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  • Apple Unlocks Alarm App Market
    • Apple’s new AlarmKit API opens the alarm app category to any developer.
    • This creates a massive market opportunity with billions of iPhone users now reachable for innovative alarm apps. Transcript: Sam Parr Okay. This is a tweet from Dylan. Dylan says, at long last, any app can be your alarm app. Apple has finally introduced Alarm Kit. This is at the Apple announcement that happened this week. That lets any app have the same privileges as the clock app. This is long overdue. Dylan, you are absolutely right. Dude, I did not understand this. Is this a joke? No, this is real. So basically, you know, like Apple gives you certain permissions, right? If you’re an app, you can send push notifications. You could use the camera. You could use the GPS. But for a long time, no app could become your alarm app. It couldn’t access the same features of an alarm app, which is like now any app. You don’t just have to use the Apple alarm app. Anybody could build an app for alarm. Sounds small. Shaan Puri I don’t understand. Yeah, this does sound small. So change my mind. Why is this important? Sam Parr So think about it this way. There’s like 2 billion people with iPhones. And not every app can address all 2 billion people, but an alarm clock can basically address like a billion or two people who actually have the need for an alarm clock. So what happened was two weeks ago or, you know, a week ago as an app developer, that was not a category you could be in. And now it’s a category you could be in where there’s a billion active users that might want your app. And there’s been no creativity and no innovation. So like the app store has been out for, you know, 15 years now. So a lot of stuff is solved, right? Camera apps are pretty good. Map apps are pretty good with Google Maps and Waze and, you know, ride sharing apps. There’s all kinds of apps and there’s been tons of innovation, but this has been basically artificially blocked. Shaan Puri Wait, really quick. Do you remember the joke of Peter Thiel where he said you wanted flying cars, but you got 190 characters like on Twitter? 140. 140. This is the even worse version of that. You wanted flying cars. Sam Parr Now you can make alarm apps. You wanted AI. Instead, you got a snooze button. By the way, I met the guy who wrote that line for… I didn’t meet him, but I found out who wrote that line for Peter Thiel. Shaan Puri Wait, wait, wait. You met him? Okay, you mistakenly said you met him versus you heard him. Sam Parr I met a guy who was like, that’s the guy who wrote that. That’s Peter’s guy. He comes up with those. And that was his job was basically follow Peter around, listen to what he’s saying, and then try to like transform his sentiment into something really punchy. And that guy came up with that line, which became the basis for like Founders Fun and like a rally cry. That’s cool. Well, tell him a good job. All right. So check this out. Easy idea. David Goggins, would you like a million dollars? Because David Goggins today should pay some kid to make the alarm app. That’s basically the David Goggins skinned alarm app. Like I want to wake up with David Goggins just saying, wake up, bitch, there’s miles to run. And I just want to hear that when I wake up and not like, you know, the default alarm sound for my phone. Shaan Puri Are there, when is this going live? When’s this alarm kit thing? Sam Parr So they did the developer preview. That’s what WWDC is, right? They tell you what’s possible, and you can start building with it, but it’s not, like, available yet to customers. But usually, I think it’s just, like, a couple months. It’s, like, not very long. Shaan Puri This is low-hanging fruit, my friend. It’s a good idea. It’s a good idea. This is fruit that might just be on the ground, actually. This might be rotting fruit. I’m not entirely sure. (Time 0:00:23)
  • McKinsey Consulting Critique
    • McKinsey charged massive fees advising Warner Bros and Discovery with little impact.
    • Consultants have value but also represent common sense lack and perceived overpaying. Transcript: Sam Parr He says, this is a Chris Bacchi banger. He says in 2022, McKinsey paid $55 million was paid $55 million to advise Warner brothers. When they merged with discovery, they charged them 37 million by advising them to change HBO to HBO Max, then to Max, then back to HBO Max. And in 2025, they billed them an additional $63 million again to determine that Warner Brothers and Discovery should be separate brands again. Shaan Puri Did you see that McKinsey last week laid off 15% of their staff? Sam Parr Because of AI? Because now AI can do half the job or what? Is that why? Shaan Puri Yeah, for sure. This is absolutely insane. What did you say? You’re allergic to lack of common sense. This is ridiculous. This is exactly the sort of lack of common sense I was talking about. This tweet has 70,000 likes, by the way. Sam Parr I don’t know if he totally made up these numbers or if these are true, but directionally correct. There were some good reactions to this. Greg tweeted, don’t be the problem. Be the solution that creates the problem. That is my takeaway. Shaan Puri Yeah, it is pretty ridiculous. Have you ever had friends that have worked at McKinsey? Yeah, yeah. Sam Parr My buddy Romine, who I do a bunch of business stuff with, he was a former McKinsey guy. Shaan Puri They’re easy to make fun of because you’re like, what does a 23-year know about business? But I have a friend that worked there and she had some pretty amazing… Basically, a PE firm, in her case, identified a bunch of dairy farms that they wanted to roll up. And so they bought a bunch of them, the PE firm did. And then they hired McKinsey folks to come and figure out how to make it more efficient. And so she literally would go to Iowa every single week for about six months and devise interesting things. Like, for example, we’re going to change the bucket size that we use, that the workers use. Like, really interesting things. Sam Parr I’m just imagining, have you seen Landman? Yes. When the lawyer shows up on the oil field and she’s like got her high heels like stuck in the mud. Basically, that’s what I’m imagining. The McKinsey consultants showing up at the cattle farm. Shaan Puri It was kind of great. It’s like I learned about this whole this whole experience she had. There is value that is (Time 0:04:13)
  • Frank Slootman Challenges Elite Grads
    • Frank Slootman challenges elite, educated graduates to build real companies, not just consult.
    • He warns such jobs lead to being “cold and timid souls” missing true victory or defeat. Transcript: Sam Parr Oh, okay. This is good. This is related. This is actually related to what I was just talking about. So Frank Slootman, who is the man’s man CEO, he’s the David Goggins of the corporate world. Would you agree? Shaan Puri Yeah, I mean, he’s pretty baller. He kind of says it like it is. For people who don’t know, he took over. He’s been a bunch of CEO of a bunch of companies, but he took over at Snowflake, and he has all these famous memos that he wrote on LinkedIn. And it was basically like, don’t be a bitch work hard. Like that’s like how he summarizes everything. Sam Parr Yeah. But it’s a little bit different. So he’s got this book called amp it up, but if you really, you could just read his blog post called amp it up and get 80% of the idea. It’s not even just about working hard. It’s like, pick up the pace, pick up the, there’s his basic point is that in every organization, there’s an incredible amount of that’s just built up. It’s an expectation of timelines, of rigor, of effort, of everything. And then another one of those is common sense. And his approach is just to cut through all the bullshit. And so he has this quote where he’s talking about the man in the arena, that famous It’s kind of, I kind of think that, uh, that quote is super lame now. Shaan Puri It’s been hijacked by people that I don’t like. I know. Sam Parr Chamath is what you’re saying. Yeah. Yeah. Was people a singular word? All right, here we go. So here’s what Frank Sloopman says. He says, there’s lots of people in this world who are not really in the arena. They’re either observers, consultants, or agents, or VCs that just provide capital. But there are some people who are in the arena. They’re very special people. And then he says, he talks about, he was asked to speak at a business school where they always ask for his advice. He says, you all have elite educations. You’ll have many job offers paying you big bucks. Your parents and siblings will be incredibly proud of you. But they’re all consulting jobs for Bain, McKinsey and companies like that. You’re going to have an easy path to pretty quick earnings, but you’ll never know whether you have what it takes to actually build something new. In Roosevelt’s words, you will be those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. I had actually never read that part of the quote. And I thought that part’s way colder than the rest of it. You know what I mean? Shaan Puri Imagine saying this to a room full of Stanford kids. It’s like, I wonder what that, what do you think the reaction would have been like? Sam Parr I think the reaction would have been like, God, he’s so right. After I finish up this first four year tenure at McKinsey, then I’m totally going to do that. I think that’s the real, the true reaction. It’s like, he’s so right. I’m not actually going to withdraw the job offer. I’ll finish up. I’m going to make sure I get the first few years, and then I’m going to go do that thing someday. (Time 0:10:00)
  • Les Schwab’s Warm Rational Leadership
    • Les Schwab exemplifies leadership by treating employees like family and leading with warmth and rationality.
    • Success is more about meaningful influence than cold spreadsheet logic, unlike some consultants. Transcript: Sam Parr Next one so this is one of yours so it’s a david senra uh tweet he says charlie munger told me flex charlie munger told me to read les schwab’s autobiography i’m glad i did because less says Things like this. Quote, success in life is being a good husband, a good father, and you end up being a second father to hundreds of other men and women. Last night, I attended a wedding of a young man from our office. And the young man told me that two men had influenced his life, his father and me. Shaan Puri That’s worth more than money. So this guy, Les Schwab is amazing. I haven’t completed his book, but I’m in the middle of reading it. But let me tell you about this guy. Sam Parr So go to the dumb question is less. So there’s Charles Schwab. No relation. Shaan Puri Okay. He’s, he’s, he, he was a hillbilly in Oregon. Basically he was like orphaned at the age of like 13 or 14 was like a plumber and then started a tire shop at the age of 31 or 32. Didn’t know anything about tires, but started a tire shop. Eventually, over the course of 50 years, it grew into a multi-billion dollar operation. And he’s famous for being really great at incentivizing employees. And he’s famous for being very good at managing and leading to the point where Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger look to stories from him on how to properly lead and incentivize. And then go to the next slide. Look at what he looks like. So he was a hillbilly. He was like a from the streets type of guy. I’ve been thinking about how I can describe these types of people because I love them. And I think the best way to describe it is small town grit with big number swagger, something like that, like these guys that you and I love, who are these like blue collar, so small town Grit with big city swagger. No, with like big number swagger. So it’s like big city swagger, right? But what I mean is, is that they’re like these kind of hillbillies who build these massive companies. And so they can they make like, example one of our friends kevin van trump is one of them where you see this guy and he comes off or he’s like hey what’s going on brother i gotta write my newsletter And like he like talks like this but like turns out he makes like 20 million dollars a year and like the people who read his newsletter he’ll you know kevin’s this big guy from kansas city Comes off like like a hillbilly because he talks funny. But his work is read by world leaders. And he makes $20 million a year. And in the background of his video Zoom call, it’s like a Picasso. So I love guys like this. And this guy is one of them. So Les Schwab started a tire company. He died in his 90s, but ran the company up until then, grew to a multi-billion dollar organization. And I want to go to the next one. I want to read. He wrote his own foreword to the book. And I highlighted my two favorite sentences from the foreword. Read that. Sam Parr All right. So Sarsid says, this book is mainly written for the 2000 families that make their living selling less swab tires. And for the thousands of families to follow in the next 20, 30, 40 years. All right. So he says, this is what you highlighted. I wrote this in November December of 1985. I did write this a hundred percent with my 40 year old typewriter. And then at the bottom, okay. I do think Jan Nolan, my right hand gal, Lorraine O’Hara, our word, our word processing operator for helping me correct misspelled words and helping me with punctuation. I didn’t have a gross writer. I wanted it in my own words. And then it says, basically in this, I’m going to pass on my theories of business to our people. And he says, should we fail to follow these policies towards customers and employees going forward? I would prefer that my name be taken off the business. And then it ends with, he basically says, if you’re not interested in business, this book will bore you. And if I were you, I wouldn’t waste my time reading it. How great is that? How much of a simpleton am I? That it’s just, here’s, you want to win me? Here you go. Push me away. That’s all it takes. Oh, you think I won’t like this book? Watch me read every word. I’m already buying a second copy. Treat them mean, Keep them keen. That’s all you got to do. Why am I so easy to manipulate? Shaan Puri How beautiful is this guy? So you read this book? Is it like? I’m in the middle of reading it. Yeah. Sam Parr So far, 7 out of 10, fine and forgettable. 8 out of 10, I’ll remember the big idea, but that’s kind of it. I didn’t need 300 pages. 9 out of 10, really enjoyed it. Good book. 10 out of 10, I’m giving this book out as gifts. Where is it at? Shaan Puri I’m only a quarter of the way through, and it’s between an eight and a nine. Yeah, an eight and a nine. Yeah, quite good. And what’s the big idea so far? He just treats people well, and if you treat people well, you get rewarded in return. So it’s a very simple thing, which is you said, there’s a lack of common sense. He’s a very common sense, rational person, but often rational means cold. And he is rational, warm. Oh, warm, rational. Sam Parr Okay, that’s cool. Shaan Puri That’s a good insight. Sam Parr Because your start of your answer was kind of boring, but the end of your answer was fire there. That was good. Shaan Puri So it’s sort of like his original quote, which was, I became a father to all these people and I go to their weddings and that makes me feel great. That is a rational thing to say and it is warm versus, you know, what a McKinsey consultant would say, which is it’s all just about these numbers on a spreadsheet. (Time 0:15:50)
  • $122M Vendor Impersonation Scam
    • A man fraudulently impersonated a vendor to steal $122 million from Facebook and Google.
    • He used fake invoices and company seals but was caught and faced US extradition. Transcript: Sam Parr That a crime exactly this the tweet here is this remains my favorite path to wealth. Exploiting the big company inefficiencies should not be illegal. I agree. All’s fair in love and war. If I send you an invoice and you pay it, am I at fault or you? Hold on. What’s going on here? But there is a little more to the story. Shaan Puri So have you read about how this actually worked? No. Well, wasn’t he like legitimately a vendor for them? No, no. Sam Parr I think that was a little bit of the problem. Okay. So here’s the story. So there’s a 50 year old dude, the guy who’s in cuffs here, and he was impersonating a company. So there was a company called Quanta Computer. That’s a legit company that was a vendor for Facebook and Google. He sets up a company also called Quanta Computer, but bases it out of Latvia. And so he just copies the same company name, the same logo, but it’s incorporated in a different country. And he starts making fake invoices, contracts, letters, corporate stamps, corporate seals. And he’s sending these to Facebook and Google for over two years. And he got paid out $122 million across the two companies. So 98 million from Facebook and 23 million from Google. They then find him in Latvia, extradite him. And here’s a great quote from the US attorney. So the guy’s name, I guess it’s Ruma Ramosauskas. So Ramosauskas thought he could hide behind a computer screen halfway across the world while he conducted his fraudulent scheme. But he has learned the arms of the American justice system are long and he now faces time in a U.S. Prison. Dude, how hard is this guy, this U.S. Attorney? It’s amazing. By the way, I think he still made out good. He had to give back. He had to forfeit $49 million, and he had to pay another, I think, $26 million in restitution. That doesn’t add up to $122 million, so he might have still made a bunch of money in the process. Shaan Puri What conversation do you have with your wife? So what do you do? What do you do, guy? How’s work today? I kind of want to get him on the pod. Jail pod? Sam Parr A rare category of illegal but impressive. No? Shaan Puri Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which like, it’s like the Bernie Madoff scheme. Not cool and impressive. Like, you know what I’m going to? I want to learn more about it. Sam Parr Right. Right. And if you judge us for saying impressive (Time 0:24:40)
  • ChatGPT’s Unprecedented Retention
    • ChatGPT’s retention curve soared from 60% to 90% month-on retention, surpassing YouTube’s 85%.
    • This retention shows strong user value and signals long-term business potential. Transcript: Sam Parr Have you seen this? Okay, so ChatGPT’s product retention curves is a product manager’s wet dream. Shaan Puri Their one-month retention has skyrocketed from less than 60% two years ago to an unprecedented 90%. YouTube was best in class with 85%. Six-month retention is trending towards 80% and rapidly rising. Generational product. Sam Parr Okay, so this little line chart here, for people who don’t really recognize this, imagine when you’re at a hospital and they hook the patient up and you have the heart monitor and you See that heartbeat, that line, and it’s got to keep beeping for the patient to be good, right? And you have all these monitors with these little lines. Well, this is the equivalent of that for a company. So what this is, is a retention curve. So the line at the very bottom here would be like the oldest cohort. So that’s like people who signed up for ChatGPT two years ago. And as you can see, it starts at 100% of people using it on day zero or month zero. But But then even by month one, it’s at 60%. By month two, only 55% are still using it. And by the time you get to a year, you know, less than it looks like 30% of people are still using the product. So that means more than two-thirds of people just stopped using it after they tried it. And that’s the sign of a product that won’t win as is because the bucket is too leaky. You know, you’re getting too many customers in that are that are churning out. They’re not finding value in the product. And what this curve or the other lines are, are the next month, the next month, the next month. And as they improve the product, you can see that the drop offs are way less. So now what he’s saying is that basically the one month retention is now 90%. So people are finding so much value the first month that they use it that a month later, 90% of them are still using it. And so this is how this is like the key metric for most businesses is retention. That’s the thing that tells you if your business is going to be around for a long time, or if it’s just a leaky bucket. And seeing this with chat GPT is pretty stunning. And it kind of leads into my next tweet here, which is that open AI is now at 10 billion in ARR. So that’s 2x since the end of 2024. So they basically doubled revenue from 5 billion to 10 billion. And it’s been less than three years since it launched. So in less than three years, they’ve grown this product to $10 billion in recurring revenue, which is just stunning. And it highlighted to me one very big takeaway from this, which is that OpenAI is the Facebook of this current generation. Maybe more. 20 years ago, it was Google and Amazon were the big deal. That was it. 30 years ago, it was like Microsoft. 20 years ago, it was like Google and Amazon. Maybe 15 years ago or so, that was the Facebook era. (Time 0:27:46)
  • Ramp’s Rise from Humble Start
    • Eric Glyman, once selling MLM creams, co-founded Ramp aiming for a $1B valuation in 12 months.
    • Though delayed, Ramp outperformed rival Brex, dominating the corporate card market. Transcript: Shaan Puri Of a company called ramp which like has grown to like a six billion dollar valuation in like four or five years and he was telling me about uh tp what is it what’s it called tbpn what’s what Sam Parr Stand for the tech bros podcast network i don’t know what that actually stands they tried to change it so it’s not bro technology brothers i think it’s called like the business podcast. I think that’s what they changed it. But it’ll always be technology brothers to me. Shaan Puri So it’s this guy named Jordy and John Coogan. They’re fantastic. They have this new podcast. Sam Parr It’s more like a daily news show, not even a podcast, but like a video show. It’s not even a show. It’s basically they do stuff, but you don’t even need to watch the show. It’s all clips for Twitter. So it’s like Twitter is like shorts and clips is what they make. Shaan Puri They’re hilarious. And I was at Eric’s office and I said, what’s this? And it was a little booklet. And apparently they had made like a 20-page book that they sent to potential sponsors, people they’re courting to like, you know, be their sponsor. And they wanted to get like a big check. And I turned the page and on one of them was this piece of copy in the deck, and it said, our hope is that this partnership is the domino that bankrupts your competitors and grants you a monopoly So powerful that you are dragged in front of Congress. And I read that line, and I was like, that is the greatest opening line for a pitch deck that I’ve ever read. It was fantastic. And I read that line and I was joking with Eric. I’m like, this is the greatest thing I’ve ever read. And it made him giggle. So I guess he shared that. And it’s wonderful. How good is that? Sam Parr Dude, they’re so fucking good. I love those guys. Also, I have a funny Eric story. Met Eric when I was in college. And we both got picked for this trip to go go to the Alibaba headquarters. So it was like a free all expenses paid trip to China, courtesy of Jack Ma for 50 of the top college entrepreneurs. And I was on this bus. And Eric was right next to me. Nice guy. He’s kind of a baby faced guy at the time. I don’t know if he still is. You said you met him in person, but. Shaan Puri Yeah, he’s like, he’s like, he doesn’t come off like a tycoon. Like he comes off like very kind and warm. Yeah, he’s lovely. Sam Parr And at the time, I think he was literally in an MLM. I’m not 100% sure, but I’m pretty sure he was selling products that were part of like an MLM sort of scheme or he was – I don’t remember exactly what it was. Was it like essential oils? It was like creams or something like that. And I’m vaguely remembering this, so I could totally be wrong. Sorry, Eric, if I got some of the details wrong. But I swear if it’s not that, it’s in the zip code. And I just remember thinking like, oh, this guy’s kind of cool. He’s a hustler, really nice guy. I don’t know what he’s doing with these, you know, whatever it was, creams or whatever he was doing at the time. And then I’ve seen him build ramp. And I’m like, is that the dude from the bus in China who was trying to sell me creams? And it just goes to show anything is possible. Shaan Puri Dude, when I talked to him, it was him and his partner. It was like me, Senra Eric and then Eric’s partner all in a room and we were just riffing and then hanging out I was wanting to meet up with David because David’s a buddy of mine he goes hey I’m gonna be hanging out at ramps office if you just want to come and see me it’s right down the street from your office so I go to see him and I walk in it’s and it’s and it’s these guys and it Was so it’s pretty cool and the partner of uh co-founder of ramp Kareem I think his name was he told me this story he was like, yeah, like we had this idea and our goal was to get to a billion Dollar valuation in 12 months. That was the goal. And we did the math and we thought that was possible. And I was flabbergasted. I was like, what? I was like, did you hit it? He goes, no, man, we didn’t hit it. It took like 18 months. And it was just really cool to be in a room of people who thought like craziness like that. And it actually worked. Sam Parr Well, you know what’s crazy? You know, I think they were a massive underdog when they started. So if you remember back when they were early, Brex was already out and early as well. And Brex was the San Francisco based company. Ramp is in New York. Brex had the YC network and connection. They went through YC and they were, all the YC companies were kind of like, you know, YC is kind of like this network effect, this little mafia that they have that can kind of king make certain Companies if you get enough momentum. And I just remember, I would have bet, like the odds, the betting odds were that Brex, given those advantages, given that they’re the SF, the tech-focused one, like really was is the New York startup going to beat the Silicon Valley startup? It didn’t really seem like that was usually the case. And they had ads everywhere. Brex did. They were advertising everywhere. They were a hot name. They were NYC. Like they had a lot of things that would have made you think they would be the winner here. And Ramp has thoroughly kicked the shit out of Brex. They are worth way more and have done a much better job. I use ramp. It’s a great, great product. So, you know, that is very impressive to me. I think that that was, that is not how I would have guessed that that would have played out. Shaan Puri 100%. I agree with you. Apparently the story is that they ran a company called Paribus, which is something like you get rebates online. So you buy something and you can get like, they help you find a deal and you get a little bit of money and the brand saves a little bit of money, something like that. Like, you know, something’s $100, you pay 90 bucks and they give you a little bit of cash back, whatever. They sold the company after three years for 40 or $50 million. And he was like, it was nice. Like we like, but we got a lot wrong. And when we sold it, we sold it to Capital One. And in Capital One, we learned about the demand for all these things. And like the demand for like a good bank account system, demand for all these business services that people needed. And we ran the math because we saw like how big Capital One was. And we thought that we could build a billion dollar company in the first year if we did one or two things right. (Time 0:41:00)
  • Gary Tan’s Church Home
    • Gary Tan owns an impressive restored church home in San Francisco with vast unique architecture.
    • The unusual residence blends small-town grit with big-city swagger, inspiring creative home ideas. Transcript: Sam Parr No hold on my my text is gone here but i have a uh new segment sam rich guy house alert. What happened? All right. I saw this tweet about some event. It was like an event, I think, for like San Francisco, like kind of like policy maybe. And I was like, okay, cool. Whatever. Hundreds of people went to this like San Francisco policy thing. And then somebody goes, but the tweet said, overwhelmed with the standing room only crowd at Gary Tan’s house. And I just remember thinking, Gary Tan’s house? And I see this tweet that says, this is Gary Tan’s house? Big ass house. Shaan Puri Dude, Gary Tan told us he lived in a neighborhood of the city of San Francisco. Sam Parr Yeah, so we’re going to try not to dox him, although he came in and he goes, hell yeah, it is my house. And this is the house. So have you seen this? It is a old church. I remember that. Shaan Puri Yeah, across the street from Doors Park. Yeah, exactly. Sam Parr So he lives at something here. He owns this thing called the Lighthouse. It’s a townhouse condo at a hundred year old restored church right across from Dolores. Shaan Puri Four beds, three beds, but it’s got 30 foot ceilings. It’s crazy. So look at this house, dude. Wait, he lives there or is that like an event space? He owns it. Sam Parr I don’t know if he full time lives there. You know i don’t want to don’t want to comment on that but like how insane is this i’ve always by the way i’ve always dreamed of doing this buying an old church because old churches have Like sometimes amazing locations and really like unique bones and structure i didn’t know you could convert them to housing so this is kind of interesting here but dude how crazy is Shaan Puri This house i remember when this was for sale in san francisco it was i still live there and i remember it being for sale and i remember there was a another person living there not living There it was like a rich it was another rich guy who was using it for events and they put it for sale and uh i’m amazed that he bought this this looks awesome oh my god look at this bedroom dude Sam Parr I don’t want it in a steel cage I don’t want… Shaan Puri That’s pretty sick. Yeah, I don’t want that. You know, if I was like Brock Lesnar or someone like really hardcore, like, that looks cool. Sam Parr When you watch too much WWE, you’re like, okay, hell in the cell bedroom. Look, I’m not a tough guy. I’m not Brock Lesnar. I mean, how hardcore is this bedroom, dude? This is amazing. I love how he’s got like the plush carpet right outside, like a waiting room lobby before you enter the bed zone. (Time 0:47:10)
  • Samburu Men: Stylish and Athletic
    • Shaan Puri’s oldest bookmark shows Samburu Kenyan men as some of the most stylish globally.
    • They have extraordinary athleticism and cultural attire that impress Shaan greatly. Transcript: Shaan Puri To show you guys my oldest bookmark from the year 2018. Sam Parr In preparation for this podcast, Sam’s like, cool, let me just go look at my Twitter bookmarks and see what good tweets I have. And you found this, your first ever bookmark. Is this in 2018? Shaan Puri Yep. What is this? So it’s this group of Kenyan men, the Samburu men. Sam Parr Describe this like, you know, because there’s people who listen to this only on audio. By the way, if you’ve been listening to this on audio the whole time, please get to YouTube. Shaan Puri Please go to YouTube and watch this because this whole thing works if you see the tweets. Do you remember that movie with Kevin Bacon where he went to Africa to play basketball and he found this like tribe of like really tall guys and they would jump up and they would wear like Like very traditional what you would think of like an African tribes person wearing. Right. They have their shirtless and they have like amazing beads and whatever. And they have the red hair just like the guy in the movie. That’s what this is. It’s a group of guys in Kenya. And the tweet says that these men are often considered to be the most stylish men on the planet. And it’s a photo of these guys. And so look, honestly, agreed. First of all, the account is called at Kenya pics. Sam Parr Is that an account you just follow? Shaan Puri Yeah, I love Kenya, because I like I like runners. And so my goal has always been to go to the Rift Valley, which is this area of Kenya, and see Ken runners. I’ve always admired running. And particularly, there’s this group, imagine a suburb, and something like 90% of the distance gold medals have been won by this group of 10,000 people in Kenya. And that’s always fascinates me. And so I’ve always wanted to go and see these guys. And this is like nearby in that tribe. Sam Parr And so then and then it just says hashtag International Men’s Day. So that was cool back when hashtags were a thing. And then there’s also a picture of the guy jumping and he’s guys easily five feet off the ground. Shaan Puri Don’t know how this is this photoshop this is incredible what is this no i don’t i don’t know what that is i don’t know i i don’t know that much about kenya but it looks dope to me should we Wear this for next casual friday dude look how like yoke those guys are i get made fun of for like commenting on people’s calves and like guys bodies but like these guys are just jacked Right (Time 0:49:40)