#122 - Not Getting These Jobs Cost Us Millions

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
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**Sam Parr** (0:52)
All right, well, Gucci, what's up, Sam, how are you?

**Shaan Puri** (0:54)
Hey, our friend Novel just hopped on the podcast, we were checking in with him. The summary, it seems like, is we, except for Shaan, many of the crew is gonna be in Austin in the next two weeks, three weeks.

**Sam Parr** (1:06)
Yeah, that's exciting. I'm kind of rooted in here now. So my whole family lives here, so I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna move for tax reasons or whatever reasons. I wanna be around my family. If your family's not here, there's no point in being in the Bay Area right now.

**Shaan Puri** (1:19)
I think that what I've learned doing this whole Airbnb thing, I'm in Nashville now. I was in Utah, I was in all these places.
Having your family and friends around you is significantly better than being in a cool place by yourself.

**Sam Parr** (1:30)
For sure, absolutely. People always ask me, because I lived in all these different cities, or I think I've lived in like 10 or 12 different cities around the world, whatever, Jakarta and Australia and stuff like that.
And people are like, oh, which one was your favorite? Doesn't matter, it's just based on like who my four friends were when I was there. That dictated my whole experience. It's like, city's fine, city was the best, but who cares?

**Shaan Puri** (1:50)
You lived in China. I would be interested in China. I would be really interested right now in moving to Japan for a little while, even if I didn't know anyone. I think the Japanese are so cool. You didn't live in Japan, did you?

**Sam Parr** (2:01)
No, but when I lived in Beijing, I played sports. And the weird thing when you go to international school, I didn't realize this, but you don't play sports against other schools locally. You play against other international schools. So when we would have an away game, we would go to Osaka and we would go play against the Osaka International School, or we'd go to the Philippines for an away game. And you would go and you actually live with the family of the player on the other team. So you live with them, and then you play against them in there two or three times, and you fly back together. It's like an amazing thing.

**Shaan Puri** (2:31)
So last episode, you said something that shocked me. You said you referred to Corona as the Chinese virus, and you made a couple of slights towards China.
You've lived in China. Are you anti-China?

**Sam Parr** (2:44)
No, I was mocking. I'm anti-Trump. I was just mocking Trump.

**Shaan Puri** (2:47)
How long did you live in China?

**Sam Parr** (2:49)
Two years.

**Shaan Puri** (2:49)
So like, we're not talking about the Chinese, obviously. We're not talking about the people in general, because obviously, of course, you're not anti that. But are you?

**Sam Parr** (2:56)
I just came out as racist on this episode. I'm like, yeah, I haven't told you guys yet.

**Shaan Puri** (3:02)
But are you, I mean, I'm relatively anti-China.

**Sam Parr** (3:06)
I had, same thing I was saying earlier. I had an amazing time when I lived in Beijing, because I had amazing friends and we had a blast.

**Shaan Puri** (3:13)
Were they Chinese or international?

**Sam Parr** (3:15)
They were other international students at that school, some of which were Chinese and some of which were from Sweden and other places.
If I was going to go live somewhere, I'd never go live in Beijing, right? It's like super crowded, super polluted. There's no like natural beauty really in the, in kind of the surroundings, no like kind of oceans or beaches or mountains that you can really see or speak of.
And like the food is hard, the language is hard. Like it's just like not an easy place to go live. Whereas like Australia was like completely pleasant and easy and like it felt like a vacation. So I would be anti going and living in China again, unless I had a really strong reason to. But I had a blast when I was there just because of my kind of social situation.