Business Brainstorm: SAT Prep Cartoons, The Onion For Millennial Moms & More

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
But anyway, this was my Sunday brainstorm. My Sunday brainstorm was here's three cool ideas.

**Shaan Puri** (0:13)
Dude, let's do like a life update, because frankly, you and I mostly talk to each other. I mean, we spent so much time on this podcast, we don't even like talk that much. I wanna know what's going on with you, and I'll fill you in on what's going on with me.

**Sam Parr** (0:24)
I did a thing I've never really done before. It's not that groundbreaking. I'm sure you or many people have done this, but I hadn't. And Friday hit and I just put my phone in a drawer and I didn't touch it till this morning.
So I had a no phone weekend, which was pretty awesome and very unusual for me.

**Shaan Puri** (0:42)
You're not good at that. Like you're hardcore about your phone. So tell me how that felt.

**Sam Parr** (0:47)
It felt like withdrawals from an addiction. Like I would find myself, there was like funny things and then there was like little moments where I would notice it a lot more, right?

**Shaan Puri** (0:57)
Like grabbing your pants all the time?

**Sam Parr** (0:58)
I would just keep padding my pocket. Like I would put my kids in their car seat, shut the door and I'm walking around the car to get to my side. And I instinctively am trying to pat to check my, like why do I need to check my phone in this three second break that I have walking around my car? It's pretty crazy. And there was just like a hundred moments like that where I instinctively wanted to go and just pull to refresh basically. I needed to go see a feed. It's like I need to get my feed. And so it was nice to do that. I found myself doing randoms. I was like humming a lot. I read a lot. I was just like, our kids are kind of picky eaters and we haven't really taught them to eat very well on their own. And so like we feed them every meal basically still. And so I'm sitting there and I'm feeding them. And normally I've got my phone. They've got their cartoons. We're basically all just cartooned up and I'm just shoving bites of mac and cheese in their mouth.
And it really slowed me down. Like time went way slower, but not in a bad way necessarily.
It was a lot more peaceful, I would say also.
It was part of the upside of not having my phone.

**Shaan Puri** (1:58)
Did you use your computer or Apple TV or cable TV this weekend?

**Sam Parr** (2:01)
Yeah, so the rule was I don't have to be like without the internet or without any entertainment. I didn't go Amish.
I was allowed to watch TV and I was allowed to use my laptop if the opportunity presented itself.
But on the weekends, I'm pretty much fully in dad mode. So I'm not really on the computer a whole lot.
And even just the physical distance of like the computer that's in your pocket all the time versus, okay, I guess if I want to go on the internet, I'm allowed to, I'm allowed to go on Twitter if I want to, but I just have to go to my computer, open it up, type in the thing. And then like, you know, I can only be on my laptop for so long basically. So that was a good, a very good break and something I'm gonna do a lot more of because I don't like the idea of being addicted to something. And I would say by any definition, I'm completely addicted to my phone. If I don't have it, I kind of freak out a little bit. I'm like, I gotta go get my phone. Hold on, wait, wait, wait, whatever we're doing. I gotta get my phone. I left my phone in the other room. I gotta go get it.
And it's pretty crazy that that's the case. Finding myself instinctively reaching into my pockets or like really wondering like, what time is it? Did somebody text me? It's like, who cares? I don't really need any of this.

**Shaan Puri** (3:03)
Did you follow the news?

**Sam Parr** (3:04)
Well, that was of course the craziest thing is while I'm not on my phone, my wife is like, oh my God, Trump got shot. I'm like, oh man, this is the one thing that like the craziest news of the world happens, testing my resolve here. And so I did get on my laptop a little bit later and check out what was going on and read all the crazy stuff, but I stayed off my phone, so that was good.