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My First Million6 Hilarious Business Ideas That Could Make You $1,000,000 in 2022 (#351)
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60 min read · 12,273 wordsIntro
Shaan Puri 0:00 This business I'm calling Only Problems, because forget about crime-
Sam Parr 0:04 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 0:05 ... the biggest battle is what's inside.
Sam Parr 0:07 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 0:07 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 four million people in these seminars, 22 years, and guess what? People have five 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? 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, um, y- you pay a monthly subscription, and you get to sit in fly-on-the-wall style to somebody-
Sam Parr 1:18 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 1:19 ... going through an actual therapy session with the problem that you have, right? The, the, the-
Sam Parr 1:22 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 1:23 ... 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.
Sam Parr 1:28 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 1:29 Whatever it is, they're getting real therapy, but they get it subsidized. So they get cheap therapy, maybe free therapy-
Sam Parr 1:36 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 1:36 ... 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-
Sam Parr 1:41 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 1:41 ... 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.
Sam Parr 1:47 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 1:48 And, um, 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. [upbeat music] All right, so
Drunk ideas intro
Shaan Puri 2:10 we're here. We're gonna do a fan favorite, the Drunk Ideas episode. This b- 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 2:31 Yeah, it's like the lady who sells farts in a jar. Like, when you're telling someone about it-
Shaan Puri 2:35 [laughs]
Sam Parr 2:35 ... you're like, "That's, that's the stupidest shit I've ever heard." And then she makes $500,000. Have you seen that lady?
Shaan Puri 2:41 Yeah, yeah. This, this idea is like the Beefy 5 Burrito at, at, at Taco Bell.
Sam Parr 2:47 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 2:47 It's bad good. And so, so, 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. And so, you know, I think being drunk is like air cover to saying some silly, stupid things. Neither of us dr- me, I don't drink. Sam doesn't drink. When's the last time you drank, like 10 years ago?
Sam Parr 3:09 Te- eight years ago. When was the last time you drank?
Shaan Puri 3:11 Eight years ago. Uh, well, I, I'm not like, you know, I don't have, like, my sobriety coin or whatever the hell. Like, I just-
Sam Parr 3:18 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 3:18 ... like, I just generally, I generally don't drink. It's not like a-
Sam Parr 3:21 I'm not a dork like you
Shaan Puri 3:22 ... I didn't have a problem. [laughs]
Sam Parr 3:23 Yeah.
Shaan Puri 3:24 Yeah. [laughs]
Sam Parr 3:25 You should lie and say you did.
Shaan Puri 3:28 No, no, no. I, I didn't have to overcome this. I just kinda got older.
Sam Parr 3:31 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 3:32 Like... [laughs] So, um-
Sam Parr 3:36 And, and, and the best drunk idea last time that I still think about it all the time was called the Really Long Distance Girlfriend, which was a service where you just text a lady, and she just becomes your camp- companion, but you never actually see her 'cause she's just a really long distance girlfriend.
Shaan Puri 3:52 And she's the best kinda girlfriend. She's only supportive, why? 'Cause she's paid.
Sam Parr 3:56 Yeah.
Shaan Puri 3:56 That's it. She's paid to be great. [laughs] And so you don't have... And you don't have to be great. You don't have to be a great boyfriend. She's just a great girlfriend, but at a distance. And so she's a really great girlfriend for, like, a lot of people. And, uh, you know, I should set up a call center in the Ukraine 'cause I think that idea still has legs. Um, all right, so let's do... We... So this time, last time it was just me. This time we both. We're supposed to do this. Uh, how was this for you? I, I-
Sam Parr 4:21 Dude-
Shaan Puri 4:21 ... I'm good at these silly ideas
Sam Parr 4:22 ... it was hard
Shaan Puri 4:22 How are you?
Sam Parr 4:23 All of my... I've, I've got a few, uh, but some of them are actually, like, good ideas, and some of them are not even that funny, but I've got a couple. I've got a few.
Shaan Puri 4:30 [laughs]
Sam Parr 4:30 But I want you to start.
Shaan Puri 4:32 So, so you only have good bad ideas-
Sam Parr 4:34 But most of mine are, like-
Shaan Puri 4:34 ... or bad bad ideas?
Sam Parr 4:36 No, I've got a couple good ones. Most of mine are things that already kind of exist, and I'm, um, shocked that they work, and I, and I have what those are.
Shaan Puri 4:44 All right, all right. And so, all right, so pitch, uh... Well, we're gonna pitch each other these. I don't know what yours are. You don't know what mine are. We're gonna pitch each other these, and then Ben, uh, producer Ben, young, powerful producer Ben, man of God Ben, Ben who can still dunk, and we're gonna see it this weekend Ben, he's gonna be the judge at the end. You're gonna give us the, the, the best and the worst ideas. You know, you can give us the winner and the honorable mention. All right. I, I'll go first. Can I go first?
Sam Parr 5:11 Yeah, you're gonna end up going first and second and fourth and fifth probably.
Shaan Puri 5:15 [laughs] Yeah. It's like a fantasy draft where I'm three of the teams.
Sam Parr 5:21 Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 5:21 Um, okay.
Hideaway: A secret bookcase for your phone
Shaan Puri 5:23 So all right, the first idea, Sam, it's called Hideaway. All right, let me just... I'm gonna ask you a question. You need to think of the scariest things in the world. Maybe you're thinking about snakes, maybe public speaking. The, the... right? That's, we've heard those studies. But public speaking is sorta silly. Nobody's actually afraid of public speaking. They're afraid, afraid of public humiliation, and there's no greater humiliation than digital humiliation. I'm talking about you're in a work presentation, and you try to share your screen, and you still got a tab open from last night. You know, that's, 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 gonna go with it.
Sam Parr 6:02 Oh, yeah.
Shaan Puri 6:02 You don't know what they're gonna open, and the most, I think the most s- super place-
Sam Parr 6:06 And, like, when they go to your browser, in the first- ... letter they're gonna type in starts with a P, and you're like-
Shaan Puri 6:11 Yeah [laughs]
Sam Parr 6:11 ... "What's gonna auto-fill? What's gonna auto-fill?"
Shaan Puri 6:13 [laughs] Yeah. Please let me... Do you have, googled PBS recently.
Sam Parr 6:18 Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 6:18 And so, um, [laughs] so, [laughs] what's the definition of pork chop? Let me hope-
Sam Parr 6:24 Yeah
Shaan Puri 6:25 ... that's what I, what I wrote. [laughs]
Sam Parr 6:26 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 6:27 So what Hideaway does is it takes the sensitivest parts of... And this is our first product, right? We're, we're really all about preventing digital humiliation, but our first product, our keynote product, the iPhone of our mix, is a private camera roll. So it's actually gonna combine two of my favorite ideas. So one, we solve the pain of somebody taking your phone, or you're trying to show them a photo, but you're scrolling through your camera roll of all your photos, which is ridiculous, a ridiculous invasion of privacy. And one of my favorite ideas, and it's something I've always wanted growing up, was in a movie you see those secret, you know, the rich people have a, they have a room in their house with a secret bookcase.
Sam Parr 7:05 Yeah.
Shaan Puri 7:05 So they, you know, they pull the fourth book on the s- on the second shelf and a, and a secret door emerges. So it's that. It's a secret bookcase. It's a Murphy door for your, for your, uh, phone. It is Hideaway. And 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. So you open up the app. It's disguised to look like a harmless app. It looks like an Amazon Kindle app. It's like a book- bookshelf. But only when you tap the third, seventh, and eighth b- books does it flip over, and it's a camera, and then that, that camera roll is for your eyes only. Hideaway, that's the idea. It could be a calculator app. It could be a, a book, book-reading app. It's gotta be something that looks harmless, that even a, if your parent looked over your shoulder and saw, "Oh, my son is just browsing the latest books. He's just doing some quick calculations." They don't know that you're actually going to your secret camera roll. All right, what do you think?
Sam Parr 8:01 All right. Let me, let me elaborate a little bit on this. Um, so do me a favor, and all right, you're on your computer. Go to- Search Photo Vault app.
Shaan Puri 8:11 Okay, Photo Vault app.
Sam Parr 8:14 And you should f-
Shaan Puri 8:15 I'm here
Sam Parr 8:15 ... Is the first result f- uh, A- A- Apple?
Shaan Puri 8:19 [laughs] No. No. The first result I see is Private Photo Vault Pic Safe, and it's literally, the icon is incredible. Hey, You- YouTube guy, 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.
Sam Parr 8:40 So this app, it, it, it's been reviewed 807,000 times.
Shaan Puri 8:47 Mm.
Sam Parr 8:47 And it's 86 in the App Store. This app has been around for a while. And I've looked into it a fair bit. The founder, his name is William Sidwell, Sidell. Um, he's based out of Vegas. I can't find much information about this company, but they have a-
Shaan Puri 9:00 As you shouldn't
Sam Parr 9:01 ... Yeah. Th- he, he, as I shouldn't. He's done a good job. But I believe he's one of the only employees, because I can't find anything on LinkedIn. And an app that's been reviewed 800,000 times, I mean, it must've been downloaded-
Shaan Puri 9:14 That's so-
Sam Parr 9:14 ... tens of millions of times. And they have a premium version. In the premium version, they, like, it, it does, the premium version's, like, 50 bucks a year, and it do- and it stores photos and stores documents and stores all this shit. But what it does is, like, it makes your, it makes the app look like a game, and you have to do photo ID and then type in, like, three different passwords in order to get to just the photo vault password. It's pretty interesting. And this app, I've not seen a lot of people online talk about it, but it's kind of a juggernaut, man. It's been around forever. I have to imagine that Pictures is one of the most popular category in the App Store, and this has been ranked 86, or it is 86 now, and I bet you this has been ranked like that for a long, long, long time. It's crazy the amount of reviews this-
Shaan Puri 9:56 Th- this is incredible. Uh, yeah, so you know, so if you go to the Google Play Store, it'll tell you the r- download range, right? Apple doesn't do that. But on Google Play, this has been downloaded at least 10 million times. It says 10 million plus. So that means it's above 10 but less than 50 million. That's that range. And, um, and that's just on Google Play, let alone... And we, I mean, you know how I feel about Android.
Sam Parr 10:18 Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 10:19 So, so we know, you know I'm already, I'm already thinking if Google Play [laughs] if, if Google Play's at 10 million, you just, you know what my boys on Apple are doing. And by the way, I don't know why I said that. There's a guy in the YouTube comments who's always like, "Dude, Shaan's always, Shaan's always got a comment about Android." And he just does the laughing emoji, so I decided to make that my thing. Um, uh, but I don't really have anything against it. Uh, but for the record, I do. All right. The, the key feature of this that I didn't have in my pitch, decoy password. So, uh, sometimes a nosy person wants into your private photo.
Sam Parr 10:52 Yes, it has that.
Shaan Puri 10:53 We give you 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.
Sam Parr 11:02 Dude, it's fascinating. So let's just as- if we assume that Google has 10 million, which would mean that, um, Apple probably has five times that, right? So 50 million. So he's probably has 50 to 60 million downloads ever. If you assu-
Shaan Puri 11:15 Impressive, but okay. Yeah.
Sam Parr 11:17 Well, if he, well, if Google is 10 million, right? You said it's at least 10.
Shaan Puri 11:19 But why would Apple be 10, why would Apple be five times more? There's more Google users. There's more Android users.
Sam Parr 11:24 Well, then maybe my math's fugged up. So let's just say it's equal.
Shaan Puri 11:26 [laughs]
Sam Parr 11:28 Let's just say, let's just say that it's, uh, 20 million.
Shaan Puri 11:30 By the way, you don't have to bleep that. He did that with two Gs, fugged up-
Sam Parr 11:33 Yeah, yeah
Shaan Puri 11:34 ... with two Gs. In fact, if your kids are in the car-
Sam Parr 11:36 Yeah
Shaan Puri 11:36 ... turn the volume up. That was funny-
Sam Parr 11:37 Yeah
Shaan Puri 11:38 ... what he just did.
Sam Parr 11:38 Yeah.
Shaan Puri 11:38 So that was good.
Sam Parr 11:40 Like, "Fug this shiv." Um, no, I... [laughs] It's good. Uh, so, like, if he has 20 or 30 million downloads, do you think it's... I, I don't really remember, uh, like, app conversion rates. Is it crazy to think that he would have, uh, a 3% conversion? Is it crazy to think that you would have one million paying, uh, premium users?
Shaan Puri 12:01 Not crazy. Not crazy.
Sam Parr 12:03 So it's $40, which means this guy has probably gross, in the lifetime, 40 million bucks from his premium version.
Shaan Puri 12:11 Let's just put it this way At the bottom of the page, the copyright 2011 to 2020 says it's from Legendary Software Labs LLC, and I just got a call from the state of Delaware, and they said there's never been a better, better named company.
Sam Parr 12:28 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 12:28 That company name was perfectly appropriate. We've reviewed it. We, we, we triple stamp the double stamp, and that was correct.
Sam Parr 12:34 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 12:34 This is a legendary software, and, uh, my drunk idea is validated. All right, you're up.
Sam Parr 12:39 [laughs] All right. Um,
Santa's Club
Sam Parr 12:43 I found something that it seems like it came out of a, a, a drunken, like, bar hangout one night. So do me a favor. Go to santasclub.com.
Shaan Puri 12:54 Santas Club. Oh, God, is this... Uh, are we going NF- NSFW here?
Sam Parr 12:59 I- uh, no, it's safe. It, it, it... That... It could go either way, but no. That's actually-
Shaan Puri 13:04 By the way, everything's safe for work now. We're working from home, bro. Like, that, that-
Sam Parr 13:07 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 13:07 ... that thing needs to be gone. [laughs]
Sam Parr 13:10 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 13:11 All right. Uh, so I'm here.
Sam Parr 13:12 That's a good point. Have you seen not, not safe for life?
Shaan Puri 13:14 [laughs] No.
Sam Parr 13:17 On Reddit?
Shaan Puri 13:17 That's, that's-
Sam Parr 13:18 On Reddit, I go to these, uh, forums that'll... Some of the stuff are tagged, uh, not safe for life, and it's hilarious.
Shaan Puri 13:25 [laughs]
Sam Parr 13:25 It's, it's, it's a pretty... Like, it'll be, like, someone popping a zit, and it says not, not safe for life.
Shaan Puri 13:30 Okay, so I'm on Santa's Club. [laughs]
Sam Parr 13:32 There we go. Thank you. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 13:34 [laughs]
Sam Parr 13:35 So Santa's Club, it was started in 2020. This guy named Will, uh, Evelheiser started it, and each year, about 15,000 people come to his site, and they spend around $75. And it only op- this business only operates two months out of the year. And-
Shaan Puri 13:50 Oh my God
Sam Parr 13:51 ... basically, if you go to the-
Shaan Puri 13:52 This is genius
Sam Parr 13:53 ... if you go to the website, what you're gonna see is, like, your typical looking Santa Claus in a studio, and he... You get to spend 15 minutes, and you do a virtual Santa, sit on his, their lap, ask what you want for Christmas type of thing for only 10 or 15 minutes. And he's got, like, a studio probably in Nevada, where instead of cam girls, it's just fat Santas.
Shaan Puri 14:15 [laughs]
Sam Parr 14:16 And he makes... According to the... I read some articles about it. In the first year, he had 15,000 visits, and prices range from 35 to $75 per visit, which means he's doing around 500,000 to a million dollars in only two months. And if you go to the website now, he's got, like, a pre-sale. It's 100% sold out. You can't buy any more. The guy's gotta go get more Santas.
Shaan Puri 14:39 Dude, this is hil- 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 kinda like a little bit better Cameo for, for Santas. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you a little side dish there, which is Santa for Ca- C- Cameos for Santas or Santas for Cameo. In fact, Steven, he came on the pod, I think. Did he come on the pod? Former Duke guy built Cameo. He needs to just implement this into Cameo this holiday season.
Sam Parr 15:10 Well, this is... It's very clear. Santa Cl- Santa's Club, they just gotta get the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy. What are the other, like, uh, characters?
Shaan Puri 15:18 Oh. Yeah, that's great. Um-
Sam Parr 15:19 That's what you gotta do.
Shaan Puri 15:21 Uh, Ben, do you guys got some holidays where you need a little, uh, character of some kind?
Sam Parr 15:26 Yeah, like a Joseph Smith, like a guy in a beard with, like, eight wives.
Speaker 15:30 We got Pioneer Day. Yeah, maybe, you know, a pioneer-type dude.
Sam Parr 15:33 [laughs] That could work.
Shaan Puri 15:36 [laughs] Pioneer Day.
Sam Parr 15:38 No, we're just gonna call-
Speaker 15:39 I've been trying to work with you guys here.
Shaan Puri 15:40 That's the best. [laughs]
Sam Parr 15:42 We're gonna call it, uh-
Speaker 15:43 Sorry. We got, we got the Christian holidays. We got, we got Easter and Christmas. Sorry, I, I can't do more for you.
Sam Parr 15:47 We're gonna call it Fairy, Inc, and the employees are gonna be the fairies.
Speaker 15:51 Right.
Sam Parr 15:51 And, um, we're gonna have Easter Bunny, Santa, Tooth Fairy. What else is there? I, I forget what... I don't know what else there is. There's Cupid-
Shaan Puri 16:01 But are we gonna have any copyright issues, because that's also what we call Morning Brew on the down low.
Sam Parr 16:06 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 16:06 Oh, got 'em. [laughs]
Speaker 16:09 [laughs]
Sam Parr 16:10 Uh, no. The, the... 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 have no... I think she listens to the podcast, and she friended me on Facebook, and she dresses like Elsa, like, from Frozen, and people pay her money to do a ca- Like, she, like, has d- You know, she's like a Disney, uh, like come and walks around-
Shaan Puri 16:29 Wow. Yeah, it's cosplay. 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. Like, I know that's like, you know, obviously copyright infringement, but, like, if it wasn't, right, Santa, that's, that, that's, that makes sense. Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, those all make sense that you should be able to do this. I, you know, a- and especially if you did it on demand. Somebody could just rip out, like, hundreds of these in a studio every single day just being like, "Oh, Amanda, you know, ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas. Your mom wanted me to tell you you've been doing a great job with blah, blah, blah, so see you later." Next video. And, like, each one of those is $40 a pop.
Sam Parr 17:10 You know how, like, on webinars-
Shaan Puri 17:12 I like this
Sam Parr 17:12 ... I think you'll see, you'll see, like, business webinars, and it'll be, like, Neil Patel, who was on the pod, and he'll be like, "Hey, everyone, this is Neil. Are we live? Is this thing working? Is this on?" And it's, like, fa- it, like, it's a recording, but he, but he acts like it's real. And you see people in the comments like, "Hey, Neil, what's up?" And he'll say, like, "Hey, Derek from Chicago, how are you?" And like, you know, it, it's just a, it's just a recording. It's all fake.
Shaan Puri 17:35 [laughs]
Sam Parr 17:36 You, you add... You know, you could do this. You could... Y- obviously you could do the same thing. I hate when web- webinars are like that.
Shaan Puri 17:41 Does he really do that?
Sam Parr 17:42 Well, I don't know if Neil does it. I th- he probably does. I think I have seen him do it, but there's a lot of webinars that are like that, and it's, like, a recording. But what they do is they, like, put f- uh, uh, like, replies in there.
Shaan Puri 17:53 [laughs]
Sam Parr 17:53 And they just... It's... You know what I mean? It's all artificial. It's all fake. But it ma- they make it look real.
Shaan Puri 17:58 Wow.
Sam Parr 17:58 And it's pretty good.
Shaan Puri 18:00 Wow. Phoning it in. Okay. S- uh, amazing. Okay, so I give this a good/good idea. I think that's, that's solid. Uh, anything else on this, or can I hit you with my next one?
Sam Parr 18:08 Hit me.
Shaan Puri 18:10 All right.
OnlyFans for Therapy
Shaan Puri 18:12 What's the name of a fast-growing company that does billions of dollars 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 business. But I got to thinking, "What other space could you do this in?" And so I was sitting there and I was thinking, and I... And you told me about a app that somebody had built called Police Scanner, Police Scanner Plus or something like that, this app that does millions of dollars a year, and I just... I couldn't get that out of my head. I thought, "Who would do this? Why would anybody wanna listen to, like, a-"
Sam Parr 19:02 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, "All right. Let's see. What, what, what, what's going on here? Was it real or was it not?"
Shaan Puri 19:12 And so there's a curiosity component. People, I think, just like listening to a train wreck i- in a way. They, they, they like to observe-
Sam Parr 19:18 Yeah
Shaan Puri 19:18 ... from a safe distance. Um, in fact, the app-
Sam Parr 19:20 Do you have the app called Citizen?
Shaan Puri 19:23 Citizen is just like this, yeah, where it's like, you know, somebody just got murdered-
Sam Parr 19:25 Dude, I had to quit using that 'cause-
Shaan Puri 19:26 ... three blocks from you
Sam Parr 19:27 ... when I'm in Brooklyn, like, I'll pull it up. It looks like my phone screen has chicken pox. Like, there's red dots all over the place-
Shaan Puri 19:31 [laughs]
Sam Parr 19:32 ... and I'm like, "There's crime everywhere." You know what I'm saying? Like, I c- I can't be doing that anymore.
Shaan Puri 19:36 [laughs] So okay. This business I'm calling OnlyProblems.
Sam Parr 19:43 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 19:43 Because forget about crime, the biggest battle is what's inside.
Sam Parr 19:47 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 19:47 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 million people in these seminars, 22 years. And guess what? People have five 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, 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 OnlyProblems. It's OnlyFans for Therapy. And here's how it works: you are going to, um, y- you pay a monthly subscription, and you get to sit in fly-on-the-wall style to somebody-
Sam Parr 20:58 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 20:59 ... going through an actual therapy session with the problem that you have, right? The, the, the-
Sam Parr 21:02 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 21:02 ... 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-
Sam Parr 21:07 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 21:07 ... about their career problems, whatever it is. They're getting real therapy, b- but they get it subsidized. So they get cheap therapy, maybe free therapy-
Sam Parr 21:16 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 21:16 ... 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-
Sam Parr 21:21 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 21:22 ... 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.
Sam Parr 21:27 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 21:28 And, um, 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.
Sam Parr 21:42 Have you ever seen the movie-
Shaan Puri 21:43 This, honestly, honestly, I'm gonna just say it right now. I s- wrote this idea down, and I got, I got goosebumps under this hair here right here.
Sam Parr 21:53 Yeah, you got little, little arm mountains. Dude, have you, uh, [laughs] have you seen the movie Fight Club?
Shaan Puri 22:00 Of course.
Sam Parr 22:01 So it... there's... Like, one of the premises of the movie is that this guy, Ed Norton, uh, I guess he's Tyler. I don't know. I forget his name. Tyler Durden. And then he meets that woman that's, like, the love interest, and what they do is [laughs] they go to terminal cancer anonymous meetings. And I don't know why. I forget why, but they, like...
Shaan Puri 22:19 [laughs]
Sam Parr 22:19 It makes them feel alive, and it, like, makes them feel happy 'cause they think that they're all screwed up, and they're like, "I wanna go meet with people who are actually dying," and it's, like, 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 fucked up. I'm straight. I'm good."
Shaan Puri 22:36 Yeah.
Sam Parr 22:37 You know what I mean? [laughs]
Shaan Puri 22:37 Yeah. Gratitude as a service.
Sam Parr 22:40 Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 22:40 Right. It ain't so bad after all, we say-
Sam Parr 22:43 It ain't, it ain't so bad
Shaan Puri 22:43 ... when the Apple comes out.
Sam Parr 22:44 Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 22:45 [laughs] Could be worse.
Sam Parr 22:47 Wow, this-
Shaan Puri 22:47 Is, is the trademark
Sam Parr 22:49 ... this guy's a freak. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 22:50 [laughs] Yeah. Yeah, and, and, and that's the thing. The crazier your problems are, the more vulnerable and open you get, the more people tip you little hearts in the app, the bigger rev share you get as part of doing that therapy session.
Sam Parr 23:02 So you're, you're-
Shaan Puri 23:02 So you're kind of incentivized
Sam Parr 23:03 ... you're incentivized to be screwed up.
Shaan Puri 23:05 And you can just make stuff up, to be honest with you. But, like, you're definitely... Uh, 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 F'd up problems and then see them deal with it, and we like fights also. But that's the... that's what I'm tapping into here, um, but I'm doing it through an app. I'm doing it.
Sam Parr 23:26 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 23:26 It's called OnlyProblems. And honestly, if you're gonna run with this, you better hit shaan@shaanpuri.com. That's all I gotta say.
Sam Parr 23:33 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 23:33 I need to sh- I need to see an email from somebody tried this idea. I feel, I genuinely feel like this is one of those ideas that's like, "No way," and then it gets huge.
Sam Parr 23:42 It reminds me of, uh, like, the people who wanna go watch someone do surgery. Have you ever seen, like, those, like, setups where you, where for s-
Shaan Puri 23:48 No.
Sam Parr 23:49 So for, um, for... Like, if you're a student, like, there's these medical rooms that have, uh... It's like a, it's like a two-way-
Shaan Puri 23:56 It's a box
Sam Parr 23:56 ... mirror almost. Yeah.
Shaan Puri 23:57 [laughs] Yeah.
Sam Parr 23:57 And you have, like, a black... It's like watching an execution almost. Like, you just, like, sit there-
Shaan Puri 24:01 [laughs]
Sam Parr 24:01 ... and you just, like, watch what they're doing. That's what this reminds me of. Have you ever been to this subreddit called, uh, Popping?
Shaan Puri 24:06 [laughs] No, but I, I was gonna bring up the addictive way that people watch you, like, pop a blackhead or a pimple or whatever, right?
Sam Parr 24:13 Dude.
Shaan Puri 24:14 That's kind of what it is.
Sam Parr 24:14 There's this subreddit, there's this subreddit called Popping. I've been on the front of it. Uh, you see... Uh, I've been on the front page. You see this scar right here?
Shaan Puri 24:22 Uh, yes. Yeah.
Sam Parr 24:23 So I have a, I, I have a big scar on my... Because I had, like, a ping pong ball-sized thing, like, growing, like, on my brain, and I had to get surgery, like, in 2014 to get it taken out. And right before I go under, I go to the, uh, surgeon. I go, "Hey, man, do you have your iPhone on you?" He goes, "Yeah." I go-
Shaan Puri 24:38 [laughs]
Sam Parr 24:39 ... "Uh, can you save my number and take some pictures, uh, when I'm under so you can, like, get some, like, before, after, and during pics of, uh, my surgery so I can post it on r/popping?"
Shaan Puri 24:50 [laughs]
Sam Parr 24:51 And he did it. He, he, he texted me.
Shaan Puri 24:53 [laughs]
Sam Parr 24:53 And I got these, like, beautiful photos of, like, this, this growth, like, being popped and scraped off my brain, and I posted it on that subreddit, and I got, uh, like 80,000 views on my photo album. And so, uh, I'm a member of r/popping. I love it. And so what, what-
Shaan Puri 25:10 You may not have a blue check mark on Twitter, but you always have this.
Sam Parr 25:13 [laughs] Yeah.
Shaan Puri 25:14 [laughs] Dude, put this in your bio. Put this on your LinkedIn.
Sam Parr 25:19 Front page.
Shaan Puri 25:20 Former front page.
Sam Parr 25:20 Yeah, of r-
Shaan Puri 25:21 Former front pager, serial front pager of r/popping. [laughs]
Sam Parr 25:25 Dude, I have it. I, I, I, I'll, I'll have to find it and send it to you, but you see, like, you know, like... And then he also, like, cut some fat from my stomach, and then he, like, puttied it into the hole. And like-
Shaan Puri 25:36 [laughs]
Sam Parr 25:36 You, so you, like, see this whole process of, like, there being a growth-
Shaan Puri 25:39 Like when you move out of an apartment and you hung up some paintings-
Sam Parr 25:41 [laughs] Yeah, like-
Shaan Puri 25:42 ... and you gotta fill a hole.
Sam Parr 25:43 [laughs] Yeah.
Shaan Puri 25:43 [laughs]
Sam Parr 25:44 He took a little fat off me, and he just, like, puttied that bad boy in. And I woke up and, like, 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 was... So they just kinda, like, took a little-
Shaan Puri 25:56 Weird flex, but okay.
Sam Parr 25:57 Yeah. Well-
Shaan Puri 25:58 [laughs]
Sam Parr 25:58 [laughs] I have muscular legs, not always a muscular stomach. And he, like, uh-
Shaan Puri 26:02 As a surgeon, one of our creeds, credos is we don't mess with perfection, so I couldn't touch the legs. I had to-
Sam Parr 26:07 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 26:09 [laughs]
Sam Parr 26:10 So anyway, uh, on board with Only Problems. Good idea.
Shaan Puri 26:15 Thank you. Thank you. All right.
Sam Parr 26:16 All right.
Shaan Puri 26:16 You got one or you want me to go a third also? [laughs]
Sam Parr 26:18 Let me, let me... I'll... This is the last one I probably have. Well, I got one more, but, uh... All right. The biggest... This is, this is, uh, 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?
Shaan Puri 26:38 Most populous what? Most popular what?
Sam Parr 26:39 Most popular digital business publication in the world by traffic.
Shaan Puri 26:45 Um, I'm gonna go with-
Sam Parr 26:47 So there's Wall Street Journal. There's, uh...
Shaan Puri 26:51 I'm gonna go with-
Sam Parr 26:51 Financial Times
Shaan Puri 26:51 ... coinmarketcap.com.
Sam Parr 26:53 CoinMarketCap, that's a good guess. That probably does, uh, how much? Probably 50 million a month in, in-
Shaan Puri 26:59 Something crazy, yeah.
Sam Parr 27:01 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 hypot... I, I would say, and I'd hypothesize the largest business publication in the world is run by basically two people, and it is called SlideShare. You ever been to SlideShare?
Shaan Puri 27:21 [laughs] Of... I love SlideShare. Wow, that's-
Sam Parr 27:24 So-
Shaan Puri 27:24 I thought you were gonna bring up Drudge Report again, by the way.
Sam Parr 27:26 No. SlideShare. So SlideShare is this site that was started by, uh, I forget her name. Uh, uh, but she's an interesting founder. She's, like, pretty outspoken on Twitter, and I like her a lot. Anyway, she-
Shaan Puri 27:36 Indian woman, right?
Sam Parr 27:37 Indian woman, yeah. She started it, and she sold it to LinkedIn for, like, $150 million. And SlideShare was a w-
Shaan Puri 27:43 By the way, most Indian social network of all time, just PowerPoints. [laughs]
Sam Parr 27:49 [laughs] That's what SlideShare is.
Shaan Puri 27:50 Like, way to slack off but make your parents proud at the same time.
Sam Parr 27:53 Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 27:54 [laughs]
Sam Parr 27:55 Did you see, uh, our, our buddy Sheel, he just got engaged, and he's g- he always... 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, and it says, "Are you married yet?"
Shaan Puri 28:06 [laughs]
Sam Parr 28:08 And he, like, posted screenshots of, uh, of the, of h- of her asking that in, in perfect English. "Are you married yet? Please be married. Please be married." Um-
Shaan Puri 28:16 [laughs]
Sam Parr 28:17 So SlideShare, it's just, like, a... It's just a website where you upload shit, right? You upload decks. Um, well, LinkedIn bought it in 2012, and it just sat there. And then Scribe... Do you know Scribed, or is it Scribd?
Shaan Puri 28:29 Scribd, yeah.
Sam Parr 28:30 Scribe? Scribd. They bought it, and I'm almost certain looking at LinkedIn and looking at the website that, like, one and a half engineers are the only employees working on this. Um, and they were for sale for a little while, so I, so, like, I don't think this is entirely guessing. But 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 most, is, like, marketing decks, pitch de- pitch decks, conference decks on, uh, business strategy, and it makes virtually no revenue. If you go there, you won't see any ads, and it's just this website that does 100 to 150, maybe 200 million monthly visits. It's this juggernaut of a website with... If you look at the website, it hasn't been updated in years and years and years and years. Here's my idea. If I were a B2B company, if I were Salesforce or a HubSpot, or if I were, um, I don't know, anyone selling, like, software or anything that sells people to... Shit for people who goes to, like, you know, these, like, business conference. I would buy it and turn it into a B2B lead gen website. And I think that you can 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, 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, like, make anything.
Shaan Puri 30:16 Yeah, you have super high value customers 'cause it's only business people that are gonna be doing this. Um, so, uh, uh, and who bought them? Didn't LinkedIn buy them at some point, or no?
Sam Parr 30:25 LinkedIn bought them in 2012, and it just sat there, and they did nothing with it. And then they sold it-
Shaan Puri 30:31 That's crazy to me.
Sam Parr 30:31 Yeah. And they, I think they paid 150. They paid nine figures for it, and then they, uh, sold it to Scribd. And if I had to bet, Scribd s- like LinkedIn was like, "Just get this off our hands. Just don't fire anyone who works on it, and, like, assume all the liability and, like, just it's yours. Just go, just go away."
Shaan Puri 30:48 So, um, check out this tweet I just put in the chat.
Sam Parr 30:52 Okay. It says, uh, it's from you, and it says, "Free $500 million idea. Reinvent and relaunch SlideShare." All right, great. Great minds think alike. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 31:03 [laughs]
Sam Parr 31:03 "If there's a, 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." All right. I-
Shaan Puri 31:10 Now-
Sam Parr 31:10 Well, dude, we're on the same page here, I think.
Shaan Puri 31:12 Do you wanna see my one-page plan?
Sam Parr 31:14 Yeah.
Shaan Puri 31:14 You can't. It doesn't exist.
Sam Parr 31:16 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 31:16 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," because to me, SlideShare is so ripe for the picking. It is completely neglected. It is extremely valuable as a, like a potential tool. It never really got replaced properly by something else. It didn't, didn't become obsolete. And, uh, and it, and it's just one of those, like, big opportunities hiding in plain sight, and I would love to basically brainstorm how to, how I would attack this kind of SlideShare problem.
Sam Parr 31:47 But the opportunity was missed. LinkedIn, if, you know, one of us or someone listening had a little bit of, like, charm and suave and was able to get connected with the LinkedIn people, they would've given it to you. It would've been, like-
Shaan Puri 31:59 Mm. Yes, for sure
Sam Parr 31:59 ... it would've been free. I don't know about s- 'cause Scribd isn't a big enough company where they're like, "Oh yeah, here, we don't give a fuck. Just take it." But when you're owned by Microsoft, they're just like, I imagine they're just like, "We can't focus on this right now."
Shaan Puri 32:11 Yeah, an undisclosed price. This would've been, uh... I mean, I can't imagine this was that much. I, I could be wrong, but, like-
Sam Parr 32:19 It didn't make any revenue
Shaan Puri 32:20 ... I feel like they probably got this for, like, $10 million or something.
Sam Parr 32:23 Or less.
Shaan Puri 32:24 Maybe less. Yeah. Wow.
Sam Parr 32:26 Or less.
Shaan Puri 32:26 Missed opportunity. Mi- that is a serious missed opportunity.
Sam Parr 32:29 That's not that drunk of an idea, but anyway, it's an idea.
Shaan Puri 32:32 That's a good one. Um, all right. I got another one. Let me, let me, let me make a little note.
Sam Parr 32:36 I'm all out, by the way.
Shaan Puri 32:38 I, y- you don't wanna know how long this list is. Um-
Sam Parr 32:41 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 32:42 And it all came to me in one giant flood. Uh, you know, I, I just dumped them all out. Okay, so-
Sam Parr 32:47 What do you, what do you do? Do you just, like, come up with, like, names? Are you like Michael Scott, where he just, like, has a name for something and he builds a business [laughs] around it?
Shaan Puri 32:55 N- no joke, that's part of it. Um, 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, um, you know, the, the-
Sam Parr 33:09 Like the Cronut. You're just smashing-
Shaan Puri 33:11 Yeah
Sam Parr 33:11 ... two things together.
Shaan Puri 33:12 Exactly. So I saw this, like, the hidden bookcase thing, and I was like, "Oh my God, I freaking always wanted one of these where I hit the three piano keys and a door opens, or I pull the bookshelf book... I tilt the book out and it, like, opens a secret door." So how do I take that awesome thing and just use it in an unexpected way? And that's where that idea came from. That's how my brain works.
Sam Parr 33:30 Has, have you ever seen, have you ever seen those for guns? So, uh, y- well, I've thought about buying one of these where you can put, like, a shelf. Like, you know how you have a shelf next to your front door that you put your keys on?
Shaan Puri 33:41 Yeah.
Sam Parr 33:42 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.
Shaan Puri 33:48 Oh.
Sam Parr 33:48 And they're pretty sick.
Shaan Puri 33:50 That's pretty cool. Okay, I like that. [laughs]
Sam Parr 33:52 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 33:52 Put, like, my fanny pack in there maybe for when I leave the house.
Sam Parr 33:55 Like some Cheez-Its. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 33:58 Exactly. [laughs] But would it fit a regulation size bag of Corn Nuts? [laughs]
Sam Parr 34:06 [laughs] Yeah. Your Cheez-It, your Cheez-It storage. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 34:11 So
Instagramahanas (Benihanas for photo opportunities)
Shaan Puri 34:12 all right. So speaking of work backers from a great idea, here's the i- here's the name of this one. I, I mean, Ben, you might wanna get your pencil out for the top winner of the, of the episode. Instagramahanas.
Sam Parr 34:24 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 34:25 That sounds a little weird. Sort of like Benihanas. It's Benihanas for photo opportunities. Okay, so here's how it works.
Sam Parr 34:34 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 34:35 It's a restaurant that's not about the food. It's a restaurant about the content.
Sam Parr 34:39 Like the Museum of Ice Cream, baby.
Shaan Puri 34:40 All those, the people rolling their eye... Exa- it's like the Museum of I- ice Cream, but it's seated, and it is, uh, like, basically people go to restaurants, they order food, and they'll order, like, "Oh, we got a fishbowl drink," or, "We're drinking beer out of a shoe," and, like-
Sam Parr 34:56 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 34:56 ... "Oh, we got the huge, like, donut at the end."
Sam Parr 34:59 Yeah.
Shaan Puri 34:59 And they take pictures, and it becomes content.
Sam Parr 35:01 Or, like, they use sparklers instead of birthday candles.
Shaan Puri 35:04 Now, I started a restaurant. I know all the problems about restaurants. You got all this food waste. You got high labor costs. You got all this... You don't actually... You're not running this like a restaurant. So here's how it works. It's like Benihanas. You go. There's, like, I don't know, 30 tables. You sit down. Every table seats, like, eight people, and you go as a group, and you're going for an experience. You're not going for the food. And, um, two things happen. So f- basically food is gonna come out that, and each one is photo-worthy food, either because it's gross, it's funny looking, it's huge, it's so indulgent. It's, right, it's, like, you know, a giant pile of sour gummy worms. It's, "Oh, it's a, it's the l- the mega green donut. N- how are we ever gonna eat this? Oh, look, it's so funny to watch me try," that sort of thing. "Oh, the w- this guy's gonna come out, and, you know, we have to drink this giant beer can that's, like, you know, 36 ounces or whatever." I don't know, but a big beer can. 360 ounces, let's say. Um, and so that's the, that's the idea. It's all photo-worthy food. It's brought out like omakase at a sushi restaurant. It's chefs, chefs prep.
Sam Parr 36:11 Yeah. We're, we're gonna call it the, uh, The Food Porn Cafe.
Shaan Puri 36:15 It, Instagramahanas is the name, but, um-
Sam Parr 36:18 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 36:18 ... if you'd like to launch a competitor, bring it on. Um, [laughs] there's a drone camera that just flies right above the, the table, and it's just recording the whole thing, and it's just gonna, the, it, it just dumps it in a f- a Google Drive folder, and there's a guy in India, one guy- Who's editing everybody's photos all night, everybody's content all night, and at the end, you're gonna get the three or four best reaction shots, 'cause the food gets revealed in like a shot.
Sam Parr 36:43 It's like when you- it's, it, no, it's like, it's like when you get a picture on a rollercoaster.
Shaan Puri 36:47 Exactly. It's the ... Exactly, but we're using outsourced labor. They're j- the drone is capturing everything. And, um, and, and the food ... And 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 i- instead of being cool and having to like know how to dance and stand up on the table and drink champagne at 9:00 in the morning, you sit and food comes out that's crazy, and you get to eat it. And you get to make a big mess, and it's gonna ... Your reactions and your, and your attempts are all, all photo and video recorded. $100 a person plus tips, eight people per table. I'm thinking, you know, 20, maybe 30 tables, uh, you know, two or three turns per night, and, uh, we're talking a million dollar a month easy on this. Food cost is way down, 'cause it's not even real food. You're just doing like giant popcorn and s- silly stuff. You're no- no proteins. You don't have to worry about that. There's no food waste, 'cause it's ... You're just bringing out one thing for the table to react to.
Sam Parr 37:42 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shaan Puri 37:42 It's not even like you're feeding each person.
Sam Parr 37:43 Your fi- your five pound burger doesn't need to taste good.
Shaan Puri 37:46 Exactly. It's like Benihana's, there, there's like a Harvard Business School case study on how amazing Benihana's is, and one of the reasons is like they, because they put ... There, there's no kitchen space. They use the whole f- restaurant for like, uh, for, for dining, because the, the chef is at the ta- the, the stove is the table basically. And, um, they have like higher labor costs 'cause they have skilled chefs, but they have way lower like, you know, uh, they use the real estate better. And like their food waste is way down because they have a limited menu. So it's you kind of do all that smart stuff. Um-
Sam Parr 38:14 Have you ever-
Shaan Puri 38:14 Like Instagramahanas.
Sam Parr 38:15 Do, do-
Shaan Puri 38:15 What do you think?
Sam Parr 38:16 I'm in. I, I'm into it. Have you ever heard the background of Benihana, the guy?
Shaan Puri 38:21 Rocky, I think is his name.
Sam Parr 38:23 Yeah. So he's basically ... We wrote about it, and it was one of our, our most trafficked, trafficked articles for a long time. He's basically f- you know, he's an immigrant, came here with nothing, and then you know who his son is, is Steve Aoki, the, the DJ.
Shaan Puri 38:35 Oh, no way. I did not know that.
Sam Parr 38:37 Yeah. And this guy Rocky, I think he ... I, I forget the article, but i- it was like one of those like most interesting man alive stories, where like he had been involved in like porn, and then Benihana's-
Shaan Puri 38:47 Right
Sam Parr 38:47 ... like got big and then went bankrupt. Then he bought it back, and it went big again, and then he was like this international man of mystery. Like, uh, it's a really interesting story, and people love that company, and it's still crushing. I went ... I- we, we used to go to team dinners there. I fucking love Benihana's. But dude, I'm into this-
Shaan Puri 39:03 I always bring it up, dude, when we're in like a car and it's like, "Oh, we're gonna eat." I'm like, "I think there's a Benihana's around here."
Sam Parr 39:08 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 39:08 Yeah, I don't know if there ... But I'm just like, I'm just waiting for that to latch. Somebody to be like, "That'd be fun."
Sam Parr 39:13 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 39:13 Never. I never get any support on it.
Sam Parr 39:16 It, it, it-
Shaan Puri 39:16 I'm always tossing the little Benihana f- you know, test flare out there. Be like, "Uh, you know, I guess we could do big group stuff at Benihana's."
Sam Parr 39:24 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 39:24 "They got good tables."
Sam Parr 39:24 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 39:25 And I'm like, no one ever bites. I don't know why. I'm like, I've been, I'm oh for 12 on this thing.
Sam Parr 39:30 How is the ... Remember that guy you brought up on Instagram during the pandemic who started that cookie business that just made the most ridiculous cookies? You remember? What's that guy's-
Shaan Puri 39:38 Mike the Cookie Dealer, I think is his-
Sam Parr 39:39 Mike Cookie-
Shaan Puri 39:39 ... his cookie dealer.
Sam Parr 39:39 How's he doing?
Shaan Puri 39:41 He's great. I checked in with ... No, I mean, [laughs] I don't know. He's, I think they're doing fine. I'm not sure. I ordered the cookies.
Sam Parr 39:46 And what about-
Shaan Puri 39:47 Honestly, they were not great, so then I'm l- sort of like, "Uh, 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.
Sam Parr 39:55 And what about mu- uh, Museum of Ice Cream? So the Museum of Ice Cream, they started a little bit before the pandemic, and you and I like, or a bunch of ev- uh, a lot of people made fun of them because they raised like $50 million at a $250 million valuation, and 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 bucks and you go to take pictures, right?
Shaan Puri 40:15 Yeah. You never been to it?
Sam Parr 40:17 No. But there's-
Shaan Puri 40:18 You, it's like, it, it's like a haunted house. You walk from room to room. Each room has its own like kind of crazy thing, and sometimes you get to eat a little bit, but most of the time it's just photos with like cool, in a cool room. It's Instagram content.
Sam Parr 40:29 Dude, in Manhattan I walked by one recently, and the line was around the block, and I've gone by it a few times and there's always a long line to go in. I think they, they have to be killing it, right?
Shaan Puri 40:40 Uh, I thought so, but then the SF one closed, so I don't know what happened. But, uh, yeah, I don't know.
Sam Parr 40:44 Well, SF closed.
Shaan Puri 40:47 Right.
Sam Parr 40:48 So, [laughs] uh, but the Manhattan one-
Shaan Puri 40:50 [laughs]
Sam Parr 40:51 The M- the Manhattan one is just ... I mean, that's really when s- it's like SF just like shut down for maintenance, so they just been down for like four years. Um.
Shaan Puri 40:58 The, um, the Museum of Ice Cream said the same thing that every like tech person in San Francisco said, just, "Ah, fuck it, I'm out of here." [laughs]
Sam Parr 41:03 Yeah. [laughs] Um-
Shaan Puri 41:06 It was like an audible sigh of just like, "Fine, I'm out." [laughs]
Sam Parr 41:10 Yeah. Uh, I think, um, yeah, I'm on board with this. I think this is good. We did a breakdown where we talked about like the companies like Cronut and like fondue-only stores, and like all these companies. It was like what do you have to do? You have to take like-
Shaan Puri 41:24 Yeah
Sam Parr 41:24 ... you gotta take a food and put it in a weird shape or a weird size or a weird color.
Shaan Puri 41:28 Or a weird color.
Sam Parr 41:29 Yeah. Or you mash two-
Shaan Puri 41:30 Or a weird container
Sam Parr 41:31 ... a weird container. [laughs] Yeah. Or you mash two things that are kinda related but not entirely related, like a burger in the shape of a hot dog or a Cronut or something like that.
Shaan Puri 41:42 Doritos Loco Taco, whatever the big Taco Bell thing.
Sam Parr 41:44 Exactly. Or you take something that's t- 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 forget what they were.
Shaan Puri 41:56 You're, you're like the, uh, the Rain Man of figuring out this food trick. Like everybody else just saw each one of these as like, "Oh, that's weird, that's weird."
Sam Parr 42:03 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 42:03 And you're like, "I see the pattern."
Sam Parr 42:04 Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 42:06 We're like, "Sam-
Sam Parr 42:07 Dude, I mean-
Shaan Puri 42:07 ... what, what's wrong, what, what's wrong with the left side of your face right now?" You're like-
Sam Parr 42:10 I need to go to, uh-
Shaan Puri 42:11 ... "I'm, I'm downloading it. I figured it-
Sam Parr 42:12 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 42:13 ... I'm figuring it out."
Sam Parr 42:13 No, it's, it's all rooted in like an eating disorder.
Shaan Puri 42:16 Let's do a deep dive.
Sam Parr 42:16 Like I go to, I go to food therapy, and, uh, uh, like, you know, I need to go to your therapy and talk about ... I use, I pay a lady $700 a month just to talk about food every single morning. Clearly there's issues there.
Shaan Puri 42:27 Yeah.
Sam Parr 42:28 So I just study that shit, man.
Shaan Puri 42:28 You always seem to put a Tootsie Roll under your pillow for some reason.
Sam Parr 42:30 Yeah. The amount of times that I've eaten-
Shaan Puri 42:32 [laughs]
Sam Parr 42:32 ... a jar of Jif peanut butter in one sitting is goddamn just way too high. [laughs] It's way too high
Shaan Puri 42:39 [laughs] We need a GIF of you just eating a jar of Jif in one sitting. That's gonna-
Sam Parr 42:43 Have you ever died?
Shaan Puri 42:43 That's gonna be our NFT. [laughs]
Sam Parr 42:45 Dude, I've eaten a full jar with just a spoon multiple times. It's just too addicting.
Shaan Puri 42:49 [laughs] Habitual line stepper. All right, I have more. Let me give you... I got maybe one, maybe two more. Let's see how it goes. Um, you probably don't watch this show, but-
Sam Parr 43:01 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 43:01 ... there's a show that's hot on Netflix called Indian Matchmaker. Have you seen it?
Sam Parr 43:05 Of course I watch that show.
Shaan Puri 43:06 You watch it? Okay, I thought this might be only entertaining to Indian people, 'cause it's like-
Sam Parr 43:10 No.
Shaan Puri 43:10 Yeah
Sam Parr 43:11 ... dude.
Shaan Puri 43:11 Pretty bad?
Sam Parr 43:11 Are you kidding me? I watch it all the time, and in my head I'm just thinking, "Y'all are screwed up."
Shaan Puri 43:17 [laughs]
Sam Parr 43:17 "You guys are so weird." [laughs] Like, are you kidding me? [laughs] Like I... How is the suicide rate not higher amongst you people?
Shaan Puri 43:25 [laughs] You're like, "Yeah, don't make me send the British back in there. Are you guys gonna-
Sam Parr 43:30 Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 43:30 ... get your shit together?" [laughs]
Sam Parr 43:32 Yeah. What the hell, man? Like, there'll be this, like, beautiful doctor in her 30s making money. She's pretty, she's nice, and sh- and her mom's, like, yelling at her, like, criticizing her-
Shaan Puri 43:43 [laughs]
Sam Parr 43:43 ... for not being married. It's crazy.
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Shaan Puri 44:03 So,
Swag School: Dating School for Indians
Shaan Puri 44:04 w- uh, my sister called me last night af- 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?" And she goes, "When you first met, uh, when you first met Sonia, did you, did you have game?"
Sam Parr 44:20 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 44:21 'Cause on the show, the Indian guys have zero game. And I was like, "Game? Uh, like, what do you mean? Like, I guess so." And then she's like, "No, think about..." And she was like, and she was like, "These guys, they're nice guys. They're smart guys. They're like, you know, they're, they have a good job. They're normal people. They have no crazy drug habits. The reason they're al- still single is 'cause they don't know how to look at, talk to, or touch a girl." And I was like, "Oh, yeah, I had that problem. [laughs] Yeah. Yeah, that's me too, actually. You're right." And she was like-
Sam Parr 44:49 Dude, I saw a, I saw someone post a picture of a painting of a naked woman from, like, the 1700s. [laughs] And, and it was all Indian guys commenting saying like, "Hey baby, I love you. I love you for a long time. C- text me, call me." [laughs]
Shaan Puri 45:07 [laughs] Yeah, that's like if, if you're ever a girl who does, like, live streaming on, like, whatever, Twitch, or, like, whatever, Periscope, whatever, whatever app, uh, they're all like, what is... Why are there so many men in, like, Turkey, the Middle East, and India who will just... They just flood their chat, and they just keep saying, "Show bobs. Show bobs. Show bobs."
Sam Parr 45:28 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 45:28 And then they all just show boobs. And they just keep saying, "Show bobs. Show bobs." [laughs]
Sam Parr 45:33 What... So you didn't have game? You were, you were s-
Shaan Puri 45:36 No
Sam Parr 45:36 ... you were, uh-
Shaan Puri 45:36 I didn't, uh... Uh, so, so I asked my, then I asked my wife, I was like, I was like, "Yeah, my sister asked me this." I was like, "I don't think I did, did I?" She's like, "No, you didn't." And I was like, "Oh." I was like... She's like, "Yeah, you had a different type. You had, like, intellectual game." Like, she's like, "You were good at, like, telling stories, or you would say interesting things."
Sam Parr 45:53 And that counts.
Shaan Puri 45:54 But like-
Sam Parr 45:54 That's, that's game
Shaan Puri 45:55 ... but, like, the basic, like, man shit, and she's like, "You didn't know how to, like, kinda, like, you know..." There was no smoothness to, like, the, "Oh, we're walking down the street. Like, let's, like, just hold my hand without, like, us having..." Like, the first time. Like, how do you do that smooth the first time? Or, you know, like, in San Francisco, the streets are a little dangerous. She's like, "You know, you would always, like, walk on the inside of the street. I'd be on the edge, like, right by the cars and the bums, and, like, you know, you didn't know to just, like, stand on that side." Just, like, the little kind of male protective instincts, a little bit of, like, you know, pull my chair out, you know-
Sam Parr 46:24 Yeah
Shaan Puri 46:24 ... let me sit down first.
Sam Parr 46:25 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 46:26 It's like, you know, the Uber would show up-
Sam Parr 46:27 Don't, don't give me a high five when we're, when we're, like-
Shaan Puri 46:29 Yeah
Sam Parr 46:29 ... you know, ending the day. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 46:30 And don't say, like, "See ya," when we leave.
Sam Parr 46:32 Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 46:32 Like, you know, say something else. Like, you know, like, an Uber would show up-
Sam Parr 46:35 Don't dap me
Shaan Puri 46:36 ... and it's like, I was like, "I open the door for you?" She's like, "Yeah, you would, like, open the door and be like, 'Scoot in.' Like, I..."
Sam Parr 46:41 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 46:41 "Like, scoot all the way across, and then I'll sit on this... I'll get in after you."
Sam Parr 46:45 Oh.
Shaan Puri 46:45 It's like, you know, you're supposed to go to the other side and, like-
Sam Parr 46:47 Yeah
Shaan Puri 46:47 ... you open the door for me, and then you go to the other side. And I was like, "Oh, yeah, like, that's so much effort. Like, you know, it's fine." Um, a- and so there was a whole bunch of things like that, and I remember I dated a girl once in Australia, and I'll always give her credit. She was, she kinda was, like, an amazing girl, and she taught me one thing, which was she was like, "You know, whenever you're..." A- actually, we didn't even really date. We were just kind of in the flirting phase, but she was like, um, she was teaching me how to... She was, like, a dancer. She was teaching me how to do, like, she was, like, Sambo, like, champion or some shit like that. Uh, or Samba.
Sam Parr 47:19 I think Sambo is-
Shaan Puri 47:19 Samba is like wrestling
Sam Parr 47:20 ... is fighting. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 47:21 [laughs] Yeah, Sambo is like Russian wrestling.
Sam Parr 47:22 Isn't it, isn't Sambo, like, Russian jujitsu? Yeah. [laughs]
Shaan Puri 47:26 Yeah. Sa- Samba, I guess. It's salsa. And she was like, "Okay, so just, like, put your hand here," and then whatever, and then she, like, looked at my hand. I was like, "I put it right where you said." And she's like, "Yeah, but look at it." And I looked at it, and my hand's like, you know, like, limp basically.
Sam Parr 47:38 [laughs] Yeah.
Shaan Puri 47:38 It's like my hand was there, but, like-
Sam Parr 47:39 Like a dead fish
Shaan Puri 47:39 ... there was no firmness to it.
Sam Parr 47:41 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 47:41 It was like, you know, it was nothing. And she goes, "If you're gonna touch a girl, touch with intent." And I was like, "Oh." And I c- I literally have never forgot that. That was, like, 15 years ago, and in my head I'm always like, I got taught a real, like, lesson in, like, man stuff, uh, that day of, like, how to do, like, do things with girls. Like, touch with intent.
Sam Parr 48:02 Yeah.
Shaan Puri 48:02 And I was like, I didn't even really understand what the hell she meant, but, like, that was the first time I got taught. So here's the idea. Basically, it's Swag School-
Sam Parr 48:10 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 48:10 ... and it just teaches Indian guys how to have a little more game. So you go to a seminar. It's like Toastmasters or Alcoholics Anonymous, and you go and you sit in a circle, and first you just say, uh, you know, "My name is Shaan and I am awkward." And then everybody says, "Welcome, Shaan." And then the next guy says-
Sam Parr 48:26 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 48:27 ... "Hey, my name's Pradeep, uh, doctor, Bay Area, um, and I am awkward." Everybody says, "Welcome."
Sam Parr 48:32 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 48:32 "Thank you, Pradeep." And it just goes around the circle. And it's gonna teach you how to, how to look at a girl, how to touch a girl- How to have some presence, how to sit, sit straight, stand up straight-
Sam Parr 48:43 Yeah
Shaan Puri 48:43 ... how to dress, how to go in for a kiss. And there's just a girl there to teach you how to do it, 'cause guess what? You can't learn it in a textbook. So that's it. Swag School, what do you think?
Sam Parr 48:54 Love it. Um, have you heard, do you remember Art of Charm? Our friend Jordan, uh, he's got a new thing, Jordan Harbinger, but now it, it, it used to be called Art of Charm. Do you remember that? It's like a, um, was it like a five-day boot camp for men? Is that what it... Was it five days? Do you remember?
Shaan Puri 49:08 Uh, I don't really know. I know he has the podcast, and I used to read the blog, uh-
Sam Parr 49:12 So listen to this. He spoke at one of my events, and he talked about it. And so it was him and two other guys. They had, like, a falling out, so this is, like, before they had the falling out, and the business was called Art of Charm, and it was teaching men how to be more charming. And he would also teach, like, he would go and talk to, like, Navy SEALs and talk about, like, how to use charm to, like, you know, like, blend in and shit like that. And so they were making, if I remember correctly, $10 million a year-
Shaan Puri 49:36 [laughs]
Sam Parr 49:36 ... hosting these-
Shaan Puri 49:38 What, what did you just say? They used to go teach Navy SEALs [laughs] how to use charm to blend in? With what, like, the water? Like, what do you mean? [laughs]
Sam Parr 49:47 [laughs] The water. Yeah.
Shaan Puri 49:52 Like-
Sam Parr 49:52 Yeah
Shaan Puri 49:52 ... he was like, "You know what? All this espionage training you're doing, no, no, no."
Sam Parr 49:57 That's what he did.
Shaan Puri 49:58 "Learn how to- [laughs]
Sam Parr 49:59 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 49:59 ... blend in. You need to learn from me, not the Navy SEALs."
Sam Parr 50:03 No, that's what he did. It was like, uh, like, I don't fucking know. Like, uh, that's just what he told me. He was like, he, they called it, uh, operators or something, or special op, special ops or something.
Shaan Puri 50:12 That's like-
Sam Parr 50:12 He would-
Shaan Puri 50:12 Dude, I wanna start a company just called Fortune 500, and so people can be like, "Oh, yeah, I work with Fortune 500 companies." [laughs] Like, you know, hey, you're not lying. [laughs]
Sam Parr 50:23 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 50:23 It sounds cool when you're pitching your services. [laughs]
Sam Parr 50:26 It's like DMV.org or that website-
Shaan Puri 50:29 Yeah, I'm gonna make-
Sam Parr 50:29 ... where it's names pretend
Shaan Puri 50:30 ... Navy Seels, S-E-E-L-S, and you could just say, "I train Navy Seels." [laughs]
Sam Parr 50:35 Well, dude, so he was making, like, $10 million a year hosting these, like, four-day boot camps. And I knew a guy who went to one, and he said, "It changed my life." And this guy ended up, he was this dorky guy who I'm friends with, and he married this beautiful, awesome woman. And I was, like, making a joke to him, like, "How'd you pull that off?" And he's like, "Man, I went to this Art of Charm boot camp, and he just taught me how to, like, be more confident and, like, talk to women, and it totally worked." So long story short, Swag School, down.
Shaan Puri 51:02 [laughs]
Sam Parr 51:03 I'm DTF with, with Swag School.
Shaan Puri 51:05 All right. Well, you validated me there. Okay, great. So I think we c- I have more, I have so many more, um, 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.
Sam Parr 51:19 Pretty good, right? At least pretty good.
Shaan Puri 51:22 And by the way, all feedback now in the YouTube comments. I'm replying. I'm reading every single one. I don't want emails. I don't want Twitter. I only want YouTube comments now.
Sam Parr 51:31 Are you, you're, you're on board this YouTube train. It, it's going to my head. Is it going to your head?
Shaan Puri 51:35 Dude, it's so much fun. Yeah, like, A, the videos get more views now. We're out of the pathetic range where it's, like, 3.3 thousand views. I'm just like, "Oh, man," like, you know. It's like I kinda wanna, it's like I need to, like, make a disclaimer. It's like, "But, but the podcast is bigger," like, you know? Like, and now-
Sam Parr 51:52 Yeah, I, I used to say that all the time. I'd be like, "Well, the podcast views, it's like-"
Shaan Puri 51:55 It's mostly podcast.
Sam Parr 51:56 Yeah, yeah, it's mostly podcast. We just started YouTube. But now it's-
Shaan Puri 51:59 Dude, you didn't have to print out your podcast stats. It's okay. [laughs]
Sam Parr 52:03 [laughs] No, now w- I think a lot of episodes will get 20, 30, 40,000 views on YouTube, so yeah, and I'm about it. And the comments section, it is interesting. Also, some of these people are just really stupid. There's so many stupid commenters.
Shaan Puri 52:18 [laughs]
Sam Parr 52:18 Like, the, uh, you see some of the stuff they post, it's like, "What are you, what, what's this have to do with anything?" Uh, so there's a lot of stupid stuff. Oh, and there's so many scammers. The typical scam is-
Shaan Puri 52:26 The scammer is so annoying.
Sam Parr 52:29 So there's one scammer that acts like he's us, and then there's another scammer where it's like, um, "I totally agree with you, and that's why I started following-"
Shaan Puri 52:36 Well, let me explain what it is. The, the f- the first guy, this guy who's pretending to be us, he replies to every comment, and his thing is My First Million, but he's using, like, emoji for the letters. It's like, and the M is, like, a yellow M.
Sam Parr 52:46 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shaan Puri 52:46 And it's not, not the real thing. And it's like-
Sam Parr 52:47 And he's like, "Come join my WhatsApp group."
Shaan Puri 52:48 Yeah, "Come in my WhatsApp group," and he's trying to scam you on WhatsApp. And 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, like, eviscerate this person.
Sam Parr 52:58 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, like, 80 people-
Shaan Puri 53:12 There's 16 replies
Sam Parr 53:12 ... yeah, to comment.
Shaan Puri 53:13 [laughs]
Sam Parr 53:13 And so it, like, goes up number one, and it looks legit. I hate those people.
Shaan Puri 53:16 And it's like, "Linda's the best. 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," blah, blah, blah. And it just goes on and on. That's all the comments, and it's the top comment on every YouTube video-
Sam Parr 53:30 I hate it
Shaan Puri 53:30 ... for any finance related channel. It's so annoying. It's like, "You know, with the economy the way it, uh, totally agree, but with the economy the way it is nowadays-
Sam Parr 53:38 [laughs] Yeah
Shaan Puri 53:38 ... investing is harder than ever. I'm so thankful for, for, you know, Dr. Baldwin's investing, um, uh, W- WhatsApp group. I, you know, it's really been a life changer for me." And then everyone's like, "Dr. Baldwin is amazing." And it's, like, the same thing every single time.
Sam Parr 53:52 It's such a good-
Shaan Puri 53:53 I can't stand it
Sam Parr 53:53 ... it's, it's such a slick scam.
Shaan Puri 53:55 It's well done, though.
Sam Parr 53:55 It's a really well done scam, and I can't, but I can't stand it. Um, 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, so you gotta get, like, a jacket or something. You gotta get, like, a look.
Shaan Puri 54:08 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, uh, people gave me a bunch of bad ideas, so I'm still looking for a good idea. Um-
Sam Parr 54:20 All right. Well-
Shaan Puri 54:21 All right, Ben, who won?
Speaker 54:22 Uh, okay, am I giving grades or am I not giving grades?
Shaan Puri 54:24 Pick a, pick a best idea, honorable mention, and a worst idea.
Speaker 54:27 Hm. I think, uh, OnlyFans for Therapy is the best idea.
Shaan Puri 54:32 Yes.
Speaker 54:32 It is, like, both funny and is actually a good idea, and, um, I, I just, like-
Sam Parr 54:39 [laughs]
Speaker 54:39 ... I would watch, I know I could pass, like, four and a half hours on one afternoon. Like, the first half hour I'm like, "This is so stupid," but I don't quit the app, and then, like, four hours later I'm like, "This is so stupid," and I'm still watching.
Shaan Puri 54:51 Yeah. "Honey, come listen to this guy. He's so stupid. Hey, everybody on social media, come listen to this. It's so bad."
Speaker 54:56 Yeah.
Sam Parr 54:57 Yeah.
Speaker 54:57 It's fire.
Sam Parr 54:57 It's like me and John at K Plus 8.
Speaker 54:58 [laughs] Um, uh, for worst idea I gotta, since I just pumped up Shaan, I gotta take him down a notch and say Instagramahanas, worst idea.
Shaan Puri 55:09 [laughs]
Speaker 55:09 Uh, 'cause I feel like you need one food. If you, if your whole shtick is, like, all these different foods that are Instagrammable, uh, also just, like, a lot of people are doing this in different ways, Instagramahanas, zero out of 10, no points.
Shaan Puri 55:23 Well, one food would be enough, but I just like to overdeliver, so-
Speaker 55:27 Yeah. Anyway
Shaan Puri 55:27 ... you know what I mean? It's one of my greatest weaknesses.
Speaker 55:30 Yeah. [laughs]
Sam Parr 55:30 [laughs]
Speaker 55:31 And what was the third one you asked for?
Shaan Puri 55:33 Uh, what i- oh, I was gonna say you can honorable mention one of Sam's ideas perhaps, because, you know, otherwise it's sort of sad.
Sam Parr 55:38 [laughs]
Speaker 55:40 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?"
Sam Parr 55:48 [laughs]
Shaan Puri 55:51 [laughs] Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 55:54 Missed opportunity.
Sam Parr 55:55 [laughs]
Speaker 55:59 [laughs]
Sam Parr 55:59 That's hilarious.
Shaan Puri 56:00 [laughs]
Sam Parr 56:02 All right. I'm out.
Shaan Puri 56:03 Uh, all right, we're out. [outro music]
Episode duration: 56:20
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