Drunk Ideas: Only Fans For Therapy, A Secret Bookcase for your Phone, and More

Episode 351: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk drunk business ideas... some good and some bad. ----- Links: * Photo Vault app * Santa's Club * /r/popping * SlideShare * Shaan's tweet about Slideshare * Opal Camera * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: (01:20) - Drunk ideas intro (04:20) - Hideaway: A secret bookcase for your phone (11:20) - Santa's Club (16:55) - OnlyFans for Therapy (31:35) - Instagramahanas (Benihanas for photo opportunities) (40:30) - Swag School: Dating School for Indians ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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• 0:00Shaan Puri?

  This business I'm calling only problems because forget about crime. The biggest battle is what's inside. So people in life have basically the same five problems. Health, wealth, relationships, happiness, purpose in life. Everybody's got the same five problems, right? That's the dirty secret. I saw Tony Robbins once, he goes, I've helped 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, 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.

• 0:44Shaan Puri?

  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 want to 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 only fans for therapy. And here's how it works. You are going to, you pay a monthly subscription and you get to sit in fly on the wall style to somebody going through an actual therapy session with the problem that you have, right? With the area of your life that you're most curious about. You can go listen to somebody vent about their relationships, about their health problems, about their career problems, whatever it is.

• 1:30Shaan Puri?

  They're getting real therapy, but they get it subsidized. So they get cheap therapy, maybe free therapy, because there's 25 people, anonymous people who don't know their identity. You don't know, you don't know the listener's identity that get to listen in. And they get to back channel, talk a little shit in the chat. You don't get to see that. And they get to sit in on a therapy session. Therapists get more clients. People get more help and other people get kind of secondhand smoke help by being in the crowd and getting to listen to, they get the entertainment and they get help.

• 2:09Shaan Puri?

  All right, so we're here, we're gonna do a fan favorite, the drunk ideas episode. This, this episode started when I had some business ideas that, I'll admit it, I knew they were bad, but they weren't all bad, they were bad good, and bad good is a separate thing altogether. Bad good, how do you explain bad good? You know what I mean when I say that, right?

• 2:31Sam Parr?

  Yeah, it's like the lady who sells farts in a jar, like when you're telling someone about it, 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?

• 2:41Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, yeah, this, this idea is like the beefy five burrito at Taco Bell. 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, me, I don't drink, Sam doesn't drink. When's the last time you drank? Like 10 years ago?

• 3:09Sam Parr?

  Eight years ago. When was the last time you drank?

• 3:13Shaan Puri?

  Oh, well, I'm not like, you know, I don't have like my sobriety coin or whatever the hell. Like I just like, I just generally, I generally don't drink. It's not like a

• 3:21Sam Parr?

  I'm not a dork like you.

• 3:22Shaan Puri?

  I didn't have a problem.

• 3:23Sam Parr?

  Yeah. You should lie and say you did.

• 3:28Shaan Puri?

  No, no, no, I didn't have to overcome this. I just kind of got older.

• 3:35Sam Parr?

  So. 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 companion, but you never actually see her because she's just a really long distance girlfriend.

• 3:52Shaan Puri?

  And she's the best kind of girlfriend. She's only supportive. Why? Because she's paid. That's it. She's paid to be great. 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, you know, I should set up a call center in the Ukraine because I think that idea still has legs. All right, so let's do, so this time, last time it was just me. This time, we both were supposed to do this. How was this for you?

• 4:20Sam Parr?

  Dude, it was hard.

• 4:22Shaan Puri?

  How are you?

• 4:22Sam Parr?

  All of my, I've got a few, 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, but I want you to start.

• 4:32Shaan Puri?

  So you only have good ideas or bad, bad ideas?

• 4:36Sam Parr?

  No, I've got a couple of good ones. Most of mine are things that already kind of exist and I'm shocked that they work and I have what those are.

• 4:44Shaan Puri?

  All right, all right. And so, all right, so pitch, 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, 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'll go first. Can I go first?

• 5:11Sam Parr?

  Yeah, you're gonna end up going first and second and fourth and fifth probably.

• 5:18Shaan Puri?

  It's like a fantasy draft where I'm three of the teams.

• 5:20Sam Parr?

  Yeah.

• 5:21Shaan Puri?

  Okay, so, all right, the first idea, Sam, it's called Hideaway. All right, let me, 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 with public speaking. The right, that's we've heard those studies, but public speaking is sort of silly. Nobody's actually afraid of public speaking. They're afraid of public humiliation. And there's no greater humiliation than digital humiliation. I'm talking about 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. You don't know what they're gonna open and the most, I think the most.

• 6:06Sam Parr?

  And like when they go to your browser and the first letter they're gonna type in starts with a P and you're like, let's go to Auto Bill, let's go to Auto Bill.

• 6:15Shaan Puri?

  Please let me, you have Google PBS recently.

• 6:18Sam Parr?

  Yeah.

• 6:18Shaan Puri?

  And so, um, so what's the definition of pork chop?

• 6:24Sam Parr?

  Yeah.

• 6:27Shaan Puri?

  So what Hideaway does is it takes the sensitive parts of, and this is our first product, right? 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 going to 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. So they, you know, they pull the fourth book on the, on the second shelf and a, and a secret door emerges. So it's that. It's a secret bookcase.

• 7:12Shaan Puri?

  It's a Murphy door for your, for your 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 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 book, book reading app. It's got to be something that looks harmless that even a, if your parent looked over your shoulder and saw, oh, my son is just

• 7:54Shaan Puri?

  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?

• 8:01Sam Parr?

  All right. Let me, let me elaborate a little bit on this. So do me a favor and you're on a computer, go to, search Photovoltaic app.

• 8:11Shaan Puri?

  Okay, Photovoltaic app.

• 8:14Sam Parr?

  And is the first result, uh, at Apple?

• 8:19Shaan Puri?

  No, no. The first result I see is private photo vault pick safe and it's literally the icon is incredible. Hey, 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.

• 8:40Sam Parr?

  So this app, it's been reviewed 807,000 times 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. He's based out of Vegas. I can't find much information about this company, but

• 9:00Shaan Puri?

  As you shouldn't.

• 9:01Sam Parr?

  Yeah, 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 tens of millions of times and they have a premium version and the premium version, they like, it does, the premium version is like 50 bucks a year and it does, 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.

• 9:42Sam Parr?

  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

• 9:56Shaan Puri?

  This is incredible. So you know, so if you go to the Google Play store, it'll tell you the right 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 that's just on Google Play, let alone, and we, I mean, you know how I feel about Android. So we know, you know, I'm already, I'm already thinking if Google Play, if Google Play is 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 is always like, dude, Sean's always, Sean's always got a comment about Android. He just says a laughing emoji. So I decided to make that my thing. But I don't really have anything against it.

• 10:41Shaan Puri?

  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 sometimes a nosey person wants into your private photo.

• 10:52Sam Parr?

  Yes, it has that.

• 10:53Shaan Puri?

  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.

• 11:02Sam Parr?

  Dude, it's fascinating. So let's just, if we assume that Google has 10 million, which would mean that Apple probably has five times that, right? So 50 million. So he's probably has 50 to 60 million downloads ever.

• 11:14Shaan Puri?

  If you assume, okay, yeah.

• 11:16Sam Parr?

  Well, if he, well, if Google is 10 million, right? You said it's at least 10.

• 11:19Shaan Puri?

  Why would Apple be 10? Why would Apple be five times more? There's more Google users. It's more entered users.

• 11:24Sam Parr?

  Well, then maybe my math's fucked up. So let's just say it's equal. Let's just say, let's just say that it's 20 million.

• 11:30Shaan Puri?

  You don't have to bleep that. He did that with two G's. Fucked up with two G's. In fact, if your kids are in the car, turn the volume up. That was fine, what he just did. So that was good.

• 11:40Sam Parr?

  Like fuck this shiv.

• 11:44Sam Parr?

  It's good. So like, if he has 20 or 30 million downloads, do you think it's, I don't really remember like app conversion rates. Is it crazy to think that he would have a 3% conversion? Is it crazy to think that you'd have 1 million paying premium users?

• 12:01Shaan Puri?

  Not crazy. Not crazy.

• 12:03Sam Parr?

  So it's $40, which means this guy has probably gross in the lifetime 40 million bucks from his premium version.

• 12:11Shaan Puri?

  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. That company name was perfectly appropriate. We've reviewed it. We, we triple stamped the double stamp and that was correct. This is a legendary software and my drunk idea is validated. All right. You're up.

• 12:41Sam Parr?

  All right. I found something that it seems like it came out of a drunken like bar hangout one night. So do me a favor. Go to SantasClub.com.

• 12:54Shaan Puri?

  Santas Club. Oh God, is this, are we going NSFW here?

• 12:59Sam Parr?

  No, it's safe. It could go either way, but no, that's actually.

• 13:04Shaan Puri?

  Everything's safe for work now. We're working it from home, bro. Like that thing needs to be gone.

• 13:11Sam Parr?

  That's a good point. Have you seen Not Safe For Life?

• 13:15Shaan Puri?

  No.

• 13:17Sam Parr?

  On Reddit, I go to these forums and some of the stuff are tagged Not Safe For Life. And it's hilarious. It's a pretty, like it'll be like someone popping a zit and it says Not Safe For Life.

• 13:30Shaan Puri?

  Okay, so I'm on Santas Club.

• 13:32Sam Parr?

  There we go. Thank you. So Santas Club, it was started in 2020. This guy named Will Evelsizer started it and each year about 15,000 people come to his site and they spend around $75 and it only, this business only operates two months out of the year. And basically, if you go to the, if you go to the website, what you're gonna see is like your typical look at Santa Claus in a studio and he, you get to spend 15 minutes and you do a virtual Santa, sit on 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.

• 14:16Sam Parr?

  And he makes, according to, 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 $1 million 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 anymore. The guy's gotta go get more Santas.

• 14:39Shaan Puri?

  Dude, this is, 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 cameos for Santas or Sam's 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 in the cameo this holiday season.

• 15:10Sam Parr?

  Well, this is, it's very clear. Santa's Club, they just gotta get the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy. What are the other like, uh, characters?

• 15:18Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, that's great.

• 15:19Sam Parr?

  That's what you gotta do.

• 15:22Shaan Puri?

  Ben, do you guys got some holidays where you need a little, uh, character of some kind?

• 15:26Sam Parr?

  Yeah, like a Joseph Smith, like a guy in a beard with like eight wives.

• 15:30Ben?

  We got Pioneer Day. Yeah, maybe, you know, a pioneer type dude.

• 15:36Sam Parr?

  That could work.

• 15:38Sam Parr?

  No, we're gonna call-

• 15:42Sam Parr?

  We're gonna call-

• 15:43Ben?

  We got the Christian holidays. We got, we got Easter and Christmas. Sorry. I can't do more for you.

• 15:47Sam Parr?

  We're gonna call it Fairy Inc. And the employees are gonna be the fairies. 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. Does Cupid-

• 16:01Shaan Puri?

  Are we gonna have any copyright issues? Because that's also what we call morning brew on the download. Oh, got him.

• 16:10Sam Parr?

  No, 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 call, like she like has, you know, she's like a Disney, uh, like someone walks around.

• 16:29Shaan Puri?

  This is great. It's cosplay, but like, you know, a paid little cameo call or recorded video. That makes a lot of sense to me. 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- Do this, you know, 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 great job with blah, blah, blah. See you later. Next video. And like each one of those is $40 a pop.

• 17:10Sam Parr?

  You know how like on webinars, you'll see, you'll see like business webinars and it'll be like Neil Patel, who was on the pod and I'll be like, hey, everyone, this is Neil. Are we live? Is this thing working? Is this on? And it's like, 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's just, it's just a recording. It's all fake. You, you know, you could do this, you could, obviously you could do the same thing. I hate when

• 17:42Sam Parr?

  well, I don't know if Neil does it. 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, uh, like replies in there and they just, it's, you know what I mean? It's all artificial. It's all fake, but it, they make it look real and it's pretty good.

• 18:00Shaan Puri?

  Wow. Phone it in. Okay. 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?

• 18:08Sam Parr?

  Hit me.

• 18:10Shaan Puri?

  All right.

• 18:12Shaan Puri?

  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. Only fans. 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, something like that.

• 18:55Shaan Puri?

  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 want to listen to like a?

• 19:02Sam Parr?

  Dude, I listen to it all the time. If I hear a gunshot or like a loud backfire of a car, I immediately open it up. And I'm like, all right, let's see what, what, what's going on here? Was it real or was it not?

• 19:12Shaan Puri?

  And so there's a curiosity component. People, I think, just like listening to a train wreck in a way, they like to observe from a safe distance.

• 19:20Sam Parr?

  Do you have the app called Citizen?

• 19:22Shaan Puri?

  Citizen is just like this. Yeah. Where it's like,

• 19:25Sam Parr?

  Dude, I had to quit using that because when I'm in Brooklyn, like I'll pull it up. It looks like my phone screen is chickenpox. Like there's red dots all over the place. I'm like, there's crime everywhere. You know what I'm saying? Like I can't be doing that anymore.

• 19:38Shaan Puri?

  So, okay. This business I'm calling Only Problems, because forget about crime. The biggest battle is what's inside. So people in life have basically the same five problems. Health, wealth, relationships, happiness, purpose in life. Everybody's got the same five problems, right? That's the dirty secret. I saw Tony Robbins once. He goes, I've helped 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, 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.

• 20:24Shaan Puri?

  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. It's too vulnerable. They don't want to do it. People would rather sit on Netflix and just watch reality TV for distraction and entertainment. Wait a minute. Is that a great idea? Is that a great idea I just heard? Yes, it is. You turn therapy into entertainment. So it's called Only Problems. It's OnlyFans for therapy. And here's how it works. You are going to, you pay a monthly subscription and you get to sit in fly on the wall style to somebody going through an actual therapy session with the problem that you have, with the area of your life that you're most curious about. You can go listen to somebody event about their relationships, about their health problems,

• 21:07Shaan Puri?

  about their career problems, whatever it is, they're getting real therapy. But they get it subsidized. So they get cheap therapy, maybe free therapy, because there's 25 people, anonymous people who don't know their identity. You don't know the, you don't know the listener's identity, that get to listen in. And they get to back channel, talk a little shit in the chat. You don't get to see that. And they get to sit in on a therapy session. Therapists get more clients. People get more help and other people get kind of secondhand smoke help by being in the crowd and getting to listen to. They get the entertainment and they get help.

• 21:42Sam Parr?

  Have you ever seen the movie?

• 21:43Shaan Puri?

  Honestly, honestly, I'm going to just say it right now. I wrote this idea down and I got, I got goosebumps under this hairy arm.

• 21:53Sam Parr?

  Yeah, you got little, little arm mountains. Dude, have you, uh, have you seen the movie Fight Club?

• 22:00Shaan Puri?

  Of course.

• 22:01Sam Parr?

  So there's like, one of the premises of the movie is that this guy, Ed Norton, I guess he's Tyler, I don't know. I forget his name, Tyler Durden. And then he meets that woman that's like the love interest. And what they do is they go to terminal cancer anonymous meetings. And I don't know why, I forget why, but they like, it makes them feel alive and it like makes them feel happy because they think that they're all screwed up. And they're like, I want to 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. You know what I mean?

• 22:37Shaan Puri?

  Yeah. Gratitude as a service. Right. It ain't so bad after all, we say when the app opens up.

• 22:44Sam Parr?

  Yeah.

• 22:46Shaan Puri?

  Could be worse.

• 22:48Sam Parr?

  This guy's a freak.

• 22:52Shaan Puri?

  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.

• 23:02Sam Parr?

  So you're incentivized to be screwed up.

• 23:05Shaan Puri?

  You can just make stuff up, to be honest with you, but like, you're definitely, it's Jerry Springer, right? Why do we like Jerry Springer? Why do you still watch Jerry Springer reruns every morning before work? Because we like to watch other people have effed 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. I'm, but I'm doing it through an app. I'm doing it. It's called Only Problems. And honestly, if you're gonna run with this, you better hit Sean at Sean Purie dot com. That's all I can say. I need to, I need to see an email from somebody tried this idea. I feel like, I genuinely feel like this is one of those ideas that's like, no way. And then it gets huge.

• 23:42Sam Parr?

  It reminds me of like the people who want to go watch someone do surgery. Have you ever seen like those like setups where you were for?

• 23:48Shaan Puri?

  No.

• 23:49Sam Parr?

  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 mirror almost. Yeah. And you have like a black, it's like watching an execution almost like you just like sit there 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?

• 24:08Shaan Puri?

  No, but I, I was gonna bring up the addictive way that people watch you like pop a blackhead or a pimple or whatever.

• 24:14Sam Parr?

  Dude, there's a subreddit, there's a subreddit called popping. I've been on the front of it. Uh, you see, I've been on the front page. You see this scar right here?

• 24:22Shaan Puri?

  Uh, yes. Yeah.

• 24:23Sam Parr?

  So I have a, 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 and get it taken out. And right before I go under, I go to the surgeon, I go, hey, man, do you have your iPhone on you? He goes, yeah. I go, 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, a surgery. So I could post it on r slash popping and he did it. He, he texted me 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

• 25:05Sam Parr?

  on my photo album. And so, uh, I'm a member of r slash popping. I love it. And so.

• 25:10Shaan Puri?

  You may not have a blue check mark on Twitter, but you always have this.

• 25:17Shaan Puri?

  Put this in your bio. Put this on your LinkedIn.

• 25:19Sam Parr?

  Front page.

• 25:20Shaan Puri?

  Former front page, former front pager, serial front pager of r slash popping.

• 25:25Sam Parr?

  Dude, I have it. I 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 putted it into the hole. And like, so you like see this whole process of like, there be a growth.

• 25:39Shaan Puri?

  When you move out of an apartment and you hung up some paintings and you gotta fill a hole?

• 25:43Sam Parr?

  Yeah. He took a little fat off me and he just like putted 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 so it just kind of like took a little.

• 25:56Shaan Puri?

  Flex, but okay?

• 25:57Sam Parr?

  Well, I have muscular legs, not always a muscular stomach.

• 26:01Shaan Puri?

  As a version, one of our credos is we don't mess with perfection. So I couldn't touch the legs.

• 26:10Sam Parr?

  So anyway, on board with only problems. Good idea.

• 26:15Shaan Puri?

  Thank you. Thank you. All right. You want me to go third also?

• 26:18Sam Parr?

  Let me, let me, this is the last one I probably have. Well, I got one more, but all right. The biggest, this is, this is a little bit of a stretch, but I actually don't think it is that much of a stretch. The most popular business publication in the world by digital audience. What do you think it is?

• 26:38Shaan Puri?

  Most populous what? Most popular what?

• 26:39Sam Parr?

  Most popular digital business publication in the world by traffic.

• 26:45Shaan Puri?

  Um, I'm gonna go with.

• 26:47Sam Parr?

  Wall Street Journal, there's.

• 26:51Shaan Puri?

  I'm gonna go with CoinMarketCap.com.

• 26:53Sam Parr?

  CoinMarketCap, that's a good guess. That probably does, uh, how much? Probably 50 million a month in.

• 26:59Shaan Puri?

  Something crazy, yeah.

• 27:01Sam Parr?

  So there's Wall Street Journal, there's FinancialTimes.com, there's CoinMarketCap, there's Business Insider, Business Insider probably gets a lot. I'd hypo, 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?

• 27:22Shaan Puri?

  I love SlideShare. Wow, that's, I thought you were gonna bring up Drudge Report again, by the way.

• 27:26Sam Parr?

  No. SlideShare. So SlideShare is this site that was started by, uh, I forget her name, but she's an interesting founder. She's like pretty outspoken on Twitter and I like her a lot. Anyway, she's, right? Indian woman. Yeah. She started it and she sold it to LinkedIn for like a hundred and fifty million dollars and SlideShare was a what?

• 27:43Shaan Puri?

  Most Indian social network of all time. Just PowerPoints.

• 27:50Sam Parr?

  That's what SlideShare is.

• 27:51Shaan Puri?

  Way to slack off, but make your parents proud at the same time.

• 27:53Sam Parr?

  Yeah. Did you see our buddy Sheil, he just got engaged and he goes, I have an aunt who doesn't speak English. She only knows a few words, but the only words that she knows, she texts me all the time and it says, are you married yet? And he like posted screenshots of her asking that in perfect English. Are you married yet? Please be married, please be married. So SlideShare, it's just like a, it's just a website where you upload shit, right? You upload decks. Well, LinkedIn bought it in 2012 and it just sat there. And then Scribe, do you know Scribed or is it Scribd?

• 28:29Shaan Puri?

  Scribd, yeah.

• 28:30Sam Parr?

  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. And they were for sale for a little while. So like, I don't think this is entirely guessing, but basically they get between a hundred 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 decks, conference decks on a 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.

• 29:12Sam Parr?

  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, 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 conferences. 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?

• 29:56Sam Parr?

  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.

• 30:15Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, you have super high value customers because it's only business people that are going to be doing this. So who bought them? Didn't LinkedIn buy them at some point or no?

• 30:25Sam Parr?

  LinkedIn bought them in 2012 and it just sat there and they did nothing with it. And then they sold it.

• 30:31Shaan Puri?

  Crazy to me.

• 30:31Sam Parr?

  Yeah, and I think they paid 150, paid nine figures for it. And then they sold it to Scribd. And if I had a bet, Scribd, 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.

• 30:48Shaan Puri?

  So check out this tweet I just put in the chat.

• 30:52Sam Parr?

  Okay, it says, it's from you and it says, free 500 million dollar idea. Reinvent and relaunch SlideShare. All right, great, great minds that can like, if there's a, if there's a talented engineer designer who wants to do this, I'll give you money and share my one page plan on how to attack this. All right, dude, we're on the same page here, I think.

• 31:12Shaan Puri?

  Do you want to see my one page plan?

• 31:14Sam Parr?

  Yeah.

• 31:14Shaan Puri?

  You can't, it doesn't exist. I just wrote that out and I was like, if somebody actually reaches out, that's interesting for this. I will come up with a one page plan of how I would do this 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 and didn't, didn't become obsolete. And, 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.

• 31:47Sam Parr?

  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 have given it to you. It would have been like, it would have been free. I don't know about, because 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.

• 32:11Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, an undisclosed price. This would have been. I mean, I can't imagine this was that much. I could be wrong, but like.

• 32:19Sam Parr?

  It didn't make any revenue.

• 32:20Shaan Puri?

  I feel like they probably got this for like $10 million or something.

• 32:23Sam Parr?

  Or less.

• 32:24Shaan Puri?

  Yeah.

• 32:25Sam Parr?

  Wow. Or less.

• 32:26Shaan Puri?

  Missed opportunity. That is a serious missed opportunity.

• 32:29Sam Parr?

  That's not that drunk of an idea, but anyway, it's an idea.

• 32:34Shaan Puri?

  All right. I got another one. Let me, let me, let me make.

• 32:36Sam Parr?

  I'm all out, by the way.

• 32:38Shaan Puri?

  I, you don't want to know how long this list is.

• 32:42Shaan Puri?

  And it all came to me in one giant flood. Dumped them all out.

• 32:47Sam Parr?

  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 around it?

• 32:55Shaan Puri?

  No joke, that's part of it. My thing was sort of like, you have to find something relatable, either something that really sucks, or that's really awesome, and then just use it in an unexpected way, right? So like.

• 33:09Sam Parr?

  Like the cronut. You're just smashing two things together.

• 33:12Shaan Puri?

  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, 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.

• 33:30Sam Parr?

  Have you ever seen, have you ever seen those for guns? So 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?

• 33:41Shaan Puri?

  Yeah.

• 33:42Sam Parr?

  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. And they're pretty sick.

• 33:50Shaan Puri?

  That's pretty cool. Okay. I like that. I could put like my fanny pack in there maybe for when I leave the house.

• 33:55Sam Parr?

  Like some Cheez-Its.

• 34:00Shaan Puri?

  But would it fit a regulation sized bag of corn nuts?

• 34:08Sam Parr?

  Your cheese it, your cheese it's storage.

• 34:12Shaan Puri?

  All right. So speaking of work backers from a great idea, here's the, here's the name of this one. I mean, Ben, you might want to get your pencil out for the top winner of the, of the episode.

• 34:23Shaan Puri?

  Instagram ahanas. Sounds a little weird. Sort of like Benny Hana's. It's Benny Hana's for photo opportunities. Okay. So here's how it works. It's a restaurant that's not about the food. It's a restaurant about the content.

• 34:39Sam Parr?

  Like the museum of ice cream, baby.

• 34:40Shaan Puri?

  People roll in their, it's like the museum of ice cream, but it's seated. And it is, uh, like basically people go to restaurants, they order food. They'll order like, oh, we got a fishbowl drink or we're drinking beer out of a shoe. And like, oh, we got the huge like donut at the end and they take pictures and it becomes content.

• 35:01Sam Parr?

  Or like they use sparklers instead of birthday candles.

• 35:04Shaan Puri?

  Now I started a restaurant. I know all the problems about restaurants. You've got all this food waste, you've got high labor costs, you've got all this. You don't actually, you're not running this like a restaurant. So here's how it works. It's like Benny Hana's, 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 basically food is going to 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, the mega green donut. How are we ever going to eat this?

• 35:49Shaan Puri?

  Oh, look, it's so funny to watch me try. That sort of thing. Oh, the, this guy's going to 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. 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.

• 36:11Sam Parr?

  We're going to call it the, uh, the food porn cafe.

• 36:15Shaan Puri?

  Instagram Hanas is the name, but if you'd like to launch a competitor, bring it on. There's a drone camera that just flies right above the table and it's just recording the whole thing and it's just gonna, it just dumps it in 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, because the food gets revealed, you know, like on a shop.

• 36:43Sam Parr?

  It's no, it's like, it's like when you get a picture on a roller coaster.

• 36:47Shaan Puri?

  Exactly. It's exactly, but we're using outsourced labor. The drone is capturing everything 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 instead of being cool and having to like, know how to dance and stand up on the table and drink champagne at nine 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 be your reactions on your, and your attempts are all, all photo and video recorded. Hundred dollars a person, plus tips, eight people per table. I'm thinking, you know, 20, maybe 30 tables, you know, two or three turns per night. And we're talking a million dollar a month, easy on this. Food cost is

• 37:32Shaan Puri?

  way down because it's not even real food. You're just doing like giant popcorn and silly stuff. You know, no proteins. You don't have to worry about that. There's no food waste because it's, you're just bringing out one thing for the table to react to. It's not even like feeding each person.

• 37:43Sam Parr?

  Your five, your five pound burger doesn't need to taste good.

• 37:46Shaan Puri?

  Exactly. It's like Benny Hanas, there's like a Harvard Business School case study on how amazing Benny Hanas is. And one of the reasons is like, they, because they put, there's no kitchen space. They use the whole restaurant for like, for dining, because the chef is at the table, the stove is the table, basically. And they have like higher labor costs because they have skilled chefs, but they have way lower, like, you know, 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.

• 38:14Sam Parr?

  Have you ever?

• 38:15Shaan Puri?

  What do you think?

• 38:16Sam Parr?

  I'm in, I'm into it. Have you ever heard the background of Benny Hana, the guy?

• 38:21Shaan Puri?

  Rocky, I think is his name.

• 38:23Sam Parr?

  Yeah, so he's basically, we wrote about it and it was one of our most trafficked trafficked articles for a long time. He's basically, you know, he's an immigrant, came here with nothing. And then you know who his son is, is Steve Aoki, the DJ.

• 38:35Shaan Puri?

  Oh, no way. I did not know that.

• 38:37Sam Parr?

  Yeah. And this guy Rocky, I think he, I forget the article, but 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 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, it's a really interesting story and people love that company and it's still crushing. I went, I, we used to go to team dinners there. I fucking love Benihanas. But dude, I'm into this.

• 39:03Shaan Puri?

  Always bring it up, dude. When we're in like a car and it's like, oh, we're gonna be, I'm like, I think there's a Benihanas around here. But I'm just like, I'm just waiting for that to latch. Somebody to be like, that'd be fun. Never. I never get any support on it. I'm always tossing the little Benihana, you know, test flair out there. But like, uh, you know, I guess we could do big group stuff with Benihanas. They got good tables. And then like, no one ever bites. I don't know why. I've like, I've been, I'm 0 for 12 on this thing.

• 39:30Sam Parr?

  How is that? Remember that guy you brought up on Instagram during the pandemic who started that cookie business that just made the most ridiculous cookies? Remember?

• 39:37Shaan Puri?

  My cookie dealer, I think is.

• 39:39Sam Parr?

  My cookie, how's he doing?

• 39:41Shaan Puri?

  He's great. I checked in. I don't know. I think they're doing fine. I'm not sure. I ordered their cookies. Honestly, they were not great. So then I'm 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.

• 39:55Sam Parr?

  And what about Muse- 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, 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?

• 40:15Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, you've never been to it?

• 40:17Sam Parr?

  No.

• 40:17Shaan Puri?

  But there is. 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.

• 40:29Sam Parr?

  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?

• 40:39Shaan Puri?

  I thought so, but then the SF1 closed, so I don't know what happened, but.

• 40:44Sam Parr?

  Well, SF closed.

• 40:47Shaan Puri?

  Right.

• 40:48Sam Parr?

  So, but the Manhattan one, the Manhattan one is, I mean, that's really what it's like SF just like shut down for maintenance. So they just been down for like four years.

• 40:59Shaan Puri?

  Museum of Ice Cream said the same thing that every like tech person in San Francisco said, it's ah, fuck it, I'm out of here.

• 41:03Sam Parr?

  Yeah.

• 41:06Shaan Puri?

  It was like an audible sigh of just like, ah, fine, I'm out.

• 41:10Sam Parr?

  Yeah. 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 ever take like, you gotta take a food and put it in a weird shape or a weird size or a weird color? Yeah, or you mash.

• 41:30Shaan Puri?

  A weird container.

• 41:32Sam Parr?

  A weird container. Yeah, or you mash two things that are kind of related, but not entirely related, like a burger in the shape of a hot dog or a Cronut or something like that.

• 41:41Shaan Puri?

  Doritos, Loco Taco, whatever the big Taco Bell thing.

• 41:44Sam Parr?

  Exactly. Or you take something that's typically a side or a topping and you make that the only thing, like a cookie dough only place that serves it in an ice cream tin or an ice cream thing. What else were they? I forget what they were.

• 41:56Shaan Puri?

  You're like the the Rain Man of figuring out this food trick. Like everybody else just saw each one of these. It's like, oh, that's weird. That's weird. And you're like, I see the pattern.

• 42:06Shaan Puri?

  Like Sam, what's wrong with the left side of your face right now?

• 42:10Sam Parr?

  I need to go to your.

• 42:11Shaan Puri?

  Downloading it. I figured it. I'm figuring it out.

• 42:13Sam Parr?

  No, it's it's all rooted in like an eating disorder. Like I go to I go to food therapy and 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.

• 42:27Shaan Puri?

  Yeah.

• 42:27Sam Parr?

  So I just study that shit, man.

• 42:29Shaan Puri?

  With a titty roll under your pillow for some reason.

• 42:30Sam Parr?

  Yeah. The amount of times that I've eaten a jar of Jif peanut butter in one sitting is goddamn just way too high.

• 42:38Sam Parr?

  It's way too high.

• 42:39Shaan Puri?

  We need a Jif of you just eating a jar of Jif in one sitting. That's the.

• 42:43Sam Parr?

  Have you ever done?

• 42:44Shaan Puri?

  NFT.

• 42:45Sam Parr?

  Dude, I've eaten a full jar with just a spoon multiple times. It's just too addicting.

• 42:51Shaan Puri?

  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.

• 42:58Shaan Puri?

  You probably don't watch this show, but there's a show that's hot on Netflix called Indian Matchmaker. Have you seen it?

• 43:05Sam Parr?

  Of course I watch that show.

• 43:06Shaan Puri?

  You watch it? Okay. I thought this might be only entertaining to Indian people because it's like.

• 43:10Sam Parr?

  No, dude.

• 43:11Shaan Puri?

  Pretty bad.

• 43:11Sam Parr?

  Are you kidding me? I watch it all the time and in my head, I'm just thinking,

• 43:16Sam Parr?

  y'all are screwed up. You guys are so weird. Like, are you kidding me? Like I, how is the suicide rate not higher amongst you people?

• 43:27Shaan Puri?

  You're like, don't make me send the British back in there. Are you guys gonna get your shit together?

• 43:32Sam Parr?

  What the hell, man? Like there'll be this like beautiful doctor in her 30s, making money. She's pretty. She's nice and and her mom's like yelling at her, like criticizing her for not being married. It's crazy.

• 44:03Shaan Puri?

  So my sister called me last night. She's like, I finished season two. And she just goes, I need to ask you something. I hope it's not too personal. I was like, what's it gonna be? She goes, when you first met, when you first met Sonia, did you, did you have game? Cause on the show, the Indian guys have zero game. And I was like, what do you mean? Like, I guess so. And then she's like, no, think about, she was like, she was like, these guys, they're nice guys. They're smart guys. They're like, you know, they're, they have good job. They're normal people. They have no crazy drug habits. The reason they're still single is because they don't know how to look at, talk to, or touch a girl.

• 44:44Shaan Puri?

  And I was like, oh yeah, I had that problem. Yeah, that's me too. Actually, you're right.

• 44:49Sam Parr?

  Dude, I saw, I saw someone post a picture of a painting of a naked woman from like the 1700s.

• 44:58Sam Parr?

  And it was all Indian guys commenting saying like, hey, baby, I love you. I love you for a long time. Text me, call me.

• 45:09Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, that's like, if you're ever a girl who does like live streaming on like whatever Twitch or like whatever Periscope, whatever, whatever app. 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. And they just keep saying, show bobs.

• 45:33Sam Parr?

  So you didn't have game? You were, you were, you were.

• 45:38Shaan Puri?

  So, so I asked, 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. And she's like, you were good at like telling stories or you would say interesting things.

• 45:53Sam Parr?

  That counts. That's, that's game.

• 45:55Shaan Puri?

  Like the basic like man shit. She's like, you didn't know how to like, kind of like, you know. There was no smoothness to like the, oh, we're walking down the street like let's, I 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, let me sit down first. It's like, you know, Don't, don't give me a high five when we're, when we're like, you know, ending the day. And don't say like, see ya when we leave, like, you know, say something else, like, you know, like Uber would show up. And it's like, I was like, I opened the door for you.

• 46:38Shaan Puri?

  She's like, yeah, you would like, open the door and be like, scoot in, like, I like scoot all the way across and then I'll sit on this, I'll get in after you. It's like, you know, you're supposed to go to the other side and like, open the door for me and then you go to the other side. I was like, oh yeah, like, that's so much effort, like, you know, it's fine. 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 kind of was like an amazing girl and she taught me one thing, which was, she was like, you know, whenever you're, actually, we didn't even really date, we're 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. I think Sambo is fighting.

• 47:22Shaan Puri?

  Isn't it, isn't it Sambo, like Russian jujitsu? Yeah. Samba, I guess, and salsa. And she was like, okay, so just like, put your hand here and 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, my hands like, you know, like limp, basically, it's like my hand was bare, but like, there was no firmness to it. It was like, you know, it was nothing. And she goes, if you're gonna touch a girl, touch with intent. And I was like, oh, and 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. 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.

• 48:08Shaan Puri?

  Basically, it's swag school 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 Sean and I am awkward. And then everybody says, welcome Sean. And then the next guy says, hey, my name is Pradeep, uh, Dr. Bay Area. Um, and I am awkward. And it just goes around the circle. And it's going to 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, 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?

• 48:50Shaan Puri?

  You can't learn it in a textbook. So that's it. Swag school. What do you think?

• 48:54Sam Parr?

  Love it. Um, have you heard, do you remember Art of Charm? Our friend Jordan, 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 bootcamp for men? Is that what, was it five days? Do you remember?

• 49:08Shaan Puri?

  I don't really know. I know he has the podcast and I used to read the blog.

• 49:11Sam Parr?

  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 hosting these.

• 49:38Shaan Puri?

  What did you just say? They used to go teach Navy SEALs how to use charm to blend in with what? Like the water?

• 49:52Shaan Puri?

  He was like, you know what? All this espionage training you're doing? No, no, no.

• 49:57Sam Parr?

  That's what he did.

• 50:01Shaan Puri?

  You need to learn from me.

• 50:03Sam Parr?

  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, they called it, uh, operators or something or special op, special ops.

• 50:11Shaan Puri?

  That's like, dude, I want to start a company just called Fortune 500. And so people could be like, oh yeah, I work with Fortune 500 companies. Like, you know, hey, you're not lying. It sounds cool when you're pitching your services.

• 50:26Sam Parr?

  It's like DMV.org or whatever that website is.

• 50:30Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, I'm gonna make Navy Seals, S.E.E.L.S. And you could just say, yeah, I train Navy Seals.

• 50:35Sam Parr?

  Well, dude, so he was making like $10 million a year hosting these like four day bootcamps. 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 bootcamp 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. I'm DTF with swag school.

• 51:05Shaan Puri?

  All right, well, you validated me there. Okay, great. So I think we, I have more, I have so many more. But I think we save it. If people like this, we can make this a recurring thing. This is the second edition of Drunk Ideas. Let us know what you think in the YouTube.

• 51:19Sam Parr?

  Pretty good, right? At least pretty good.

• 51:22Shaan Puri?

  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.

• 51:31Sam Parr?

  Are you, you're, you're on board of this YouTube train. It's going to my head, is it going to your head?

• 51:35Shaan Puri?

  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 kind of want to, it's like, I need to like make a disclaimer. It's like, but, but the podcast is bigger, like, you know, like.

• 51:52Sam Parr?

  Yeah, I used to say it all the time. I'd be like, well, the podcast feed gets like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's mostly podcasts. We just started YouTube. But now it's.

• 51:59Shaan Puri?

  You didn't have to print out your podcast stats, it's okay.

• 52:03Sam Parr?

  No, now, I think a lot of episodes will get 20, 30, 40,000 views on YouTube. So, yeah, and I'm about it. And the comment section, it is interesting. Also, some of these people are just. Really stupid. There's so many stupid commenters like you see some of the stuff they post. It's like, what do you, what's this have to do with anything? Uh, so there's a lot of stupid stuff. And there's so many scammers. The typical scam is-

• 52:27Shaan Puri?

  The scammer is so annoying.

• 52:29Sam Parr?

  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-

• 52:37Shaan Puri?

  The, the first guy, this guy is pretending to be us. He replies to every comment and his thing is my first million, but he's using like emoji for the letters. It's like, and the M is like a yellow M.

• 52:46Sam Parr?

  And he's like, come join my WhatsApp group.

• 52:48Shaan Puri?

  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.

• 52:58Sam Parr?

  I hate it. And it says, I totally agree with what you just said. In fact, that's why I started following Aunt Linda. She's taught me all I need to know about Forex trading and crypto trading. If you're interested, here's her information. And then somehow they get like 80 people, yeah, to comment. And so like goes up number one and it looks legit. I hate those people.

• 53:17Shaan Puri?

  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 that's all the comments. And it's the top comment on every YouTube video-

• 53:30Sam Parr?

  I hate it.

• 53:31Shaan Puri?

  For any finance related channel. It's so annoying. It's like, you know, with the economy, the way, I totally agree. But with the economy, the way it is nowadays, investing is harder than ever. I'm so thankful for, for, you know, Dr. Baldwin's investing. 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. I can't stand it.

• 53:53Sam Parr?

  It's such a slick scam. It's a really well done scam and I can't, but I can't stand it. So anyway, yeah, I'm on board YouTube. That's our place now, which means you're got to start like where, this is my jacket. So you gotta like, you gotta get like a jacket or something. You gotta get like a look.

• 54:08Shaan Puri?

  Well, I just have this, so- Yes, I gotta have a look. You're absolutely right. In fact, I tweeted that out. I said, I need a look. And people gave me a bunch of bad ideas, so I'm still looking for a good idea.

• 54:20Ben?

  All right, well.

• 54:21Shaan Puri?

  Who won?

• 54:21Ben?

  Uh, okay. Am I giving grades or am I not giving grades?

• 54:24Shaan Puri?

  Pick a, pick a best idea honorable mention and a worst idea.

• 54:27Ben?

  Hmm. I think, uh, OnlyFans for Therapy is the best idea. It is like both funny and is actually a good idea. And, um, I just like, 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.

• 54:51Shaan Puri?

  Honey, come listen to this guy. He's so stupid. Hey, everybody on social media, come listen to this. It's so bad.

• 54:56Ben?

  Yeah. It's like me and Johnny K plus eight.

• 55:00Ben?

  Um, uh, for worst idea, I gotta, since I just pumped up Sean, I gotta take him down a notch and say Instagram Ohana's worst idea. Cause I feel like you need one food. If you have your whole shtick is like all these different foods that are Instagrammable. Also just like a lot of people are doing this in different ways. Instagram Ohana's zero out of 10.

• 55:23Shaan Puri?

  One food would be enough, but I just like to over deliver. So you don't need, it's one of my greatest weaknesses.

• 55:31Ben?

  And what was the third one you asked for?

• 55:33Shaan Puri?

  Uh, what is, I was gonna say you can honorable mention one of Sam's ideas perhaps because you know, otherwise.

• 55:40Ben?

  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?

• 55:54Ben?

  Missed opportunity.

• 55:59Ben?

  That was hilarious.

• 56:02Ben?

  All right.

• 56:03Shaan Puri?

  I'm out.