Elon Fires Disabled Twitter Employee, Biden's TikTok Bill & More Tech News (#429)

Shaan Puri

Anytime a rich person tells you that money doesn't make you happy, just ask them for their money. Then it's like, "Cool, cool, cool. I guess it's useless, right? Can you just give me a bunch of it then?"

Ben Wilson

Fellows, welcome to the Friday episode of *The Boys React*. We're going to go through some news stories. Let's start with the thing that everyone is talking about, which is Elon. Elon has gotten himself in trouble a couple of times this week. First, he tried selling some house plants—office plants, I should say—to his employees to raise money.

Sam Parr

wait really

Ben Wilson

And then also ridiculed and sort of fired an employee who is disabled. Your thoughts on the endless drama of Elon?

Sam Parr

cringe what do you think

Shaan Puri

Yeah, Elon is the cringe master. He has to make everything about him; it's just "me, me, me." He's now known as "Elon Musk" in my house. This guy, Elon, is too much. The crazy thing, Sam, did you watch this all go down with the guy that was like, "Hey, am I fired?" I think we should explain this.

Sam Parr

yeah so do a recap I I didn't understand all that at first I had to like click through

Shaan Puri

A guy goes on Twitter. I’ve never heard of this guy, but he’s got like 150,000 followers. He says, “Hey, 9 days ago I lost access to my work computer. I can’t access Twitter anymore. I work at Twitter, and I can’t log into my work computer. It doesn’t work. I can’t get into my email. I can’t do anything. I’m not sure if I’m fired; nobody told me I’m fired. But I just can’t get into my email or my computer. I’ve emailed them, I’ve waited 9 days, and I’ve got no reply from HR or from anybody. So I’m guessing, hey, @ElonMusk, am I fired?” And so, he tweets that out.

Sam Parr

what was he getting paid still

Shaan Puri

I don't know. I don't think so because it was only 9 days. So maybe he hadn't gotten in between yet. He tweets that out and goes, "Maybe if this gets enough retweets, then I'll get a response." So he gets retweeted a bunch because, you know, there's a whole group of people that love to hate Elon, myself included. People are like, "This is another example of how poorly Twitter's being run right now. Why would you, if you're going to fire somebody, tell them they're fired? That's common decency, right?" I feel like Elon's got this flowchart where it's like, "I'm firing this person. Should I tell them?" It's like, "Yes." And it's like, "No, no, no. I'm going to go with no." Okay, what happens after no? Like, should I just meet with them in person?

Sam Parr

No, just shut off their heads, dude. He's like, "Irish goodbye." They're just walking out without saying anything.

Shaan Puri

And so, anyway, this thing goes viral. Basically, Elon sees this thing going viral. Instead of just saying, "You are fired" or "Confirmed, yes, you were fired," he instead asks, "What have you been working on? What have you accomplished?" Then the other person replies, "Well, if I say what I'm working on, I think I'd be breaking my NDA. Do I have permission to break my NDA and tell you what I work on? Can I say publicly here what I work on?" And the other one replies, "Yes, go ahead."

Sam Parr

dude what a pathetic start to the story that's already pathetic

Shaan Puri

He goes, "Alright, well, the guy goes, 'I was leveling up the design of this. I was working on this and, you know, I was helping save money on this contract or whatever.'" And he goes, Elon replies, "Level up the design from what to what? You know, pictures or it didn't happen." And, like, "Dipshit, you cut off his computer access. How was he supposed to have screenshots of his work if you took away his computer? He's not even able to do it." And then he's, like, mocking him basically. He's just replying with, like, the crying laughing emoji. He's replying, trolling him with, like, a clip from *Office Space*. Now, here's where Elon went wrong. So, Elon's not dumb, but he's a dumbass. And there's a big difference between dumb and a dumbass. Dumb is you're just not smart. Dumbass is you're smart but you do dumb things, and that's what Elon does here. So he basically picks on a guy that he comes out... This guy sold his company to Twitter. And the guy, so Elon comes out, and here's what he says about the guy. He goes, "Somebody was like, 'Dude, this is the most entertaining exit interview ever.' He's watching this whole thing go down in public." And then the guy... And then Elon says, "The reality is this is a guy that was independently wealthy, did no actual work, and claimed as an excuse that he has a disability preventing him from typing. Yet here he is tweeting up a storm."

Sam Parr

wait and so and so the disability thing elon said that first

Shaan Puri

he goes he claimed as his excuse that he

Sam Parr

has a disability preventing

Shaan Puri

He has a disability preventing him from typing, yet he was simultaneously tweeting up a storm. I can't say I have a lot of respect for that.

Sam Parr

what a douche why could how can you even feel that

Shaan Puri

Here's the other side of the story. This guy is in a wheelchair; he's had muscular dystrophy for 25 years. So, this guy came back with just kind of some fire. He goes, "Thunderclap!"

Sam Parr

I think you called it

Shaan Puri

Yeah, he did a solo thunderclap basically. So he goes back and says, "Glad to see you're taking such an interest in my health. I assume what you're talking about when you are sharing my private health information online is the fact that I've had muscular dystrophy for 25 years." I guess I'll go ahead and tell the story now. I lost the ability to use my legs 20 years ago, and I've been in a wheelchair. Unfortunately, it's been spreading, and my arms have been getting weaker over time. In fact, that's why I sold my company. Remember you said I was independently wealthy? I guess what you mean by that is I built a successful company and sold it, unlike, you know, somebody else who might have inherited an emerald mine, which is, you know, how Elon’s dad owned an emerald mine.

Sam Parr

which is bullshit which is that's a bullshit thing I hate when people say it but whatever

Shaan Puri

good still

Sam Parr

we'll we'll use that

Shaan Puri

In this case, it's good. So he goes, "I guess that's what you mean by independently wealthy." Here's the story: This guy has muscular dystrophy. He's losing feeling and strength in his arms, and it's becoming very painful to type. He decides, "Okay, I'm going to sell my company." Instead of taking a lump sum payment, he chooses to get paid out through a salary rather than upfront money. It's like, dude, who would do that? Why? Because he wanted to pay more taxes in Iceland, where he's from. Or I think it's Iceland... maybe? Yeah, I think it's Iceland. Wait, really? You want to pay more taxes? Why do you want to pay more taxes? Because he felt like, as a disabled person, he had benefited a lot from the social welfare system there. He was like, "I want to contribute as much as I can to that." Honestly, that sounds too good to be true. It's so different from me that I almost can't fathom it. I'm almost like, "Why don't you just take the money and donate it instead of paying taxes?" I don't really understand that. But either way, this guy built a company with 100 employees working for him. It was profitable, and he decides to sell it. You know, his body has basically been giving out on him. He's like, "Financially, it wasn't the best decision. My company was making a lot of money. Twitter's offer was lower than other companies, but I made a bet on Twitter. It was growing at the time." And he goes, "By the way, I digress. Are you still reading, or is your bathroom break over? Okay, what was I saying?" He goes, "Yes, so you bought the company, told employees you weren't firing them, but then you fired 75% of them." I was not in the first batch, or the second batch, or the third batch of layoffs. I don't know which batch we're on now, but whatever. I think I got fired now. I'm not sure. I just want to make sure I get paid out because in his contract, he had it where, "Okay, I'll take the money as a yearly salary rather than an upfront payment, but if you ever fire me, then you have to pay out the rest." So I'm guaranteed this money. I'll take it slower rather than faster, but you know, that's fine. So anyways, this guy... not only... not only...

Sam Parr

and he says how he's typing

Shaan Puri

what's that

Sam Parr

he also mentioned how he was typing

Shaan Puri

Yeah, I think he was just like, "Yeah, I can't do like a sustained thing, but I can type with one finger on my phone," and blah, blah, blah. So anyway, he explains this. He goes, "This guy was literally named Person of the Year in Iceland. This guy, like, his side hustle is he's building wheelchair ramps throughout Iceland so that other disabled people can do... like, he's building hundreds of these wheelchair ramps. That's who you're picking on here. That's who you chose to fight with." I saw this great quote. He goes, "Elon, man, this guy's a dumbass. He messed with the wheelchair Mister Rogers." He goes, "What is this guy thinking?" You know, like, and so this guy... I read this thread and I was literally like, "Pooped 911, I'd like to report a murder," right? It was just like the ultimate clap back. Then Elon tries to backtrack. He basically goes, "Some random dude tweets in the thread, 'I know Halle, and you're saying that he's a liar and was just trying to do no work and get paid out. That's not who this guy is.'" Random guy tweets, and then Elon tweets back, "This is the most bullshit of all the bullshit." He goes, "Based on that comment, I decided to call Halle rather than just tweet it to each other." He goes, "I decided to call Halle," and he goes, "What did he say?" He goes, "And you know, have a video chat with him. Turns out, you know, there was a misunderstanding. The information I was given was either incorrect or correct, but not important."

Sam Parr

that's that white flag bro you you lost

Shaan Puri

And you know, he's under... you know, we've discussed him staying with the company. This is the ultimate backtrack. First of all, you want him to stay with the company because you have to pay him out if you fire him. That's like, you know, the first thing. Second thing, you basically messed up and stepped in it. This guy could sue you for a whole bunch of money for basically discriminating against a disabled person, as well as disclosing his private health information. There are probably three or four other labor laws that were broken in this process. But it's like, dude, you decided to have a video chat not when the guy said he hasn't heard from you, not when he asked for an explanation, but when a random guy on Twitter said, "No, Holly's a good guy." You decided there to stop in your tracks and do a video call with him? Bullshit. This whole thing is bullshit, and Elon continues to be, you know, the king of bullshit.

Sam Parr

Have you heard the song "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangster"? Sure, that song. There's a line in it... well, I can't say the real line, but it basically says, "Real gangsters don't flex nuts because real gangsters know they got them." Yeah, and right now, Elon, he is pretty gangster. I mean, he's the man. He ain't acting like it; he's flexing nuts hard, and he shouldn't be flexing as hard as he is. I get the personality type where some people are like, "Dude, he's just saying whatever he wants." It's the same thing with Trump, where he's like, "He's just saying what he's..."

Shaan Puri

says it like it is

Sam Parr

He says it like it is, and I actually dislike that. I like it to an extent, but I'm like, just because you say it like it is... well, he's just doing what he wants. Yeah, but he just punches someone. Hitting people isn't good, do you know what I mean? It's like, "Yeah, I want to do what I want." Does that mean I'm going to go take a dump in the corner of the room? You know, let's be polite to one another, if possible, right? We don't need to be needlessly rude to one another, and that's kind of how I feel he acts right now, and that's not cool.

Shaan Puri

There are two other parts of this new story. One, it's going around that this guy's payout was **$100,000,000**, which makes no sense. Anyone who's in business is like, "Well, that number makes no sense." There's no way he's getting paid **$9,000,000** a year in salary. There's no way that they bought his agency for **$100,000,000**. It's not how much you would acquire an agency for; it's probably more like **$10,000,000**. I went and found it. It just started with some random guy who goes, "Oh man, Elon is backtracking now because he realized that Halley has a **$100,000,000** payout." Then, like five tweets in, somebody's like, "Where'd you read the **$100,000,000**? I never saw that." He goes, "Oh, I'm just estimating. You know, aqua-hire rates are **$1,000,000** a head. They had a hundred employees, so you know, **$100,000,000**." Now that's just spread to a bunch of places. That's how bad information spreads.

Sam Parr

how fake news starts

Ben Wilson

the

Shaan Puri

The second thing is, Elon owned himself when he goes, "Better to talk, better to communicate through talking instead of communicating on Twitter." It's like he's literally shitting on his own platform, by the way. You know, so cell phoning all around. I thought that was interesting. Then Ben said this other thing about the house, the office plant thing. What do you make of this? I mean, this makes no sense. Try.

Sam Parr

What happened? I didn't... I muted Elon. I love what Elon's doing, man. I even think the Twitter thing is interesting, but, *fuck*, it's hard to be on his team. So, I had to mute him.

Shaan Puri

He’s been selling office furniture and memorabilia from the office. He’s just liquidating to get more cash.

Sam Parr

I tried buying they had a twitter logo I tried buying it but it got up too high

Shaan Puri

And apparently, there were plants in the office that he tried selling to an engineer, like one of the employees or something like that. It's like, I mean, I don't know. Either this guy's a marketing genius, or he's just trying to get PR. It's the thing where Amazon was like, "We use doors as desks to save money."

Sam Parr

which is a bullshit story

Shaan Puri

One of those stories that sounds like, "Man, he's really turning over every rock to save money for this bleeding company."

Sam Parr

By the way, I tried doing that. An IKEA desk is significantly cheaper than a door from Home Depot. Exactly! I've tried doing this; a desk is way cheaper, and doors are like $350.

Shaan Puri

Yeah, you can't even write on them. So, I don't know what to make of this story, but it just sounds like... I mean, this makes no sense either. He's either lost his mind or there's a masterful PR thing that's like 9,000 IQ and I can't understand it, or someone's just making things up. I don't understand.

Sam Parr

maybe maybe all I think all of those things could be true

Shaan Puri

An exaggeration about a weird thing he said because he's lost his mind makes for good PR. Gotcha! That, and he's a genius.

Sam Parr

It could be all those things, you know. He could be... he's not dumb, but he's a dumbass. That's a great line! I saw people calling him "Elmo Musk," and I thought that was pretty funny. But no, he's... he's fucking up. Do you want to do one more?

Shaan Puri

yeah better answer you

Sam Parr

yeah alright

Ben Wilson

Let's go with money and happiness, guys. There was a 2010 paper that said that basically, above $70,000, more money does not make you happier. It turns out, "more money, less problems" because a new study says that is completely untrue. It starts to flatten...

Sam Parr

little bit as it goes up but what do you

Ben Wilson

guys think of this

Sam Parr

I... so here, I'm pulling this up. So here's what it says, Sean. It says that if you are in the happiest of the unhappiest 20%, happiness does plateau after reaching $100,000. But after that, if you're not in that group, more money does mean more happiness. Basically, they studied it all the way up to $500,000, and they said after that, we really didn't study it much. But up to $500,000, people do get happier. That said, the researchers found that the overall emotional effect of more money on a person is small compared to other circumstances. It's even compared to a weekend—approximately a fourfold difference in income. So, four times your income is equal to the effect of a weekend, which is kind of funny. Wow! But that said, more money makes you happy. This is all based on a 2010 study where it said $70,000. From the beginning, I thought that was the most ridiculous study, and I've said it on this pod so many times. That's nonsense! That is absolutely not true. $70,000? My sister, when she was younger, lived in New York. For $70,000, you're basically below the poverty line. That is not happy. So, $70,000? Not a chance! I used to say I thought it was at like $250,000. I actually believe it could be $500,000 or even more, but you do get happier.

Shaan Puri

This is one of those things that might be true. When I heard this study, I thought, "That might be true. I'm going to go ahead and test it for myself." Yeah, like I don't know if the Earth is flat or round. I don't really have the ability to go out there and check it out. I don't know if sulfur gas is poisonous, but I figured there's no need to test that. This is one of those scientific claims that I had just decided a long time ago I would go ahead and check. I'm going to do my own research on this one and try to go get a bunch of money and see how it feels. You know what? I'm glad I did because the study was **bullshit**.

Sam Parr

Dude, I got an MRI yesterday, and the lady at the front desk was like, "Alright, that's $750." She didn't say that; she just handed me the bill and showed it to me. She thought that I was going to freak out, and I was like, "Alright, do you take Apple Pay?" I just scanned my card or whatever, and I remember thinking...

Shaan Puri

you're like where do I tip

Sam Parr

I am, yeah, I remember thinking, "I am so happy I'm in a spot I used to not be able to afford at all." I'm so happy I'm in a spot. I call that, you know what I call that? I call that **braces money**. I'm just going to be able to swipe my card and give my kid braces without thinking twice about it. When I was younger, my parents bought me braces and they told me that it was $2,000 that they had to pay on a credit card. At the time, they had like $6,000. I remember thinking, "Goddamn, that sucks!" Right? Like, that's not... I would be a lot happier if I had $9,000,000 in the bank as opposed to $9,000 or whatever you guys had.

Shaan Puri

Anytime a rich person tells you that money doesn't make you happy, just ask them for their money. Then it's like, "Cool, cool, cool. I guess it's useless, right? Can you just give me a bunch of it then?" Right? You know.

Sam Parr

yeah dude and

Shaan Puri

let's let's look at the actions versus the words in a lot of these cases alright

Sam Parr

There's... I always thought the study was bullshit. Also, I wonder how much money the people making the study make. I was always like, "Yeah, that's what they think." Sure, they think that because I want to know how much bias goes into a study when the...

Shaan Puri

it's always the researcher's salary they're not gonna come back to this

Sam Parr

Yeah, or they're like making it only $50 and they're like, "Hey, see boss, $70,000." But I've always wondered what the biases are because, like...

Shaan Puri

I don't know how to answer. I'm like, "This is obvious. This is obviously not true." And you know, if I get to the finish line and I realize, "Hey, you know, $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 felt the same," well, shame on me for going the extra mile.

Sam Parr

you know another thing have you ever tried to read a study

Shaan Puri

yeah dude studies are that's hard crazy yeah

Sam Parr

It's hard. I have no idea. Then I'll follow all these smart people, like Huberman or these other guys who break down studies. I'm like, "Well, this study is actually bullshit for this reason," and I'm like, "I guess I'll believe you." But I can't read this. They'll say things about studies, and I'm like, "Well, it said the word 'study,' so it must be true." They're like, "No, no, no, it's actually way off for this reason," and like their sample size was like 8 people. Was it allocated?

Shaan Puri

or you know a bunch bunch of different things like that

Sam Parr

dude I don't know how to read any

Shaan Puri

Of that stuff chart, the error bars are huge. It's like, "Yeah, it's that ± 70,000 ± 500,000." It's like, "Whoa, okay, hold on, what's going on here?" So, yeah, I think science is used as a shield for arguments in many cases. There’s good science, bad science, weak science, and strong science. And then there’s physics, which is empirically true.

Sam Parr

But the only thing that I know is three things: there's good science, there's bad science, and I don't know the difference between the two. That's like the only... hey, that's the only shirt.

Shaan Puri

right there

Sam Parr

Nice. That's like the only truth that I know. Just like it exists, I'm just that.

Shaan Puri

was a little too

Sam Parr

deep brain big old brain

Shaan Puri

we've got that big brain on today alright what else we got

Sam Parr

we've got that big brain

Ben Wilson

Alright, here we go. Let's go with TikTok. The Biden administration, in conjunction with Congress, is evaluating a new law that would make it possible for companies to be banned if they pose a national security risk. People think this means that they're going to ban TikTok. What do you guys think? Should they ban TikTok?

Sam Parr

I don't know anything about that wow

Shaan Puri

is this why they pay you the big bucks

Sam Parr

Dude, like, people talk about China. I don't know anything about it. I don't know what they're doing. That's true. Do you?

Shaan Puri

No, no, honestly, I do not. I mean, how would I really know about Biden? So, I think that being able to ban something if it's a national security risk, yeah, I think that's fine. That sounds appropriate. Also, by using TikTok a ton, I could totally see how I wouldn't want this in the hands of my enemy. It's like, "Oh, the ability to take in all of my data, my camera roll, turn my microphone and camera on, as well as feed me any amount of information based on a mysterious algorithm that can surface good stuff, bad stuff, weird stuff, misinformation, whatever." That's a pretty powerful weapon, right? So, I definitely see the merit in that. Now, is TikTok actually a threat? I don't know.

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Ben Wilson

Alright, next one. Let's go with **favorite cities**. A new poll from a real estate advice website reveals where Americans would move if money was no object. New York, Austin's in there—that makes sense. Also on the list, though, is Las Vegas, and at number 9, Baltimore.

Sam Parr

Dude, I'm from Saint Louis. I'm from the city of Saint Louis. A lot of people don't know this, but if you look at the highest murder rate per 100,000 people, it's been Saint Louis. It's usually number one, sometimes number two for the past 10 years. There are like 500 murders a year in Saint Louis, and Baltimore is very similar. That sucks. I don't want to move there, not at all. I don't understand that; that's weird to me.

Shaan Puri

Once, when I worked in the media business, I realized that polls, rankings, and lists are all **bullshit**. They are just things to generate clicks, links, and controversy. You know, if I was going to make a list, and I made a list that you just nodded at and said, "Yeah, that makes sense," you're not going to share that. You're not going to talk about that. I could throw Baltimore as the **fourth** most desired city to live in or whatever, and put New York **ninth** just to make them outraged. Guess what? I'm going to get a lot more clicks, a lot more discussion, a lot more controversy, and a lot more backlinks for my SEO. So, once you know their incentives, you'll understand why these lists are often outrageous. Either they're just paid to put things on the top, or they're trying to do things that will generate a bunch of shares.

Sam Parr

do you do you know what state baltimore is in

Shaan Puri

yeah baltimore is in maryland

Sam Parr

alright nice I didn't think you'd get that if you Google if you Google

Shaan Puri

Baltimore? Let my brain in. I was like, "Of course I know that, Baltimore dude."

Sam Parr

If you Google Baltimore and look at the images, it's very unappealing and not impressive at all. I'm sorry, Baltimore, but that skyline is not interesting one bit. The tourist association needs to work on their SEO; it's not good at all.

Shaan Puri

what else you got ben

Sam Parr

can we wrap this up with the slap fighting 1

Shaan Puri

yeah do do the story sam

Sam Parr

So, Dana White and the UFC are putting muscle behind the Power Slap League. If you guys have not seen this, it's basically two guys—typically huge, fat guys—standing at a table, smacking each other. I think they get three smacks each. I don't know the exact rules, but it seems like someone gets knocked out with every slap.

Shaan Puri

every fight yeah

Sam Parr

right what are the rules is it like the first one knocked out yeah loses or

Shaan Puri

It's typically 3 to 5 rounds. They take turns hitting each other in the face with an open hand, and the other person just stands there and takes it. They get 60 seconds to recover, and then they can earn up to 10 points based on the effectiveness of the slap and the defender's reaction. Oh, that's good! I like things where you get rewarded for pretending like it didn't hurt because that's a skill that I honed as a little sibling for many, many years.

Sam Parr

Dude, this is the stupidest thing on earth. I don't know... so look, I'm not a woke guy. I consider myself right of center. Maybe I'm getting more woke as I get older. I'm hating on Elon, and also this slap thing is the stupidest thing on earth. I'm not going to give it any of my attention. I'd prefer to see two people in their underwear fighting to the death in front of a million people, like UFC. But the slap thing? Not a fan.

Shaan Puri

Yeah, like, you know, to me, knockouts are like dip. It's like, you know, I like chips and dip, but if you take the chips away and it's just dip, now I feel a little dirty. That's how I feel.

Sam Parr

about this

Shaan Puri

I'm cool watching a fight where somebody gets knocked out because there's skill, defense, and strategy involved. However, when it comes to a fight where you literally have to stand still and get hit as hard as you can by somebody else, I just... you know, now I'm just eating barbecue sauce, and I don't really... which is kind of...

Sam Parr

Which is kind of ridiculous that it's considered okay that we can use a... you know, chip as a spoon with cheese, but when you just use a spoon as a spoon for that cheese, it's considered two different things. That is a little weird, isn't it?

Shaan Puri

The big questions in life that I might spend a whole lifetime trying to wonder about are: why we are the way we are in this way. Now, let me tell you.

Sam Parr

something else a great example

Shaan Puri

Michael Vick got booted out of the NFL and went to jail for a dog fighting ring. Colin Kaepernick can't get a job because he took a knee during the national anthem.

Sam Parr

those 2 are not even remotely the same thing by the way

Shaan Puri

I'm just saying people have gotten a lot more punished for a lot less than this. How is Dana White not canceled for doing this? How is this?

Sam Parr

it's weird

Shaan Puri

Legitimate things that they're allowed to do... kind of insane to me that you could get away with doing this and not others. I guess it's because they're consenting adults, and that's the line. I guess anything above that line works. I don't know, that sounds a little iffy to me, but...

Sam Parr

Yeah, I think this is so stupid. I'm not going to give it... I try not to give it my attention. I can't stand it. I think it's really dumb, and they're all like...

Shaan Puri

I can't lie I watched the trailer I was I was heavily entertained by it so you know just from the trailer

Sam Parr

It's kind of like there's this subreddit called "Watch People Die." It was filled with videos of people killing themselves, and it was huge. People were obsessed with it. Then they deleted it, and I remember thinking that was a good idea. Yet, it was really hard not to go to that subreddit. It was impossible. When I would see it come up, I would think, "Oh my God, this is horrible. I cannot watch this," and I would have to look away. I had to stop myself from clicking on some of that stuff.

Shaan Puri

let's finish with a little show recommendation have you watched physical 100 on netflix

Sam Parr

you keep telling me to watch it

Shaan Puri

No, oh my god! Everybody needs to go watch the show. I'm going to warn you, it's a weird show. If you had just described it to me, I would not have watched it.

Sam Parr

it's just that korean netflix thing in real life right

Shaan Puri

it's squid games in real life yeah kind of so basically here's here's why it's amazing so the premise of the show is they got a 100 athletes of different types so bodybuilders mma guys boxers women men small large gymnasts ice climbers luge people from the olympics whatever everything wrestlers and they put them all together and they walk in and it's basically like we're gonna see who is the variety of athletic competitions like who is the overall what is the best body what is the perfect body is it this guy or is it this girl or is it this guy and and so and like the very first like you know competition they have is basically there's a ball in the middle of a mud pit it's like whoever has this ball at the end of 3 minutes wins and it'll be guy versus girl it'll be giant bodybuilder versus there's no weight class and no nothing and they go there but they're but the best part is it doesn't have this american tackiness like slap fighting or ranch like koreans don't eat that shit they don't do that stuff all these people here's three reasons why it's fair number 1 they got legit the best athletes so they literally got like the guy from the world's strongest man they're olympians gold medalists like they're most famous mma fighters like they got their most famous athletes to go do this reality show it's like if lebron was competing against patrick mahomes versus competing against serena williams but like they actually and they not only did they show up they actually gave a shit like they were like I really wanna win this and so they weren't just there for like reality drama that's the first thing second thing they play with honor so it would be like you the winner of the 1st round gets to pick who their opponent's gonna be the 2nd round it's like oh well you know an american would just be like oh I can beat this person so I'm gonna choose the weakest one and I'm gonna do that and then what they would do is they would go to whoever they felt was the strongest that would be be the most honorable to compete against and they'd be like it would be my honor to compete against this and the the whole thing is done with subtitles oh I'm sorry dubbed so it's like it's it's all in korean but then you're listening on a dubbed thing which is hilarious because even some guys that speak english they dub them also in more english it's hilarious so so they that's how the show works and they just eliminate people until they get to the very end the final winner of the physical one hundred and so you this is like you will love the show once you get in you get 2 episodes deep you're gonna love the characters

Sam Parr

which which body type is best

Shaan Puri

Well, I don't want to give it away. I mean, this is the show, right? So, like, this is a giant spoiler. But you know, you gotta have it all. You gotta have attributes. You gotta have the speed, you gotta have the strength, you gotta have the endurance, you gotta have the dexterity, you gotta have the agility. You gotta have it all because they test you in all these different ways.

Sam Parr

how would I do

Shaan Puri

amazing you gotta watch this thing physical 100

Sam Parr

how would I do

Shaan Puri

Oh, here's the other thing that's great about it. They don't really edit it. In an American show, they'll be like, "The start of the competition," then there's a montage, and then it's like the big fight. They'll spend 5 minutes on the big argument at the ending. Whereas with this, it's like these contestants have 1 hour to pull this 10,000-ton ship as a team from one side of the room to the other. "Go!" And they just show the whole thing in its entirety. It's even a little bit boring sometimes, but it's kind of like watching National Geographic or Planet Earth, where you just get really into it. You're like, "Oh, is the lizard gonna get the ant? I gotta watch!" And it's going to just happen. I'm going to watch the whole thing play out, you know, with no jump cuts. It's such a refreshing change from TikTok and like these other things that are just such...

Sam Parr

Search level stuff. I'm looking at the winner. We're not that different, are we?

Shaan Puri

Well, don't give it away! You'd be surprised why this person won. It's pretty crazy. So, anyway, yeah, you gotta watch the show. It's kind of amazing.

Sam Parr

alright that's it that's the pod