My Mom Started a $1M Side Hustle In Her 50's

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
Your random tweet about your mother-in-law gets to him, and he writes back, Dear Smithy Soudine, both Bed Bath & Beyond and myself would like to invest in your business if these are your designs. They are outstanding.
And then the best part, and believe me, I know pillows.

**Sam Parr** (0:26)
All right, we're live. Shaan, I've got three stories that I want to tell you about to kick this day's episode off. You ready?

**Shaan Puri** (0:32)
I'm ready.

**Sam Parr** (0:33)
First one. Years ago, this is gonna be fast. Years ago, I was trying to get this one entrepreneur who is the CEO and founder of this very famous media company that I'm not gonna call out.
And he ignored me. He never got back to me. I probably sent him 15 emails. Well, I'm currently in Brooklyn, staying at an Airbnb right now for a couple of days. Not an Airbnb, a different service.
And visiting family. And I log on to the Netflix on the TV and guess who's house I'm renting right now.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:02)
That guy.

**Sam Parr** (1:05)
I am currently staying at his house right now.
Should I do anything to like, is there anything like, should I look something up on YouTube? Somebody goes to his YouTube account and he sees it. Like in the previous searches.

**Shaan Puri** (1:18)
Yeah, you gotta do the most, whatever the, what is the most petty thing you could do? Like just change his wifi password.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:24)
Just send him for a loop.

**Shaan Puri** (1:25)
He'll be like, what, what is happening right now? I don't understand this.

**Sam Parr** (1:29)
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So I'm in his house. So I go to Netflix and I see the image for like the, or I go to some YouTube account or something and I see the image for like the thumbnail image for his account and I'm like, I know this person. And then I start picking up the other details. I'm like, oh, he's logged into all the stuff. I know exactly who this is. So I'm gonna have to figure out a way to get his attention. It's gonna be borderline creepy, regardless of how I do this, even if I do it in the most tasteful way, but I'm gonna take my shot. I'm gonna leave this guy a message.
It's not mean. I'm very happy. I'm happy, but I'm gonna leave him a message.

**Shaan Puri** (2:25)
Hey man, I really love the place. I'm trying to pee in the sink, but there's no stool.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:28)
Do you know where you keep it?

**Sam Parr** (2:33)
Yes, I'm gonna have to do something. The second story that I've got to tell you about is that we need to get our people listening to this right now to subscribe. We just crossed 400,000 followers.
You tweeted out that we're gonna make out when we get to a million. Is that right?

**Shaan Puri** (2:47)
I did not say that, I said specifically, these other podcasters made out when they crossed 50K and it's a very uncomfortable video watching them in slow-mo kiss. And he's like, the guy's kissing, they're kissing each other. And one guy's like resisting it and the other guy's like trying to do the bet. And he's like, I'm just getting teeth.
There's this teeth, can you move something? I just, I'm just getting a lot of teeth right now.

**Sam Parr** (3:11)
And by the way, it's a finance podcast.
Yeah, yeah, it's great. The video that they make out on, it barely has any views and they never act like it barely worked.

**Shaan Puri** (3:22)
That is the funniest part of the whole thing. I saw that the video has 25,000 views. I was like, my worst nightmare is not that I have to make out with you. It's that I made out with you for the YouTube content. But nothing didn't go anywhere, which is exactly what would happen if I tried to, you know, oh, this will definitely, you know, go viral.
And then it does it.

**Sam Parr** (3:42)
By the way, there is a number for everything. I don't know if a million subscribers is that number, but I don't know if the number ends in the word subscribers either.