Finding Profitable Business Ideas By Studying Trends, Hood Rat Stuff, and More

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
You're good at doing this, which is you identify these lifestyle trends. You like pick up pretty quickly on like, there's a group of people that are deciding to like, live under a different paradigm, or different motto or creed.
And actually that was like one of the best ways to build a business around that lifestyle, because you can speak to that audience, you could differentiate a product super easily to that crowd.

**Shaan Puri** (0:32)
One time I went to an amateur fight in, you've been there, it was at the, in Golden State Park or something, do you remember that?

**Sam Parr** (0:39)
Dragon House.

**Shaan Puri** (0:39)
And there was like a thousand people there, and at the fight, you know how, so basically when people, before people get into a ring, the referee checks to make sure you don't have any weapons on you, it's just like a precaution, but that's like, they rub your shorts to make sure you don't have a weapon, they check your gloves to make sure that there's not like cement in there, and then they also look at your fingers to make sure, in MMA's case, you don't have long nails. One time I went and they go, no, you gotta cut your nails. And so they made an announcement and they go, does anyone have a nail trimmer?
And we waited for like three or five minutes and someone had to like run to Walgreens or something and bring a nail and he had to cut the nail. And I was like, A, like how did you not figure this out? Like, you know, 15 minutes ago, this nail thing is not new, like you should have checked this out before they came out. And B, it was just crazy.

**Sam Parr** (1:26)
That's so funny.
Yeah, every time they do those checks, I'm like, has anybody ever discovered like a razor that this guy's sneaking into the cage? Like, they never do it. It's like just a, it's like a TSA pat down without ever, ever finding anything, except for that. That's the first time I've ever heard that they like actually found a violation.

**Shaan Puri** (1:44)
One of the reasons they do it is in the 80s or 90s, there's this guy who's a real, it was a real famous fight. And this guy basically put his hand in like a cast.
So it was like, and they like, they casted his, yeah, it was called a Paris of plaster or whatever that phrase is. It was like plaster, and then they put his gloves on and they beat up, and he beat up this guy so bad that the guy eventually killed himself because he had so much brain damage, it made him depressed and like, it was like a really bad thing. And so that's one of the reasons why they're like, like check your gloves so much. It's such a big deal.

**Sam Parr** (2:17)
Wow, the plaster caster, all right, I feel like, well, I'm sorry that that guy died, and now I respect these checks. In fact, I too got caught in TSA yesterday in a slow line and missed my flight. So you know how I'm always two minutes late for this podcast? I was two minutes late for my flight and missed my flight yesterday.

**Shaan Puri** (2:39)
Where were you going?

**Sam Parr** (2:40)
I was going down to, I went down to Mexico actually. So yesterday I went to Mexico and back.

**Shaan Puri** (2:46)
What, why for e-commerce stuff?

**Sam Parr** (2:49)
For business. Yeah, we were visiting a supplier down there and I wanted to, you know, go check them out. And so yeah, one day trip, missed my flight, did the thing where I was in the good line.
Other line looked a little shorter. So I was like, let me optimize real quick. Made the switch, took a mental note. I said, all right, that's my line buddy right there. We'll see who makes it first.
He was long gone. He made the flight. I didn't make the flight, so I ended up and I have clear. I got all the shit to skip the lines. Still, still didn't make it. So that was kind of.
Yeah, well, it's fine. You know, now it's like, you know, whatever the situation.

**Shaan Puri** (3:27)
That's just the price you pay.

**Sam Parr** (3:30)
Exactly. That's the price I pay. The splinter is the cost of the wood, as I say. And that was that was that was, you know, the start of my day. But, dude, I crossed the border on foot yesterday.
I was like, you know, Donald Trump's enemy. I literally walked across the border from Mexico back into the United States yesterday.