REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 33. Taking Off The Blindfold Part 1

Episode Date: May 9, 2020

How can we possibly know what the truth is? This coronavirus pandemic has put our country in a very unique situation ... where its become  almost impossible to know what the facts are and as a result what we should do. On today's show, Andy and the guys talk about how to decipher the misinformation in the media, learn to think for yourself, uncover the truth in murky waters and make the right decisions....not just now but in an any situation in life.

I told my teacher, dumb bitch, I'm gonna get millions. In the project, living. Spoke it till existence. Mode changed to 50. Got more cars than diddy. I only weigh 180, but my watch cost 250. What's up, guys? It's Andy Frisella, and this is the show for the realists.

Say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness, and delusions of modern society. And welcome to motherfucking reality. Guys, today we got a full-length show. I got the whole crew. I got Sal, I got Vaughn, I got DJ. We got Jelly Joe here. We got Midhat, my man, Drippy Drip Drip. That used to be an insult.

You know, you're too young to know about that. But anyway, maybe you're not, I don't know. But anyway, guys, we got a great show lined up. Lots of cool stuff to talk about. Lots of cool stuff going on in the world right now. Before I get into it, though, and before I turn it over to Vaughn to start to get us going, you know, I get this comment a lot and I just want to address it. And I'm not being I'm not trying to be a jerk.

I'm being good natured about it. I always get a lot of people and they're like, damn, dude, I really but fuck it sure ain't the same as the mfceo project well no shit you don't say like you don't mean that like when you totally rebrand your podcast and start calling it something else and it ain't going to be fucking different huh does that make sense i mean guys look i just want to explain this like for the last time. Look, man, the MSEO was a project of duty of obligation for Vaughn and I. OK, this was something that we created to give back because at some point in time on the journey that him and I had of writing a bunch of books, which are all coming out soon. And we've had we have literal years of work in them. Um, we realized like, God, dude, like I got to learn a lot of stuff, you know, from, I had a

great dad who I was exposed to a lot of things. And, um, you know, my obligation was to kind of put those lessons out there and they're all definitely raw. I mean, I'm, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a different person now than I was four or five years ago, three years ago, just like all of you guys are. And, um, I got to the point where, well, Vaughn and I both got to the point where we felt like we were just repeating over and over the same things and it wasn't fun anymore. And so if you notice, like we didn't record podcasts because dude, I don't ever want to be the guy that's just repeating the same shit to you guys. So for the likes and the shares and the, that's not what I do this for, man. I do this to genuinely and not me.

That's a wrong choice to all of us here. Every single person sitting at this table that you are on the show has other shit they could be doing right now. Everybody here is committed to helping move people in a direction because we realize there's just a big, uh, I don't know, drought of leaders in the world right now. So what we're trying to do guys is just share with you, uh, some, some perspectives that, you know, maybe you can take and go make your life better. And so with the MFCEO guys, it was like, you know, I am the instructor Vaughn's basically, you know, assisting and you're sitting on the other side of the table and I'm telling you how

to do shit. This is a different show. This is a show where we laugh, we make jokes. We're going to talk about current events and we're still going to throw in some lessons,, we're going to talk about current events, and we're still going to throw in some lessons, but they're going to be lessons about life in general, not so much just how to make a whole bunch of fucking money. And by the way, those lessons about life actually will make you a whole lot of money if you pay attention and put them in. So I just want you guys to understand that. And the reason that we threw them all back in the same feed was our feed over in the uh when we started the podcast got all jacked up for some reason people couldn't find the show so we put it back with our mfceo feed so that we could people

could easily find all the episodes it's real simple so i hope that answers some confusion because a lot of people you know they've been out, you know, a lot of you guys listen to me two, three years ago and you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And dude, guess what? That content's all still there. And I still put that content out every single day on Andy Graham. If you're not subscribed to Andy Graham, uh, basically it's my daily blog. You go on the website, Andy for seller.com and you'll see it just flip through and you'll see

it right away and subscribe to that. And I'm putting out my business winning mental toughness, how to be successful, motivational content there. I don't really do it on Instagram anymore because every time I say something, I'm getting it suppressed because I'd like to share my views as well. Right? So there is a difference. And the difference is you're going to laugh more here. You're going to think more here. And we're going to talk about actual stuff that's going on in the world. And you're probably going to hear a little bit more of who we are as people, not just instructors. So, so yeah, that's it. You know, if you want to learn more about business, we have the RTA syndicate that am I letting myself do together? It's a completely dedicated to becoming a fucking

winner in business and life. It's a, it's very, very, very in depth, much more in depth than what we ever went into on the podcast. And I'm not pitching you because it's application only and not everybody gets in. But if you're interested in that, we are opening up applications here in the next 30 or 40 days. And we got a tool for everybody. So I just want you guys to know, this show is supposed to be not like the MSCO. So that's my little soapbox for that. I like that you mentioned your dad

because I think of the MSCO as like you're sitting down with your dad at McDonald's having a burger and your dad's systematically teaching you lessons and you're listening.ughn yeah I swear to god is that not exactly what our life was like well and that's what I was gonna I was gonna tailor it in on the backside you know the the the missing link to the MFCEO podcast is that most people think because they're not in business or they're not an entrepreneur they can't listen to those lessons right right so this it eliminates that void like you could also take these lists, these lessons and apply them to business and you're

going to fucking win. So what's cool too, dude, is like, I have so many guys now that are emailing in girls too. When I say guys, I mean guys and girls. I just say guys, it's what we, I don't know. I think it's regional dialect things racist, but yeah, no fucking totally dude. Xenophobic, racist, fucking discriminant. It's everything. It would be sexist. I wouldn't expect you to know that, though. Yeah, because all he cares about is racist stuff. That's right. Yeah, I mean, that's me.

DJ, you're such a racist. You beat that wagon. So, dude, I'm going to get Sal one day. You ain't going to get me. I'm going to get you. You better keep running. No, you're not un-givable. Stop swimming.

Start running. So, dude, look. Look uh look man we're just out here when sal and i dude listen this is kind of a cool story because it's never been told but dude do you remember where we used to go all the time with dad and like go inside and eat all the time all the time taco bell and where else burger king and where else there's a there's a certain place it's on tesson ferry it's no longer there it had a glass it had a glass atrium we used to sit in the fucking greenhouse arby's no it was wendy's oh oh yeah we used to go to wendy's okay and dude we'd go to wendy's all the time i mean dude we ate like shit we were kids nobody knew how to fucking

do anything back then so we're i can remember dude and i don't know if you remember this or if it's just me but i can remember being in wendy's well the first thing i remember about being in wendy's is like they always had the little ketchup cups and the way you hacked it was you just stuck your tray under there and you pumped the ketchup right on your tray that's the fat kid hat all right but the other thing i remember about that was sitting at in that little greenhouse area all the time with dad dude and he'd be eating his fries with all that salt and then sweating his ass off remember how much he would sweat i remember how i was my comment was going to be the only thing i remember about the glass atrium is how fucking hot it was yeah but dude do you not remember how he ever you

know how when he eats he sweats his ass off off? Yeah. He still does, dude. It's crazy. Yeah, I was thinking about the Taco Bell. Do you remember the entrance to the Taco Bell, how steep it's pulling into the Taco Bell and the gas station was? Oh, yeah, yeah. On the right there? Yeah.

You mean on Tesson? Yeah. Yeah, the old Taco Bell. Yeah, the old Taco Bell. Yeah. Man, I put some miles on that drive-thru. I'm just saying. Dude, look.

Jack in the box. Oh, man. They miss me. That's why that Taco Bell had to close, bro. I don't know if it's urban legend, but I've always heard this. Vaughn just wanted to say urban. I did. I did want to say urban.

I always heard that Taco Bell meat is actually lower quality than what they make dog food out of. Hey, that's all right. I'll tell you what. It's great. After about 20 fucking beers, it's fucking grade A filet, baby. Exactly. Listen, baby. Exactly. You're a DAV.

Listen, man. Mexican pizza, some soft tacos, bean burritos, double-decker tacos. Come on, dude. That shit is crap. Cheesy gordita crunch. I can't even. Bro, now you're getting into real fat kid stuff. We're talking like the nacho cheese, steak chalupas.

Like, dude, come on. That shit's delicious. But anyway, bro, like i can remember my dad's our dad sitting there and like that's what the mfco project sort of is it's kind of like and and and our dad you know uh dude he just he he just knows a lot of shit and i can remember sitting there and and and him teaching us all these things and me being like what the fuck is this dude talking about why is he sweating so much you know well i think the one thing you know that and i've tried to take this from a practical application standpoint and use

on my kids is he never treated us like little kids we're always little adults oh yeah that's true when it comes to responsibility or accountability or even lessons or practical application or shake his hand. Like those are all things. Dude, we didn't, we didn't kiss dad when we were little. We fucking shook his hand. Yeah. I don't, I mean, all those things.

Like I just, yeah. I mean, dude, it was like, it was, it was a different kind of upbringing. You know what I'm saying? Like my dad's not, it's not like, I'm not saying he's like, dude, he's not like a cold blooded. That's what you guys are awesome. No, no, no. But what I'm saying is, is like like it's just a different people that's what i always say like people wouldn't get it right but it was it was the i i think it was the right way to fucking grow up uh at least from a man raising another man i'm not saying you can't like give your kids kisses

and shit fuck dude you have to but i'm saying like it wasn't like what you see now right if it makes you feel better i kiss my kids i kiss your kids i know so like for everybody who's gonna kiss my guy okay yeah there's some lessons we didn't learn are we chose to do differently yeah and you learn you learn how to not have five girlfriends and shit like that right so like uh how do you think we learned it yeah so dad what's her name yeah right yeah no shit dude but like the thing that's the msco project okay that's how i think of the msco project i think of it as okay i was i i don't say luck very much but dude we were lucky to be born with the people that we were born to because we were able to see all these

experiences and learn all this shit. And dude, it took me a long time to figure out, well, fuck man, not everybody had that experience. So that's where the MFCO project comes from. It comes from what we were taught and what, and also combined with what I've learned over the last 20 years in business. And you know, it's what it is and then you know we move on now we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna fuck off a little bit we're the we're the room full of guys that are sitting around you know jaw and telling stories that you can when you're younger you can sit around learn a bunch of stuff from sal's the blue collar guy i'm the black guy that's super cool and good with ladies and What's DJ? What the fuck am I? You're the skinny white kid.

Oh, man. What the fuck am I? Yeah, he does. He did that. Hashtag urban envy. That's right. You're going to have to get that card, though, from DJ's fiance.

That's true. You got to qualify. You got to buy that first, though. For real, though, what are we talking about fiance that's true yeah so dude um i don't know if you noticed this but more and more people are getting these little notifications from social media platforms like facebook twitter instagram and they'll say stuff like this they'll say um our independent uh board of fact checkers has determined that your post contains misinformation and goes against our community guidelines um that scares crap out of me um and i think it probably scares crap out of a lot of people who are uh believers in free speech believers in democracy i wanted to start kind of i wanted to hear your thoughts you, from the standpoint of being sympathetic. I mean, obviously there is a misinformation crisis going on. And so I, I am sympathetic to the people that

are like, like, there's a lot of just false stuff out there. How do we regulate it? How do we, how do we tell who's telling the truth? Who's lying? So at the, at the very start, before we get into any more of this, like get real deep into all our opinions, can we just admit that right now we're in a really weird time in the world's history where how do you deal with everything that's on the internet?

How do you deal with all the misinformation? Like, what's your take on that? Well, man, this might be like a 20-minute talk. I'm just saying, I might not come up for air. No different than Taco Bell or Wendy's. That's just saying i might not come up for air um no different than taco bell or wendy's that's right i'm gonna be quiet now i could take that joke so many places uh look man here's the thing uh you think that's funny i know what i was gonna to ask i was going to specifically ask laughing yeah i was going to

specifically ask like what what do you think are the legitimate well that's why regulations for information and and what just constitutes totalitarianism bro i got where you were trying to get for me i understood the question um look we have a problem. Okay. And the problem is, yes, I agree. We should have free speech. A hundred percent. I also do think that there should be some regulation on what's fact and what

isn't fact. However, in the current scenario, what I see and observe, and I think most Americans see and observe this as well, is that the people who are responsible for making those decisions have agendas. And those agendas are very obvious for us to see. There's a handful of very elite, wealthy people that you could name on two hands that are all benefiting from this whole situation tremendously. And those are the people who get to say what is a fact and what isn't.

And what you're seeing right now, I'm 90% certain that's what we're seeing right now, is we're seeing an awakening of intelligence, you know, for or not intelligence awareness. That's a better word. We see people who have for most of the history of time had a certain level of trust in the government and the media to tell the truth. And we've gotten to a point now where the people that we trust and should trust are so infected with capitalist agendas. And this is coming from someone who's a capitalist, hardcore. But I think it's gotten so intertwined and so connected and so influenced by business

that we now have a scenario where the facts aren't the facts. The facts are what benefits the people who decide what the facts are the most. And that's a very dangerous situation and it's not okay for a man let's just say mark zuckerberg how old is mark zuckerberg look that shit up for me real quick okay i'm not sure how old he is i think he's 33 34 yeah is he that young i think he's that that's where he is 35 all right now this man has been a billionaire for over a decade can you imagine becoming a billionaire at your mid to low 20s okay and then not having to ever worry about what real people have to worry about not ever having a real life experience because you don't have a real life experience becoming that wealthy, that young and that fast. And we're relying on this young man,

because that's what he is, to make the decisions about what and where and how we do everything in the United States. Because if he doesn't like it, guess what? It doesn't get seen. And we've gotten to a point now where the power has tipped so far in that direction that we have an intermingling of interests that doesn't benefit the American people. It benefits business. And that's a dangerous, dangerous thing that should scare people because now we have what is very clear to most people, which again, I called it eight weeks ago, is a media smear campaign and fear campaign to change the way people view certain people in the government and if we have a scenario where people that are 35 years old who have no reality in their lives none like none you cannot be connected to the working man when you became a billionaire at 22 or three or four cannot can't be

okay and we're allowing that person to decide what the facts are that doesn't make any sense and i think what we're seeing now is we're seeing people wake up and say no fuck you you're not going to tell me what i can and can't say and i think people are do their def. See, when we have public defiance, it happens in levels. The first time it happens, people say something. It's like this. Yeah, you know what? That guy's kind of a dickhead. I don't like what he's doing.

All right? He's all right. I like his services. I like his this. But I don't like him. That's where it starts. But now it's gotten to the point where people are like, you know what, dude? all right i like his services i like his this but i don't like him that's where it starts but now it's gotten to the point where people are like you know what dude anything that motherfucker says i'm

gonna disagree with it and so what he's done and what bill gates has done and what some of these other guys have done has discredited themselves so far with the american people they will never recover and i'm not saying facebook's gonna to out of business or anything they're fucking not but what i'm saying is his ability to influence publicly is now in the toilet that's right and so yes we need some regulation because dude we can't have china coming in and making fucking memes up that says like dude they were making fake texts to say shit like everybody got them everybody got them. Everybody got them. Remember the texts everybody got? Dude,

my cousin's sister's boyfriend's mother's brother's sister's ex-boyfriend works with Trump. And they said, this is about to happen. That all came from China, man. Fucking Zuckerberg. Let that shit go all over the internet. It went everywhere.

Okay. If you're going to fuck, why didn't he regulate that? Yeah, they don't. And that's the point. And they don't regulate that because they want to disrupt the balance of power in our government and to implement a control police state and people have been arguing that for years and when you've said that

for years people say well dude you're a fucking conspiracy theorist. Well, you can call anything a conspiracy theory. But what happens when it's actually happening? You see what I'm saying? So that's how I feel about it. I feel we need, if we're going to have fact checkers, it shouldn't be left up to a private company's board of directors or CEO. It should be made up of a multitude of people that come from different areas that balance out different beliefs and what the truths are. There should be a panel of like

15 people that are level-headed, middle-of-the-road thinkers that don't have these political agendas and say, yes, this is true and yes, this is is not true and that's how it should be decided it shouldn't be allowed to be decided by the elites of this country it's nothing we didn't give them the power we gave motherfucking people we elected the power right you see i i honestly think i so one of the best things i saw on instagram recently was uh a post by a guy named uh gez jones you know gez And he served in the special forces in UK. And his post was all about this. He said, listen, yes, there's a lot of people out there that are conspiracy theorists, but why whenever someone very rationally raises the question of, hey, could certain people be using this crisis as an opportunity to consolidate power why do we so quickly dismiss that when we

have a whole history on this planet of exactly that happening and his point is like you act like this is some sort of weird thing that never happens it happens all the time it's happened throughout history where a government has said hey there's a crisis we're going to use this emergency to generate more emergency powers and then they just never go away they you know there's a famous quote from the obama administration never waste a great crisis that's weird isn't it yeah it's a little weird i mean dude look we're you people should be scared they should be because what we have right now is a unique situation where we're no longer ruled by the people we elect rule rule with the people who own our attention.

And I think that's become very clear over this whole crisis and people, you know, you have YouTube deleting documentaries. You have faith, dude, I've posted that video, the plan Demick, like seven times. it gets taken down

every time wow dude now when people are sharing when they're sharing okay like let's say you wanted to share a story of mine that you liked and it was controversial about this shit when people go to your story and try to click on my post it'll just flip through the screen it won't let you go to it that's how they're doing it now that's crazy so like i could see a story that you shared dj in fact sal and dj have you have both shared stories that i've tried to click on and instead of me allowing it me to go to that page and see the video i have to reverse out go type the thing in and then go to the page because they've changed the stories now to where you can't and that's how they're controlling us they don't want us to see anything because they don't want us to see

what do they not want us to see yeah it's a good question i mean you mentioned about justification vaughn is well that information is getting people killed no motherfucker what you guys are doing is getting people killed right and it's not just people like you were mentioning that it's it's taking it's taking control of information for the sake of a very small group of of businesses that have sort of flooded their the proper boundaries of their business but they're also coming from a very specific political viewpoint and i this isn't like this isn't like businesses that are just across, you know, that just want money.

They want a specific far left PC crazy viewpoint. I mean, that's, I don't, I don't, I mean, I don't, tell me if I'm wrong, but I don't see like conservative Republicans doing this. I'm not saying that the conservative Republicans are safe. I watch all the news and I don't want to turn this into a political bitch fest but i do watch all the news i talk about and dj you and i talk about this every day i watch cnn and i watch fox and i watch mnsbc or nbc yeah sorry excuse me um and i like to watch it thinking like okay what are they trying to sell me what's

their agenda like that's how what i pay attention to and i mean dude if you watch it from that perspective it's ridiculous it is fucked there's go to cnn and watch these motherfuckers try to sell you on this fear it is it's absurd okay then uh but dude you know the the fox ain't any better if you watch it that same that say i like some people on fox but it's not that much better there if you want to see if you try to watch fox from a person's viewpoint of being a democrat uh believer in that philosophy which the democratic philosophy isn't terrible. It's the people that fucking execute it. That's terrible. Right?

Like if you just went off, I'm just saying this, like, I think if most people read what Democrats are supposed to be, they'd be like, Oh, that sounds pretty good. It's reasonable.

Yeah, it is reasonable. The problem is that's not what the fuck it is. It's a big manipulation on, on people who just are uneducated, socioeconomically at the lower levels, and trying to get them. Look, dude, the conversation in the Democrat, it's like this. We talked about this, right?

Hey, DJ, look, man, if we say this and this and this, these motherfuckers are going to vote for us. That's the conversation that Democrat Democrat Party has right now. Yeah. Where the conservative party, in my opinion, I don't think that they look at it like that.

That's not what I see when I watch them from a Democrat view. I look and say, I see them supporting our president and they definitely lean towards licking Trump's nuts

a little bit more than I would like because there's shit that Trump does I don't fucking like. And then there's shit that he does I think he's a fucking genius and I don't ever attach myself to a party you know what I'm saying like dude if the fucking right democrat came out I would fucking vote for him but uh they don't yeah so uh you, I think we have to see things for what they are. And I just think that the left is so far off track from where they want to be or they should be that, dude, it needs a clean sweep.

And, dude, there's some right wing, some of these old motherfucking crusty white dudes on the right need to get the fuck out, too. I agree, for sure. Because, dude, they're just pushing some of these old values that, quite honestly, are old. And shit's changing. And I'm okay with change. But, I mean, dude, we're not going to change to the point where all of us are nameless, faceless its that get to decide. Dude, look, man man you're born a fucking man or you're a woman that's it that's fucking it okay and you could argue that shit and you

could say hey i prefer to be a woman okay i'm cool with that you want to dress up like a woman you want to go get an operation cool but you know that doesn't really mean anything your chromosomes are still a fucking man you know and that's how i see it and like dude i don't judge but like this we we get so far out there in this weird world that it it's like confusing to me it's confusing like where the shit comes from like where the fuck do these arguments even come from bro like and i know people that are trans and they're my fucking friends and and and i just i don't know man like i i think it's really fucking hard right now to be a democrat we just talked about this yeah i don't know how you could i don't know how you could look at what they're doing, what any of the left is doing, and support it in any way. It's totally anti-American.

It's total fucking bullshit. And I know we've got some Democrats on this show. We've got a lot of Democrats listening to the show because I hear from you every fucking day. And dude, I respect you guys. We were talking about one of your uncles right i think it was your father-in-law yeah right and uh tell the story yeah so so like i mean we were talking about this morning basically like dude this this is the end of the democratic party in my opinion i think

that like there's a few key people that have totally polarized themselves and it's showing and people are waking up and seeing that so my father-in-law he's he's about he's he's been democratic since he's been in diapers okay like he's for he doesn't care what they say he's just democrat because that's what a lot of people believe that's what my family did i have to believe it you know little does he know there's not a whole lot that really benefits him right and so when you know for the big we had a conversation when trump released his tax books and then gave the stimulus packages and he got one, his wife got one. He's like, man, it's not too bad. Like he's really looking out for me.

You know, that's a big deal. And I'm like, oh, how do you feel about Trump now? He's like, well, I mean, he's not that bad, you know? Well, and so. Well, he doesn't hate you like you've been told. Exactly. Right. Exactly.

You know, because he's looking out for Americans. That's right. That's what it's been since day one. Right. And he's putting Americans first and that's how it should be. day one right and he's putting americans first and that's how it should be i'm like but if you look at the democrat side they were trying to pass stuff for a freaking art museum right during this during this time and plan dj not only were they trying to pass it for art museum they were making business owners who were literally down to their last

fucking five dollars wait extra days yeah motherfucking it out purposely mark zuckerberg don't know what it's like to not have five bucks so you can't fucking eat right i know what that's like yeah you know what that's like you know what that's like everybody at this table knows what the fuck that's like at some point in their life yeah you know and dude you know what what i think about that too dude like i respect the shit out of out of your father-in-law because dude, it is very hard guys to, and I think this is the problem in America. I think this is the real, this is why I talk about ego so much, dude. It's very hard to fucking say, you know what, man, that guy said all that shit about, he ain't that bad. He's not that bad. Yeah. And, bad yeah and and you know or or even make him make

him not about trump yeah okay you know grandma and grandpa and mom and dad they taught me all this shit but it doesn't seem like that's the way it is right and dude that takes that takes so much courage to do that and i think that when you do, it's almost like a pivotal point in your life.