6 Hilarious Business Ideas That Could Make You $1,000,000 in 2022 (#351)
Drunk Ideas: Therapy, Santa, & Instagram Restaurants - August 23, 2022 (over 2 years ago) • 56:21
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Shaan Puri | This business I'm calling only problems because forget about crime the biggest battle is what's inside so people in life have basically the same five problems health wealth relationships happiness purpose in life everybody's got the same five problems right that's the dirty secret I saw tony robbins once he goes I've helped 4,000,000 people in these seminars 22 years and guess what people have 5 problems and he goes if you think woe is me if you think it's a big burden on you guess what in this room right now there's probably 500 other people who have you know the this can have the same problem as you whether it's with their their their husband or their kids or their parents or their health whatever and so a lot of people need therapy but guess what a lot of people aren't going to therapy it's too taboo it's too expensive too vulnerable they don't wanna do it people would rather sit on netflix and just watch reality tv for distraction and entertainment wait a minute is that a great idea is that a great idea I just heard yes it is you turn therapy into entertainment so it's called only problems it's onlyfans for therapy and here's how it works you are going to you pay a monthly subscription and you get to sit in fly on the wall style to somebody going through an actual therapy session with the problem that you have right the with the with the area of your life that you're most curious about you can go listen to somebody vent about their relationships about their health problems about their career problems whatever it is they're getting real therapy but they get it subsidized so they get cheap therapy maybe free therapy because there's 25 people anonymous 5 people anonymous people who don't know their identity you don't know the you don't know the listener's identity that get to listen in and they get to backchannel talk a little shit in the chat you don't get to see that and they get to sit in on a therapy session therapists get more clients people get more help and other people get kind of secondhand smoke help by being in the crowd and getting to listen to they get the entertainment and they get help alright so we're here we're gonna do a fan favorite the drunk ideas episode this this episode started when I had some business ideas that I'll admit it I knew they were bad but they weren't all bad they were bad good and bad good is a separate thing altogether bad good how do you explain bad good you know what I mean when I say that right | |
Sam Parr | Yeah, it's like the lady who sells farts in a jar. When you're telling someone about it, you're like, "That's the stupidest shit I've ever heard." And then she makes $500,000. Have you seen that lady?
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Shaan Puri | Yeah, yeah, this idea is like the Beefy 5 Burrito at Taco Bell. It's bad, good, and so... basically, these are ideas that I know are not great, but there's some nugget of gold in them. There's some truth to them, and so they need to be said.
I think being drunk is like air cover for saying some silly, stupid things. Neither of us drink; I don't drink, and Sam doesn't drink. When's the last time you drank? Like, 10 years ago?
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Sam Parr | 10 8 years ago when was the last time you drink ago | |
Shaan Puri | Well, I’m not like... you know, I don’t have my sobriety coin or whatever the hell. I just generally don’t drink. It’s not like a... I’m.
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Sam Parr | not a dork I can do it problem yeah | |
Shaan Puri | yeah you | |
Sam Parr | should lie and say you did | |
Shaan Puri | no no no I I didn't have to overcome this I just kinda got older | |
Sam Parr | So, the best drunk idea from last time that I still think about all the time was called "The Really Long Distance Girlfriend." It was a service where you just text a lady, and she becomes your companion, but you never actually see her because she's just a really long distance girlfriend.
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Shaan Puri | And she's the best kind of girlfriend. She's only supportive. Why? Because she's paid. That's it. She's paid to be great, so you don't have to be a great boyfriend. She's just a great girlfriend, but at a distance.
She's a really great girlfriend for a lot of people. You know, I should set up a call center in Ukraine because I think that idea still has legs.
Alright, so this time, last time it was just me. This time we both were supposed to do this. How was this for you?
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Sam Parr | dude it was | |
Shaan Puri | hard ideas how are you | |
Sam Parr | All of my ideas... I've got a few, but some of them actually look like good ideas, and some of them are not even that funny. I've got a couple, but I want you to start.
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Shaan Puri | so so you only have good ideas | |
Sam Parr | I have a couple of good ideas. Most of mine are things that already kind of exist, and I'm shocked that they work. I know what those are.
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Shaan Puri | Alright, alright. So, pitch time! We're going to pitch each other these ideas. I don't know what yours are, and you don't know what mine are.
We're going to pitch each other, and then Ben—producer Ben, young, powerful producer Ben, man of God Ben, Ben who can still dunk—he's going to be the judge at the end.
You're going to give us the best and the worst ideas, and you can give us the winner and the honorable mention.
Alright, I'll go first. Can I go first?
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Sam Parr | yeah you're gonna end up going 1st and second and fourth and fifth probably | |
Shaan Puri | yeah it's like a fantasy draft | |
Sam Parr | where I have | |
Shaan Puri | 3 of the teams | |
Sam Parr | yeah | |
Shaan Puri | Okay, so, alright, the first idea, Sam, it's called **Hideaway**.
Alright, let me just... I'm going to ask you a question. You need to think of the scariest things in the world. Maybe you're thinking about snakes, maybe public speaking. We've heard those studies, but public speaking is sort of silly. Nobody's actually afraid of public speaking; they're afraid of public humiliation.
And there's no greater humiliation than **digital humiliation**. I'm talking about when you're in a work presentation and you try to share your screen, but you still have a tab open from last night. You know, that's public humiliation.
But the worst one is if somebody just takes your phone and opens it up, and you don't know where they're going to go with it. Oh yeah, you don't know what they're going to open. And the most... I think the most...
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Sam Parr | Like when they go to your browser and the first letter they're going to type in starts with a "P," and you're like, "What's good, Auto Bill? What's good, Auto Bill?" | |
Shaan Puri | please let me you have googled pbs recently | |
Sam Parr | yeah and so | |
Shaan Puri | So, what's the definition of "pork chop"? Let me know what I wrote.
What Hideaway does is take the sensitive parts of... and this is our first product. We're really all about preventing digital humiliation. Our first product, our keynote product—the iPhone of our mix—is a private camera roll.
It's actually going to combine two of my favorite ideas. First, we solve the pain of someone taking your phone or you trying to show them a photo, but you're scrolling through your camera roll of all your photos, which is a ridiculous invasion of privacy.
One of my favorite ideas, and something I've always wanted growing up, is in a movie where you see those secret rooms. You know, the rich people have a room in their house with a secret bookcase. They pull the fourth book on the second shelf, and a secret door emerges.
So, it's that—a secret bookcase, a Murphy door for your phone. It is Hideaway.
So, what is it? It's basically a camera and a camera roll that is private and kept separate from your main camera and camera roll. You open up the app, and it's disguised to look like a harmless app. It looks like an Amazon Kindle app, like a bookshelf.
But only when you tap the third, seventh, and eighth books does it flip over, and it's a camera. That camera roll is for your eyes only—Hideaway. That's the idea.
It could be a calculator app; it could be a book reading app. It's got to be something that looks harmless, so that even if your parent looked over your shoulder and saw, "Oh, my son is just browsing the latest books," or "He's just doing some quick calculations," they don't know that you're actually going to your secret camera roll.
Alright, what do you think?
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Sam Parr | Alright, let me elaborate a little bit on this. So, do me a favor and, alright, you're on a computer. Go to search for the Photo Vault app.
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Shaan Puri | okay photo vault app | |
Sam Parr | and you is the is the first result apple | |
Shaan Puri |
No, no. The first result I see is "Private Photo Vault Pic Safe" and it's... literally, the icon is incredible.
[To the YouTube editor] Put the icon of this on the screen. It's a manila folder, but photoshopped onto it is a giant key lock, and the key is just going directly through the middle of the manila folder. Which is incredible.
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Sam Parr | So, this app has been reviewed **807,000 times** and is currently ranked **86** in the App Store. This app has been around for a while, and I've looked into it a fair bit. The founder's name is **William Sidwell**, and he's based out of **Las Vegas**.
I can't find much information about this company, but he has done a good job. However, I believe he is one of the only employees because I can't find anything on LinkedIn. An app that has been reviewed **800,000 times** must have been downloaded **tens of millions of times**.
They have a premium version, which costs about **$50 a year**. The premium version stores photos, documents, and other data. What it does is make the app look like a game. You have to do photo ID and then type in three different passwords just to access the photo vault password. It's pretty interesting.
I haven't seen a lot of people online talk about it, but it's kind of a juggernaut. It's been around forever, and I have to imagine that photos are one of the most popular categories in the App Store. This app is currently ranked **86**, and I bet it has maintained that ranking for a long, long time. It's crazy the amount of reviews this app has received.
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Shaan Puri | This is incredible!
So, you know, if you go to the Google Play Store, it'll tell you the download range. Apple doesn't do that, but on Google Play, this has been downloaded at least **10,000,000 times**. It says **10,000,000+**, so that means it's above 10 but less than **50,000,000**. That's that range, and that's just on Google Play.
Let alone... I mean, you know how I feel about Android. So, we know... I'm already thinking if Google Play is at **10,000,000**, you just know what my boys on Apple are doing.
By the way, I don't know why I said that. There's a guy in the YouTube comments who's always like, "Dude, Sean's always got a comment about Android," and he just has a laughing emoji. So, I decided to make that my thing, but I don't really have anything against it.
But for the record, I do.
Alright, the key feature of this that I didn't have in my pitch: **decoy password**. Sometimes a nosy person wants into your private photos, yes? It has a dummy password that will show you just a random set of safe images, and they think they got in. This guy thought of everything, bro. This is amazing!
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Sam Parr |
Dude, it's fascinating. So let's just... if we assume that Google has 10,000,000, which would mean that Apple probably has 5 times that, right? So 50,000,000. So he probably has 50 to 60,000,000 downloads ever, if you...
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Shaan Puri | assume okay | |
Sam Parr | yeah well if he well if Google is 10,000,000 right you said it's at least 10 | |
Shaan Puri | why would apple be 10 why would apple be 5 times more there's more Google users there's more android users | |
Sam Parr | Well then, maybe my math's messed up. So let's just say it's equal. Let's just say that it's **$20,000,000**.
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Shaan Puri | you don't have to bleep that he did that with 2 g's fucked up | |
Sam Parr | with | |
Shaan Puri | 2 G's. In fact, if your kids are in the car, turn the volume up. That was fine. What he just did was good.
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Sam Parr | Like, fuck this shiv. No, it's good. So, if he has 20 or 30 million downloads, do you think it's... I don't really remember app conversion rates. Is it crazy to think that he would have a 3% conversion? Is it crazy to think that he'd have 1,000,000 paying premium users?
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Shaan Puri | not crazy not crazy | |
Sam Parr | So, it's **$40**, which means this guy has probably grossed in his lifetime **$40,000,000** from his premium version.
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Shaan Puri | Let's just put it this way: at the bottom of the page, the copyright from 2011 to 2020 says it's from Legendary Software Labs LLC. I just got a call from the state of Delaware, and they said there's never been a better-named company. That company name was perfectly appropriate.
"We've reviewed it, we triple-stamped the double stamp, and that was correct. This is Legendary Software, and my drunk idea is validated."
Alright, you're up.
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Sam Parr |
Alright, I found something that seems like it came out of a drunken bar hangout one night. So do me a favor, go to santasclub.com.
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Shaan Puri | santasclub oh god is this are we going n f nsfw here | |
Sam Parr | no it's safe it it it that it could go either way but no that's actually | |
Shaan Puri | everything's safe for work now we're working it from home bro like that that that thing needs to be gone | |
Sam Parr | alright so I'm good here have you seen not not safe for life | |
Shaan Puri | nope on reddit | |
Sam Parr |
That's true. On Reddit, I go to these forums and some of the stuff are tagged "Not Safe for Life" and it's hilarious. It's a pretty... like, it'll be someone popping a zit and it says "Not Safe for Life."
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Shaan Puri | okay so I'm on santa's club | |
Sam Parr | There we go, thank you. So, Santa's Club was started in 2020 by a guy named Will Evelsizer. Each year, about 15,000 people come to his site and they spend around $75. This business only operates for 2 months out of the year.
If you go to the website, what you're going to see is like your typical look at Santa Claus in a studio. You get to spend 15 minutes doing a virtual Santa sit on his lap and ask what you want for Christmas. It's a type of experience that lasts for only 10 or 15 minutes.
He has a studio, probably in Nevada, where instead of cam girls, it's just fat Santas. According to the articles I read, in the first year, he had 15,000 visits and prices ranged from $35 to $75 per visit. This means he's making around $500,000 to $1,000,000 in just 2 months.
If you go to the website now, he has a presale that is 100% sold out. You can't buy anymore. The guy's got to go get more Santas!
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Shaan Puri | Dude, this is hell. This is genius. This is hilarious. This is not even a good bad idea; this is simply a good, good idea.
So, I like this. I think I kind of like a little bit better cameo for Santas. I'm going to give you a little side dish there, which is "Santa for Cameos" or "Sams for Cameo."
In fact, Steven, he came on the pod. I think he did come on the pod. Former Duke guy built Cameo. He needs to just implement this new cameo this holiday season.
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Sam Parr | Well, this is very clear. Santa's club, they just gotta get the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy... what are the other characters?
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Shaan Puri | yeah that's great | |
Sam Parr | that's what you gotta do | |
Shaan Puri | ben do you guys got some holidays where you need a little character of some kind | |
Sam Parr | yeah like a joseph smith like a guy in a beard with like 8 wives | |
Ben Wilson | we got pioneer day yeah maybe you know a pioneer type dude | |
Sam Parr | that could work | |
Shaan Puri | pioneer day no we're just gonna call trying to work with you guys yeah | |
Sam Parr | best we're gonna call | |
Shaan Puri | it we got | |
Ben Wilson | the christian holidays we got we got easter and christmas sorry I can't do more for you | |
Sam Parr | We're gonna call it **Fairy Inc.** The employees are gonna be the fairies. We're gonna have the Easter Bunny, Santa, the Tooth Fairy... what else is there? I forget. I don't know what else there is. Does... quote... are we gonna...? | |
Shaan Puri | Have any copyright issues? Because that's also what we call "Morning Brew" on the down low. Oh, got them.
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Sam Parr |
No, look, this is a good business. It's pretty cool. So it started off as a drunken idea, but it's actually cool. I have this lady who, I think she listens to the podcast, and she friended me on Facebook. She dresses like Elsa from *Frozen*, and people pay her money to do a... like, she's like a Disney character walker.
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Shaan Puri | This is great! It's cosplay, but like, you know, a paid little cameo call or recorded video. That makes a lot of sense to me. I know that's like, you know, obviously copyright infringement, but like if it wasn't, right?
Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy—those all make sense. You should be able to do this, you know? Especially if you did it on demand. Somebody could just rip out like 100 of these in a studio every single day, just being like, "Oh Amanda, ho ho ho, Merry Christmas! Your mom wanted me to tell you you've been doing a great job with blah blah blah. See you later!"
And like, each one of those is $40 a pop.
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Sam Parr | You know how, like, on webinars, you'll see business webinars? It'll be like Neil Patel, who's on the pod, and he'll say, "Hey everyone, this is Neil. Are we live? Is this thing working? Is this on?"
And it's like... it's a recording, but he acts like it's real. You see people in the comments saying, "Hey Neil, what's up?" And he'll respond, "Hey Derek from Chicago, how are you?"
You know, it's just a recording. It's all fake. You could obviously do the same thing. I hate when webinars are like that. Well, I don't know if Neil does it; he probably does. I think I have seen him do it.
But there are a lot of webinars that are like that. It's a recording, but what they do is they put replies in there, and it's all artificial. It's all fake, but they make it look real, and it's pretty good. Wow. | |
Shaan Puri | Phoning it in... okay, amazing!
So, I give this a good idea. I think that's solid. Anything else on this, or can I hit you with my next one?
Hit me!
Alright, what's the name of a fast-growing company that does $1,000,000,000 and serves creators all around the world? It's bigger than Twitch. They provide private photos and videos to their fans. If you subscribe, you might be considered only their fan.
That's right, OnlyFans!
Now, OnlyFans is a great business model. The owner of OnlyFans listens to this podcast, and they crush it. They are absolutely phenomenal in business.
But I got to thinking, what other space could you do this in? So, I was sitting there, and I was thinking... and you told me about an app that somebody had built called Police Scanner, or Police Scanner + something like that. This app does $1,000,000 a year, and I just couldn't get that out of my head. I thought, who would do this? Why would anybody want to listen to... like a...
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Sam Parr | Dude, I listen to it all the time. If I hear a gunshot or like a loud backfire of a car, I immediately open it up and I'm like, "Alright, let's see what's going on here. Was it real or was it not?"
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Shaan Puri | And so, there's a curiosity component. People, I think, just like listening to a train wreck in a way. They like to observe from a safe distance.
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Sam Parr | do you have the app called citizen | |
Shaan Puri | citizen is just like this yeah where it's like you know | |
Sam Parr |
Snap or something, because when I'm in Brooklyn... I'll pull it up, and it looks like my phone screen has chicken pox. There's red dots all over the place. I'm like, "There's crime everywhere!" You know what I'm saying? I can't be doing that anymore.
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Shaan Puri | so okay this business I'm calling only problems because forget about crime the biggest battle is what's inside so people in life have basically the same five problems health wealth relationships happiness purpose in life everybody's got the same five problems right that's the dirty secret I saw tony robbins once he goes I've helped 4,000,000 people in these seminars 22 years and guess what people have 5 problems and he goes if you think woe is me if you think it's a big burden on you guess what in this room right now there's probably 500 other people who have you know the this can have the same problem as you whether it's with their their their husband or their kids or their parents or their health or whatever and so a lot of people need therapy but guess what lot of people aren't going to therapy it's too taboo it's too expensive too vulnerable they don't wanna do it people would rather sit on netflix and just watch reality tv for distraction and entertainment wait a minute is that a great idea is that a great idea I just heard yes it is you turn therapy into entertainment so it's called only problems it's onlyfans for therapy and here's how it works you are going to you pay a monthly subscription and you get to sit in fly on the wall style to somebody going through an actual therapy session with the problem that you have right the the the area of your life that you're most curious by you can go listen to somebody vent about their relationships about their health problems about their career problems whatever it is they're getting real therapy but they get it subsidized so they get cheap therapy maybe free therapy because there's 25 people anonymous people who don't know their identity you don't know the you don't know the listener's identity that get to listen in and they get to back channel talk a little shit in the chat you don't get to see that and they get to sit in on a therapy session therapists get more clients people get more help and other people get kind of secondhand smoke help by being in the crowd and getting to listen to it they get the entertainment and they get help | |
Sam Parr | have you ever seen | |
Shaan Puri |
The movie... honestly, I'm gonna just say it right now: I wrote this idea down and I got goosebumps under this hairy arm.
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Sam Parr | You got a little arm, mountains dude. Have you seen the movie *Fight Club*?
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Shaan Puri | of course | |
Sam Parr | So, one of the premises of the movie is that this guy, Ed Norton, I guess he's Tyler... I don't know, I forget his name. Tyler Durden. Then he meets that woman who's like the love interest.
What they do is they go to terminal cancer anonymous meetings. I don't know why... I forget why, but it makes them feel alive. It makes them feel happy because they think that they're all screwed up. They want to meet with people who are actually dying, and it's oddly therapeutic for them.
What you're describing is kind of like that, where you sit and you're like, "Oh wow, this guy really is messed up. I'm straight, I'm good." You know what I mean?
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Shaan Puri | Yeah, gratitude as a service, right? It ain't so bad after all. We say when the apple picks up.
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Sam Parr | bad yeah | |
Shaan Puri | could be worse | |
Sam Parr | this is is crazy freak | |
Shaan Puri |
Yeah, and that's the thing: the crazier your problems are, the more vulnerable and open you get, the more people tip your little hearts in the app. The bigger rev share you get as part of doing that therapy.
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Sam Parr | so you're you're incentivized to be screwed up | |
Shaan Puri | You can just make stuff up, to be honest with you. But like, you're definitely... it's Jerry Springer, right?
Why do we like Jerry Springer? Why do you still watch Jerry Springer reruns every morning before work? Because we like to watch other people have messed up problems and then see them deal with it. We like fights also, but that's what I'm tapping into here.
I'm doing it through an app. It's called **Only Problems**. Honestly, if you're going to run with this, you better hit **[email protected]**. That's all I can say. I need to see an email from somebody trying this idea. I genuinely feel like this is one of those ideas that's like, "No way," and then it gets huge.
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Sam Parr |
It reminds me of the people who want to go watch someone do surgery. Have you ever seen those setups where... for... no, so for like if you're a student, there are these medical rooms that have... it's like a two-way mirror almost, yeah?
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Shaan Puri | and you | |
Sam Parr | Have you ever been to this subreddit called "Popping"? It's like watching an execution. You just sit there and watch what they're doing. That's what this reminds me of.
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Shaan Puri | No, but I was going to bring up the addictive way that people watch you pop a blackhead or a pimple or whatever.
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Sam Parr | That's what I'm gonna do. There's a subreddit called "Popping." I've been on the front of it. Yeah, you see? I've been on the front page. Do you see the scar right here?
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Shaan Puri | yes yeah | |
Sam Parr | So, I have a big scar on my head because I had a ping pong ball-sized growth on my brain. I had to get surgery in 2014 to have it removed. Right before I went under, I asked the surgeon, "Hey man, do you have your iPhone on you?" He replied, "Yeah." I said, "Uh-huh, can you save my number and take some pictures while I'm under? You can get some before, after, and during pics of the surgery so I can post it on r/popping."
He did it! He texted me, and I got these beautiful photos of the growth being popped and scraped off my brain. I posted it on that subreddit, and I got like 80,000 views on my photo album. So, I'm a member of r/popping, and I love it!
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Shaan Puri | you may not have a blue check mark on twitter but you always have this | |
Sam Parr | yeah | |
Shaan Puri | dude put this in your bio put this on your linkedin | |
Sam Parr | front page | |
Shaan Puri | former front page yeah former front pager serial front pager of r / popping | |
Sam Parr |
Dude, I have it... I have to find it and send it to you. But you see, like, you know... and then he also cut some fat from my stomach, and then he like puttied it into the hole. So you see this whole process of there being a gross [procedure].
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Shaan Puri | move out of an apartment and you hung | |
Sam Parr | He took off some things, so you gotta fill a hole. Yeah, he took a little fat off me and he just like puttied that bad boy in. I woke up and my stomach was hurting. I was like, "Dude, I thought you were gonna take it from my leg." He's like, "No, your leg was pretty muscular, so we just took some off your stomach. You had a lot there." And I asked, so it just kinda like tickled.
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Shaan Puri | but okay | |
Sam Parr | yeah well I have muscular legs not always a muscular stomach and he's like as | |
Shaan Puri | surgeon one of our creeds kudos is we don't mess with perfection so I couldn't touch the legs | |
Sam Parr | so anyway on board with only problems good idea | |
Shaan Puri | thank you thank you alright you got 1 or you want me to go 3rd also | |
Sam Parr |
Let me... This is the last one I probably have. Well, I got one more, but alright. The biggest... This is a little bit of a stretch, but I actually don't think it is that much of a stretch: The most popular business publication in the world by digital audience. What do you think it is?
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Shaan Puri | most populous what most popular what | |
Sam Parr | most popular digital business publication in the world by traffic | |
Shaan Puri | I'm gonna | |
Sam Parr |
Go with it. Journal... there's some time... CoinMarketCap.com. CoinMarketCap, that's a good guess. That probably does... how much? Probably $50,000,000 a month in [revenue].
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Shaan Puri | crazy yeah | |
Sam Parr |
So there's Wall Street Journal, there's FinancialTimes.com, there's CoinMarketCap, there's Business Insider... Business Insider probably gets a lot, I'd say. And I'd hypothesize the largest business publication in the world is run by basically 2 people, and it is called SlideShare. Have you ever been to SlideShare?
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Shaan Puri | of I love slideshare wow that's I thought you were gonna bring up drudge report again by the way | |
Sam Parr |
No, SlideShare. So SlideShare is this site that was started by... I forget her name, but she's an interesting founder. She's pretty outspoken on Twitter and I like her a lot. Anyway, she's an Indian woman. Yeah, she started it and she sold it to LinkedIn for like $150,000,000. And SlideShare was... what?
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Shaan Puri | most indian social network of all time just powerpoints | |
Sam Parr | that's what slideshare is like | |
Shaan Puri | way to slack off but make your parents proud at the same time | |
Sam Parr | Yeah, did you see our buddy Shiel? He just got engaged! He goes, "I have an aunt who doesn't speak English. She only knows a few words, but the only words that she knows, she texts me all the time." It says, "Are you married yet?" He posted screenshots of her asking that in perfect English: "Are you married yet? Please be married! Please be married!"
So, SlideShare... it's just a website where you upload stuff, right? You upload decks. Well, LinkedIn bought it in 2012, and it just sat there. And then Scribe... do you know Scribe or is it Scribd?
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Shaan Puri | scribd yeah | |
Sam Parr | Scribd bought it, and I'm almost certain, looking at LinkedIn and the website, that like one and a half engineers are the only employees working on this. They were for sale for a little while, so I don't think this is entirely guessing.
Basically, they get between **100 to 150 million visits a month**, and most of the content, or about half, but it could be at this point, is like marketing decks, pitch decks, and conference decks on business strategy. It makes virtually no revenue. If you go there, you won't see any ads. It's just this website that does **100 to 150, maybe 200 million monthly visits**. It's this juggernaut of a website that, if you look at it, hasn't been updated in years.
Here's my idea: if I were a B2B company, if I were Salesforce or HubSpot, or if I were, I don't know, anyone selling software or anything that sells to people who go to business conferences, I would buy it and turn it into a B2B lead generation website. I think you could make a ton of money off this website because here's why: any website that gets a ton of traffic from user-generated content, once it hits a critical mass, which SlideShare does, it's like impossible to stop. You know what I'm saying? It just keeps going, and it's almost impossible to catch up with that.
It's really, really hard. So I think that this website is just sitting there, floating along, not doing anything, and it could actually be a business that makes **nine figures a year** through ads, which is like the best revenue of all time when you don't actually have to make anything.
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Shaan Puri | Yeah, you have super high-value customers because it's only business people that are going to be doing this. So, who bought them? Didn't LinkedIn buy them at some point? Or no?
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Sam Parr | LinkedIn bought them in 2012, and it just sat there. They did nothing with it, and then they sold it.
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Shaan Puri | easy to me | |
Sam Parr |
Yeah, and I think they paid... $150 million? They paid 9 figures for it, and then they sold it to Scribd. If I had to bet, Scribd... like LinkedIn was just like, "Get this off our hands. Just don't fire anyone who works on it and assume all the liability. It's yours, just go... just go away."
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Shaan Puri | so check out this tweet I just put in the chat | |
Sam Parr | Okay, it says it's from you and it says "Free $500,000,000 Idea: Reinvent and Relaunch SlideShare."
Alright, great! Great minds think alike. If there's a talented engineer or designer who wants to do this, I'll give you money and share my one-page plan on how to attack this.
Alright, I think we're on the same page here.
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Shaan Puri | Do you want to see my one-page plan?
Yeah, you can't. It doesn't exist. I just wrote that out, and I was like, "If somebody actually reaches out that's interesting for this, I will come up with a one-page plan of how I would do this."
To me, SlideShare is so ripe for the picking. It is completely neglected and extremely valuable as a potential tool. It never really got replaced properly by something else; it didn't become obsolete.
It's just one of those big opportunities hiding in plain sight. I would love to brainstorm how I would tackle this kind of SlideShare problem.
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Sam Parr | But the opportunity was missed. LinkedIn, if you know one of us or someone listening had a little bit of charm and suave, they would have been able to get connected with the LinkedIn people. They would have given it to you. It would have been like... it would have been free.
I don't know about Scribd, though, because it isn't a big enough company where they're like, "Oh yeah, here, we don't give a... just take it." But when you're owned by Microsoft, I imagine they're just like, "We can't focus on this right now."
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Shaan Puri | Yeah, an undisclosed price. This would have been... I mean, I can't imagine this was that much. I could be wrong, but like...
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Sam Parr | it didn't make any revenue | |
Shaan Puri | I feel like they probably got this for like $10,000,000 or something | |
Sam Parr | or less | |
Shaan Puri | yeah wow | |
Sam Parr | or less | |
Shaan Puri | missed opportunity that is a serious missed opportunity | |
Sam Parr | that's not that drunk of an idea but anyway it's an idea | |
Shaan Puri | alright I got another one let me let me let me make a look | |
Sam Parr | I'm all out by the way | |
Shaan Puri | I don't want to know how long this list is. It all came to me in one giant flood. You know, I just dumped them all out. What do you think?
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Sam Parr | What do you do? Do you just come up with names? Are you like Michael Scott, where he just has a name for something and he builds a business around it?
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Shaan Puri |
No joke, that's part of it. My thing was sort of like... you have to find something relatable, either something that really sucks or that's really awesome, and then just use it in an unexpected way. Right? So like, you know...
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Sam Parr | like the tronaut you're just smashing 2 things together | |
Shaan Puri |
Exactly! So I saw this hidden bookcase thing, and I was like, "Oh my god, I've always wanted one of these!" You know, where I hit three piano keys and a door opens, or I pull the bookshelf, tilt a book out, and it opens a secret door.
So I thought, how do I take that awesome thing and just use it in an unexpected way? And that's where that idea came from.
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Sam Parr |
Have you ever seen those for guns? So... well, I've thought about buying one of these where you can put like a shelf... You know how you have a shelf next to your front door that you put your keys on? Yeah, you can buy some of these and you click a button and it opens a little bit on the bottom and you just grab your pistol. They're pretty sick.
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Shaan Puri | That's pretty cool! Okay, I like that. I could put my fanny pack in there, maybe for when I leave the house.
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Sam Parr | I'd like some cheez its | |
Shaan Puri | But would it fit a regulation size bag of corn nuts? Yeah, your...
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Sam Parr | cheez its your cheez its storage | |
Shaan Puri |
Alright, so speaking of working backwards from a great idea, here's the name of this one. I mean, Ben, you might want to get your pencil out for the top winner of the episode: **Instagram-hanas**.
That sounds like weird sort of like Benihana's. It's Benihana's for photo opportunities. Okay, so here's how it works: it's a restaurant that's not about the food, it's a restaurant about the content.
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Sam Parr | like the museum of ice cream baby | |
Shaan Puri |
People roll their eyes. It's like the Museum of Ice Cream, but it's seated. It is basically where people go to restaurants, they order food, and they'll order things like:
- "Oh, we got a fishbowl drink!"
- "We're drinking beer out of a shoe!"
- "We got the huge donut at the end!"
And they take pictures, and it becomes content.
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Sam Parr | or like they use sparklers instead of birthday candles | |
Shaan Puri | No, I started a restaurant. I know all the problems about restaurants. You've got all this food waste, high labor costs, and you don't actually run it like a traditional restaurant.
So here's how it works: it's like Benihana. You go, and there are, I don't know, 30 tables. Each table seats about 8 people, and you go as a group. You're not going for the food; you're going for the experience.
Two things happen. Basically, food is going to come out that is photo-worthy. Either because it's gross, funny-looking, huge, or so indulgent. For example, you might see a giant pile of sour gummy worms or the mega green donut. How are we ever going to eat this? Oh look, it's so funny to watch me try that sort of thing!
Then, this guy's going to come out, and we have to drink this giant beer can that's like, you know, 36 ounces or whatever. I don't know what a big beer can is, but let's say 36 ounces.
So that's the idea: it's all photo-worthy food, and it's brought out like omakase at a... | |
Sam Parr | sushi restaurant we're gonna call it the the food porn cafe | |
Shaan Puri |
Instagram is the name, but if you'd like to launch a competitor, bring it on! Here's the concept:
There's a drone camera that just flies right above the table, recording the whole thing. It dumps all the footage into a Google Drive folder. Then, there's one guy in India who's editing everybody's photos and content all night.
At the end, you're going to get the 3 or 4 best reaction shots because the food gets revealed, you know, like a [food reveal] shot.
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Sam Parr | it it no it's like it's like when you get a picture on a roller coaster | |
Shaan Puri | Exactly! It's exactly that. We're using outsourced labor. The drone is capturing everything, and then the food... it feels like a party. There's a DJ, you know, like those New York brunches for cool people. This is that for fat people.
So instead of being cool and having to know how to dance, stand up on the table, and drink champagne at 9 in the morning, you sit and food comes out. That's crazy! You get to eat it, and you get to make a big mess. Your reactions and your attempts are all photo and video recorded.
It's $100 a person plus tips, with eight people per table. I'm thinking, you know, 20 maybe 30 tables, you know, 2 or 3 turns per night. We're talking $1,000,000 a month easy!
The food cost is way down because it's not even real food. You're just doing like giant popcorn and silly stuff. No proteins, you don't have to worry about that. There's no food waste because you're just bringing out one thing for the table to react to.
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Sam Parr | yeah yeah | |
Shaan Puri | yeah yeah yeah yeah you're eating each person | |
Sam Parr | your 5 your 5 pound burger doesn't need to taste good | |
Shaan Puri |
Exactly! It's like Benihana's. There's a Harvard Business School case study on how amazing Benihana's is, and one of the reasons is their efficient use of space. They use the whole restaurant for dining because the chef's stove is essentially the table.
They have higher labor costs due to employing skilled chefs, but they utilize real estate better. Additionally, their food waste is significantly reduced because of their limited menu.
So, it's about doing all that smart stuff:
- Maximizing dining space
- Incorporating the cooking process into the dining experience
- Employing skilled labor strategically
- Reducing food waste through menu optimization
It's a great example of how innovative business practices can lead to success in the restaurant industry.
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Sam Parr | have you ever | |
Shaan Puri | heard of this | |
Sam Parr | what do | |
Shaan Puri | you think | |
Sam Parr | I'm in I I'm into it have you ever heard the background of benny hana the guy | |
Shaan Puri | rocky I think is his name | |
Sam Parr |
Yeah, so he's basically... We wrote about it, and it was one of our most trafficked articles for a long time. He's basically, you know, an immigrant who came here with nothing. And then, you know who his son is? It's **Steve Aoki**, the DJ.
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Shaan Puri | oh no way I did not know that | |
Sam Parr | Yeah, and this guy Rocky... I think he... I forget the article, but it was one of those "Most Interesting Man Alive" stories. He had been involved in porn, and then Benihana's got big, went bankrupt, and then he bought it back. It went big again, and then he was like this international man of mystery. It's a really interesting story, and people love that company. It's still crushing it.
I went... we used to go to team dinners there. I *fucking* love Benihana's! But dude, I'm into this... bring.
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Shaan Puri | It up, dude! When we're in a car and it's like, "Oh, we're gonna be..." I'm like, "I think there's a Benihana around here, down over there." But I'm just waiting for that to latch.
Somebody would be like, "That'd be fun!" Never. I never get any support on it. I'm always tossing the little Benihana test flare out there, being like, "You know, I guess we could do big group stuff at Benihana. They got good tables."
Then, like, no one ever bites. I don't know why. I'm like, "I've been 0 for 12 on this thing."
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Sam Parr | How was the... remember that guy you brought up on Instagram during the pandemic who started that cookie business? He just made the most ridiculous cookies. Remember Mike? What's...? | |
Shaan Puri | the deal | |
Sam Parr | I think it's mike cookie how's he doing | |
Shaan Puri |
He's great. I checked in... I don't know, he's... I think they're doing fine. I am not sure. I ordered the cookies, honestly, they were not great. So then I'm sorta like, "What's the fuss?" But that's kind of how a lot of these food crazes are like. The expectations get way out of whack.
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Sam Parr |
And what about Muse? Museum of Ice Cream?
The Museum of Ice Cream, they started a little bit before the pandemic, and you and I (like a bunch of... a lot of people) made fun of them because they raised like $50 million at a $250 million valuation. Basically, I don't even think they serve ice cream there, right? It's just like a ball pit and like funny ice cream stuff, and you pay like $20 and you go to take pictures, right?
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Shaan Puri | yeah you never been to it | |
Sam Parr | no but there's it's like | |
Shaan Puri | A haunted house. You walk from room to room, but each room has its own kind of crazy thing. Sometimes you get to eat a little bit, but most of the time it's just photos in a cool room. It's Instagram content.
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Sam Parr | In Manhattan, I walked by one recently and the line was around the block. I've gone by it a few times, and there's always a long line to go in. I think they have to be killing it, right?
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Shaan Puri | I thought so, but then the SF one closed. So, I don't know what happened. But, well, SF closed, right?
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Sam Parr | So, the Manhattan one... the Manhattan one is just, I mean, that's really what's... it's like San Francisco just shut down for maintenance. So, they just shut down for like four years.
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Shaan Puri | museum of lifestream said the same thing that every like tech person in san francisco said just fuck it I'm out of | |
Sam Parr | here yeah | |
Shaan Puri | It was like an audible sigh of just, "Fine, I'm out."
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Sam Parr |
I think... yeah, I'm on board with this. I think this is good. We did a breakdown where we talked about companies like Krona and fondue-only stores and all these companies. It was like, what do you have to do? You have to take a food and:
- Put it in a weird shape
- Or a weird size
- Or a weird color
- Or a weird container
Yeah, or you mash two things that are kinda related but not entirely related, like a burger in the shape of a Corona [beer bottle] or something like that.
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Shaan Puri | loco taco whatever the big taco bell thing | |
Sam Parr |
Exactly! Or you take something that's typically a side or a topping and you make that the only thing. Like a cookie dough-only place that serves it in an ice cream tin or an ice cream thing. What else were they? I forgot what they were...
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Shaan Puri |
You're like the Rain Man of figuring out this food trick. Like everybody else just saw each one of these and it's like, "Oh that's weird, that's weird," and you're like, "I see the pattern." Yeah, like... See, I mean, what's wrong with the left side of your face right now?
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Sam Parr | you're like | |
Ben Wilson | I need | |
Sam Parr | to go | |
Shaan Puri | to your downloading it I figured it I'm figuring it out | |
Sam Parr |
It's all rooted in an eating disorder. I go to food therapy and... you know, I need to go to therapy and talk about it. I pay a lady $700 a month just to talk about food every single morning. Clearly, there are issues there.
Yeah, so I just got a Fitbit [fitness tracking device].
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Shaan Puri | roll under your pillow for some reason | |
Sam Parr | The number of times that I've eaten a jar of Jif peanut butter in one sitting is, quite frankly, just way too high. It's way too high. | |
Shaan Puri | We need a GIF of you just eating a jar of Jif in one sitting. Have you done an NFT?
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Sam Parr | dude I've eaten a full jar with just a spoon multiple times it's just too addicting | |
Shaan Puri |
Habitual line stepper. Alright, I have more. Let me give you... I got maybe one, maybe two more. Let's see how it goes.
You probably don't watch this show, but there's a show that's hot on Netflix called "Indian Matchmaker." Have you seen it?
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Sam Parr | of course I watch that show | |
Shaan Puri | you watch it okay I thought this might be only entertaining to indian people because it's like no | |
Sam Parr |
Dude, pretty bad. Are you kidding me? I watch it all the time and in my head I'm just thinking, "Y'all are screwed up. You guys are so weird." Like, are you kidding me? Look, I... How is the suicide rate not higher amongst you people?
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Shaan Puri | You're like, "Don't make me send the British back in there." Are you guys going to get your shit together? Yeah.
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Sam Parr |
What the hell, man? Like, there'll be this beautiful doctor in her thirties making money. She's pretty, she's nice, and her mom's like yelling at her... criticizing her for not being married. It's crazy!
I can't find this client info. Have you?
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Shaan Puri | So, my sister called me last night. She's like, "I finished season 2," and she just goes, "I need to ask you something. I hope it's not too personal." I was like, "Oh, what's it gonna be?"
She goes, "When you first met Sonya, did you have game?" Because on the show, the Indian guys have zero game. I was like, "Game? Like, what do you mean?" I guess so.
Then she's like, "No, think about it." She was like, "These guys, they're nice guys. They're smart guys. They have good jobs. They're normal people. They have no crazy drug habits. The reason they're still single is because they don't know how to look at, talk to, or touch a girl."
I was like, "Oh yeah, I had that problem. Yeah, yeah, that's me too, actually. You're right."
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Sam Parr |
Dude, I saw someone post a picture of a painting of a naked woman from like the 1700s. It was all Indian guys commenting, saying things like:
> "Hey baby, I love you"
> "I love you for a long time"
> "Text me"
> "Call me"
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Shaan Puri |
Yeah, that's like... if you're ever a girl who does live streaming on Twitch or Periscope or whatever app, they're all like, "What is... why are there so many men in Turkey, the Middle East, and India who just flood their chat?" And they just keep saying:
> "Show bobs, show bobs, show bobs"
And they go to the [inaudible], and then they keep saying:
> "Show bobs, show bobs"
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Sam Parr | what so you didn't have game you were you were no I didn't | |
Shaan Puri | So, I asked my wife, "My sister asked me this. I don't think I did, did I?" She's like, "No, you didn't."
I was like, "What do you mean?" She's like, "Yeah, you had a different type. You had like an intellectual game. You're good at telling stories or you would say interesting things."
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Sam Parr | and that counts that's that's game | |
Shaan Puri | Or like the basic "man stuff." She's like, "You didn't know how to, like, kind of... you know, there was no smoothness to, like, 'Oh, we're walking down the street. Let's just hold hands' without it being, like, the first time."
How do you do that smoothly the first time?
You know, like in San Francisco, the streets are a little dangerous. She's like, "You would always walk on the inside of the street. I'd be on the edge, like, right by the cars and the homeless people."
You didn't know to just stand on that side. Just the little kind of male protective instincts, a little bit of, like, "You know, pull my chair out. Let me sit down first." It's like, you know, there was a show...
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Sam Parr | me a high five when we're when we're like you know ending the date | |
Shaan Puri | And don't say, "See you when we leave." You know, say something else. Like, no one would show up, and it's like, I opened the door for you. She's like, "Yeah, you would open the door and be like, 'Scoot in.' Like, I scoot all the way across, and then I'll sit on this. I'll get in after you." It's like, you know, you're supposed to go to the other side and open the door for me, then you go to the other side. I was like, "Oh yeah, that's so much effort. You know, it's fine."
And so there were a whole bunch of things like that. I remember I dated a girl once in Australia, and I'll always give her credit. She was kind of an amazing girl, and she taught me one thing. She was like, "You know, whenever you're..." Actually, we didn't even really date; we were just kind of in the flirting phase. But she was teaching me how to... She was a dancer. She was teaching me how to do... like, she was a Sambo champion or some shit like that, or Sambo.
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Sam Parr | I think Sambo is fighting. Yeah, is it Sambo like Russian Jujitsu?
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Shaan Puri |
Yeah, samba... I guess it's salsa. And she was like, "Okay, so just put your hand here," and then whatever. Then she looked at my hand. I was like, "I put it right where you said," and she was like, "Yeah, but look at it." And I looked at it... my hand's like, you know, basically limp. It's like my hand was there, but...
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Sam Parr | like a bed fish | |
Shaan Puri | There was no firmness to it. It was like, you know, it was nothing. And she goes, "If you're gonna touch a girl, touch with intent." I was like, "Oh." I literally have never forgotten that. That was like 15 years ago. In my head, I'm always like I got taught a real lesson in "man stuff" that day. I was like, how to do things with girls—like touch with intent. I didn't even really understand what the hell she meant, but that was the first time I got taught.
So here's the idea: basically, it's **Swag School**. It just teaches Indian guys how to have a little more game. You go to a seminar; it's like Toastmasters or Alcoholics Anonymous. You go and you sit in a circle. First, you just say, "My name is Sean and I am awkward." Then everyone says, "Welcome, Sean."
The next guy says, "Hey, my name is Pradeep, doctor, Bay Area, and I am awkward." And everyone says, "Welcome, thank you, Pradeep." It just goes around the circle.
It's gonna teach you how to look at a girl, how to touch a girl, how to have some presence, how to sit straight, stand up straight, how to dress, and how to go in for a kiss. There's just a girl there to teach you how to do it because guess what? You can't learn it in a textbook.
So that's it: **Swag School**. What do you think?
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Sam Parr |
Love it! Have you heard... do you remember Art of Charm? Our friend Jordan, he's got a new thing. Jordan Harbinger, but now it... it used to be called Art of Charm. Do you remember that? It's like a... was it like a 5-day boot camp for men? Is that what it was? 5 days?
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Shaan Puri | you remember I don't really know I know he has the podcast and I used to read the blog | |
Sam Parr |
So listen to this: he spoke at one of my events and he talked about it. It was him and two other guys, they had like a falling out. This is before they had the falling out, and the business was called "Art of Charm." It was teaching men how to be more charming.
He would also teach... he would go and talk to Navy SEALs about how to use charm to blend in and stuff like that. And so, if I remember correctly, they were making $10,000,000 a year hosting these [events].
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Shaan Puri | What did you just say? They used to go teach Navy SEALs how to use charm to blend in with what? Like the water?
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Sam Parr | what the water | |
Shaan Puri |
Yeah, like he was like, "You know what? All this espionage trading you're doing... No, no, no, no, no." He's not... he's not a blended. "You need to learn from me."
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Sam Parr | Not a big deal. I don't really know; that's just what he told me. He was like, "They called it operators or something, or special ops or something." | |
Shaan Puri |
Dude, I wanna start a company that's called "Fortune 500." So people can be like, "Oh yeah, I work with Fortune 500 companies," and you know... Hey, you're not lying! Sounds cool when you're pitching your services.
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Sam Parr | it's like d m v dot org or whatever that works | |
Shaan Puri | yeah navy seals s e e l s and you could just say yeah I train navy seals | |
Sam Parr | Well, dude, he was making like $10,000,000 a year hosting these four-day boot camps. I knew a guy who went to one, and he said, "It changed my life."
This guy ended up being this dorky guy who I'm friends with, and he married this beautiful, awesome woman. I was making a joke to him, like, "How'd you pull that off?"
He's like, "Man, I went to this Art of Charm boot camp, and it taught me how to be more confident and talk to women." It totally worked.
So, long story short, swag school down on DTF with swag school.
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Shaan Puri |
Alright, well you validated me there. Okay, great!
So I think we... I have more. I have so many more, but I think we save it. If people like this, we can make this a recurring thing. This is the second edition of "Drunk Ideas." Let us know what you think in the YouTube [comments]. Pretty good!
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Sam Parr | right at least pretty good | |
Shaan Puri | All feedback now in the YouTube comments. I'm replying and reading every single one. I don't want emails. I don't want Twitter. I only want YouTube comments now.
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Sam Parr | are you you're you're on board with this youtube train it's going to my head is it going to your head | |
Shaan Puri | Dude, it's so much fun! Yeah, like the videos get more views now. We're out of the pathetic range where it's like 3,000 views. I'm just like, "Oh man." You know, it's like I kinda wanna... it's like I need to make a disclaimer. It's like, but the podcast is bigger. Like, you know, like, yeah, I used to say it all.
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Sam Parr | The time I'll be like, "Well, the podcast is big." It's like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." It's mostly podcast. We just started YouTube, but now...
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Shaan Puri | dude you don't have to print out your podcast stats okay | |
Sam Parr |
No, now I think a lot of episodes will get 20, 30, 40,000 views on YouTube. So yeah, I'm about it. And the comment section... it is interesting. Also, some of these people are just really stupid. There's so many stupid commenters. Like, you see some of the stuff they post, it's like, "What? What's this have to do with anything?" So there's a lot of stupid stuff.
And there's so many scammers. The typical scam is...
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Shaan Puri | this scammer is so annoying | |
Sam Parr | So, there's one scammer that acts like he's us. Then there's another scammer where it's like, "I totally agree with you, and that's why I started following."
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Shaan Puri | The first guy, this guy is pretending to be us. He replies to every comment, and his thing is "My First Million," but he's using emojis for the letters. It's like an "M" is a yellow emoji. Yeah, yeah.
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Sam Parr | and so I'm like come join my whatsapp group | |
Shaan Puri | Yeah, come into my WhatsApp group. He's trying to scam me on WhatsApp.
Then the other one is so annoying. It's always the top comment on every video, and I'm like, "My mission in life is to eviscerate this person."
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Sam Parr |
I hate it, and it says, "I totally agree with what you just said. In fact, that's why I started following Aunt Linda. She's taught me all I need to know about forex trading and crypto trading. If you're interested, here's her information." And then somehow they get...
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Shaan Puri | like 80 | |
Sam Parr | people yeah to comment and so it like goes up number 1 and it looks legit | |
Shaan Puri |
I hate those people. The best [comments] are like:
> "I was skeptical at first, but she really turned it around for me!"
> "Oh, I turned $2,000 into $18,000! Thank you so much, Linda!"
> "Linda, if you're reading this..."
...and it just goes on and on. That's all the comments, and it's the top comment on every YouTube video, I swear.
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Sam Parr | hate it | |
Shaan Puri |
For any finance-related channel, it's so annoying. It's like, "You know, with the economy the way it is..." I totally agree, but with the economy the way it is nowadays, investing is harder than ever.
"I'm so thankful for Dr. Baldwin's investing WhatsApp group. It's really been a life-changer for me."
And then everybody's like, "Dr. Baldwin is amazing!" It's the same thing every single time. It's such a good scam.
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Sam Parr |
It's a really well-done scam, and I can't... but I can't stand it. So anyway, yeah, I'm on board. YouTube, that's our place now, which means you're gonna have to start... like, wear this is my jacket. So you gotta like... you gotta get like a jacket or something. You gotta get like a look.
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Shaan Puri |
Well, I just have this... So yes, I gotta have a look. You're absolutely right. In fact, I tweeted that out. I said, "I need a look," and people gave me a bunch of bad ideas. So I'm still looking for a good idea.
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Sam Parr | alright alright | |
Shaan Puri | well who won | |
Sam Parr | okay | |
Ben Wilson | am I giving grades or am I not giving grades | |
Shaan Puri | pick a pick a best idea honorable mention and a worst idea | |
Ben Wilson | I think onlyfans for therapy is the best idea | |
Sam Parr | it is like | |
Ben Wilson | Both funny and actually a good idea. I just like... I would watch. I know I could pass like four and a half hours on one afternoon. The first half hour, I'm like, "This is so stupid," but I don't quit the app. Then, like four hours later, I'm still thinking, "This is so stupid."
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Shaan Puri | and I'm still | |
Sam Parr | honey come listen | |
Shaan Puri | to this guy he's so stupid hey everybody on social media come listen to this it's so bad | |
Sam Parr | yeah yeah it's like me and johnny k + 8 | |
Ben Wilson | For the worst idea, I gotta, since I just pumped up Sean, I gotta take him down a notch and say Instagram. Ohana's worst idea.
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Sam Parr | because | |
Ben Wilson |
I feel like you need one food if your whole shtick is like all these different foods that are Instagrammable. Also, just like a lot of people are doing this in different ways... Instagram has gone out.
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Shaan Puri | of 10 one food would be enough but I just like to over deliver so yeah | |
Ben Wilson | you know what I mean | |
Shaan Puri | it's one of my greatest weaknesses | |
Sam Parr | and what | |
Ben Wilson | was the third one you asked for | |
Shaan Puri | What I was going to say is you can **honorably mention** one of Sam's ideas, perhaps. Because, you know, otherwise I'm just saying.
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Ben Wilson | I, you know, my honorable mention is I wish that Sam had done swag school. I wish Sam had come on here and been like, "So, you know how Indian guys have no game?" | |
Shaan Puri | yeah actually most opportunity | |
Sam Parr | that's hilarious alright | |
Shaan Puri | I'm out crap |