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All right, we're live Sean, how you doing?
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How am I doing? Did you know it's funny some days I wake up and I'm Andrew Huberman's godson. I wake up I Stretch I get my so as loose I get outside I get some sunlight a cold plunge. I sauna I do everything I meditate I focus I pray.
I don't even believe in God. I'm just praying to the universe I do everything and then some days are like today Where I wake up and I just wage war for my boxers in my bedroom. I don't get out of bed.
I open up my laptop I'm like, oh, what's coming in what's coming into the inbox. I'm ready. I put on my armor and I just start I'm launching ad campaigns.
I'm fighting off a cease and desist. I'm texting somebody I'm diligence like a deal and three hours for fly by I haven't brushed my teeth. I haven't changed my clothes I'm like, well, I'm just sitting sitting in bed.
I do a zoom call. They're like, are you in bed? I'm like, brother. I haven't gotten out of bed yet.
I just started I woke up and I was playing the game and I'm honest with you if I'm totally honest with you I've never feel more alive than what I'm in that second mode. I'm sorry. You remember forgive me I just feel more alive when I do it the wrong way
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It usually starts with like something bad that you see like a fire like why the hell are we spending this much money on this or
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Exactly wage war. It's cuz I'm like Something triggers me. I'm like exactly.
Why are the numbers lower than they should be F this I'm gonna single-handedly change this dashboard right now or you know, somebody texts me saying Whatever did you see this or hey, you know, we get an email in that's like, hey, you're screwed I'm like not only am I not screwed. I'm thriving. Hold on.
Just give me 90 minutes on this and I will turn this around and I just like I don't know. It's just it gets something in me. Something comes out of me That's just more valuable than all of the good healthy stuff years ago
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We talked about a company on here called jambies and I felt it was the stupidest idea that I've ever heard I think it was underwear that you could wear shorts, bro
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I'm not gonna flash the audience but just so you know
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I'm potting in jambies right now and that's what I was gonna ask. Were you wearing jambie? I like I thought it was the dumbest idea and you're like, oh, I own a bunch of jambies
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I bought like 30 pairs of jambies. I even cut a deal with him for the milk road to advertise But I was like pay me in jambies credits He gave us two thousand dollars of jambies credits to run an ad and I was like, dude I'm eating off this two thousand dollar, you know store credit, right? I've never been more thrilled Hey quick break to talk about our sponsor today. We're talking about HubSpot and their new AI powered service hub Okay, so what is service up? Basically every customer today wants to be talked to in a personalized way and before that required tons of human agents But now with AI you could do that in a personalized way with fewer humans involved And so you don't have to scale up your team in order to deliver Personalized chat and service so check out HubSpot's new service hub to use their AI tools to give better support to your customers That's what they want and that's what they deserve So visit hubspot.
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Speaking of eating I see on the top of our document that you have something called the insane pizza business
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Yes, what's what's that? All right? You're gonna know about this. I didn't know about this So our buddy Val tweeted this out. He goes The biggest pizza chain in the country is one I've never heard of Hunt brothers pizza.
Yeah, and here's the hook these guys went in and basically Found a new way to do the pizza business They've spread to 9,000 stores and I'm pretty sure this is my guesswork But I'm pretty sure they're doing over 500 million a year in revenue and they're growing very very fast So what hunt brothers is if you're like me? You're a dainty little flower that only lives in you know metropolitan areas places yeah, exactly We cut our nails over here, okay? Yeah So I've never run into a hunt brothers
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But apparently if you've never worn Jorts before there's a direct correlation of how often you've worn Jorts and how often you've eaten Hot's pizza that then diagram is a circle. Yeah
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All right, so basically what these guys do is they created a pizza restaurant That is only like 50 or 100 square feet the way it works is they put them into a lot of times convenience stores gas stations places like that and The owner of the gas station now has a little pizza shop inside so he can pop in a pizza It takes five minutes It comes out kind of like you know Broiling hot and they can sell them by the slice or as they call them by the hunk and they sell a hunk of pizza a hunk of Pizza is a quarter, you know one fourth of a pizza And they sell it for like you know a hunk is 289 or you can get two hunks for 549 Or you can get two hunks for free if you go to our YouTube channel and subscribe Nice segue. Thank you very much. I
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Really just do this to abuse myself at this point two hunks for the price of a like
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All right, so so what these guys are doing they basically you buy the the frames that you buy the equipment for 10 grand So you give them 10 grand they give you the thing but then after that there's no contract. There's no Licensing fee there's no royalty fee. So it's very different than a traditional franchise All you do is you have to buy the ingredients from them And so the way it works is you buy the ingredients from them They they have like I don't know distribution centers across the across the country They have like I don't know.
What is it like a hundred something? You know 16 regional distribution centers a hundred trucks that are delivering pizzas daily to out of each center to To do this and it's crushing in the south in rural areas really a lot of areas It's like the dollar store out the dollar general or dollar tree really have thrived of the last decade and one of the reasons is like There's a whole bunch of places that are kind of stranded stranded land people don't build enough retail there and so You know the dollar general becomes the spot it becomes like the store you can use
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It's like where you go and get a gallon of milk. Yeah, exactly
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And so what these guys are doing is like there's a hunt brothers inside the gas station There might not be another restaurant for like 10 miles Yeah, or there might be just very few options and so the hunt brothers becomes like, you know
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Do the de facto restaurant choice? Have you ever been to a town that's been like that?
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Yeah, my buddy my best friend in college is my buddy Trevor He was from a place called Lander, Wyoming and And I was like I've never heard of Lander and he's like we got five traffic lights. Yeah There's one street that has like stop, you know stop lights and there's five of them and that's it we went there and It's the only time in my life. I've ever been like, yeah, let's just drunk drive.
It's fine. There's no cars God drunk and we drove and there's not a single car in the road because there's nobody in this town He would leave his car key in the car in the ignition What do you just a guy go to a store? He just come back out and like the car the key is already in the ignition dude
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A lot of times they'll leave their car on like when I go and visit my cousins in these areas They'll leave the car on
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He bought his car used and he was one day at a gas station and this giant Native American guy came up to him was like Brother, is this your car? And he's like yeah, it is and he's like hold on he goes back to his car. He has a key. He's like I used to have that car Here's the key.
Here's like an extra key It's a crazy place so anyways places like that where Hunt Brothers does really really well I thought this is a pretty genius model because what they did was They changed the footprint so in the same way that five hour energy said let's not sell an energy drink in the fridge Where we're competing as Red Bull and Monster. Let's get let's create a small shot size You know non-refrigerated skew that we could put right up at the front by the register They changed the footprint and because of that they were able to compete in a category because they became a category of one We're the only energy drink. That's a shot size at the register and what Hunt Brothers is doing is they're like We're gonna create a new categories forget Domino's forget Pizza Hut we're gonna be the pizza that's in the gas stations and It's ironic when I was researching this I thought like you like oh this must be like isn't it gross dude people love this pizza They're like dude.
I they're like honestly it tastes better than the pizza I get a dominoes like the the the amount of Like love that this brand has it's almost become kind of one of those it's so bad. It's good. Yeah, it's like white castle
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It's like white castle where he's like it's just as it's distinct So if you want it, that's the thing that's gonna solve that problem
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But right it doesn't feel good and just here's the math on this so a normal Hunt Brothers location Might drive 10 grand a month of revenue. Okay. Now remember they have no royalties. They have no licensing fees They don't charge you a marketing surcharge All they do is they just charge you for the ingredients.
It's about 50% gross margin So that means on 10,000 per location. They're doing five grand a month per location in the ingredients Five grand a month times 9,000 locations that they have is 45 million a month Holy shit over 500 million a year and they're like dude. This is great It's working like now we're going into military bases and basically like anywhere where you couldn't justify a full restaurant build out We can we can still survive like we're like the cockroach of the industry We can we can survive in places other people can't so like you know a dominoes might make 700,000 a year in revenue and Hunt Brothers won't do that They'll do 120 or 150 or 200 so they do less revenue But they're only 100 square feet or 56 square feet, right? It's like tiny and so they could just Fit into places other people can't fit and I just think this is a it's an amazing business I was blown away by the scale and I think that there's actually many other businesses out there like the five-hour energy example like Hunt Brothers that if you just change the form factor and you figure out how to do the the sort of like The mutually I forgot what it is like there's like a type of parasite that's mutually beneficial It's like like you know there's fish that live on top of whales They like we eat the thing off you but then we get all this other free stuff That's basically Hunt Brothers because if you're a gas station you put one of these in people will come in well guess what? They don't just buy the slice they'll also buy a drink and then they'll buy this and whatever and they're like You know for a long time gas stations basically subside on you know oil Beer and cigarettes and now there's like a new one.
There's like a fourth horseman Pizza pizza is now here and so this like fresh food inside gas stations has become like a big win-win for them
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And they've been around forever. It looks like on Wikipedia. They started selling pizza in 1962 Changed their business in 1991 to the current iteration
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So they've been around for for a long-ass time. They did a thing called Pepe's I think it was like Pepe's Yeah, wholesale food or some shit like that and they were doing kind of the same thing But without the front-facing brand so they were doing wholesale food wholesale food Basically, you know selling food in wholesale to other places So they had that kind of like the supply chain side of it But they didn't have the brand and so the brothers came together and they were like what if we made the consumer brand for for this and It's kind of like a B2B to C model, right? We'll we'll give the brand to these gas station owners to these convenience stores And then we'll supply the wholesale food like we already knew how to do what's even crazier is how?
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Weird things become culty. So for example, have you had Keynes Keynes chicken raising Keynes raising Keynes? Sorry raising Keynes like it's okay. It's fine But it just has like a crazy cult it just really really weird how things kind of catch on like and I'm really fascinated by that because Raising Keynes is fine.
I guess like it's really weird how they serve their stuff in styrofoam still and they just give you like a piece of bread Like that's just kind of odd and that's weird that it's now a cult thing amongst young people And it's weird that this is also one of those things But it takes like 30 years because it's almost like you have to grow up knowing that it's a thing and then when you're growing up It's got to be like the nostalgic thing that you post online about you know, I'm saying and it's not a game plan
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You can execute because it's not predictable and it kind of takes 20 30 years to do it But when you do it, it's like it's like when you it's like those people who you know get hot and they're in their 30s or something What that's that's found money. How'd you do that? It's like these brands that they kind of just were like low stakes brands that survived But then 25 years later they become trendy. They're like, what the fuck we're trendy now These mom jeans are cool now.
All right sweet I just had these because I liked them right and that's basically what happens to these brands is 25 years in they get this gust of wind that like Picks them up and makes them cool all of a sudden. Do you remember?
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XFL like the alternative NFL and they had crazy names in their jerseys like he hate me Your XFL name is Sean found money purry That's not money. That's your new nickname now the guy who got hot in his 30s You're officially found money. That's cool I didn't think that this would interest you and I like you more because it does
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I'm trying is actually part of my PR team was like, hey, you need something relatable, bro Yeah, you didn't call her. Hey, can we find a blue collar business for this guy to talk about here? Yeah
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Sean, you know, we're hit we're tanking in the numbers because you didn't know who Dali Parton was We got a revitalized. We got to make it more relatable score is dropping
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Let me tell you another thing that is Probably even more random. So listen to this so in 2013 this 29 year old sweetest software engineer He posted on reddit in a web development subreddit and he said I'm fiddling around with Google Maps and their new API and I made a small application I'd appreciate your feedback and suggestions and you click on the link and this it's this thing called Geo guesser have you heard of Geo guesser? No, all right. This is gonna blow your mind and so his original application was a small thing where You basically see a random street view of Google Maps.
I've seen this and You have to guess where you are and so they'll drop you off Like you can do like a it depends how hard it is
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but you see a barn and you see like some grass and you see like a half of a road and then on Tiktok there's these guys were like this is rural Kansas and they're like drop the pin and they're within like 20 feet of it
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It's like insane. Yeah, and so like it could be easy so it could be like Times Square or the you know Athens or something like that But then it gets more complicated where you'll get dropped in someplace in Ghana And you have to look at the license plate and you're like the license plates are yellow I know that's a thing in Ghana and I also know that like these cars are this model of car They quit selling that in Ghana This might actually be this other location and so it's like a contest basically it's a game and It does okay. And so up until 2019 it's only doing okay It's I believe it's a Swedish company and all the revenue is public and so 2019 the company did $467,000 in revenue and $61,000 in profit so he's five years into this business six years into the business or sorry three years into the business and it's doing okay and Like barely full-time living well the pandemic hits this thing Explodes and so check listen to their revenue growth 2020 2 million 21 10 million 22 18 23 They did 21 million in revenue and 11 million in EBITDA and the owner took out $9 million in dividends And so at this point this thing is called Geo guesser so in 2019 2020 the pandemic hits people are sitting at home originally It's just monetizing with some advertising not doing that well He decides to put up a paywall so you have to pay for certain games and his revenue blows up So does this traffic and so at this point this guy Geo guessers this website It has 50 employees and does and it has 50 million registered users And if you go to their traffic on similar web, it's like 12 or 15 million a month Totally and there are all these youtubers and tick tockers who are famous now because of it And so there's a youtuber that I was looking at and I would watch his videos He has something like 1.
3 million subscribers and in fact Geo guessers has created a world cup So it's a hundred thousand dollars in prizes and they do this like in-person event And these guys get dropped off in the most random locations and they in at sometimes within seconds They can guess where they are to within like a mile It's insane that this guy has built this company and it's just amazing that something so small and so silly has become such a serious business
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This is an amazing find Kudos to you love that you found this I had no idea this was a business I had seen the games of the guys guessing this right like this. There's one guy I mean, I can't even describe what he looks like but he's like ingrained in my mind I see him all the time on tick-tock who's just like he's like a god at this and it blows me away What I didn't realize is that there's actually a business for this. I just assumed they're using Google Google Maps I didn't even know that there was a there's a website that does this and that I went to it I tried to sign up to play I want to play while we're doing this and it's um, you cannot play you can't play You have to pay until you pay and the pricing is hilarious It's like 249 a month to play like five minutes like you get to play once a day But if you pay 289 a month like for extra like 40 cents You can play unlimited and my brain's like screaming the value just for 40 more cents I get unlimited play and so Yeah, I want to do this.
We should play a game of this online. Do you have an account? We should we should play one
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No, I didn't I didn't sign up But I should the guy the guys YouTube you're thinking about and tick-tock I think his name is Rain Bolt and I think he has over a million subscribers on YouTube and his views are Huge and so and he's not the only one there's tons of these guys doing this and it's really actually wildly exciting to watch It's very strange dude
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We should sponsor this There's not many things I think we should sponsor There's not many places where I want to be a big fish in the smallest of ponds But if there's one it's this nerd Olympics of Geo guesser to be able to go and sponsor this thing for like, you know 1999 Get up get to my first million banner somewhere. It's awesome, right? We are we are the official podcast of Geo guesser is what I would like to be it's really cool
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What these guys have done and the cool part is is that just like in the UK? So in the UK, there's a website called companies house where you if you're a company that does I think 10 million in revenue You have to display your reports or your financials. I guess in Switzerland or wait is he Swedish? I think he's Swedish. Sorry and Sweden you have to do the same And so it was actually a little bit challenging to find these numbers because I've got to do all this translations But you can actually see all of their numbers for their revenue and things like that And so you can go back and track their growth.
It's really fascinating. I'm surprised
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I mean, I'm surprised at many things. I'm surprised as things doing 20 million a year at revenue I'm also surprised that it's only 50% margin. What do you think? What are this guy's costs?
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What is happening here? I don't know how much this hosting costs. You would know you you had one of these sites not 10 million dollars
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Like to get this brother in AWS plan like what's going on? Yeah, I don't know 50 employees costs five million dollars Maybe or yeah, why was your 50 employees? What are they doing?
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I don't know man. You got to look at them look them up on LinkedIn But I know that he but on is if you go to the GeoGuessr career page, they like list all their people I don't know. I think they they have a bunch of advertising stuff So I think they have an ad sales team because if you go to their like employee list It's like developers of course, but then like account managers things like that
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So Google increased their maps API costs 14x so it went from a dollar to $14 per thousand API calls. So that's got to be that's got to be why and that's why he put the pay wall in because he's like
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I had Google's force of me and
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By the way five years ago, so he puts the pay wall up. Here's a post on the subreddit for r slash GeoGuessr Title why the paywall is the worst idea ever It says so first of all, I understand that Google increased its API fees by this and I understand that GeoGuessr needs to make money However, I don't understand why all of a sudden there's a paywall. I can't do I can't play it all every single map every single thing Is this why do a paywall do more ads? Do you seriously think users are gonna pay a subscription fee? I think 90% are gonna leave and never come back This move was in no way intelligent, especially because GeoGuessr is not the type of game You're gonna completely talk you're gonna keep playing and keep talking about The paywall is a great way to make sure nobody ever plays your game again So congratulations on ruining what you had spent years building and your best achievement It is now your worst flop ever five years ago.
Well, I would say that
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the owner's new The the broker of the owner's new penthouse overlooking Stockholm really disagrees that that was a flop
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Sorry, I can't hear you from the 19th floor penthouse. Yeah Dude, this is amazing and this is like the you know internet dork version of like a revenge bot We need to get this when you get this type of hater comment and then you're you know, you're proven absolutely correct
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This is this is revenge. Yeah, he gets to found money award. I don't know if I use that correctly But we'll just assume I did a workshop in it Yeah, so anyway pretty pretty sick, right GeoGuessr
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What do you got I got a quick I got a quick one for you So this is my side hustle of the week. It's not quite a blue collar side hustle. It's actually a white collar side hustle so this is a You know, this is a IV League side hustle So saw the story the other day that Alex Easler, I don't know how you say the last name who is a sophomore at Brown University.
So shout out to Alex coolest sophomore at Brown This person is basically flipping You know high-end restaurant reservations So the story was basically like the guys basically created a ton of accounts on Rezzi on open table calls in calls in using fake voices fake names and he's getting Reservations at Carbone and all these cool New York restaurants like the hottest of the hot places gets a month in advance And he's flips it for 750 dollars or I got a restaurant I got a reservation at Carbone and he flips it for $1,500 and he says that in the last year He's made $70,000 flipping restaurant reservation 70 grand as a side hustle doing this and his Screen name on appointment appointment trader is glorious seed 75. Oh my god, which I know you were thinking about for baby names And it was your second choice, but the glorious seed is
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That's definitely was the nickname when she was in her in her mother's stomach my glorious seed
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The quote I love it was this Alex said it's like some people play candy crush on their phone. I played dinner reservations
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Was this in like was this in like the New Yorker? Where was this?
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Yeah, it was in the New Yorker, but it was like buried halfway through the story So the story to me was wow some sophomore is making 70 grand flipping high-end Reservations, that's awesome But the New York article was like like 15 pages long and it was all about like how restaurants are really busy now It's like who is the editor of this like you buried the viral story of this, you know nine pages in this is ridiculous
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That's an insane. What do you think about that? I mean, so I think someone doing that I think they're gonna be incredibly successful I think this will get shut down as soon as he shouldn't have talked to the New Yorker. Yeah, exactly
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What are you doing? Oh, you want the only the only explanation that would make me respect them more is if this doesn't actually work anymore And then they're like, all right Well, let me just go get some free PR as my like back-end bonus out of this Because like the arbitrage is going away or it's not working as well anymore Yeah, I had like two crazy months during the pandemic or after the pandemic you know stopped and everyone wanted to go to these restaurants and My run rate was 70 grand But let me just give feed this to the New Yorker and get some free press That would be a cool story if this was actually working really well and you went to the New Yorker to go talk about this Silly move don't need to do that. And yeah, I'm like you This is actually a waste of talent a waste of time and talent But it does show me that you've got talent and congratulations. You will be successful But you're kind of wasting yourself right now.
It's not a waste
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for a 20 year old It's it's a it's a worthy it's a worthy cause if you're a sophomore in college But yeah, like this like it'll be done. It's probably already dead He probably already got glorious seed probably is already banned from the from that website
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Dude when I was a sophomore in college my friends and I had a genius idea to try to win the McDonald's Monopoly game and Unlike the movies where the guy who actually did it he like figured out how to win
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We just tried to brute force it. You know how he figured out a win, right? He just worked at the he worked He worked at the place that made the pieces
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So I would have respected myself more if I had contacted the place that made the pieces and be like hey man I'll give you a thousand bucks if you tell me where boardwalk is Instead we were just like hey We're just gonna dig through dumpsters and go get go get the go get the pieces that people throw out and see if we can win And I I ended up making like three grand that that year. What did you really? Yeah, we like found some we like won something it was like worth like probably like a thousand dollars but I wasted like a semester of brain power of like extracurricular brain power doing this and I thought I was winning and You know, what's it's like winning a carnival game It's like I won the bear. It's like dude.
You spent 90 dollars winning that bear Do you know you could have just bought the bear for six six bucks, right? That's basically how I treated my college career a bunch of you know, it's really dumb Really dumb side side hustle ideas that kind of panned out But if I had just done like something useful with my time I would have made you know ten times more in the long run
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Did you really I mean winning a thousand dollars on that thing is kind of like a rush Have you ever won the lottery or like any type of scratch off?
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I've won like Flaffles. I've won like poker tournaments. I think on scratchers.
I've never had a big win I've played a lot of scratchers. I probably I probably down a couple thousand bucks lifetime on scratchers
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My guess do you really you still buy them?
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Not anymore because my wife looks down on me for doing it But there was like a three-year period of my life where like if I saw a scratcher, you know, I'm buying
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I have not bought a scratch off thing or a lottery ticket in my entire life
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That lines up I'm the guy who sold his company and then put it all in his like a cd and never touched it Congratulations, I am I've been missing out. So I'm a pretty degenerate gambler and I said I have I have a lot of You know, like anyone who's a degenerate about anything you have stories that are It sounds like you're rock bottom and you're like, bro, that's just scratching the surface of what I've done Like, you know, I've gone on riverboats and I've you know overdrawn my account and I've you know, I've done really dumb stuff When I was in my early 20s gambling So I still I love gambling and if you take me to a casino, I'm a happy I'm happy as a clam But I went with my mentor my investor who's a billionaire I went with with my my my mentor Michael Birch and we go to vegas for like a conference or for a firm meeting We're going to go meet rupert murdoch actually And so we're there for this big meeting big meeting And we're staying at the win I think and we go You know, we go down to the to the floor and any degenerate knows like There's a certain feeling that comes over your body when you walk the floor of a casino when you enter the casino It's like something about the air the sounds it like physiologically does something in my body for sure And so I'm like Michael you want to play I'm like, let's let's find a tape. We got you know, a couple hours before this thing.
Let's uh, let's gamble and I'm just Like I want to gamble but I'm also you know, I'm trying to hang out with him and I'm trying to be cool and whatever And you're only like 26 or 27. I'm 25 years old. Maybe he's 40 or something like that 40 at 45.
I don't know how old he is And he's like, you know a thousand whatever 10,000 times wealthier than me and smarter than me He's everything better than me. And so that became very apparent because He's like I was like, do you gamble and he's like not really and I was like, oh, why like, you know You don't like it or whatever. He's like, why would I gamble? Um, like, you know, the house has an edge, right? And I'm so and I have these chips in my hand and I just put the back in my pocket And I really haven't gambled since because I was like, oh, so the rich successful guy I admired just pointed He's like, yeah, like this is a losing game.
Why would I play a losing game? And just him saying that, you know, my mom has told me to stop gambling I've had friends been like, yo You should you know, why don't you just not do it and nothing has ever sunk in except for this guy Just being like, why would I play house has an edge? I thought you were gonna like uh
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Like right when you walk into the casino you turn your hat backwards And you're like, I took your shirt and you're like Pocoshan's here
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I have a different dialect. I'm like prison Mike. Yeah, our date Mike.
Yeah, like
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Date Mike nice to meet me. Yeah, I thought you're gonna just like change like thanks for holding my money And just started saying that to people. Um speaking of money We have to get a shout out to one of our sponsors beehive
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Yeah, what's not a gamble starting newsletter on beehive You know, what's not a gamble Putting your content out there for the world of love And you know who's making money instead of you know pissing it away Tyler dank the CEO of beehive who just raised a crazy amount of money 33 million dollars, uh announced yesterday and then He opened up with some community round. He's like, oh by the way, like If you want to invest in beehive and you missed out on the fund and he just posted in two hours They crossed a million dollars of community money raised. No way created amazing like PR halo, you know, he's creating a cult of believers.
It's pretty impressive to see what and I think I'm one of the believers
SPEAKER_01
I had the opportunity to invest in this when they first started and I passed I don't remember what the valuation was. What was it 10? It was under 10. I think we both passed under 10
SPEAKER_02
I realized my sins and I came and I said father forgive me Let me invest after I started using the product and then I was like, I was like, so I was using the product I still really wasn't fully convinced because like I don't know how big this market is how big his newsletters is This is too niche And then hey, they kept shipping updates so fast and building features so well I was like, okay, I've learned enough times in my career Like just don't bet on like a workhorse founder and a team that ships this fast for a product You love and you use just like if that if those boxes are checked just invest It's okay. You might be surprised on the upside with the market Which it seems like I guess is the case here because they they've really taken off Um, but I normally do not so I have a policy actually I think this should be a official mfm policy, which is we do not celebrate fundraising news Fundraising is not to be celebrated I mean think about what you're saying when you celebrate fundraising. It's either a combination of Congratulations now the game is starting like you don't get cheered for to start the game You get cheered when you win the second thing is It's congratulations.
You gave up a piece of your company
SPEAKER_01
All right, like you shouldn't really celebrate fundraising too much I thought this was an ad for them where we're supposed to make them look cool
SPEAKER_02
But here's why I like because he said something he had a great quote And if I'm a sucker for one thing it's a great quote And he said like, you know in his slack to his team, he's like, all right guys money's in the bank, but the rents still do That's so good. I don't even know fully what that means But that sounds like some mafia shit and I dig it Which is some version of like cool. We got all the funding but like we still got like this doesn't mean anything We still got to pay the rent We got to put in the work and actually deliver and so I like that line That's the only reason I'm willing to talk about the fundraising because he said the rents still do And I think the rents still do is just like a great great slogan
SPEAKER_01
He also had in the tech crunch article. He goes look, we're only two years into this and we have a billion emails going out and like That line does in itself isn't a lot, but the fact that this guy is this I don't like using the word cocky because that's negative, but he's so Confident I love I love what he has and I uh, I don't know what the valuation was for this Maybe it was probably north of a hundred million dollars So He's right. I'm wrong.
I lost on that one So kudos to beehive and if you want to start a newsletter beehive with two eyes They still need to change their name though beehive.com
SPEAKER_02
All right. Um, okay. So what else what else you got? Let's talk about nick ray
SPEAKER_01
So nick ray is the hottest thing going on the internet right now So nick ray is a good friend of mine. Good friend of yours I've known nick for a little bit now. He's the weirdest person I've ever met So one time sarin I or new york he dms me on twitter.
I've never met him He goes, hey, I want to take you to washington's washington square park and give you a tour We go there and we sort of start hanging out and he pulls out a blanket that he goes I keep a picnic blanket in my bag at all times and he like lays it out. I'm like, all right, cool And then he goes, hey, do you want to throw the frisbee? I always keep a frisbee on me and he has a frisbee and then I was like, I guess and he goes And we get done with that and he goes, hey, do you want to fly kite? I always have a kite on me And so he pulls out a kite. Hey, you want a kiss? I got lips
SPEAKER_02
Yeah, that's the next one
SPEAKER_01
And I'm like, this is the weirdest guy I've ever met and then I get to know him over the years and I realize It's totally genuine. You're just a weird guy and this is it's an act So fast forward a few years later nick has written a book called the two hour cocktail party. He's by the way
SPEAKER_02
Oh, none of this is an ad we just we admire this guy's weirdness He lets his freak fly fly we dig that and he just did something interesting, which is what we're about to get to
SPEAKER_01
Yeah, and so he uh starts getting a little popular on the internet and he tweets something out last week Here's the tweet. I'll read it verbatim. He goes, I want to go on a blind date and I want to go to tokyo next weekend Here's the qualifications if you're a woman with a passport who likes sushi and Japanese food And you could ride a bike in a big city Let's go and I'll pay for everything but in return you have to film stupid videos of me for my socials Uh, and then he puts out an application where you could sign up on like a google doc So I I call them.
Do you know how many applications he got to this? I'm sure 400 women applied to go with him and He sorts through all the the listings and he sends me like his top five and his top 10 And he does calls with them to figure out if it's what he says a culture fit He's like, I want to see if it's basically like a job interview. He's like, I want to see if this is a culture fit and so This post that he writes about Or writes on twitter it gets something like two million views the original the original tweet And people are so bought in now fast forward a few days ago He's on the date. He picks the girl up until recently He never showed the woman but he is tweeting out and documenting the whole thing saying I just picked up flowers for her I'm about to go pick her up at the airport.
I've scheduled a ramen Dinner for us and then we're gonna do this this and this I'm nervous and he's like explaining his inner dialogue publicly Each tweet is getting hundreds of thousands or millions of views and he's saying exactly what's going on eventually he shares her face and They look like they're having a blast and I talked to him and people are reaching out to him from all over Japan And like he shares he goes we just got this amazing dinner reservation because this man owns this restaurant Who's hosting us or we're gonna host a meet-up with all the people who are following along And the date goes so well. They've extended the date. So right now it's wednesday I believe they're still there.
It was only supposed to be a couple days. They're five or six days in He has netflix and amazon reaching out to him about a show for this It's just like one of the most viral things that i've seen about such a weird topic and people are so bought in I've got so many people messaging me saying are you following what nick just did nick just shared that the date's going Well, i'm so invested into this
SPEAKER_02
I that's exactly it. I am so invested into this I love this on so many levels. The main thing is just I love that nicks is being himself and I love that he Like there's there's many ways to be rich.
We've talked about this before you could be rich with money You could be rich with time. You could be rich with friends Nick's life is rich with fun and adventure and I think that that is something that that's why this is resonating because I think there's a Deep part of a lot of us that is like Am I making the most of my time on this little blueberry? Right? Like, you know, am I am I making the most out of my time in life? And I think what nick has done with this tokyo date to me. It's not about dating.
It's not about anything. It's This guy is like living. He's having he's having an adventure.
He's having fun And we want to go along for the ride And so I think we should actually go tweet by tweet with this thing Dive deep for anybody who's not following this. So tweet tweet one We'll put this on the screen on youtube so you can see it all and you can see pictures of her and so go to go to the youtube Uh channel words my first million you'll see it So all right, so tweet one is he goes I want to do blind date in tokyo next weekend. You read that out He puts a google doc.
Let's read the google doc. You open up the google doc And it says nick raised tokyo blind date. Do you like sushi? Do you like exploring new cities? Do you like blonde guys with glasses? Come to tokyo for a blind date next weekend.
It'll be fun Possible itinerary you arrive april 25th. You leave april 28th. It's now may 1st.
They're still going It's like, you know, we replace spin the bottle and they got you know, seven minutes in heaven It's been 11 minutes. What is going on in this closet over there? I must know So he says if you've never been to tokyo, we're going to do some touristy stuff blah blah blah We're going to go to shinjuku at night go to some hot springs team lab tea tastings this park Each day we'll try two or three restaurants Maybe four we'll talk we'll walk a lot shop eat and explore why i'm doing this I went to tokyo last summer and it was excellent But after a few days, I wish that I had a fun cute friend traveling with me Just to say that out loud. I mean, I'm not even saying that and even a part of me You know clenched up when I had to read that in those words.
Okay I just wish I had a fun cute friend traveling with me. All right, so I wanted to talk and share stories with and also Film me for my dumb instagram reels Uh logistics. I'll get you a fly.
I'll get you a hotel room. Is this crazy? I guess but it also sounds fun Yes, exactly. That's the sweet spot of life Feel free to reference check me here.
He had a pie blah blah blah and so you had to email him to apply So you said he had how much 400 women apply 400 which let's just take a moment a moment to admire that. Yeah, so You can go on a dating app as a guy and normally it's you send 400 messages to get one back He sent one message out and got 400 women coming inbound. Yeah Work smarter not harder my friends.
Yeah, all right, so
SPEAKER_01
So that sweet one he also tweeted out the conversion rate between the japanese yen and the us dollar And he was like all of you people thought I was going to be spending a lot Turns out it just turned in my favor and he's like is like tweeting out like the
SPEAKER_02
Universe is conspiring to help nick gray with this date. So he's giving updates kind of play by play So he's like i'm flying out. Here's what i'm going to do.
He's like here's the agenda He's like she's uh, you know, i'm on my way to the airport. She's on her way to the airport I'm going to pick her up. I'm going to get flowers.
He does a poll on twitter. Should I bring flowers? Yes, bring the flowers. No chill vibes.
Guess which one won the poll Which one 55 bring flowers 45 percent too hot to try hardy dude 45 percent on twitter is our our losers That's an easy he's promoting his blog. He's like by the way. I'm traveling.
Here's my travel pack of must-haves He's got refreshed tears. He's got his eye mask. He's got like some I don't know some tape.
I don't know why he's bringing tape Uh, things are getting a little crazy here. He's got a toothbrush Okay, so he's going step by step as to how he's going to do this Okay, so now he picks her up and he never shows her face
SPEAKER_01
He only shows her face like like like her hands accepting the flowers or the back of her head as she's taking a picture in awe of the
SPEAKER_02
Tokyo skyline. So let's just read here. He's at the airport.
He goes. I pick he's like he's like my uh, my blind date update So he goes waiting for someone at the airport is humbling you're scanning Hundreds of people's faces trying to find the one person who you've never never met before Each passing person is no not her not her no not her Until I see her come out. I pump my fist in the air and call her name She runs over and we sort of half hug.
We look at each other square up and full smile I I think we're both thinking the same thing. Wow. You are real She might have been thinking something else, but I think that's hilarious. At least I have a feeling deep in my stomach That is yes.
She is real. That's a relief. I knew she'd be real, but you never know What are what are people on the internet saying about us? She asked me Uh, I say it's 90 hype and 10 worry that you're going to cut out my kidneys I like those odds.
She says damn full rom come. We're going full rom come. This is great Um, I send her on a side quest while I handled the train tickets to get us back to downtown tokyo We board the train and start talking conversation comes easily a ramen tour starts in two hours The comments blow up people are are fully in fully in subscriptions on notifications on I got to do this So then he talks about I booked a ramen tour for two reasons If it was awkward for us to talk then somebody else would be leading the conversation as the tour guide And it would keep her awake till 9 p.
m. Through the jet lag. So we meet we do this we do that We tell our tour guide that we're on a blind date.
He believes he believes we uh, he misunderstood us Or we must have misdated this he said but you said you just flew in how did you meet? I explain what's going on with the date. The guide is confused, but he likes it and he likes us She and I share a glance and smile the ramen is good and I like her end of chapter Dude, he's doing great right this these shades of nick gray is actually the name of this date, dude This is incredible So he's going and I love that there was there was one day he was talking about who's just like honestly I'm exhausted. I kind of overplant like My nervous energy around this made me like schedule too many things.
I'm feeling exhausted. I just said good night and like You know, honestly, I'm just I'm just totally totally pooped out tomorrow. I'm gonna act a little bit differently I'm just gonna settle in a little bit and every day step by step Has just been thrilling he did a meetup So he's like I'm hosting a tokyo meetup for us Anybody who's following the blind date and they'd be post a picture in the park.
There's like 20 people there He's holding his book It's his date him and 20 random people in tokyo who are like fully investing this date that came for a meetup
SPEAKER_01
Dude so listen to this so I'm one of the two hours ago. He posted It's late. I'm always late.
We are running through the side treats of tokyo's most upscale neighborhood to make our dinner reservations She's wearing eyeliner and I have on my least wrinkled shirt It'll be our last big meal together and I want to make it special and two hours will cry over a plate of kobi beef I get a message. I like to treat you and your date to a fancy dinner in tokyo I love the stories you share and I'll pay for everything. Please enjoy But what's the catch the foreign man? I don't know has the travel company at those reservations Nice nice reservations are hard to find in tokyo The catch is that will like it and we'll share I grab her hand and I risk a jaywalk to sprint us towards the skyscraper You have the royal option is the only thing the waiter says before a train or a train Of lobster, shrimp and beef is sent our way We eat and joke about how ridiculous the amount of food is and we have a sense of excitement and dread about how this meal will play out And it's a picture of this massive amount of food overlooking tokyo And he's just writing this these almost poetic posts the entire time as he goes um It's this is just great.
This is great and I texted him and I'm not going to blow his story, but uh I think they like each other, uh, and he said that he said that he'll come on the pod He said he goes. I don't know if I want to and I go okay. No pressure and then he replies back He goes actually you guys promoted me for a long time I'll come on and we'll talk about it and so he's going to come on but uh, it seems they like each other
SPEAKER_02
I'm so in uh, I'm so in my first marriage. Let's go I I've been waiting for an opportunity to turn our whole podcast into a dating show and I think the time has finally come Nick you're the man This is a reminder to everybody step up your adventure do something fun do something a little bit out of the box And good things happen in your life. I really do believe that he created a situation to get lucky that cool things would happen that that You know, whether this date works out or not is sort of irrelevant He's gonna have a great adventure a great story to tell and he he opened up the door to where maybe maybe leave you Luck can walk in what if he marries this woman? I don't I don't know if my little heart can take it If he I only got two ventricles brother That would fill it up too much
SPEAKER_01
I uh, I had a person come to my house one time and they were bringing their new girlfriend And I find out that they're staying at my they stayed at my house for five nights I found out on the third night that this is a blind date in the first time that they've met And they got married a few weeks ago
SPEAKER_02
That's great Um, all right. Do we have anything else? I got a little a little bit of uh, I have a one one sort of life advice type thing I like let me hear So this is a not new actually we were we did a podcast with scott galloway Which maybe it's come out by the time this comes out. I don't know exactly And scott said a bunch of things he talked about his business.
He talks about his money but he said one thing in the middle that Has stuck with me days later like I can't I honestly can't really remember a bunch of the stuff He said about money But this one little phrase stuck with me and I kind of want to give it some extra shine you know in the set we talked about don't bury the lead to me this was actually the lead and We had talked to him about When he was Younger and he was going he's pretty open about going through tough times He talks about when he went through a divorce he talks about when he you know had it made it yet He talks about his insecurities And he said something which was like He goes you got to keep your sales up And I was like kept your sales. What did you mean by that keep your sales up? He's like, you know like even when things were going poorly I um I didn't let it I didn't let things go poorly Um, even if I felt down I didn't take actions that were down He's like so even when things weren't going my way. I got down, but I didn't stay down He goes I kept my sales up so that he's like, you know, I started eating right I cleaned up my room I would make sure every day I would go out and I would talk to people and um, you know He's like I just did little things I would try to be kind and try to be generous to somebody that day Even though I was feeling kind of low and I felt like things weren't going the right way I started taking actions You know, I kept my sales up so that that when the next gust of wind came I would be ready And that's what happened the wind came and I was ready because I had my sales up And I just thought that was a beautiful life metaphor and just a a great philosophy to have Which is like you got to keep your sales up because the things that happen that are good in your life are not fully You know, you're you're doing they're not your creation.
There are tons of market conditions and luck and um, you know Contributions from other people that help you out that come your way That's the wind and you can't control the wind But the thing you can control is having your sales up so that when the wind comes you actually get a benefit from it Like if you're in such a lull or you're in such a low point or you're in such a funk That even when the wind comes you weren't ready for it passed you by now That's that's on you and so I just love that metaphor that philosophy of life And I wanted to kind of bring some attention to what do you think about that?
SPEAKER_01
It was good to hear from him about it because he had a lot of First of all, he was a late bloomer in terms of traditional success So he told the story about how he had a bunch of companies that actually were doing good But he lost them he got fired from them He told the story about how he didn't have a relationship with his father and his single mother There was there was a hard upbringing. He got divorced Uh, and he had his first kid I think when he was 40 or something like that a little bit later in life and he was like I have to make money to provide for this kid I can't just be jerking off like I've been messing around a little bit too much And it was good to hear that advice from him because I admire him and he was sort of a late bloomer and so I know that he experienced hardship and he actually is living this life of Keeping your sales up and so that's why it was particularly special. It was better to hear that from him this versus some like 28 year old you know what I mean, uh
SPEAKER_02
Yeah, if you see like a 24 year old on tiktok talking about this like You have the right idea You just don't have the scars to prove it and I thought Scott has the scars to prove it I just love the phrasing, you know, even when I was down. I didn't stay down That's so powerful, dude. You know, you're allowed to go down But you you're not allowed to stay down and also like a lot of these little things I never had the words to explain it, but it resonated with me because like, you know, I'll do things where You know, if I'm feeling a certain way, I'm be like, all right I'm making my bed this morning Or fucking I'm going for a run.
I don't even like running. I suck at running, but I'm going for a run I'm a run to like cramp and it's like, all right. I'm gonna run to like cramps Like why do those things on the surface making your bed seems like a nothing action? And it's like, dude making your bed's not going to help you, you know Go get that girl or not going to help you, you know Recover from this breakup or go get the job or go get whatever help turn your business around But like anybody who's actually done it knows that actually those things are linked You don't know how they're linked And this phrase to me is a great way to link them.
It's like, you know, I'm not just making my bed I'm getting my sales up today And all of these little actions I'm taking I'm getting my sales up And I now I kind of like at the end I can connect the dots of like what were all those actions and little habits that like Instinctively in my gut I knew were the right thing to do but I didn't really couldn't have logic and told you why that matters Now I know why it matters. It's because that's getting your sales up so that
SPEAKER_01
Now that when the wind comes you're ready. There's this awesome video. That's not very popular, but it's like it's so good It's uh, the guy from snl.
I think his name is tom Bennett. He made this now, dude
SPEAKER_02
It's an essay it was an essay for it was a blog first and then they turned it into actually they turned into a movie This what are we really blog post became. Oh, you know about this. Oh, dude It's one of the best blog posts ever.
It's one of the the video is so good. Okay, so this guy Aaron is the guy who wrote It's called how to lose weight in four easy steps Yeah, and it goes I spent the last past year losing 80 pounds and getting in shape A lot of people have asked me how I did it specifics on my diet how many times I worked out So I thought I'd just answer all my questions here. It's just four easy steps ready.
Here we go. Number one No beer. There's probably one you've heard of before but every time you drink a beer.
It's like eating seven sizes of bread That's a lot of bread. Number two portion control It is especially true when you go to restaurants and your meal comes cut in half and ask the Ask the waiter right away for a takeout container so you can save the second half for later Number three have your heart broken and not just broken shattered into bitsy bitsy tiny little pieces by a girl who never loved You and never will And then the rest of the post is basically about the heartbreak and I was like, wow I remember reading that intro and I fucking cleared my calendar I was like, I am gonna sink into this blog post this whoever wrote this
SPEAKER_01
This is genius level writing and I loved it and the whole step three is like get your heart broken And then it's like start going for walks to feel better And so you start going to the gym and you previously thought that gym rats were a bunch of bros And now you realize that they're your family and you start making puddles and you start eating chicken And more chicken and you make more puddles and you repeat every day
SPEAKER_02
And then suddenly let's read some of this is beautiful. Let's just read some of so by girl who'll never loved you and never will Join the gym at your work start going to the gym regularly Even though you don't know much about exercise and you're way too weak to do anything except for live The five pound weights and do the elliptical machines with the old people Do it until your sweat makes a puddle on the floor then go home Go to bed early and do it again the next day and again and again Listen to stories of your ex-girlfriend fucking around with gross and terrible people stories from your friends who think they're doing you a favor Go to the gym and make more puddles of sweat Buy buy books learn about muscle groups and how they work together start eating healthy Start eat start planning meals try to forget her more puddles And then just keeps going and keeps going and then it's like you know it talks about the Obviously if I can find one more at the end here
SPEAKER_01
Um and then eventually he yeah, he meets a girl or something like that at the gym
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Yeah, you make puddle after puddle and eat single chicken breasts and work in sleep and the weather gets warm and the weather gets cold And all you know is Taylor Swift songs by heart and the only thing that exists in the entire universe is you and the gym And there's a different sort of happiness It comes at night when you're the last person in the gym and it's you and the girl who does weird leg exercises You end up walking walking out at the same time her name is Melissa. She works at the building next to you She's worked there for two years. She asked you for dinner on Friday.
Promise you it'll be healthy The leg exercises she's doing by the way are called pivoting critsie lunges
SPEAKER_01
Uh, and then it goes into the you know the love story and then it ends with step four no sugar No fruit juice One of the best posts I've watched that I remember I first watched you get teary-eyed It's uh, because it's uh, it was I guess there's a blog post first I didn't know that and then it was a youtube video and then I guess a whole movie The youtube the youtube video it gets me teary-eyed and it gets me so Motivated whenever I watch this so that's a little a little bit similar to scott galloway's keep your sales up This was just like the most positive episode we've ever done. Yeah
SPEAKER_02
Positivity baby. That's it. That's the bot All right, we have a big announcement possibly the biggest announcement of the year from us So pay attention turn the headphones up We are doing a challenge called My first muscle Instead of my first million.
This is my first muscle. It is a fitness challenge that we're doing We want everybody to get involved with it sam. Tell them how it works and why we're doing it
SPEAKER_01
All right, so here's what it is summer's coming up. We got this thing called the pod bod We've been sitting here. I think we're on 650 episodes or so we want to get fit.
So it's a challenge. It's a race actually It's 100 push-ups 100 squats 100 burpees 100 times 100 times 100 That's your first million and it's hopefully going to be your first million muscle So here's what you're going to do. You can do any order.
You can start with burpees You can start with squats. It doesn't matter But when you do a burpee you got to go nips to the floor Your chest has to touch the floor and then you hop up and when you jump up due to the top of the burpee Your feet need to leave the ground and you should film yourself doing it And when you film yourself doing it, you have to time yourself too and then you have to share the video with us
SPEAKER_02
My first milk pod on twitter. Exactly or you tag me and sam directly either way. So just to summarize Turn a timer on Uh, best case scenario you film it too, but at least turn the timer on and do it You have to you have as much time as you need to complete 100 push-ups 100 air squats So no weight And then 100 burpees and you can mix it up and you could do them in whatever sets of 5 or 10 or however you want to mix it up You just got to get it done.
That's the challenge. You've heard of 75 hard You've uh, you've heard of the mirf. Well, this is our version of that my first muscle Me and sam are gonna be doing it.
We're gonna film it. We're gonna post our videos of us doing it Sam, what do you think your your prediction your time is gonna be? You're a super fit guy
SPEAKER_01
I'm gonna break 20 minutes. That's my goal and I think I'll be in the 90th percentile 20 minutes I think this is 90th percentile. I think the winner will be 15 minutes.
I predict that I will
SPEAKER_02
Be far above 20 minutes. I think I'm gonna be closer to 35 to 40 minutes if I'm I did a little test run I did a little test run. I went 80 70 percent and it took me like 42 minutes And so I got a I got a that was just v1.
That's okay Just I was a nibble as a Costco sample of it. I just need to now iterate and get better
SPEAKER_01
There's two things here. The first is just doing it. So I think doing it I have a feeling you're gonna see thousands of people doing it I think it's gonna be cool to see that you're gonna do it
SPEAKER_02
Well, let's talk about the doing it first You brought this idea from uh, jesse itzler about the misogi a hard physical challenge That you do something that that makes you a little bit scared that pushes you past your limits It's good to do these and instead of having everybody come up with the misogi We want to give the community one that we can all kind of share all do together and I don't if you're out of shape Um, don't let that be the reason you don't do this If you can do push-ups on your knees do push-ups on your knees All right, you might not win the prize but get it done You'll be proud of yourself when you get it done and I think there's a immense There's an amazing feeling on the other side of doing this and that's who you want to be Now let's talk about the prizes So if you want to be eligible for the prizes, you got to do it legit and you got to have a video camera When you're doing it, otherwise, we don't know if you're uh, you know, this is not the gentleman's agreement You got to actually show some proof if you actually do this thing We've seen some amazing videos come in So a couple people heard about the announcement early and started doing them Did you see these girls who did them in their peanut butter and jelly costume? That was awesome There's a guy who's doing it out in a field in a just a set of overalls. That's hilarious. It's amazing.
All right
SPEAKER_01
And so here's the prizes. So we got the company plunge.com. We got them to give us two cold plunges I think these are like six or seven grand apiece. So they're gonna give them away We're gonna give one to the fastest male one to the fastest female And then we got Nike shrink to give away a bunch of bumper plates and a whole bunch of workout equipment That's gonna go to three other people.
Who are the three other people? Well, we're it's our discretion
SPEAKER_02
We're the judges and we're looking for three things we want we're looking for creativity So best dressed is one area i'm looking at Another one is creativity on the video and the last one is just inspiration. This is the Rudy award So for whoever really like we watch the video and we are rooting for you You will win a prize as well, but we're all winners if you do the thing because I don't know you had the option not to get a visually chickened out could have easily said it's too hard Could have easily said you're too busy, but you didn't take any of those excuses. You're the real winner
SPEAKER_01
And to make sure there's no excuses. We have a timeline on this it's gonna end on may 12th Which is this sunday So you don't actually have a lot of time to get this done So if you're listening to this you might go do it like in the next 30 minutes and just get it out the way
SPEAKER_02
Exactly. All right. I'm excited my first muscle.
Let's go. We got to get rid of pod bod pod bod is a plague
SPEAKER_01
It's getting so many people don't be caught up in pod bod and we have to say one last thing in order to get any of the prizes You have to subscribe to our youtube channel and to our podcast on spotify and on itunes You have to subscribe that part is the gentleman's agreement We're giving away all these prizes and we're trying to make everyone get a little bit healthier All we ask for in exchange is just to subscribe it costs you nothing and it means a lot to us So that's all you have to do. Uh, check it out my first muscle challenge do it post it tag me and say him on twitter
SPEAKER_02
I'm at sean vp. He's uh at the sampar send us your videos. We can't wait to see him