I Spent 7 Days With The Richest Men In Texas | 10 Things I Learned

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
He's showing us around his house, he's like, that's my nap room.
And I was like, you're a nap guy, I'm a nap guy. And he's like, oh yeah, I take a nap every day for the last 30 years.

**Shaan Puri** (0:08)
Do you want to nap together?
All right, you're back from Austin. You were there for seven days. How was it?

**Sam Parr** (0:23)
It was great, dude. I had one conversation. I got to ask you this, I got put on the spot. So I was talking to, I did an episode with Tim Ferriss, and he said something in the middle of the interview. He goes, he goes, I wanted to ask you this. What do you say, what do you think is the brand of your podcast? He goes, what I mean is if you're not in the room and someone was just telling their friend about it, how would they describe it?
Ideally to you, how would they describe it?

**Shaan Puri** (0:47)
You actually did this before, and I actually thought it was great. You said, hey, look, we're doing these meetups. And if you are the type of person who goes to a restaurant and you wonder how could they make this a little bit more efficient or how much money do they make per meal or how much profit do they make and how can they expand this? And you also like to joke around, you're perfect for MFM.
And that's sort of the person who I would describe is into it. I would say that we're this weird combination of making silly dumb jokes and deconstructing interesting companies and pointing out different trends.

**Sam Parr** (1:16)
Yeah, I like the restaurant thing where it's like, if you went to a restaurant with four friends, and three of them would be looking at the menu trying to figure out what to order, and you'd be looking around, counting the tabletops and trying to figure out how much money this place makes, that's us. We are that friend.

**Shaan Puri** (1:30)
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Why? What did you say on the air?

**Sam Parr** (2:34)
Well, luckily, he let me off the hook because he asked it. He's like, I want to ask you this. You don't have to answer, but you can do this. And he just kind of kept going.
And in my head, I was like, okay, the master of podcasting asking me what is my podcast about? And it's sort of like, you know, if Leonardo Caprio comes up to you and he asks you what your name is, and you're like, I have one. I just don't know what it is right now.
You know, the panic ensues.

**Shaan Puri** (2:56)
I had to go out of town, so it was a weird timing. I wasn't able to make it. But you interviewed four or three people, but you hung out with a ton of people.
How was Tim, for one, you also interviewed Joe Lonsdale. How were these guys?

**Sam Parr** (3:09)
So I took notes. I always take notes when I go. I take a little journal with me. And basically, I'm not taking notes on what happened. I'm only taking notes on what are the new epiphanies? What are the new golden nuggets? What's the one phrase somebody said that I'm going to remember?