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What is up, guys?

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It's Andy Frisella, and this is the show for the real. Let's say goodbye to the Lies, the fakeness, and delusions of modern society. Welcome to motherfucking Reality. Guys, today we have Q & AF. That's where you submit the Qs and we give you the AFs. You can submit your questions a couple of different ways. The first way is, guys, you can email those questions into askandy@andyfrisella. Com, or you can go on YouTube in the comment section of the Q&A episodes and drop your questions in the comments. We'll choose some from there as well. We're just going to get right into the show today. You guys know the deal. We got CTI, we got QAF. We got Real Talk, 75 Hard Verses. That's the show. Pay the fee, do the thing, buy my shit. Let's do the show. Let's do the show.

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Guys, Andy, question number one. All right. I like that. Just right into it. I like it. It's like prom night.

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That's right. Super quick. It was over before it started.

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All right, guys, Andy. Question number one. Andy, I'm in the process of learning how to run a second-generation business. Three of the existing employees have been here for 20 plus years and have known me since I was 9 to 10 years old. One of the things that I struggle with dealing with lazy employees and how to address it with them. I have been to HQ, and around your employees, HQ is immaculate, and your employees are top-notch. If you could give me a piece of advice on how to address people being lazy, what would it be? I don't do well walking into rooms with the rooms being a mess and no one caring to clean up the mess that they've created. I'm about to flip the no mercy coin to no mercy and approach the issue in a way that I may turn around and regret. But there are days I feel like I'm raising adult children. I have my own children at home, and I don't plan to raise others. I would love to hear some advice from you.

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Okay. So first of all, taking a second-generation business and getting employees that are accustomed to, indoctrinated, have been brought up in this other environment that you're trying to change is going to present a number of challenges anyway. Then on top of that, they've known you since you were a kid. So no matter what you do, they're going to always think of you as that kid, which is going to make it extremely hard for you to get those people to operate at the level you want them to operate at. So there's a couple of things here. Number one, usually when people say that their employees are behaving lazily, it's because the leadership is terrible. That's why. Nobody wants to work hard if they aren't inspired. Nobody wants to work hard if they aren't coached right. Nobody wants to work hard if they don't have a good mission, if they're not being compensated fairly. There's all kinds of things that go into getting someone to run the ball down the field. Just because you say so isn't one of those reasons. You've got to understand there is a reality to the circumstances that you have been placed in that is very difficult, but not impossible.

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If I were you, what I would do is go down a of things to check to make sure these bases are covered so that I know that the problem isn't me. It's actually what we got going on with the employees. One, are you being a good leader? That's always the first thing you should do. You should always look in the mirror first. Are they behaving because they're mirroring your behavior, all right? Which most of the time they are. It's a tough one to ask. That's right. You should always start with looking in the mirror. Are you leading right? Are you doing the right things? Are you setting the pace? Are you setting the tone? Are you paying the vision? Are you making it clear? Where are you coming up short? And then address that. Number two, you have to realize that these people who have been in this other system for 20 years, however long it's been, years and years and years, they are accustomed to a certain work environment, and they're going to be very resistant to change. And so what you're talking about here is trying to change the culture of your entire business.

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And by changing the culture of your entire business, you are going to lose some of those people. So you have to understand, some of these people are not going to go with your new ideas. They're not going to go with They're not going to go with your new structure. They're not going to go with your new vision. They're going to say, We miss the old days. And dude, honestly, those people need to be cut. You got to cut those people from the team because any changes that you try to make moving forward, those people will become cancer to those those situations because they were born and brought up in the past culture. You have to understand people are going to flake out. People are going to leave. They're going to retire. They're going to quit. They're going to find other places. And that's a good thing because when you're trying to improve the culture of your organization, you can't do it with cancer. So you have to prepare your sofa that. And then after that, you have to go and you have to set what the new culture is going to be, which means painting Setting a new vision, setting some new rules, setting some new guidelines, and most of all, becoming the leader that inspires them to build something great.

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There's a famous story about laying bricks, and I can't remember where I read it. Some of you guys might recall this story as well. But it talks about some brick masons. If you take brick masons and you tell them to build a three-foot wall that's a thousand miles miles long, they're not going to be inspired. It's going to take forever. They're not going to care. There's no thought, there's no initiative. There's no contribution. It's just a simple wall. It's three foot high, and it's boring work. So they're not going to work that hard because there's nothing to work for. But if you take those same brickmesons and you say, We're going to build the most beautiful cathedral that has ever existed, these people will show up to work every day and give it their all because they understand that they're contributing to something that is much bigger than themselves. So are you asking your people to build a three-foot wall that's a thousand miles long? Meaning show up to work every day, do your shit, go home, make it very corporate, no fun, no real mission, no real contribution. Nobody's going to work hard for that.

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It doesn't matter how much you pay them. It doesn't matter. It's not inspiring work. Or are you building the most beautiful cathedral to ever be built? Because that difference in mentality is the between people being intrinsically inspired to build or just showing up for a paycheck. And that's what it sounds like you're dealing with. What it sounds like you're dealing with, not knowing any more than what you asked, is that you're dealing with a culture of people who have been showing up for a check for a long time, and you want to go improve the second-generation business and build it into something greater, which you should, but you're going to have to get real clear on what that looks like and how you're going to do it. And you're going to have to get buy-in from a lot of these people And a lot of these people that are there now are not going to buy into that. So you're going to have to bring in new, hungry, ambitious, driven people that buy into that vision. So that's going to be the transition that you're going to go through. Any single operator, if you ask them that has gone through this where they've made an intentional play to change the culture of their business, they have had a lot of people quit.

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And my advice to that is that it's okay. It's all right. That's fine. It's not personal. I'm not I'm mad at you. In fact, I'm glad that you're going on to do something that you feel like you need to do so I don't waste your time and your life and your energy by keeping you here in something that isn't what you want to do. That's good for you and it's good for them. That's how you should look at it. Then take the time to design, communicate, and start building this cathedral that you're working on building. You'll find that certain people will step up and certain people will wash out.

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I love this. Now, with this being, because, again, we don't know how long this company has been in business, right? But when you talk about a major cultural shift, you talk about truly changing the way things are done and are being done. Is this a situation for just, Hey, let's just rip the bandaid off? Yes. Or is this a more gradual, slow and steady wins the race?

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No, this is the way we're doing it. If you don't want to do that, that's cool. There's the door. But this is what we're doing from here on out. The boundary has to be very specific, very clear, very hard, not in a mean way, but just in a, Hey, this is what doing way. The reason that people fail at switching a culture, especially in this situation, from first generation to second generation-Because that alone is a problem. It's a big problem. Well, no, it's not a problem. It's a challenge If you're walking into a culture... Because at one time, that family-owned business was aggressive. At one time, they wanted to build something. At one time, they were all bought into building something. And what happened was people got older, people got comfortable, people got in their little rhythm, and the company stopped. And then the second generation comes in, and they want to do their part, right? Because nobody that inherits a second-generation business wants to ride it in the dirt, even though a lot of people do. But real operators, they want to take that, and they want to build it into something great and greater than what the first generation did.

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And that's what you should do. That's what you're supposed to do. A lot of people talk shit on people who come in at second generation. You can't fucking help where you're born, bro. Yeah, right. Yeah. Like, Some people are born with no opportunity, and they have to go take it. Some people are born with some opportunity, and then they shit it down the drain. Some people are born with some opportunity, and they take that opportunity, and they build greatness with it. And that's what people that listen to this show are going to do. So when you think about that, we have to remember that that's difficult. And these people haven't done that in a long time. They haven't been aggressive. They don't remember what the fuck that's like. So likely, they're going to resist that, and they're going to say things in their mind, I'm too old for this. This is not what I want to do anymore. I'm tired. I'm burnt out. They're going to say all this shit. Even 40-year-old people say this, and it's like they don't realize you got fucking 40 more years of kicking ass to do, bro. You could do some great shit in that 40 years.

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What are you going to do? Sit at home, watch fucking Netflix, eat fucking bullshit, and be a fat little shit bag. That's what you're going to do instead of going and contributing to something that could actually be awesome and say, Hey, we fucking did that. You get what I'm saying? Absolutely. There's a big mission and a big purpose in building something great. And the reason most entrepreneurs can't go from the first generation to the second generation is because they lack the courage to hold that hard line and say, This is what we're doing to switch it. So, yeah, it's not a gradual thing. It's a walk in on Monday and say, Guess what? This week, our mission is this. We're changing everything about the company. We're going to do this and this and this and this and this. And guess what? That week, you better be prepared because you're going to have 30% of your people walk out the fucking door. Yeah, and that's what's going to happen, dude. 20 %, they're going to walk out the fucking door. The rest are going to be super excited, though. They're going to be like, well, fuck those guys.

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We're going to do this. We're revitalized. Yeah. And that's what's going to happen. And then you're going to add people in who are maybe a little bit younger, a little bit fresher, a little bit more hungry that want to go hard and take that second generation to new levels. And that's how it's going to work. This is the shit we cover in Rote, by the way. This is what we do in-depth. We go through these scenarios in-depth. This is a very broad brush over this topic, but that's where we do that deep level stuff at. So that's the gist of it. And there's a lot of nuance, a lot of intricacies, and there's a lot of questions, but you have to be prepared to do it, man. If you do it gradually, dude, people don't respect the new rules. If you do it gradually, they don't know where the line is. They don't know where the boundary is in terms of… It just muddies the water. Well, last week, that was okay. It's not okay this week.

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It makes it seem like the rules keep changing.

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Last month, that was okay. Well, you only said we were changing this and this and this. Not that. That's the shit you walk into. So it's much easier to say, Hey, Nope. Here it is. These are the deals. If you don't do it, this isn't the place for you, and that's okay. I'll help you find another place to go, but we're doing this here. And that's how you got to do it. I love that, man.

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I love it. Guys, Andy, our second question Andy. Question number two. Hi, Andy and DJ. I'm 24 years old. I started my own construction business last year, and it's been a challenging journey. I've been working long hours, late nights, early mornings to make it successful. My question is related to my three employees. I want them to make a good living, but at the same time, I need to make sure that I can provide them with a steady paycheck. As a new business owner, I am looking for advice on how to improve my sales skills. While I know how to build buildings, I struggle with sales. I've listened to a few guys online, but I always feel as if they force customers into buying things, and I definitely don't want to be a pushy sales guy either. Can you please give me some insight on how I can improve my sales skills without being too pushy?

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Okay, first of all, there's a couple of things here. One, sales is hard because people don't understand what sales really is about. Sales is actually not about selling at all. It's actually about helping. It's about solving a problem. And the reason that so many good people are resistant to learning how to sell is because they don't like the way they see other people sell, or they don't like the way they've been sold. And so they get this feeling about sales where they say, This is griny, this is gross, this is not how I want to do it. And the truth of the matter is, is you have been exposed to people who are very weak salespeople. Now, they might put up some big numbers from time to time, but over the long haul, those people will spike and they will go down, and they will spike and they will go down, and they will spike and they will go down. And as a sales organization or a salesperson, you want to continue to go up. And the only way to continue to go up is to not look at it like selling, but look at it like helping.

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All right? I'm not trying to get your business today on this deal. I'm trying to solve your problem, make you so happy about how I solve the problem that you'd bring me every single friend and every single person that you've ever ever to help solve their problems as well. That's the attitude of selling. So when you get the right attitude of selling and the right intent in your heart and say, okay, my job is to solve a problem the best way possible in the Whatever that means, whatever the scope of that means, that's my job. That takes the focus away from the cheesy, slimy, salesy bullshit. That means you don't have to go get a talk track. You don't have to go practice lines. You They don't have to have closing, right? When you try to help people, and it's very obvious that you have the solution that they need, they close themselves, all right? So you're right. A lot of the salesmen online are fucking shitty salesmen. What I'm telling you is how to sell long term, not sell short term. Short term, they'll have pitches, and they'll have closes, and they'll have this, and they'll have that.

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And you're correct. It doesn't feel good when the customer actually buys from them. And so what happens is they only buy once, and then they don't tell their friends, they don't tell their family, they don't tell anybody in the world. And then eventually, if you do a really poor job, they tell everybody not to go with you. So it's very short-sided to think about selling in that way, which is part of the problem we have with all these fucking idiots all over the Internet talking about how they're going to coach you into how to sell. It's help. It's not sell. And anybody who disagrees with that, show me what they've fucking built. Show me what they've actually built. Because I'm telling you, if you want to win long term, it's helping. It's relationship building through solving problems. That's how you should think about sales. And if you think about it that way, and you have the right intent with the customer that way, now you're in a situation where you don't feel cheesy about it. You feel like you're doing something good. You know that you're doing something good. And by the way, the customer can feel it.

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How many times have you been somewhere where you know you're getting sold? You know it's a line. You know it's bullshit. Hey, Steve, it's great to see you.. They do all this stupid, cheesy shit that they see on the fucking internet, and they suck, and it makes you feel weird. And yeah, you might buy, but you're going to be like, Oh, dude, I don't know. That guy was a little weird. He's a little over the top. Yeah, I got what I wanted. Instead of dealing When you're dealing with the guy who wants to help you, you drive away from that deal saying, Damn, dude, DJ is the fucking man, bro. He's fucking awesome. Bro, he helped me. He told me the truth. He told me what I didn't need. He told me what I needed. We fucking got it done. Bro, go see DJ if you have a fucking... You see what I'm saying? Totally different conversation post-sale. And post-sale is where the actual growth of your business exists. It's not in today's sale. All right? So start thinking about it's helping with the right intent, not selling. That will help you, and it will help them, and it will help your organization grow.

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Now, the second thing is that you have to have reps. Okay? Reps matter. It doesn't matter how many books you read. It doesn't matter how many courses you look at. It doesn't matter how many Instagram videos you watch or YouTube videos. If you don't get your ass out there and actually interact with people, you fucking can't do shit. Okay? So you have to get reps, whatever that means. If you can't get enough reps with what you do, then you have to put yourself in situations where you can get the reps. Some of this is worked in a Live Hard program. On phase three, it requires you to go talk to strangers and do kind things. These are in there not just to make the world a better place, but to improve your skills at operating with people. So what I used to do, which I've talked about a number of times on the show to improve my people's skills, number one, I worked in a retail environment, which means I got lots and lots and lots of reps every single day for years with what I just told you before about helping and not selling.

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Secondly, I used to actually put myself in situations where I had to talk to people. When I talk, tell you guys how I used to go to the grocery stores and I make myself talk to three strangers before I left the store. Real conversations. Just publishing up those skillsets with the right intent, I'm going to have three conversations, and I'm going to make sure that that person walks away feeling really good about themselves. If that's what you practice, bro, you're going to become a fucking sniper with the ability to do this. Nobody will be able to fuck with you. Your skills are going to get so good. And the best part is there's no manipulation involved. It's no bullshit. It doesn't make you feel grimy. It doesn't make you feel salesy. You don't got to have slick back hair and a shitty Fucking pit visor. Yeah, bro. You don't got to have that. You just got to show up. You got to help them. You got to tell them the truth. And if you do that for a long time, your sales will continue to go up. That's how it works. You avoid those spikes because What happens is the customer remains happy with the purchase process and the post-purchase process, and they tell all their fucking friends.

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And since we have these little devices in our hands that every single person in the world has, it's never been easier to get them to spread word of mouth. And do you know what the number one indicator that creates sales is? Word of mouth. So we have this amazing tool in our hands to spread word of mouth, and people still are out there selling the old-school way. Here's my opening pitch. Here's my closing statement. And now they're doing it through Ecom. You know what I'm saying? And they're just having to run. And these guys are repeating the old play, the old play in a new way. They're having to go from widget to widget to widget to widget to product to product to product. And now it's come into this coaching space and all this bullshit. Bro, the reason these people that you see them doing this and then that and then this, and then that, and then this, and then that, is because they lack the understanding of what I'm explaining in this question. They are trying to hard sell every single person they make. And yes, they can make some money for a while, but eventually, if the product doesn't work, if the product is shitty, if it doesn't solve their problem, and you're creating buyer remorse every single time someone buys it, eventually people stop buying that, and then they have to switch.

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And those people then go do the same exact sales technique, that exact same way, again, never learning a lesson. And so their income goes up and then goes way down, and then goes up and then goes way down. And the only true way to make a lot of money and become wealthy is to let your efforts compound over time. And the only way in sales for your efforts to compound over time is by doing the right thing, telling the truth, helping people with their problem, and then they trade you money for the solution to that problem. And then if you do it well enough, they tell all their friends, which becomes your biggest lead funnel. That's the game. I don't know how to explain it any more than that. If you can't understand that and you think I'm wrong, then go do it your way. But I'm going to tell you right now, if you give me 5, 10, 15 years, I'm going to destroy you doing it my way over the quick and easy way that everybody tries to teach on the internet.

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I want to follow up on this because his real concern here is being able to provide for his employees. Now, early on in business- This is how you're going to do it. This wasn't how you started the sales mentality, right? No. What my question is, is how quick was the transition? The moment you changed over to actually giving a fuck about people.

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Bro, listen, I I can't tell you exactly what happened. My first eight years in business, for real, I was focused on me. I was focused on what I could get. What could I get? Dude, it was so much so where Chris and I would see someone coming in And we were coming into the store, and we would say, Well, we should try to get this person to do this. We had no dude. We were terrible. We were the worst fucking... We were them. The guys I'm talking about, the reason I could talk so confidently about it is because I was that guy. Okay? So what happened was Chris and I got to a point in our business where we were looking at closing the business because we weren't making any money. All right? And I went and started. I was going to go I opened a carpet cleaning business with my dad, and he was going to go to OCS school and become a fighter pilot. All right? And we were going to close the store. And we had two stores at that time. We were going to close the stores and fucking... No, we had more than that.

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No, we had six stores at this time. Yeah. So we weren't making any money, though. It was hard as fuck. And we were having this conversation about what we were going to do. And I said, I hurt my back in training. I hurt my back on the carpet cleaning training. I was in bed for 30 days, okay? During that time, we're talking about how we're going to exit the business. Because I went and did the carpet cleaning training, I'm like, Bro, I don't want to clean carpets. It fucking sucks. Fuck that. I don't care if I don't ever get rich. I like the business. What I like about it is that... I started naming some of the names of the people who had lost 100, 200 pounds and changed their whole lives. I said, Dude, what What about this guy? What about this lady? What about this? Because, dude, we were bad salespeople. We didn't know how we were doing. But every once in a while, because we didn't have many customers, we would actually take the time to talk to people and spend time with them because we were bored. And, dude, I know this sounds shitty, but we were young kids, bro.

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We just didn't know any better. And through those actual conversations that were genuine, we got to meet some cool people, and we would go through top to bottom how to help them and how to change what they got going on. They come back in five, six months later, down a hundred pounds, fucking crying, giving you a hug, saying thank you. And dude, that was awesome. And that's what we liked about the business. And so we made a conscious decision. We said, All right, if we're going to stay in business, let's focus on producing that result. Let's not do it this other way. Let's do it this way. And so we changed our entire mentality, and we said, Okay, no We're not more of this sales bullshit. We're just going to try to fucking help people. And we did that. In the next five years, we grew 100 % in a row for five years straight.

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And this is that straight line of progress you're talking about. Yes.

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And that's what allowed us to do first form. That's what allowed us to fucking do all the things we're doing now. I mean, that mentality shift is a huge shift. So if you're a salesperson or an organization, that's the shift that you have to make. You have to shift from sell to help, from what can I take from this? How much money am I going to make from this? To what can I do for this person? And how can I solve their problem? And how well can I solve their problem? And can I sell it well enough to where it's very obvious that I solve their problem to everybody they know? Because they're going to tell them. That's the goal. And if you do that, you're going to feel great. They're going to feel great. They're going to feel great about being your customer. They're going to brag about being your customer. They're going to tell all your friends about being your customer. And you're not going to have a problem with sales anymore. And that's how it works. It just takes time to materialize and compound. So you have to be patient. You have to work that plan.

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It has to be part of your cultural identity as a business or as a salesperson. The most effective salespeople I know that I do business with are 100% that way. They will pass on shit that they know that I don't need. They will tell me the truth. They will say, You don't need that. You don't need that. Let's do this because you're going to like that and this and this. And bro, the relationship is very, Very much appreciated on both sides. So don't believe this shit that you see on the internet, bro. Like, real talk, if you look at any of these coaches and they haven't very clearly built something real, like very clearly, you can't order their product, you can't see their company, you can't buy from them. You can't whatever the fuck it is. If they don't own a company or they haven't sold a company that you can go look into and they haven't built anything, you should not fucking pay them a dollar. I'm sorry. You shouldn't.

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That's ethical, Man, it's real shit.

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It's not ethical. It's fucking common sense. How the fuck are you going to pay someone to tell you how to do something they never fucking done?

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That makes sense.

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Yeah.

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It doesn't make sense. I love it, though. Guys, Andy, our third and final question. Let's get into some personal development. Let's talk about some mentorship a little bit. Andy, in October of last year, I decided to commit myself to starting a contract in your business. I spent the previous three and a half years in roofing, and I knew I needed to learn a lot more before I was ready to start my own thing. So I started I'm working for a general contractor in my area. Let's call him Rooster, only because I've shared the show with him, and he may be listening. I've learned a lot from Rooster over the last six months, and unfortunately, some of them are not great things. I noticed Rooster cutting corners with his work using the cheapest materials possible, which results in multiple gobacks in the time that I've worked for him. And overall, he doesn't seem to have much drive or hunger to grow his business. And while I somewhat understand the nature of work on a small contractor who hasn't been in business for very long, it may at times be low budget patch jobs. I also understand that I don't know shit about starting a business.

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That brings me to my point of that I just feel like what I'm learning is teaching me to do things the wrong way. And I know that when I get my skills to a point where I am as close as ready as I can be to go on my own, I just want to make sure I'm going into my business with a real edge and not constantly fighting gobacks and mistakes like my boss currently is. I know I can cook him and every contractor in my area. I'm hungry and determined to do so. I just need to know if I need to find a new person to learn from or continue to help rooster grow his small business and potentially learn to do things in a small way. What's your take on this?

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You got to mentor- It sounds like you're learning anyway. It sounds like you're learning what not to do. Learning what not to do is just as important to learn what to do. If you can learn from all the other competitors and you see where they're cutting the corners and you see where they're vulnerable and you see where their weak points are and you go build something that's strong in those points, that's a huge competitive advantage. So that's how I would look at that situation. But I will say this with an asterisk. Like you said, you don't know shit about business. So you might not be able to see on the back it. Dude, everybody thinks that everything cost a dollar, and you sell it for $100. They don't understand. Shit costs money, right? Yes. That guy It might be using cheaper materials, but what's he charging the customer? Does he fall in the good, in the better, or in the best category? Is he making premium homes and then putting cheap fucking construction materials in it because that's a problem. Or is he building cheap homes and putting cheap materials in it? That's how they're supposed to be done because that's what makes them cheap.

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Cheap materials make a cheap product. Great materials make a great product. That's how it works. So you didn't explain enough about what the business model is, and This person needs to dig in and figure out and think about this, are we building very affordable entry-level homes, or are we building at the opposite end of the spectrum castles for fucking billionaires? You see what I'm saying? And those two things are complete different things. So if you're working for a typical little construction guy, and he's just working on entry-level type housing, of course, the materials are going to be cheap. That's understood because that's what's required to build a business. So that doesn't necessarily It doesn't mean he's cutting corners. That's a great point. But things like gobacks and having to fix things later, those probably are corner cuts, and you're learning not to cut those corners. So I'd say by working for this guy, you are probably learning everything that you need to know. And I think you're being very aware and very astute in observing how things are being done and taking notes and working out a plan in your head about how to do it better.

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That's exactly what we did. When I sat in a supplement superstore for the first eight years that I had the company, we sat there and we analyzed all the other brands. Before first form. Before first form was started, we sold everybody. Dude, we're one of the biggest customers of everybody else's products. People don't realize that. We have all these stores. We sell everybody else's shit. I'm friends with every other guy that owns all the other companies. I love the guys. It's a pretty tight community. Everybody's cool as fuck. But back in the day, the culture is different in our industry now. Everybody's trying to do good now. Back in the day, it wasn't that way. And plus, the Internet wasn't around, so there was a lot more room for people to fuck people. So we got to sit there in the stores, and we observed the companies who did it right. We observed the companies who did it wrong. We got to have conversations for years and years and years when we couldn't afford to start first form and say, Hey, if we ever started our own brand, this is what we would do. We would do this.

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We understood the little nuanced ways that they took advantage of their retailers. We understood the little ways that they did things that hurt the customers or didn't serve the customers properly. We took notes of all those things. Then when we built the company our way, we attacked all those things and made sure that we were strong as fuck in all those areas. I think you're working for a great guy to learn from. It doesn't mean he's a bad guy because we don't know the ins and outs of his business. I would keep continuing to pay attention until you feel like you're at least somewhat ready because you're never going to feel all the way ready to go and start your own thing. And then when you go start your own thing, make sure that you build it with those weaknesses and strengths in mind so that you could be competitive against those guys locally.

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Yeah.

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Guys, Andy, that was three. All right, guys. Go pay the fee.