The 2025 Milly Awards!

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
All right, so Steph, welcome back. You've been on, I don't know, a dozen times or so. You're a great friend of the pod. We wanted to do this with you. So we have categories, a bunch of categories for the year, and we're gonna go rapid fire through them, and we'll do it that way. Okay, so Steph, you've been given the categories, but we don't know what you said. Sam, I don't know what you said. This will be a surprise for all of us.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:22)
Well, I wish I actually would have recapped some of the numbers, but over the last 12 months, Shaan, I don't know if you've known this, but we've had something like 90 million views across everything, downloads and views. Amazing. So pretty wild, that always-

**SPEAKER_1** (0:35)
We crossed, I believe, I think we're close to 2 million subscribers across YouTube, Spotify and Apple or whatever, which is bananas. I mean, that number, 90 million, that's a lot of view time, a lot of views.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:50)
It's a lot, and there's definitely one or two shorts that got 10 million, I think last year. I think we had, last year, there was one where we told the story, maybe you told the story of Elon Musk. I think it got 30 million. So like some go really heavy, but it's been pretty crazy. So we've reached tens of millions of people in the last 12 months, which is astounding. And now we do this at the end of every year. And it's one of my favorite things. We do mostly the same categories each year, but it's always like so fun to go through your phone and like look at old photos and see what's going on from your trail in 12 months. So I'm excited to do this. So category number one, the best investment that you made this year, is that right?

**SPEAKER_1** (1:27)
Best investment you made this year. So Sam, you want to kick this off?

**SPEAKER_2** (1:31)
Yeah, so this just says investment. It doesn't say best money investment. My best money investment is always boring because I just do S&P 500 bonds. But my best real investment that I made was I moved to New York City. And let me tell you the story. So I was living in the suburbs. I decided to move to New York City. I moved here and I found an apartment that I loved. It was furnished amazingly. And I go to the previous tenants, I go, I want to move in this apartment.
Do you guys just want to sell me all your furniture? And so I had them itemize all of their furniture. And it added up to be very expensive, $80,000 or $90,000. With the stuff, I said, I'll give you 10%. They took it. So I ended up moving to the city in a furnished apartment where I get to see my in-laws four days a week. I go to my office five days a week. And it's made me so happy. So that's been my best investment. Was moving to a furnished place. I sold all my cars. I don't own basically anything. And I love it.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:20)
Owning less stuff, moving to the city, being near your family, working in person in an office. That's actually a pretty big change overall.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:28)
Huge change. And it's definitely made me a lot happier.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:30)
Questionable if it's an investment, but it is a huge change. I will give you that.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:33)
It's an emotional investment. I'm emotionally invested in this city now.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:37)
See, this is why I don't do index funds and bonds because imagine if I'm one day on a podcast and they ask me what best investment of the year. And I can't, I have to start talking about seeing my mother-in-law. Like that's just that's why I don't, that's why I pick stocks, baby. That's why.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:49)
Yeah, like, what am I going to say? I buy net worth went up by 30% this year for the boring stuff like a stuff.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:57)
What do you got? Best, best investment of the year. Tell me it's an actual investment and not like Shaan, I'm about to disappoint you, man. Oh my God.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:04)
The only time I check the S&P is to gauge my husband's mood for the day. So he invests all our money. And so I gotta, I gotta come up with something else. My investment is also not really an investment, but it's Accutane. You guys know what Accutane is?

**SPEAKER_1** (3:21)
What? Yes.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:23)
Yes.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:23)
Is that like acne medicine? What is that?