#104 - Why You Should Be Studying MLMs

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
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**Shaan Puri** (0:26)
We're back. It's My First Million.
I'm Shaan, and I'm joined by Sam.
On this episode, we talk about a bunch of different topics. We debrief our Tai Lopez experience. We have a bunch of ideas around trade associations, licensing popular brands and using them in funky ways. Sam got a speeding ticket and has an idea around police radar detectors. And then we just have a couple of stories and frameworks around coming up with new ideas, such as the little trick I use with MLMs. So, it's a good episode, me and Sam, and hope you guys enjoy. Thank you.

**Sam Parr** (1:08)
We're live. We are live.
Before we get into ideas, we gotta recap, right?

**Shaan Puri** (1:14)
Yeah, I think we should debrief.

**Sam Parr** (1:17)
So on, we recorded it on Thursday, went live on Friday. I got a ton of messages. We had Tai Lopez on.
So listen to that last episode. What did you think, Shaan?

**Shaan Puri** (1:28)
I think I actually felt like my outlook was similar to, I think, how most people messaged me afterwards, or at least it felt that way, which was I thought it was a semi-interesting episode. I thought it got interesting later. I thought the beginning he was kind of monologuing and doing his thing. He wasn't really saying new stuff necessarily, but I thought it got interesting.
I think he's a total character and I'm fascinated by him.
Like I sent you this tweet he put out yesterday, which is like he took a selfie in the mirror, and he looks like someone from The Incredibles. He's like super jacked, which I couldn't tell when we were doing our recording. I didn't get that feeling at all.

**Sam Parr** (2:07)
I did a little bit. You could see he looked fit.

**Shaan Puri** (2:11)
Yeah, he looked fit, but like, dude, this picture looks crazy. But it was just added to the like, just how hilarious of a character he is and how over the top and larger than life in many ways. So anyways, I thought it was interesting. I thought he was pretty open.
I thought, yeah, he does this thing where he kind of like redirects conversations towards what he wants, which is fair. Like most kind of successful persuasive people I've seen have this talent. He uses that talent a lot.
But I thought he was fairly open. I thought he was down to answer any questions he didn't. We've had people come on and are like, I can't talk about that. And, you know, blah, blah, blah. He didn't have any of that in his in his in his talk. And then the other thing was the people who hated him before still hated him.
People who loved him before still loved him. And then the people on the fence, I think, lean towards, hey, he's a smart dude. He's interesting. I like him. I like him more now than I did before. That's how I read it.

**Sam Parr** (3:02)
I think that you in particular, I told you this when I was texting you, you did a really good job of pressing him. I didn't really press him so hard. I think that someone once wrote this review on the podcast that we congratulate ourselves a lot. So I'm always try to be aware when I do it. But I would say you did a very good job of pressing him. I think that I would have we probably both would have been even better. If it were in person, it was a little bit hard to interrupt him when he was speaking with for sure, because there was one a few times where we both wanted to say stuff and we accidentally had a mute on or something like that.
And so I wish we could have done it in person, but it was cool. I got I got dozens and dozens and dozens of like messages from people who are I was shocked were listeners and I thought I was like, oh, wow, this is cool. This was good.
Did you get a lot of messages?

**Shaan Puri** (3:52)