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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where ESPN comes up
Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight
How to use your "useless” hobby to make money
- ▶ 55:49 Shaan Puri You know, his, his high school was airing his games when he was a junior in high school on ESPN.
The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
- ▶ 12:26 Jordi Hays Well, well, so, so, so the, I mean, the, the, the, you know, origin of TBPN is, uh, other people have described it as, you know, uh, ESPN for tech and business.
Make $8K/day From These Side Hustles You’ve Never Heard Of
- ▶ 47:35 Shaan Puri And then, like, if you fast forward to ESPN today,
The man who made a billion off blueberries
- ▶ 1:10:50 Shaan Puri Like, it was like, it was that, like, and at the time, podcasts were nothing, and he, he had been a blogger before that, then he was an ESPN columnist, then he did the podcast, then he did 30 for 30 documentaries, then he went, he gets… 7 times in the scene
$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- ▶ 24:00 Shaan Puri So you, you know, used to be sports center where if I didn't watch the games, I got to go to my TV, turn on ESPN sports center would start.
Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for life
- ▶ 7:46 Shaan Puri Smith is the ESPN anchor.
He Got Fired By His DAD… So He Built a $60M/yr Empire ft. Craig Fuller
$100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
- ▶ 54:33 Anand Sanwal So, um, so my daughter's into fantasy football, and if you watch ESPN now, I think it's like become unwatchable because it's all about gambling.
The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin
- ▶ 59:48 Shaan Puri The guy who started the company went to Duke, and I know his brother, and they, both the brothers were, like, on the ESPN spelling bee, like, you know, one of them won it, and then the guy who started a trial, but he's the guy who fainted… 3 times in the scene
What Stock Would Warren Buffett Buy If He Started Over In 2024?
$250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
- ▶ 52:43 Ankur Nagpal I think the spelling bee is the only time I see Indian people on ESPN.
Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy (#503)
- ▶ 7:24 Shaan Puri You're early to the plus train, but there wasn't Apple Plus, it wasn't ESPN Plus.
The Boys React: Tech Layoffs, IG Founder Starts A New Company & More Tech News (#415)
- ▶ 4:58 Shaan Puri So I was watching something, uh, somewhere and basically, uh, I was watching first take the, you know, like the, I don't know if you've ever watched these ESPN shows where it's like two guys doing this, they react to the news.
Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…
- ▶ 1:04:45 Shaan Puri Like, the next 20 years need to be the best thing I've ever done, and this is coming from one of the greatest Hall of Fame basketball players, whereas if you see what most players do when they retire, they go put on a suit, they put on 30…
Ryan Holiday On The Economics Of Book Publishing
- ▶ 56:29 Shaan Puri Like, if you watch a sports talk show on ESPN, they don't necessarily think that LeBron James is better than Michael Jordan, but they know if they say it,
Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling
- ▶ 54:23 Rob Walling There's ESPN's podcast.
Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped
Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
- ▶ 2:10 Shaan Puri It's like if ESPN was drunk, this is what they would, this is the news they would make.
The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why.
- ▶ 1:02:29 Nader Al-Naji Um, so, you know, just like, you know, on that five percent, you know, it's like, if, you know, for example, just because all the content is open, right, we can have, like, all this over a hundred teams that, like, we didn't even hire just…
Ariel Helwani Is Building His Own ESPN. He Already Has 1m+ Followers. He Tells Us How.
- ▶ 0:04 Ariel Helwani Like, from the moment the news came out that I was signing, he was trying to get me to not even have day one at ESPN.
- ▶ 4:08 Sam Parr For the people who don't follow you, you're basically, you've been in the game since oh six, you worked for, uh, Vox, you've worked for ESPN, you worked for a ton of different, uh, amazing publications, but you, you started as a reporter. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:05 Shaan Puri So you're at ESPN. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Ariel Helwani Like, back in, in February or so, when I came to the conclusion that I was going to go and leave ESPN and try to do things here and there, obviously you have, oh, I'd like to do this, and that, like some people call it a Chinese menu, you…
- ▶ 20:45 Ariel Helwani And that was part of the reason why I went to ESPN.
- ▶ 27:49 Ariel Helwani I'm not going to go tune in to the radio, ESPN radio now.
- ▶ 29:55 Ariel Helwani And it's actually one thing that really bothered me at ESPN. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:04 Ariel Helwani It took me 14 years just to get to ESPN.
- ▶ 49:40 Ariel Helwani Now, uh, part of going back to the therapist, uh, I was terrified of leaving ESPN and then kind of disappearing.
- ▶ 57:53 Ariel Helwani And I think part of this comes from the fact that when I was at ESPN, they kept telling me, take the high road, take the high road. 2 times in the scene
How to Make Millions With a Modern Day Infomercial | My First Million #221
Why Today Is the Day to Ask For a Raise | My First Million #216
- ▶ 4:02 Shaan Puri Like, this whole thing makes them more famous, because ESPN is talking about it, and Twitter is talking about it, everybody's talking about it.
How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205
- ▶ 46:46 Shaan Puri Um, ESPN will pay you 30 cents right now to go to their website.
Why You Should Spend 5x Your Budget on an Engagement Ring | My First Million #201
- ▶ 23:44 Shaan Puri I don't know if you followed them on Instagram, but they're, they're big, basically, they did, they took ESPN SportsCenter, which was like this 30 minute television show, highly produced, and all it was doing was showing you the best…
- ▶ 25:57 Shaan Puri Like, mad, mad credit to them for picking this up before, before ESPN or anybody else. 2 times in the scene
Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
- ▶ 37:18 Shaan Puri But we saw the announcement on the ESPN announced LaMelo Ball is doing his own NFT.
- ▶ 38:32 Sam Parr So that's the takeaway here is that like you found an opportunity by seeing it on ESPN.
How the UFC Became a Multi-Billion Dollar Brand | My First Million #179
- ▶ 28:12 Shaan Puri So the, the, the, uh, it used to be on Fox and now it moved to ESPN. 3 times in the scene
How a City Tour is Making Millions, & Selling Manhood | My First Million # 177
- ▶ 8:00 Shaan Puri So they basically went into sports media, which was dominated by ESPN. 4 times in the scene
MFM #162: Why Clubhouse Will Fail
- ▶ 17:56 Shaan Puri It grew to four million users and Tony Robbins was using it and ESPN was using it and the Jonas Brothers and then Oracle was using it.
MFM #157: Instagram Food Drops Making $200k/Week, Chrome Extensions That're Crushing & Open Salaries
- ▶ 6:56 Shaan Puri He looks like if you've ever seen an ESPN or whatever bodybuilding competition where the guys are like this crazy color of skin that nobody is, and he's just humongous.