#55 - Lead Gen Businesses, Islamic Finance & COVID-19 Virality

**Shaan Puri** (0:10)
Boom, we're here, coronavirus and all.

**Sam Parr** (0:13)
Yeah, the streets of San Francisco are empty. You could have walked down in the middle of the street and would have been fine.

**Shaan Puri** (0:18)
Yeah, and we're in this studio and Sam's just coughing up a storm, which has got me concerned. So this may be my last podcast, you don't know.

**Sam Parr** (0:26)
Allergies, the type of allergies that you can catch and kill you, allergies.

**Shaan Puri** (0:31)
So this is for all the students of Stanford, Harvard, Syracuse that have been shut down. They're at home, certainly just listening to the podcast in quarantine.
This is for you, this one goes out to you.

**Sam Parr** (0:42)
Yeah, good luck.

**Shaan Puri** (0:43)
All right, what do we want to talk about? We got a bunch of words on the screen, they all look interesting. Where do you want to start? Pick one.

**Sam Parr** (0:48)
Can we talk about, I read every review for the podcast. We have 600 reviews, maybe.

**Shaan Puri** (0:54)
794, just checked this morning.

**Sam Parr** (0:56)
Cool, so 800, let's say 800
They're all five stars except for like five. And that's cool, I like reading the positive reviews.

**Shaan Puri** (1:04)
And those five were from early on when you weren't even on the pod. So really, I take those, I take those else.

**Sam Parr** (1:08)
No, there were two not five star reviews. And I like listening to negative feedback. And I don't like following all of it, but some of it I follow. The first was that the sound for the guests were bad.

**Shaan Puri** (1:19)
Agreed.

**Sam Parr** (1:20)
Fair, we will listen to that. And the second one, and I hate this.
I don't hate it in that it bothers me, but I just don't, like I don't think it's bad feedback, which is we were called bros.

**Shaan Puri** (1:31)
Right.

**Sam Parr** (1:32)
And I don't really care about that because, what's that mean? How is that supposed to be, like people use that as an insult. I don't understand why that's an insult.

**Shaan Puri** (1:40)
Yeah, it's an insult for sure, to be clear.
It used to not be an insult, but being called a bro is an insult. And yeah, I don't know. Is it the way we talk? Is it what we talk about? Is it, are we using the wrong words? I'm not exactly sure.

**Sam Parr** (1:55)
Yeah, I don't take offense to that, even though people mean it to be offensive. So I don't care if people say that.

**Shaan Puri** (2:02)
Yeah, I'm not a bro. I'm a lover, not a fighter.
I got multiple angles. I got gears.

**Sam Parr** (2:08)
What does a bro mean?

**Shaan Puri** (2:09)
I don't know, Henry, what's a bro? We need the, get, get, get. You gotta go into the mic. Come on, bro.
Maybe we have to replace Henry with a female, and then we'll get more credit for not being just a bro down.

**Sam Parr** (2:32)
No, I don't care about being called a bro. So then it's a compliment.

**Shaan Puri** (2:37)
Yeah, kind of. I don't know, whatever. I'm not trying to be liked. I'm just trying to be me.

**Sam Parr** (2:41)
No, well, here's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to be me, and I'm trying to create stuff that people want. And if it's predominantly, people think it's bro-y, but they love it, I'm okay with that.

**Shaan Puri** (2:50)
Yeah, like, for example, I listen to the Joe Rogan podcast.
Joe Rogan talks about his carnival all-meat diet, you know, working out, UFC fighting, cage fighting, hunting. You know, these are cars, like these are his topics, because that's what he's genuinely interested in.

**Sam Parr** (3:05)
And he talks about everything else.

**Shaan Puri** (3:08)
And I like when people, I like listening to stuff where people are interesting and they're interested in certain stuff.
And so for me, the test with this podcast is, would I want to listen to this? And so at the end of the episode, I just sort of think, would I be interested in listening to that podcast? And if it's appealing to me, then I'm sure it's appealing to other people. It's not going to be appealing to everybody for sure.

**Sam Parr** (3:27)
And then the last bit of negative feedback we got, which is we focus too much on the San Francisco, Silicon Valley scene.
And I'm from Missouri by way of Tennessee. You're from everywhere, including Colorado. I love San Francisco and I hate it at the same time. I'll be the first to make fun of it. But also I love all types of cool shit going on throughout the country. So that's probably fair.