#53 - Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps For The Elderly & Tax on Vested Shares

**Shaan Puri** (0:10)
What up?

**Sam Parr** (0:11)
What's going on?
Did we ask people to subscribe and unsubscribe? Did that work?

**Shaan Puri** (0:16)
I don't think it worked. We got a bunch of videos of people doing it. Thank you for doing it.
In my opinion, that experiment doesn't like, it doesn't move the needle too much. I don't know if that technique is a big technique.

**Sam Parr** (0:27)
Let's answer the question.

**Shaan Puri** (0:28)
The podcast keeps growing organically, but we didn't see a spike because we asked people to do it.

**Sam Parr** (0:32)
Let's answer all their questions. Do you wanna answer them today or?

**Shaan Puri** (0:35)
I think next Thursday because I didn't have them.

**Sam Parr** (0:38)
I got a lot of them. The problem, and I apologize to people who send me things on Instagram, I don't check that ever.
You know there's two inboxes on Instagram?

**Shaan Puri** (0:46)
Facebook always does that with their show.

**Sam Parr** (0:47)
I didn't know that that was even a thing, and I had all these nice people sending me reviews and stuff.

**Shaan Puri** (0:51)
You find it like a year later.

**Sam Parr** (0:52)
Yeah, and I didn't even know that, so apologies.

**Shaan Puri** (0:55)
I listened back to one of the episodes, which is the most uber uncomfortable thing you can do.

**Sam Parr** (1:00)
I've not listened to one ever.

**Shaan Puri** (1:02)
Yeah, and I don't blame you. I listened back and you were saying you're very self-conscious now because we do the video, and that's how I am about the audio, because I listen to it and I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with me? Why am I talking this fast? Why am I breathing like that?

**Sam Parr** (1:17)
No, I think you actually have a great voice. I think you have good cadence. And someone at one of the meetups asked me, he goes, do you guys cut out silence?
And I was like.

**Shaan Puri** (1:26)
On the audio, we do.

**Sam Parr** (1:27)
You do?

**Shaan Puri** (1:27)
If Shaan does that, yeah.

**Sam Parr** (1:28)
Oh, I thought we didn't, and he was like, you guys are talking so fast.

**Shaan Puri** (1:32)
Yeah, so he cuts out ums, ahs, or big repetitions. Like if I say the same thing two different ways for no reason.
And then I think he cuts a little bit of the gap between us when he doesn't like it. He's like a perfectionist. I told him not to do it because it takes him like six hours to do. Every time. He's like, it makes a difference. And I was like, I don't know if this shit makes a difference.

**Sam Parr** (1:50)
I got compliments from it.

**Shaan Puri** (1:51)
Okay, all right. Well, he's gonna justify it now.

**Sam Parr** (1:54)
That's crazy. I just thought we were talking fast. No, people like the.

**Shaan Puri** (1:56)
We do talk fast, but it's the in between where he speeds it up and then he cuts out any like extraneous bullshit.

**Sam Parr** (2:03)
People like it. You know, I also got tons of compliments from Stu a few episodes back. People liked him.

**Shaan Puri** (2:08)
People like Stu.

**Sam Parr** (2:09)
Yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (2:10)
High approval rating.

**Sam Parr** (2:11)
People like Stu.

**Shaan Puri** (2:12)
He doesn't have to drop out of the presidential race like everybody else. All right, what do we got today?

**Sam Parr** (2:16)
Speaking of presidential, did you want to talk about Bernie? Is that your first thing up here?

**Shaan Puri** (2:20)
I have a thing up there, but I didn't research enough, but I'll talk about it just quickly. So a bunch of people on Twitter were freaking out because Bernie's proposing this tax on vested shares that you haven't actually cashed in yet.
And tech people were like, oh, okay, there goes the startup scene. Like, if you're gonna tax people on vested shares that they haven't actually received the prop, like the company's not liquid. And so there are some nuances, like it's written here. It's tax on non-qualified stock options of at least 100,000, if you have over 100,000 in stock options that are vested and your employee's making at least 130K. So it's not everybody, and it's not all types of things. So it's not RSUs, it's ISOs, I believe.

**Sam Parr** (3:02)
Okay, so I'm not an expert in this stuff at all, and I'm not an expert in politics. I know what I believe, but I don't know the technical details.

**Shaan Puri** (3:08)
Well, let's agree to talk out of our ass for two minutes.