The Boys React: Andrew Tate's 3rd Month in Prison, Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury, & Covid Lab Leak Theory

Episode 426: In the Friday segment called The Boys React, Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) give their two cents on a few relevant business stories. Check it out... SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com ----- Links: * Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury * Andrew Tate Twitter * John Stewart on The Late Show * Felix Dennis house * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Show Notes: (00:30) - Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury (03:35) - Andrew Tate detained in Romania (05:20) - Lab leak theory for COVID-19 (11:10) - Felix Dennis house (14:15) - Snowplow naming contest (17:00) - Bluesky ----- 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?

  I told you I'm in content mode, baby. I'm writing and I'm, I got some gems. Uh, I'll give you the headline of something I'm writing right now. I haven't even released this, any of this stuff yet. But, but it's called, congratulations, you climbed Mount Stupid.

• 0:24Ben?

  All right. What's up, fellas? It's Friday. How you guys doing?

• 0:27Shaan Puri?

  Doing great.

• 0:27Ben?

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

• 0:58Sam Parr?

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

• 1:39Shaan Puri?

  Gets the heart rate up.

• 1:40Sam Parr?

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

• 2:05Shaan Puri?

  I mean, props to him. First of all, came on the show. So gotta give him credit for that. Came on, came on our show. Now he's doing other shows. These are all, you know, just highlights of his life, I'm sure.

• 2:17Sam Parr?

  Just a correlation.

• 2:18Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, exactly. I'm not saying one caused the other, but like.

• 2:22Sam Parr?

  Probably.

• 2:23Shaan Puri?

  We did do our show before, you know, a lot of this stuff happened.

• 2:26Sam Parr?

  We, we did do our show before he did every other show.

• 2:30Shaan Puri?

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

• 2:51Sam Parr?

  He's an amateur, he's a very good amateur boxer.

• 2:52Shaan Puri?

  Very good amateur boxer and he's an entertainer. And like, he, you know, he's done an amazing job staying relevant, but evolving the game with him. I think that a lot of people hate on this guy or laugh at him or whatever else. I think there's a lot of good lessons you can take about reinventing yourself and finding a way to merge, maybe things you're interested in or passionate about with your skills in the world of business or entertainment. And he's done it phenomenally well. And thinking from first principles, like him and his brother Logan, they didn't just ask, what should I do next as a YouTuber? They were like, what can I do next using this audience and this fame? And they came up with different answers than 99.9% of other YouTubers out there. You gotta give him credit for that.

• 3:38Sam Parr?

  Yeah, and he's tough. I don't think he's gonna be a great boxer, but he's super tough for doing that. So that's awesome. Next?

• 3:46Ben?

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

• 4:06Sam Parr?

  Oof. I don't know much about it. Do you?

• 4:09Shaan Puri?

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

• 4:28Sam Parr?

  He also said, dude, he said, I've been in this thing for 30 days now. They don't let me out. Just imagine locking yourself in your bedroom for 24 hours. Just go ahead and do that now. Think about where I'm going through. I wanted to cry, but then he said like, but I realized I'm too tough for that. But it sounds like not good.

• 4:46Shaan Puri?

  Why does he have Twitter access? Does everybody, can somebody explain this to me? Because he tweeted out two hours ago, my body is in jail, but my mind is not in jail. Do you understand? What I don't understand is how do you have Twitter right now?

• 4:58Sam Parr?

  Yeah, I don't know either.

• 4:59Shaan Puri?

  What kind of lax prison is this?

• 5:02Sam Parr?

  Yeah. And you said, are you going to be putting free Tate in your Twitter bio? No, I'm not going to be putting that. I don't care.

• 5:09Shaan Puri?

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

• 5:19Sam Parr?

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

• 5:34Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, he's kind of cringe, to be honest with you. But yeah, let's go on.

• 5:37Sam Parr?

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

• 5:52Shaan Puri?

  I am not surprised. I am not surprised. This, ever since that one Jon Stewart clip, have you seen this, this Jon Stewart clip, Sam, where he goes on the Colbert show?

• 6:01Sam Parr?

  He was ringing the bell early on, right?

• 6:03Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, it was pretty early on. This was like when it was still unpopular. And in fact, you would get like censored or your videos taken down or like a giant flag saying, this person's a conspiracy theorist for saying it. And he goes on the Colbert show and he does this little bit where he goes, he says something about the lab leak and you know, it's leaked from a lab and it's crazy. And then Colbert goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, we, you know, lab leak. I mean, you're saying that we, we, we don't know that there's no evidence. He goes, evidence? There's a coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, where there is the Wuhan coronavirus lab. He goes, it's in the name. He just keeps going off. He's like, he's like, there's a chocolate leak in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

• 6:48Shaan Puri?

  Is this, you know, was this random? Or maybe it's the chocolate factory, you know? Like, he brings this up and it was just like so obvious at that point. It's like, what? How unlikely would it be that in all places? The novel, he's like, the novel coronavirus originates in Wuhan, where there is the Wuhan novel coronavirus research lab. Like, you know, you're telling me that that just happened to be the case? Like, seems like the odds are that it came from that lab, not that it just happened to be in that lab, in that same area.

• 7:20Sam Parr?

  I remember my friend Jack telling me about this like early on. And my friend Jack is not quite a, he's not a conspiracy theorist at all, but he is very open minded and like, he believes like, he doesn't believe lots of things, but he'll like, when people say that, they originally were thinking, well, that's crazy. And his response was like, okay, well, let's see what the evidence is and maybe we'll explore it. And I remember him telling me that. I'm like, Jack, you're pretty crazy for thinking that. And my big lesson over these last three years, as it regards to this story, is not like, did it or did it not come out of that? But now it's looking like maybe it did, or at least for sure it did. Somewhere between maybe and for sure, not for sure it didn't. And my takeaway is there's things that I used to dismiss as just crazy and only crazy people would believe this.

• 8:05Sam Parr?

  But I've seen over the last five or 10 years, as I've like, become more of an adult and like paid attention to these things, I've seen that like, man, crazy things do happen. And also, a lot of huge life-changing things are just accidents. They just happen like, and now I have a little bit more of an open mind. When people say like, well, this person is conspiring with this other person to make this happen or whatever. And I'm like, oh, maybe they're, let's, let's have an open mind and explore the facts if we can.

• 8:32Shaan Puri?

  Right. Yeah, there's a, I remember back when this first started, it was basically considered racist to say that the virus might have leaked from the lab in China. And I never understood that. I was like, why would that be racist? How is that racist? I lived in China. I don't find this racist in any way. Like, what are you talking about? And it reminds me of one time I tweeted out my favorite books. I've tweeted out five of my favorite books or something like that. And then the comment goes, a bunch of people started commenting, they go, there's not one woman on this list. And I go, these are my favorite books. What are you talking, what are you talking about? I have to have 50% diversity in my favorite books? And I just replied, I go, all my favorite NBA players are black.

• 9:17Shaan Puri?

  And that just set people off. That totally triggered everybody. Cause I was like, no, I am not apologizing because I named five of my favorite books. And they just so happened to be written by men. Like, that is not at all what I'm talking about. And you're trying to like, you know, I called these people meter maids. They just run around the internet looking for little tickets at the cars that they could ticket. Like, where can I go be offended? You didn't, you were not inclusive enough for me. Take it. And I was like, what are you talking about? That's not even what this was about. Did you invent meter maid? Yeah, yeah, I did that last night. I told you I'm in content mode, baby. I'm writing and I got some gems. I'll give you the headline of something I'm writing right now. I haven't even released this, any of this stuff yet.

• 9:58Shaan Puri?

  But, but it's called, congratulations, you climbed Mount stupid. And I'm just working backwards from that headline to be like, what's the, what is the content here? But I, but I've just got a bunch of gems that I'm putting in my, on my email list. By the way, go, go subscribe to my email list. I'll put it in the show notes. It's seanpurry.com and go, go put your thing in there. I'm writing 365 original pieces in the next, in the next year. So one a day will go out and one of them is going to be called, congratulations, you climbed Mount stupid. What are you doing? Like a daily email? Yeah, but it's a sequence. That would never work. It'll, it'll work. I know, I'm joking because we both had, bad joke.

• 10:43Ben?

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• 10:57Shaan Puri?

  All right, Ben, what do you got?

• 10:59Ben?

  All right, let's go rapid fire through a few of these. I don't know if you guys saw this, the Felix Dennis house. So Felix Dennis, very famous entrepreneur.

• 11:05Shaan Puri?

  Your boy. I love him.

• 11:07Ben?

  Yeah, publisher of Oz and author of How to Be Rich. So he built this house for five million pounds. It just sold for four million pounds. It's really cool, but one of the weirdest houses you'll ever see. It's mostly a pool in the middle and it's Treasure Island themed with like palm trees and like a bunch of pirate stuff. And the whole house only has two bedrooms. So the question is, fellas, does this make you guys into themed houses? Are you guys going to be building themed houses now?

• 11:34Sam Parr?

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

• 12:14Shaan Puri?

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

• 12:26Sam Parr?

  Yeah, that's what he talks about. So he basically says from age like-

• 12:29Shaan Puri?

  That was on your bucket list, right, Sam?

• 12:30Sam Parr?

  Yeah.

• 12:33Shaan Puri?

  Wasn't that your company's mission statement?

• 12:38Shaan Puri?

  Core values?

• 12:42Sam Parr?

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

• 13:16Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, I don't believe that. Everyone's happy. Wilt Chamberlain said he slept with 10,000 women in his lifetime. And if you do the math.

• 13:21Sam Parr?

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

• 13:27Shaan Puri?

  Yeah, I think it's even more than that. And because he wasn't that old at that time. By the way, you said something about themed houses. I'm in on themed houses. I think themed houses are great. And more than the, more than the theme actually is epic common area. He said two bedrooms. That, I think bedrooms are a giant waste. I think you only need a couple of bedrooms and you should have epic common areas. If you're gonna have a mansion, I don't like the eight bedroom mansion. You know, like, I got opinions on mansions and that's one of them. You gotta have epic common spaces and only a couple of bedrooms, three, four bedrooms max. I don't want to see a fifth bedroom.

• 13:59Sam Parr?

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

• 14:10Shaan Puri?

  In Colombia? He's like the Crackle Kane Foundation. Donating my wealth.

• 14:18Shaan Puri?

  All right, next one.

• 14:20Sam Parr?

  All right. Uh, I love this one. The Minnesota Department of Transportation ran a snowplow naming contest. So they got a new snowplow, they needed a name and they out, they, they crowdsourced it to the public. Here's some of the top vote getters. You're a Blizzard, Harry. Blizzo, Cleopatra, Better Call Saul and Hans Snowlow. So guys, do you have a favorite from this list?

• 14:41Sam Parr?

  The last one.

• 14:42Shaan Puri?

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

• 14:47Sam Parr?

  Remember when they did a Bodie McBoatface? When like, I think it was like, I think it was like either a ferry or a tugboat or something like that. Like a town let people vote on it and Reddit got ahold of it and they made the number one voted thing Bodie McBoatface. And so I love these viral stars. I think they're awesome.

• 15:07Shaan Puri?

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

• 15:20Sam Parr?

  That is totally wrong. I was, I think I did, what I did say, there's this, you remember how we talked about mini katana?

• 15:27Shaan Puri?

  Yeah.

• 15:29Sam Parr?

  They're sending me a gold sword, I guess, katana. I don't know the difference that has MFM on it. So I'm, I'm collecting all types of MFM stuff. I don't know if you have.

• 15:38Shaan Puri?

  To call a katana a sword, by the way.

• 15:40Sam Parr?

  Is it?

• 15:42Sam Parr?

  What?

• 15:43Shaan Puri?

  The meter maids are running around. They're excited about that one.

• 15:46Sam Parr?

  Uh, well, I have a gold katana on my way that has My First Million on it. So I'll, I'll accept all MFM stuff, but I'm not getting a tattoo with, with these.

• 15:55Shaan Puri?

  Okay. How about, how about at a million YouTube subscribers? Will you get a crowdsourced tattoo?

• 15:59Sam Parr?

  I will get a tattoo at a million for sure.

• 16:01Shaan Puri?

  When I, I went and did this podcast in LA with like this guy Cody Co.

• 16:06Sam Parr?

  So he's really good.

• 16:07Shaan Puri?

  He's kind of like a comedy YouTuber guy and.

• 16:11Sam Parr?

  His studio looked awesome.

• 16:12Shaan Puri?

  He was telling us about, they have this, they have like a network and they have some other show called Trillionaire Energy or something like that. And so he, they put it up on the screen. There's like a screen you can see while we're sitting there. And it was the two hosts in slow motion with music just getting closer together. And then these two guys just made out and I go, whoa, what's the show about? And he goes, no, they had said if they get to whatever a hundred thousand subs that they would kiss.

• 16:36Sam Parr?

  Did they really do that?

• 16:37Shaan Puri?

  And I go, oh, yeah, that's a good idea. That's how like you comedy YouTuber Hollywood people think, yeah, that's a good idea. We're not going to do that, but, but that's a great idea.

• 16:46Sam Parr?

  Did they really do it?

• 16:47Shaan Puri?

  They did. It's a hilarious video. It's in slow mo as they get closer and closer and then just make out.

• 16:51Sam Parr?

  And they tongued?

• 16:53Shaan Puri?

  It's intense.

• 16:54Sam Parr?

  I'd rather be, I'd rather be unsuccessful.

• 16:59Sam Parr?

  You know when people say like, how bad do you want it? I don't want it that bad.

• 17:03Shaan Puri?

  There's a quote about success, you gotta find the price of success and then pay it. Too expensive for me.

• 17:08Sam Parr?

  Yeah, it's out of my budget. I'm out.

• 17:12Shaan Puri?

  We have, we have food at home.

• 17:15Sam Parr?

  You want to do one more?

• 17:16Ben?

  Yeah, it's the last one. All right, last one. So, uh, Blue Sky is a new Twitter clone, uh, backed by Jack Dorsey. And unlike Twitter, it is decentralized. And so the question is, fellas, are you supporting our comrades over at Blue Sky? Or are you supporting the capitalist pigs over at Twitter? What's your move?

• 17:36Sam Parr?

  Dude, Jack Dorsey owns a bank. How are you gonna call him a comrade? Right?

• 17:42Ben?

  I mean, he's, he's moving away from capital. He's seen the error of his ways.

• 17:45Sam Parr?

  Dude, when I hear, okay, so here's some of the words they use. Open source, social protocol, uh, and decentralized. When I hear those words, I just, I just don't care. I just don't care at all. Like, they want me to care about it. And that's wonderful. And maybe sometimes I'll act like I do. But I don't. I don't care at all.

• 18:07Shaan Puri?

  It's like if you tell me, uh, probiotic, antioxidant, right?

• 18:13Sam Parr?

  Yeah, I don't care. If you want to shove it in there and I'll, I'll drink it if it tastes good. Right. But I don't, but I don't need to know.

• 18:20Shaan Puri?

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

• 18:44Sam Parr?

  Yeah, and the same thing happened with Web three, where they like, they give me this horrible pitch and then they end it with Web three. And I'm like, well, I don't care if it's Web three. Just does this thing work? Is it awesome? And I feel the same way about this, so I don't care. And also, Matt, have you tried Mastodon?

• 19:03Shaan Puri?

  Yeah.

• 19:04Sam Parr?

  Dude, it's stupid too. It's stupid. No, like, it's dumb. So, anyway, I'm not on board with this.

• 19:09Ben?

  All right. All right. Best pod.