1034. REAL AF LIVE | CTI + Q&AF (Summer Smash '26)

On today's special REAL AF LIVE from Summer Smash '26, Andy and DJ break down the Senate rejecting another GOP push to revive the SAVE America Act, John Bolton pleading guilty to mishandling classified documents charges, and close the show with a live Q&AF session with the crowd.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:03Andy Frisella?

  Gino!

• 0:04Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 0:05Speaker 02

  Let the band play.

• 0:10Andy Frisella?

  Come on! Let's bring Andy and DJ! Yeah!

• 0:21Andy Frisella?

  What is that, motherfuckers?

• 0:27Andy Frisella?

  I'm Andy Faselli and you are listening to the show called "The Realist" Say Goodbye To The Lies And Delusions Of Modern Society And Welcome To Motherfucking Reality!

• 0:43Andy Frisella?

  Let's fucking go!

• 0:48Andy Frisella?

  Alright guys, what are we thinking?

• 0:56Andy Frisella?

  Are we having a good time?

• 0:59Andy Frisella?

  Alright, you guys ready for the show? Alright. Don't fuck it up! That's right, that's right, that's right. Alright guys, thank you guys so much for coming out. I know you guys, uh, a lot of you guys took off work. You know, you've spent a lot of money to come out here and be with us and we don't take that for granted. So before we get started, I just want to take a minute and just say I really appreciate you guys. DJ and I appreciate you guys supporting the show, um, sharing the show and, uh, not being motherfucking hoes. That's right, that's right, that's right. Alright. Hello children. Greetings. Salutations.

• 1:45Andy Frisella?

  Hell yeah, this is a good crowd. Yeah. This is a good crowd.

• 1:51Speaker 01

  Yeah. Hell yeah.

• 1:53Andy Frisella?

  This is the no hoe zone.

• 1:54Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 1:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, man.

• 1:56Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 1:57Andy Frisella?

  Let's go.

• 1:58Speaker 01

  Alright. Alright, so, uh, what we got? I think we should cruise the motherfucking internet.

• 2:07Speaker 01

  Yeah. I think that'd be fucking sick, right?

• 2:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:10Speaker 01

  Oh yeah. I heard too, we got an ASL interpreter here, right?

• 2:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's right here.

• 2:18Speaker 01

  I would like to learn some words. In ASL.

• 2:23Speaker 01

  The, uh, what about the, no, I'm playing.

• 2:29Speaker 01

  I ain't gonna go there. Yeah dude, let's cruise the internet, bro.

• 2:32Andy Frisella?

  Alright.

• 2:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, let's do it. Guys, you know how this works.

• 2:35Andy Frisella?

  I got my bougie water. You guys have bougie water today too.

• 2:38Speaker 01

  They gave me some too.

• 2:39Andy Frisella?

  It's a special occasion. I got my, uh...

• 2:41Speaker 01

  I don't even wanna open it.

• 2:42Andy Frisella?

  I got my white privilege card.

• 2:43Speaker 01

  There you go. There you go. There we go.

• 2:47Andy Frisella?

  That means I get to tell the right kinda jokes.

• 2:49Speaker 01

  That's right. That's right. And I'm black, so there's that.

• 2:55Andy Frisella?

  Alright, man.

• 2:55Speaker 01

  Hell yeah, man. Guys, you know how this works. If you guys would like to see any of these articles, pictures, links, videos, go to andyfrisella.com. Guys can check them all out there. Andy, we do got a fee.

• 3:10Andy Frisella?

  We do got a fee. As you guys know, we are the largest show in the world that does not run ads. The reason we don't run ads is because I cannot be told what to say or do. It's just not in my DNA.

• 3:29Andy Frisella?

  So I ask very simply,

• 3:32Andy Frisella?

  that if the show makes you laugh, it makes you think, it gives you new perspective. If you enjoy the show, don't be a hoe. Show yourself!

• 3:43Speaker 01

  Yeah. Dude, I see we got some kids in the crowd too.

• 3:49Speaker 01

  I don't know whose idea that was.

• 3:53Speaker 01

  That was not a good idea.

• 3:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:58Speaker 01

  How old is he right there? How old are you? Eight. Alright. Alright.

• 4:03Andy Frisella?

  Now you can learn some stuff today.

• 4:06Andy Frisella?

  I probably wouldn't repeat it at school.

• 4:08Speaker 01

  That's right, that's right. That's right, I'm gonna learn some ASL and you're gonna learn some no-no words.

• 4:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, man, hell yeah, let's get into it. I got something before we get to our headlines. I saw this. I thought this was really crazy. So there was a guy that crashed his Tesla. Anybody drive Teslas here?

• 4:31Speaker 01

  I would not raise my hand.

• 4:36Speaker 01

  This dude crashed his Tesla dude and they took a picture of what was on the screen when he crashed.

• 4:47Speaker 01

  And so on the screen, it says, "Bro crashed his Tesla in front of our house, probably speeding." And then a reply said, "Nah, more like gooning." First word for you.

• 5:01Andy Frisella?

  Latina live cam girls.

• 5:05Speaker 01

  Bro, on the Tesla screen.

• 5:07Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, they're just not cutting you anymore, they're making you crash your car.

• 5:10Speaker 01

  Dude, I didn't even know, Z, is that possible? You can like watch stuff like that on Teslas? I didn't even know that was possible.

• 5:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, but bro's the first person to get a driving while gooning violation. There's that, yeah, man. Hell yeah, let's get into some topics. We've got some stuff to talk about. There's a lot happening out there in the world, so as always, let's try to connect some dots.

• 5:39Speaker 01

  Guys, Andy?

• 5:41Speaker 01

  Headline number one. So, uh, the senate, not sure if you guys saw this. Uh, headline reads senate votes forty-eight to fifty to reject Save America Act. Four Republicans join the Democrats. Um, so the senate, uh, yesterday evening rejected the Save Act as part of, uh, the reconciliation package. Four Republicans voted to reject the Graham Amendment. Um, that's Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis, and Collins. So this was all about the voter ID stuff. Right? Um, and implementing that throughout the elections across the country. Um, and the senate just shot it down. So you got that happening, right?

• 6:24Speaker 01

  And then, at the same time, that's in the senate, you got the house just sent another nine billion dollars to Ukraine, right? And so you got that. I'm like, okay, there's always three, right? What's next? Um, and then you get this. All right. America created a hundred and seventy-two thousand jobs in May, nearly twice as many as expected, right? And that, I'm like, all right, cool. Sounds good. Sounds like a good thing, right? Now, Andy, you're an entrepreneur. You've hired a lot of people, all right? Um, and so all of this comes out, and then another very interesting

• 7:02Speaker 01

  report comes out that nine out of ten American jobs, pre-COVID, went to someone born outside of the country, to foreign-born workers. And, uh, you know, I did my, my fact-checking here, right? Went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and I saw this, and this is for even the most recent, American-born citizens have a higher unemployment rate than non-American-born citizens. And so, as an entrepreneur, as workers, other entrepreneurs in the crowd, is this like a, is, what is this?

• 7:46Andy Frisella?

  It's bullshit. Yeah. I mean, look, dude, uh, I think we can all agree that America is for fucking Americans, okay?

• 7:56Andy Frisella?

  I'm all about people coming here legally, becoming part of the culture, contributing. We have a lot of great cultures here in America. But the reality is, is that our focus should be on creating jobs for natural born American citizens as the priority. And to try and

• 8:23Andy Frisella?

  lie to people and make these creative remarks is the exact reason why people are becoming disenfranchised with Trump. Besides the fact that he's decided that, uh, you know, we belong in cahoots with Israel, uh, to the point of where they're trying to merge our militaries.

• 8:40Speaker 01

  Dude, I saw that. I didn't know what the fuck that was about.

• 8:43Andy Frisella?

  I thought it was fake at first, but apparently it's not.

• 8:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, apparently it's some real stuff and it's coming out of the Senate, but yeah. I mean, so is this?

• 8:51Speaker 01

  I don't know. Cause I mean, I see people talk about it too. It's like, oh man, like it's hard to find, you know, good employees, good workers out there. Like is that, is that really the truth? Like, is that really what's going on? Like are, are we as Americans too lazy right now?

• 9:05Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, I, I think there's something to be said for that. I think, look, I saw a tweet today that

• 9:12Andy Frisella?

  this woman had bought her daughter a brand new Honda Accord. For, you guys see that? Okay, for her graduation.

• 9:21Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 9:22Andy Frisella?

  All right. And the daughter said, I don't want it. It's not, it's not my style. That's what she, that's what she told her mom.

• 9:29Speaker 01

  That's fucked up.

• 9:30Andy Frisella?

  And she's like, I expected a Benz or a Mercedes. And, uh, you know, the level of entitlement that we have amongst the young people because they're brought up in a situation where they're getting rewarded for participation or not even being held accountable with their participation has created a situation where people don't believe that they have to work in order to have the lifestyle that they desire. And I think that's a big problem in the culture of America. You know, that's what we're trying to fix. That's what all of you guys are all about. That's why you're here.

• 10:06Andy Frisella?

  You know, that, that, it's gonna be a tough reality for those people because it doesn't matter if it's your style or fucking not. Like, no, the fact that someone's even buying you anything for your graduation like that,

• 10:20Andy Frisella?

  is incredibly generous and to have someone's own daughter spit in their eye for that, I think is, is a, is a good indication of where our, our, our youth is in terms of entitlement. And I think that comes from, you know, Instagram hustle culture. I think it comes from, uh, the fake flexing. I think it comes from, you know, all of these younger people trying to pretend like, you know, oh, I was in business for three weeks and I'm worth 10 billion dollars and all these kids see this shit.

• 10:45Speaker 01

  Same, bro, same.

• 10:47Andy Frisella?

  You know, all these kids see this shit and, and that creates this level of entitlement that is, uh, it's just not reality. So, it, it makes sense that, that those people don't feel like that they wanna work. And then when you have people that come from, and this has always been the case, this is nothing new.

• 11:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:03Andy Frisella?

  But when you have people that come from situations where, you know, it's, it's a harder life, they appreciate the opportunities that are given to them.

• 11:13Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 11:14Andy Frisella?

  And I think that's, you know, it's not just, I don't think the solution is, hey, let's make a government program to prioritize American jobs. I think the reality is, is that the culture has to change where people understand that what they give is what they're gonna get.

• 11:29Speaker 01

  Yeah. Another thing on that, I've always, like, I didn't understand it, I would say legitimately until like the last three years or so. But when people would say like, we have it, we, we've just had it too good for too long.

• 11:41Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 11:42Speaker 01

  I'd never really understood, like, what, like, what do you mean? You know what I'm saying? What do you, what do you mean we've had it too good? And then it's like, you see what's going on now. It's like, oh.

• 11:50Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 11:51Speaker 01

  We've had it way too.

• 11:52Andy Frisella?

  Well, look dude, from the years of 2008 to 2020, that was an eight-year span and entire generation grew up where we had no hardships. And the internet came around and created a lot of fast money. Social media came around and created a lot of fast money and those things are the exception, not the norm.

• 12:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:09Andy Frisella?

  And it create, you know, and then you have the school system not even teaching these kids what it means to actually achieve and get better and improve. And all of those things converge and create the situation that we have now.

• 12:20Speaker 01

  Yeah. They're not even teaching cursive in school anymore.

• 12:22Andy Frisella?

  Well.

• 12:24Speaker 01

  That's so crazy.

• 12:25Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 12:26Speaker 01

  That's so crazy.

• 12:26Andy Frisella?

  I don't think they're teaching English either.

• 12:29Speaker 01

  That wasn't a joke at me, guys. I mean, relax. Alright, y'all laughed a little too fucking hard at that one. Uh, dude, so I mean, you know, I know we talk about this all the time and it's really refreshing to see, you know, when we do these summer smashes, bro, like, we're surrounded by people, like, these people are here to win. Right? And it's refreshing. It's refreshing.

• 12:50Andy Frisella?

  100%.

• 12:52Speaker 01

  It's refreshing because you don't get to see that every single day, right? And I know we talk about it on the show, how important it is to really just get your shit in order. You know what I'm saying? And so it's like with all this job stuff, you know, you, you talk about this idea of becoming undeniable and, and undeniably great at what it is you're doing. Can we give some people some, some, some tools of the trade to, to take home back with them?

• 13:17Andy Frisella?

  Well, I mean, dude, clearly these people understand it. That's why they're here. You know, I could tell you just from looking at the crowd this year, you know, a lot of you guys have shown up. You're more fit. You're more in shape. You made progress. You know, I would willing to bet that you're probably in a better financial position than you were a year ago. You know, these things matter and that's the, those are the examples that set for, for culture. And when we get enough people that are living that and doing that, people start, it starts to become the way that things are. And so we have to understand that, you know, if we really want things to change, we have to understand who the tip of the spear is. And I don't see anybody else fucking doing it. I don't see anybody

• 13:59Andy Frisella?

  else out there talking about the solution being this. I see a lot of people saying, oh, we gotta vote for this or vote for that. Nobody's gonna vote their way into, into a better life. Nobody's gonna vote their way into a better body. Nobody's gonna vote their way into a better career. And people have to take that responsibility on their own shoulders to become that. And then that spreads and that's how things improve. And, and, you know, you could tell that a lot of the people on the internet that just continue to beat on the, on the, on the voting and the political drum don't understand how things work. They just don't. Like, you could fucking elect anybody, bro. You could elect the most qualified, best leader. You could put me in office, bro. I'm not gonna be able to change motherfuckers' personal lives. They have to do it on their own.

• 14:43Andy Frisella?

  And, and I think for some reason, we've gotten to the state where, you know, people would rather defer that responsibility because it's hard to take responsibility for your own shit to other people and then point the blame as to why nothing changes.

• 14:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:56Andy Frisella?

  And nothing's changing because America's people are not changing. Now, I think culture has made a lot of improvement over the last three or four years.

• 15:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:05Andy Frisella?

  You know, uh, the, the sense of humor's coming back. People are getting long. There's more unity than there has been. Everybody's realizing that both sides of the government are a bunch of fucking idiots. Okay?

• 15:16Speaker 03

  Woodchipper!

• 15:17Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, I mean, everybody's getting it. So, so those are good signs. I don't think it's, uh, I don't think that it's like it was seven years ago where people are oblivious.

• 15:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:28Andy Frisella?

  You know, awareness comes before change, and I think people are very aware right now.

• 15:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, for sure.

• 15:34Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 15:34Speaker 01

  For sure. I, I, can we do a little quick, uh, crowd survey real quick? Who's, who's happy with like the current state of affairs? Just in general, by show of hands. Let me do it this way. Who's, who's not happy with the current state of affairs?

• 15:49Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 15:51Speaker 01

  Dude, can we get, like, we also talk about like demoralization, right? I think this is probably the most demoralized I've been with just the state of affairs, the shit.

• 16:00Andy Frisella?

  Well, I mean, look, dude, I think like all of us, you know, we, we really did think there was gonna be some major disruption in the government system and some cleaning up. And when we see, you know, that these people are still voting against things like voter ID and making sure that our elections are secure. I mean, that is demoralizing. You know, but the reality is, is fucking dude, who knows if they're real or not anyway? Like, we don't know. And apparently, even if they are real, uh, any kind of pact that represents a foreign government, foreign interests could come in and dump unlimited money into it and fucking win the election. So like, do we really have the power that we, they say we have? You see what I'm saying?

• 16:41Andy Frisella?

  And for us to get it back, dude, it's gonna, we're gonna have to put so much pressure on these people uh, that they are literally afraid to not do these things.

• 16:51Speaker 01

  Undeniable pressure.

• 16:52Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 16:53Speaker 01

  That's what's needed right now. Yeah.

• 16:54Andy Frisella?

  So, and now is not the time to be demoralized. Now is the time to like make these people afraid of us.

• 16:59Speaker 01

  Hell, yeah.

• 16:59Andy Frisella?

  That's the time.

• 17:00Speaker 01

  You guys agree with that?

• 17:03Speaker 01

  Hell yeah, man. Hell yeah. I love it, dude. Uh, guys, jump down to the comments. Let us know what you guys think about that situation. With that being said,

• 17:15Speaker 01

  headline two. Uh, so, one of the other things we like to talk about is accountability. People going to fucking jail. That'd be great.

• 17:22Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 17:23Speaker 01

  And not just my people, right?

• 17:26Andy Frisella?

  What are you talking about, bro? None of your people are going to jail. It's all my people.

• 17:30Speaker 01

  Oh, ASL. How do you say my people? Let me see.

• 17:35Speaker 01

  That's a, that's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. Alright. People going to jail, dude. This is, uh, this was actually interesting. I know we covered this, uh, a few years ago, bro. Um, and it's finally showing some action. Headline two reads, John Bolton agrees to guilty plea to felony mishandling classified docs. Um, so thi- this, I mean, it's actually shocking to see. The dude's like 77 years old. So, like, I mean, I don't know how, how that's gonna work out in there. Uh, but, but yeah, let's dive into this. You got insufferable never Trumper, John Bolton, has worked out a plea deal and will plead guilty to a single count

• 18:17Speaker 01

  of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, reports far left CNN. Bolton was originally charged with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information. Um, a conviction on any of those counts, uh, would have meant serious jail time. On this one count, although the penalty is up to five years, the deal apparently comes with Bolton agreeing to plead guilty and pay a fine of 2.25 million dollars without jail time. Um, however, a judge could still sentence the 77-year-old to prison regardless of the plea deal. Now, I have a quick question. You've been working in the government for probably, you know, a hundred years.

• 19:02Speaker 01

  Oh, maybe I'm probably about to answer my question. How in the fuck would you have 2.25 million dollars to pay that fine? Like, how does that make sense?

• 19:11Speaker 03

  Defense contractors, man.

• 19:13Speaker 01

  You know what I'm saying?

• 19:14Andy Frisella?

  Look, dude, all this is, is a fucking bone, right? Like, this is tossing the people a bone. This dude is old, he's fucking done. They've been knowing about what he's been doing for fucking ever. And now it's like, oh, okay, well, now you gotta take a slap on the wrist for everybody. And the people will say that there's some accountability.

• 19:33Speaker 01

  The people will cheer and clap.

• 19:35Andy Frisella?

  No, motherfucker, we want to see people in handcuffs. We want to see people being walked out into fucking police cars. We want to see people behind bars. We want to see big names behind bars. We want to see people who've been fucking fleecing America for the last fucking two decades. The people who've been causing division, the people who have been propagating the lies. We want to see some real accountability, not some no name fuck from, you know, who gets on TV with the sourpuss face every week and fucking cries about Trump. Now you know why he hated Trump so bad.

• 20:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, no, he definitely did. That's your second word of the day, young man.

• 20:14Speaker 01

  The, uh, yeah, dude, and it's interesting too, man, because like all of the people who have done really bad things that we've talked about over the last six years, they're still out there just living the life.

• 20:25Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, man. Not only living a life, living a great life.

• 20:27Speaker 01

  Living great, living great.

• 20:29Andy Frisella?

  They don't seem to be worried, bro, because they know that everybody's taking care. This is a fucking club, dude. It's like, it's like George Carlin said, this is a club and you ain't fucking in it. You're not in it, I'm not in it, they're in it, we're not. And that's that. And like, dude, these people look after each other. They're all lawyers. Any of you guys who are lawyers, you understand how the fuck it works. Okay, y'all know each other. You go out and play golf, you have dinner. Your wives are friends. And then you say, hey, uh, Frisella's got a lawsuit against DJ and I think we can make it go on this long because we can get paid this much. So let's just play along. And that's how it works, dude. It's all fucking corrupt, all of it, from top to bottom.

• 21:09Andy Frisella?

  Like, when you guys go hire an attorney and you're like, you need him to do some shit for you. Do you not understand that that other attorney they've worked with a hundred times? Oh, hey, do you know that guy? Oh, I know him a little. No, motherfucker, that guy comes to your house for Christmas. Okay, these people all know each other, and that's the thing. Okay, when, when these guys go to government, you all think that like, the senators, the Republican senators and, and, you know, the Democrat senators, they don't like each other. That's not fucking true.

• 21:37Speaker 01

  No, it's not true.

• 21:38Andy Frisella?

  That's not true. They all hang out, dude. This is all, it's all corrupt, all of it. Both sides.

• 21:44Speaker 01

  Yeah. And so it's interesting to see people just still out there living great lives. Uh, somebody, one person in particular who's actually kind of making a comeback into the public spotlight, is, uh, good old Hunter Biden. And, uh, I, listen, I thought I was a troll online. I, I like to think I do pretty decent. My wife hates it. Uh, he's a fucking troll. Like, he's a pretty, I gotta give him credit on it. He's been responding to people, uh, on Twitter, is where he's getting this like resurgence of activity. I got some of the tweets here. Uh, somebody said, uh, bullshit. Uh, that was your bag of coke in the White House?

• 22:28Speaker 01

  He said, "It most definitely was not. I would never have fucking had my drugs."

• 22:37Andy Frisella?

  I mean, what's he got to be afraid of, dude? He already got pardoned for everything.

• 22:41Speaker 01

  Well, yeah, to that point, right? So, uh, another one he posted, he said, uh, this guy said, "You sound bitter for someone who benefited from a stolen erection", to which he responded, "I've never stolen an erection in my life."

• 22:56Speaker 01

  All right, that's decent. Um, somebody else said, "Your paintings, who give a fuck? I want to know how much coke you snorted before posting this tweet", to which he replied, "Man, if you're going to be mean, at least get it right. I smoked crack. I would never have wasted coke on snorting it."

• 23:14Speaker 01

  And, uh, that was pretty good. And, but to your point, you know, I bet you're grateful for that pardon. I sure am.

• 23:21Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 23:22Speaker 01

  I'd be pretty grateful, too.

• 23:24Andy Frisella?

  That sounds like an admission of guilt.

• 23:25Speaker 01

  It, well, and they can't get him. You know what I'm saying? And so, well, maybe, I mean, he might have been out up there. Um, but his most recent thing that I, I did think was really interesting, uh, he just posted this tweet out today. And it's a pretty long one, but he's basically going through

• 23:42Speaker 01

  the state of the world, state of the country. And he's like, things most Americans agree on. Groceries cost too much. Tariffs suck and make no sense. Congress and presidents shouldn't trade stocks. The debt is a mess. The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good. Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained. Americans are exhausted. And he can ends it. Saying the things we're told to fight about instead of ignoring all the issues. Are me, laptop, vaccines, transgenders in sports. That's word number three for you, little guy. And, uh, and he says, that's the joke. Right? Now, I'm not a big fan of Hunter personally, right?

• 24:28Speaker 01

  But I was reading through this tweet, dude, and like, I'm not gonna lie, like, a lot of that kinda made sense.

• 24:33Andy Frisella?

  Well, dude, he's not an idiot.

• 24:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 24:35Andy Frisella?

  Like, he's not a total moron. Okay, like, where was that when your dad was in office?

• 24:41Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 24:42Andy Frisella?

  Where was that shit when, you know, when you were not pardoned? You know what I mean?

• 24:47Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 24:47Andy Frisella?

  Like, yeah, it makes sense. And that's just proof that these motherfuckers up there in Washington know exactly what's going on.

• 24:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 24:54Andy Frisella?

  They know what's wrong. They know what people are pissed about. And everything else is a distraction that is, is caused for division. It's all about, uh, you know, how do we keep these people distracted so that they won't come together and literally, uh, put us in the fucking, you know, wood chipper.

• 25:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:10Andy Frisella?

  Legit.

• 25:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:11Andy Frisella?

  So, I mean, yeah, man, he's not wrong.

• 25:15Speaker 01

  He's not.

• 25:15Andy Frisella?

  Now, I think those, I think some of the issues he, he mentioned are, are relevant to argue about, you know?

• 25:21Speaker 01

  Uh, You mean the, the,

• 25:23Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, like the vaccines and the transgender and sports and pronouns and shit that matters to culture.

• 25:28Speaker 01

  It does.

• 25:29Andy Frisella?

  Okay, like, that's, that is designed to destroy basic, common knowledge.

• 25:37Andy Frisella?

  In culture and it's like I've said a million times, if they can convince you that a man is a woman and a woman is a man, then how, what it, what is it that they couldn't convince you of? And they have convinced a lot of people that that's true. So if they could convince them that that's true, can't they convince them of anything else? I mean, isn't that the most fundamental, basic reality of human existence? Like, three-year-old kids know that shit.

• 26:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:01Andy Frisella?

  You know what I mean?

• 26:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, good is bad, bad is good.

• 26:04Andy Frisella?

  Right.

• 26:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, it's evident, dude. Um, it's, it's evident. What, what's your thoughts?

• 26:12Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, I've never liked this guy.

• 26:13Speaker 01

  I mean, I feel like I've seen him before.

• 26:16Andy Frisella?

  You have. He's on TV all the time. He's always.

• 26:19Speaker 01

  No, no, I meant like in like a real life. I just don't know from where.

• 26:22Andy Frisella?

  He looks like that crabby neighbor. You know? Get off my lawn, yeah.

• 26:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's saying that to me for sure.

• 26:29Andy Frisella?

  Yep.

• 26:30Speaker 01

  For sure, he's saying that to me.

• 26:32Andy Frisella?

  No, that's not what he's saying.

• 26:34Speaker 01

  What's he, what's he saying, eh?

• 26:36Andy Frisella?

  They're, they're, they're invading the neighborhood.

• 26:40Andy Frisella?

  Public property's coming down now. We gotta fucking move. That's what he's saying. There they come. I'm gonna get away from there. That's what the fuck he's saying. I'm just letting you in on the white people shit.

• 26:54Speaker 01

  What kind of dog does he have? He looks like.

• 26:57Andy Frisella?

  He fucking hates dogs.

• 26:58Speaker 01

  He's like, does he?

• 26:59Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 27:01Speaker 01

  He's a cat man?

• 27:02Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, that, no, that, that guy, that guy likes little kids.

• 27:07Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, that's his, that's his choice.

• 27:10Speaker 01

  Hell yeah, bear. Yeah, it's, it's gonna be interesting. Like I said, Hunter, he also, Hunter went on Candace Owens. Did you guys see the Candace Owens, Hunter Biden collab? Yeah, no? Yeah? Um, but yeah, I mean, he's basically like, like lying it out. He's been getting slammed too in the comments because people are like, oh, you know, I'm really supposed to listen to an ex-crack addict and stuff like that. It's like, I mean, he is seven years sober allegedly. I mean, I can't confirm that. Um, if that is true, that's, that's awesome, you know, that, that takes a lot of strength. That's.

• 27:40Andy Frisella?

  Well, look, what he said was true, dude. Everybody fucks up, okay? Everybody makes poor life decisions. Every single one of us here has done shit that we would rather not the public know, okay? And if you say you didn't, you're full of shit. All right, there's been one perfect person that ever existed on the planet and you ain't him. Uh, you know, so. Yeah, so the reality, and one of the things that bothers me so much is that. We are willing to destroy each other's lives over the skeletons in the closet. But yet we give grace to these politicians to destroy our lives every single day. And then we'll fight over which one's better, bro. It's not which one's better. They all, they all fucking suck.

• 28:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:25Andy Frisella?

  Right?

• 28:25Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:26Andy Frisella?

  So like, why are we giving grace to them, but not giving grace to, to our neighbors?

• 28:30Speaker 01

  It's even worse than grace. It's almost like they can't do anything wrong. You know what I'm saying? Like they're just perfect. Like, oh no.

• 28:36Andy Frisella?

  I mean, you want to get away with your skeletons, dude? Just run for office.

• 28:39Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 28:39Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 28:41Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 28:42Andy Frisella?

  It's kind of like part of the deal.

• 28:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:44Andy Frisella?

  So, you know, I, I just think, I, you know, I, I agree with him and, and not everybody's skeletons making it in the public eye. So, you know, I, I can't, you know, what, do I think he's a delinquent? Yeah.

• 28:55Speaker 01

  For sure.

• 28:56Andy Frisella?

  But I fucking know a lot of delinquents too, bro.

• 28:58Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 28:58Andy Frisella?

  You know what I'm saying? Like I've been one at points in my life.

• 29:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 29:02Andy Frisella?

  So have you. So have some of you guys. Probably most of you.

• 29:05Speaker 01

  I still am.

• 29:06Andy Frisella?

  Yeah. But the reality is, is like, you know, I, yeah, fine. Cool, man. But, you know, where was the shit when, when it was all going on with your dad?

• 29:16Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 29:16Andy Frisella?

  Right?

• 29:17Speaker 01

  Burisma.

• 29:18Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 29:18Speaker 01

  Well, nobody even talks about that shit no more. Like, like how?

• 29:21Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, he conveniently left all that out.

• 29:23Speaker 01

  Dude.

• 29:24Andy Frisella?

  You know, he talks about the debt being out of control, but then doesn't acknowledge the fact that, uh, you know, how much his own family has benefited from the fleecing of America.

• 29:33Speaker 01

  From that debt?

• 29:34Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 29:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 29:35Andy Frisella?

  I mean, do we really think Joe Biden could be effective at anything? Like what would he do in real life? Yeah. I mean, like even when he was in his prime, even when he was in his prime, which is giving him some credit.

• 29:47Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 29:47Andy Frisella?

  Okay? What could he have done?

• 29:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 29:50Andy Frisella?

  Right? So they've all benefited from us. And they, they leave those things out when they talk about what's wrong.

• 29:57Speaker 01

  It's convenient.

• 29:58Andy Frisella?

  Yeah. And that's the worst thing that's wrong.

• 30:00Speaker 01

  Yeah. That's real, man. Guys, jump in this conversation. Let us know down in the comments what you guys think. Uh, third and final headline, yeah?

• 30:11Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 30:11Speaker 01

  Headline number three. All right. Now this is, uh, oh, you guys like that picture?

• 30:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:21Speaker 01

  That's a real picture. That's no Photoshop. We took that.

• 30:24Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 30:27Andy Frisella?

  I'm bringing back the, uh, the short sleeve sport coat.

• 30:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, dude, it's a good look, bro. It's a good look. I'm not gonna lie. It's a good look.

• 30:36Andy Frisella?

  Um, has anybody ever seen a short sleeve sport coat?

• 30:41Andy Frisella?

  Yeah. How many of you guys have one? I'm sure a couple of you guys have one.

• 30:46Speaker 01

  Z Shion's got one for sure.

• 30:47Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 30:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, man. Uh, now this is an interesting topic, you know? You guys know how I like to, every now and then it's good to, you know, get in tune with your true self. Right? And, um, yeah. Headline number three. What is a Kool-Aid pineapple? The viral and controversial food trend taking over social media. Explain. Have you seen these?

• 31:18Andy Frisella?

  No.

• 31:19Speaker 01

  Oh, okay.

• 31:20Andy Frisella?

  Yeah. I have no idea what that means.

• 31:22Speaker 01

  Who in here knows what that is?

• 31:25Andy Frisella?

  I know out there.

• 31:26Speaker 01

  Don't raise your hand, bro. Hey, you can't raise. Come on, man.

• 31:29Andy Frisella?

  I know, I know out there in Newtown, they put pineapples out on their, uh, on their porch.

• 31:34Speaker 01

  That's different. That's, yeah, that's different hood. That's a different hood.

• 31:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, this is, this is, uh, this is actually like, dude, it's a big, big thing, uh, moving around. Um, there's been a lot of controversial food trends over the past few years. Uh, there was that NyQuil chicken that came out.

• 31:51Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, there was that canceling of the Choco Taco.

• 31:54Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 31:55Andy Frisella?

  Fucking abomination.

• 31:56Speaker 01

  That's right. Um, but there's Kool-Aid pineapples. They're proving to be one of the most shocking, not only for their concept, but for their sugar content. The trend essentially involves soaking pineapple spears in Kool-Aid drink mix and people are going viral, uh, for selling them out of the back of their cars or.

• 32:17Andy Frisella?

  Well, they did say that, you know, it's, there's a lot of illegals.

• 32:22Speaker 01

  Hellcats.

• 32:23Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 32:24Speaker 01

  Uh, so, so this has been going crazy. I got a couple of clips here. Let's, uh, let's check this out.

• 32:35Andy Frisella?

  Oh, man.

• 32:39Speaker 01

  That's chicken. That, that's chicken.

• 32:45Andy Frisella?

  We know, we know.

• 32:53Speaker 01

  What the fuck is that?

• 32:54Andy Frisella?

  That's a waffle.

• 32:57Speaker 01

  A blue waffle.

• 32:59Andy Frisella?

  That's number four, little guy.

• 33:06Andy Frisella?

  So, I thought this was about pineapple.

• 33:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, it was further the video with the, with the stuff. They got a, was it a trooper?

• 33:13Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 33:14Speaker 01

  They got, they got him trying it.

• 33:16Speaker 04

  See what he thinks.

• 33:22Speaker 04

  That's it, man. That's good? Well, we appreciate you. Thank you.

• 33:27Andy Frisella?

  He just throws it right back in there, huh?

• 33:31Speaker 01

  And it's gotten so crazy that people are going to Costco and buying the entire pallet of pineapple spears.

• 33:39Speaker 05

  I'mma bet on me. I said, but I really came from Fort Mylesden. I said, I'mma, I'mma bet on me. I'm gonna believe in me because I know what I got inside me. I'm gonna bet on me regardless of what you think. I'm gonna be there for me regardless of you there or not. I'm gonna bet on me every darn time.

• 33:59Andy Frisella?

  That's your problem, bro.

• 34:03Speaker 01

  So, um, so I got something for you.

• 34:09Andy Frisella?

  I'm not trying that shit, dude.

• 34:14Speaker 01

  So I went to Wally's and I got some pineapple spears. Now, it's summer smash, we gotta be healthy, right?

• 34:22Speaker 01

  So I put grape, grape smash into these drinks in there.

• 34:24Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, you go ahead.

• 34:26Speaker 01

  You don't want to try?

• 34:27Andy Frisella?

  I want 75 hard, man.

• 34:28Speaker 01

  Oh, okay, alright.

• 34:31Speaker 01

  Who wants to try one with me?

• 34:34Speaker 03

  Last day, right?

• 34:35Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, it's day 75.

• 34:36Speaker 03

  Yes, sir.

• 34:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, so I mixed them. I feel like, you know, just to get in tune with the culture.

• 34:47Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 34:48Speaker 01

  You know what I'm saying?

• 34:50Andy Frisella?

  Huh?

• 34:51Speaker 01

  I don't know, just pass it out. Who, who gonna try one with me?

• 34:54Andy Frisella?

  Oh, you made one?

• 34:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, we, we used it with Summer Smash.

• 34:56Andy Frisella?

  Alright, alright.

• 34:57Speaker 01

  With, with the Grape Smash.

• 35:00Speaker 01

  Now, these been soaking for a long time.

• 35:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, just mix all of that, those sweat fingers in there.

• 35:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, too.

• 35:12Andy Frisella?

  How is it? It's good?

• 35:14Speaker 01

  Is it good? Is it good?

• 35:18Speaker 02

  I know.

• 35:19Speaker 01

  That's actually not fucking bad.

• 35:20Andy Frisella?

  Really?

• 35:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:21Speaker 01

  That's actually not bad.

• 35:23Andy Frisella?

  Huh?

• 35:24Speaker 01

  It's actually not bad.

• 35:26Andy Frisella?

  Maybe we're on to something here. Maybe he is betting on me.

• 35:31Speaker 01

  Okay, so, so, so that's the other thing about it. Like, this, this cup from Wallace was like four bucks. They're selling these things for thirty dollars.

• 35:40Andy Frisella?

  Bro, I, how?

• 35:43Andy Frisella?

  See, this is the problem.

• 35:45Speaker 01

  That's, are you the entrepreneur, bro? Let's talk about it.

• 35:47Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, dude. It's not that people don't have money, it's that they're stupid with their fucking money.

• 35:51Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 35:52Andy Frisella?

  Okay?

• 35:53Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 35:53Andy Frisella?

  They're in a pineapple and the fucking plant is worth thirty fucking dollars.

• 35:58Andy Frisella?

  And I'm rich, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not paying thirty dollars for a fucking pineapple.

• 36:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're selling them for thirty dollars. And the, the, I think the Costco ones are like five bucks, and I mean, fuck, how much, I don't know how much a Kool-Aid packet is. It's been a minute.

• 36:14Speaker 02

  More now.

• 36:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's like ten cents, bro. Ten cents, and all they're doing is pouring.

• 36:18Andy Frisella?

  I mean, maybe it is a good business.

• 36:20Speaker 01

  Profit margins are ridiculous.

• 36:22Andy Frisella?

  Maybe that guy's right. Yeah, I'll get that mountain berry pineapple slice.

• 36:26Speaker 01

  Bro, I'm saying.

• 36:27Andy Frisella?

  I'll steal it.

• 36:28Speaker 01

  This actually, this was not bad. This was not bad.

• 36:30Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 36:31Speaker 01

  I didn't mind it. Um, yeah, I mean, is this a venture that like?

• 36:34Andy Frisella?

  Hey, man, if the margins are good and the, and the market demands it, and you're willing to do it, you know, there's, there's a couple of things you gotta have in business. You gotta have the margin, you gotta have the market, and you gotta be willing to do what they can't, can't do or won't do.

• 36:47Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 36:48Andy Frisella?

  And if you can do those things and there's money to be made, why not?

• 36:50Speaker 01

  Madak, give some on this side.

• 36:54Speaker 01

  They, they want, they wanna try the pineapples over there.

• 36:58Speaker 01

  We're doing some Q and A for this? Yeah, okay. You gave it to a black guy first. That's, that's not, come on, my dad. Damn Bosnians. It's not bad. It's not bad, dude. It's not bad. And it's healthy. So there you go.

• 37:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, let's, uh, yeah, guys, jump in the comments. Let us know what you guys think about the viral, uh, Hula Pineapple. Um, and let us know. Uh, with that being said, it is time for our final segment for CTI. We have thumbs up or dumb as fuck. And I've, uh, transitioned from talking about my people to talk about you guys' people. Uh, because this might be even worse. Uh, our thumbs up, you guys know how this works. We bring a headline in, we talk about it, we vote on it, we give it one of these two options. Um, and our thumbs up or dumb as fuck headline reads, scientist turned yeast found in gut of ancient mummy into very good sourdough bread. That's your people, bro. That's all people.

• 38:00Speaker 01

  It ain't no black scientist in that fucking room. I'm telling you right now. It ain't happening.

• 38:05Andy Frisella?

  I would agree with that.

• 38:06Speaker 01

  It ain't happening. It ain't happening. I'll show you the room.

• 38:08Andy Frisella?

  They're all Indian.

• 38:12Andy Frisella?

  All of them.

• 38:14Speaker 01

  Dude, this is fucking disgusting.

• 38:16Andy Frisella?

  Wait, they actually are. Go back.

• 38:19Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, see?

• 38:20Speaker 01

  Yep. Zishan's uncle right there.

• 38:23Andy Frisella?

  That's some nasty shit.

• 38:25Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 38:26Andy Frisella?

  So who even thinks of something like that?

• 38:28Speaker 01

  I don't know. I don't, I don't.

• 38:30Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 38:32Speaker 01

  Very mummy in my tummy. Uh, scientist used yeast found in an ancient iceman's gut to bake very good sourdough bread and have beer making next on their list. His body, extremely well preserved from being entombed in glacial conditions, has provided researchers with a window into life during the copper age. Uh, these include gut bacteria from his microbiome during his lifetime, cold adapted microorganisms from his glacial tomb, and modern microbes from his decades, uh, decades of conservation, the findings said. Quote, "Our study reveals that, uh, Adzzi is not a static biological inert relic. He is a dynamic ecosystem."

• 39:18Speaker 01

  By, uh, microbiologist and lead author of the study, Mohammed, no.

• 39:23Speaker 01

  Mohammed of Yorac Research Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy, told Reuters.

• 39:31Andy Frisella?

  Bro, this feels like another one of those cricket things. Like, hey, man, crickets are great. We're gonna start eating them, you know? Hey, by the way, you know, you can use grandma's gut biome for this amazing recipe. She'll live forever inside of you.

• 39:44Speaker 01

  You put that shit in your...

• 39:48Speaker 01

  Bro, you put that shit in the sour bread, y'all gonna eat that shit. You'll eat it. Y'all eat it.

• 39:53Andy Frisella?

  I'm not eating it. The fuck you talking about?

• 39:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, this is fucking disgusting, dude.

• 39:59Andy Frisella?

  Yeah. So, so what are we given this? Are we, is this, is... Yeah, this is dumb as fuck. This sounds like a, this sounds like a play. We, you ever notice, man, there's no new cemeteries?

• 40:11Speaker 01

  Okay, all right, well, hold on.

• 40:12Andy Frisella?

  Let's talk about that.

• 40:13Speaker 01

  We gotta have a conversation.

• 40:14Andy Frisella?

  You ever notice that? Why the fuck are there no new cemeteries?

• 40:18Speaker 01

  Like, how does that work?

• 40:19Andy Frisella?

  What do they do with everybody? That's what I'm saying. They're going into McDonald's, bro.

• 40:25Andy Frisella?

  Allegedly, allegedly.

• 40:29Andy Frisella?

  Don't sue me, it was a joke.

• 40:30Speaker 01

  You're about to get Mc sued, dawg.

• 40:35Speaker 01

  Bro, I've never been to a grand opening for a cemetery.

• 40:38Andy Frisella?

  I haven't either. I haven't even seen one being built.

• 40:41Speaker 01

  No, I, I mean, how do you build a cemetery?

• 40:43Andy Frisella?

  Like, I don't even know. Dude, you buy property, start digging holes. But I mean, I've not seen a new one under development.

• 40:47Speaker 01

  I've never seen one.

• 40:48Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 40:49Speaker 01

  I've never seen one.

• 40:49Andy Frisella?

  It doesn't make sense.

• 40:50Speaker 01

  And people dying every day.

• 40:51Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 40:52Speaker 01

  Cremations are not up. It's not like they're getting cremated.

• 40:54Andy Frisella?

  I don't know, man. I don't know.

• 40:57Speaker 01

  It's fucking, yeah.

• 40:58Andy Frisella?

  That's something to think about.

• 40:59Speaker 01

  That's a dark rabbit hole to get down.

• 41:01Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 41:01Speaker 01

  Um, hell, yeah. Well, uh, thumbs down for that.

• 41:04Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 41:05Speaker 01

  You guys can keep your mummies in your sourdough. Uh, for the show, guys, Andy, that's all we got.

• 41:11Andy Frisella?

  That's it. Uh, we're gonna do some Q and A, so you guys are listening. You guys listening on the feed and watching on YouTube, you're gonna get, uh, both shows today.

• 41:20Speaker 01

  A little double dose, actually.

• 41:21Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, so we're gonna do a few questions. Uh, I guess we're doing them live from the crowd, huh?

• 41:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's right. That was right. Now, now, guys, just a little housekeeping.

• 41:32Speaker 01

  So the mics will be up here in the front, alright? Uh, don't fight each other over it.

• 41:36Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, and let's get right to the question.

• 41:38Speaker 01

  Yup. Let's just, uh, let's have some good ones. I can't control the good ones, so have some good ones.

• 41:45Speaker 03

  You sign my daughter's book?

• 41:46Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, I'll sign it.

• 41:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, right here.

• 41:50Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, somebody grab that book, bring it up here.

• 41:56Speaker 01

  Hell yeah.

• 41:58Speaker 01

  So, so Z, give it up for Zishon real quick, guys.

• 42:03Speaker 01

  A- actually, let's give it up for the-

• 42:07Andy Frisella?

  Liberty?

• 42:07Speaker 01

  Oh, hell yeah.

• 42:08Andy Frisella?

  That's a good.

• 42:09Speaker 01

  That's a good name. Let's give a round of applause for the whole podcast team, guys.

• 42:16Speaker 01

  We, we, so the, the schedule got moved up, things had to happen, and the real AF team's been crushing it, and, uh, really appreciate you guys making us look good.

• 42:28Speaker 03

  Now, who has a good question?

• 42:31Speaker 03

  Good question, for sure?

• 42:33Speaker 01

  Who's gonna be the judge in that?

• 42:36Speaker 03

  Alright, be close to the mic a little bit.

• 42:39Speaker 06

  Uh, how do you know when you're being patient with a goal versus when you're actually just playing too small?

• 42:44Speaker 01

  How do you know when you're being too patient with a goal versus playing too small?

• 42:49Andy Frisella?

  Well, are you seeing any feedback with your goal, any indications that it is materializing? Are you doing the things required consistently, honestly, objectively, down the path, or are you not? And are you just sitting there waiting for it to happen? You know, there's a big difference between the two. A lot of people think that they can just have a goal and they can sort of go after it, and that it's going to materialize, and that's just not how it works. It takes way, way, way, way, way more focus and dedication than what people actually believe to accomplish it, especially in business. You could transform your body in, in 75 days, okay? If you're completely out of shape, you can do it in six months. That's the truth.

• 43:34Andy Frisella?

  But what's that take? That takes every single meal, that takes every single workout, that takes every single detail. Every single T crossed, every single I dotted, that's the level of focus that it takes to create that change. And for some reason, when it comes to people's goals and their careers, they think that that's not what's required. In fact, it even requires more than that. So are you actually giving that kind of effort, or are you not? And a lot of the reason that people get frustrated with the time it takes to achieve something is because they can't honestly look themselves in the mirror and tell themselves that they're doing everything that they can. So there's that. There's also the lack of perspective.

• 44:17Andy Frisella?

  If you've never really achieved a goal like that, you don't know how long it takes. And I'm here to tell you that typically it takes longer than you think it's going to take. One of the things that my team knows about me, they know two things. One, every fucking thing I tell them, we will do and will come true. Every single thing. If you've been around me long enough, there is not a single thing that I've ever said that we are going to achieve that we don't achieve. They also know this. I say we're gonna do it in 30 days.

• 44:50Andy Frisella?

  And then I get mad when it doesn't happen in 30 days, but I continue to press and we continue to work. And because of that intensity and because of that urgency, it comes as fast as possible. So, you know, we all want things to happen now. But objectively, you know, the thing that you really have to pay attention to is what's the evidence that you're seeing along the way? Are there signs that things are happening? And if you're not seeing signs that things are happening, are you doing everything that you can? And if you are doing everything you can, are you doing the right things? And these are the questions that you have to evaluate down the way. So, you know, there's always risk to the plan being the right plan.

• 45:33Andy Frisella?

  But if you're doing everything that you can and you're evaluating the feedback as it comes, you're able to pivot along the way. You know, a lot of people think that when they start, they start here at point A and let's say, uh, point Z is their end goal and they have this plan to get there. Well, sometimes that plan is not the exact plan that's going to get there. You're going to go down, you're going to go down the path and you're going to see, uh, you know, there's going to be a wall or there's going to be a, a, a tree that you can't get around or whatever. And you're going to have to make a left turn or a right turn. And then you're going to have to go around that and come right back to it. Some of those walls you can break down. Some of those walls, you're going to have to figure out a way over or around. And it's all about keeping the end goal in mind and evaluating the data that shows up along the way.

• 46:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, dude, you know, so when I got with, with Andy, one of the first things that he taught me, uh, and kind of instilled was, was the fact of like how important it was to set bigger goals. Right? And you told me, he's like, dude, you're thinking too small. And I think like, you know, if I look back, I like most people, we're told all of our lives to be realistic.

• 46:37Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 46:38Speaker 01

  How do you snap out of that? How do you, how do you?

• 46:41Andy Frisella?

  Well, I mean, look at people's lives who say that.

• 46:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:44Andy Frisella?

  I mean, everybody who says set realistic goals lives a life that they're not happy with. That's the truth. Okay. Uh, big goals create big action, which creates big results. Small goals that say, create realistic actions, which create small results.

• 47:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 47:02Andy Frisella?

  Okay. That's the reality of the difference. If you know that you've got to climb, uh, you know, this hill at the park and it's not that big of a deal, you're not really thinking about it. It's not that urgent. You don't train for it. It's no big deal. If you know that you're going to go climb, climb Mount Everest, you're going to take it a lot more fucking serious. You're going to be out training. You're going to be out working. You're going to be out making sure that you have the capacity physically and mentally to do that. And when it comes to our lives, we're on a timeline and that timeline eventually ends. And the bigger the goal, the bigger the action, the bigger the results. And that is the way it works. And people will say, well, you know, you're, uh, uh, uh, uh. No, dude, that's just the way it works. Okay.

• 47:45Andy Frisella?

  And so this whole thing about being realistic. If you listen to people like that, you end up like people like that. And I don't know a single person that says set a realistic goal that has any kind of life that I would want.

• 47:56Speaker 01

  That's unrealistic.

• 47:56Andy Frisella?

  I've never seen it. Right? So like if you have big dreams and you have big outcomes in mind, good, you should probably try to make it bigger because even if you don't hit that end result of the Z, uh, you might get to the Y, you know what I'm saying? And that's a hell of a lot better than just getting to the C. You see what I'm saying? So when we think about it like that, that's, that's, that's how it really works.

• 48:19Speaker 01

  Yeah. Yeah, I love it, dude. What we got next, E?

• 48:23Andy Frisella?

  Somebody from here?

• 48:27Speaker 04

  I got one.

• 48:28Andy Frisella?

  Alright, go for it.

• 48:29Speaker 04

  Thanks, Andy and DJ. Um, yeah, I own a business with my brother and another partner. We started from the same place and built it together, but over time I felt like our visions have started to divide. On top of that, my brother and I have been struggling to communicate productively and sometimes it feels like it's holding the business back. Um, how do you handle business partnerships when everyone started with the same vision, but over the time the vision, communication and work ethic seems to drift apart? At what point do you decide to work through it versus moving on and building your own?

• 49:01Andy Frisella?

  Well, lack of communication is the number one killer of all businesses, all partnerships of any kind, friendships, relationships, business. If people aren't aligned, then they drift apart naturally. And so this takes constant communication, not just communication when, uh, you know, things have drifted so far apart that you've got to like wrangle it back in. That's not saying that you can't get it back, but what it is saying is that you should learn this as a lesson. So there's two things that you need to do. One, you need to sit down with your brother and you need to say, and you need to look him right in the fucking eye and you say, hey, bro, I love you. You're my brother. I'd fucking do anything for you. We gotta go bury a body, fucking call me. I'll show up with a shovel and a lime. I don't give a fuck. But here's the thing, we can't win

• 49:46Andy Frisella?

  if we're both looking at different outcomes when it comes to business. If you're looking over here and I'm looking over there and you think we're trying to go to this place and I'm thinking we're going to this place, how the fuck are we going to get anywhere? And you gotta have an honest conversation. And if he has common sense and intelligence, which I'm assuming he does, he's going to understand that. And then you're going to have a conversation. He's going to say, well, I think we should do this. And you're going to say, well, I think we should do that. And you're going to have to sit there in a room until you come to a place where you both agree that you need to be. And That's the corrective conversation. And then along the way, so that's the first part. Okay, you got to correct what's happening. The second part is you have to have a regular cadence of communication and outcomes that are unified. Okay, so like how it works in bigger business.

• 50:32Andy Frisella?

  Like we have a board meeting every quarter. Okay, now you may be a small operation. It's just you two, you guys can have a quote unquote board meeting literally every day. Right?

• 50:42Andy Frisella?

  But we come in every quarter. In fact, I'm leaving straight from here to go to a board meeting.

• 50:48Andy Frisella?

  And we sit down every quarter and we say, okay, here's the outcomes for the next 90 days. This is what we're trying to do is everybody aligned. And we have that conversation on a consistent basis, which keeps the drift from happening. Okay, so what you're going through is a natural thing. It's not something that is, oh, we got to toss the business in the trash or, you know, my brother sucks and we're not going to talk anymore. A lot of people ruin their lives, ruin their business, ruin their their family relationships because they're afraid to have simple conversations. And dude, one thing I learned from my dad, which has been very, very helpful in my life, is that you should never be afraid to have conversations specifically about money

• 51:31Andy Frisella?

  or outcomes in business because everybody benefits from those things. So we're taught as we grow up that it's kind of rude to talk about money or it's weird to talk about money. And we get this hesitation that leaks over into other things like business, especially where we hesitate to have those conversations because it's it feels awkward. But dude, it's like anything else. Once you start to have those conversations on a consistent basis, there's no awkwardness to it. You know, me and my brother can sit down and and and Chris and Ryan and all my business partners, we could sit down and be like, At this point in time, we're like, hey, motherfucker, like, this is what the fuck is going on? And it's not personal. Like, we all know that we all have our best interests in mind.

• 52:16Andy Frisella?

  We all trust that we have our best interests in mind. Nothing's personal, even if the tone is frustrating. Nobody takes it personally. And then we walk out of the room with the stated outcome. And then we all go do our parts. And so you got to do two things. One, you got to wrangle in the distance that you've created. And then, two, you got to set a cadence for regular communication so that that sort of divide doesn't happen again.

• 52:38Speaker 01

  And you've talked about in the past, too, like, early on in business with you and Chris, how important is the divide and conquer mentality? Right? I think you've described it, you and Chris, as being like yin and yang.

• 52:51Andy Frisella?

  Yeah. Well, I mean, look, dude, there's... Another thing that destroys most businesses is that everybody's trying to do the same role.

• 53:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:01Andy Frisella?

  Okay?

• 53:03Andy Frisella?

  Early in the business, you know, everybody wants to be the CEO because they think that that's like a fucking cool title to have.

• 53:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:10Andy Frisella?

  But if everybody's trying to be the CEO, then who's being the COO? Who's operating the backside? Who's handling this? And what we have to come to is an understanding that no one position is more important than the other. Okay? Like, Chris and I had an active conversation in the early days of business, okay? I remember I was driving down Highway 55 here. I said, "Look, man, one of us has to be the face and one of us has to run the backend." And that's what it has to be. And I told him straight up, I said, "I'll do whichever one you want." And he's like, "Well, I don't want to be the face." I'm like, "Well, then I'll fucking do it. You do that." And that was that. And, you know, you guys always ask, you're like, "Well, where's Chris? Why isn't he..." Well, that's not his role.

• 53:51Andy Frisella?

  And I don't walk into his office and, you know, think that my role is more important than his role. Right? Or that my role is more important than Sal's role. All of these things have to come together in unison in order to function properly, which takes humility on everybody's part.

• 54:09Andy Frisella?

  You know, the megalomania of CEO, you know, the ego that people derive. Let me tell you something, dude. If you've never actually been a CEO of a company, like a real company, it's fucking not what you think it is. Okay, you're you are the fucking, you are, you are carrying the burden of the entire fucking operation. And more importantly, you're answering publicly for all the fucking fuckups that you're gonna make. And that that's hard, dude.

• 54:38Speaker 01

  Some that you don't make.

• 54:39Andy Frisella?

  Dude, no, all the ones that you don't make. Like, you know, like when something happens at First Form, uh, it's attached to my name. You know what I'm saying? It's attached to Sal's name. He has to fucking own that. Like, he has to answer for that. There's a lot of things that come with it that aren't that cool. And there's a lot of benefits to being the other guy, too. And I think, you know, honestly, dude, like,

• 55:02Andy Frisella?

  if I'm being like completely candid, like, it would be a lot more fun to be the other guy. It just would be. So, but, but people gotta play the role.

• 55:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 55:10Andy Frisella?

  You know what I mean?

• 55:11Speaker 01

  Yeah. Love it, man.

• 55:13Speaker 04

  Thank you. Appreciate it.

• 55:14Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, brother. Yeah, brother. All the roles are important. Look, man, one of the things that makes First Form, First Form, or any of the companies that I've involved in, run, is that we understand a very basic thing. It doesn't matter who, what your title is. You're, you have a job to do. And if you're in the backpack and boxes, that is just as critical of a job as the CEO making decisions for the rest of the team. They both are required to be done at a high level, and one cannot be treated less important than the other. And I know people say that shit, but do they actually mean it? And that's the difference. Okay, I can tell you this. When I say that shit, I mean it.

• 55:58Andy Frisella?

  And I believe that my, my guys that work in the back, I believe that they would tell you that I mean that. Um, and if you have that genuine attitude and that genuine intent, and there's no ego involved, and of course, there's gonna be times where ego comes into play. Okay? Because everybody wants to brag about the shit that they contributed, especially when they're not getting recognition. But. You have to learn to squash that and minimize that and catch yourself when you find yourself in those positions and remember what the goal is. And the bigger the company, the easier it gets to remember that because it's not just you and your brother anymore. Now it's you and your brother and 400 other fucking people that have families and lives and guess what? They're betting on you.

• 56:41Andy Frisella?

  So you don't have time to fucking ego it out. We got a mission. We got to achieve it. People's families and livelihoods depend on it. And that shit, if you keep that at the, at the, at the top of your mind, it will keep you humble enough to make the right decisions and understand that all the roles are important.

• 56:56Speaker 01

  Hell yeah, man.

• 56:57Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 56:58Speaker 01

  Hell yeah.

• 57:00Speaker 03

  Before we get into the next question, how awesome was that?

• 57:06Speaker 03

  Where do you get such free game like that? I'm just enunciating it is because we make the podcast in a room. We don't hear from people enough. But for the past hour before we started the podcast, every single person that I talked to was thanking you guys and the team for putting the stuff that you put out. And I just wanted them to tell you how grateful they are for the free game that you gave.

• 57:31Andy Frisella?

  Hey, man.

• 57:38Andy Frisella?

  Oh, that, that, you know, I appreciate that. Uh, it's never something I take for granted, but it's also not something that I require ever. I don't require recognition like that. Uh, I, we, we totally appreciate it.

• 57:50Speaker 01

  100%.

• 57:51Andy Frisella?

  The reason we do this is because I need you guys to go out and win, man. If we're gonna, if we're gonna save this country and we're gonna fix what's going on, it's gonna require you guys to win. And I feel obligated to do what I do and share what I share. Um, and what make honest, like I'm be real with you guys. I know you're listening because I already said this earlier in the show, but I see a lot of the same faces. I have a photographic memory. So like I see a lot of the same faces that were here last year. And I, I could see that a lot of these people have made massive, the, the crowd in general is much more physically fit than it was a year ago. And that tells me, that, that tells me that you guys are taking it serious and doing shit. So,

• 58:36Andy Frisella?

  thank you for doing that.

• 58:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, we appreciate you guys. Yeah. Hell yeah.

• 58:41Andy Frisella?

  Thank you, brother.

• 58:43Speaker 07

  Hi Andy and DJ, it's nice to see you guys again. I've been listening to the show for a while and you guys talk a lot about accountability and discipline. Looking back, what belief about yourself did you have to completely destroy in order to be the most successful person that you are today?

• 58:57Andy Frisella?

  Uh, the victim in my own mind, okay? All the reasons why I couldn't, all the reasons, uh, the bad things that happened to me. Uh, the perspective change that went from, you know, why did this happen to me? Or I came from this, or this happened, or that happened, or I don't have this, or I don't have that. Into, those are the things that make me capable of beating the fuck out of anybody that stands in my way. Okay, including the old version of myself, alright?

• 59:26Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 59:26Andy Frisella?

  Our biggest enemy is the bitch version that lives inside of us. And you can never kill it, that's the thing. It never goes away, okay? Fat Andy is fucking alive and well inside of me, bro. I've just learned how to squash him down to where, you know, I don't hear it all the time. Alright, but if I give into that three or four days in a row, that motherfucker's back to full strength. That's right. So, I got told by a friend of mine the other day, uh, he was telling me, he's like, dude, I just like to, I'm an indulgent person and I like to enjoy my life. And, and I said, yeah, me too. That's why I keep my shit in check. Right. You know, that's why I have to be aware of that. Like, bro, you get me partying for two or three days, that'll last six months. Okay, uh, and I'm talking about with food or with alcohol.

• 1:00:11Andy Frisella?

  Um, I like to have a good time. It's not because I'm addicted to that shit, it's because I enjoy having a good time and letting loose. And when I have a good day, I want to have another fun day, and I want to have another fun day. But I'll tell you this, you know, today's day 75, dude, I went and took my, my picture in the mirror.

• 1:00:28Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:00:28Andy Frisella?

  And, uh, you know, uh, this is real shit. Being able to look at myself in the mirror and be at, I'll be 47 years old in July. And to know, to know that I'm in better shape than fucking 99.9% of men, not just men my age, but men. Uh, that's a lot more fun than drinking beer for me. Okay, like, you know, I, I feel good about that and, uh, I earned that. And, and, um, I just feel like, you know, from my experiences with, with living the, the old way that I used to live.

• 1:01:07Andy Frisella?

  It's a trade. It's a trade for one kind of fun for another kind of fun, or one kind of life for another kind of life. And the cool thing about when you handle your shit is it's, you could still have fun. You could still have a good time. You've just gotta do it when it's appropriate, which actually makes it more fun. Okay. When you do anything too much, it loses its fun, right? Like, when I used to go out drinking and eating Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, yeah, it was fun. But now I might do that twice a year. And it's a lot more fun. And not only that, I remember it. I'm like, oh, yeah, we celebrated this, right? Like, the last time I really, really kind of party was when we went to UFC with Dana. Yeah. Okay. But see, I'll remember that the whole

• 1:01:51Andy Frisella?

  time. I'll remember that the rest of my life, because that was a special occasion. So I actually, I know it's a better way to live, because I've lived both ways. So when it comes to like,

• 1:02:04Andy Frisella?

  you know, killing that version of yourself, it's just about removing all the things that you tell yourself about why you can't, and realize that those things that have happened to you, and those things you've been through, they've equipped you to handle those things again in the future. You know, we see this a lot. Okay, like, we see this a lot with people. All right. Think about the cool people in high school. All right. Think about the guys and the girls who looked great in high school. They were popular. They were cool. The girls were fit. The guys were fit. They had abs. They were just kind of coming up and they, they looked that way. And that was the way they looked. And then you get to be 40 years old, and you see them again. What the fuck do they look like? Not good.

• 1:02:48Andy Frisella?

  You can't recognize them, because they look so fucking shitty. The reason that those people look that way is because they never had to learn how to build that. Okay. Whereas you take someone who grew up chubby, and who grew up not popular, who grew up, that person then develops the skill set of good habits, understanding how to build confidence. And then you see that person in their 40s, and they've got their shit together. But the reason they've got their shit together is because they had to go through all the other shit. So it's about recognizing that all these things that we go through are the things that equip us for the life that we actually want. And it's really not about killing anything. It's about switching your perspective to, you know,

• 1:03:30Andy Frisella?

  this happened to me, to this happened for me so that I can achieve what I'm trying to do now.

• 1:03:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think a lot of people get hung up too with the, the idea that like, well, my situation is just so,

• 1:03:41Andy Frisella?

  Everybody thinks that. That's ego.

• 1:03:43Speaker 01

  Like it's so different.

• 1:03:44Andy Frisella?

  That's ego, bro. You think you're the only motherfucker ever that had a fucking hard situation, bro?

• 1:03:49Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:03:49Andy Frisella?

  The people with the hardest situations don't talk about them because they were so bad that they're fucking embarrassing. Okay, so everything's hard and what's hard to me and what's hard to you is still equally as hard. Okay, it's just your hard may have looked different than my hard.

• 1:04:08Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:04:08Andy Frisella?

  Okay, you grew up in the fucking hood. You grew up and you saw dead bodies every fucking week. You saw drug dealers. You had to protect yourself. You grew up in it and I grew up in a different kind of hard. All right, but that doesn't mean that that hard was worse than my hard. It might sound worse if we're, we're like trying to like roll our dicks out and say, oh, who had it harder? But that's the fu- that's not the fucking point.

• 1:04:30Speaker 01

  That was pretty loud though.

• 1:04:31Andy Frisella?

  Hey, is it fucking hot out there? Hot as balls. Is it hot? It's hot up here too.

• 1:04:35Speaker 01

  That's right. That's right. That's right.

• 1:04:37Andy Frisella?

  Right? It's probably a little less hot here because I'm in the shade, but I'm fucking sweating my ass off. Are you sweating? Yes. Okay, that's the point.

• 1:04:45Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:04:45Andy Frisella?

  That's the point. It's all relative. Okay, and what we discern as hard is relative. It's just relative dude. So we can't get into this comparison game about who the fuck had it harder and where I came from and this and that. The hardest thing is the hardest thing. That's it. And so a lot of people do that because they want to feel special or feel, get, get, get an excuse for why they can't overcome it. But the truth of the matter is dude, is that there's millions and millions and millions and millions of people who have come from way, way objectively worse situations than you, who have achieved what you want to achieve and much more. And that is just the fucking facts. So you could sit there and wallow in it

• 1:05:29Andy Frisella?

  or you can realize that you're just being a fucking pussy and you can fucking handle your shit. I mean, that's the two choices.

• 1:05:36Speaker 01

  It's real, bro. It's fucking real.

• 1:05:38Speaker 07

  Thank you. Thank you.

• 1:05:44Speaker 02

  Hi, how are you? Shout out to Kelsey, isn't she doing amazing? That's my client there.

• 1:05:49Andy Frisella?

  Oh, she's still rolling?

• 1:05:50Speaker 02

  Yeah. Uh, so my name's Sammy. It's so funny, we're talking about hardships because I've been dealing with some back injuries the past eight months. I had a car accident about two months ago. I have six herniations and a concussion. I'm in like so much pain even here. And you talk all the time on the podcast about how you are bedridden. And I'm just so curious, I have my own business. I've been really focused on being a leader, but now I have to really focus on like preparing for competition and healing my body. I would love to know like what mantra, what mindset you use, because I have all the support, but I want my mental to be the strongest thing I fucking have. So what did you tell yourself like when you were going through injury and a hard time to overcome it?

• 1:06:31Andy Frisella?

  Uh, that I am fucking unbreakable. Like, like there's nothing that can fucking stop me. There's not, it doesn't matter. Look dude, I mean this shit. Okay? I don't give a fuck what happens to me. I don't care if my company's burned to the fucking ground. If I get both my arms and legs fucking chopped off. Okay? If I'm breathing and I'm alive, I will fucking continue to fight. That, I know that about myself, okay? And it might be harder, it might be more difficult, I might not feel like it, but I'm going to get the fuck up and you're gonna have to kill me to fucking stop me. That is the mentality that I have on the inside and I truly, truly believe that. All right?

• 1:07:15Andy Frisella?

  Now, you may hear that and think that that's like ego posturing.

• 1:07:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:07:18Andy Frisella?

  No, I'm telling you what I actually believe. I believe that about myself.

• 1:07:23Speaker 01

  Can I tell a story real quick?

• 1:07:24Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:24Speaker 01

  Dude, uh, because we have not talked about this on the show. So a couple of years ago, when Andy tore his shoulder, right? Because he's, you know, he's a little bit, you know, seasoned. And, uh, yeah. But I was, so I was there when he tore his shoulder. It was three months after the tear before he ended up getting surgery, right?

• 1:07:43Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, because I wouldn't wear a mask.

• 1:07:44Speaker 01

  That's right. He's a very, he's a little stubborn sometimes.

• 1:07:49Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:49Speaker 01

  Uh, but, but, so, so the day of surgery, he goes, gets the surgery done, it's total reconstruction on the surgery.

• 1:07:57Speaker 01

  Surgery's over. He comes back, I'm like, all right, let's go home. He's like, no. I'm like, fuck you mean, bro? He's like, I gotta go do my cardio. I said, bro, listen, hey, I think everybody would understand.

• 1:08:10Speaker 01

  If you just didn't, like it'd be like, nobody's even out here, bro. Like, no, I, I have to do it for me. And so like when he, when he's saying that, I know it's fucking, like, I know that's truly how you fucking

• 1:08:19Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:20Speaker 01

  Feeling like believe.

• 1:08:21Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:21Speaker 01

  I'm about, Serge, you weren't even thirty minutes over.

• 1:08:23Andy Frisella?

  No.

• 1:08:24Speaker 01

  Like, it just ended.

• 1:08:25Andy Frisella?

  No.

• 1:08:25Speaker 01

  And you're out doing fucking-

• 1:08:27Andy Frisella?

  You're not gonna fucking break me. It's not gonna fucking happen, dude. And I, I did that for two reasons. One, I needed to do it because I needed to do it.

• 1:08:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:08:39Andy Frisella?

  Okay? Two, I wanted every motherfucker here in this building to see me do it. I wanted every single person to know that I literally just got off the operating table and I showed the fuck up and did my shit. That, I wanted them to see it. And, and that's that. So-

• 1:08:56Speaker 01

  I thought you were fucking crazy, but I mean, I guess you got, you-

• 1:08:58Andy Frisella?

  Yeah, I remember. You, you, you, you and Emily both thought I was crazy. You guys were like, "Go to bed." And I'm like, "I'm not fucking going to bed." Now, I did come up to you right afterwards and say, "Fucking take me home."

• 1:09:10Speaker 01

  "All right, now we can go." I'm like, "All right, let's roll, dog. All right." Hell yeah. Hell yeah. What we got?

• 1:09:16Speaker 07

  Hi, Andy. Hi, DJ. How are you? Um, so I run a dog training business in Florida and two years ago, I met my friend Brittany. She's over there. You guys can't see her. Um, but she introduced me to like the first form community. I didn't like, wasn't really entertaining the idea, but six months later, I'm like hit my version of rock bottom. Um, and so I found my coach Sarah. She's one of the like, I believe it's called Legionnaire through your business. And, uh, fast forward to now, I'm a hundred and twenty pounds down.

• 1:09:48Andy Frisella?

  Hell yeah.

• 1:09:51Andy Frisella?

  Hell yeah. That's what's up.

• 1:09:54Speaker 07

  Thank you. Um, but through that, my perspective has changed with my business. Um, I work with a lot of disabled individuals. I train service dogs and pet dogs. And a lot of them, you know, they have a lot of, you know, they have a lot of different complications and some of them, they really struggle to overcome those challenges that come with being disabled. You know, some of it's not within their control. But I also have, because I've been on a health and fitness journey, uh, passively, I've been attracting clients who are disabled. And even just like, you know, my normal pet dog clients that, you know, are choosing an active lifestyle. And I'm trying to find a way to create my business- To be like a brand that would uh kinda like this, you guys like want to see other people be successful, you wanna see them be healthy, you wanna see them go out there and do the things they need to do.

• 1:10:38Speaker 07

  And I want that for my team. I have since, it went from a one woman show to four people. Wow. And we're starting to scale. Um, next week I'm moving to Tampa. Um, and we're getting a bigger acreage, like we're gonna have more acreage, uh, facility and all the things. So we're in this like middle ground of transitioning into this new phase, and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I have invested so much time into my health. Am I as consistent as I wanna be? No, but I'm working on it every day. Is my discipline as great as I want it to be? No, but once again, I'm working on it every day. And I'm trying just to do the best that I can, but through my success, I think it has to do with the fact that I have been way more disciplined. And the way I, you know, clean up my house, the way I wake up in the morning, the way I take care of myself, the way I go to the gym consistently, the foods I put in my body, all that stuff.

• 1:11:23Speaker 07

  So, but my question for you is, is I have a team, and the culture within my business starts with me and my team, so I need to do the best that I can and show up for them, how I want them to show up for me and my clients, right? And I'm having a hard time, right now I have two ladies that work for me and they're incredible, but I find that I don't wanna shove this culture that I'm within down their throats, cuz I think sometimes people don't wanna hear that. But I do think they already adopt some of those minds, like that mindset, and they, one of them already actively works on that. And I wanna continue to hire people who adopt that same mindset, so my hiring process kind of aligns with like the questions we ask and all of that. So what are some, what's some feedback that you might have for somebody who is in a very small business, right?

• 1:12:05Speaker 07

  Comparatively to this, that eventually I wanna scale and I wanna have that culture, but obviously hiring people can diminish the culture if you hire the wrong person. So you gotta like hire well, fire fast, so to speak. Yeah. Uh, so I just don't know, I guess, I'm sure you understand kind of where I'm getting at with this. Um, what is some feedback you might have for me on how I can translate this journey that I've been on into a journey that I can push my trainers and my staff to be successful and healthy, and then as well motivate Make my clients do the same too and show them that there is hope for them. And that, you know, no matter what that looks like, you can make accommodations to live a good life.

• 1:12:38Andy Frisella?

  Yeah. So first thing is you got, you gotta lead by example, which you're already doing. Okay.

• 1:12:45Andy Frisella?

  Nobody will do the things that you want them to do if you're not willing to do them yourself. It's not going to happen. It's never happened in history. And you're not going to be the first one to do it. So that's the first thing. The second thing is, is that you mentioned about shoving the culture down their throat. That's not, you're not shoving the culture down your throat. These are, you have to think of it like this. These are the standards of our brand. This is what we do. This is what we stand for.

• 1:13:18Andy Frisella?

  And you either fit that or you don't. Okay? And that is a very real thing. And when you combine that with leading by example and setting the standards, there will be people that will fall in line and there will be people that will leave. Once the bad people leave and you start to bring in new people and the good people have stayed, it's much easier to have good hires because think about every job everybody here has had. When you show up to the job, the first day, you don't know shit. And so what you do is you end up talking to the other people that are there. And they give you the inside game about what it's really like. Okay? Hey, I know they say this, but this is actually how we do it.

• 1:14:01Andy Frisella?

  When you have bad apples in your culture, they do that in a negative way. When you've, when you've set the culture right and you've weeded out the bad apples, they do that in the positive way. They will say, hey, you know, when they see the new person slipping, they'll say, hey, that's not how we do things here. We do things like this. So just as if, as every other job that you guys have had where you walked into it and someone's been like, hey, man, you know, you don't really got to do that. That happens on the flip side when you have a strong culture. So this starts with you and then it starts with setting standards and allowing the people to either adopt them or remove themselves or you remove them. And then adding people in. And then the last thing is

• 1:14:42Andy Frisella?

  you're not going to quote unquote, find good employees. That's not how it works. You're going to have to build them. Okay. One of the things that I get questions about all the time. And it almost, it sort of insults me a little bit. Because it insinuates that I'm like just the luckiest motherfucker on the planet. They say shit like this. How did you fucking hire all these great people? What do you think? I fucking went out to the employee tree in my backyard and picked them off the fucking tree?

• 1:15:10Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:15:11Andy Frisella?

  Like, that's not how it works, bro. You set standards, you hold them accountable, they either fit in or they don't. And then those become the standards of operation for your company. So, those are the things that, that I would leave you with in terms of how you're going to build it. Start with yourself, set the standards, define those standards officially. Communicate in those standards. When I say that, I mean, if there's a correction to be made, you're not living by this core value.

• 1:15:41Andy Frisella?

  You know, hire and fire by those core values. And then allow the culture to do its work. And eventually, the culture becomes a self-sustaining mechanism and organism that will weed out all the bad apples for you.

• 1:15:54Speaker 07

  Yeah, thank you.

• 1:15:55Speaker 01

  And you talk about a lot.

• 1:15:59Speaker 01

  I mean, everybody sees.

• 1:16:00Andy Frisella?

  Like, at this point in time, our culture's so strong that people will move across the country to be a part of it.

• 1:16:06Speaker 01

  100%.

• 1:16:07Andy Frisella?

  That wasn't how it used to be.

• 1:16:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:16:09Andy Frisella?

  Okay, that took a lot of time and a lot of investment and a lot of difficult conversations with people that didn't really understand why we did things the way that we do.

• 1:16:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:16:19Andy Frisella?

  But now, it regulates itself.

• 1:16:21Speaker 01

  Well, and to that point, too, the flip side of that, though, it's like, for a lot of people that don't understand the culture, they think it's Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

• 1:16:28Andy Frisella?

  Of course.

• 1:16:29Speaker 01

  You know what I'm saying? They're thinking.

• 1:16:30Andy Frisella?

  Well, that's how it should look. It should look easy from the outside.

• 1:16:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, but like.

• 1:16:33Andy Frisella?

  You know?

• 1:16:33Speaker 01

  I know this for, like, people in that building, and you guys will see, like, dude, the employees.

• 1:16:38Andy Frisella?

  They work their fucking asses off.

• 1:16:39Speaker 01

  Work their fucking asses off.

• 1:16:42Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 1:16:42Speaker 01

  Right?

• 1:16:44Andy Frisella?

  It takes a lot of work.

• 1:16:45Speaker 01

  A lot of work, bro. A lot of work. And so, you know, am I looking at this wrong? Because I mean, I guess my question is this, like, it's like, with all the shit that's going on in the world and all the other companies that are out there, she mentioned, you know, she doesn't want to shove this culture down their throat. Well, I mean, everybody else is shoving all this other bullshit down their employees' throat.

• 1:17:02Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 1:17:02Speaker 01

  Wouldn't you, like, wouldn't it be nice to at least have a good value?

• 1:17:05Andy Frisella?

  Here's another, here's another really strong tip for you, okay?

• 1:17:12Andy Frisella?

  When you can make them understand that it's in their best interest to be this way, that's where the switch flips. You said it yourself. She said, how I clean my house, how I do this, the little things. Every time you straighten your house, every time you do things the right way, every time you do something that is a little bit harder, but you know it's right, you're making an investment into that discipline bank account that makes your discipline muscle stronger. Okay?

• 1:17:44Andy Frisella?

  When you go into the weight room here and you see all the logos aligned and everything's perfect and the floor back there is spotless, that's not because it's just the rules. Now, it is the rules. I wouldn't even say it's rules. It's the standard. But the reason that it's become the standard is because we've done a good job at making everybody understand how it actually benefits them in all areas of their life. So we spent a lot of time talking about this, in this deposits and withdrawals into your discipline. All right? And if you can convince them and make them understand that that's how that works, it becomes a lot easier to get people to do the right things.

• 1:18:25Speaker 01

  100% dude. I think we got one more. We got one more.

• 1:18:30Speaker 06

  How's it going guys?

• 1:18:31Speaker 01

  No pressure here. No pressure, all right?

• 1:18:32Speaker 06

  I love the pressure. I'm good with the pressure. Good afternoon, guys. Good here? Okay, cool. I'm Blake Black from Connecticut. So, over the last decade or so, I've learned all my leadership topics and tips and tricks from you, from the free game on MFCEO and all the podcasts, the content you put out, as well as Arote and a couple of other groups that I've joined with you. Being a leader and becoming a leader, we all screw up. And that's the best way to learn, right? As good as I can take things away from what you said. Recently, my struggle has been with emotional intelligence and communicating effectively between using your heart less and being more direct, and then knowing when to add empathy.

• 1:19:16Speaker 06

  So my question directly is, how do you bridge the gap between emotional intelligence and being direct without hurting people's feelings and doing all the important things?

• 1:19:26Andy Frisella?

  I don't, I think you're thinking about it wrong. Okay?

• 1:19:32Andy Frisella?

  When people talk about, like, we're gonna talk about kindness for a minute, okay? Like, when people think about kindness, they think about being polite, and they think about,

• 1:19:44Andy Frisella?

  you know, pleasantries, okay? Things that make people feel nice in the moment. But if we really think about what's kind, what's kind is having that person's best interests in mind, and telling them what they need to understand so that they can become the kind of person that they want to be. So, leadership is exactly the same, alright? It's not, "When do I interject empathy?", it's not, "When do I interject directness?", it's, "Do I care about this person enough to tell them the truth, and help them become what they could become?" And when you have the proper intent in mind,

• 1:20:28Andy Frisella?

  and your intent is that, "I need them to perform because, I need to sell more shit, but I need them to perform because I want them to be better", and then you understand that the business, you understand, in the back of your head, that if they're better, the business will be better. They feel that intent. They understand that you care about them. And so,

• 1:20:51Andy Frisella?

  I personally feel like most of the people that know me, they understand that while I may be very direct, the reason that I'm being direct is because I want the best outcome for them. And so, that's the actual question you're asking. You're asking an intent question. And what you need to do is just make sure that you're understanding, that they're understanding that the outcome of this direct conversation is to make you better. And that could sound something like empathy, but it's really not, alright? It sounds like this. "Hey, Brad, um, look dude, I fucking love you, man, you're fucking great dude, I like you personally,

• 1:21:33Andy Frisella?

  I think you have all the tools to win, but right now dude, you're just not fucking cutting it, man. Here's what you're doing wrong." And I know you know you're doing that wrong, don't you think? And he's gonna say, "Well, I don't know", and you're gonna say, "Yar", That's right. And, and you've just gotta stand firm on that standard.

• 1:21:53Andy Frisella?

  With the intent, and by the way, this intent,

• 1:21:58Andy Frisella?

  this comes from a lot of the other conversations that you have with them. All right, like when things go bad and then you try to sit down with someone and you've never talked to them and you've never been interested in them. You never ask them how their day was. You've never, you know, dabbing them up when you're going through the office or talk to them or anything. And then you try to be like, oh Brad, I really care about you. They don't fucking hear that shit.

• 1:22:19Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:22:19Andy Frisella?

  Okay, so if you want to come across, if your leadership style, which I think is the best leadership style, to be direct and cut through the shit. You have to build that credibility with them throughout the rest of the times. Okay, and that takes effort. All right, you can't just sit in your office or sit in your truck and, and think that they're going to know that you care. You might really care about them, but if you're not making that investment to, you know, get to know their names and, and, you know, hey, man, how's this going? Or how's that going? Or talk about mutual interests and build some sort of rapport with them. Then when it comes time to have the conversation, you sit down and say, oh, man, I really care about you. You're like, this guy's full of shit.

• 1:22:59Andy Frisella?

  All right, so the answer to your question is, one, you have to be, you have to have the right intent. You can't fake intent. They can feel it. Okay, do you care about them or do you, do you not? If you're smart, you do, because you can't do anything by yourself. Two, are you making the investment for them to know that in, in the times when the hard conversations aren't required? Those two things will make up for what you're, what you're asking. Okay, so don't think of it as in terms of like injecting empathy. Oh, man, you know, I really understand. That doesn't mean shit if you haven't built the rapport with them outside of that. Does it make sense?

• 1:23:40Speaker 06

  Makes a lot of sense, yeah.

• 1:23:41Andy Frisella?

  So just try, you know, don't buffer your directness. That's, that's an asset. Most people lack the ability to be direct. Understand that your directness is in their best interest because you want them to win. And when you've built that rapport outside of that, they're going to understand that, which makes the direct conversations respected.

• 1:24:02Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:24:03Andy Frisella?

  Makes sense?

• 1:24:03Speaker 06

  That's extremely helpful and exactly what I needed, so I appreciate it.

• 1:24:06Andy Frisella?

  Okay, cool, man. All right.

• 1:24:07Speaker 06

  Thanks, brother.

• 1:24:08Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, man.

• 1:24:10Andy Frisella?

  Hey, we can do, we can do one more.

• 1:24:11Speaker 01

  One more?

• 1:24:12Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 1:24:12Speaker 01

  One more?

• 1:24:14Speaker 03

  Uh, this is my first introduction with you. I got a buddy who works at S2, so you've just made a great first introduction. Thank you for that. My question for you is you've built businesses where people and culture seems like the real equity. What have you learned about developing high performing people and keeping them loyal long-term? And then with that, what do you do about killers with bad habits? So I run a sales team. It's important that my guys are killing it. Um, I, my top guy probably does, you know, maybe 30% of all of our sales.

• 1:24:41Andy Frisella?

  Yeah.

• 1:24:42Speaker 03

  For like 11 people. He fucking kills it. But we live in like employee housing together when we go out. And this guy has, I mean, some of the worst habits that you could live with, right? But I'm not in a position to, to let this guy go with how much money we would, we would lose with that right now. It's just something that's been on my mind.

• 1:24:59Andy Frisella?

  When you say bad habits, what do you mean?

• 1:25:00Speaker 03

  I mean, like, like every night going out, right? And like, so rookie reps will go out with him and it fucks up their shit the next day.

• 1:25:09Andy Frisella?

  Does he, does he follow the plan for the, does he follow, does he follow the plan while he's at work in the, the way? Or does he sell shit his own way?

• 1:25:19Speaker 03

  He, he follows it to a T when he's at work. It's just a problem that we all live together, right?

• 1:25:25Andy Frisella?

  Um, well, first of all, when you think about your culture as a sales team, typically

• 1:25:35Andy Frisella?

  they're going to follow the highest performer. Okay? Now, the question that you ask is that it's actually not as bad as I thought it was because typically what happens is the highest performer gets filled, filled with ego. And what happens a lot of times because they're good schmoozers and they're good with people. They, they develop bad habits in the sales process that then the other salespeople cannot get away with. And then those people sell less and that person sells more. And what you end up with is a disproportionate amount of sales, AKA being bent over a barrel like you are right now with one guy. If that was the case, you're going to have to take a step backwards to take a step forward.

• 1:26:16Andy Frisella?

  Meaning you're going to have to remove that guy and train the other guys up, which means some of your sales are going to retract and you're going to have to pick it back up. That's not the case. You have a case with a guy who has not recognized that he's a leader yet. And so the conversation with this guy needs to go something like, what's his name?

• 1:26:35Speaker 03

  Jacob.

• 1:26:36Andy Frisella?

  Okay. Hey, Jacob, look dude, you're crushing it, bro.

• 1:26:41Andy Frisella?

  You know the numbers, you're kicking everybody's ass, you're a big deal here. You gotta understand, how old is he?

• 1:26:47Speaker 03

  He's 20.

• 1:26:47Andy Frisella?

  Okay, this is why, he's immature, alright? He does not understand that it, it's hard for people at 20 years old or even 30 years old, because we're all out here doing the best we can. And it's hard to, to, to understand that there are other people that are looking at us and picking up our habits. Alright? That comes with maturity, and at 20 years old, the guy's not gonna have it. Alright, so you're gonna have to have a good leadership conversation and say, "Hey Jacob, look bro, we got a great thing going. Here's the vision, here's where we're going, we got good momentum, but we gotta pull these other guys up.

• 1:27:27Andy Frisella?

  And because you're doing this on the outside of the business, it's hurting their ability to develop. And that's a mature conversation, and, and you gotta treat him as like a grown man. And I would even give him the recognition of it, like, a lot of times, people won't step into leadership until they're acknowledged as like a grown man, okay? "Hey Jacob, I know you're only 20 years old, bro, but listen, man. You gotta understand, you're a fucking leader now. And our ability, our ability to get where we're trying to go is going to not just require my leadership, it's gonna require yours as well. And what's happening here is we've got Steve and Lucy and Mary that are developing this habit of going out,

• 1:28:08Andy Frisella?

  and they're not as, they're not as skilled as you are, which is keeping them back, which is holding us back. So, what can we do to fix this? And then let him come to you and say, "Well, you know, I need to adjust this and that and this." And so, this is, this is about just having a really strong leadership conversation with them.

• 1:28:26Speaker 03

  How do you train good employees and then keep them loyal to what you're doing?

• 1:28:30Andy Frisella?

  Uh, by, well, first of all, great culture, okay? Do they like it? Do they enjoy it? Is it fun? Are they, are, is it their community? Is it, is this their friends? That's very important. More importantly, because ultimately, everybody is selfish, as they should be. Everybody should be looking out for their own family and their own self-interest. And so, your job, if you want to keep those kind of people, is to create a vision. This goes back to the realistic goals that we were talking about earlier. Is to create a vision that is so massive, that is so fucking huge, that Jacob can see his ideal

• 1:29:10Andy Frisella?

  life materializing within that vision. Okay. And then what happens is you'll have one guy start to rise and the evidence will show in his life. He'll get a new car. He'll get a new house. He'll be, you know, and then the other people start to see that and then they start to follow along. And then before you know it, you've got six Jacobs and then the vision has to expand even bigger. But here's the thing, when you expand the vision for people to create underneath of it, it has to be real. You as the owner or the leader cannot say all of this shit and then it never happens. That's where, that's why killers leave. They know that they have a skill set. They understand that they can do better somewhere else. They, they see the cap because they have

• 1:29:55Andy Frisella?

  the vision ahead before the foresight to see, I'm going to get here and I'm not going to be able to get above it. Your job is to keep that rising to where everything that they could ever possibly want is achievable within that. That make sense? Yes, sir. If you do that, coupled with good culture and good leadership, who doesn't want to be a part of a winning team? Right? Nobody wants to leave the team that wins fucking Super Bowl every motherfucking year. Right? So, um, that's, that's, that's the plan. Thank you, boss. You're welcome, bro. All right, guys, listen, that's all we're gonna have time for. I gotta go down and do a board meeting. So, uh, I appreciate you guys. Like I said when I came out, I love

• 1:30:34Andy Frisella?

  you guys, but more importantly, remember this. Okay, our mission is a collective mission. This is going to take all of us. This is not something that a few people can do and a few people can't, and we can passively get where we want to go. Just like I said individually, where you have to put in dedicated effort, day after day after day after day as individuals. If we do that as individuals collectively, the needle moves. Okay, so I want you to understand this, you, with the days you don't feel like doing it. The days when you're tired, the days when you're like, fuck this. You have to understand that other people, other people will win or lose in their lives

• 1:31:19Andy Frisella?

  based upon what you do with yours. And that is a massive obligation that we all need to be aware of. And I know you guys all understand that, or you wouldn't be here. But I just want to take the opportunity while we're standing face to face and remind you and also say thank you for accepting that challenge and thank you for living that standard. I love you guys.

• 1:31:42Speaker 05

  We're from sleeping on the floor, now my jury box froze. Fuck a bow, fuck a stove, counted millions in the coke. Bad bitch, booty swole, got her on bankroll. Can't fold, just a no, headshot, case closed.