#48 - NSFW Tech, HQ Trivia & Auctions

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
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**Shaan Puri** (0:36)
All right, we're good.

**Sam Parr** (0:37)
This is a podcast. You know, Chris D'Elia, he always calls his audience babies.

**Shaan Puri** (0:42)
Babies?

**Sam Parr** (0:42)
Yeah, he's like, okay, babies, let's talk.

**Shaan Puri** (0:45)
No, I've never.

**Sam Parr** (0:46)
It's hilarious.

**Shaan Puri** (0:46)
I only watch his clips. Make sure to subscribe to this podcast, and then unsubscribe and subscribe again, so we climb up the charts.

**Sam Parr** (0:55)
Yes, we're climbing.
I think we were top 50 a few days ago when I checked. Top, we were 65, and then we were creeping to 55, so I saw some good movement there.

**Shaan Puri** (1:06)
It's like the movies where it's like a band is climbing up the billboard charts, and they show on this way to number one. The clips that we're posting on our social, they're not getting as much traction as I wish.

**Sam Parr** (1:19)
Traction like what are your views or comments?

**Shaan Puri** (1:22)
Well, I only care about views and comments in order to get more podcast listeners.

**Sam Parr** (1:28)
Yeah, so I guess there you would need people essentially tagging their friends, or you'd need to start showing up in Discover.

**Shaan Puri** (1:34)
Yeah, and it's still starting. I also have noticed that I have a smaller following than our branded channels, but when I share something, it gets way more engagement than a brand.

**Sam Parr** (1:43)
Yeah, people like following people and listening to people more. I also don't ever share it, so I should share it to that big 9,000 Twitter followers I got and you know...

**Shaan Puri** (1:53)
You have 500 more than me. You have 500 more than me, but I'm going to beat you in the next four days, I think.

**Sam Parr** (1:58)
I also bought 5,000 a long time ago.

**Shaan Puri** (2:01)
Me too.

**Sam Parr** (2:01)
They degraded. They go away because Twitter bans the accounts, but when I bought the 5,000, I got way more followers per day.

**Shaan Puri** (2:08)
Same.

**Sam Parr** (2:08)
Because people wanted to follow somebody who already has a lot of followers.

**Shaan Puri** (2:10)
So I'm averaging 200 new people a day.

**Sam Parr** (2:13)
I don't even check. I don't even check. All right, what do we got? I want to talk about this idea. It's not even an idea, it's a company, Arsenic.

**Shaan Puri** (2:21)
Yeah, they've been around for about four years now. Yeah, I know.

**Sam Parr** (2:23)
I don't know how they're doing. Do you know if they're doing well?

**Shaan Puri** (2:25)
They were doing okay. Basically, the way that I knew some media people who talked about them and knew them, and I'm almost positive that it's run like it looks like it's run, which is a bunch of kids who are good looking and rent a mansion and they just do debauchery and shit.

**Sam Parr** (2:43)
The idea is Arsenic is essentially Playboy for the Snapchat generation.
They have a Snapchat channel, because the idea is like, okay, Playboy is a big deal. What would Playboy be like today? It would not be a magazine, it would be a Snapchat channel. They created a Snapchat channel, which is perfect because it's like, if you follow it, you get it. If not, it's not in your face. So it's not like Facebook would be a little weird, Instagram would be a little weird.

**Shaan Puri** (3:07)
And they have email too.

**Sam Parr** (3:08)
And they just have this mansion and they have all these models and it's not porn, but it's definitely models who are good looking and they just have one model like sort of take over the channel. At least this is what it was three years ago.
I just think this is a great idea. They raised 3 million bucks. I don't know how they're doing.

**Shaan Puri** (3:21)
So they've got books, they do like tours. I think that it could be doing, the idea is cool.

**Sam Parr** (3:26)
I bet it's a cash cow.