Greatest Hits of 2021 (Vol. 1)

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
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**Jonathan Barshop** (0:42)
What is up, my friends, and welcome to My First Million's Greatest Hits, volume one. I don't know, it's been a minute since we've done one of these, but for those of you who don't know who this is, my name's Jonathan Barshop. I work behind the scenes here with Sam, Sean, and Ben.
And in this episode, we compiled five of the best moments of 2021 and are gonna be serving them to you in just a bit. But first, I just want to give you all a huge shout out for helping us grow the pod this year from 100,000 downloads in January to over two million monthly downloads this past month. So just insane growth, and that's all because the reviews y'all been leaving on Apple podcasts, on Spotify and all the clips that y'all been creating. So we ran a clip contest this past month and a few of y'all have gone like crazy viral, getting millions of views on TikTok. So just nuts. So I wanted to give you all a quick shout out, say thank you, but that's not why you're here. You're here for the goods. So without further ado, let's dive into a few of the best moments from 2021
So this first clip is from episode 158 I still think this idea has a ton of legs, but the idea is to buy Michael Jordan's home and turn it into a museum. Let's give it a listen.

**Sam Parr** (1:41)
Shaan put something on here that I actually think I was telling a friend as I was researching, I actually think that this is one of the better ideas that we and you've ever come up with, the Michael Jordan thing.

**Shaan Puri** (1:54)
All right, you want me to explain it? Okay, so I've been looking at this house for a long time. Michael Jordan's house has been for sale for like a decade and it hasn't sold. And this is his house kind of like in Illinois, near Chicago where Michael Jordan was on the Bulls and he had this 56,000 square foot home in Highland Park.
And so this thing, originally he put it up for sale in like, I don't know, nine years ago for $30 million, $29 million. And now the price has been cut in half and the thing is still not selling. And if you look at the photos, you can just go, it's like on Zillow. So you can go look at the photos. He's got like an indoor basketball court, the gate leading up to the driveway has his big 23 number like embossed in it. He's got everything you would want, like huge closets, because he's got all his Air Jordans or whatever. And so his house is, it's pretty unbelievable, right? There's all kinds of epic shit here, but it's not selling. And it's not selling for I think a couple reasons. It's like, it's very custom to Michael Jordan. It was custom made in many senses. So, the other rich people don't necessarily want to live in a house that's like made for another dude.
It's also, it's very expensive for the area. The property taxes are really expensive, all that stuff. But I was thinking, okay, the price is now cut in half. Now it's a $13 million house or a $13 million home that you could buy, 13, 14 And now it's in range where maybe there's something fun you could do with it. Now you might be getting a value buy. So I was thinking, all right, there's a bunch of people, obviously that are basketball fans that love Michael Jordan.
There's a bunch of new ways to crowdfund that we've been talking about, NFTs or Kickstarter or different crowdfunding platforms. So the question is, should we buy Michael Jordan's house? Should we start a crowdfunding campaign and buy Michael Jordan's house? So if you could get 5,000 people to each put in $2,500, then you could own a fractional share of Michael Jordan's house. And you could own a piece of this history. And we could just buy it out, take it off the market.
And we could own this thing. And then the question is like, what do you do with it?