The Story of Black Market Kingpin Ross Ulbricht + Sam Does an AMA

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How to Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. Talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's Podcast Network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales. You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.
It created these dopamine rushes where it sucked, it sucked, it sucked. And then one of our articles got a million views and I got so pumped.
All right, Shaan's not here, so Ben and I are doing this. Ben, producer Ben, what's up?

**Ben Wilson** (1:27)
What's up? How you doing, Sam?

**Sam Parr** (1:29)
So this episode is kind of special because I've got people who asked us questions.

**Ben Wilson** (1:35)
Okay, should we do some of these? Okay, I'll read them. Okay. And as you're answering them, I'll go pick up some of the new ones in case anyone has responded with more stuff on Twitter.
So first one is pretty open, pretty generic. What do you want to learn more about in 2022?

**Sam Parr** (2:00)
In 2022, I want to learn more about how to get popular on YouTube.
That's what I'm going to do. And in 2022, I'm going to take more adventures. I'm going to do more trips. So that's what I'm going to figure out. Do you have an answer?

**Ben Wilson** (2:16)
I do, but I actually just want to follow up on the YouTube thing.
You are a self-professed wannabe fitness influencer. Is that a part of it? Are you also trying to learn Instagram? Where's your head at with the-

**Sam Parr** (2:30)
I want to vlog.
I want to keep a diary of my life. I think it'd be fun to look back in 50 years and say, yeah, you could see, there's a period of my life that's all in video and I could watch it and see how I behaved. I think that'd be really exciting. So that's why I want to do it.

**Ben Wilson** (2:46)
That's interesting.

**Sam Parr** (2:48)
Let's, oh wait, go ahead, what's yours?

**Ben Wilson** (2:51)
I was just going to say, I'm pretty much laser focused on my podcast right now and growing it. But the other thing that I'm super interested in and I think is going to be a big space for the crypto type people going forward is idea of startup cities, autonomous cities, kind of building a new way of living from the ground up. And people are doing interesting stuff there with, there's something called Prospera that you've talked about that Peter Thiel is trying to build down somewhere in Central America. There's Praxis, I've talked to those guys a little bit. There's some interesting things going on and I would like to learn more about that and see what's happening in that scene.

**Sam Parr** (3:30)
What are some business related, or what's an idea and trend that you think is overhyped?
I'll go first. I think it's, well, how about this? I'm actually gonna say what I think is underhyped because that's also part of the question. You know what I think is underhyped? Recycling. I think current ways of recycling are overhyped. So did you know that the most, most of the, you know how like you have a blue bin at your home? Yeah. That's bullshit. It all gets thrown away and burned. They don't, almost all of it. Like the vast majority, like 90% of that gets burned and they don't use it. The only reason we do that is because it makes us feel good and so we're okay buying more shit.