We Got Drunk And Came Up With 8 Business Ideas

**Shaan Puri** (0:02)
All right, boys, here we go. We're doing double liquid death. Crack open a tall one, crack open a second tall one.
It is time for my favorite episode of the year. Bar none, do we have a famous guest? No.
Is this episode full of insights? Questionable. Is this the annual Drunk Ideas episode of the year? Yes, it is. Sam, we're here. How do you feel?

**Sam Parr** (0:44)
What happened this morning?

**Shaan Puri** (0:45)
Because it's my favorite episode of the year, and I'm drinking double liquid D's.

**Sam Parr** (0:50)
Is that literally just water?

**Shaan Puri** (0:52)
You've never had one?

**Sam Parr** (0:54)
No, it's carbonated water. That's all right.

**Shaan Puri** (0:56)
This is like the Austin National Anthem is drinking this. It's like, I still want to go to the hipster bar, but I have to cold plunge and put sunlight into my eyes in the morning, so I don't actually drink.

**Sam Parr** (1:09)
That's a drunk idea. We had the founder of Liquid Death on the pod years ago, right when we first started, and he was explaining his idea. We were like, yeah, that's really dumb.
Now the company, I think they're getting ready to go public, aren't they?

**Shaan Puri** (1:25)
Exactly. It's the success story. It's like that one couple on The Bachelor that's still together after 42 seasons. It is the one idea left standing of all the drunk ideas. For those who don't know, drunk ideas was this concept we had in A Stroke of Genius many years ago, which was there's a bunch of ideas we wanted to bring up on the podcast as possible business ideas, but they're bad and we know they're bad.
But we had to bridge this gap. How do we still get this half-baked idea off our chest, knowing that it's not really a great idea?
Using the cover of alcohol. One of the time tested methods of saying dumb shit is to say that you were drunk. And so even though neither Sam nor I drink, we call it drunk episodes. And it's basically where I show up buzzed slash tipsy high on my own supply and I pitched Sam. Usually it was me pitching Sam, really bad ideas of him reacting. But then I peer pressured Sam into coming up with these. All right, I want to take a quick break to tell you about HubSpot, our sponsor who makes the show possible. You know, there's a big reason why more than 300 of last year's unicorn startups use HubSpot. That's crazy, 300 And it's because no software keeps you better connected with your teams or your customers so that you can crush all your goals. HubSpot has a sales hub that brings to you the power of an easy to use platform with 360 degree deal management and real time reporting. So you can get accurate windows to every inch of your business. And with AI power tools like ChatSpot, you have a dedicated assistant that knows your business inside and out.
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**Sam Parr** (3:02)
Well, I'm not exactly like a preparer to be funny type of person. I'm not exactly a funny type of person in the first place, but like you love like preparing this stuff. And your best one ever was actually called the very long distance girlfriend.

**Shaan Puri** (3:17)
Yeah, dude, I'm not some beggars.
I was looking through the old list just now and I saw the secret camera roll where you don't want to put some pictures on your main camera roll in case anybody clicks it. So there's a calculator app that if you push in the right numbers in the calculator, it turns it to your photo with your secret camera roll back there. How is this not built yet? What are the computer science departments at Stanford waiting for that this is not built yet? I don't really understand the holdup.

**Sam Parr** (3:43)
How do you want to do this? You have way more than me. I've got three or four. You've got like eight.

**Shaan Puri** (3:48)
Can I just go first and just start off with a bang?

**Sam Parr** (3:51)
Yes.

**Shaan Puri** (3:51)
All right, so it's a new year. And you know, with the new year, everybody's trying to establish better habits.

**Sam Parr** (3:58)
Yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (3:58)
So this idea is called Habit Island. It's actually a remix of one of your old real ideas called Hostage.