6 Retro Business Ideas That Could Be As Big As LEGO ($11.8B)

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
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All right, this is a fun episode. Sam started doing LEGOs and that sent us down this rabbit hole where he discovered two businesses that I'd never heard of. I guarantee you never heard of it. They're awesome businesses in the LEGO niche of all things. Then we brainstormed other things that people could do around these passionate niche audiences that most people overlook. Love it. This is an MFM classic, MFM special. If you like this podcast, you're going to love this one.
I also had an epiphany about 45 minutes in that changed the way I think about this podcast. That's what I got out of this episode. Sam, what did you get?

**Sam Parr** (1:07)
While researching this stuff, there is a ton of twists and turns to the story, the background story of how these companies started. I want you guys to listen to them. It doesn't happen. It's the second story involving LEGO. You'll know exactly what I'm talking about when we get there. It's about two-thirds of the way into the episode.
I got emotional researching this and I actually want you guys to listen to the topics and the companies that we brought up. I want you to go to their websites and see what I'm talking about. You'll know exactly what I'm talking about when we get to the part of the episode. Let us know in the YouTube comments if this actually got to you like it got to me.
I dug it. It was tons of weird parts of the stories that I did not expect to happen. Anyway, check it out. Let us know in the YouTube comments if you actually dug this, because I think you will, and which parts of the stories you like.

**Shaan Puri** (2:10)
Best. Sean here with Sam. Your boys who are stuck at 399,000 YouTube subscribers, they said we'd never get to 400 In fact, they're still saying we'd never get to 400 So did you see this tweet that went viral that goes, all my haters said I wouldn't make it.
I didn't make it. They were right.

**Sam Parr** (2:15)
Honestly, a good call by the haters.

**Shaan Puri** (2:20)
That's a legendary tweet.

**Sam Parr** (2:23)
Yeah, we're at 399 I read every YouTube comment.

**Shaan Puri** (2:27)
Do you read and reply, bro? Not to everyone, but I reply like, it's like I'm in line at a coffee shop. I'll just go through and go through a whole episode and try to reply as many as I can.

**Sam Parr** (2:39)
So if you're listening and you're not on YouTube, do your boys a favor and just click subscribe. It means a lot to us. It costs you nothing. And we've got a good episode today. Last time we talked, we both had the same topic written down. We did it again. It happened again this time.
Before we get into the episode, I got to tell you something.
How big is your house? Square footage?

**Shaan Puri** (3:02)
5,600.

**Sam Parr** (3:04)
I'm in a house right now visiting family. So I rented an Airbnb for two weeks.
My home, my normal home in Austin is just a little over 2,000 square feet. It's not big. It's nice, but it's not big. I'm currently renting a 7,500 square foot house.
I am losing so much stuff. This is such a big house. I think that even 55 would be too big for me. Do you like having a big house like that?

**Shaan Puri** (3:30)
Yeah, it's great. What's not to love?

**Sam Parr** (3:32)
I'll tell you. One, the utility bill here, if I had to guess, it's like 2,000 a month.
What's your utility bill? Well, you're in California, so you don't really use too much.

**Shaan Puri** (3:40)
I don't even check it.
Everything's on autopay and I don't even want to look. It's probably like $1,200, $1,500, I guess.