,

00:26:57.740 I don't know that I'd be here and neither would the hundred people that I employ, you

00:27:02.260 know, neither would the 800 outside reps that we employ.

00:27:05.680 Right.

00:27:06.240 You see what I'm saying?

00:27:06.900 Right.

00:27:07.280 Those people wouldn't, it wouldn't work.

00:27:11.600 Yeah.

00:27:12.380 You know, so I don't like it whenever people attack those sort of things, because I think

00:27:18.100 it's wrong to take somebody's motivation and look, look, let's say like, dude, my, my motivation

00:27:24.360 is to make a million dollars so I can start a fucking concentration camp. 0.91

00:27:27.280 All right.

00:27:27.820 Right.

00:27:28.080 Well, that's fucking wrong.

00:27:29.240 Right.

00:27:29.440 You know, but owning a fucking Bentley or whatever, that sounds wrong with that.

00:27:34.100 Good for you, dude.

00:27:35.440 I see that shit.

00:27:36.400 And here's another thing.

00:27:38.420 Truly successful people root for other successful people.

00:27:41.460 They root for that.

00:27:42.460 I see people roll around and cool shit.

00:27:44.140 I'm like, fuck.

00:27:44.660 Yeah, man.

00:27:45.540 That's bad ass. 1.00

00:27:46.280 Like that post you, you posted the other day about Jason in his car.

00:27:49.520 Yeah.

00:27:49.800 I thought that was great.

00:27:50.780 Yeah, dude.

00:27:51.720 You know, but there, but you know, people say shit like, I mean, I had a guy, I had,

00:27:56.380 I had the Ford GT out on Saturday and I had a guy come up.

00:27:59.520 He's like, fuck, life must be good.

00:28:01.240 And I'm like, yep, it is good.

00:28:03.440 And he's like, it must be really good.

00:28:05.160 And I'm like, it's fucking great.

00:28:06.900 Yours must suck.

00:28:07.760 Yeah.

00:28:08.920 You know, he was driving a fucking work truck.

00:28:11.180 You know what I'm saying?

00:28:12.060 And like, dude, this is not an attack on people who work, you know?

00:28:15.380 And that's the other thing.

00:28:16.280 Oh, fuck.

00:28:16.880 I don't fucking work for a living.

00:28:18.420 Motherfucker. 0.99

00:28:19.140 Right.

00:28:19.700 Come on.

00:28:21.220 You know, you don't know what it's like to fucking get your hands dirty.

00:28:25.160 Dude, what the fuck do you think I got the money to start this company?

00:28:28.080 I started this company so I wouldn't have to fucking do that every day.

00:28:31.100 It's not that I don't know how or I'm unwilling.

00:28:32.800 I just fucking want it better.

00:28:34.740 So I started something.

00:28:35.880 Right.

00:28:36.320 You know what I mean?

00:28:36.920 Right.

00:28:37.160 How much do you think?

00:28:38.920 Do you think it's only a matter of just everybody has a right to choose, you know, how they want to spend their money?

00:28:45.080 Or do you think motives matter?

00:28:46.820 Like, for instance, does the guy who wants to buy a huge – let's say there's two guys.

00:28:53.220 One guy wants to buy a huge mansion simply because he wants to show it off.

00:28:57.940 And the other guy wants to buy a huge mansion because he's like, dude, I really like showing hospitality to people.

00:29:03.860 I want to have people over.

00:29:04.720 I want to have – I want to encourage people.

00:29:06.400 I want to have, like, parties and just celebrate friendship.

00:29:08.660 Do you think that matters?

00:29:09.560 No.

00:29:09.980 You don't.

00:29:10.220 I'll tell you why.

00:29:10.940 Because the guy that says, oh, I'm just buying it because I want to be a host is fucking lying.

00:29:15.680 At least the guy who says, oh, I bought it because I wanted to show off is fucking honest.

00:29:19.320 You know, let's be real.

00:29:20.560 They're both saying the same thing.

00:29:21.880 They're just different.

00:29:22.960 The second guy's got a little more tact than the first guy, you know?

00:29:26.500 It's the same fucking thing.

00:29:28.180 But who cares?

00:29:30.200 Right.

00:29:30.580 You know what I'm saying?

00:29:31.180 Because you know what the reality is?

00:29:33.780 Some kid who's fucking 17-year-old is going to see the picture of your house on Instagram and say, fuck.

00:29:40.220 Dude, that's cool.

00:29:42.340 And you know what's going to happen?

00:29:43.520 He's going to go out.

00:29:44.500 He's going to create a company.

00:29:45.880 He's going to employ people.

00:29:48.040 He's going to have to create a solution to some sort of problem in order to make money to get the house that he wants to get.

00:29:55.560 So all the shit that he has to do to get that house is good, you know?

00:30:00.040 And people like to hang on to the exceptions.

00:30:01.760 Oh, he's selling drugs or he's this or he's that.

00:30:05.100 Fuck, dude.

00:30:05.700 This is St. Louis, Missouri, man.

00:30:07.240 St. Louis, Missouri is far from the fucking epicenter of success in the United States.

00:30:12.880 But I can tell you what.

00:30:14.480 We could spend all day driving through the rich neighborhoods of St. Louis, couldn't we?

00:30:17.680 There's some big motherfucking houses here. 0.75

00:30:19.580 Oh, absolutely, yeah.

00:30:20.440 And a lot of them.

00:30:21.240 Yeah.

00:30:21.640 And, dude, what that tells me is success is in abundance.

00:30:26.780 There's a lot more people out there that are very successful than you fucking realize.

00:30:30.380 And when, you know, when you take a kid who is a middle class, lower class, you know, kid and you inspire him because your house is big to go out and do all this other shit, what is wrong with that?

00:30:43.280 Nothing.

00:30:43.960 Exactly.

00:30:44.520 It's right.

00:30:45.060 It's not even what is wrong.

00:30:46.580 It's fucking right.

00:30:47.800 Right.

00:30:48.060 And I would argue it's your fucking duty to society to inspire other people through your own success, you know?

00:30:57.040 But, dude, it's, you know, you guys who are younger, listen to this.

00:31:01.600 People are going to dog you out, man.

00:31:03.220 They're going to tell you, hey, man, you don't need that.

00:31:06.320 You don't need all this shit.

00:31:07.420 And it's always like, it's always the same character type of dude, too.

00:31:10.980 It's like this, or girl, it's like this, they fucking talk to you like they're enlightened.

00:31:15.820 You know what I'm saying?

00:31:16.460 Like, they know some shit you don't fucking know.

00:31:18.440 Right.

00:31:18.740 And it's like, you know, they probably got, like, Grateful Dead sticker on their fucking car, you know, and they smoke a lot of weed.

00:31:24.460 You know what I'm saying?

00:31:25.300 Right.

00:31:25.660 It's always the same type of dude, like the enlightened dude.

00:31:28.520 You don't need all that stuff.

00:31:29.940 Yeah.

00:31:30.260 That's just stuff.

00:31:31.760 You know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:31:33.380 And then that's the same guy that once you start making it, he's fucking, you know, being like, hey, man, can I borrow 500 books?

00:31:39.400 You know what I mean?

00:31:40.160 Right.

00:31:40.280 Right.

00:31:40.680 So you shared a story, and I don't remember if it was on Periscope or it might have been on Snapchat.

00:31:46.920 I'm not sure, but I want to bring this up.

00:31:49.260 You talked about, like, before you and Chris made a ton of money, somebody you knew got sick, and Chris gave them $100.

00:31:56.060 And at the time, that was, like, $10,000 for Chris.

00:31:58.700 And the point that I want to make, and I'm curious what you think about this, is that I think people are the same whether they have $100 in the bank or whether they have a million bucks.

00:32:12.720 Chris was already generous when he had $100.

00:32:15.160 Yeah.

00:32:15.320 And the fact that he was more – got a lot more money and was able to do that, I guess what I'm trying to say is I think people –

00:32:21.620 He's equally as generous now.

00:32:23.300 Right, right.

00:32:23.960 And I'm not saying he gives away $100.

00:32:25.700 He gives away relative amounts.

00:32:27.580 Right, right.

00:32:28.560 And my thought – the reason I bring that up is because I think there are people who have, like, you know, $100 in their bank account.

00:32:36.080 And they're looking at you guys saying, well, you guys should be more generous.

00:32:39.020 And my question to them is, well, how generous are you with the $100 that you have?

00:32:43.520 Like, are you just saying, well, it's the rich people that should be generous, or are you taking personal responsibility?

00:32:49.640 Does that make sense?

00:32:50.380 Yes.

00:32:50.780 It's okay for me to keep my money, but, you know, but you should be giving it away because you have so much.

00:32:56.000 Right.

00:32:56.440 You know, and that's the thing in America now.

00:32:58.860 You know, actually, I think everybody should be giving money, and I think it should be relative.

00:33:02.900 And I think if you've got $500 and you give away $100, you know, that's fucking – that's an amazing thing for you to do.

00:33:11.060 Right.

00:33:11.240 You know what I mean?

00:33:12.380 And I think if you've got $500 million, you should give away fucking – you should give away $100 million.

00:33:17.040 Yeah.

00:33:17.160 You don't need $500 fucking million.

00:33:19.240 You know, I agree with that.

00:33:21.060 Yeah, the amount is relative to the –

00:33:23.180 But let me say this.

00:33:23.920 It shouldn't be the government's job to fucking legislate that giving.

00:33:28.040 Right.

00:33:28.160 But, I mean, I do think – you know, and I think, dude, I think generally – and I don't know if it's just the people I know or what,

00:33:35.620 but generally the people I know who have the most money, they are far more generous, you know, than people assume.

00:33:41.540 You know what I mean?

00:33:42.520 And it's just – I want to tie this together.

00:33:46.760 You know, I want to tie it together, what I call the morality of money.

00:33:49.960 All right?

00:33:50.440 Here's what you guys have to understand.

00:33:52.440 There's a couple points.

00:33:53.340 All right?

00:33:53.940 One, making money is a great thing.

00:33:59.320 Making money and being successful is a great, great thing.

00:34:03.900 There's nothing wrong with it.

00:34:05.620 Okay?

00:34:06.160 Because here's what you have to understand.

00:34:09.280 We talked about this in a previous podcast.

00:34:11.300 For the last 75 years, because the way advertising was set up and the companies with the most money could pay to sell products on the radio, on TV, on the newspaper,

00:34:25.820 little companies never really had a shot.

00:34:30.940 Okay?

00:34:31.060 And what happened was there was – during that time, there was no feedback.

00:34:35.020 There was no way for us to leave a review on Amazon and Angie's List on all these other things that we can get on social media.

00:34:41.380 And so, what happened, and this is why you're taught, why you were probably taught that money was bad,

00:34:48.400 is that these big companies got really fucking greedy and they started advertising products in an immoral way,

00:34:55.520 either advertising a product that would work a certain way that didn't work a certain way,

00:34:59.080 or advertising a product that was not what they claimed it to be.

00:35:04.060 People bought these products.

00:35:05.740 They got angry and they said,

00:35:06.900 Man, these big companies, they fuck everybody, they stick everybody, you know, in the ass and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:35:13.280 And they get angry, right?

00:35:15.080 And then they're like, dude, everybody who makes money is a fucking crook.

00:35:19.480 And that's where that fucking mentality comes from.

00:35:21.980 But you have to realize that we are in a different era now.

00:35:25.660 Okay?

00:35:26.060 If you're a guy that owns a business or a girl that owns a business and you're selling something that isn't what it claims to be,

00:35:33.920 what is going to happen to you?

00:35:35.080 You are going to get a million posts on the internet.

00:35:38.500 You're going to get raped on the fucking social media.

00:35:41.540 You're going to have zero star reviews on Amazon and Angie's list.

00:35:44.960 And guess what happens?

00:35:46.300 You don't make any fucking money.

00:35:47.920 All right?

00:35:48.680 So in order to make money in this era, you have to have a product that solves a legitimate problem.

00:35:55.140 You have to have a product that offers a solution to these problems.

00:35:59.140 You have to have a product that helps people.

00:36:01.520 And when I say help people, I'm not talking about your grandma fucking walking across the street. 0.99

00:36:05.600 I'm talking about why do you buy a fucking product?

00:36:09.380 To help people.

00:36:10.600 Okay?

00:36:11.780 Oh, I don't buy fucking, what do I get out of Air Jordans?

00:36:15.820 Well, you get to feel fucking cool.

00:36:17.620 That helps you feel cool.

00:36:19.500 What do I get out of fucking, you know, my whatever the fucking thing of the day is?

00:36:27.540 You know, what do I get out of my Teletubby?

00:36:29.580 Well, you get to see your fucking kid smile.

00:36:32.960 Solve a problem.

00:36:34.420 See what I'm saying?

00:36:35.060 Right.

00:36:35.260 That helps people solve a problem.

00:36:37.380 And if you're not doing that effectively in today's era, you cannot make money.

00:36:41.620 Right.

00:36:42.260 All right?

00:36:42.720 So let's talk about the morality of that.

00:36:45.400 The morality of that is actually the opposite of what most people think about money.

00:36:52.140 You can't screw people and make money anymore.

00:36:54.780 It's impossible.

00:36:55.660 Can you do it for a short time?

00:36:56.780 Sure.

00:36:57.620 But it's much harder nowadays than it was for the last 75 years pre-2000.

00:37:04.180 Okay?

00:37:05.080 So when people talk about this morality of money, it's because the older generations don't understand

00:37:11.940 what's going on right now in the business world and how money is made and how you have

00:37:18.160 to legitimately be legit, you know, to solve something.

00:37:22.780 And when money is made that way and you make a lot of money, good for you.

00:37:28.180 There's nothing wrong with it.

00:37:29.100 You didn't screw anybody because if you did, you wouldn't have made the money.

00:37:31.720 Right.

00:37:32.180 Right?

00:37:32.560 Right.

00:37:32.820 I mean, dude, let me, let me ask you, you know, you're old enough to remember pre-internet

00:37:37.360 and me too.

00:37:37.820 If we bought something off, uh, you know, a store or whatever, like let's say, for example,

00:37:45.440 the hot thing now is the Yeti cooler, right?

00:37:47.820 The Yeti cooler keeps your eyes for fucking one year, whatever the fuck it is.

00:37:51.760 Like something crazy, you know, and you bought the Yeti cooler and the Yeti cooler kept your

00:37:56.780 eyes for one day instead of one year, like it claims, right?

00:38:00.120 How long would it take you 20 years ago to tell everybody you know about that?

00:38:03.700 A long time.

00:38:04.540 Long fucking time, right?

00:38:05.580 No email, no cell phone, no text, no fucking social media, no internet.

00:38:11.480 And by, by, you're going to go on your rotary phone and fucking do, do, do, do, do, do, 0.77

00:38:16.240 do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,

00:38:21.360 and call everybody up and say, motherfucker, this Yeti cooler, man, this shit sucks.

00:38:25.740 No, it's not going to happen.

00:38:27.040 So businesses can get away with that.

00:38:28.960 But now what, what has happened?

00:38:31.760 What's the opposite that's happened with Yeti?

00:38:33.460 Yeti does fucking keep eyes for its ridiculous claim.

00:38:37.080 And now they've fucking blown up because it's incredible.

00:38:41.080 Right.

00:38:41.920 And the word of mouth is so quick.

00:38:44.100 Like, dude, when I first heard the Yeti thing, Chris, my business partner here in the office

00:38:47.680 told me about it.

00:38:48.260 I'm like, yeah, we're fucking right.

00:38:50.120 There's a dude who keeps your ice in your cup for like two days.

00:38:52.820 I'm like, bullshit.

00:38:54.440 And dude, and I, when I fucking saw it, I was amazed.

00:38:58.060 Right.

00:38:58.600 Right.

00:38:58.840 I'm like, wow.

00:38:59.800 So what do I do?

00:39:00.340 I go post about it.

00:39:01.220 And then, and then every single person I know knows, and then the brand grows and that's

00:39:08.180 how a brand can fail too.

00:39:09.600 But so you can't immorally make money.

00:39:14.480 I mean, dude, you know, you couldn't make arguments, right?

00:39:16.540 Like, oh, dude, who fucking has a porn site or dude who has, you know, uh, this or that,

00:39:21.800 but whatever, that's not my job to judge.

00:39:23.800 It's, you know, that's, they're still solving a fucking problem.

00:39:27.580 But, but what I'm talking about here is straight up, like most, most ways to make money these

00:39:36.080 days are legitimate.

00:39:37.040 And most people who have money have made their money in a legitimate fashion of providing

00:39:41.800 value, solving problems, helping people find solutions in their problems.

00:39:45.380 And that's it.

00:39:46.820 So like when you fucking like criticize them, you know, and say, oh, they're evil.

00:39:51.020 They stepped on people.

00:39:51.860 They screwed people.

00:39:52.740 Dude, those, those kinds of comments are totally off base and it makes you look stupid because

00:39:57.160 it makes you look, it makes you, it exposes how ignorant you really are about how things

00:40:03.320 work now.

00:40:04.720 You see?

00:40:05.580 Yeah.

00:40:05.780 So, so that's, first of all, you have to do the right thing to make money.

00:40:13.320 Second of all, if you don't do the right thing, okay, everybody's going to fucking know.

00:40:21.000 You see what I'm saying?

00:40:22.080 Yeah.

00:40:22.520 I mean, it's just, there's just so.

00:40:26.200 So, so the way that I would conceive of it and you and I probably have different terms that

00:40:31.240 we use to express this.

00:40:32.900 I mean, being the former pastor, I think of the passage in the Bible that says, whatsoever

00:40:37.600 a man reaps, so also shall he sow.

00:40:40.500 Okay.

00:40:40.700 So there are consequences to our actions.

00:40:42.820 I think you would call that karma.

00:40:44.840 But what, to me, what the modern day world and social media and everything does is it

00:40:49.340 accelerates that, what you call the process of karma.

00:40:52.760 What used to take a lifetime to reap in terms of consequences now takes five minutes.

00:40:57.520 Exactly.

00:40:58.140 Yeah.

00:40:58.400 And that's also why, and we have a whole nother issue coming up down the pipe on social media,

00:41:02.340 but that's also why social media is such an incredible tool.

00:41:05.660 And if you do the right thing and you have an amazing product and you have something that

00:41:10.480 really makes people say, wow, you could really cut most of that time off the, off the success

00:41:16.600 curve because of the tools that we have available.

00:41:19.740 You see what I mean?

00:41:20.620 Yeah.

00:41:20.840 So when, you know, people, you know, attack money, you know, what they're really attacking

00:41:29.820 is people who have identified solutions to problems and put them in play and execute

00:41:34.200 them and their little attacks make no fucking sense. 0.87

00:41:37.600 Yeah.

00:41:38.060 You know, so if you're fucking 17, 18, 19 years old and you say you want a fucking Lamborghini,

00:41:43.700 you know, you're going to have to do a lot of good to fucking afford that.

00:41:48.120 Right.

00:41:48.400 You know what I mean?

00:41:49.520 No, absolutely.

00:41:50.320 Yeah.

00:41:50.620 Yeah, for sure.

00:41:51.640 Like, so, so to me, like when I see fucking successful things or material things, I don't

00:41:57.280 look at them as, as, you know, a indicator or a representation of evil.

00:42:04.680 I look at them as an indicator or a representation of somebody who has dedicated a lot of their

00:42:09.100 life to providing value and solving problems.

00:42:12.860 You know, and I, how many people, I mean, how many people honestly look at that stuff like

00:42:16.200 that?

00:42:16.420 I don't think most do probably not a lot because we're always, I think we're always, particularly

00:42:22.680 in our culture and with our media, we're always being shown the bad examples, right?

00:42:28.580 We're being shown the guys who, you know, are driving their employees into ground and

00:42:33.160 they're, they're out driving their yacht and whatever.

00:42:35.920 And, and yes, though, that happens.

00:42:38.500 But like you said, that's okay.

00:42:40.960 So that's a bad example of how not to use your money.

00:42:42.840 I don't think that happens as near as much as what people think, because here's the fucking

00:42:46.860 truth.

00:42:47.660 If you drive your employees into the ground and you pay them shit and you don't do anything

00:42:51.160 for them, you're not going to be able to get them to produce the amount of shit that

00:42:55.380 you need to produce.

00:42:56.520 They're not going to be engaged.

00:42:57.880 They're not going to be loyal.

00:42:58.820 They're not going to be part of your culture. 0.70

00:43:01.220 They're not going to be the driving force behind your sales that, that you need them

00:43:05.940 to be, to be able to afford a fucking yacht.

00:43:08.740 You see what I mean?

00:43:09.760 Absolutely.

00:43:10.280 Yeah.

00:43:10.880 So, you know, I, I would say, are there examples?

00:43:14.780 Sure.

00:43:15.000 But those examples, the examples that you're saying, those guys are, unless, you know,

00:43:20.420 unless they're like having like little kids do labor in fucking Asia. 0.94

00:43:23.540 Right.

00:43:24.020 You know what I mean?

00:43:24.540 Those people are going to have issues move, keeping that system going forward because there's 0.89

00:43:30.500 too many companies out there that value their employees, pay their employees a fair wage

00:43:34.560 and offer the growth that people are looking for.

00:43:37.100 Right.

00:43:37.480 But in some ways, even bringing those, I mean, I'm going to catch myself here.

00:43:40.940 In some ways, even bring the, bringing up those examples of people who, who may or may

00:43:44.860 not use their money in bad ways.

00:43:46.540 It misses the point.

00:43:47.540 The point is you don't have to do that.

00:43:50.260 You can take personal responsibility, earn all the money you can possibly earn and use it.

00:43:54.540 Use it for good.

00:43:55.420 So even using the bad examples is ridiculous.

00:43:57.940 If you're that guy, people are going to say the same shit about you.

00:44:01.140 Yeah.

00:44:01.480 They're going to say, oh, he's fucking blah, blah, blah.

00:44:04.240 Oh, he's a, this, that, and the other, you know, they're going to say the same shit.

00:44:08.720 It's just the way people are about money and they don't look at it the right way, which

00:44:13.440 is why they don't have any fucking money. 0.88

00:44:15.540 And that's it.

00:44:16.880 You know, you know, so I keep saying this, if you're a young man, a young woman and you've

00:44:21.740 got goals good for you, you know what I'm saying?

00:44:25.400 Don't let anybody ever fucking tell you ever there's something wrong with any of your goals.

00:44:30.260 All right.

00:44:31.040 Just because your goals aren't their goals doesn't mean they're wrong.

00:44:34.080 And what you'll find, and what I think is very interesting is that when people try to like

00:44:39.700 put their arm around these young people and like tell them like, oh, you know, you need

00:44:43.660 to, you need to do blah, blah, blah.

00:44:47.100 Look at the advice they're giving and then look at their life.

00:44:50.160 And what you'll find is that they're actually giving you advice to make you more like them.

00:44:55.680 You know what I mean?

00:44:56.940 And that's people generally think the way that they live is the quote unquote right way.

00:45:03.400 And so they put their arm around people and they say, you know, Hey, be like me.

00:45:09.000 And unless you want to be like them, when you look at their life, don't fucking take their

00:45:14.180 advice.

00:45:15.000 You know, um, I had a guidance counselor in high school that was not very supportive of my

00:45:21.680 dreams, you know?

00:45:23.100 And, uh, I fucking, you know, I, I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, you know, and

00:45:28.860 I knew I wanted to make a lot of fucking money.

00:45:30.180 And when you told him that at a Christian high school, um, it wasn't received very well.

00:45:34.900 It was like, oh, you know, that's kind of for other people, you know, like that's, you

00:45:38.800 know, that's for like, that's for like people that go to like Duke and people, that's exact

00:45:42.820 words too.

00:45:43.580 That's for people that go to like Duke and like Harvard.

00:45:46.380 And I'm like, and now I'm like, dude, people that go to fucking Duke and Harvard end up

00:45:50.200 working for the man, you know what I'm saying?

00:45:52.300 It's true.

00:45:52.760 Like, dude, you're a high paid something, but you're not working for yourself.

00:45:56.040 Yeah.

00:45:56.580 You know, the reality is, is most entrepreneurs I know are fucking C students that barely

00:46:01.340 could make it through school because all they dreamed about was other shit.

00:46:04.540 Right.

00:46:05.080 You know, I mean, they dream about doing this or that or this, and they're breaking the

00:46:10.280 rules and they have this certain thing about them that like, you know, they want to deconstruct

00:46:15.180 shit.

00:46:15.520 Like they take apart their parents' tools, you see how they work and piss their dad off.

00:46:18.980 You know, that's fucking, that's me, dude.

00:46:21.780 Yeah.

00:46:22.260 You know, and, um, I don't know, man.

00:46:25.620 You know, I think there's, I think the morality issue when it comes to money is very skewed in

00:46:32.520 reality.

00:46:33.700 Um, I think that most people don't understand it.

00:46:36.140 I think that most people don't want to understand it because they want to justify their place

00:46:40.040 in this world as an average earning human being.

00:46:43.880 You know, when, when you could justify where you are, it's very easy to say, you know what?

00:46:49.240 I'm doing everything right.

00:46:50.680 You know, I don't have to worry about blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:46:53.020 And you know what?

00:46:53.860 Like I said, just like they can't tell you your goal, we shouldn't tell them their goals.

00:46:59.100 I put this information out here, not because I'm trying to convince everybody that they

00:47:03.260 need to be successful.

00:47:04.080 I put this information out for the motherfuckers that want to be right.

00:47:06.820 You know, I don't drive a Lamborghini to like, or a Rolls Royce or whatever the fuck I'm

00:47:12.040 driving to convince people that's the right thing.

00:47:16.420 But for the people that want to do that shit, I'm probably a good guy to fucking keep an

00:47:21.140 eye on.

00:47:21.680 Right.

00:47:22.360 You know what I mean?

00:47:23.020 Right.

00:47:23.520 So, you know, just because somebody has different goals than you, no matter what, no matter if

00:47:28.460 it's to make a trillion dollars and no matter if it's to make 30,000 or fucking no money,

00:47:32.400 maybe their dream is to live off the grid with no fucking money.

00:47:36.260 And I know people who've done that and I think it's badass.

00:47:39.780 You know what I mean?

00:47:40.940 But it's just not my thing.

00:47:42.440 Right.

00:47:43.100 So, you know, don't judge people.

00:47:45.520 And this goes for you motherfuckers to listen to this that have high ambitions and high goals

00:47:50.240 and want to make a lot of money.

00:47:51.640 Don't judge these other people for the goals they have, because that makes you just as

00:47:55.680 bad as them.

00:47:56.600 It makes you an asshole.

00:47:57.680 Right.

00:47:58.380 You know?

00:47:58.880 Right.

00:47:59.280 So I get defensive a little bit because I feel like we're always attacked.

00:48:03.980 People that have high ambitions for, like, money because they have big plans for what

00:48:08.300 they want to do with it are attacked by the other people.

00:48:13.440 And as much as that annoys me, it's still not right to attack them back.

00:48:17.020 You know?

00:48:17.540 Just because that's not what they want.

00:48:19.300 You know?

00:48:19.760 I will say that the reality of it from the thousands and thousands and thousands of emails

00:48:25.960 that I've gotten over the years is that most of the people I've dealt with that have emailed

00:48:30.680 me in and said some negative shit, you know?

00:48:35.040 Hey, fuck you. 0.97

00:48:35.920 You're all about the money, blah, blah, blah.

00:48:37.640 And then I say, well, why do you say that?

00:48:40.860 And they say, well, blah, blah, blah.

00:48:42.300 And I'm going to say, well, you don't think money is important?

00:48:44.220 And I'll end up talking them through it.

00:48:46.380 And those people almost always, I come to find out that they have limited themselves

00:48:52.220 and they're frustrated with where they are.

00:48:54.280 And so they're attacking other people.

00:48:56.580 So that's why I say, like, when I say quote unquote average, I'm not attacking them.

00:49:01.760 I'm just saying the truth from what my experience has been.

00:49:05.260 Right.

00:49:05.800 You know, these people are unhappy with where they are, which is why they fucking attack

00:49:09.160 in the first place.

00:49:10.540 You know?

00:49:11.220 So two things.

00:49:12.800 One is, and I don't know how directly relevant, but I think it applies.

00:49:16.700 So I just finished helping another client complete a book project.

00:49:22.440 And he's the president of a local healthcare system.

00:49:26.340 Right.

00:49:26.500 Okay.

00:49:27.140 And in the course of doing that book, I had to research the founders of the healthcare

00:49:31.560 system.

00:49:32.240 And it was started originally by a woman who was a nun, basically.

00:49:35.400 And I mean, if you would look at this woman, she, you know, she's the stereotypical, and I 1.00

00:49:39.520 mean this in a positive way, she's the sweet little lady who cares about people. 0.51

00:49:44.640 Let me stop you right there. 0.98

00:49:45.700 Let me stop you. 0.95

00:49:46.940 Tyler.

00:49:47.620 Yep.

00:49:48.640 Go get me some commanders.

00:49:58.900 So should I start over?

00:50:00.080 No.

00:50:00.560 Okay.

00:50:00.880 I don't remember where I was.

00:50:02.120 You're talking about sweet old lady. 1.00

00:50:03.360 Oh.

00:50:04.080 Sometimes.

00:50:04.460 Sorry, man.

00:50:05.060 Sometimes I just got to get my energy.

00:50:06.840 Oh, okay.

00:50:07.240 You know what I'm saying?

00:50:07.900 Like, I'm starting to fucking.

00:50:09.440 So do you want me to edit this part out?

00:50:10.920 No.

00:50:11.240 Oh, okay.

00:50:11.720 Okay.

00:50:11.940 Okay.

00:50:12.500 So anyway.

00:50:13.260 So she's.

00:50:13.580 That's the one thing about working with Gary I picked up on about not editing it.

00:50:18.560 That's cool.

00:50:19.200 Sorry, guys.

00:50:19.780 I had to fucking get my, I had to get my fat burners in, man.

00:50:22.520 Oh, yeah.

00:50:23.220 It's two o'clock.

00:50:24.660 I'm starting to, I'm starting to dip.

00:50:26.600 I need my energy.

00:50:27.740 Yeah.

00:50:27.960 You know?

00:50:28.360 And I need my, I'm on a diet.

00:50:29.880 I'm fucking doing a first form transformation challenge.

00:50:33.780 And I'm, I'm, I got a regimen.

00:50:36.140 I got to stick to it.

00:50:36.720 Nice.

00:50:36.920 Fucking, it's time to go.

00:50:38.580 I love it.

00:50:39.120 I love it.

00:50:39.540 So anyway, this, this, this woman is, you know, the stereotypical, sweet, nice, none committed

00:50:43.820 to the poor, committed to helping people.

00:50:45.420 Huge mind for ministry.

00:50:46.980 Okay.

00:50:47.260 But as, but as, but as, but as, as I was reading over her original writings, it was amazing

00:50:53.580 to me and Tyler's bringing in the commanders right now.

00:50:57.600 All right.

00:50:58.120 It was amazing to me how many things that she said about, listen, if this ministry is going

00:51:03.020 to go anywhere, if it's going to really help people, we have to be practically minded.

00:51:06.080 We have to make some serious money.

00:51:07.740 We have to encourage all of our rich friends to give their money generously and to do everything

00:51:12.860 we can to essentially promote revenue.

00:51:14.660 Oh dude, that's fucking, that's immoral.

00:51:16.880 Right.

00:51:17.180 They're scheming against the rich people.

00:51:18.460 Well, and my answer to this, and I, and I know, I know Mr. Aster Cole out there is going

00:51:22.360 to, going to take issue with, well, yeah, but you don't know how they use this and this

00:51:25.640 and this.

00:51:25.960 But here's the point.

00:51:26.740 The point is that that ministry, which is still regarded as a ministry now is a billion

00:51:31.660 dollar company that serves thousands and thousands of people every day.

00:51:38.000 So that's the first thing I'm going to say.

00:51:39.620 By scammers.

00:51:40.140 So it's, it's, it's what I, for me, I mean, you can drive home whatever point you want.

00:51:44.720 For me, the point that I want people to take out of this is it's not an either or guys.

00:51:50.480 It's a both end.

00:51:51.580 Right.

00:51:51.760 You can be good and you can make money and you can use it for good purposes.

00:51:55.000 Right.

00:51:55.260 The other thing I want to do is just throw this out for people to think.

00:51:59.120 So Jesus told the parable of three people who all were given a certain amount of money

00:52:03.100 and then their master left.

00:52:04.680 Okay.

00:52:05.320 And at the end, the person that Jesus said was the guy that actually was the good, good

00:52:10.380 guy in the story was the guy that had, was given the most money and then made the most

00:52:15.840 money from that.

00:52:17.280 In other words, the person who was the best steward and made the highest possible revenue.

00:52:21.240 That's what Jesus is.

00:52:22.340 That's the good guy.

00:52:23.060 The bad guy was the guy who was given the money and just sat on it and did nothing.

00:52:26.980 So literally for those people who think they're all spiritual, you literally have Jesus Christ

00:52:32.500 himself who has told the story basically saying, if you want to be good, be a good steward of

00:52:36.720 your money, your talents, all that you've been given, make more of it.

00:52:39.760 Dude, that's why I talk about the morality.

00:52:42.440 It is an obligation.

00:52:43.640 It's a social obligation that you have, not just to yourself, but to your wife or your

00:52:51.000 husband or your kids or your neighbor's kids or everybody you have and come in contact with

00:52:57.420 for them to be inspired by the amount of success that you've created so that they could go out

00:53:03.320 and do the same.

00:53:04.380 Right.

00:53:04.780 All right.

00:53:05.700 That is a fucking moral obligation.

00:53:08.480 All right.

00:53:08.660 So not only do you have to fucking make money the moral way by doing the right thing, but

00:53:13.700 it's an obligation.

00:53:14.600 And this is my opinion.

00:53:16.200 This is why I call it the morality of money is that you're obligated to do that, you know?

00:53:23.560 And if you want to argue that all you want, how about this?

00:53:26.320 How about you, um, let's take, if a deceased soldier could come back to life and look you

00:53:32.240 in the eye and say, Hey, what are you doing with your life?

00:53:35.720 Would you feel proud or ashamed with what you told them?

00:53:39.480 That's a very tough question for everybody to ask.

00:53:42.580 Yeah.

00:53:42.680 Right.

00:53:43.100 And like, do people don't think about it like that?

00:53:44.820 How many millions of people have fucking sacrificed for you to have the opportunity that you choose

00:53:50.780 to spend instead of, you know, doing the best you can and making the most money that you

00:53:57.100 choose to spend hiding in a fucking turtle shell, pointing the finger at everybody else 0.83

00:54:01.180 about how they're a piece of shit.

00:54:02.560 When in reality, you're the one that's not out there doing the shit and honoring those

00:54:08.360 sacrifices.

00:54:09.020 So, I mean, dude, we could pick this apart, right?

00:54:11.560 Many different ways.

00:54:12.840 And people who are listening to this, who believe that money is bad, I'm sure they're going to

00:54:16.820 continue to believe that.

00:54:17.780 But, you know, you're also never going to have any money thinking that, you know, people

00:54:23.120 because I had this kid yesterday, he was telling me about how, you know, he loves, uh, you know,

00:54:29.560 he wants to make millions of dollars so that he could help blah, blah, blah.

00:54:32.560 I'm like, that's great.

00:54:33.700 But most people that make money are shitty and evil and blah, blah.

00:54:36.800 I'm like, dude, if that's what you think, you're not going to attract money into your life.

00:54:41.060 It's not going to happen.

00:54:42.240 You know why?

00:54:43.180 Because for you to make money, you're going to have to also associate with some of these people

00:54:47.160 that you think are pieces of shit and they're not going to fucking help you. 0.96

00:54:50.460 They're not going to, they're not going to boost you up.

00:54:52.500 They're not going to, you know, go out on a limb to make a phone call for you or do whatever,

00:54:56.320 whatever it is.

00:54:57.080 Right.

00:54:57.520 Nobody can do it alone.

00:54:58.600 Right.

00:54:59.280 For me, it comes down to something you say all the time.

00:55:01.600 It's literally your definition of success.

00:55:04.020 It is success is realizing your own true potential.

00:55:07.220 Right.

00:55:07.400 And for me, I, the reason I'm 100% in favor of what you're saying is that you're not over

00:55:12.640 there saying, oh, you have to be rich.

00:55:14.720 It's all about being rich.

00:55:15.960 No, what you're saying, it's all about being who you were supposed to be, who you were meant

00:55:20.200 to be, maximizing your potential.

00:55:22.320 If you don't do that, you're failing.

00:55:24.540 Right.

00:55:25.020 And what's even worse than not doing that is pointing at somebody who's 14, 15, 16, 17,

00:55:30.380 18 years old and wants certain things out of life and telling them that they're fucking 0.99

00:55:36.100 wrong for wanting that.

00:55:37.260 Right.

00:55:37.780 That's like piling wrong on top of wrong.

00:55:40.140 It's a, it's a wrong double cheeseburger.

00:55:42.700 You know what I'm saying?

00:55:43.740 I like it.

00:55:44.320 Yeah.

00:55:44.660 Dude, that's what I'm saying.

00:55:45.960 Like it's fucking double slice of wrong.

00:55:47.940 Something that you said earlier was, uh, you know, people don't realize how much wealth

00:55:52.960 is out there.

00:55:53.480 Like how many successful people are out there.

00:55:55.140 No, they assume that because, because this dude's making money, that means that they can't.

00:55:58.960 Right.

00:55:59.240 They, they don't think that there's room at the top.

00:56:01.320 Right.

00:56:01.480 You know, everybody has that potential, but what you just said with the guy yesterday is that he

00:56:05.580 said, most rich people are evil.

00:56:08.820 You know, I'd like to know how many rich people he knows.

00:56:11.540 Exactly.

00:56:12.040 You know, none.

00:56:13.040 He picks, he picks people out of the media.

00:56:16.020 Right.

00:56:16.260 Exactly.

00:56:17.220 Exactly.

00:56:17.900 And dude, that's, you know, I mean, it's all started with, with companies legitimately

00:56:21.860 doing the wrong thing over the last however many years.

00:56:24.360 Our parents grew up, you know, seeing this and they spread that message.

00:56:28.700 We grew up hearing it.

00:56:30.060 It's time to break that fucking cycle.

00:56:31.940 You know, making money, being successful is, is, is a good thing.

00:56:36.280 There's nothing wrong with it.

00:56:37.480 You can help far more people.

00:56:38.680 It takes morals to make money.

00:56:40.980 It takes, it takes a person who is willing to go through a billion tons of bullshit for

00:56:52.240 the benefit of others.

00:56:53.780 You know, there's just, there's no end to it, man.

00:56:56.420 You know, there's biblical implications that we can tie in there.

00:56:59.660 I mean, it's just, it's, you have the opportunity and if you don't execute on the opportunity,

00:57:05.900 that's on you, that's not somebody else's fault because they went out and did it.

00:57:09.540 And my whole purpose of talking to this, I mean, this is a lot of people who are like

00:57:13.560 30 plus years old hearing this.

00:57:15.560 They're like, dude, fuck, I don't care what anybody thinks.

00:57:17.700 Right.

00:57:18.120 And good for you.

00:57:18.800 You shouldn't.

00:57:19.680 But when you're 15 to fucking 20 or 25, you know, you're, you're listening to people

00:57:25.800 that you look up to and trust.

00:57:27.200 And they're telling you that you, you shouldn't own a fucking nice car, nice house, because

00:57:31.360 it means you're a piece of shit. 0.81

00:57:32.800 That's not true.

00:57:33.720 That's okay for you to have those goals.

00:57:36.660 You know what I mean?

00:57:37.620 Those goals one day, and here's the truth of it.

00:57:41.060 One day you'll achieve those goals.

00:57:42.540 You hang on to them long enough and work hard enough.

00:57:44.340 You'll achieve those goals and realize that they didn't represent everything that you thought

00:57:49.460 they did, which you will grow from and then become a more, you know, a better functioning,

00:57:55.860 more whole human being.

00:57:58.900 You see what I mean?

00:57:59.880 Dude, I used to think that living in a 10,000 square foot house and fucking driving Lamborghinis

00:58:04.340 was the fucking end all be all. 0.98

00:58:05.880 I do that shit every day.

00:58:07.160 I don't give a fuck about it.

00:58:08.060 Honestly, I don't care.

00:58:10.060 But the point was doing, getting to that point, like you could take all that shit away from

00:58:14.520 me right now and it would make no difference at all.

00:58:16.480 But for me to get to this point, I held on to those dreams and I got to those dreams and

00:58:23.200 now I have a hundred plus people that make a living off of the dreams that I had.

00:58:29.480 You see what I mean?

00:58:30.720 Absolutely.

00:58:31.420 So you have to have those dreams and there's nothing wrong.

00:58:35.100 You know, I mean, I still love cars.

00:58:37.200 I fucking love cars.

00:58:38.480 Love cars.

00:58:39.760 Love them.

00:58:41.020 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:58:42.740 You know what I mean?

00:58:43.240 It's just, I just want these younger people to realize like, look, people are going to

00:58:49.900 criticize you, but you, if you understand where that criticism coming from and why it's

00:58:54.360 happening, it's a lot easier for you to say, well, you know, I'm not going to listen to

00:58:58.480 that.

00:58:59.060 Right.

00:58:59.720 You know?

00:59:00.360 Right.

00:59:00.680 And when people are criticizing you and you know what's driving that and you know it,

00:59:04.800 then it's easier to like, just let it go.

00:59:07.980 So that's what my message is for these guys.

00:59:10.100 Like if you really understand how money's made, if you really understand what it takes

00:59:14.840 and what good comes of it and how much good is done by it, you should never have a negative

00:59:19.440 viewpoint of money and you should never feel negative about making money.

00:59:23.960 You should never apologize for making money and you should never apologize for, you know,

00:59:28.800 winning at all.

00:59:30.440 It's just the reality.

00:59:31.660 And like society has mind fucked a big, a big group of people into thinking that they

00:59:40.280 were meant to be broke as fuck and live paycheck to paycheck and barely able to get by.

00:59:45.860 And that that's somehow a noble life.

00:59:48.400 It's, it's not, you know, one of my favorite lines from the Wolf of Wall Street, there's no

00:59:53.420 nobility in poverty.

00:59:54.360 It's fucking true.

00:59:55.140 You know, there's nobility, there's nobility in humbleness.

01:00:00.360 There's nobility in modesty.

01:00:03.040 Okay.

01:00:03.920 I'm not a very modest person.

01:00:05.440 I admit I could work on that a little bit.

01:00:07.540 I'm a humble person, two different fucking things, motherfuckers.

01:00:12.220 But, you know, there's no nobility in poverty.

01:00:17.000 You don't have to be broke to have those character traits, you know?

01:00:22.240 So, my final thought is simply that, unfortunately, in our culture, greed and capitalism have become

01:00:30.220 synonymous, especially with younger people, and they're not the same.

01:00:33.540 Greed is bad, but capitalism is very, very good, in my humble opinion.

01:00:41.840 Sorry, I was taking a drink.

01:00:43.100 Like, my final thought would be, if you're a young man or young woman, and you have high

01:00:51.520 fucking hopes and high goals and high ambitions, hang on to those, protect those, never let

01:00:58.060 anybody talk you out of them, never let anybody change your focus, never let anybody make you

01:01:02.220 feel like you're wrong, and stick with your plan until it becomes a reality, and then if

01:01:08.640 you decide it's not for you, then make your own fucking decisions about it. 0.94

01:01:11.520 But anybody who comes and tells you you're wrong for wanting what you want, I would give

01:01:15.600 them the middle finger and walk the other direction.

01:01:18.660 And that's the honest to God, it's true.

REAL AF with Andy Frisella - February 16, 2016

The Morality of Money, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO47

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