#96 - The Entrepreneur Betting Billions On American Passenger Trains

**Shaan Puri** (0:07)
What's up?

**Sam Parr** (0:08)
How are you?

**Shaan Puri** (0:10)
I'm okay, I'm packing up all my stuff, and I had all my trash, which include garbage, as well as furniture, packed outside my house really nicely for the garbage people to come. And I just got into a big argument with these crazies that were digging through it and throwing it all over the place. And I was like, can you guys not do that, please? And they're like, this is what we do, we destroy trash and we throw it all over the place. I was like, don't do that.
It put me in a horrible mood.

**Sam Parr** (0:37)
So where did you net out? Did you just walk away or did they stop?

**Shaan Puri** (0:41)
No, we got into a little pushing match and eventually-

**Sam Parr** (0:43)
A pushing match, what?
Oh my God, that's amazing. You pushed the guy?

**Shaan Puri** (0:52)
Yeah, they got into a fight or flight mode, they had it piss me off.

**Sam Parr** (0:57)
You were so easily triggered, it's amazing to me.

**Shaan Puri** (1:00)
I'm on edge. I think that with Corona and the economy, like I said, I'm in fight or flight mode.
I think something changed. I imagine this happened to you already, but something changed when I got married. I was like, I'm in, I got to protect you.

**Sam Parr** (1:14)
Oh dude, I'm the exact opposite. I thought that would kick in. I had a kid, I thought it would kick in, it didn't. I'll tell you, on my first date with my wife, now Sonya, first date, we go out, we get sushi, it's great. We go back to her place and we're hanging out and the doorbell rings and I'm like, it's pretty late at night, it's 11 or 12, who's at the door? So she just kind of like ignores it for a second. She's like, that was weird. And then the doorbell rings again. She's like, okay, wait, there's actually somebody there. So she's like, just wait here. I don't know where that was. I'm like, okay, whatever. I wait there. She goes downstairs.
She opens up the door. I hear like a brief conversation for a second. Door closes. She comes back upstairs. She's like, sorry about that. And I was like, what happened? Who was it? And she's like, oh, it's nothing. And like, it's like a, you know, like a doorbell ditch. And I was like, odd. Okay, kids doing pranks, no problem.
We sit, we're sit, we sit down for a minute. Doorbell rings again.
She doesn't move.
I'm like, are you gonna get that? And then she's like, no.
And then the doorbell starts ringing like just nonstop. Like, she's like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And I was like, okay, you gotta go get that. And so she's like, okay, hold on, stay here. And so she goes downstairs.
Anyways, I hear a voice. I hear a guy's voice to be like, he's like, who's here?
And I hear this guy coming up the stairs. And it's an ex-boyfriend who has shown up on our first date.
You know what he had done? He was out, he had come by the house to try to pitch to get back with her. And he saw through the window that we were watching a TV show, Nip Tuck. And he's like, we've already seen that show.
You wouldn't be watching that show alone. He's like, somebody must be here. And so he was like, somebody's here, I know it. And so he comes up the stairs and I don't know who this guy is. I'm also not that invested in her at this point. So I'm just like, look, I'm not trying to, I was like, I'm not trying to, you know, get in any drama here. This is already kind of messy.
So he comes up the stairs and he doesn't know what he's supposed to do. He's like, he's here now and he's standing there facing me.
And so I just think of my hand to shake his hand. I was like, hey, I'm Shaan, what's up? Because I don't fully know what's going on, but I definitely know that something's up.
Now, so he shakes my hand and then I could see he gets angry at himself for shaking my hand. And she was just like, oh, horrified. She's like, oh, my God, you need to leave. Why are you here? And he's like, oh, my God, I knew this would happen. This is the worst. And then I start laughing because I'm like, this is a comical situation. First date, ex-boyfriend shows up, angry little Indian guy. And I was just like, okay, I start laughing. And then this tilts him like crazy. So she's in between me and him. He swings, punches me in the face, but he punches me with his left hand. So it was kind of like a doodly kind of punch. It didn't really do anything. And so, and I again, I start laughing. So no fight or flight. I'm literally in a fight and there's no fight or flight. So I start laughing again. He gets really mad. So then he's embarrassed and he starts to come towards me. And Sonya just like body slams him while he's walking towards me. She just grabs him and throws him down. Now he's really embarrassed at this whole situation because he kind of got tripped up by a girl. And I just grabbed him by the shirt and I was like, you need to leave. And then he like whatever came to and he was like, what the hell am I doing? And so he like got all anger and he left.