#128 - Open Startups, A Mysterious Bag Lady, and Gamifying Facebook Ads

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
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And I'm going to go ahead and turn the volume up to about half a million.
I thought you were bluffing when you sent that to me.
And I was walking around the neighborhood, and I was like, this is amazing. I want to move here. On Saturday, I looked at a house. On Sunday, I made the offer. Monday was accepted. So we're good.
I'm going to rent it out for some of the year and live in it some of the year.

**Sam Parr** (1:30)
I love it. Is it like kind of residential neighborhood-y family or is it like cool near 6th Street? Like where are you doing it here?

**Shaan Puri** (1:37)
It's the cool... They call it like the grimy area. I don't know what the stereotype is. I frankly know very little about it. It's in East Austin. It's off of 6th Street. It's like a 22, 2300 square foot house. It's really nice. It's very nice.
And we got approved. I got a little bit of a mortgage.
And we just got approved fast and bought the damn thing.

**Sam Parr** (2:02)
And Sarah's cool with it.

**Shaan Puri** (2:04)
Yeah, definitely.

**Sam Parr** (2:05)
I think you're my hero because you live like... You make decisions like an independent person while being happily married.

**Shaan Puri** (2:13)
It seems that way. It's definitely not. I mean, I do a lot of the talking, but it's a team. And so we both agreed. But yeah, we go, hey, you want to do this? And we go, yeah, we're in. And so we make decisions quickly. Or I make decisions quickly.

**Sam Parr** (2:26)
And I think that's it. You found somebody who's compatible with you in that way, making decisions quickly and valuing similar things so that your decisions are aligned.

**Shaan Puri** (2:35)
Like when we bought a car, it was like on a Thursday, it's like, let's buy a car.
What type? Well, I don't know. Let's just go look at them. And we just bought it on a Friday. So that's how we roll.

**Sam Parr** (2:43)
That's how I did with my dog. I woke up at the morning, Christmas Eve, I said, let's go dog shopping. And she's like, what? No. And like we had agreed, now's not the time for the dog. And then it just, that morning was like, today's the day for the dog.
And we went, we saw three different dogs and we bought the third dog and came home.

**Shaan Puri** (2:57)
That's the way to go. And I also, when I was looking at the house, I wore a mask the entire time, but one of the agents who was showing it messaged me the next day. It was like, I just tested positive.
And I'm, so that's why I'm home, because I'm not going anywhere. But I went and got tested. I'm negative, but I'm still better safe and sorry.

**Sam Parr** (3:19)
That's good that they called you. I had a friend in college who got the herp and his doctor was like, hey, you need to call all your girlfriends and you need to tell them like, what's up?
And he's like, oh shit, why? Like, are they gonna die? And he's like, no, but it's still serious and it's respectful. And this type of thing can stick around and it can be passed on to babies in the future for the, and he was like, oh wow, okay. Came home, called nobody, told nobody.

**Shaan Puri** (3:50)
Yeah, there's a scene in the office where Michael gets herpes and he calls people. He goes, I don't know how to say this, so I'm just gonna spell it out. I've tested positive for H-I-R-P, and he spells herpes like Michael. Herpes is spelled with an E, not an I. Why didn't you do that?
I had to call my coworkers and I'm like, just so you know, I was around someone who tested positive, but I'm not positive. Anyway, we're good.

**Sam Parr** (4:18)
All right, that's great. All right, let's jump into some topics. So congrats on the house, and let's talk about Baremetrics.

**Shaan Puri** (4:27)
By the way, I intend to Airbnb this home, and I'm gonna reveal the numbers once we do it.