ANNOUNCEMENT: A Special Series Drops Tomorrow

**Ben Wilson** (0:00)
So first of all, I want to say, very excited about this new deal. And I was already a big fan of My First Million, so very serendipitous that we found each other like this.

**Sam Parr** (0:24)
All right, we have a special episode by Ben Wilson. This is a three-part series on Thomas Edison. We discovered this podcast about two or three months ago and freaking loved it. It had very small listenership. Both Shaan and I binged, listened to all of them. His name is Ben Wilson. The podcast is called How to Take Over the World.
Ben has allowed us to air this episode and the next two. So this is a three-part series on Thomas Edison. He's allowed us to air it on our feed just because we like it. So his podcast, it only had a few hundred listeners at the time, but we thought this was so cool, Shaan and I. And it's about a similar topic that we talk about. So we have this topic called or the segment called Billionaire of the Week. This one is on Thomas Edison. We loved Ben's podcast so much, we just said, hey, man, let us just air this on our feed because it's so good. So it's called How to Take Over the World. This episode is on Thomas Edison. He's got a few other episodes or a few other folks on his feed. He's got Thomas Edison.
I believe he has Alexander the Great, the Rothschild's family.
Really, really cool. I'm a history buff. And so I'm happy that he was cool and let us air this. We're doing it none other than just we think it's good and we want you guys to check it out. So here it is. Enjoy the episode. There's part two and part three on our feed.
Check it out.
Shaan, we have something special. What is it?

**Shaan Patel** (1:50)
I'm just going to let him talk because his mic is so damn good. So Ben, why don't you say a few words to the people? Let them hear that silky smooth voice.

**Ben Wilson** (1:58)
Yeah, this is me. I'm Ben Wilson. Thanks for having me on, guys. I appreciate it.

**Sam Parr** (2:02)
So about eight weeks ago or 10 weeks ago, maybe, I think I messaged Shaan. I go, Shaan, I've been listening to this podcast called How to Take Over the World. I think I randomly discovered it because I type in Napoleon on the Apple Podcasts and I saw this podcast.

**Shaan Patel** (2:18)
As one does.

**Sam Parr** (2:19)
Yeah, as one does because I'm a weirdo.
And Ben, you had like no reviews, I think. And I clicked that one episode and your intro music was amazing. And Shaan and I, Shaan in particular is a fan of Conor McGregor. And I sent it to Shaan and I go, dude, you got to listen to this. This is amazing. And I binged your whole episode. And then we actually talked about you on our podcast. And I think your listeners like, shut up. How many listeners did you have before we discussed you?

**Ben Wilson** (2:44)
Yeah, it was a handful of thousand and I at least two X'd.
So thank you for that. I appreciate it. No, I think you're downplaying it.

**Sam Parr** (2:53)
I thought you told me you had hundreds a day and then you got many thousands a day.

**Ben Wilson** (2:58)
Yeah, yeah. If you're looking at where from a daily perspective, yeah, that's right. It was about 200 per day to many thousands per day.
So it's been a big jump.

**Shaan Patel** (3:09)
That was basically, Sam was road tripping across America. And so I think he was listening to a bunch of audio books and then podcasts. And Sam, you don't listen to a ton of podcasts normally. You only listen to true crime type stuff. So you like the story, story style podcasts. And you're a big biography guy. And I always love when you tell me, oh dude, I read this biography about Henry Ford. And did you know? And I'm like, no, dude, I didn't know any of this. I don't read these books. I want to, yeah, but I want an extra eight hours in a day. And once I get that, I'm gonna totally read all these books. And so you've always been a pretty voracious reader and you love biographies.
Let's just call it what it is. Biographies of great men, mostly. It's like people have done amazing things, either good or bad, whatever it is.
And so you were saying, oh, dude, I listened to this thing. And I don't know what you said, but I think you might have mentioned the intro music. And so I was like, oh, let me just go listen to this. And so I had to go drop somebody off at the airport. And so I turned a task that's kind of a pain in the ass errand of like an hour drive, second traffic drive back to like, okay, this is two hours of listening time. And I listened to the episodes you did, Ben, about Thomas Edison. And so we should say the name of the podcast is How to Take Over the World, baller name.