REAL AF with Andy Frisella - SUNDAY SERMON: Beer, Bulldogs, Burt Reynolds, & Becoming a Better, More Balanced Person, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO263

Episode Date: September 9, 2018

Beer. Burt Reynolds. Knowing when to serve others & when to stand up for yourself. What my old bulldog Oscar taught me about life. How Vaughn the Impaler's yellow lab saved his little girl. Not gonna lie...we hit a lot of topics in today's episode, but all of them will make you smile, laugh, and help you become a better person...which is the whole point of the Sunday Sermon.

If you want to make your dream become reality, the people that are running after that dream know they're going to have hard times. They keep on running because they're saying within themselves, I'm the one, I'm the one. No matter how bad it is or how bad it gets, I'm going to make it. What is up guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host and I am here for the Sunday sermon.

Cue the effing church music. I'm just saying. As always, I'm joined by my co-host who is massively, and I mean massively, important to the Sunday sermon episodes and all the other episodes besides the ones he's not on of the msco project the pastor of disaster dj dj god what's going on john what is it von jovi von jovi von halen von halen we're all the man of many names yeah that's what i'm gonna start calling you the man of many names. Yeah. That's what I'm going to start calling you, the man of many names. The man of many names. So the man of many names, what's going on with you, dude? Things are busy, exciting. We've got some pretty exciting things coming up here in your life and mine, right? Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Getting ready to fly to Idaho to do our first RTA syndicate summit, which is our highest level business group that we run with M.I.L.E.T. Excited to do this first summit. I'm really excited to get to know everybody and meet everybody, and I'm really excited to see what's going to come out of it. Yeah. Did you hear the bad news today? The sad news?

Dude, Burt Reynolds. Yeah. What the fuck yeah dude i knew what you were talking about because the young bucks aren't gonna know man it's fucking smoky and a bandit right you know dude that was like one of the shows that got me into cars well i wondered if you were also a fan of cannonball run yeah dude and then what else was he in he was in uh best little whorehouse in texas which i never saw i didn't watch that yeah come on now yeah i know you watch it though the longest

yard the longest yard that's a recent movie he was in well by 10 years ago that was a remake yeah but he was in the he was in the remake yeah with adam samuel um dude that guy's og he's iconic man yeah that's kind of sad he's got that he's got the mustache and the iconic 70s hair. And I usually don't say, like, damn, dude, that guy's died. Yeah. When it's a celebrity, but like, fuck, damn, man. Yeah. That's a big deal.

For Reynolds. I mean, you're not as old as I am, but for guys that are even remotely close, he's kind of OG. Dude, I want to- Spendine is the realization that, oh, wow, we're getting old. We're getting a little old. Yeah. I want to die is the realization that, Oh wow. We're getting old. We're getting a little old. I want to get a semi truck like the one he had in the, in smoking a bandit with a,

with the mural on the side. Dude, you know what they were, you, you know what they were hauling in that movie, right? No. Coors Light.

Oh, Coors Light. Coors Light, which happens to be my beer of choice. So, so young, youngins out there. All these fucking snobs that listen right now are like,

Oh Andy, that's not a real fucking beer. Like all these motherfuckers, they, they yell at me anytime I post a Coors Light like I'm some sort of peasant. Well, you know what? I am a fucking peasant. And I like Coors Light. And if you got to go drink a fucking craft beer to feel cool, then you ain't my fucking kind of people. Right.

Well, we're also in. Two confessions. I've literally never in my life had a coarse light well we're gonna have to change that or a bush bush is not good bush is like a really like a syrupy corny taste in beer i don't like it yeah what about michelob what about michelob yeah michelob i think is like golf beer like that's what i think of like when you go golfing you're gonna drink drink Michelob. It's funny. This is a funny conversation. Tyler, what do you think of whenever you hear Michelob?

Girls? It's a very easy, smooth beer. Not Michelob Ultra. I'm just talking about Michelob. Oh, Michelob. I don't really see it being drank that much. You saying Country Club? Yeah, it's like a golf beer. It's got the weird bottle shape. Does it still got the weird bottle shape.

Does it still have that weird bottle shape? I couldn't tell you. Well, I lost a bet to Drew, and he wanted a couple cases of Michelob gold. Yeah, but then you bought him two six-packs. Yeah, he called them cases again. Fun fact, everybody. Vaughn does not know what a case of beer is. Vaughn tells Drew that he buys him two cases of beer, and it's two fucking six-packs. And we're like, where's the rest of it?

He's like, what are you talking about? Those two cases right there. It was like two little handles of six packs. So for everyone listening, Vaughn is such a good guy. He doesn't even know what a case of beer is. I went to a school that was so conservative that we jokingly had a root beer keg party, but nobody knew how to open the keg. Shut up. No, that's true. It open the keg. Shut up, dude.

No, that's true. Shut up. It's actually true. You're making that up. No, I'm not. That's one of your dad jokes. But back to Smokey and the Bandit, would you agree that those who have not seen that movie,

who are too young, need to go and get a hold of that movie? Dude, that's when movies were movies. Yeah, it was classic. Now it's like, how many special effects can I make, and this and that, and that's cool. Cannonball Run's pretty darn good, too. I feel like the storylines of older movies are better than now. Oh, yeah.

Now it's you rely on CGI. Yeah, it's CGI. It's weak stories. It's high sarcasm humor, which is like, look at the commercials nowadays. How cheesy the sarcasm humor they try to go with. Right. Like, they're trying to be sarcastic and funny and, like, witty, but it's not funny. Yep.

Like, I don't know. I just feel like it was better. Like, it was, they had better stories then. Yeah. You know? I agree. I agree. So, what are we talking about?

Dude, so, I figured, what, I don't don't know like we don't really have an agenda today we could keep talking about smoking a bandit we could yeah i think i don't know if we need to do it on this one but people wanted me to tell the story about how my dog saved my i think that's a great story okay yeah you know we could talk about we could talk about how dogs teach us everything we need to know about being good people you know what the one thing i? We could talk about how dogs teach us everything we need to know about being good people. You know what? The one thing I was going to ask you was, out of all your years in the ministry and what you did and you've been around it your whole life, basically, you met a lot of good

people, right? Yeah. And a lot of people that weren't so good. Yeah. And I was curious. I'm just curious. Where do you rank on those? I'm not worried about that.

Dude, I don't answer to you or anybody else. No, you don't. Yeah, so I answer to God himself. That's right. And I'm okay with who I'm living. I don't look for validation from other people. No, I get it. And you know I don't.

Yeah, yeah, I know. And I think it's an extremely valuable asset to have. Yeah, it is. other people but like and you know i don't yeah yeah i know like uh and i think i think i mean and i think it's extremely valuable asset to have yeah it is it is and i i actually because you know that i struggle with that yeah you know so i i like being around somebody who doesn't really care at all what people think about them yeah i mean in a good way you know you've talked about there's a good sense it makes you there's a good sense. It makes you effective. There's a good sense. We should care insofar as we should want a good reputation. Oh, no, for sure. You care on the large scale.

Yeah. You know, like on the big scale and the big scheme of things, you absolutely care. Yeah. But if I go on stage and say something stupid or mess up or, you know, I curse too much know, I curse too much or whatever. I don't, I do not dwell on that shit. Like it's just not something that bothers me. It would be interesting to explore that topic a little bit, but I'll tell you something that you might be surprised about. So today I was on the phone with a sprint who's just the worst, you know, I'm not gonna lie. I've had horrible, horrible experience with sprint, you know?

And, uh, I was just getting the run around for literally like close to an hour and we've got a you know i'm not gonna lie i've had horrible horrible experience with sprint you know and uh i was just getting the run around for literally like close to an hour and we've got a lot a lot going on and this very seldom happens but like i lost it like i started literally gosh darn it no no honestly i lost it like i went off on this guy. What's your going off? Oh, I had a string of... I used the F word a couple times. No, you did not. I did. You did not.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which one? Food? No. Which one? Frank? Fun? For unlawful carnal knowledge.

Yeah. Yes. And I used that, and I used a host of other ones, and I was really angry because I really felt like I was getting the runaround. Did you say gosh darn it? No. Yes, you did. No.

I didn't say Jesus or gosh darn it or anything like that. I was just very, very angry. I just blew up. But I got it done. And I got what I wanted done. And I did feel bad. And I apologize for getting angry with him. But it took a lot. And it is true like when you care about what other people think sometimes you have legitimate legitimate rights and legitimate things that you need to get done that you think that that sometimes you do need to get harsh and sometimes you do need to get mean you got sometimes you gotta fucking force yeah and i don't think people understand that we're always told to think about other people afterwards that's okay apologize yeah yeah and say hey bro i'm sorry i said that but here's the deal i gotta get the shit done like this is not a game

yeah you know and i have other things i need to do and they're important and you guys kept me on hold for an hour right i didn't mean to personally insult you i'm more mad at right the entire system kind of what i said basically you know and and that's it and i appreciate you getting it done for me yeah and but isn't it interesting that we assume we're taught so much to consider other people, which is a good, obviously we've done that on this podcast, but we're taught so much about serving other people that we sometimes forget that, you know what? All of us have legitimate rights and we have legitimate things that- Expectations. Expectations. Yeah, for sure.

And it's not wrong to know if those expectations are getting unjustly trampled on to stand up for ourselves dude and you know what that that's like a balance right like right now i'm reading a really good book dude uh by jaco yeah who we're gonna get to see next week that's awesome uh he's coming in on wednesday uh which is i am really excited about because i don't really look up to people, but he's a guy that I truly, genuinely respect. You know what I mean? And it's not a surprise that he's someone that has served our country,

and that's why you respect him so much. Yeah, but he's also, yes, I do, and I respect anybody who's done that, but there's the guy understands leadership. Right. And he talks about, and I'm reading his new book. He sent me a review copy and signed it, which I thought was totally cool because he didn't have to do that. Yeah. And I'm reading it and he talks about the dichotomy of leadership, how leadership is

like a balance, right? Like you're, for example, you don't want to be too friendly with your employees so that they take advantage of you we just talked about this today right so that they take advantage you and you don't want to be too distant that they think you don't fucking care right right and and leadership is not something that you can like set and just walk away from you know like a lot of things in business are systematic and you can like set it there and then walk away from. You know, like a lot of things in business are systematic and you can like set it there and then walk away from it. Leadership is something that takes constant observation and tweaking on a day-by-day basis to get in the right.

And then even when you get it right, if you let it go, it'll go bad again. So a lot of people think they suck at leadership when in reality, they're just not doing it right. Right. But what I was getting to was that- That balance has to be the hardest thing in the just not doing it right right but what i was getting to um was that balance has to be the hardest thing that's right the hardest thing in the world oh dude it's but you've got to be so aware to be aware of what's happening and not everybody is

that aware they're just not so your goal is to help people become aware and understand the process of leadership you know i figured out all, and I know we're changing subjects. No, it's fine. This is good. I figured that out over, like I text Jocko and I said, I read like I'm like halfway through the book. By the way,

I do not wholeheartedly endorse books. Like if my friends have a book, I'll put it up and fucking say swipe up. This is a book that you have to fucking buy. This is a book that you must read. And if I had had book i believe 20 years ago i would be a fucking billionaire by now the dichotomy of leadership yeah because dude it's it's i've learned what he's saying and i text him this and i've learned what he's saying but i've never seen it written down like it's something that i've learned through experience the hard way, but I've never seen

it written down. And like my mind's like, it's like a confirmation for me. Like I'm reading it and I'm like, dude, exactly. Like that's exactly how it is. You know what I mean? Right. But I never, I never had it taught to me. I had to learn it the hard way.

And you know, I'm so excited that he wrote this book because I think it's going to really help a lot of people. Yeah. That's awesome. You know, um, I don't know where the fuck I even got off on that. What were we talking about? Well, I'm not exactly sure, but I was talking about the, I was going to get into the balance of something. Well, I mean, this is the thought that went through my mind is just, you know, I know this is on the Sunday sermon, but I do think this has applications both to being a good person, but also success and everything. And that is that, you know, you talked about that balance between being nice and being present, but also being a person of authority, like for leadership. Oh, I know what I was going to say. I was going to say, you know, just like that balance of

leadership, that balance of standing up for yourself is something that people have a hard time understanding. A lot of people aren't aware enough to know when they should stand up and when they should sit the fuck down and shut up. You know what I mean? And dude, that could cost you a lot over your life. I'm not, you know, I'm not talking about just like, you know, standing up for yourself because you got bad customer service, but let's say you're in a company and you know, you say, oh, I'm standing up for myself and and in reality that whatever just made you say that was something that had nothing to do with you right right right and now you stand up and make this like i'm standing up for myself and then your superiors look at you like this guy's

kind of fucking dumb like he doesn't really get it right you know and that could take you down a notch so you have to be real careful about that balance when the time is and when the time isn't you know what i mean and you know you go to any you know any uh you know redneck fucking bar in the country and you're gonna find a bunch of dudes to stand up for themselves all the time i'll fucking stand up for everything i fucking believe blah blah blah guess what those people are? Broke. Yeah. Right. There's a time to say shit and there's a time to not. And being situationally aware of when those times are is something that a lot of people never take into account. Right. You know what I mean? Absolutely. That's what I was going to say. No, it makes sense. And kind of a different tweak on that. And I know we're hitting a lot of different subjects, but

by the way, I like redneck bars. I'm just saying that when you fucking talk too much shit, you don't get very far in business. Right. like if i had to choose the bar i go to i'm going to a hole-in-the-wall bar with country music and sitting there and drinking beer with fucking dudes who probably fucking do construction because there's a salt of the earth people those are the people i love those are the people i grew up around and that's honestly the kind of person i am yeah you know so i'm not dog i didn't want to sound that as a dog i'm just just saying those people have a lot of trouble. They create a lot of problems for themselves for doing that. And I know that because I'm around them. Right. No, a hundred percent. No, I was just going to say for what it's worth. I mean, you're talking about the balance of leadership. We're talking about this balance of recognizing that our purpose is to serve other people, but also

to realize that we have to serve ourselves on some level. So there's that tension. But I was just going to throw this out there since we're covering a lot of topics, and I think it's kind of relevant to what we're talking about right now. And that is that it's more and more evident to me that the vast majority of human beings on this planet think that everything in life is an either or. So as an example, my wife in our circles, she can take some heat from, and it depends on the two extremes. So she's a great mom, and she's also someone who has a career. And so from the people who are super hyper conservative, who think that women should only be home in the family as wives and mothers, they're kind of judging her for having a career. But then you have the super career people that are over there saying, well, why don't you just dedicate more of yourself to your career and get another nanny and whatever. And it just seems like the average person doesn't realize that we don't have to choose either or. She can choose to be a wife and mother, and she can choose to be a career woman,

and she can excel at both of those. And i know this doesn't immediately connect with what we're talking about but the whole balance of because it comes it does connect because we're talking about the lack of awareness right because most people including a lot of the people listening will look at other people doing things a different way than they're doing them and say that's wrong right which that's or those or they'll look at it and say, oh, well, that balance is so impossible that you're never going to get it. So don't even try. Whereas I just feel like- How do they know how you see balance? Right. You know what I'm saying? Like that's something I've struggled with. I would be honest

with, you know, I used to really look at other people and say, dude, you're fucking it up, you know? Right. And now i just try to look at people and and give them um the benefit of the doubt and say you know well maybe they look at life a little bit differently than i look because we all look at life through different glasses right what's important to me is probably not important uh to you and i'm just saying you as as an example um but you know the problem comes in is when people who you care about and who you love and who you respect don't have the awareness to understand what I'm talking about. And then they look at us and they say, well, dude, you're totally screwing up your life. I mean, I can't

tell you how many times I was told that by my friends, by girlfriends, by people close to me, by people that were related to me, you know, and, and things weren't going well when I was told that. So what did I believe? I believe, yeah, you fuck. I maybe, maybe I am, you know? And, uh, really what it is is I was just doing things differently and I think that our life becomes a lot less stressful and a lot less frustrating when we can just look at people and just realize that they see things different than us and just accept it yeah you know and I think that's something that um especially when you're competitive and especially when you're an entrepreneur type a you know competitive person it's real easy to get

caught up in judging other people you know what i mean right because you feel superior you're like i'm a winner i do this i do that you know and they're fucking losers and that's not the case the case is is that um other people other people put their priorities onto us. And so when we do everything different, we feel like we're losers or we're doing something wrong. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. And those people, like somebody might be completely fucking happy.

Like maybe they, you know, their work at construction and they're home at every day at four o'clock and they're up every day early and they get to have coffee with their wife and spend time with their kids. Dude, there's nothing wrong with that. Right. That's fucking respectable. You know what I mean? I respect that. It's just not my thing. It's not my thing. Right. You know what I mean? Like I like the life I live. I like it control being controlled chaos, you know, and if it wasn't like that I'd be bored right you know the nights I do go home and when I'm chilling it you know on the couch by seven o'clock I'm fucking bored I'm bored you know what I'm saying like and uh it's just a different kind of person that appreciates different things yeah and I think a lot of people's negativity that they have in life comes from them,

not the other people. It comes from them judging other people for what it is they're doing that they feel it might be wrong and being frustrated about it and then getting mad about it when it really has nothing to do with them. You know, it's just something I observed. Like, you know, when people say these blank statements about how society is completely fucked, well, I would agree that there's things about society that could be improved. But to say it's completely fucked. Right. That's not true.

There's a lot of really good things going on in the world. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And when you start to see people and appreciate what they're doing differently than you well then instead of being frustrated all the time you can actually be grateful and say dude i'm glad he does that and i'm happy that he's happy you know what i mean like you see a carpenter who's a fucking great carpenter and he does amazing you know artistic carpentry and he's fucking happy dude you could appreciate that you don't have to say, oh, this guy could be running

a fucking huge construction company that does this, this, this, and he's so dumb because he doesn't realize it. Maybe he doesn't want that. You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. I think there's a real freedom that comes when you come to a point of maturity and you can just really enjoy this,

where not only do you not feel the need to judge anybody else based on how you do things, but you also, if somebody says to you, well, that's just not my thing. That's not the way that I do things. You personally don't feel judged, you know? Exactly. That's another aspect. When you're so secure in what you're doing that you're not pointing the figures at somebody else, but you're also not so sensitive thinking everybody's pointing the finger at you. Yeah. You know, no, that's a great point. It's, it's, uh, and that's a maturity process. And I would also say

that that's kind of dynamic. I would say that sometimes you can come to a certain point of maturity, but then you kind of let yourself degenerate a little bit. Um, I don't think it's like you suddenly get to that point of maturity where you're so secure that you're never, you never feel judged. You never judge anybody else. I think we have to constantly kind of renew our commitment to that. I had a guy come up to me about a week ago, maybe two weeks ago, and I was driving one of my cars. And he goes, how many cars?

And he said it like this, how many fucking cars do you have? And I'm like, I'm looking at him and I'm like, I got a few. And he goes, at least I know where my fucking money's going and walked off. Wow. All right. So like 10 years ago. Right. I would have probably like physically confronted that guy.

Right. And got out of the car and been like, dude, you're a fucking prick. Fuck you. You know what I did? I fucking laughed it off. And I said, dude, that guy's having a bad fucking day. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like I didn't get like 10, you know, 10 years ago, legitimately there was a chance I might've like fought that guy. You know what I mean? Or got

out and felt the need to explain it and be like, dude, I own seven other companies. I travel all over the world. I do this and this and this and this and explain that you're buying from me over here at my supplement company is actually very little of what I fucking do. You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I didn't do that. I just laughed. I said, dude's having a bad day. Yeah. You know what I mean? And that's all you could do. That's what you're talking about by growing through it. Absolutely. 100 so uh we've covered a lot of uh territory um have we i feel like we have i feel like you're just in a hurry to get the fuck out of here it's 3 45 well actually i was gonna ask you a question um oh i was gonna ask you a question

x i was gonna ask you one um that's racist i have why did you assume it had anything to do with race obviously because i'm racist too you are no i was just referring to your ex your ex story no but um i actually want to know and this is a little cheesy but since i know you like dogs and since i want you to ask me the same question um because i like dogs you talk about oscar right what what seriously what did he teach you what was what was the lesson of his life for you Oscar is Andy's dog that he had for eight years at eight years during the during the years that you were really building it right you hadn't you hadn't kind of arrived had you the no fuck no okay I was struggling he went to work with me every day. Yeah. So. And he's a bulldog? American bulldog.

American bulldog. Yeah. The biggest thing that I've been able to learn from just, not just him, but any dog is that everything's going to be all right. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like you could come home, you could be frustrated, you could be mad, you could be angry, but your dog's still going to be happy to see you.

Right. And you know, the sun's going to come up tomorrow. Everything's going to fucking, it just, it's something I think turns the volume down on the rest of life. You know what I mean? I think so, too. I love dogs. They have an amazing capacity just to have a, you know, chill attitude and loyalty and love. And they know when you're stressed and when you're upset.

Yeah, oh, dude. And they do extra to make you happy. When Kasha broke our engagement like i lived by myself i was completely alone rudy jumped up on the on the couch put his head on my shoulder he knew exactly what was going on like not on my shoulder he put my head his head on my lap but uh just you know they had they're super empathetic but one time one time in college i had was dating this girl and then i was kind of dating two girls let's be real about it all right so i fucking uh one of them was staying at my house and uh like 6 30 in

the morning the other one like st patrick's day i'll never fucking forget this shit so the other one shows up at my at my house and is beating on my window at like 6 30 in the morning like with fucking these big ass green glasses and a fucking leprechaun hat and shit and i'm like laying and i had a roommate and i'm like what the fuck i go ryan must be locked out and i told the other girl i said and i'm not gonna name any names because i don't want to embarrass anybody. It was, uh, I said,

I said, I think Ryan's locked out. Will you go let him in? Dude. And it was the other girl that I was fucking talking to. And like, dude, they both blew up on me.

Like fucking like, like literally I thought I'm like, I might get hurt. Like for real. Cause they were like fucking, they were together and they were like motherfucking me. Like fatal attraction. Yeah, they fucking teamed up on me and I'm like, holy shit, what do I got to do?

So I made the one leave and then I had to take the other one home. And the whole ride home, dude, the fucking other one was holding a pen in her hand. And I thought like a gripping at heart. And I fucking legit thought i was gonna get stabbed with the pen across the fucking scene so like i got her out of the car i went home and i didn't know what to do because like i had never had that happen before like i basically got caught like you know caught two-timing yeah so uh so i called my dad my dad i was like dad you're never gonna fucking believe what the fuck happened and i told him the whole story he's laughing his ass off because my dad that's how my dad lots of times

that's kind of dude my dad is right um and he goes well it's a good thing you got Oscar I'm like yep that's true yeah dude and Oscar's sitting over in the corner I can remember being on the phone I look over at him and he's smiling as shit and I'm like come that's true yeah dude so true sitting over in the corner i can remember being on the phone i look over at him and he's smiling as shit and i'm like come on over here dude we went to the fucking park and hung out that's awesome it fucking made it all go away yeah so i so i'm married with three little girls under four and i tell you there are times i just open up my open up my uh phone look at the picture rudy and say bud i wish you were here with all this with all this estrogen yeah it's nice to have uh around, but no, I'll tell the story. So a little back story. So my dog was

supposed to be a rescue dog, but he flunked because he has hip dysplasia because a lot of yellow Labradors have hip dysplasia, which basically just means they have bad hips. And so he ran a little funny, but so he's supposed to be a rescue dog. And over the course of my life, there were different things that I think would qualify as that. I was once almost beat up by a skinhead and it was the only time. That's your own type. What's that? That's your own type of people. Your own people that'll beat you up.

Yeah. This guy was a little bit of a Nazi skinhead, but he was going to beat me up and it was the only time really in 13 years of having Rudy that my dog showed a side of himself that I've never seen before or never seen since. Wait, wait, wait. Let's go back to the getting beat up story. What did you do? You did something. No, well,

basically, I lived in a residential area with, you know, had a lot of kids and grandmothers and all that kind of thing. And this guy talked to his girl or something. No, no, no, no, no. And this guy like, you were trying to, you were trying to ghostwrite her book. You're ruining the story. So this guy, he's like driving down our street and, and, uh, and he's just going super loud with his music blaring and everything. And so I yelled out at him, I'm like, slow down. No, you didn't no i did

i did i because i was i thought he was stupid for driving that fast down a residential street well he stops and my dog's you know looking at flowers or whatever you know sniffing and just enjoying the enjoying the foliage and this guy stops pulls back gets out and says, what? And I'm thinking, oh crap. So he gets out. He's like this skinhead looking guy. He starts walking around, walking over to me. And I didn't know. And I was like, listen, dude, I'm not trying to, I wasn't trying to be disrespectful. There's just lots of kids around here. You're driving too fast and you just need to slow down. And he goes, oh, hell no. And he starts like walking toward me and I'm thinking, I'm okay. I'm going to get beat up. There's going to be,

you know, local pastor in the hospital because beaten up by skinhead. And all of a sudden it was just like a switch flipped. And I've never seen my dog ever in 13 years respond this way. He became the most vicious, snarling, attack dog looking guy I've ever seen in my life. And, and this guy like stops cause he's kind of taken back by it. And Rudy's just like, you know, and he's going to, and like I rolled with it. I was like, hold, you know? And that's funny. Yeah. So, uh, and so I looked at him, and this is true. I actually said this, and I go, dude, this doesn't have to get messy. Shut the fuck up, dude.

I did. I said it. No, I said it. Tyler, true or not true? No, it's true. You know it's true because it's cheesy. That's a good point. But anyway, he took off, and then the minute he left.

I wish we could Instagram poll this right now. True or not true? Hashtag, yeah. But the minute he left, Rudy was back to normal. But anyway, so fast forward. I get married. We have our first kid. Our first, our oldest, Lila, is on the bed.

She's an infant. She's kind of at that stage when you're an infant where you're, it's been a couple months now. You have a little bit of strength, you can move around, but you're not really going to move. You're not going to start walking or anything. So we thought that she would be fine taking a nap on our bed. And so Kasha was gone and I was going to clean up. So I was going to go downstairs and my dog, Rudy did something kind of funny. Whenever he wanted to go out, he almost like started tap dancing and it was kind of weird. He always did this kind of weird tap dance. But anyway, so I had just taken

him out. I went downstairs about five minutes later, he starts doing his tap dancing thing again. And, and I, and he was making noise and I yelled up and I was like, dude, quiet down. Baby's trying to sleep. And he keeps on doing it and it's really pissing me off. And I'm like, Rudy, stop it. And he goes, and he starts barking. I'm like, okay, I guess he has to go again. So I walk up and he runs over, like, as I walk up, he starts running into the room where, where the baby is, where Lila is. And I walk in there, and I notice that she has actually shifted her weight to where, I don't know if you know what these things are, but sometimes there's this thing you can buy, and it's like a little, I don't know, it's like a little rail to keep, basically,

that you hook to your bed to keep kids from falling off basically. Well, she had, she had shifted in a really weird way to where her, her neck was propped up on a part of that rail. And it was, it was constricting her airflow. And she was literally like, like she couldn't breathe. And so I ran in there and she, even as an infant, Lila wasn't much of a crier. She's not a real cuddly girl. She's very strong willed. But anyway, so I sweep her up, pick her up and, uh, she just burst into tears and literally just like holds me for about 10 minutes, finally calms down. And I'm so involved in this whole thing that I didn't realize what happened, but I walk out and Rudy's sitting down and I was like, all right, dude, you need to go out. You need to go to the bathroom. And all of a sudden that's when it dawned on me like, oh crap. He was telling you,

he was telling me, he was telling me about, about Lila. So it was really cool. And, uh, and they had kind of a special bond before he died. And you know, it's, it, for me that I know it's kind of cheesy, but for me, the lesson that I think is relevant to my life and relevant to everybody's is that he was supposed, he was quote unquote meant to be a rescue dog. He flunked, but he still did what he was meant to do. So I always tell people like, you know, be like a dog, love your family, only be violent when you have to and always be there to serve and you'll do what you're meant to do regardless, like regardless of whatever happens in your life. That's great advice, man. That's a good story. I like hearing that story. Thanks. Yeah, I appreciate it it. You're going to get another dog anytime?

Not for anytime soon because my wife wants to get dogs that don't shed. And the only dogs that don't shed are like foo-foo dogs where they like crossbreed them with poodles and stuff. That's not a real dog. That's not a man's dog. No. And you're a real man. You're a real man's dog. I am.

I need a real man's dog. Kicking skinheads' asses and shit. You know what? We need to announce our winners. Well, dude, you're the real man. You better take this fucking task. Okay, I better do it. Well, now, since you have the final word on everything, you have to decide.

We said three, right? I don't know. I don't fucking remember. Okay, well, you need to decide this. So you either need to tell me to pick two women and one man, or two men and one woman, or two men and two women. We'll do two and two. Okay.

All right. The winners are Tom Retcher. It might be Wrecker. I don't know. He's an audiologist and an entrepreneur. Chris DeBrock, he runs CD Industries, which I think is like a laundry service. Carly DeMuth works for the government, wants to start her own clothing line, and I guess is doing that. She works for the government?

Like a government contractor or something. Yeah, she can't come then. And then Carmela Gosler, who is a, I think she runs like a, she wants to build a salon, like a hair empire. Okay. I guess. How are you going to help her with that? You got no hair. That's true.

But if she could grow my hair, then she'd- But see, the good thing is, is I have sexy, beautiful hair. That's true. And I'll be able to help her. Tyler's got beautiful man mane. Yeah. We'll be able to help her figure out her hair stuff. So Tom, Chris, Carly and carmella uh congratulations and i we don't know when we're flying them out

yet is that correct okay probably november probably november yeah all right guys so good good story dude thanks i like that man it makes you feel good yeah well dogs make you feel good you know yeah yeah my favorite honestly people think that I'm psycho for this, but I mean, the day my dad died was pretty much the worst day of my life, but a very, very close second would be the day my dog died. Oh, there's no question that that was the worst day I've ever had. Yeah, yeah. Oscar died in my arms.

Yeah. So it was fucking horrible. Ugh. Sex. I remember saying this to you, and I was really surprised. Dude, I couldn't even look at people for... I came to work like three or four days later i couldn't even fucking look at anybody like if they even said anything to me about it i would get upset oh yeah i uh i remember saying this to you when we first met and uh i remember saying somebody asked me one time i don't care how much

you love rudy if somebody gave you a million dollars if you took a baseball bat to bash his brains and you do it i'm like yeah what are you nuts like there's no way i could be it could literally be a billion dollars and i wouldn't do that stupid they're so stupid they don't they don't get it they don't know i have people that say shit like that all the time like dude i would trade every fucking thing i have yeah every fucking thing that i have and own and have accomplished for that dog to still be alive yep and that's the fucking truth that's that's i and have accomplished for that dog to still be alive. Yep. And that's the fucking truth. That's, that's. I would start over from fucking day one.

Dogs, that's the reason they call it man's best friend. Yeah. I would start over from day one. Yeah. And not even, it would not even be a, it wouldn't even be a decision. Agreed. Yeah. Yep.

They're good. They're good. So anyway, thanks dude. This turned out to be pretty good. So what we learned here on Sunday Sermon is don't fuck with Vaughn that's right especially if you're a skinhead he'll fuck you up

or if you're a sprint customer service agent yeah he will fucking take that phone and jam it right up your