My First Million Live Event With Andrew Wilkinson (Austin, Texas) (Part 1)

**Andrew Wilkinson** (0:00)
And I got so excited about it at one point that I was up at like 11 o'clock at night, I was feeling all manic, I'd probably had a couple beers, and I sent this email to the entire staff, and I said, guys, we're shutting Metal Lab down, we're going all in on flow. And Chris, my business partner, who's here somewhere, where's Chris? Chris is over there.
Chris was the CFO at the time, and he looked at the numbers, and he was like, we will be out of business in three months.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:32)
Keep your stand and put your hands together for Webby award winning Shaan Puri, Sam Parr and special guest Andrew Wilkinson. Come on out, you guys.
All right.

**Sam Parr** (0:58)
So we are backstage, and we saw all the bands that have played here. It's like Franz Ferdinand and the Killers and all these cool things. And I heard the sound guys, first of all, sound guys, I want to apologize. I heard them talking before this, and they're like, what the fuck is this?
Is this a rich guy's birthday party? What is this?

**Shaan Puri** (1:21)
I think they thought it was a graduation happening.

**Sam Parr** (1:24)
So sound guys, sorry. It is what it is.

**Shaan Puri** (1:27)
You always wanted to be a star. You wanted to walk out to a sold out venue. And I guess this was one way to do it.

**Sam Parr** (1:34)
Yeah, it's one way to do it. So sound guys, it's going to be the lamest thing you're going to see this week, but maybe you'll learn something. I don't know.
But this is awesome. What do you think?

**Andrew Wilkinson** (1:45)
Working?

**Sam Parr** (1:45)
Fuck you, sound guys.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (1:47)
Come on, guys.

**Shaan Puri** (1:48)
You can tell who the real podcasters are.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (1:52)
So we did this huge event in Vancouver. We had like 1200 people in this massive theater and Sam sneaks out on the stage and I'm like, what are you doing? And he's peering around the corner taking photos and he goes, I'm posting this on Facebook.
And I was like, who the fuck uses Facebook? That's so weird. And he goes, all the people I went to high school with.

**Sam Parr** (2:14)
And so we wanted to start off by saying we were laughing backstage.
And we were like, right before we came on, we're like, we gotta talk about Nick Gray. Has anyone here met Nick Gray? That was the guy that was just talking.

**Shaan Puri** (2:28)
I just met him for the first time last night. He is, I don't know if he's the most interesting man in the world, but he's like the most interesting man in Texas, for sure. I'll give him that.

**Andrew Wilkinson** (2:37)
I feel like on this show, we always talk about billionaires and there's a lot of money billionaires, but Nick is a friend billionaire.

**Shaan Puri** (2:45)
Yeah, last night, so we hosted a dinner last night with like, I don't know, 15 people. And Sam had set it all up. It was gonna be perfect. He had this like, high-end restaurant, table for 14 The time was locked in. We got reminders. We show up. It's supposed to be beautiful.
You know, just a first-class dinner. Everything was taken care of.
And we get there and immediately the plan was blown up. It was raining outside.

**Sam Parr** (3:10)
It starts raining like crazy and our seat was like half outside.

**Shaan Puri** (3:13)
Yeah, so we weren't gonna be able to do it. Immediately, Nick Gray improvises, he's like, hold on.
You six to the bar and then he sprinted, because I pulled up, I saw him running. And I was like, Nick Gray, where are you going? And he was like, I'm scoping out a venue. And he, I don't know where he went.

**Sam Parr** (3:33)
He runs into this place and he's like, hey, is this a event space?

**Shaan Puri** (3:38)
It's soaking wet.

**Sam Parr** (3:39)
Yeah, and the women look at each other and they're like, what? And he goes, what's the name of this place? And they go, it's called Miss Kitties. And he's like, are you guys in an event space? What do you do? He goes, we wax women.

**Shaan Puri** (3:52)
I got 15 dudes outside. Do you have an event space or not?
But he did. He found us this like, like abandoned shack almost, this amazing place. And he got us.

**Sam Parr** (4:04)
It was really like a shed.

**Shaan Puri** (4:05)
It was an abandoned shed, but it was like, I don't know, it was perfect. It was exactly what we needed. It was outside the rain. We were all in there, it was quiet. We could talk and, and he hosts this thing. Cause what Nick does is he has this book called, I think the Two Hour Cocktail Party.