REAL AF with Andy Frisella - November 15, 2018


You Always Have a Choice, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO273


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Length

12 minutes

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151.24165

Word count

1,821

Sentence count

85

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

58

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Hate speech

4

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Summary

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In this episode of Thursday Thunder, I talk about a recent case of a man who is serving a life sentence for a horrific crime he committed in Honduras. It got me to thinking about what it would be like to grow up in a poverty-stricken country like Honduras and how it could have shaped who I am today.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I can stack them hunts to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon.
00:00:04.820 Without me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me gotta lose.
00:00:12.480 What is up guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy, I'm your host, and I am the motherfucking CEO.
00:00:20.920 Guys, if this is your first time listening, welcome. 0.96
00:00:25.100 This is called the MFCEO Project because this is a project. This is a mission. This is a movement.
00:00:34.160 It is not your typical podcast where we just interview the same old motherfuckers every single day and hear the same old stories and all this other shit. 0.99
00:00:43.580 This is, this was and is a very purposeful mission, which is to correct the last 25 years of failed parenting strategies, okay? 0.98
00:00:59.560 It's to help young people, and when I say young people, I mean young in entrepreneurship and success in business
00:01:07.200 understand what it really takes to be successful.
00:01:12.820 We do usually two to three podcasts, sometimes Tuesday, almost always Thursday, and then Sunday, all right?
00:01:19.840 So today is Thursday Thunder, and it's a short, little, quick hit just to get you thinking about some things.
00:01:26.920 And what I want to talk to you guys about today is something that got me thinking.
00:01:35.060 I was reading the other day about this really bad dude down in Honduras, okay?
00:01:41.400 He was captured, and now he's in prison.
00:01:44.500 This guy apparently ruled everybody by fear. He intimidated everybody.
00:01:48.980 He brutalized people, and I mean to the extreme.
00:01:53.340 I don't mean just a little bit, you know? 0.75
00:01:55.620 He would hack little kids up in front of their parents, and then he'd light parents on fire
00:02:00.540 just to make an example for people who thought about going against him.
00:02:06.100 And as I'm reading this, obviously I'm thinking what all of you would think reading this, okay? 0.99
00:02:12.880 I'm thinking what is wrong with these fucking people, okay? 0.99
00:02:19.980 That's the natural reaction. 1.00
00:02:21.500 If you listened to last Sunday, you know that I'm sick of this shit just like you guys are, okay? 1.00
00:02:27.040 We were filled with negativity. 1.00
00:02:30.480 But I started reading the comments, and, you know, the comments were what you would expect, right?
00:02:35.640 It was like, oh, what an animal. 1.00
00:02:37.540 Oh, he deserves to burn in hell. 1.00
00:02:39.620 Or this fucking guy doesn't deserve to live. 1.00
00:02:42.180 You know, all the typical internet shit. 1.00
00:02:44.380 But one comment really got my attention, and it said this. 0.99
00:02:48.860 Honduras says, Honduras has been a poverty-stricken nation for years.
00:02:54.380 I'm not saying what he did wasn't terrible, but he probably had a really horrible childhood
00:03:00.320 and experienced trauma that we can't imagine.
00:03:03.740 And as the saying goes, hurt people hurt people.
00:03:07.380 Now, when I read that, part of me wanted to just destroy this person, okay? 1.00
00:03:16.420 You know, it's typical, you know, lunatic, liberal, idealist bullshit making excuses for people 1.00
00:03:25.740 that we have an issue with here, okay? 1.00
00:03:28.080 And not taking responsibility.
00:03:29.340 But the truth of the matter is, I took a minute, and instead of jumping all over this comment,
00:03:35.520 I thought about it.
00:03:37.500 You know, I thought about what it would be like to grow up in that kind of poverty.
00:03:41.700 And I thought what it would be like to grow up with that kind of violence, okay?
00:03:46.820 Growing up in craziness and chaos and instability. 0.95
00:03:50.500 And guys, that would be fucking hard, all right?
00:03:52.960 And that has to mess with the kind of person you are and the kind of person you become 0.80
00:03:57.400 beyond what any of you could really understand.
00:04:01.840 And I get that.
00:04:03.920 But what about the Jews in the concentration camps? 0.99
00:04:09.740 People who lost their whole fucking families when they got out and then went back to live 0.99
00:04:15.700 their lives, got married, started families, and built businesses that made the world a better 0.99
00:04:21.540 place.
00:04:22.040 What about the black people in the 40s and 50s and 60s whose family members were lynched
00:04:28.340 by white people because of the color of their skin, and instead of hating white people, they
00:04:35.760 went out and made friends, got involved in the community, and then worked together to teach
00:04:41.460 out the prejudices that exist in our society.
00:04:46.560 What about the guy who was bullied when he was a little kid instead of, you know, like I
00:04:50.440 said on Sunday, going and shooting up a bunch of people in his school, he grows up to become
00:04:55.480 a mentor, a coach, a friend to people who were also bullied, okay?
00:05:01.940 And I guess what I'm trying to say is this.
00:05:03.720 For every single person that has really shitty things happening to them and has used it as 0.99
00:05:09.380 an excuse to become a miserable person, and in this case, a fucking evil monster, there 0.97
00:05:16.860 are 100 other people who had terrible things happen to them and evil done to them, and they 0.99
00:05:24.040 responded by doing and becoming the opposite of what those actions were.
00:05:30.520 They ended up doing good things.
00:05:33.380 They became a force for good.
00:05:35.880 And my point is this, guys.
00:05:37.300 I don't care what hard things have happened to you.
00:05:41.180 I don't care what evil has been done to you.
00:05:44.500 I don't care how much you've suffered.
00:05:46.520 I don't care how much you've been hurt.
00:05:49.420 You always have a choice. 0.99
00:05:52.360 You don't have to just pass the shit on that was passed on to you, okay? 0.99
00:05:56.760 You don't have to excuse your terrible behavior by saying, oh, you know what? 1.00
00:06:01.600 I got fucked over, so fuck you, because that's what weak people do. 1.00
00:06:06.620 You have a will and a heart and a mind that can choose to do the right thing, and not just 1.00
00:06:14.480 choose to do the right thing, but choose to take the negative things that have been put
00:06:21.440 on you with no fault of your own and turn them into good, okay?
00:06:26.760 We have the ability and the freedom to make the choice to be the person who rises above 0.99
00:06:35.020 the shit. 1.00
00:06:36.880 Does it make it harder to be born in poverty? 1.00
00:06:39.860 Absolutely. 1.00
00:06:40.880 Does it make it harder when you grow up in a shit family? 1.00
00:06:44.680 Absolutely. 1.00
00:06:45.760 Does it hurt when people hurt you?
00:06:48.540 Absolutely. 0.99
00:06:49.180 But what the fuck kind of life are you going to have if all you want to do is hurt the 1.00
00:06:55.520 people who hurt you? 1.00
00:06:58.460 Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't hold on to that shit and use it, okay? 0.99
00:07:03.120 A lot of guys right now, it's popular to say, oh, well, why are you going to keep doing 0.99
00:07:09.520 this because three or four guys made fun of you in high school?
00:07:12.200 People, they act like they rise above it, okay? 0.99
00:07:16.580 It's okay to hang on to that shit if it helps you produce good things, okay? 0.99
00:07:24.800 And a lot of people will tell you, and you know people like this, it's not my fault. 1.00
00:07:30.800 It wasn't my decision.
00:07:32.400 The world did this to me.
00:07:34.080 My parents did this.
00:07:35.460 My uncle did this.
00:07:36.480 My aunt did this.
00:07:37.440 The circumstances did this, and a lot of people will duck and use the circumstances
00:07:44.700 of what it is they grew up in as an excuse instead of making the choice to be positive
00:07:52.920 about it, okay?
00:07:54.460 And the truth of the matter is most people that are out there right now are not thinking
00:08:00.040 the way I'm talking about in this podcast.
00:08:02.000 Most people, and a lot of you people who are listening to this, think that it's not
00:08:07.640 your choice.
00:08:08.740 You think you're not in control. 0.92
00:08:10.580 You think it's your destiny to be miserable and make other people miserable, okay? 0.98
00:08:16.500 Some people were blessed by God, and some people got fucked, and that's how you see it, and 0.98
00:08:21.280 you see yourself as the person that got fucked, but what you don't see is that you aren't locked 0.96
00:08:27.700 into anything. 0.98
00:08:29.080 You are free to choose.
00:08:30.500 You are free to use your emotions, your experiences, all the things that have happened to you to
00:08:36.700 produce good or to produce more bad.
00:08:39.520 You are free to be a good person.
00:08:42.340 You are free to actually become a great person. 0.99
00:08:47.920 You are free to become the kind of person that other people who have gone through the shit 0.96
00:08:54.780 that you have gone through will end up looking up to and thanking and being grateful for because 0.99
00:09:02.460 you exist and you taught them there was another way.
00:09:05.780 This choice that I'm talking about is rare.
00:09:11.720 People do not make the choice to turn good things out of bad things, and that's why most
00:09:18.060 of the people that you talk to are miserable, but you guys, first off, have to be aware of the choice, 0.98
00:09:26.860 and second of all, you have to make the fucking choice, and the reality is if you keep making the choice 0.99
00:09:33.840 day after day after day after day, to take what it was, to take the bad circumstances, 0.99
00:09:42.840 to take the things that frustrate you, to take the things that make you angry,
00:09:47.100 to take the things that have happened to you, and turn them into good, productive things,
00:09:54.220 if you continue to do that day in and day out for the course of your life, there is no way
00:10:02.400 that you cannot be successful.
00:10:05.920 I know a lot of you guys are thinking, well, how is there no way that I cannot be successful?
00:10:11.380 What does that mean?
00:10:12.020 This really has nothing to do with business.
00:10:14.360 Let me fill you in on something.
00:10:17.180 People are attracted to people who overcome.
00:10:21.180 People are attracted to people who seem to have that superhuman ability to persevere.
00:10:29.440 Look at any book you've read recently.
00:10:31.940 Look at any speaker you've went and saw that you really, truly loved.
00:10:36.080 Look at any movie that you've watched.
00:10:39.180 All of these things had a story of perseverance.
00:10:44.080 All of these things had a story of overcoming.
00:10:46.600 We as humans cannot help but to be inspired by people who have everything going against them
00:10:56.900 but choose to go ahead anyway.
00:11:02.400 And when people are attracted to you because you have that quality in real life,
00:11:07.200 not in the movies, not in a book, not on TV,
00:11:10.940 you're going to be successful.
00:11:13.280 Because attracting people is the hardest part.
00:11:18.120 Getting people to hear you, to see you, to stand out amongst every other 300 million people in this country
00:11:25.200 or 7 billion people on the globe is the hardest part.
00:11:29.100 And you know how you want to stand out?
00:11:30.980 You know how you can stand out quicker than anybody? 1.00
00:11:33.880 It's by taking all the shit that everybody else complains about 1.00
00:11:39.480 and making it work for you. 0.99
00:11:42.840 And I'll see you in that section El Customer 1 rally in самолет lettering area
00:11:47.660 You know how you can stand out more.
00:11:48.540 I probably agree with that, but if you couldn't find out what you wanted,
00:11:51.340 when you areależy about it...
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