1023. Andy & DJ CTI: Spirit Airlines shutdown, Hantavirus Infections on Cruise Ship & High school student exposes classmates'

Summary

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REAL AF with Andy Frisella | Episode 1023

Andy & DJ CTI: Spirit Airlines shutdown, Hantavirus Infections on Cruise Ship, & High School Student Exposes Classmates
Date: May 5, 2026
Featuring: Andy Frisella (Host), DJ Cruise, Chris, Z

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Episode Overview

This CTI (Cruise the Internet) episode dives into three trending, headline-grabbing stories: the sudden shutdown of Spirit Airlines and what it means for the travel industry and economy, a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship (with COVID-19 era paranoia and government/WHO involvement), and a viral exposé on Philadelphia high schoolers’ poor reading skills, sparking a deeper conversation about education, merit, and the consequences of misguided progressivism. As always, humor, sharp commentary, and personal anecdotes fuel a no-BS exploration of news and culture.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Spirit Airlines Shutdown (12:15–28:34)

The Headlines & Hot Takes

• Spirit Airlines, likened to “the Waffle House of the sky” (13:23), abruptly shut down with no warning, leaving employees and passengers in the lurch.
• Andy and DJ riff on Spirit’s reputation for chaos and low-cost travel, noting it’s robust on memes, fights, and survival-of-the-fittest vibes.
• Airline employees found out suddenly—no “heads up” to prevent mass quitting (14:18).

Riffs, Analogies, and Memes

• DJ Cruise: “Spirit Airlines is like the Waffle House of the Sky.” (13:23)
• Andy Frisella: “You gotta be prepped mentally just to get through a Spirit flight. It’s first come, first serve—be ready to fight!” (15:06)
• The guys mock the prospect of a “Streets Airline - double the seats, fight to the finish.”
• Discussion of “chugging Don Julio before boarding” to survive the experience (16:04).

Industry Analysis and Blame Game

• Causes of Spirit’s collapse:
  • Rising gas prices.
  • Failure of a JetBlue merger (blocked by regulatory bodies, blamed on Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren).
  • Broader issues like airline bailouts (18:17–19:07) and the missed opportunity to bail out people, not just corporations.

Solutions & Societal Takeaways

• Andy rails against government intervention and calls for flat taxes, responsible debt management, and letting poor business models (like Spirit) fail to allow market correction (20:16–22:56).
• Talks of government or Elon Musk buying Spirit—Andy strongly prefers private enterprise solutions.
• Ideas around airline experience: enforce dress codes, reward good behavior, ban troublemaking passengers—“Good behavior should be rewarded. Bad behavior? Pay more or don’t fly.” (25:48)
• The decline in travel standards is lamented—“People used to dress up for flights. Now, it’s just transactional.” (27:01-28:28)

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2. Hantavirus Deaths on Cruise Ship & Pandemic Paranoia (28:47–53:23)

What Happened?

• WHO reports three deaths from hantavirus aboard the international cruise ship MV Hondias, with others in quarantine and media stirring fear.
• Andy is deeply skeptical, calls out the WHO, and notes the “propaganda feel” of videos coming out of the situation.

The COVID-19 Comparison

• Andy: “I was thinking, this sounds exactly like the shit they were saying during Covid. Here we go again.” (31:39)
• The gang pick apart a viral clip of an on-board passenger (“He’s reading a script!”)—questioning authentic fear vs. manufactured narrative (30:45–31:22).

Broader Reflections on Mass Panic

• The parallels to early COVID-19 coverage are dissected:
  • Biased, staged content (people collapsing on the street, biohazard suits).
  • Social media influencers and mass masking as “virtue signaling” (43:45).
  • Manufactured panic with “asymptomatic transmission” and manipulated testing (PCR cycle rates leading to false positives).
• “It was all manufactured. Still no accountability for it. And if there’s no accountability, it’ll happen again.” (44:47)

Personal Reflections & Frustration

• Andy and DJ recap pandemic trauma—lost businesses, social trust, and loved ones—criticizing American cowardice and the lack of courage to resist mass compliance.
• Andy: “The result of that cowardice was billions of people taking an unproven medication … and now we’re seeing record mortality, heart issues, turbo cancers…” (47:04)
• General concern over propaganda readiness (“red button” scenarios) and the viral capabilities of the powers-that-be.

Cruise Ship/Nature of Modern Cruises

• Both hosts avoid cruises—“The whole point of becoming wealthy is so you don’t have to … with other people” (32:52).
• Disdain for forced socialization, mass vacation “friends,” and cruise demographics.

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3. Philadelphia High Schooler Exposes Reading Crisis (56:42–79:11)

The Viral Story

• Clip circulates of a Philadelphia charter high school student asking classmates to read and interpret a simple sentence—they fail badly.
• Example: “The colonel asked the choir to accommodate the governor’s schedule.” None could interpret its meaning (61:00).

Cultural Commentary & Outrage

• Andy and DJ recall being drilled by teachers (“If you can’t say ‘silhouette’ or ‘extraordinary,’ maybe you SHOULD get made fun of and learn!” 59:08).
• Andy: “That’s a product of teachers more concerned about social constructs, not teaching real skills. This is communism playing out right in front of your eyes.” (61:27)
• The school’s response? They suspend the student who made the video for exposing the crisis (70:28)—doubling down on failure and punishing accountability.
• Only 53% read proficiently and 19% in math at this charter school (70:28).

Systemic Rots & Broader Implications

• Blame on progressive “social-justice” education, obsession with DEI over merit, and parental abdication.
• The dim future: “What happens when the generation that can’t read or think is in charge of society? Mass death and starvation.” (66:34)
• Andy calls out Democratic policymakers for exploiting urban schools—taking credit while failing (“They come in every two years saying they’ll fix things, but they’re the ones making things worse.” 82:24–83:36).
• Accountability demanded: “Fire everybody. Start fresh. It can’t get worse.” (77:06).

Technology, AI, and Cognitive Decline

• Chris (Producer): “Why understand when you can just use ChatGPT?”—sparks discussion of perishable human skills and loss of critical thinking (62:14–64:36).
• Both hosts encourage reading and writing for cognitive health; critique AI-driven, soulless content.

A Glimmer of Hope

• Chris highlights an Irish town’s “It Takes a Village” initiative—no phones in school, enforced by the whole community, and improved student well-being and academic skill (79:14–80:27).

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4. Prom Flexing & Cultural Consequences ("Thumbs Up or Dumb as F*ck", 85:05–102:18)

• Viral video of a kid arriving at prom on a private jet and with exotic cars invites both admiration (“He looks good!”) and heavy skepticism (“All this flexing just to take Burger King orders!” 90:04).
• DJ recalls the origins of prom “flexing”—how social pressures now lead kids to go over the top, sometimes dangerously.
• Andy worries about the dangers of “fake flex culture”—envy, violence, and hollow, unearned pride:
  “You’re not going to love it unless you’ve earned it … all these little scammer dudes on the Internet … terrified of being exposed, that’s why they flex so hard” (97:48).
• Jim Carrey’s quote: “I wish everyone could get rich so they’d realize that’s not it” (96:16).
• The segment ends by reminding young listeners: authentic confidence is calm, not loud—and fulfillment comes from earning and contribution, not showmanship.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Spirit Airlines

• DJ Cruise: “Spirit Airlines is like the Waffle House of the sky.” (13:23)
• Andy Frisella: “Double the seats, fight to the finish. First come, first serve!” (15:06)
• Chris: “Why you need to understand everything when you have ChatGPT?” (62:14)

Hantavirus/Pandemic

• Andy Frisella: “People have to wake up. The next time … what happens if they release something that actually kills people?” (44:47)
• Andy Frisella: “The result of cowardice was billions of people taking an unproven medication … now the mortality rate is the highest in history.” (47:04)

Education & Skills

• Andy Frisella: “These people … love to posture about how they’re ‘responsible for the youth’ … If that’s the truth, why can’t kids read?” (71:48)
• Andy Frisella: “You have to take responsibility for your own education. Don’t expect the system to care if you get your face stomped in.” (69:36)
• DJ Cruise: “It’s not even a funding issue—it’s about how they choose to spend the shit.” (83:38)

On Flex Culture

• Andy Frisella: “You’re not going to love the — unless you earn it. All these little scammer dudes on the Internet, they’re terrified of being exposed, and that’s why they flex so hard.” (97:48)
• Jim Carrey: “I wish everyone gets all the money and fame so they know that’s not it.” (96:16, paraphrased)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Spirit Airlines/Waffle House of the Sky: 12:15–28:34
• Hantavirus/COVID Paranoia: 28:47–53:23
• Education/Philly School Reading Crisis: 56:42–79:11
• No-Phone Irish School Community: 79:30–80:27
• Prom Luxury Flex Discussion: 85:05–102:18

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Takeaways & Episode Tone

• Language & Tone: Raw, unscripted, irreverent, peppered with roast humor and frank calls for personal responsibility.
• Societal Calls to Action:
  • Don’t trust failing systems or politicians; build resilience through personal standards and education.
  • Teach kids to pursue real skills, not virtual clout or victimhood.
  • Don’t buy into “fake flex” culture—earn your stripes, find meaning in contribution, and resist the siren song of shortcuts.

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Closing

Ultimately, Frisella and team remind listeners that self-reliance, courage, and ownership—of business, health, and education—are the real antidotes to a society in decline. As ever: “Don’t be a hoe. Share the show.”

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Transcript

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Went from sleeping on the floor now my jury box froze up Pole stove counted millions in a cold bad booty swole Got her own bank roll can't fold that's a no head shot. Case closed.

[Andy Fercella]

What is up, guys? It's Andy Purcella. And this is the show for the realists. Say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to reality, guys. Today we have Andy and DJ Cruise the Internet. That's what we're gonna do. That's what CTI stands for. Stands for Cruise the Internet. ABC. Easy as 1, 2, 3. Okay.

[DJ Cruise]

All right. A little mic in you.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. All right. I'm feeling today.

[DJ Cruise]

Got that dog.

[Andy Fercella]

It's real simple.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

All right, so we put topics on the screen, we speculate on what's going on, we talk about how we the people have to solve these problems going on. And then we laugh at all these idiots on the Internet. That's what we do.

[DJ Cruise]

All right.

[Andy Fercella]

This is your first time listening. We have shows within the show. It's very simple. Okay, we've got cti, which you're about to hear. Then we've got Q and A, F. That's where you submit questions. If we give you the answers. Dj, how can they submit questions?

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, guys, email your questions in to ask andyndyfercella.com you can also click the link in the description below. Submit those for a chance to be answered or just drop them in the comment section of the Q and A videos on the tube. Getting good at that.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

It flows.

[Andy Fercella]

Then we have real talk. Real talks. Just 5, 20 minutes, we gain some real talk and then we have 75 hard verses. 75 hard versus is where we bring people on the show have completed 75 hard and talk about how they were before, how they are now, and how they use 75 hard to transform their lives. We have a couple good ones coming up for you guys on that. If you're unfamiliar with, 75 hard is the initial phase of the Live Hard program, which is the world's most famous mental transformation program ever. Oh, and it also happens to be free. You can get that at episode 208 on the audio feed. There's also a book [e-mail] called the Book on Mental Toughness. It has the entire Live Hard program, plus a whole bunch of other info, chapters, studies, case studies, stories about mental toughness, why it's important, how to cultivate it and use it to become the badass motherfucker you're supposed to Be all right. One of the things about this show real quick is we don't run ads on the show. We're the biggest show in the world that doesn't run ads. We take a lot of pride in that. We self fund the show for the reason of. I don't want to be told what I can and can't say. Very simply. That's it. So when you hear our takes, you can know that I'm not getting paid $7,000 to say whatever it is I'm saying we asked very simply that you help us share the show. We have this thing called the fee. The fee is very simple, man. Just tell people if it makes you think, if it makes you laugh, gives you new perspective. If you learn something, if it's something that you think people need to be hearing, do us a favor. Don't be a hoe.

[DJ Cruise]

Share the show. All right. Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

What's up, man?

[DJ Cruise]

7K a post, though? I mean. I mean, is there, like a limit on how many I could make a day or, like, how's this work? You know what I'm saying?

[Andy Fercella]

Well, I wouldn't know. Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, man. What's going on, though, bro? All's well.

[Andy Fercella]

God dang. That's good, man.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, that is a good one. That's good.

[Andy Fercella]

That's silver Lightning form energy.

[DJ Cruise]

Dude, it's so crazy. The cherry slush, I guess, is out now. Everywhere people are talking about. Everybody's talking about. It's like. Yeah, I had. You know, it's good. It's good. It's definitely like a top. Top four for me, though.

[Andy Fercella]

It's not my favorite either. Yeah, I think it's great. But I'm still. Dude, I'm down with the orange and the grape and the. The paradise punch.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. I was feeling a little like I had some Kyle in me, so I just grabbed the orange.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. The paradise punch for me is. I like that the best, dude, because it reminds me of the Hawaiian punch when I had. When I was a kid.

[DJ Cruise]

Yep.

[Andy Fercella]

And we weren't able. We didn't really have the. We weren't like a Hawaiian Punch family, dude. Like, when you got a pouch of Hawaiian Punch, it was a big deal. And to me, that's what it tastes like. Yeah, it tastes like Hawaiian punch with carbonation.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. We had just red fruit drink. Just red.

[Andy Fercella]

We know, bro.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, man. No, it's a good day, man. Dude, I wanted to share with the. With people a secret talent you have that you. You never talked about before.

[Andy Fercella]

What's that?

[DJ Cruise]

I thought we'd Just take this opportunity just to share, you know, like you. Andy has a hidden talent. He has a side. Side job, actually.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, really?

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, God,

[DJ Cruise]

bro, you're a meteorologist on the side.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, yeah, I am.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, you are, dude.

[Andy Fercella]

And I have, like, five weather apps, and I spend, like, a thousand dollars a year on the weather apps. I really do, bro. Like, I buy them all. I buy the best ones, you know, I don't know where I picked that up at, but for some reason.

[DJ Cruise]

What's a skill? It's a skill you've developed.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, it's fascinating.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right. That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

To me it is.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

I will say that my favorite weather app, and this is definitely not an

[DJ Cruise]

ad I pay for.

[Andy Fercella]

This is Radar Scope.

[DJ Cruise]

It's a great.

[Andy Fercella]

The Radar Scope Pro app is awesome.

[DJ Cruise]

Phenomenal. Yeah, you got that one, huh?

[Andy Fercella]

You got the Radar Scope?

[DJ Cruise]

I'm not paying for it.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, I got the pro one, man. It's good.

[DJ Cruise]

In fact, they make me feel bad because every time I open it, they give me their, like, plug screen. Yeah, it's like, you know, sign up, help, support, or just continue to get it for free. I'm like, yep, that one right there.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Not that invested, but. But no, dude, you. You're a meteorologist on the side, dog. And, you know, we're in the Midwest. It's apparently supposed to get pretty hot, you know, a little intro. Just wanted to get your take on all the weather shit, you know, let's

[Andy Fercella]

go to Andy with the weather.

[DJ Cruise]

What do you got?

[Andy Fercella]

I mean, this is typical Midwest weather.

[DJ Cruise]

It is.

[Andy Fercella]

We could expect to not know what the fuck is going on at any given time. It could be sunny, right? We could have a. It's supposed to be sunny, 75 degrees, and we could end up with, you know, wizard of Oz happening in an hour. Right? Like, that's the weather here. I think that's really why I got into it, man, because it's like, it just changes. You can't listen to the weather people. They. It's not their fault because they're not on all the time, right? So, like, the weather changes so fast that you kind of have to just look at the stuff yourself.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. It's the only job I know that you can, like, be wrong and still get paid.

[Andy Fercella]

No, I know another one.

[DJ Cruise]

What?

[Andy Fercella]

Reporters, podcasters. Also people who manufacture cell phones.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, okay.

[Andy Fercella]

Like, cell phones, the biggest industry in the world where the. Doesn't even work half the time, and then they force you through planned obsolescence to buy new ones.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, man.

[DJ Cruise]

Well, I might have to expand that. That pool there. Yeah. But, dude. So there's actually.

[Andy Fercella]

Is this now.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, this is like the next damaging

[Andy Fercella]

wind gusts and large hail.

[DJ Cruise]

Yep. Yeah. It's supposed to get pretty crazy over the next day or two.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, I could tell you right now, right now, we are not having any sort of adverse weather here.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, we had.

[Andy Fercella]

Currently.

[DJ Cruise]

We had some this morning, a little bit last night, you know. Yeah. But, yeah, it's supposed to get pretty. Pretty hairy. We'll see. But I did see this thing that apparently tornado alley is like, shifting.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, really?

[DJ Cruise]

Like it's moving further, further north and east. Yeah. Like it's covered. It's usually it's just like Kansas and Oklahoma, but now it's starting to, like, move over and.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, the places I've lived and, you know, I've. I lived in Springfield, Missouri, which is southwest Missouri almost down to Oklahoma. I lived there for eight years. And in St. Louis, we've just always been in. Right. In the tornado alley our whole lives. So funny, because when people come to visit, especially at this time of year, you know, it's not uncommon for storms to pop up out of nowhere and sirens to be going off. And it's always funny because the people that aren't from the Midwest, they get super nervous.

[DJ Cruise]

Are we going to die? Are you okay?

[Andy Fercella]

And then you have to tell them. They're like, are we going to die? You're like, I don't know yet.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right. Let's go look.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, it's possible, but, you know. You know, unfortunately they do hit, and when they hit, they're really hard, but the chances of actually getting hit are still pretty low because they're so small.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, for sure. You got a better chance of getting Covid. Yeah, we got a little bit of that later. But. Yeah, no, I just want to bring that up, dude. You know, it's a special talent you have, and I've never seen anybody else with it.

[Andy Fercella]

Dude, I got a couple other ones, too, but.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, yeah, yeah, let's share with the class. Yeah, man. But no, guys, the cti, we got. We got some stuff to dive into. You guys know how this works. Remember, if you would like to see any of these pictures, links, videos, articles, go to andyforcella.com you guys can check all of that stuff there. What?

[Andy Fercella]

I'm just thinking, when you said special talents, I'm just thinking of this. I had this buddy in college, me and Sal did, and he had a special Talent. But I don't know if I should talk.

[DJ Cruise]

That's a cliffhanger dog, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't know why this popped in my mind. This dude used to come out of his room butt naked.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, man.

[Andy Fercella]

Okay. And bend over.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, man.

[Andy Fercella]

And he could pull his nut sack, like, literally down to his knees and stretch it out. Like a flying spider. Yes. Like, you know the flying squirrel?

[DJ Cruise]

I've heard.

[Andy Fercella]

Only this was like a prehistoric flying squirrel.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, my God.

[Andy Fercella]

It was like a pterodactyl

[DJ Cruise]

flying ter.

[Andy Fercella]

He would come out.

[DJ Cruise]

Why?

[Andy Fercella]

I don't know. Just because he's. Dude, you're just dumb drunkards.

[DJ Cruise]

That's got to be, like, a special condition.

[Andy Fercella]

He'd come out and he'd go distortion and like. Like, dude, there'd be, like. There'd be, like, people there. And then he'd run back in his room.

[DJ Cruise]

What the. Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't know. Don't ask me.

[DJ Cruise]

What's he do now? Dude, he's probably like. He'.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, I mean, just weird college. Y' all know what I'm talking about. You know, it's weird, dude, that when people drink and, you know. And you're 22 years old, people do weird.

[DJ Cruise]

Flying through a dactile.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. It wasn't gay either. I don't know. It felt gay, but it wasn't. It was more entertainment.

[DJ Cruise]

Dude, that's got to be like, a medical condition or something.

[Andy Fercella]

If you run in Sal's office right now and yellow distortion, he will fall on the floor.

[DJ Cruise]

No, that's all you got to say.

[Andy Fercella]

He'll know exactly what you're talking about.

[DJ Cruise]

Note it. You're going to have a bunch of people that summer. Smash. Yelling, distortion.

[Andy Fercella]

Don't do that. Yeah, that's why I'm not saying his name.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

I know you listen to the show. I bet he's laughing right now, though.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, man, that's. That's crazy. But, yeah, man. Let's buckle up, guys.

[Andy Fercella]

We got. I'm talking to his knees like a parachute.

[DJ Cruise]

Is he black?

[Andy Fercella]

No, dude, that's a. That all. That shit's a lie. Y' all tell.

[DJ Cruise]

No, I mean, I don't know.

[Andy Fercella]

I seen enough white wieners to know. Oh, I'm just saying, man, I play sports my whole life, dude. I've been around black dudes. I've been around white dudes. You guys are all full of about that stuff, so.

[DJ Cruise]

See, I beg to differ, though. Like, I don't. I don't. Same. Right.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, okay, you might not be full of But y' all ride it till the wheels fall off.

[DJ Cruise]

Okay, I see it. Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

It's like. It ain't. Ain't always true.

[DJ Cruise]

No, I mean, not always, but, you know, there's outliers. For sure.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

You know, but on the whole.

[Andy Fercella]

Now, I'll tell you where it's always true.

[DJ Cruise]

Okay.

[Andy Fercella]

With those Japanese people. Well, what do I know? Dick expert. I'm a weather expert.

[DJ Cruise]

Little veggie rolls or dog. Oh, man.

[Andy Fercella]

I'm just kidding. Don't kung fu me, all right? It's all good fun until you get roundhouse to the face.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

You know.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right. That's right. By Little Karate Kids. Yeah. Yeah, man. Well, let's dive into our topic, shall we? Let's do it. Yeah. This first one, and it's funny, dude. I don't. You know, we don't. We don't. We don't, like, pregame. We don't pregame this, right? Like the. The outline, the show. We don't. You know, we just come.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't.

[DJ Cruise]

You just pull up and fucking roll, right?

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

And, you know. But it's so weird how things work because, you know, I like. I like when you wear yellow.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, you.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, I do. It's a good color on you. And in the spirit of wearing yellow, Spirit Airlines.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, yeah. That's actually why I wore it, Rip. We had a he man last show.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

The show. It's Spirit. Spirit of the homies.

[DJ Cruise]

Spirit. Have you ever flown Spirit?

[Andy Fercella]

Huh?

[DJ Cruise]

Have you ever felt flown Spirit? I mean, listen, listen, I know we don't fly now commercial, right? But I'm talking about when you used to, like. Did you.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't even think. When did spirit start?

[DJ Cruise]

They've been around for, like, 40 years.

[Andy Fercella]

Hold on. Really?

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

When did it start, Z? I don't remember Spirit. Like, when I was. When I was flying commercial, I flew Southwest, okay?

[DJ Cruise]

It was only Southwest guy.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Yeah. See, I. I don't remember Spirit. I don't think I've ever flown in Spirit.

[DJ Cruise]

Really?

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. I don't. I don't. I don't belong to one of the gangs.

[DJ Cruise]

Which gangs?

[Andy Fercella]

You know what I'm talking about. Like, you got to wear colors to riff like Spirit, bro. Listen, it's too rough for me.

[DJ Cruise]

Spirit Airlines is like the Waffle House of the Sky.

[Andy Fercella]

That's right. That's why it's yellow. That's such a great analogy, bro. It's the same Waffle House of the sky, bro.

[DJ Cruise]

It's the same it's the fucking same, dude. Like, you got to be able to defend yourself, bro. Oh, yeah, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, yeah. You got to go in prepped. Your mind's got to be right. Oh, bro, you got to be on the lookout. You can't turn your back to the wrong area of the plane, dude. It's a different thing.

[DJ Cruise]

And to my knowledge, shoe, though, like, to the credit, I know Spirit Airlines get some, but I don't think they've ever had, like, a major, like, issue, like, with, like, a plane crashing or mouth. I don't think they've ever had issues with the actual planes. Now, on the planes, it's a different conversation, right? Because on planes, we know it gets a little heavy. But yeah, Spirit Airlines is shut down. This has been the talk of the town, and there's been, you know, employees are pissed because there was no, like, heads up. It was kind of just like, well,

[Andy Fercella]

how are they gonna heads up now? Everybody could quit.

[DJ Cruise]

That's true. That's true.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

That's true. But, yeah, I mean, there's been a bunch of videos coming out, like pilots making their last messages as they're, like, landing and stuff. It's been crazy. One other thing that's going crazy with this topic is that, you know, these people, they started putting together, like, you know, just like a. In memory of Spirit. And so I thought for, you know, for the show, well, those pilots should

[Andy Fercella]

just go start their own airline.

[DJ Cruise]

I could.

[Andy Fercella]

You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Cruise]

Okay.

[Andy Fercella]

Just call it the Streets,

[DJ Cruise]

but in.

[Andy Fercella]

In real.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Spirit is for the streets.

[DJ Cruise]

Spirit is for the streets. There's no doubt about that.

[Chris]

The idea could be you sell double the amount of seats and then everybody has to fight one other person.

[Andy Fercella]

There you go. That is a great idea. Oh, my God. It's first come, first serve. You better be ready to fight.

[Chris]

First come, first serve.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, that's right. That's right.

[DJ Cruise]

But yeah. So in honor of Spirit Airlines, I have a video here for you. Let's check this out.

[Chris]

Go suck another dirty dish.

[Andy Fercella]

All gonna miss it. Yep.

[DJ Cruise]

Yes, you are. Oh, yeah, that's the other thing,

[Andy Fercella]

Bro. That's another thing we could add to the. To. To the. To the streets. What is it? You gotta. You gotta chug a flask of Don Julio before you get home.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right. That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

Cuz there's only two things that happen when you chug Don Julio. You are fighting or you are.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

That is it.

[DJ Cruise]

That's it. Not in that order. Yeah, you know, dude, yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Sometimes it's the other way.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right. Fuck, man. Yeah. They're down, dog. They're out. You know, and it's so crazy because, I mean, the.

[Andy Fercella]

Who would have thought.

[DJ Cruise]

Who would have thunk it? Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, I'm saying they're blaming the gas prices. I saw.

[DJ Cruise]

Blaming gas prices. That's one part, right? The airfare, you know, it's more expensive to fly now. It's more expensive to drive now.

[Andy Fercella]

Couldn't have anything to do with, like, any of the shit that we just watched, bro.

[DJ Cruise]

You see that movie Soul Plane? You ever seen that?

[Andy Fercella]

You know, I did, but it was so long ago.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, bro, it's such a good Snoop Dogg in that, huh? Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart. I mean, a lot of. Yeah, it's like. I think that was nothing.

[Andy Fercella]

I'll tell you the worst movie that I've ever seen.

[DJ Cruise]

What?

[Andy Fercella]

Snakes on a Plane.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh. Terrible.

[Andy Fercella]

Snakes on a Plane. And I think there was, like, more than one. Like, not more than one snake. I thought they made a sequel to it.

[DJ Cruise]

Do they?

[Andy Fercella]

That is the worst movie ever, dude.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, it was. It was.

[Andy Fercella]

It combines two of my least favorite things.

[DJ Cruise]

What?

[Andy Fercella]

Airplane travel and snakes.

[Chris]

Oh, that movie is only famous for that one particular dialogue.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Tired of these snakes on this plane.

[Chris]

That's right.

[DJ Cruise]

That's it.

[Andy Fercella]

Isn't that Samuel Jackson?

[Chris]

Yeah. There was no sequel to that movie.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, well, good.

[Chris]

Thankfully.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, man. But this is down, so gas prices, that's what they're putting off as, like, the main failure. But there's also talks that, like, that it's. It's going to the Biden administration because Spirit tried to do a merger with JetBlue years ago. That Secretary Sean Duffy from the Trump administration, he's saying that it was Pete Buttigieg's problem or fault that it didn't go through because that could have potentially saved it. Now people are also blaming Senator Elizabeth Warren on this as well, saying that's her fault. And there's a bunch of memes going out.

[Andy Fercella]

That's. That's a good one. That's good.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. It's just crazy, dude. But, like, you know, I know I'm young. What I remember, though, this was. I think this was like 2000. It was 2008 somewhere. It was right after the. The big recession. But there was the massive bailout of all the airplane companies, and then there was the banks. Like, there was a bunch of these things that have happened in the past, dude.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, I know.

[DJ Cruise]

One of the most recent talks should

[Andy Fercella]

have let everything crash yeah, let the system rebuild it for the people. But they won't do that because those are the people that finance their corruption.

[DJ Cruise]

It's like, where's the people's bell out,

[Andy Fercella]

dude, that you want to fix, bro? I've been saying this for years. Yeah, okay. Instead of making the banks get bailed out, why don't you bail out people on their debt and let and see what the economy does. Let them take the hit wants, bro.

[DJ Cruise]

It'd be nice. Fuck, dude, it'd be fucking real easy to do. Now there's this just before you go

[Chris]

ahead, I have a point that I saw a post on, your point that Dubai went and made tax friendly laws. So the business has boomed and a lot of people flow flew in to start their businesses there. And the other South American country that went really hard on crime, El Salvador, they made it crime free so that people are flourishing there. It's becoming a popular tourist destination.

[Andy Fercella]

Correct.

[Chris]

So if government did what you were just saying right now.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Businesses will really boom.

[Andy Fercella]

100%.

[Chris]

Everything will go. Yeah, amazing.

[Andy Fercella]

Yes, that's 100%. The whole problem we have in this country is that the biggest banks in the world with the most money in the world have everybody wrapped around, you know, they're back over the barrel with debt. And those people never get real relief ever. And you know what? Yeah. You have to be responsible for your, your debt and your financial decisions and all those things. But they say that to us and the banks don't do that themselves.

[Chris]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

Right. So yeah, I mean, one of the things, and this is how you know that politicians are so full of shit. Okay. Because this would be a real easy problem to solve. And America could become one of the most prosperous countries that have ever lived if the people who have created the situation were dinged one time for creating the situation that they've created. Right. If you took all the credit card and you took all the banks and you wiped everybody's debt free and said, okay, we're not even changing the way it should be. We're just starting over and make the banks start over. Instead of people starting over the country for the next 50 years would be ridiculously prosperous and it would be an easy thing to do. And you accompany that with, you know, low tax of some sort of flat tax, a 10% tax, you eliminate the corruption, you know, and the people that are getting cut out here are the people that are stealing the money. That's the thing. And so if these people really wanted to correct what was going on, these would be simple moves to make. But the people that would get hit with this have so much money and power that they're able to buy everybody else off. And so they'd be cutting off their own interests, which very few people are willing to do.

[Chris]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

Right. So it's. It's a really simple fix, but, you know, having the balls to do it and the selflessness to do it is something that our leaders don't possess.

[DJ Cruise]

No. Now, there's been a lot of talks, a lot of rumors around, you know, about the. The state of Spirit Airlines. I think I saw something about, like, the US Government was thinking about buying them and using it for, like, DOD and stuff like that.

[Andy Fercella]

Flying some more migrants. Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Yep. There's also been some talks that Elon Musk might be buying it and purchasing Spirit Airlines. There's been some talks. What do you think should be done with Spirit? Because, I mean, like, you got a lot of people, right? Like, I think there was, like, 17,000 employees and workers left jobless right now. That's not good for the job market. What do you. What would you do in this scenario?

[Andy Fercella]

I don't think the government should buy it at all. I think anytime the government buys anything large like this, we take a step towards communism. I don't think the government has any business in buying up any sort of situation like this. You know, if Elon wanted to buy it, you know, he would. He would have to come up with a way to make it. Make money. But I think he could, you know.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, I know where to start. What's that? No more bonnets. No more bonnets.

[Andy Fercella]

What's a bonnet? Oh, yeah, there has to be dress code.

[DJ Cruise]

That right there? Yeah, that right there.

[Andy Fercella]

Look, man, no more. I personally think that if a plane. If. I think that on the other end of the spectrum, outside of the lowest possible transportation, I think if a company enforced this dress code on the plane, I think people would pay more to fly on it.

[DJ Cruise]

See, I also have this thought, too, though, right? Like. And you talk about this in business, like, with products or service, like, there's a good, better, best. Right. Like there. There's gonna be the.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't own any businesses. I've never built any businesses at the At. For cheap.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't like to operate there.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, but it is a big market there, though. You know what I'm saying?

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. But clearly, it's not very profitable.

[DJ Cruise]

It's not.

[Andy Fercella]

It's not very profitable.

[DJ Cruise]

Right.

[Andy Fercella]

So.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, I don't know how you do that. The right way. You know what I'm saying? To make that. Make money. I don't.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, it's a flaw. It's usually. I mean, dude, look, to sell cheap and profit, you have to do a lot of scale. Okay. A lot of business. And they're probably. I mean, Southwest has. Has done it.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, but even they changed their.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, but also Southwest is also a, for most of the time, a pleasurable experience. Right. So, you know, Spirit, now, I've never flown on it, but I mean, I've clear, you know, reputation is. Exists for a reason. They don't care about the experience at all. And, you know, if you. I think that matters more than the pricing.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. You can't be a boutique cheap. No, it don't work.

[Andy Fercella]

Don't work.

[DJ Cruise]

It don't work. Yeah, man. I don't know. It's weird, man. It's so crazy seeing, seeing come. I mean, 40 years in service and now they're out.

[Andy Fercella]

I doubt we've seen the end of it. We'll see what happens.

[DJ Cruise]

It'll be rebranded or something.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't know.

[DJ Cruise]

I learned this too, bro. You know, most airlines don't even own their own planes, like their leased planes because of the turnover. I saw that.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, it makes sense because then you have your, you know, what your fixed costs are.

[DJ Cruise]

Right.

[Andy Fercella]

So it makes sense to do that. You know, I just real talk. I don't know enough about the airline industry to, like, make an educated statement about how it should be run, but I'm sure if I spent one day in their headquarters and, like, was schooled on it, I could figure it out.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, for sure. For sure, man.

[Andy Fercella]

I can tell you the first thing is, like, yeah, we're not going to be the Waffle House of the sky.

[DJ Cruise]

Yes. Yeah. Guys, let us know down in the comments.

[Andy Fercella]

What they should. They should also do is, like, when these people act the way they act or they throw fits. I don't know if they do this, but they should track a customer profile and not allow those people to fly or charge them significantly more money. Right. Like, good behavior should be rewarded. And, you know, if people don't want to fly or do something in public where there's a. It's. It's just chaos and it's unruly and, you know, and that's what they got.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Guys, let's look down in the comments. Have you guys ever flown with Spirit? I'm very curious to know our.

[Andy Fercella]

Have you.

[DJ Cruise]

No, I've never flown Spirit. Yeah. I've only flown Southwest and Then, you know, I fly commercial. I have private now, so.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, it's a lot better.

[DJ Cruise]

It's not bad. I mean, no, I fly. I fly United. I like United. That is not bad.

[Andy Fercella]

Like, bro, even when we fly private, you don't see me getting on there in my workout clothes.

[DJ Cruise]

No, no, you still dress nice. That's right. Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Like, sometimes just me and you, it's just a standard. Yeah. You know, and. And, you know, it's a reflection of the standards that we. That we have in society.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. I forget when we were talking about this, but like, even, like, looking at old pictures of airports and, like.

[Chris]

Yeah, not only airports.

[Andy Fercella]

The.

[Chris]

Inside, the airplanes. People used to dress in, like, suits, and the food was served on tablecloth with, like, proper cutlery. All that thing is getting minimized and minimized and minimized. It's all transactional right now.

[Andy Fercella]

Well. And it's all for profit. And what you don't realize is that people will actually pay more for experience than, you know. So there becomes a point of, you know, diminishing returns with that.

[Chris]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, minimizing it to the point where it's total shit. Not the way you want to minimize. You want to minimize it and streamline it for profit to the point of where the customer really doesn't notice the dip in experience. Right. Like, for example, like you mentioned the meals. Okay. We all know how they serve the meals on the airlines, right? Everything is set up for assembly line. It's. It's like. It's like worse than hospital shit. All right. That's a whole nother discussion. For the amount of money that people pay for insurance, they should be getting great food in the hospital. But anyway, when you. You could easily present the food differently to make the perception of higher quality, but they won't do it because they make 2 cents more or 10 cents more per meal doing it the way they do it. And there's a. There's a point there where you don't want to cross. You know what I mean?

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, man. Guys jumping on this conversation. Let us know down in the comments. RIP spirit.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Ultimately, it's just a poorly run business, and that's that.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah, man. Well, guys, let's keep cruising, shall we? It's good to headline, too. I got a little bit of COVID 2.0 coming.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, yeah?

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. This one's interesting. Headline number two reads, Three dead of suspected hantavirus infection on cruise ship. Who says, you know, anytime they're involved, it's about oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's fucking bullshit. Yeah. One case of HANS virus infection has been confirmed in the laboratory, the organization said on Sunday. There are five additional suspected cases. So three people who were aboard a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean have died of suspected infections of hantavirus, the World Health Organization said on Sunday, referring to a rare family of viruses carried by rodents. One case of the infection was confirmed in the laboratory, the organization said in a statement. There are five additional suspected cases. Of the six people infected, three have died and one person was in intensive care in South Africa, it said. Foster Mohail, a spokesperson for the National Department of Health in South Africa, said passengers of the international cruise ship MV Hondias was. Were in South African medical facilities, quote, following serious health complications arising from undiagnosed severe acute respiratory infection. Now, they're currently sitting off the coast. They will not let them, like, go to port. They're. They're kind of being quarantined in the ship. This guy who's currently on board, put this clip out. Let's check this out.

[Andy Fercella]

I am currently on board the MV Hobbyist. And what's happening right now is very

[DJ Cruise]

real for all of us here.

[Andy Fercella]

We're not just a story. We're not just headlines. We're people. People with families, with lives, with people

[DJ Cruise]

waiting for us at home.

[Andy Fercella]

All we want right now is to

[Chris]

feel safe, to have clarity, and to get home.

[Andy Fercella]

So if you're seeing coverage about this,

[Chris]

just remember that there are real people behind it.

[Andy Fercella]

I just ask for your kindness and understanding.

[Chris]

Why does it look like he's reading?

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, I didn't notice that if you. I wasn't paying close enough attention. Play it again.

[Chris]

If you play it again.

[Andy Fercella]

I was just thinking about, like, I. I was thinking as he was talking. I'm like, when you're seeing it again,

[Chris]

just look at his eyes.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. One more time.

[Andy Fercella]

I am currently on board the MV Hobbyist, and what's happening right now is very real. Yeah, he's. He is absolutely not just a story. We're not just headlines.

[DJ Cruise]

We're people.

[Andy Fercella]

People with families, with lives, with people

[DJ Cruise]

waiting for us at home.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, man, he is reading.

[DJ Cruise]

He's reading.

[Andy Fercella]

That's weird.

[DJ Cruise]

That is weird. That is weird.

[Andy Fercella]

I didn't catch that because when he was talking the first time, I was thinking like, God, this sounds exactly like the shit they were saying. You know, where people are, grandmas are dying and stay home. And I'm just thinking like, oh, fuck,

[DJ Cruise]

here we go again.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, I wasn't watching his eyes, but That's a good call.

[Chris]

All the text also is heavily keyworded. Like, all the words are heavy keywords, which will affect you.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, I mean, listen, it's. It's happening, right? The MV Hamdius, which was carrying about 150 passengers from various countries, left USIAWA in Argentina about three weeks ago from the Canary Islands, stopping in mainland Art, Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Nightingale Island, Tristan, St. Helena, Ascension, and Cape Verde. In a statement on Sunday, the operator of the ship Ocean Wide Expedition said it was closely monitoring the situation and is deploying all available resources to ensure appropriate medical care and support for passengers and crew. So they're currently sitting right outside of Cape H. Cape Verde, and they're not being allowed to port, and there's three dead bodies on there, so

[Andy Fercella]

I don't.

[DJ Cruise]

I don't do. Have you ever done a cruise?

[Andy Fercella]

No.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Have you ever seen the footage from a cruise?

[DJ Cruise]

They're nasty.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Why do you think I would go on.

[DJ Cruise]

It's like recycled water.

[Andy Fercella]

The purpose of becoming wealthy is so you don't have to with other people. All right? Like, it's just you, your friends, you rent a boat and you go on your own cruise.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, that's right.

[Andy Fercella]

There Will, look, if you see me on a cruise, business is bad, all right? I'm just telling you, man, like, I'm in trouble.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

I might. You. I might start a GoFundMe.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Okay.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, I don't do them, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, I keep thinking of that, like, famous video of the Carnival cruise where all your people are.

[DJ Cruise]

All those people.

[Andy Fercella]

Your people, My people. Your people are fucking doing the line dance or whatever it is. And then there's like, these, like, two little white people and, like, their kid, and they're, like, hiding their kid, and everybody's twerking, and I'm like, yeah, not for me. No, no, never.

[DJ Cruise]

I get invited all the time. I got friends that love them, I thought, you know, like. And it's. It's also interesting, too, because it is. A lot of my people and I would have thought that we, like, learned our lesson by now, you know what I'm saying? What are you doing? You know what I'm saying?

[Andy Fercella]

By boats?

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, bro. Like, come on, man. That was one of the first things.

[Andy Fercella]

Come on, everybody get on this boat.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, No, I don't do that shit, dog. I'm smarter, you know?

[Andy Fercella]

I mean, look, bro, you know, I know there's a lot of people that really like it, and I. You know, we're all making jokes and Shit, I know there's levels to it and stuff, but real talk, like, I don't. Like when I'm in public around people. And this is even before, like, people know who I was and stuff. I just don't. Like, even when I go on vacation, man. And, like, you know how, like, you meet people on vacation and they become, like, your vacation friends? I don't do that shit. You know what I'm saying? That's not what I do. I want to be left alone. I want to. I want to hang out who I'm there with. I don't want to talk to you. I'll be nice. You're not going to know that I don't want to talk to you, but I really don't.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And I just kind of always been that way.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. I've only got one example of vacation friends that I actually like, and they. Yeah, yeah, I met them. Yeah, they're big fans of the show. They're really awesome people. But that happened, like, five minutes in, bro. And I'll be honest, I was worried at first.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, dude. Because they always get weird.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. But Nate's awesome, dude. Him and his wife, they're. They're fucking phenomenal people. But, yeah, I'm the same way.

[Andy Fercella]

Every time I've ever, like, met vacation friends, like, on the vacation, I always get, like, this, like, a swinger vibe off.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, yeah, dude.

[Andy Fercella]

Like, they get too comfortable.

[DJ Cruise]

Hey, man. Yeah. Like, no, you guys, we go see the sunset together.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

No. Yeah, I want to see the sunset. I'm a. So.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, that's right. So, like, I'm not that kind of vacationer.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, I try to go to places where, you know, I'm just going to have my own time. That's just me, man.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Now let's get some foil a little bit. Right? Because, you know, Z shot pointed out something very, very important about that video that I didn't even catch on the first go round. Right. But because, you know, people tend to. Tend to forget. Right. Covid was a long time ago, so it seems or feels right, but we've been inundated with so much shit over the last six years, you know, And. And I find this very interesting because, like, you got to look at the timing of all. All of this going on. Right. Everybody's distracted with the Middle east right now. Right. And I know we've said. And you've said countless of times on the show, you know, if all else fails, there's a few different big red buttons that can be pressed yeah. You know what I'm saying? And so like, are you like, your initial thoughts seeing this story, hearing the story, like. Right. Or is this just noise and traffic?

[Andy Fercella]

I don't know. I mean, look, that's the problem with everything that we have going on. Okay. They do have us by the balls. All right, let's say we revolt, let's say we burn it down, let's say we take over. These people could just release some shit that they all have the antidote to that would kill everybody else. And I believe, and I think everybody should believe that they would do that.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

So. And that's why the solution is cultural. It's not violent. It has to be just like they've imperceptibly infiltrated and subverted over time. That's how it's going to be done. The opposite way it's going to be done through cultural change. You know, working from the bottom up, Local government, personal standards, personal excellence, restoring that in the community and working up in a way that doesn't trigger them to push any of those buttons.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

It has to be almost imperceptible to them. Okay. People really need to understand that, like when we talk about personal excellence being the ultimate rebellion, it's not just because it really is the way to change the culture. Because as we talk about over and over and over again, if we were to be able to have some sort of revolt and overthrow all the governments worldwide, the problem is, is the day after that and the week after that and the month after that, we still have a society of low standard, high entitled, weak, low ambition, fat, supplicating, emotional. Yeah. Victims that, that will continue to operate the same way that they operate. You cannot fix that with the change in leadership. Just like you can't fix that in a company. You can't just bring in like, or a sports team. You can't just bring in a new coach and you have an established culture and allow people to operate the same way and think the coach is going to change it. There's a reason why when new coaches come in that are good, there are some people they get away that they get rid of and some people that the fans don't like them getting rid of. And it never makes the papers like, hey, this guy's a cultural cancer or this guy's causing problems in the locker room. But that's what happens. Like when you see your favorite player traded away without any real expectation, it's probably because he's the other dude's wives or some crazy. Yeah. You never Know that they don't talk about.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

All right, so you can't. People have to really smarten up when it comes to what it's going to actually take to change things. And it's going to take individuals taking individual responsibility, first for their own lives, second for their communities. And doing that at scale and allowing that ripple effect to spread and move upward through the channels of government. And if we did it that way, it will work, but anything else will not work because the minute that everybody riots and burns it down and gets violent and all this that these people talk about, that's when they can push these buttons that just destroy everything.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

So I. To answer your question, I don't know. You know, I remember when Covid started and I remember seeing the videos, dude. And at first, craziest out they for look, I remember it. They started talking about it in like November. It started hitting the kind of the news cycle. And then in December they were still talking about it. And then in January they were still talking about it. And then in February it got more intense. And then in March it was like, we're shutting the world down. And the videos that they were showing for those first, you know, couple months were, were literally 100% propaganda.

[DJ Cruise]

It was terrifying too.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Because they were showing videos of people literally they were saying this here. And I bet it's hard to even find these videos now because I bet they've been scrubbed. But they were showing videos of people walking down the street in China. They said it was China and then just fall over in the street, just collapsing. Yeah. And nobody died of COVID that way.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

So that was clearly fear based propaganda to get people to be terrified of it.

[DJ Cruise]

And the dudes in biohazard suits and shit picking them up off the street, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

Yes, yes, that's.

[DJ Cruise]

That's traumatizing, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, I mean, yeah, because you start to think about it and then you think about like the predictive programming that we've seen, like movies like Outbreak.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And all of these movies that have like, or World War Z or these movies are based around, you know, this disease that shows up out of nowhere and literally wipes the whole planet out. So we already kind of were thinking like this is possible. You know, there's movies about this. It must be possible. And it makes sense. Right, because, you know, if I get the flu, then you get the flu, then he gets the flu. We all kind of, you know, know what that's about. Or so we thought. There's actually a lot of debate around that particular topic. But I don't. I. I haven't seen the same level. That video is not the same level of fear propaganda. That was what they did during COVID But we don't know. Maybe it gets worse.

[DJ Cruise]

Who knows?

[Andy Fercella]

Like, maybe, maybe. Maybe the next. The next version. Maybe all the people on the boat fucking get it and die.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

Right.

[DJ Cruise]

Like they pull up, it's a fucking abandoned ship.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. And then somehow, like, they're gonna. If it's. We'll know soon, is what I'm trying to say.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, dude.

[Andy Fercella]

Because they're going to make it as scary as possible if it is. Now, the fact that the who, the World Health Organization is involved is probably a bad sign.

[DJ Cruise]

All right, well, I think we're out of the WHO now. But, dude, you. You know, I was also thinking about this too, with COVID bro, you know what really, like, accelerated the. Is when they started telling people you could have it and not even show symptoms.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

You know what I'm saying? Like, like, bro, then people really got

[Andy Fercella]

like, there's lots of things.

[DJ Cruise]

I'm sorry, babe, I gave you.

[Andy Fercella]

I'm going to tell you what really accelerated it. Here's what accelerated. I made a post about this back then and. And got screamed at by everybody. You know what accelerated the most was all the influencers on the Internet posting pictures of themselves in the mask like they were somehow responsible. Virtue signaling. This was the way to do it. And they were trying to make. They, like, they were trying to present it as if it was a cool thing. And I saw it right away and I made a post. I said, hey, you know what you guys are doing? You're actually doing the work of these people that they want you to do. And everybody's like, oh, you're so just full of conspiracy. You're conspiracy theorist, you're irresponsible, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then after everybody bought into the mask thing, it just went from there.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Even though there was zero scientific evidence that masks prevent any sort of transmission like that. And then on top of it, they had the. The case counter. And then we found out later that the case counter was driven by.

[DJ Cruise]

By test, the pcr.

[Andy Fercella]

PCR test cycle rate turned to the maximum, which will actually throw a false positive because it will detect any sort of bacteria in your fucking nose. So, like, it was all manufactured. There's still been no accountability for it. And if there's no accountability for it, the chances of it happening again are very high. This is why there should have been Accountability immediately for it. And yet we still see no accountability. It's like. And I was talking to a person who's, you know, politically involved and they were like, nobody cares about that anymore. Well, dude, you should, you should give a about that. You should still care about that because, dude, the next time if these people. That was a test, dude, that was a compliance test. And what happens if they release something that actually kills people or that, you know, like, dude, there's just people got to wake the fuck up. I don't think, I hope not that they could run the same play again. I think it would have to actually be really killing people for it to work again. Yeah, but who knows, man?

[DJ Cruise]

I mean, that's the other scary part, dude. It's like, but how would we even know if it actually, you know, I'm saying because like, dude, I also have a feeling too that like those same videos, I. Bro, you remember the mass graves, right? Yeah, like, dude, because we had one that wasn't a mass grave, but we had. They set up out in Earth City. They set up a fucking. A mobile morgue. Yeah, bro, and they were using refrigerated fucking tractor trailers.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, they also brought those two big Red Cross ships. One in, nobody went to and one to la and nobody. They were zero patience on it, bro.

[DJ Cruise]

And like, and I know because.

[Andy Fercella]

And then when you said that, all the people who had bought into it are like, you're so full of blah, blah, blah, bro, you're on the Internet virtue signaling for your own attention and your own self worth and your own clout. They're not even paying attention to whatever's going on. They're just going along with what they're told to go along with because they want to be with the in crowd. It takes a lot of courage to look at something when everybody else is doing it and say, no, that's bullshit. And there was too few of those people. But luckily there was enough to eventually destroy the narrative. But it should have happened immediately. Not like, dude, if everybody would have said, fuck it, I'm not staying home and I'm not wearing the mask, the shit wouldn't have worked. It only worked because we participated. And then ultimately we find out why they did this. Which was to make the biggest wealth transfer in the history by closing all the mom and pop businesses, making essential businesses. People go to Walmart, but they, you know, they couldn't go to their local restaurant. They could go to their local restaurant, but you know, they had to wear the mask while they were walking to their Table. And they could take it off the. Like, this is like, anybody with fucking 2 ounces of intelligence can understand how stupid that is. And a lot of people now look back and they're like, yeah, man, that was that. Why couldn't you see that in the moment? Well, the truth is, you could see it in the moment, but you chose to ignore it because everybody else was doing it and you didn't want to take the flack. So really, what we had was a problem of cowardice, and that's what caused the entire problem.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And then the result of that cowardice was billions of people taking an unproven medication that is now causing the overall mortality rate to be at the highest rate that it's ever been in the history of humankind, causing all sorts of complications. Heart issues, turbo cancers, all this crazy. And people have lost loved ones. And there's people walking around today that took that shot that are terrified of what could happen. And, you know, none of that would have happened. Nobody would have taken those things had people just not went along with the. When it started, it wouldn't have happened. They couldn't have done it. So cowardice is what actually allowed the problem to materialize and cause the real damage.

[DJ Cruise]

True, bro. It's so crazy. It's. It's just so crazy, dude. Like, it doesn't feel like it was that long ago.

[Andy Fercella]

It doesn't for me. Because, dude, to me, time, like, time changed then because I woke up. And when I say woke up, I mean, I came. Became aware of what was going on, and there's been no accountability. And, like, it bothers me so much because the truth of the matter is that was the biggest crimes against humanity that's ever been perpetrated on humankind ever. Ever. And there's been no accountability. And that burns my ass. And so, like, I can't let things like that go. So ever since 2020, like, I've kind of felt like I'm still in 2020. It's weird because I look at pictures of myself and I'm like, man, you look younger then. And I look in the mirror, and I'm like, that was six years ago. And then I'm like, it feels like it was yesterday because it hasn't. There's been no closure.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

You know?

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Yeah. Then you look at shit like this. Like, Fauci's now teaching at Georgetown University, getting a cush, or the highest paid fucking member of our federal government gets to orchestrate and fucking deal with all of this shit, and then gets a Fucking cushion job at Georgetown.

[Andy Fercella]

Not only that, it's not the first time he did it. He's done it before. He did it in the 80s with AIDS.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, Fair. Leading the next generation of doctors.

[Andy Fercella]

That guy, that guy should not be breathing air. For real. Like he should have been made an example of. Him. Tedros, all the people that pushed it. Dude, it's disgusting.

[DJ Cruise]

He looks different there.

[Andy Fercella]

No, he looks like the same little.

[DJ Cruise]

Looks the same.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I think it's just the angle.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Photo, his nose.

[Andy Fercella]

I'm surprised he's allowed to go in public.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

I mean, bro, if your family, if your family had taken like. Dude, I know families that lost people that were like 30 years old because of that vaccine. If your family had been like. I, I don't. I just know what I. What, how I think about things. I could promise you if my family, people, My family had passed away because of what that man did. I can promise you I don't care about the repercussions. He would not be breathing the air. That's just my personal position.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And it's weird to me that like. I don't know, it's weird to me that people. I don't know. It's just weird.

[DJ Cruise]

So crazy, man. So crazy.

[Chris]

We also discussed on the show, think

[Andy Fercella]

about like people who lost everything.

[Chris]

19 year old daughter, some Illinois political leader. We discussed it on show. His 19 year old daughter died because of the vaccine.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Sudden heart attack.

[Andy Fercella]

Right. So like, I just don't, I just don't understand. I don't understand how people aren't more angry about it to this point. And out of all the people, you know, none of the people close to me took it. So it's not like it's personally affecting me right now. But man, I think about like all the people had their businesses closed and all the people who lost their life work and generational businesses of, you know, a hundred years having to close because of the greed and, and the deception and the nefarious nature of these people. It's. I, I just think that if I was in that position, I. There would have to be. I would have to get my pound of flesh somehow.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It completely re. Changed so much, man. Like, I remember when it felt like almost like, like, Like Kobe was a fucking STD or something, dude. You know I'm saying like, I would tell. Like. I think you gave me Covid.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Like what the fuck?

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. You know, it just retrains even talking about it, dude.

[DJ Cruise]

It just.

[Andy Fercella]

I'm starting to get Like, I'm starting to get angry about it. Like, I feel the inside of my being heating up. Like, it just infuriates me, man. You know, my best friend in the fucking world had to watch his dad die on Zoom. They weren't allowed to have funerals. Right. Like, all because, because of lies. These were lies, you know, like, and nobody wants to have accountability anymore. I. I don't know, man.

[DJ Cruise]

Like, where'd it go?

[Andy Fercella]

I don't. Sometimes I think I'm just. I'm. I'm living and breathing in the wrong era. Like, it's just not real.

[Chris]

You said it today and you've said it a couple times. The problem is cowardice and courage.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Chris]

That's where the root of all the problems lie.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, yeah. And, and I say this in the sense of, you know, this is also why people struggle in business.

[Chris]

That's why I said, like, the root of almost all problems lie there.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Come from cowardice and, and, and, and courage. Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

You know, it's crazy, but. Yeah. So no. No cruises for you anytime soon. Did you know the Ritz Carlton, they have a cruise line? Yeah, that might not be too bad. It's a limited number of people. It's only like 50 people.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Still too many.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. It's, you know, it's not, it's not for me.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, I get it, dude.

[Andy Fercella]

The idea of being trapped on a boat with 50 people that I don't know for an unknown amount of time.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Sounds like slavery.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Cuz they're like. But like. Yeah, man. And then like, you got to do the thing where you're like, trying to like, like hide.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

You know. Oh, there they are at the table. You gotta run by real fast, you know, like, it's just, it's just. I just don't like that. It's not for me, man.

[Chris]

The average cruise ship carries approximately 3, 000 people.

[DJ Cruise]

Ah, that, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

No.

[Chris]

So something like that. What's on the screen Right now, 3, 000 people.

[DJ Cruise]

That.

[Chris]

No, it can go up to 10,000.

[DJ Cruise]

Yep.

[Andy Fercella]

Never happening. Not for me.

[DJ Cruise]

Do you think you would have went on the Titanic? No, no.

[Andy Fercella]

Even back then, dude, I'm just not like that. That's just not like. That's just not my thing, man. Yeah, like, I understand. People might love it. It might be the greatest thing in the world. They might go on a cruise five times a year. I. It's just. Does not sound appealing to me. It's the same way as like, jumping out of an airplane is not something that I would do.

[Chris]

It's an individual thing. I think more than anything else.

[Andy Fercella]

It's not something I'm into.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, I would rather like, if I was going to go, like, for me, my style of thing would be. And how much is a cruise to go on?

[Chris]

It starts anywhere from like $300 and up.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, really?

[Chris]

Depending upon how many nights you're going and where you're going.

[DJ Cruise]

So get on cruises before.

[Chris]

No.

[Andy Fercella]

$300.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

A night. A night?

[Andy Fercella]

Not a night.

[Chris]

It depends. Like if it's a two night package, it could be just 300 bucks. Then it goes up, like, depending on what room.

[Andy Fercella]

Have you guys been on cruises?

[Chris]

I have not.

[Andy Fercella]

I've been on one. Really?

[DJ Cruise]

You know, Joe's been on one, bro. That's that South County. Lee, baby.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Look, man, I. I would rather get in my car, rent a small cabin somewhere, go to the grocery store, do my own thing. That's what I'd rather. That would be more what I would like to do.

[DJ Cruise]

I wouldn't mind like doing like a. Like chartering a yacht.

[Andy Fercella]

That's different.

[DJ Cruise]

Sick. But it's like people you invite to come on.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, but I also like the yacht thing. You know, there's 30 to 40 crew on a yacht. On a big yacht.

[DJ Cruise]

A lot of people.

[Andy Fercella]

So now you're around all the crew all the time.

[DJ Cruise]

It's a lot of people, you know,

[Andy Fercella]

so it's like maybe not. Yeah, it's just not. I mean, I would do that.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. But

[Andy Fercella]

yeah, that's not. For me. That's like. That's like going to Six Flags and never being able to leave. Yeah.

[Chris]

For five days.

[Andy Fercella]

Yes.

[DJ Cruise]

I think Bezos is selling his yacht. Have you seen.

[Andy Fercella]

He's got a few.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, It's a. Have $500 million.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, he has a. He has a couple. He has a big motor yacht. And then he's got like a sailing yacht. It's huge.

[DJ Cruise]

He's. Yeah. Has Koru is his name a picture of it? There is, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

What? Yeah, that. Yeah, bro. Yeah, that's a sailing yacht. I don't even know why someone will buy something like that.

[DJ Cruise]

That's crazy.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[Chris]

430. What? 417 foot.

[DJ Cruise]

That's crazy, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

Not for me.

[DJ Cruise]

That's a good looking boat. Looks like it looks ancestrally familiar. Okay, all right, that's enough jokes, guys jumping on this conversation, man. Let us know down in the comments what you guys think. We got one more headline. 3. You ever been to Philly?

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

You know?

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Philadelphia. Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't.

[DJ Cruise]

I think I have been there once.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. I was like, I've been there a couple times. Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Phil's all right.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Philly's in the news.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Not. Not good. Well, not good. Dude, this story is crazy. Headline number three reads, high school student exposes classmates abysmal reading skills as they struggle with words like silhouette and extraordinary. Is this, like, news? Oh, bro, it's fucking news, dog.

[Andy Fercella]

So my high school, that was, like, just normal shit. When I was growing up, you made fun of kids that couldn't read. Like, you made fun of them. And you know what happened? They learn to read. Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Fuck, dude. Did you guys used to do, like, where your teacher, like, you had to call on somebody to fucking stand up and read in class? You guys did that? Yeah. Yeah, we did that, too.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. I bet you hated it. I didn't.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, I wasn't too bad. Believe it or not, my reading got worse as I got older.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, I'll tell you, one time, I got bullied. My own teacher. So it was in third grade, and my teacher, we had. You know how, like, when. I don't even think they teach cursive anymore.

[DJ Cruise]

No, they don't.

[Andy Fercella]

Okay. But back then, they did.

[DJ Cruise]

It was mandatory.

[Andy Fercella]

And they'd have, like, the letter A, the letter B, the letter C incursive. And you had to, like, duplicate it.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And I just. I saw the Curse of Let. And I wasn't even thinking, man. Like, I. I just. And. But this taught me a valuable lesson.

[DJ Cruise]

Okay?

[Andy Fercella]

And I would. Just wrote out the regular A underneath it, and I wrote out the regular B, and I wrote out the regular C. And I didn't even, like. I didn't even think about it. Like, I. It wasn't. But what it. And then she. I got an F. Okay. You had to copy the letter. And then she stood up in class and, like, made fun of me.

[Chris]

She's like, what grade was this?

[Andy Fercella]

Third grade. Second or third grade, I think. And she, like, stood up in front of the class and she's like. And then we have Andy, who didn't even do. And this is what he did. She held up the paper and showed. And, like. But here's what it taught me. It taught me to pay attention. It taught me to pay attention to what was asked for. Me.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And so, you know, here I am, still remembering that story.

[DJ Cruise]

That's important.

[Chris]

So, like, the real talk is going to ask that. You still remember.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Pay attention to the details. And that taught me that. And so I'M not, like, complaining about it, but like, dude, people are so soft. If you can't say silhouette or extraordinary, maybe you should get made fun of and learn how to say them.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But you know, dude, it's 20, 26. It's not going to be as easy as that. Right? This the story here. Real quick, I was gonna say. So you know what? I hated my teachers did? Like, you know, we can take in the test, right? Teachers coming around, they look at your notes and they would, like, come look at mine. And then they make a class announcement. Guys, make sure you're paying attention to all this.

[Andy Fercella]

It's like, now you. Now for the rest of the test. You're super paranoid.

[DJ Cruise]

It's like, God damn it, man. Okay, but yeah, so this story here, right? You got a high school student in Philadelphia. He went on, he posted a video on TikTok showing his classmates. He just gave them a little note card. He's like, read this.

[Andy Fercella]

This.

[DJ Cruise]

All right? And the school is the preparatory charter school of mathematics, science, technology and careers. In the clip, the user by the name of what the V. He posted this earlier has since garnered almost 2 million views so far. This is the clip. Read the end. What the does that say?

[Andy Fercella]

Why am I reading this? No, I'm not reading this. This ain't a whole bunch of. The colonel asked in choir to accommodate the governor's schedule.

[DJ Cruise]

Does that mean he's asking a choir to accommodate the governor's schedule? Right, yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

In your own words, there's a governor's schedule.

[DJ Cruise]

And so the colonel is asking. The colonel is asking a fire to accommodate to it. In your own word.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't know, bro.

[DJ Cruise]

The condo choir to accommodate the governor's schedule. What does that mean? Right? They ask the people to sing for the governor's scheduling.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't know what this means.

[DJ Cruise]

They call him X. Required to accommodate the governor's schedule. What does that mean? He asked quite a comment. I don't know. I don't know, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

Hold on, stop.

[DJ Cruise]

He asked him.

[Andy Fercella]

These are high school level kids.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

They don't even know. They can't understand what that means. They can't understand. That's sad.

[DJ Cruise]

Bro.

[Andy Fercella]

Bro, That's a product of the System 100. That's a product of teachers who are more concerned with teaching social constructs that don't even have any science to back them or politically correct agendas that are total, that end up handicapping people anyway instead of spending the time teaching them actual skills. These people are going to get out in the world, and they are going to be completely ineffective, which is by design. It's by design. Okay? If you have people that are in the real world and they are unable to read and comprehend basic things, that means they have to be taken care of by the government. Okay? This is communism playing out right here in front of your eyes. Continue.

[Chris]

Also, why you need to understand everything when you have chat. GPT.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, well, that's a whole nother discussion.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, nobody's writing original content. Like, I got asked the other day in Arete, how should we make sure that our brains don't rot from relying on AI? The answer is very simple. Think ready books and write yourself. Okay. Very simple. If you do, those are perishable skills. Reading is a perishable skill. Writing is a perishable skill. And I don't know if y' all notice, but I can certainly tell, like, all these. Almost every single caption that I read on Instagram at this point in time is written by AI. And it's. It's gross. And, like, the minute I see it, it just. I'm like, dude. And then I see the comments and people, like, aren't even picking it up. Like, they're not even understanding. But now that I see this, maybe that's why I can understand. They can't recognize it. They can't even read.

[Chris]

Anyway, before we move ahead, I saw a Post today that PayPal, which is a very big company, is hiring a person, which the title is Head of Content CEO. Meaning they want to hire a person who will create and curate content around the CEO to make the CEO look more human. OpenAI is hiring a person for their social content, which is one of the biggest company, which everything is AI, and they are hiring humans to make their content look human.

[Andy Fercella]

I mean, yeah, that makes sense. But I mean, the thing is, look, this should be. This is sad, but it should be a. A red light that goes off in your head for how much of an advantage that you have by having simple human skill sets.

[Chris]

That's true. That's true. If everybody is so used to looking at a screen for having conversation, when somebody looks in your eyes and gives you a firm handshake, even though that is very basic, it stands out.

[Andy Fercella]

And they can intelligently articulate whatever they're talking about. They know things without pulling their phone up and those kind of things. Right. How many discussions do you like? One of my biggest pet peeves is, like, when you're having a discussion with someone and then they, like, pull out ChatGPT and start, like, pointing in there like that. I've seen that happen dozens of times in front of my face. And it's not like, hey, let's double check that. It's like they're listening and then they're putting it in there. And then their thoughts that come back are the thoughts that they relay back to you. And, dude, this is how people become completely controlled. They can't think of. They can't read, they can't articulate. They can't write. They're incapable of creativity. They have zero of their own thoughts. And this is a massive problem. A massive problem. Because what it does is it creates a community of people, a culture of people that are completely dependent on Big Brother. They are completely dependent on free shit from the government, which only comes from all the people who have done it the way they're supposed to do. And eventually, these people who have done it the way they're supposed to do are going to become discouraged and they're going to say, well, what the is the point of doing this? And that's when starvation happens. Okay, there's. There's books about this. Like, it's not that hard. Well, apparently it is that hard to read. But, you know, there's books called the. The Fourth Turning the Red Famine. You can read about how this happens, and it's happening right in front of our face. But people. Atlas Shrugged, people don't take the time. And they think that could never happen here. Okay, well, what happens here? When everybody says it, it's. There's no point in even trying because everything gets taken from me and given to people who don't try.

[Chris]

That's right.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

When that happens, people starve, period. And then people are like, well, the government will take care of it. Well, dude, have you been to the license bureau? Have you ever tried to get a permit? Have you ever dealt with the government before? Everything they do is so inefficient that it creates massive amounts of issues and inefficiencies. That's why it takes five hours at the dmv. That's why it takes three weeks to get an inspection or a permit. These things are a product of unnecessary bureaucracy because the government wants to create jobs, and when people operate that way, it creates a scenario where they can't actually do things in an expedited manner. And that may not matter. When you're going to get your driver's license, that may not matter, but it certainly fucking matters. When we're talking about the delivery of food or the growth of food or Basic human things. The government is a terribly run organization, and if we depend on it for our basic needs for survival, history will repeat itself, which the history is, everybody starves and dies and there is mass death. And in my opinion, we are not far off from that. We are very close to that. Think about what's going to happen when these people are the ones responsible for providing. When these people who can't read a simple sentence and if they can read it, they can't explain it or comprehend it. What happens when these people are in prime working age and they are responsible for the rest of society? The answer is mass death and starvation. Okay? Because now you have two options. You have the option of these people running shit, which they can't, or the the option of the government running, which they also can't. So we are in deep shit, and nobody's even talking about it in the way that we are right now.

[DJ Cruise]

No, no. Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And my opinion is those people should be bullied to the end of the earth until they can read simple and comprehended. Yes.

[DJ Cruise]

Comprehend it.

[Andy Fercella]

Like you real talk. Y' all a bunch of retards. I started.

[DJ Cruise]

Can you comprehend that?

[Andy Fercella]

And they. And it's. They're like laughing. I don't know what the. That means. Get the out of my face with that. Like,

[DJ Cruise]

bro, that was really good.

[Andy Fercella]

Do you not understand what's going to happen to you because of this dude?

[DJ Cruise]

Dude, yeah. To like.

[Chris]

I mean, the colonel asked the choir.

[Andy Fercella]

The Colonel, the governor's schedule.

[DJ Cruise]

What does that mean?

[Chris]

To sing with the government.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Right. So what's the backlash here?

[DJ Cruise]

Well, yeah. So the school, since that video became.

[Andy Fercella]

The school's just mad because they're caught not holding the standard.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, man, isn't that crazy?

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, I guarantee it.

[DJ Cruise]

Because here's the thing. So state test scores show.

[Andy Fercella]

That's so sad, dude. Bro, it's so sad. And all you young people out there, you need to understand this. You have to take responsibility for your own education. You have to become a student in your own time. And this goes all the way down to basic skills of reading and writing and comprehension. These people who sit there and milk the government for a salary and don't give a shit about you, they are not gonna. They don't care if you go out in the world and get your face stomped in. And that is what's going to happen. And when they go out in the world and they get their face stomped in, they're gonna blame everybody else and they're gonna say, give me free shit, which creates votes for the people that say they're gonna give them free shit and that's how everything is fucked.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, dude. So right, so right now state test score shows that just 53% of students at the school test a proficient in reading and then only 19% were proficient in math. Right? And so this dude, the student posts this video, shares it online, it's getting millions of views, right? The school's response is this quote I am writing to express concern regarding the school's decision to pursue expulsion of a senior student over the creation of a TikTok account that involved interviewing fellow students on their ability to spell words from what has been shared. The content appears harmless in nation in nature and does not promote violence, bullying or any other form of serious misconduct. So the school suspended that kid for posting that. Okay, this is the backlash of the now addressing this black African American student is a senior that is foreign with a strong academic record and a high GPA which reflects consistent dedication, responsibility and commitment to their education. To jeopardize their future at such critical point over an activity that seems intended for light hearted engagement raises questions about fairness and proportionality and disciplinary action. School is preparatory charter high school. On the tick tock page is what the vec. Please do something about this and if you need more information, let me know. They're trying to take everything away from him including prom and graduation.

[Andy Fercella]

For showing their inadequacies right. For shining a light on their failure. Yes, on adults failure. You became a teacher because apparently you cared about the youth. That's the story y' all say, but look at the result you're producing. And I'm not saying all teachers are bad. There's still some really good ones. But the, the, the, the bad ones certainly are outweighing the good ones at this point in time. And what we really need to happen is some of these good teachers to stand up and say we are failing these kids. We are ruining their lives. But by our own apathetic nature and our willingness to just sit by and let these people coast and then they will say, well, these kids don't try. Well, part of being a teacher is making them understand why they should try. Part of being a teacher is making them understand why they should go out and work hard and become something and learn skills and work to create a better life for themselves. These people, they love the posture about how we're taking care of the youth and we're the leaders of the youth and we're responsible for the youth. Well, if that's the truth and you really care about those things, then why can people not read? Why can they not comprehend basic shit? Why are we removing accountability for testing in some areas of the cal, like California, where people aren't even required to test out anymore? And they're saying because tests are racist. No, you are inept. And in fact, the fact that you even say they're racist makes you a racist because that means that you believe that the people who are black in this case cannot. They do not possess the skills to improve. That's what you're saying. So these black kids that you say you care about so much, you don't even want to hold them to a standard because you don't believe that they can hold it because they're black. That's the most racist shit that they're fucking is right? Okay? So, like, we got to be real about this. We have a bunch of people who are political activists as opposed to actually caring about improving people. And again, that's not all teachers, but it's enough to be really fucking everybody up.

[DJ Cruise]

Well, I mean, dude, and like, you know, to your point, and these people get out into the real world, you know who they become? They become the mayor of Philly. I'm going to show you a clip. This is the mayor of Philadelphia at an Eagles party. She's about to spell Eagles.

[Chris]

E, L, G, S E, S. Eagles.

[Andy Fercella]

Let's go, Birds.

[Chris]

I've seen this.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, and that's the reason the DEI shouldn't exist, okay? You can't put people in positions of any sort because they happen to be of a certain, you know, race or gender. They. It has to be meritocracy. And the destruction of meritocracy is what's created this fucking shit show that we all live in. It makes me really nervous, dude. It makes me really nervous about, like, going to doctors and, like, you know, airline pilots and things of that nature. Like, we are not rewarding the best and brightest, which is what this country was founded upon. Now, for the last 15 years, we've been rewarding people because of their skin color or because of, you know, they're a woman or because they're gay or because they're. Because they're. Because they're. And the truth of the matter is that fucking hurts everybody. That doesn't. That hurts everybody. People die because of those things. All right? So this idea that we abandoned meritocracy is it needs to end immediately. And I know. I know that Trump has ended those programs, but now we have another 10 years to wait until we see the fruits of that. And in the time of that, it could be reinstated. So this whole. Everything that was DEI dude, is inherently racist. Yeah, because. Yeah, because what it says is that these people are not smart enough to do it on their own. They're not. They're not capable of becoming. And that is not true. That is a complete lie. And when you teach kids this, from the time, you know, they're in kindergarten till they graduate college, they have no incentive to actually improve because they know that they can game the system to get the position anyway. And now we're all dealing with the repercussions of this and. Fuck, man. Like, I think it's the most racist shit ever. Like, it's like, I. I don't know, man. I think. I think people have caught on to how racist it is. But still, man, there's a lot of people that haven't.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, well, not only how racist it is, but what it's actually gonna create is actually real, more racist. Like, more real racism is what it creates. Now I'm gonna go to the doctor's office and, like, so black doctor. I'm gonna think twice. I might even walk the fuck out. I just want to. Fuck.

[Andy Fercella]

That's you as a black man. That's.

[DJ Cruise]

You know, you don't. Like, it's a real fucking thing. Yeah, man. Like, dude, it's scary in this situation with this specific school. Fire everybody. Yeah. Fire everybody.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Start fresh.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, then what's going to happen with the kids, man?

[DJ Cruise]

It can't get worse. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[Andy Fercella]

You've already ruined them. You couldn't do any worse. They can't even read. They're in high school. They're not going to be prepared.

[DJ Cruise]

Well, I mean, not. I mean, come on, man. Like, what are we doing, dude?

[Andy Fercella]

I feel bad for those kids, man.

[DJ Cruise]

And that's the other thing, too. Like, you know, and I want to make this clear. It's like, not. It's not their fault. In a sense.

[Andy Fercella]

They have. No, because they've been told. Listen, man, we talk about this on Q and A lot. When you're young, you do not have the perspective of how it should be. You only know what is. So when you're young and those people are going to school and they hear, you know, I'm in high school, and they hear the stories of their parents or their grandparents being in high school, they don't understand the difference because they didn't see it. So they think, oh, this is normal. It's normal to. To not be able to Read. It's normal to not be able to do math. What? You know, it's normal. And they don't understand that it's not. And they don't understand. And this is the sad part, they don't understand that they're going to have to take this into their own hands. And you, those of you who are parents, you need to understand this. Your kids are not going to learn shit from the school system.

[DJ Cruise]

Okay?

[Andy Fercella]

They're not going to learn anything. In fact, I think it's going to handicap them. And you know, people like, well, though, they'll, they'll become weird. But how much weirder can you be than not being able to read a fucking simple sentence and not know what it means? That's pretty weird.

[DJ Cruise]

Pull out or figure out what the tip is on a fucking, on a fucking check at a restaurant. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Without pulling out the calculator.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, it's just, it's a big problem, man.

[DJ Cruise]

Sad.

[Andy Fercella]

And I think all the teachers who teach these kids should be totally ashamed of themselves. Totally. But they're not. No, they're not gonna say.

[DJ Cruise]

What's the response?

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, they're not. No, their response is to defend it.

[DJ Cruise]

Let's punish the kid who called it out. Yeah, about that.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. That's bullshit.

[Andy Fercella]

It is bullshit.

[Chris]

On the flip side, we also. I saw an example of how it should be done. I sent you a link which if you can pull up. There is a school in Greystones, Ireland. The principal started this initiative of no phones in the school.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[Chris]

And you know how it's told that every. It takes a village to take a

[Andy Fercella]

movement takes a village.

[Chris]

So they named the movement It Takes a Village and everybody in the village is participating.

[Andy Fercella]

They're bought into it.

[Chris]

They're bought into it. So if a kid goes to a convenience store, the adults hide their phones. They don't engage with kids with phones around them. If you go to the next slide. So this is a 12 year old kid in that school and he says that I want to live long and stay healthy. And he prefers collecting special coins to scrolling on a phone. He does not currently have a smart device and worries that owning one might affect his health.

[Andy Fercella]

That's a smart young man.

[Chris]

And if you go next and next. This is the principle that started the movement and they are trying to encourage kids just spending their childhood without phones, without social media, and everybody in that city is kind of feeding into it.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Well, that's racist.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, super racist. Yeah. What's Muhammad going to do? When he came back to.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, I mean, if they did, you know, Muhammad. Muhammad wouldn't be able to tell little Muhammad how to bomb the school. I'm just playing my Muslim brothers.

[DJ Cruise]

Guys, jump in on this conversation, man. Let us know what you guys think down in the comments.

[Andy Fercella]

You know what I'm saying? Like, but for real.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, I know.

[Andy Fercella]

These kids wouldn't be reading this on the Internet. They wouldn't know what. You know, part of the reason that in, in, in my age, everybody gets along is because the only influence you had was, was right in front of your face, okay? But now you're reading all this online, you're seeing all these people say this and that and this. And then you have all these politicized teachers who think that they're, you know, some sort of activist. It's, it's, it's disgusting.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, Sick, man.

[Andy Fercella]

It's sad. And both kids and parents need to understand that if you want to make it, you have to take responsibility for your own learning. You have to. You have to. You have to. You cannot rely on some apathetic teacher who, with purple hair, who works, you know, you know, three quarters of the year and gets three months off and collects this and that. It's. It's gotta end, man.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, it sucks too, man, because like, dude, I had some really good teachers.

[Andy Fercella]

I did, too. Yeah, I also had some shitty ones.

[DJ Cruise]

I had some shitty ones. Yeah, but I had some really, really good teachers, dude. And like, dude, I, I honestly, I don't, I don't know what it's like out there right now. I really don't. Like, I know my daughter's school, like, it's good. You know, they got great teachers. Great, really, really good teachers. But I know they're also paid and they're taken care of and it's. You. You know what I'm saying? But it's just like, dude, it just sucks, man. Yeah, it sucks. It's a tough problem.

[Andy Fercella]

Well, also, and let's be real, okay? Let's, let's, let's even, like, take this further. Yeah, this is another product of democratic policy coming into the inner city and promising all this funding and all of these things that they're going to do, and then intentionally withholding funds or embezzling funds or redirecting funds into their own pockets intentionally so that they don't get the money and then create more of a problem so that they could come in every two years and be like, look what they're doing to you, motherfucker. You're doing that, that's right. You're doing that. The people who come into your community every single fucking two years and say, we're gonna fix all these problems, they're the ones creating these problems for these inner cities. And that's wrong. And it happens way more in the inner city than it does outside the inner city. So if you want to talk about, like, unfairness, yes, it's unfair. But you keep believing the same people who tell you they're going to fix it. And you also keep believing that whitey over there is the problem.

[DJ Cruise]

It's the root of all your problems.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, bro.

[Andy Fercella]

It's not true.

[DJ Cruise]

No. Also too, dude, it's not, it's not a funding issue, honestly. Because, I mean, if you really pull back the numbers and I, I, I probably guess how much the school takes in, it's not a funding problem. The problem is allocation and where they choose to spend the shit and how they choose to spend the shit and where the shit goes. Like, dude, it's fucking terrible, dude.

[Andy Fercella]

I think that's kind of what I mean.

[DJ Cruise]

I think there should be some standards where it's like, you know, like.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, if you don't qualify, if your students don't test out, if they don't do this, you don't get the funds.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, no. And not only that, dude. Like, if you do or you lose your job, and if they do pass,

[Andy Fercella]

how come you get a bonus? How come, how come teachers aren't held to the line on how their kids perform? If teachers were held accountable for how their kids perform, we would see some kids learn how to perform.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

For real.

[DJ Cruise]

You gotta put some skin in the game, okay?

[Andy Fercella]

Like, a coach that doesn't win gets fired.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

A teacher that doesn't produce good students should be fired, okay? That's the bottom line. The lack of accountability. And that lack of accountability goes to the teacher, to the principal, to the government officials that come in every two years and lie. It goes all the way up the chain. But there's a lack of accountability. And that's the reason that things are falling apart. And these kids will have their lives ruined because of that. And that is up, man. That is up.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Yeah, man. Guys jumping on this conversation. Let's go down in the comments. What you guys think with that being said?

[Andy Fercella]

They think it's funny.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Well, they don't know better, dude. They don't know better. Yeah, man. But guys, with that being said, it is time for our final segment. As always, we have thumbs up. We're Dumb as fuck. That's where we bring a headline in, we talk about it, give it one of those two options. Do you remember your prom?

[Andy Fercella]

I do.

[DJ Cruise]

How was it?

[Andy Fercella]

That's fine.

[DJ Cruise]

It was a good time.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, it was pretty fun.

[DJ Cruise]

It was cool. Yeah. Do you like. Like a McLaren or anything to pull up to prom with?

[Andy Fercella]

No.

[DJ Cruise]

Would you drive?

[Andy Fercella]

I had a Jeep.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, yeah. Sick.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, a Jeep was cool.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Jeep. Jeep Skill.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Took the doors off.

[Andy Fercella]

Not on prom, man.

[DJ Cruise]

No.

[Andy Fercella]

You don't mess up nobody's hair, yours included. That's true. Mine included. I. Long hair, then. I did have long hair.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Well, it's prom season, man.

[Andy Fercella]

I'll tell you this.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

We got fucked up before we went to prom. And then we went to prom, and one of my teacher slash coaches, who is actually still there today.

[DJ Cruise]

No shit.

[Andy Fercella]

Pulled us aside, and he was like, hey, I know what you all been doing. He's like, I can't stop it now. He said, but you need to walk the line here, buddy.

[DJ Cruise]

Lock it up. Yeah. Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

It's kind of like. It's kind of like on Super Troopers the other day we were watching. He said, hey, get your game face on.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

That was the talk.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

Like, hey, we all know, and we're not going to kick you out of school.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

But you need to know that we all know, and you need to behave.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Well, y' all probably thought y' all were hiding this.

[Andy Fercella]

Okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Chris]

Did you have the long hair?

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, I did.

[Chris]

One of the photos is on your Instagram. Yeah, the one with.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, it's me and Chris.

[Chris]

With the id.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[Chris]

With the idea.

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's a. There's a. There's a picture of me and Chris before prom that I have on there somewhere.

[Chris]

In the robe.

[DJ Cruise]

No, on the robe.

[Chris]

There was a graduation.

[DJ Cruise]

How'd you get that picture?

[Andy Fercella]

Oh, I didn't mean to send that to you, bro. Wrong person.

[Chris]

There was a photo you posted of you and Chris in graduation robes.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Now, we didn't have prom right after graduation, like, a lot like some people are have.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Andy Fercella]

They didn't let us go out the night of graduation. So what they had. And I don't know if they still do this, but they had a lock in. All right. Yeah, that's. That was the day we graduated high school. That's me and Chris.

[DJ Cruise]

Hell, yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. My hair was way longer than that, though, after that. But the. They did a lock in and the lock in was so that you didn't go out and get up, crash your car, because back then, that's when people would really, like, have their accident.

[DJ Cruise]

That's smart, though. Yeah, that's smart.

[Andy Fercella]

So they had a lock in and then prom was a different day, but yeah, man, it was. I think we drank a lot more than the kids drink now also. Like, that was all you did.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. You know, that was all that was available.

[Andy Fercella]

I don't even know if kids still do that. Do they still. They still drink and shit?

[DJ Cruise]

I don't know.

[Chris]

You're asking the wrong person.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. I don't know.

[DJ Cruise]

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

[Chris]

We didn't even have proms.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Chris]

It's American thing. We just ride the goat.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, okay. Well, guys, it's prom season here in the United States, and, you know, this is always a fun time of the year because everybody's posting the. And the prom videos and stuff like that. And this one in particular is getting. Getting a little. Little topic. It's getting. It's getting some trendy, trendy topics here. Headline reads, young man arrives to prom on an airport tarmac with a private jet and two supercars. Okay.

[Andy Fercella]

How do you arrive to prom on an airport tarmac? It's prom at the airport.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

I think they went to them Philadelphia schools.

[DJ Cruise]

I mean, it's world star. I mean.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

But yeah. This young man took prom to another level, arriving in a white designer suit with two supercars and a private jet, reminding everyone that this ain't your average, average prom night. Let's check this clip out. O.

[Andy Fercella]

What's that on your wrist?

[DJ Cruise]

Oh. Oh.

[Andy Fercella]

What's it on your cup?

[DJ Cruise]

Link.

[Andy Fercella]

Let me see.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. What kind of shoes them is. Yeah. Don't play with them. Not one of them. Yeah. What's going on back?

[Andy Fercella]

Louis Vuitton everything.

[DJ Cruise]

Nice. Love you. Let me see real.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah,

[DJ Cruise]

We got to go to the comments.

[Andy Fercella]

Bring them on,

[DJ Cruise]

Caleb. Caleb says, I arrived in at my prom with $40 in my pocket and drove a freshly cleaned 1989 Toyota Corolla and had the best time of my life.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Over on Twitter. All this just to go to prison a year later.

[Andy Fercella]

I. I can't lie. I was kind of thinking the same thing.

[DJ Cruise]

All this flexing just to take Burger King orders. Dude, it's been hot. It's been hot, man.

[Andy Fercella]

And you know, a lot of people have a lot to say about black prom, bro.

[DJ Cruise]

It's a. It's a hot topic. Yeah, it's A Hot Topic dude.

[Andy Fercella]

And I saw something that really made sense, man. And it was. It really. It really made me feel bad. Someone had written that or did a video that Black Prom is so overdone because most of these kids will not have weddings. And not like, oh, yeah. And it was just like. I mean, people were mad about it and, you know, people were defensive. And I understand that, but do.

[DJ Cruise]

That sucks.

[Andy Fercella]

And it's sad. That's crazy that we shouldn't even be thinking things like that.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

That should not be things, but it's not. That doesn't mean that, like, there's no truth to it.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, you know there's truth to it. You know, the other true. Unfortunate fact is I can do. A lot of them may not even live.

[Andy Fercella]

That's what I'm saying. And especially this dude. Like, look, dude,

[DJ Cruise]

it sucks.

[Andy Fercella]

Look, man, if you're gonna present yourself that way, you have to have your head on a swivel at all times. I have to. And I've earned everything I have. And you don't think that other young men there are going to feel like this guy's trying to show him up and they're. The only way they know how to handle that is through some sort of violence. That's the kind of. We're dealing with. We're dealing with very immature thinking and we're dealing with a lot of hormones, and we're dealing with a culture that is negative. And we're dealing with, you know, men who don't know how to deal with jealousy. And, like, he doesn't know that.

[DJ Cruise]

No.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, when he's got. Whether that's fake or not, his watch. I'm sure it is.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And I mean.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, it is what it is.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Like, you don't really understand, like. And that's the danger of. Of, like, having fast success because you don't know the things that kind of happen to you or how to handle them along the way. You know, people do fucking hate people that show them up. They fucking hate it. Okay. I know that firsthand because it gets misinterpreted a lot for me. I'm not trying to show people up. I'm trying to fucking show people what the fuck is possible. Yeah. Because. But they don't know where I come from.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, right, right.

[Andy Fercella]

So it. A lot of times it's misinterpreted, but I also understand that, and I understand how people can be. And I've dealt with that for years and years and years. I mean, dude, I had one of my best. Like, man, look, I actually think this is dangerous.

[DJ Cruise]

Like, at what level? You know what I'm saying? Like, I had. So I had to go to two proms. Mine. And then the girl I was dating at the time, she went to a different high school. So we did both. We did my prom and then her prom.

[Andy Fercella]

Same for me. Yeah. Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

And, you know, I think for my prom, I used her mom's car. But then for her prom, I think we ended up getting limo or something like that. But, like, it wasn't nothing fucking crazy. You know what I'm saying? But, like, dude, this is. This shit's out of hand nowadays, bro. It's out of hand. It's. Dude, it's. Now. Now. I don't know this young man. He could be a very smart dude. He could have a really good gpa. He could have.

[Andy Fercella]

I'll be real. He didn't even look comfortable doing it.

[DJ Cruise]

No, no.

[Andy Fercella]

And that's the thing, guys. Like, you don't have to go do all this. No, like, bro, I'm telling you. And this is. I love success. I've worked very hard for the life that I have. I'm very proud of what I've done. I'm proud what I've done to get there. I feel like I've done it in a way that I can be proud of. Yeah, but at the end of the day, man, the things that make me happy are still the things that made me happy when I was that kid's age. Hanging out with my friends, doing things. Like what we did yesterday is riding around, you know, like, great. You know what we do? Oh, we went to. We went to O'Reilly's to change your battery in the parking lot.

[DJ Cruise]

That's it.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, it was actually pretty fun.

[DJ Cruise]

It was a great time.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. Like, we're standing out in the sun and it's hot, and we're digging into DJs bike and we're figuring out the thing. And, you know, I was warned not to steal.

[DJ Cruise]

You know what I'm saying?

[Andy Fercella]

We were in there, dude, in this old man, he looks at D.J. and he goes. D.J. was asking. He's like, hey, man, can I borrow the tools? And he's like, don't run off with them. You know what I had to do? You saw what I had to do. I had to give him the white. The white guy wink. He's with me.

[DJ Cruise]

You read the guarantee? Yeah, that's right.

[Andy Fercella]

That's right.

[DJ Cruise]

So. But.

[Andy Fercella]

But, dude, you know, just simple, man. Like, you guys don't need to be in a rush to have all this. You don't need to be in a rush to. You know, you're not proving anything to anybody, bro. Like, the. I have. I don't. That's not me proving things. Those are the things I have earned and I, like, enjoy them. Although those of you that follow me, you know I'm into anything with motors. I mean, I'm into cars, I'm into tractors, I'm into motorcycles. That's just what the fuck I'm into. If I wasn't into that shit, I mean, where in my life do you see me, like, doing that kind of shit in other places.

[DJ Cruise]

Right?

[Andy Fercella]

Right. Like, it's just. These are things that I do for me. And this idea that you have to do all this shit to be somebody is. Is just. It's not true, man. And it's not going to actually make you happier. It's just not. It's going to be exciting. It's going to be fun for a little bit. But, like, when it becomes your. Your whole existence to, like, try and flex, like, dude, it's just. You're not even being authentic to who you are, bro.

[Chris]

Jim Carrey has a very famous quote on this very topic that you're talking about, and he said something along the lines of, I wish everyone gets to get all the money and all the fame.

[Andy Fercella]

Yes.

[Chris]

So that they know that that's not the answer to your happiness fulfillment.

[Andy Fercella]

Correct, Correct. It's such a great quote. I'm familiar with it. But, you know, this is. Yeah, I'm actually worried about this kid because, like, dude, you're fronting in front of all these dudes who know you're fronting, and they're gonna. You're gonna deal with a lot of shit because of it.

[DJ Cruise]

Yep. It ain't cool, bro. At 17.

[Andy Fercella]

No, it's certainly not. It's. It looks. You look like a clown. And it's just like all these Internet quote unquote entrepreneurs that try to, like, act like they're, you know, they. They love this billionaire lifestyle when they're 22, and then their whole thing is this and this and this by 22. And then the next week, it's, you know. Oh, well, you know, I decided to change my mind, actually. The car got repoed.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, right, right.

[Andy Fercella]

Like, these people. Look, man, the fun is the earning it. The fun is the building. The fun is the creating. The things that are going to fulfill you is actually the process. But again, you can't understand that when you haven't Been through it just like that quote you just said. I. I don't like this at all.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Thumbs down. Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And it's not. It's not. Hater.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Okay. Like, there's no jealousy here. Like, I got a car that's worth more than all three of those things together, okay?

[DJ Cruise]

Like.

[Andy Fercella]

And I got four, 40 cars. So, like, it's not.

[DJ Cruise]

What. I don't even know. What is that? Is that a McLaren?

[Chris]

That's a McLaren.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And a Huracan next to it.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

But, like, the point is, is, like, dude, you're not even gonna love the. Unless you earned it. Like, that's the truth. Like, all these little scammer dudes on the Internet, they're not happy, bro. They're not. They're. They're terrified of being exposed, and that's why they flex so hard.

[DJ Cruise]

It's a whole different level of anxiety, too.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, bro. Like, it's just like. And, dude, they don't understand that by. The further they push it, the more exposed they are.

[DJ Cruise]

Keep up with.

[Andy Fercella]

It's like, bro, do the things that you like, man. Experience the things that you're into. And by the way, it takes experiencing all of the things to understand what you like.

[Chris]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

Okay. So, like, for me, people are always confused. Like, they say, well, what's your favorite car? And what do I always say?

[DJ Cruise]

Chevelle.

[Andy Fercella]

It's not even close. Yeah, it's not even close. I could give two fucks about every single other car I have besides my Chevelle, okay? But that's because I know what all the other shit's about. And I know what makes me literally happy when I drive it and how I like it and what feels like me. Right? And so it is important, like Jim Carrey said, to experience all these things so that you have the perspective, but you should also experience the earning of these things so that it builds your own self worth along the way. Right?

[DJ Cruise]

Amen.

[Chris]

Earn. Confidence is calm.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[Chris]

The fake ones are loud. Yes, they are. Like, always flashing.

[DJ Cruise]

Some.

[Andy Fercella]

Some. Some real dudes are loud, too. Conor McGregor's loud, but that's just. He's just that guy. And, like, real talk, dude. I kind of like acting like that sometimes, too, because it's fun, all right? And I can. I could say you to just about anybody on the planet, and I have to worry about. And I like that sometimes, but it's always authentic. It's just. It's. You know what I'm saying?

[Chris]

And people understand it, too, because they've seen Your track record. They've seen his track record, so they understand. Okay. This person is like that.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[Chris]

But when a certain 17 or a

[Andy Fercella]

20 year old bro, if I were to put my arm around that kid, I'd say, hey, man, you don't need this shit, dude. Right now. Here's what you need to be doing. And he'd probably be like, what are you talking about? And he.

[DJ Cruise]

Know what I'm saying.

[Andy Fercella]

No, I'm not saying it like that. I'm saying if he could read and he could comprehend, because we know that if he's from Philadelphia, he cannot statistically. And by the way, I love Philadelphia. They're my kind of people. It's the city of brotherly love. And if you know what brotherly love about is, you beat the fuck out of each other and then you're still friends.

[DJ Cruise]

That's right.

[Andy Fercella]

So I like Philadelphia. I really like it. I'm actually rooting for the Flyers right now because the Blues are out of the playoffs. But if I could talk to this kid and just be like, look, dude, you know who I admire that does these things is Jason Wilson.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Jason Wilson does such a good job with young men, far better than I could ever do. And it's something I really admire about him.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And I just. Yeah, man. It kind of bums me out if I'm being real.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, it's. You want to shine, you want to be a big deal, but you want to be a big deal for something that you did.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Not just because. And it comes into that. That even flows into the discussion of, like, entitlement. Right. Like, we've gotten to this place where people. I mean, dude, I don't know enough about this kid. Maybe he created app at 12 years old. Maybe that's all his own.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

Maybe I'm making assumptions, but I don't think that's the case.

[DJ Cruise]

No.

[Andy Fercella]

And if it is, good for him.

[DJ Cruise]

Congratulations.

[Andy Fercella]

But he sure didn't seem very comfortable with the attention. And that's a whole nother thing. Like, why do you even have the. If you're not comfortable with the.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Right.

[Andy Fercella]

You know, like.

[DJ Cruise]

Right. Well, it's like taking a. In somebody else's house.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah. It's never comfortable.

[DJ Cruise]

It don't feel right.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah.

[DJ Cruise]

Because it ain't your house.

[Andy Fercella]

What's even worse is the same flushing horsepower as your house. And then you miss you. Miss you. You underestimate their power. And now you got a problem.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah.

[Andy Fercella]

And then you look around, there's no plunger.

[DJ Cruise]

Oh, that's now you're really. That's bad.

[Andy Fercella]

Okay. But. Yeah, it's very similar.

[DJ Cruise]

Very similar.

[Andy Fercella]

Yeah, but, man, you know, no hate on this, dude. You look good. You. You look like you're trying to look, man, but just remember, like, it's only going to mean something if you earn it.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah, bro. You gotta earn, you know? Yeah. Well, hell yeah, man. Well, guys. Andy, that's all I got.

[Andy Fercella]

Yep. All right, guys. Well, we will see you on Friday. Have a good week. Don't be a hoe.

[DJ Cruise]

Yeah. Went from sleeping on the floor now my jury box froze bowl stove counted millions in the cold bad booted swole got her own bank roll can't fold that's a no head shot case. Close.