#115 - Selling An Erotic Newsletter and AI That Leaves Us Speechless

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
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**Sam Parr** (0:48)
All right, we have Alex on the pod just for a minute. Alex works with our advertisers and stuff like that. Okay, so Shaan, this morning, we had like this thing, we do crew review, where we like do a company update. And I got a big shout out because apparently Square loved the ad read.
And they gave me all the credit. It's like Sam did the best ad read.
And I like, everyone was like congratulating me and I have a confession. So by the way, today we had Ourcrowd, that was our sponsor today, or if you're just starting the podcast, you'll hear them in like 10 or 15 minutes. So check them out. But in the future, we're gonna have Square as an advertiser. Shaan did all the reads for it yesterday and I got all the credit. So I just wanted to come clean. I didn't do it. You did.

**Shaan Puri** (1:34)
Wait, so they shouted you out where? The Squares shouted you out somewhere?

**Sam Parr** (1:38)
They like told Alex, right? What did they say, Alex?

**Alex** (1:41)
Yeah, yeah. So I got an email from them or from the agency that they work with and they just said, this is the best ad read we've had ever out of all the podcasts that we've run. So they're super excited about it.
And I think-

**Shaan Puri** (1:53)
It's like triple our prices, that's all that means.

**Alex** (1:57)
I think, unfortunately, our internal teams just assumed that Sam recorded it. And that's not the case.

**Sam Parr** (2:04)
I did not correct anyone.

**Shaan Puri** (2:05)
Me and Sam are one. It doesn't matter who says what.

**Sam Parr** (2:09)
So Alex, thank you for, I'm sorry I didn't spill the beans earlier and it wasn't me though.

**Alex** (2:19)
We'll give Shaan a shout out in our next crew review.

**Sam Parr** (2:21)
Yes, but I wanted to come clean live so everyone can hear the truth.

**Shaan Puri** (2:26)
What is this word you're saying that you guys do a career view? What is that?

**Sam Parr** (2:30)
Crew, crew review. Like we have this, our whole company is like pirate ship themed. Like we, so it's like, there's like, I don't know. I just, I said a long time ago that we're a pirate ship and every email that we collect is like a little bit up within our sales.
And it kind of like, someone ran with it. I don't know who ran with it.

**Shaan Puri** (2:48)
And when you get fired, you have to walk the plank.

**Sam Parr** (2:51)
We should, yeah, we should do that. But like, so we've had, we have pirate shipped themed meetings. It's just a fun thing.
Anyway, Alex, thank you for filling us in. Tell Square and, and by the way, Ourcrowd that we're happy they sponsored us. And if you're just now listening to this, you're only like two minutes into the podcast. When's the ad, when's the advertisement come in? At 10 minutes or 15 minutes?

**Shaan Puri** (3:18)
Somewhere, somewhere there.

**Sam Parr** (3:19)
All right, so keep listening to the 15 minute mark and you'll see exactly what we're talking about. You'll hear Sean with his wonderful ad reads.

**Shaan Puri** (3:26)
Great.

**Sam Parr** (3:26)
All right. Thank you, Alex. You can click X. We appreciate it.

**Shaan Puri** (3:31)
OK, Sam, people want to know, where are you in the world now? You're in you're in New York. Is that the latest stop in Brooklyn?

**Sam Parr** (3:36)
OK, so as of right now, I am currently sitting in a brownstone that I rented.
And I'm in where am I? I'm in Cobble Hill. It's like a nice neighborhood in Brooklyn. And I've already been stopped by two or three times. I've only been here since Saturday of listeners of the podcast. So that's amazing.

**Shaan Puri** (3:54)
They stop you on the street?

**Sam Parr** (3:56)
Yeah.
And, dude, the I guess I'll tell the story. So the he doesn't know I know this. I hope he's not listening. But the guy so I went and rented a house a few days ago and the owner was like, wait, are you Sam Parr from the hustle and the pocket? I was like, yeah, what's going on, man? How are you? And I and he's like this baller guy and I went and Googled him. And it's Tyra Banks' old boyfriend.