Episode

"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
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1:11:10
Published: Tue May 24 2022
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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about the Savannah Bananas, Martin Shkreli, Liver King, how Shaan lost more than $200K on Luna and Terra, and more. Also, want $5,000? Check out the My First Million Clips contest. ----- Links: * My First Million Clips contest * The Savannah Bananas Instagram * The Savannah Bananas website * The Liver King Instagram * The Fittest * Heart and Soil * Ancestral Supplements * Martin Shkreli blog * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: (01:20) - My First Million Clips contest (04:15) - Savannah Bananas (12:20) - Breaking down Moiz interview (19:45) - Terra & Luna crash (42:15) - The Liver King (49:05) - Martin Shkreli ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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This podcast is offering five grand to individuals for chopping up their podcast videos into smaller clips.
00:00 - 03:15 (03:15)
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Podcasts
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This podcast is offering five grand to individuals for chopping up their podcast videos into smaller clips.

Episode
"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
The transcript features a disjointed and mostly unintelligible conversation that jumps from various topics, including a grandmother's dance team and overdrafting a bank account.
03:15 - 07:06 (03:51)
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N/A (no topic is clearly dominant)
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The transcript features a disjointed and mostly unintelligible conversation that jumps from various topics, including a grandmother's dance team and overdrafting a bank account.

Episode
"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
A person talks about various topics such as branding, DTC products, media companies, and bro culture, while using filler words and unclear comparisons.
07:06 - 12:18 (05:11)
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Random Banter
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A person talks about various topics such as branding, DTC products, media companies, and bro culture, while using filler words and unclear comparisons.

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"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
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My First Million
The podcast features a discussion about Bare Metal business and entrepreneurship, highlighting the practices that may seem unnecessary but also awesome, and their relevance during the 2008 economic crash.
12:18 - 16:51 (04:33)
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Business/Entrepreneurship
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The podcast features a discussion about Bare Metal business and entrepreneurship, highlighting the practices that may seem unnecessary but also awesome, and their relevance during the 2008 economic crash. Additionally, the podcast delves into the Gorgeous help desk system and its different agents.

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"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
The speaker shares different personal stories including losing access to their wallet and a family buying homes in a summer.
16:51 - 21:44 (04:52)
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Bitcoin
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The speaker shares different personal stories including losing access to their wallet and a family buying homes in a summer. They also mention a Clubhouse thread they found entertaining and Bitcoin's anonymous creator.

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"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
A team backed Luna as a stabilizing mechanism for the stable coin which led to some controversies among crypto enthusiasts who doubt its validity due to the lack of transparency.
21:44 - 24:52 (03:08)
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Cryptocurrency
Summary

A team backed Luna as a stabilizing mechanism for the stable coin which led to some controversies among crypto enthusiasts who doubt its validity due to the lack of transparency.

Episode
"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
Basis Cash, a stablecoin project that raised $80 million from top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, failed to launch despite accruing $18 billion in total value locked (TVL).
24:52 - 28:46 (03:53)
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Stablecoin
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Basis Cash, a stablecoin project that raised $80 million from top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, failed to launch despite accruing $18 billion in total value locked (TVL).

Episode
"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
A young entrepreneur, Dokhwan, went from an idealistic guy to an egomaniac as he promised a high interest rate for anyone who deposited their stable coins while disregarding any criticism towards his plan.
28:46 - 34:24 (05:37)
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Cryptocurrency
Summary

A young entrepreneur, Dokhwan, went from an idealistic guy to an egomaniac as he promised a high interest rate for anyone who deposited their stable coins while disregarding any criticism towards his plan.

Episode
"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
The speaker goes on a rambling tangent about the state of cryptocurrency and political figures, including Donald Trump's comments about Mexicans.
34:24 - 38:16 (03:52)
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Cryptocurrency
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The speaker goes on a rambling tangent about the state of cryptocurrency and political figures, including Donald Trump's comments about Mexicans.

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"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
The cryptocurrency market has experienced an astronomical increase in value over the last year and a half, leading to instances of fraud and the potential for trauma-inducing losses for investors.
38:16 - 42:35 (04:19)
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cryptocurrency
Summary

The cryptocurrency market has experienced an astronomical increase in value over the last year and a half, leading to instances of fraud and the potential for trauma-inducing losses for investors.

Episode
"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
A discussion group involves topics from healthy eating to primitive living, ideas like good books or research that challenge the assumption that all meat is bad for consumption.
42:35 - 49:05 (06:30)
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Lifestyle
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A discussion group involves topics from healthy eating to primitive living, ideas like good books or research that challenge the assumption that all meat is bad for consumption. The product "honor" is also mentioned, which is about going back to our primitive roots.

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"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
The speaker discusses a pharmaceutical CEO who owned a company that focused on niche drugs, and went to jail for threatening Hillary Clinton, despite efforts to have him freed.
49:05 - 53:18 (04:12)
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Pharmaceutical Industry
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The speaker discusses a pharmaceutical CEO who owned a company that focused on niche drugs, and went to jail for threatening Hillary Clinton, despite efforts to have him freed. There are mentions of comparisons to other high-profile figures who were also jailed.

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"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
This podcast episode discusses how YouTube initially started as a dating site and Facebook started as a "Face Smash" game comparing girls' looks.
53:18 - 58:12 (04:54)
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YouTube, Facebook, social media
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This podcast episode discusses how YouTube initially started as a dating site and Facebook started as a "Face Smash" game comparing girls' looks. The hosts also talk about how different people, including successful business people, would participate in shallow arguments on blab and how the platform was used for dating as well.

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"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
The podcast episode covers topics such as the unjust prison system and snippets of a new album being shared by the host.
58:12 - 1:04:21 (06:08)
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Prison, Music, Cryptocurrency
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The podcast episode covers topics such as the unjust prison system and snippets of a new album being shared by the host. The host also speaks about creating a group called crypto thugs in prison and teaching inmates about cryptocurrency.

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"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
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My First Million
A podcast discussing the irony of giving platforms to people they disagree with, while promoting the idea of bringing speeches to light instead of suppressing them.
1:04:21 - 1:08:14 (03:52)
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Comedy, Speech Disagreement
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A podcast discussing the irony of giving platforms to people they disagree with, while promoting the idea of bringing speeches to light instead of suppressing them. They also touch on humorous book reviews given by one of the speakers.

Episode
"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million
No coherent information can be extracted from this transcript fragment.
1:08:14 - 1:10:07 (01:53)
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No coherent information can be extracted from this transcript fragment.

Episode
"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders
Podcast
My First Million