Boys React: Elon's Troubles, Happiness & Money Study, TikTok Ban, And Power Slap League

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's podcast network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Shaan Puri** (1:02)
Anytime a rich person tells you that money doesn't make you happy, just ask them for their money then.
Cool, cool, cool. I guess it's useless, right? Can I, just give me a bunch of it then.

**Sam Parr** (1:22)
Fellas, welcome to the Friday episode, The Boys React. We're gonna go through some news stories. Let's start with the thing that everyone is talking about, everyone is always talking about, which is Elon. Elon has gotten himself in trouble a couple of times this week. First, he tried selling some house plants, or office plants, I should say, to his employees to raise money. Wait, really? And then also ridiculed and sort of kind of fired an employee who is disabled.
Your thoughts on the endless drama of Ewan?
Cringe, what do you think?

**Shaan Puri** (1:53)
Yeah, Elon is the cringe master. He has to make everything about him. Like, it's just me, me, me.
He's now known as Milan Musk in my house. This guy's too much. The crazy thing, Sam, did you watch this all go down with the guy that was like, hey, am I fired? I think we should explain this.

**Sam Parr** (2:13)
Yeah, so do a recap.
I didn't understand all that at first. I had to like click through.

**Shaan Puri** (2:18)
So guy goes on Twitter, who's got, I never heard of this guy, but he's got like 150,000 followers. And he says, hey, nine days ago, I lost access to my work computer. Just can't, I can't access Twitter anymore. I work at Twitter. I can't access my work. My work computer doesn't log in anymore. It doesn't work. Can't get into my email, can't do anything.
I'm not sure if I'm fired. Nobody told me I'm fired, but I just can't get into my email or my computer. I've emailed them, I've waited nine days. Haven't gotten no reply from HR, from anybody.
So I guess, hey, at Elon Musk, am I fired?
And so he tweets that out.

**Sam Parr** (2:54)
Was he getting paid still?

**Shaan Puri** (2:56)
I don't know. I don't think so, but it was whatever. It was only nine days. So maybe he hadn't got in between yet. So he tweets that out and he goes, maybe if this gets enough retweets, then I'll get a response. So it gets retweeted a bunch of like, there's a whole group of people that love to hate Elon, myself included.
And so people are like, this is another example of how poorly Twitter's being run right now. If you're gonna fire somebody, tell them they're fired. That's common decency, right?
I feel like Elon's got this flow chart where it's like, I'm firing this person. Should I tell them? It's like, yes. And it's like, no, no, I'm gonna go with no. Okay, what happens after no?
Should I just, should I meet with them in person?

**Sam Parr** (3:44)
No, just cut off their computer access. Dude, he's like Irish good-buying their jobs.

**Shaan Puri** (3:49)
Exactly.

**Sam Parr** (3:49)
It's basically, he's just walking out without saying goodbye.

**Shaan Puri** (3:53)
Exactly. And so anyways, this thing gets, this thing goes viral. So basically, Elon then.
Again, he sees this thing going viral, so instead of actually just, yeah, you are fired or confirmed, yes, you were fired. He instead says, what have you been working on? Like, what have you accomplished is the, so then he goes, well, if I say what I'm working on, I think I'd be breaking my NDA. Do I have permission to break my NDA and tell you what, like, can I say publicly here what I work on? And Elon replies, yes, go ahead.