#47 - Robot Lawyers, Pay to Lose Weight & Prudent vs. Wild Card Managers

**Sam Parr** (0:05)
This is Million Dollar Brainstormer. We talk about an idea where you get revenge against spammers.

**Shaan Puri** (0:10)
A new weight loss challenge business that Shaan and I are trying out, as well as looking at a $12,000 a month chest tutoring company and how we think you can blow it up.

**Sam Parr** (0:19)
We talk about Charlie Munger throwing a little shade at Elon Musk.

**Shaan Puri** (0:22)
And people who collect super strange and niche items, but it's somehow built an $800 million a year company.

**Sam Parr** (0:29)
Spoiler, Sam is one of those collectors. And lastly, we tell a little fun story about Rupert Murdoch. All right, Million Dollar Brainstorm, enjoy.

**Shaan Puri** (0:41)
So what do we think is the best way to get more downloads, which is our goal?

**Sam Parr** (0:46)
Subscribe.

**Shaan Puri** (0:47)
So subscribe.

**Sam Parr** (0:48)
So basically, A, tell your friends, be like, yo, there's the best business podcast out there.
And B, if you go in iTunes and subscribe, that spikes us in the charts. So some people like to unsubscribe and then resubscribe, because that creates the charts, say, oh, there's more subscribers today. So I think that's the Barstool trick.

**Shaan Puri** (1:07)
So subscribe, then unsubscribe, and then resubscribe. Just do that a ton of times, because here's the deal. If Shaan and I don't get to 100,000 listeners per episode in the next weeks or months, we're gonna start charging for this podcast.

**Sam Parr** (1:20)
Yeah, or we just get so bored, we're like, we're too impatient to wait.

**Shaan Puri** (1:23)
No, we're gonna make it so you have to pay money to listen. That's gonna happen.
So you wanna start talking about some ideas.

**Sam Parr** (1:29)
First of all, I think we should start with this, the Twitter weight loss thing. We should start with that, that's pretty interesting.

**Shaan Puri** (1:35)
Did you sign up for it?

**Sam Parr** (1:36)
I signed up. I just ate a big old plate of veggies just now.
Because I'm like, oh shit, this is starting. So explain what this is.

**Shaan Puri** (1:44)
Okay, so when you're on camera, you predict this happens a lot, but you get self-conscious, but also we are both trying to lose weight. Our friend Justin is doing a thing where we have, did you Venmo him money?

**Sam Parr** (1:56)
I Venmoed, so he tweeted out, hey, I got an experiment for weight loss, 30 days, if you want in, let me know. And you had to Venmo him 800 bucks.

**Shaan Puri** (2:07)
I did.

**Sam Parr** (2:08)
No, just did it right away, just to pot commit myself into it. And then he's gonna send us a blood glucose monitor.

**Shaan Puri** (2:15)
It stays in you for 28 days.

**Sam Parr** (2:17)
28 days, and basically the way it works is, he's gonna send a nutrition plan and like a eating plan, but if you, and if you stick to it, you'll be fine. But what the problem is, most people don't stick to it. So here's how it's gonna work. If your blood glucose levels go out of the range, like the healthy range, the weight loss range that he's gonna prescribe for us, so first he's gonna monitor your baseline, then he's gonna say, okay, cool, here's the range I want you to stay in. If you stay in that range for the day, he Venmo's you back 25 bucks for the day.
And if you don't, he keeps your money.

**Shaan Puri** (2:48)
I love it, and he is doing this in a way where he's buying all of our monitors, which typically costs, I think, $300.

**Sam Parr** (2:56)
400 bucks.
If we stick to it, by the end of this challenge, we've paid $100, we've lost a bunch of weight, and we got paid back all our money. If you stick to it. If you don't stick to it.

**Shaan Puri** (3:07)
Oh, I didn't even say it, so we're giving him 100 bucks?

**Sam Parr** (3:08)
It's 100 bucks net. Net, if you do it to the letter of the law, you get this $400 device for $100, and you lost your weight.

**Shaan Puri** (3:15)
I love it.

**Sam Parr** (3:16)
Sick deal.
And we should explain who he is. He's the founder of this thing called Kettle and Fire.

**Shaan Puri** (3:20)
He also, I think, is one of the founders of Perfect Keto.

**Sam Parr** (3:24)
Yeah, two keto products, basically.

**Shaan Puri** (3:26)
Yeah, and I have no idea, but I imagine his businesses collectively are in the $50 or $60 million in revenue range, so he sees a lot of-