Favorite Finds: From McDonald's to Twitter Famous, Pelosi's Finances & How To Close A Deal

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
He said this line that I love, he goes, that sounds silly, I understand that. That my whole day is just about posting on Twitter. But everybody's just got a thing, that's my thing, okay? And he's like, we've all got one thing, that's my thing.
I love it!

**Sam Parr** (0:25)
All right, we have a special episode. We're gonna talk about cool content that we've consumed. This might be short, 20, 25 minutes, but you want to kick things off?

**Shaan Puri** (0:32)
Yeah, well, I want to say why I think this is a good type of episode to do.
We, you know, one of the best ways to change your life is to change like your, if you want to change your body, you'll go change your diet or your habits, your workout habits or your eating habits.
If you want to change your mind, you need to change your info diet. And so one of the questions I like asking, and I know you do too, which is like, it's like the dorkiest question ever. We probably should find a better way to phrase it. No, it's a great question, but it's the answer is so good that we don't even care how lame the question sounds. But I've heard you say this before, like, so what media are you consuming? So what are you like? What are you reading nowadays?

**Sam Parr** (1:09)
Or like, what content do you like to consume, which is I do that in job interviews and people will be like, oh, I read like the New York Times. I'm like, no, come on. Like, what subreddits are you like consuming? Do you use Reddit? What about Twitter on Instagram? Who do you follow? Where are you getting it? Who's influencing you?

**Shaan Puri** (1:24)
We asked Palmer Lucky this, we were like, what reddits, what subreddits do you go on? Because his brain was and it was like he's firing off all these awesome things and all these different areas. It's like that doesn't just happen by accident. That happens because he's got a set of interesting inputs that leads to a set of interesting outputs. We as MFM want to be one of those interesting inputs for you so that you become a more interesting, smart, you know, person based off of listening to this. But we're just one thing. So what we want to share is what are the best of the inputs that we read, listen to, or watch this week that maybe you should go check out. So that's the premise of this.
I wish more people did this. Of people that I find interesting, I wish they would be more. I wish they would curate for me like, you know, here's the one or two best things I read or watch this week or listen to just to get my mind going and show me cool things I should go do. Anyways, that's the spiel.

**Sam Parr** (2:13)
I want you to kick it off.
I want you to do at the top to all three years are good. So why don't you kick it off at the top one?

**Shaan Puri** (2:20)
So one of the best things I watched this week is Bill Gurley's talk at All In. Have you heard his his talk that he did at the All In conference?

**Sam Parr** (2:29)
Yeah, so he did a talk. I believe it was about Uber and regulation and like some of the surprising things they found.

**Shaan Puri** (2:35)
So Bill Gurley was the like lead investor in Uber, and he goes to All In and I expected him to talk about, I don't know, venture capital, business, investing. But he's now retired. He's a retired VC. So he's like kind of in the no-fucks-given mode, which is great. Like, you know, when you get a really smart person who now feels like they have nothing to lose, they can go off. And I feel like that's the best way to describe this. It wasn't a talk.
Bill Gurley went off. And so what he does is the talk is titled. I think it's like two thousand eight hundred fifty one or something like that, some number.
And he is basically the talk is like, that's the number of miles between Silicon Valley and Washington, DC.
And what he does is he talks about regulation and how screwed up it makes business. And so he goes through example after example. And if it to me, it felt almost like a John Oliver.
You know, when John Oliver does those last week, tonight things where he just has a monologue, he's like exposing something that's screwed up or like Coffeezilla does this on YouTube, where he'll go in and be like, Logan Paul's scam people. And let me just expose the whole degrift.