Austin Maser responds to viral nicknames like "Cosplay Andy Elliott" and "Mormon Andy Elliott" with humor and reflection. He gets a spray tan, then discusses why friends resist when you change for the better, using a boiling lobsters metaphor to explain how groups pull you back down.
Amidst my social media blowing up, I've been called Cosplay Andy Elliott, Temu Andy Elliott, and Mormon Andy Elliott. So just to play the part, we're here at Palm Beach Tan so that I can get a spray tan and actually look like Andy Elliott. So here we are. I got the rapid enhancer, meaning that I have got to shower this off in four and a half, five hours. Otherwise, if I go to bed, I'll wake up looking like an Oompa Loompa. Oompa Loompa doopa dee doo. When you guys want to start making changes in your life and you find mentors that you want to start. to be like, other people will start to pull you down and make fun of you. And the people that knew you for who you once were will not want you to become the new version of you because it makes them feel uncomfortable. I cannot tell you how many hate comments or how many times I've been made fun of for being the Team Lou Andy Elliott. I found somebody I want to be like, and I'm going to aspire to learn as much as I can from them and to be like them, right? A mentor is someone that you'd like to trade places with in your life. Keep in mind, when there's a pot of boiling lobsters, if one tries to escape, all the other lobsters will pull that lobster down because they want that lobster to suffer with them. So very similarly in your life, when you start making changes, be very aware of the people that are going to try to pull you back down to where you used to be. You are going to need to cut some people off from your old life if you want to have the new life that you want to have.
