Threads vs Twitter & Millionaire Sam Ovens Doesn't Believe In A.I. Hype

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
Parker, I think it's Parker Thompson on Twitter, he replied to that. He goes, okay, so for those keeping score at home, Elon bought a product for 44 billion, and then Zuck built the same product for a thousand times less, is stealing all of his users like an absolute Chad, and is God willing about to choke him out in 90 seconds on a steel cage soon.
So that's what a cuck means now.
All right, what's up? Today's episode, we're talking about threads versus Twitter, the big debate, and we're going to talk about where we land, our predictions for what we think is going to happen, how it's going to play out. We told some funny stories, and then in the second half, we have an interview with a guy named Sam Ovens.
Sam met this guy, Sam. He used to run a business called consulting.com that at its peak hit 30 million in revenue. He was all over our Facebook feeds as one of these Internet marketer guys, and so we were curious, who is this guy and what's he all about? Definitely an interesting interview. I would say he had some interesting stuff to say. Also, his energy was totally different than most of the guests and also different than what you would expect out of an Internet marker. I'm curious to see what people think of it. I would say it's sort of like a different style of energy than we've done before. Sam, what do you think?

**Sam Parr** (1:22)
So for those watching on YouTube, I'm sweating right now. The reason I'm sweating is around minute 35
I can't stop laughing. I'm still laughing about it. You're going to enjoy it.

**Shaan Puri** (1:33)
Taco Bell story. Let's just leave it.

**Sam Parr** (1:35)
Oh, my God. It's ridiculous.
I don't know how this story came about in a business pod. I'm happy it did. I'm sweating right now. If you are on Spotify or Apple and you're listening to this, go to our YouTube page, search My First Million. Go to this episode. Let us know in the comments what you think.
People liked when we did that last time, Shaan. We got a lot of comments, a lot of good feedback. It's been fun to read all the comments, but let us know what you think. We'll talk to you soon. All right.

**Shaan Puri** (2:02)
What's up, Sam? We got to talk about threads, threads versus Twitter.
Threads came out a few days ago. We've had a few days to play with it, to sit on it, to think about it. And I think everybody's given their opinion on it. And why not ours?
I want to hear what you have to say about this. I have kind of like a way, I think we could talk about this, what I'm calling the bull and bear case, so the bull case, the bear case, and then where we land. But I first just want to hear, like, I don't know, when did you get on it and what was your kind of initial reaction? How on your radar was this thing to begin with?

**Sam Parr** (2:38)
I had only heard about it three or four days before it launched. And I heard about it because of a leak. I think there was a leak, right? Somehow it leaked out that it was coming out. So I downloaded the app, like you can download it before it launched. And then I got the notification right at midnight or whenever it said it launched and I signed up. I think it's pretty cool.
Are you jealous that I already have more followers than you do on that? Because I was already going hard on Instagram.

**Shaan Puri** (3:01)
Yeah, going hard on Instagram paid off there. You got like a double bonus for growing your Instagram.
So props to you on that.

**Sam Parr** (3:09)
I think it's great. You know why I think it's great. I really only think it's great for one reason, which is Twitter to me is pretty great.
But dude, my feed is just like fight videos and people getting shot and dying. Like it's real, it's kind of become a little bit sad.

**Shaan Puri** (3:22)
That's on you. I also, I don't know if that's anyone else's fault.
You know, when you click the follow button and the like button and the save button, the algorithm will just give you more.

**Sam Parr** (3:32)
Look, here's the deal. If you see like a fight video, you watch it.
Like you're not gonna watch that. It's like when you have a hot girl that like scrolls through, like you scroll slower through that.