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Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight Sep 9, 2026 · 3 mentions

The Underrated Money Making Skill In 2026 Mar 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:46 Sam Parr There's this designer in California who's obsessed with the T three radio.

The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10) Mar 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 58:02 Sam Parr So for the listener, uh, Jordy, I don't know if you would see his, I don't know if he's in California or not.

4 dumb ideas that made people rich Jan 23, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 55:14 Shaan Puri Dude, I might end up being the richest man in California. 4 times in the scene

Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway) Nov 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:01 Sheel Mohnot At one point, a single property in Tokyo was worth more than all of the real estate in California.

I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure) Nov 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:30 Shaan Puri Let's just assume that to be true, and I wanted to live in California, so I rounded all the way up, and I said, if I'm spending half a million dollars a year as my, like, personal life burn rate, what do I need to be making in passive…

The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team Nov 5, 2025 · 1 mention

The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok Oct 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:52 Shaan Puri Sports betting, which is like a pretty regulated thing, like I can't do it out of California, for example, right?

The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups Sep 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:30 Will Guidara I spent time with a, an auto dealer group in California right when the book was coming out, and I was talking to them about touch points, and they thought I was, you know, when you think about like a classic car dealer, and then I'm…

How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing Sep 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:31 Sam Parr Raised in Central Valley, California, uh, went to the army. 2 times in the scene

This guy made Millions by inventing the $1 Menu Sep 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:26 Sam Parr Now the second character is a British or California, uh, record label executive.
  • ▶ 21:18 Sam Parr And if you go to like any store right now, I don't know what it's like in California, but any store in New York, they're everywhere.

3 Wild Stories to Get You Hyped This Week Aug 18, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:49 Shaan Puri Um, the business has done so well, they're, they're selling fruit all throughout California now, and he's able to sell his share of the business for, um, a 100,000 dollars. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:44 Shaan Puri They catch some weed coming from California, and because of the weed, he ends up going to prison.

The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses” Jun 18, 2025 · 1 mention

How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents) Jun 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:12 Shaan Puri I can then go, I can go into a tool like clay and I can say real estate agents, California,

How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes) May 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:18 Ankur Nagpal There's muni funds specific to New York and California where you won't pay federal and state taxes.

How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire Apr 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:40 Sam Parr And he's doing what you're describing, but for local news, and it very quickly spins up a place, a newsletter that says, like, hey, and it makes an ad, and it says, hey, Danville in California, do you want news just for Danville?

5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas) Apr 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:29 Sam Parr I had a, I don't, I don't smoke weed anymore or do anything like that, but I had like this thought the other day, because I had to send someone a letter in California.
  • ▶ 30:13 Steph Smith Well, one note about the, just the world of, of jobs, um, I wanna get your take on this, is we've talked before about pay transparency, and there are, I think, over a dozen states that have also, you know, put pay transparency law in… 2 times in the scene

From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+ Apr 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:51 Shaan Puri And what do you think about people who leave California, leave San Francisco, because they don't want to pay taxes?

5 Conversations that broke our frames this week Mar 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:24 Sam Parr I moved mostly because of fam or only because of family, but I do wish I was in California.

The 2024 Milly Awards Dec 30, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:03:30 Shaan Puri He got an apartment nearby and lives in a cool place, and I told him, I said, hey, you're moving to California, so here's a pay raise to cover the cost of your move and the, and the higher cost of living out here, and come live in… 2 times in the scene

Leila Hormozi: From Minimum Wage Employee to $100M Net Worth By 29 Nov 15, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:08 Leila Hormozi I moved across the country by myself from Michigan to California, and I went to go to California because I wanted to pursue a career in fitness, um, because then I had to finish school for exercise science, useless, but nonetheless, I had… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:22 Sam Parr Uh, and what age were you when you moved to California?
  • ▶ 16:32 Leila Hormozi And it was California.

3 Killer Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight Nov 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:48 Shaan Puri And it says, Hey, if you don't have this poster up, you were in viral violation of California labor laws right now.

How I Went From Broke to $7 Million With An Airbnb Business Sep 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:56 Shaan Puri If I, I live in a, you know, a cookie cutter suburb of America, so just like general, I'm in California.

I Lost Everything Twice… Then Made $26M In 18 Months Aug 15, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:23 Alex Hormozi And so the next launch that's supposed to happen is in California. 2 times in the scene

6 Things I Learned From Not Drinking For 1 Year Jul 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:46 Sam Parr It stood for like the California League of Scavenger Hunts, or something like that.

The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 Employee Jul 1, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:15 Kevin Van Trump Uh, a friend of mine that used to be a golf pro, uh, buddy that I went to school with, Stacey out in California and my son Jordan on this side of the fence.
  • ▶ 13:16 Kevin Van Trump And they loved coming to Kansas City because it was kind of an anomaly, you know, we're used to being on the coast of New York or California.
  • ▶ 41:36 Kevin Van Trump We even have farms out in your neck of the woods, Sean, um, out in, we have nut farms, uh, out in California.

Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman Jun 28, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:57 Sam Parr And at the time when he lived in California, he got something like the highest scores in California for high schoolers when he was like 13 years old. 2 times in the scene

$100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal Jun 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:30 Anand Sanwal It's out in California, I think, and the coach wrote this book, and, like, half of it's, like, what drills do the safeties do and stuff, like, stuff

He Turned A $300/Mo Gardening Side Hustle Into $45 Million/Year | Kevin Espiritu Interview May 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:41 Sam Parr And then he created a produce brokerage, which is like, uh, basically you have relationships with farmers in Idaho or Bakersfield, California, and you buy, let's say, 500,000 dollars of onions, and then you go and find a trucker to pick it…

How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time) May 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:51 Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee) Like, honestly, I think a lot about if my dad didn't want me to work in his store, I would have went to, because I fell in love with tech, I might have went to California and who the fuck knows what have I created in 95, six, seven, eight,…

The 5 Most Interesting Billionaires Alive... May 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:17 Sam Parr So his next thing is that he's in, uh, California and he actually meets with Dan Gordon from Gordon beers.

The AI App Doing $6M With 1 Employee Apr 30, 2024 · 2 mentions

From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview Apr 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:05 Joe Lonsdale Investor with me is based in, based in, you know, nearby in California. 2 times in the scene

I Spent 7 Days With The Richest Men In Texas Apr 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:58 Shaan Puri Um, those people who know, who learn how to win that game, learn how to win at league of legends, or, you know, they're the number one sneaker flipper in California or some shit like that.

How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546) Feb 2, 2024 · 1 mention

6 Retro Business Ideas That Could Be As Big As LEGO ($11.8B) Jan 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:01 Sam Parr Well, you're in California, so you don't really use too much.

$250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 7:48 Sam Parr Sean, I think California is the only state that doesn't recognize QSBS.
  • ▶ 9:58 Shaan Puri So yeah, so for California, you'll pay another 13% on top.
  • ▶ 13:31 Sam Parr Like, uh, I forget where it is in California.
  • ▶ 17:20 Shaan Puri So we got friends who, you know, they're like, oh, the number one thing, get out of California, you schmuck, uh, come to, come to Texas.

The 2023 Milly Awards (#531) Dec 18, 2023 · 2 mentions

99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 52 Minutes (#525) Nov 30, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:23 Shaan Puri A bar, you know, like there's one in Toronto, there's one in California, there's one in Austin, and they're, they're going to hang out.

My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522) Nov 24, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:48 Shaan Puri And many states also honor QSPS, not California, but many states also do.

Brainstorming Ideas with The $200M Man | ft. Patrick Campbell (#519) Nov 16, 2023 · 1 mention

4 Profitable Business Ideas That Men Are Sleeping On | ft. Codie Sanchez (#512) Oct 26, 2023 · 2 mentions

10 AI Startup Ideas in 43 Minutes (#506) Oct 12, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:15 Shaan Puri Uh, we had a, I don't know, 10,000 or 15,000 square foot facility here in California, and we had 10, 20 people there.
  • ▶ 27:13 Shaan Puri So what they're doing is they, the guy, Arjun's in India, but when he talks, he sounds like Adam in, you know, California.

Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504) Oct 5, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 39:32 Jesse Itzler I heard about a conference in Monterey, California that was just getting some traction called Tent. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:34 Jesse Itzler So for example, if I'm flying from New York to California, and I'm by myself, and I'm on a global or a Gulfstream, and I'm going on a round trip, that's an expensive flight, man.

How To Write Off $1,000,000 In Taxes (#447) Apr 25, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:07 Shaan Puri So let's say you're in California, a million dollar deduction is saving you 400,000 dollars of taxes. 2 times in the scene

Scott Harrison: From Nightclub Promoter to Charity Water Founder (#443) Apr 19, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:32 Scott Harrison And I learned that he was a plastic surgeon from California who had heard about this opportunity, and he signed up for three months. 2 times in the scene

How Dave Ramsey Built A $300M/Year Media Empire (#428) Mar 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:22 Shaan Puri When I came to California, I had to step through the mud of the Midwest to get here.

The Story Of Death Row Records Co-Founder Harry-O (#421) Feb 17, 2023 · 1 mention

The Boys React: Tech Layoffs, IG Founder Starts A New Company & More Tech News (#415) Feb 3, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 21:26 unnamed speaker I have just one last, one last one, which is a new study, uh, shows how much money you need to make to be in the top one percent income earner in every state, 850,000 dollars in California, New York, Connecticut is tops actually… 4 times in the scene

How To Grow A Small Agency Into A Billion Dollar Company (#414) Feb 2, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:15 Shaan Puri yeah, I, I, I was making one 60 a year, but in, in California, you know, you're kind of after taxes.

The 2022 Milly Awards (#401) Dec 29, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:38 Shaan Puri Like, for example, if I fly to California to observe the move out, you have to pay for my flights, my hotels, my food, my, this, my, like, there's a shit in there that was like, not like I didn't damage the property. 2 times in the scene

8 Profitable Side Hustles For The Halloween & Christmas Season (#381) Nov 1, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:30 Shaan Puri So they, so the way this started was it's like in California in the eighties,
  • ▶ 52:11 Sam Parr Your impression of, uh, of a white knight, you're basically like a white Californian guy.

From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378) Oct 25, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:15 Palmer Luckey So this is getting a little into the weeds or something probably very few people care about, but just so you know, um, in California, almost all marinas, the water is owned by the state or by the feds. 2 times in the scene

This Guy Went From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China (#372) Oct 11, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:53 Shaan Puri Cause I live in California and California has the same problems that New York has a high cost of living, high state tax, that sort of deal. 2 times in the scene

We Hosted A Shark Tank For Tech Startups | My First Million Demo Day (#356) Aug 31, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:07 unnamed speaker Um, and I think, you know, the truth is, is like, what we're just saying is, uh, the green rush happened a couple of years ago, uh, about a decade ago in California, we're seeing the exact same thing happen in mushroom space.

Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast… Jul 19, 2022 · 1 mention

How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah Jul 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:55 Shaan Puri Plus, also in California, property taxes are like insane, or like in San Francisco, because the, you know, the house price is so high.

Find Profitable Business Ideas By Studying Weird Trends Mar 22, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:52 Sam Parr You can mail something from California to New York for like 45 cents and it gets there in like four days.

Ryan Holiday On The Economics Of Book Publishing Feb 8, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:11 Ryan Holiday Uh, you know, just like, six dollars an hour, whatever minimum wage was, uh, in California then.
  • ▶ 35:49 Sam Parr I think basically when, when you and I were just getting to know each other, uh, there was this article that went viral and it said you can buy a ghost town in California for like 1.2 million dollars. 2 times in the scene

Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling Jan 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:58 Sam Parr If I can find a place in New York or California that I like, and I could rent it out and make a profit, then I would do it.

Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More Jan 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:49 Shaan Puri And when he lived in California, he had this awesome backyard with a basketball court and like a pudding green and pool and chickens, stuff like that.

The Milly Awards 2021 Dec 31, 2021 · 1 mention

This Year's Best Twitter Accounts to Follow Dec 21, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:57 Sam Parr He owns eight single family homes in New Mexico, in California, Hawaii, wherever.

Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped Dec 9, 2021 · 1 mention

How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, QVC for Mobile, and More Dec 7, 2021 · 1 mention

How to Have an Early Adopter Mindset, ConstitutionDAO, Optimizing Twitter Bios, and More Nov 23, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:17 Sam Parr That's like a fine local services business in, in California.

Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More Nov 19, 2021 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 39:04 Shaan Puri So, you know, here's how this is going to go today in California, they're paying, you know, like if you go look at any McDonald's or Chipotle or whatever, it's like now hiring, please, please fucking come work here. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:33 Shaan Puri Yeah, there's Arizona, California.

Dr. Andrew Huberman’s Path to Fame, Money, and Total Human Optimization Nov 18, 2021 · 2 mentions

How To Get the Most Out of Every Event and the World Premier of Southern Sam’s Sticky Icky Nov 15, 2021 · 1 mention

Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Metaverse, Gaingels, Companies that Don't Advertise, and More Nov 11, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 37:12 Shaan Puri When you're, so let's say you're a real estate agent in Florida or right now, California, you're a real estate agent in California and a bunch of people are moving to Texas. 3 times in the scene

MFM Goes to Jail, Startup Cities, Julian Shapiro Building a Ranch, Testing Out Purchases, and More Oct 27, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:27 Sam Parr And so him and his wife, they started a thing where they go, Hey, um, they went to, uh, Sacramento, the, the capital of California, and they basically lobbied for this program.

Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny Oct 20, 2021 · 1 mention

How to Get a Slice of Harvard's Billion Dollar Case Study Industry | My First Million #222 Sep 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:18 Sam Parr I believe the five locations are the Seventh, the Seventh-day Adventists, which is a religious crew in mid-California.

Why Today Is the Day to Ask For a Raise | My First Million #216 Sep 3, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:21 Sam Parr Then he started dot LA, which is a media company for, uh, California startups.

Why You Need a Chief Automation Officer | My First Million #208 with Steph Smith Aug 12, 2021 · 4 mentions

Why Dunder Mifflin Should Be a Real Company & A Look Inside MicroAcquire | My First Million #203 Jul 23, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:48 Sam Parr Uh, I forget in California, but he would ride it down the bay to his office, uh, at South Park in Soma.
  • ▶ 44:44 Sam Parr If you're in California, uh, it's, uh, about 15%.

A Breakdown of Trendy New Businesses & Boring 9 Figure Businesses | My First Million #202 Jul 21, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:49 Sam Parr So Google like, uh, find mugshot California or like, you know, like imagine like what, imagine a friend gets arrested and you're trying to find a mugshot, Google, whatever you're going to Google.

When to Go All In on an Idea & the Crypto Exchange That Could Have Been | My First Million #200 Jul 14, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 51:02 Sam Parr California home painting, California pest control, you get brought to their website, they just do a better job of displaying information, you submit a lead, they send it to a paint company, and that paint company pays them five dollars for… 3 times in the scene

Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189 Jun 9, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:40 Shaan Puri And also I came from California and, um, in California, there's just like COVID, you know, precaution everywhere. 3 times in the scene

What It's Like to Be Rich & How to Respond to Growth Plateaus | My First Million #188 Jun 9, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:09 Shaan Puri And, um, and there's just like a hundred of these neighborhoods or a thousand of these neighborhoods in the suburbs, like everywhere I go in the suburbs of California, it's like this.

Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180 May 12, 2021 · 3 mentions

How to Buy Distressed Assets, How to Network with Codie Sanchez | My First Million Ep. #176 Apr 28, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:08 Codie Sanchez So on Texas, it's every Tuesday in California depends by city and county, but 2 times in the scene
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