Billion $ TV Empires, Dating Business Ideas, And More Elon

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
Their TV show got canceled, but Discovery gives them a whole network. Discovery's like, yo, we're gonna make the Magnolia network all around you guys. And you guys are gonna create hundreds of hours of TV that's fixer-upper content, cooking content, gardening content, all the house shit, right?
And now they've built this empire, kind of the bottom line, the headline of the story is this couple, in a span of about 10 years, has built a billion-dollar brand around themselves.

**Sam Parr** (0:31)
It's that big?

**Shaan Puri** (0:31)
It's that big.

**Sam Parr** (0:41)
All right, what's up?

**Shaan Puri** (0:43)
I hope they keep in what just happened.
So before we hit record, it's like five, four, three, two, one, and Sam on three takes out a drink out of nowhere at three seconds left, and just chugs it, like tilts up, not only just tilt it up, squeezes the bottle, like it's a Kool-Aid or like a Capri Sun or something, and chugs some carbonated drink, and then it goes to one, and then he puts up the one, simple like, hold on, looks to the side, burps, flexes, re-centers himself, and is ready for the podcast. That was elite. That was an elite preps for a podcast.

**Sam Parr** (1:23)
Dude, I'm on top of it. I drink so many beverages. And we had this Fast Company article written about the Hampton launch, and the reporter in like the first paragraph called out how I left the interview to grab a root beer, and I came back.

**Shaan Puri** (1:38)
Yeah, he skimmed the foam off the root beer like it was a Guinness, and then finished it. Held up the one second sign to my lips, Talbida shush, as he drained his root beer during the interview.

**Sam Parr** (1:54)
You know how men drink like IPAs and crap, and then they look at the glass after they take a drink and try to analyze it? That's basically what I do at my Coke Zero.

**Shaan Puri** (2:02)
Dude, you ought to have more weird quirks because you can't really be a billionaire founder if you're not super weird.
So you got to start picking up some things like, oh, he only wears open-toed sandals with socks and he wears shorts with EMF protection on his pockets because he's worried about radiation. What are the other weird things that you can do?

**Sam Parr** (2:27)
Well, I had carbonated water on tap for a while. That was pretty awesome. I only drink carbonated water, no normal water.

**Shaan Puri** (2:34)
Only sleeps during full moons.

**Sam Parr** (2:37)
You don't have any eccentricities, do you?

**Shaan Puri** (2:39)
No, that's why I'm broke, dude. I need some of these before. Otherwise, how can I be the weird rich billionaire I'm trying to be?

**Sam Parr** (2:48)
We have, Shaan and I have these friends. I won't name who they are, but they're young guys. And the minute that they got a mild amount of success, like maybe $500,000 in revenue, they clearly had read, like, Naval's book on, like, charging by time or something like that. And then they sent all of their clients, it's a client services business, saying, we don't do meetings anymore.
And they were leading into that eccentricity thing. And I wanted to tell them, you guys are doing great, but you're not there yet.

**Shaan Puri** (3:22)
And the biggest customer dropped them immediately. It was like, oh, well, we kind of needed to meet to talk about the, I guess, okay, well, I guess we'll just find another vendor.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:32)
Yeah, I wanted to tell them, like, it's great. I love the attitude.

**Shaan Puri** (3:37)
You know, showed up to meetings with the shirt off.
And it was just like, well, that's cool. It's one way. It's one way to wear your shirt.

**Sam Parr** (3:45)
That's not the way that that particular client was willing to do it.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:48)
So it's no longer their client, but that is our way. Yeah, that is definitely our way.

**Shaan Puri** (3:51)
I do have a nipple policy, unfortunately.

**Sam Parr** (3:54)
Yeah, they're not on board with the Free the Nip campaign, unfortunately.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:59)
Yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (3:59)
Oh, we forgot to shout out.

**Sam Parr** (4:01)
We're doing a live pod April 29th. That's a Saturday. If you live in Austin, or if you want to fly in, Sean and I, along with MFM guest, Andrew Wilkinson, are doing a live pod. So if you go to mfmpod.com, you'll see the details and you'll see tickets.
We're going to do a live pod. We did this in Vancouver a couple of months ago. It's sold out. This one's going to sell out as well. So if you're interested in hanging out with Sean, me, Andrew Wilkinson, as well as 500, 600 other guests and fans of MFM, we're going to be there. So check it out, mfmpod.com, and you'll see the banner up top where you can check out tickets.