Andrew Tate's 3rd Month in Prison, Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury, & Covid Lab Leak Theory (#426)

Shaan Puri

I told you, I'm in content mode, baby! I'm writing and I've got some gems. I'll give you the headline of something I'm writing right now. I haven't even released any of this stuff yet, but it's called "Congratulations, You Climbed Mount Stupid."

Ben Wilson

alright what's up fellas it's friday how you guys doing

Shaan Puri

doing great good

Ben Wilson

Good, we're reacting to the news. We got some good ones this week. Let's start with Jake Paul versus Tommy Fury. Jake Paul, of course, is a famous influencer who has since become a professional boxer. For the first time, he lost a fight, losing to Tommy Fury, a professional boxer and social media influencer. Not just the fight is notable, but what's also notable is that, Sam, you basically called exactly what would happen in the fight. So do you want to take your victory lap right now, Sam?

Sam Parr

No, I didn't call exactly, but I have been getting good at predicting fights. I'm a huge combat sports fan. I didn't exactly get it, but I loved it. You know what? I know why I love it. I love freak shows. This was a freak show, and I am always going to pay for that pay-per-view and watch freak shows. I thought it was awesome. Second, I think if you're listening to this, whether you're a man or a woman, you should go and train boxing just for like three months and actually spar. Not like rumble where you're just hitting the bag, but I think you should spar. And I'm not talking about sparring where you kick someone's ass or you get beat up. Because, Sean, you remember when we sparred? It doesn't hurt, right? If you do it with someone who... it doesn't have to hurt, but you know what? It does scare you. It's a very... it gets...

Shaan Puri

the heart rate up

Sam Parr

It gets the heart rate up. If you do it right with someone who's been there, done that, you're not gonna get hurt. I promise you're gonna get hurt by running more than you will actually sparring if you do it with someone who knows what they're doing. But that fight-or-flight response... we never get that, and so I love that he did that. I find it very courageous that he actually stood in front of all these people and fought. So kudos to him, but yeah, I don't think he's gonna be a great boxer.

Shaan Puri

I mean, props to him, first of all, for coming on the show. So, I've got to give him credit for that. He came on our show, and now he's doing other shows. These are all, you know, just highlights of his life, I'm sure.

Ben Wilson

it's

Sam Parr

just a correlation

Shaan Puri

yeah exactly I'm not saying one caused the other but like

Sam Parr

probably

Shaan Puri

we did do our show before you know a lot of this stuff happened

Sam Parr

we we did do our show before he did every other show

Shaan Puri

And so I thought it was great, you know? I think the transition from like Disney kid, Vine star, YouTuber, kinda... shithead, you know, brand to... he's legitimately good. He is legitimately good. He is not... I would not call him a celebrity boxer. He's like an amateur boxer actually. Like he's...

Sam Parr

an he's a very good amateur boxer

Shaan Puri

Amateur boxer and entertainer, he has done an amazing job staying relevant while evolving the game. I think that a lot of people hate on this guy or laugh at him, but there are a lot of good lessons to take from him about reinventing yourself. Finding a way to merge things you're interested in or passionate about with your skills in the world of business or entertainment is key, and he's done it phenomenally well. Thinking from first principles, like him and his brother Logan, they didn't just ask, "What should I do next as a YouTuber?" Instead, they asked, "What can I do next using this audience and this fame?" They came up with different answers than 99.9% of other YouTubers out there. You have to give him credit for that.

Sam Parr

yeah and he's tough I don't think he's gonna

Ben Wilson

From one controversial social media star to another, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are being detained for a third 30-day sentence in Romania. Of course, they're charged with human trafficking. They claim that there is no evidence and they still haven't had a trial. What do you guys think: Andrew Tate, human trafficker or wrongly imprisoned?

Sam Parr

oof I don't know much about it do you

Shaan Puri

No, I mean, who knows what he did, but first of all, Romania... guilty until proven innocent? What's going on here? Why is he in... He says, because he's tweeting out, he's like in solitary confinement basically while he hasn't had a trial. That's a little strange.

Sam Parr

He also said, "Dude, I've been in this thing for 30 days now. They don't let me out." Just imagine locking yourself in your bedroom for 24 hours. Just go ahead and do that. Now think about what I'm going through. I wanted to cry, but... then he said, "I realized I'm too tough for that." But it's...

Shaan Puri

Not like that. Access... Does anybody... Can somebody explain this to me? Because he tweeted out 2 hours ago: > "My body is in jail but my mind is not in jail." Do you understand? What I don't understand is: how do you have Twitter right now?

Sam Parr

yeah I don't know either well what

Shaan Puri

kind of lax prison is this

Sam Parr

Yeah, and you said, "Are you gonna be putting 'Free Tate' in your Twitter bio?" No, I'm not gonna be putting that. I don't care.

Shaan Puri

Are you gonna put... Dude, I will pay you $100 to put "Free Cobra Tate" in your Twitter bio. That would be so funny! For 24 hours, just do it. That'd be amazing.

Sam Parr

Oh no, not a chance. I'm not team Andrew Tate. I wouldn't say I'm against him, but I don't like how he talks to people. So, I guess I would say I'm kind of against him. I have no idea about the story other than if he did do what he's accused of, then yeah, that sounds pretty fair. But I have no idea what the truth is.

Shaan Puri

yeah he's kinda cringe to be honest with you but yeah let's go on

Ben Wilson

Alright, let's move on to the lab leak theory. Multiple government sources are now saying that they think the lab leak theory for the origins of COVID-19 is true. This includes the Department of Energy and the FBI. So fellas, are you surprised?

Shaan Puri

I am not surprised. I am not surprised. Ever since that one Jon Stewart clip... Have you seen this Jon Stewart clip, Sam, where he goes on the...

Sam Parr

colbert show he was ringing the bell early on right yeah

Shaan Puri

It was pretty early on. This was when it was still unpopular. In fact, you would get censorship or have your videos taken down, or you would see a giant flag saying, "This person's a conspiracy theorist" for saying it. He goes on the Colbert show and does this little bit where he mentions the lab leak. He says something about how it leaked from a lab, and it's crazy. Then Colbert goes, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! You're saying that we don't know that there's no evidence because evidence shows there's a coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, where there is the Wuhan coronavirus lab." He goes, "It's in the name!" He just keeps going off, saying, "There's a chocolate leak in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Is this random, or maybe it's the chocolate factory?" He brings this up, and it was just so obvious at that point. How unlikely would it be that, in all places, the novel coronavirus originates in Wuhan, where there is the Wuhan novel coronavirus research lab? You're telling me that just happened to be the case? It seems like the odds are that it came from that lab, not that it just happened to be in that lab in that same area.

Sam Parr

I remember my friend Jack telling me about this early on. My friend Jack is not quite a conspiracy theorist at all, but he is very open-minded. He believes in some things, but when people say something that sounds crazy, his response is, "Okay, well, let's see what the evidence is, and maybe we'll explore it." I remember him telling me that, and I thought, "Jack, you're pretty crazy for thinking that." My big lesson over these last three years, as it regards to this story, is not whether it came out of that, but now it's looking like maybe it did. At least, for sure, it did somewhere between maybe and for sure—not for sure it didn't. My takeaway is that there are things I would have dismissed as just crazy, thinking only crazy people would believe them. However, over the last five or ten years, as I've become more of an adult and paid attention to these things, I've seen that crazy things do happen. Also, a lot of huge life-changing events are just accidents; they just happen. Now, I have a little bit more of an open mind when people say, "Well, this person is conspiring with this other person to make this happen," or whatever. I'm like, "Oh, maybe they are. Let's have an open mind and explore the facts if we can."

Shaan Puri

Right, yeah, there’s a... I remember back when this first started, it was basically considered racist to say that the virus might have leaked from a lab in China. I never understood that. I was like, "Why would that be racist? How is that racist?" I lived in China; I don't find this racist in any way. Like, what are you talking about? It reminds me of one time I tweeted out my favorite books. I tweeted out five of my favorite books or something like that, and then a bunch of people started commenting, "There’s not one woman on this list." I go, "These are my favorite books! What are you talking about? Do I have to have 50% diversity in my favorite books?" I just replied, "All my favorite NBA players are black," and that just sent people off. That totally triggered everybody because I was like, "No, I am not apologizing because I named five of my favorite books, and they just so happen to be written by men." That is not at all what I'm talking about. I call these people "meter maids." They just run around the internet looking for little tickets at the cars that they could ticket. Like, "Where can I go be offended? Oh, you weren't inclusive enough for me? Ticket!" I was like, "What are you talking about? That’s not even what this was about." Did you invent "meter maid"? Yeah, I did that last night. I told you I'm in content mode, baby! I'm writing, and I've got some gems. I’ll give you the headline of something I'm writing right now. I haven't even released any of this stuff yet, but it’s called "Congratulations, You Climbed Mount Stupid." I'm just working backwards from that headline to be like, "What is the content here?" But I’ve just got a bunch of jams that I'm putting in my email list. By the way, go subscribe to my email list! I’ll put it in the show notes; it’s shampuri.com. Go put your thing in there. I'm writing 365 original pieces in the next year, so one a day will go out, and one of them is going to be called "Congratulations, You Climbed Mount Stupid."

Sam Parr

what are you doing like a daily email

Shaan Puri

yeah but it's a sequence

Sam Parr

that would never work

Shaan Puri

it'll it'll work

Sam Parr

I know I'm joking because we both had

Shaan Puri

oh okay gotcha

Sam Parr

bad joke

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Sam Parr

alright ben what do you got

Ben Wilson

alright let's go rapid fire through a few of these

Sam Parr

I don't know if you

Ben Wilson

guys saw this the felix dennis house so felix dennis very famous entrepreneur

Shaan Puri

your boy

Sam Parr

I love him

Ben Wilson

Yeah, publisher of Oz and author of "How to Be Rich." So he built this house for £5,000,000. It just sold for £4,000,000. It's really cool but one of the weirdest houses you'll ever see. It's mostly a pool in the middle and it's Treasure Island themed, with palm trees and a bunch of pirate stuff. The whole house only has two bedrooms. So the question is, fellas: Does this make you guys into themed houses? Are you guys gonna be building themed houses now?

Sam Parr

Well, the takeaway here for me is **legacy**. This guy built something that he wanted. Oftentimes, people will say things like, "Well, what about the resale value of this thing?" or "How is this going to impact your legacy?" My reply to that lately has been, "Oh, I don't know. I'm going to be dead; I don't care." What I appreciate about this is that he spent his money the way he wanted to, and he made something cool, even if it didn't make any financial sense. I think it's cool. If you haven't read his book, *How to Get Rich*, we talked about it a bunch here. It changed my life. Whenever we talk about that book, it like goes up to number 10 in the business category. So go read it; it's awesome.

Shaan Puri

There's a picture in this article of him with an extremely voluptuous person. The caption says, "Felix Dennis spent $100,000,000 on sex, drugs, and rock and roll in his lifetime."

Sam Parr

yeah that's what he talks about so he basically says from age

Shaan Puri

Like, right, Sam? Yeah, wasn't that your company's mission statement and core values?

Sam Parr

Close. He basically, from age 35 to 40, was addicted to crack. That was his drug. I swear to God, crack cocaine. He loved it, and he died single. He had a partner, but they had an open relationship. So, the guy's been doing a lot of psychedelics and open relationships before it was cool. No, he was a very weird and quirky guy. He basically said he spent north of $100,000,000. In his book, he goes, "I spent $100,000,000 on hookers and crack." So, you know, whatever.

Shaan Puri

dude I

Sam Parr

don't know everyone's happy

Shaan Puri

wilt chamberlain said he slept with 10,000 women in his lifetime and if you do the math do

Sam Parr

The math on that is horrible. It's crazy. It's like, dude, you gotta sleep with two women a day for, you know, how many years?

Shaan Puri

Yeah, I think it's even more than that. He wasn't that old at that time. By the way, you said something about themed houses. I'm in on themed houses; I think themed houses are great. More than the theme, actually, is having an epic common area. He said two bedrooms, but I think bedrooms are a giant waste. You would need a couple of bedrooms, but you should have epic common areas if you're going to have a mansion. I don't like the 8-bedroom mansion, you know? I've got opinions on mansions, and that's one of them. You've got to have epic common spaces and only a couple of bedrooms—3 or 4 bedrooms max. I don't want to see a fifth bedroom.

Sam Parr

And you know what his charity was that he left all of his money to? It was creating forests. So he's like the **Johnny Appleseed** of England. The guy has thousands of acres of forests that he owns, and I think this house is known for having all types of trees.

Shaan Puri

In Colombia, he's like the crack cocaine foundation. I'm donating my wealth to him. Alright, thanks Luke.

Ben Wilson

Alright, I love this one. The Minnesota Department of Transportation ran a snowplow naming contest. They got a new snowplow, they needed a name, and they crowdsourced it to the public. Here's some of the top vote-getters: - Euro Blizzard - Harry Blizzo - Clear Apathra - Better Call Salt - Hans Snolo So guys, do you have a favorite from this list?

Sam Parr

the last one

Shaan Puri

I think I like Clear Cleropatha. I think that that was pretty good. I did not see that one coming.

Sam Parr

Remember when they did Boaty McBoatface? I think it was like either a ferry or a tugboat or something like that. A town let people vote on it, and Reddit got ahold of it. They made the number one voted thing "Boaty McBoatface." I love these viral stunts. I think they're awesome.

Shaan Puri

Sam, I don't want to steal your thunder, but you did want to announce your tattoo naming contest. Sam is willing to get a tattoo on his back that... any... but that is going to be a contest from the fans of "My First Million." Isn't that right, Sam?

Sam Parr

That is totally wrong. I... That is... I think I did... What I did say... There's this... You remember how we talked about Mini Katana? Yeah, they're sending me a gold sword—I guess katana, I don't know the difference—that has MFM on it. So I'm collecting all kinds of MFM stuff. I don't know if you have...

Shaan Puri

to call a katana

Sam Parr

a sword by the way is it

Shaan Puri

what race is

Sam Parr

the katana

Shaan Puri

the meter maids are running around they're excited about that one oof

Sam Parr

Well, I have a gold katana on my way that has my first million on it. So, I'll accept all MFM stuff, but I'm not going to tattoo with these degenerates.

Shaan Puri

how about at a 1000000 youtube subscribers will you get a crowdsourced tattoo

Sam Parr

I will get a tattoo at a million for sure

Shaan Puri

When I went and did this podcast in LA with this guy, Cody Ko, so he's...

Sam Parr

really good

Shaan Puri

He's kind of like a comedy YouTuber guy, and his studio is awesome. He was telling us about their network and some other show called "Trillionaire Energy" or something like that. So they put it up on the screen - there's a screen you can see while we're sitting there - and it was the two hosts in slow motion with music, just getting closer together. Then these two guys just made out! I go, "Whoa, what's the show about?" And he goes, "No, they had said if they get to 100,000 subscribers, they would kiss."

Sam Parr

did they really do that

Shaan Puri

And I go, "Oh yeah, that's a good idea." That's how, like, comedy YouTubers and Hollywood people think. Yeah, that's a good idea. We're not going to do that, but that's a great idea.

Sam Parr

did they really do it like it's a big

Shaan Puri

deal hilarious video it's in slow mo as they get closer and closer they just make out

Sam Parr

and they tongued

Shaan Puri

it's intense I'd rather be

Sam Parr

I'd rather be unsuccessful. Yeah, exactly. You know what people say, "How bad do you want it?" I don't want it that bad.

Shaan Puri

There's a quote about success: "You gotta find the price of success and then pay it." It's too expensive for me.

Sam Parr

yeah it's out of my budget

Shaan Puri

yeah I'm out we have we have food at home

Sam Parr

you wanna do one more yeah

Shaan Puri

this is the last one

Ben Wilson

Alright, last one. So **BlueSky** is a new Twitter clone backed by Jack Dorsey, and unlike Twitter, it is decentralized. The question is, fellas: Are you supporting our comrades over at BlueSky, or are you supporting the capitalist pigs over at Twitter? What's your move?

Sam Parr

Dude, Jack Dorsey owns a bank. How are you going to call him a comrade, right? I mean, he owns.

Ben Wilson

he's he's moving away from capital he's seen the air of his ways in

Sam Parr

Dude, when I hear... Okay, so here are some of the words they use: "open source," "social protocol," and "decentralized." When I hear those words, I just... I just don't care. I don't care at all. Like, they want me to care about it, and that's wonderful. Maybe sometimes I'll act like I do, but I don't. I don't care at all. It's like if...

Shaan Puri

You tell me: probiotic or antioxidant, right?

Sam Parr

yeah I don't care if you wanna shove it in there and I'll I'll drink it if it tastes good

Shaan Puri

right

Sam Parr

but I don't but I don't need to know

Shaan Puri

That's exactly right. I'll drink it if it tastes good. That's my take on this as well. I'll use this app if it's awesome, if the content is great, and if the people on it are interesting. And if it's something different than Twitter. If it's Twitter but the database is different, I'm out. I don't care about that. That's not what draws people in. I don't... that doesn't mean it's not a good idea. Great, do it! Do it differently under the hood, but it has to result in something different that the person actually gets to use.

Sam Parr

Yeah, and the same thing happened with Web3. They give me this horrible pitch, and then they end it with "Web3," and I'm like, "Well, I don't care if it's Web3. Does this thing work? Is it awesome?" I feel the same way about this. I don't care... Also, Matt, have you tried Mastodon?

Shaan Puri

it's not currently available

Sam Parr

Dude, it's stupid. It's dumb. So anyway, I'm not on board with this.

Ben Wilson

alright that's the pod