Announcing This Year's Episode of the Year: Camp MFM Recap

**Ben** (0:00)
Hello, and welcome to My First Million. This is producer Ben, here with the episode of the year. We ran a highly unscientific poll on Twitter, and the people have spoken, and you chose the Camp MFM Recap episode as the episode of the year.
Shout out to our runner-ups and honorable mentions. A lot of people said that their favorite episodes were the Palmer Lucky episode, the recent newsletter deep dive that we did with Austin Reif, the Peter Leavels interview, Sam's unpopular opinions episode, the Saw Hill Bloom episode, Michael Gurdley nominated himself, Andrew Wilkinson got a few shout outs, the inside story of Ligma Johnson, the episode where Sam and Sean went super deep on AI, the Stonks demo day collaboration and the University of Michigan pitch competition. All got shout outs. And I agree, those were some great episodes, but there can only be one winner, Vox Populi, Vox Dei, as Elon Musk is fond of saying. So here we are. If you're really upset about the winner, you can stop the episode right now, hit pause, go back and play one of those episodes and pretend like it won episode of the year.
But to be clear, it didn't. The winner was the MFM Recap episode. So that's what we're playing. We'll be back to your normally scheduled programming on Thursday, but until then, please enjoy this episode of the year winner, the Camp MFM Recap episode.

**Sam Parr** (1:18)
So Sean and I did a podcast with Mr. Beast, his real name is Jimmy, and Hasan made a joke, like, you wanna go play ball? And he goes, yeah, let's go right now. And as he said that, his two coworkers that were with him started getting on the phone, calling high schools, principals of schools. And once someone said something like, well, what if they don't let us for insurance reasons? And he goes, well, just tell them we'll give them a million dollars if someone gets hurt.

**Shaan Puri** (1:39)
He goes, that usually does the trick. I was like, how many times have you done this, bro?

**Sam Parr** (1:56)
All right, so I guess we all want to talk about the same thing, right?

**Shaan Puri** (1:59)
Yeah, this is going to be the Camp MFM Recap episode.

**Sam Parr** (2:03)
I have a lot of things to say. Let me set the background because you're the one who organized it. So I think you need a third party here. So basically a month ago, Sean said, I'm going to organize a basketball weekend and I want you to come and I'm going to invite some other people. Please Venmo me $1,800 and show up at this address at this time. That's pretty much all I knew about. I didn't know anything else. And I think it was three weeks in advance, right?

**Shaan Puri** (2:29)
Yeah, something like that.

**Sam Parr** (2:29)
So basically three weeks out, it just says, hey, come to North Carolina in Raleigh near Duke and we're going to have a basketball camp and just show up.
That's all I knew.
And then I get an email. I booked my flight. I sent you $1,800 a day before you send out who's coming. And it was like me and you, both Benz, a couple HubSpot people like Jonathan. And then it was like Hasan Minhaj.
It was Mr. Beast and it was like 20 other really amazing entrepreneurs. And you rented out this farm, basically.

**Shaan Puri** (2:58)
Or it's like a winery, yeah.

**Sam Parr** (3:00)
Yeah, with like a lake and a zip line going into the lake.
And it was like 24 entrepreneurs. And you hired this amazing basketball trainer who was also an entrepreneur. So he like fit in and was really insightful. You kind of half-assed the incredibly unimportant things. Like there was like, when we went and played basketball, I was like, hey, is there any food here? And you're like, well, there's just a bunch of boxes of Clif Bars and like, oh, okay, that's okay. I'm okay with half-assed on that thing. So anyway, we all stayed in these two Airbnbs and just played like board games and like acted like 12 year olds for like two nights. And it was amazing. It was so cool.

**Shaan Puri** (3:34)
Yeah, it was basically a summer camp for grownups.
And the origin of it is pretty simple. I love meeting new people. I actually genuinely love meeting new people. In fact, the podcast was originally started as an excuse to just get to talk to really fascinating, interesting people. But I hate most of the traditional ways to do it. I don't like going to conferences. I don't like going to networking events.