310: The End of ILAB? Quarterly Update Q1 2025

Invest Like a Boss

Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz

Investing, Business

4.8 • 518 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sam, Johnny and Derek gather for one last quarterly update in an already tumultuous 2025. Is this the final Invest Like a Boss episode? Only time will tell, but for now the guys are reflecting on what they took away from the show and also providing your feedback from 9 years of ILAB. Thanks for the support! This is the public portion of the episode - if you want the full version with video and financial breakdowns from the guys, you can join ourILAB Patreon now for instant access to that and so much more.

Discussed:

ILAB 259: Dave Zook The "Real Asset" Investor

ILAB 283: Are Vacation Homes Worth the Hassle?

Where we are:

Johnny FD – Kyiv, Ukraine / IG@johnnyfdj

Sam Marks - Bangkok, Thailand / IG@sammarks12

Derek – Los Angeles, USA / IG@DerekRadio

Sponsor:

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Time Stamp:

00:55 - Derek's LA Fire Experience / Podcast Studio Burnt

08:57 - Why The Show is Ending

32:12 - What We Got Out of ILAB

42:52 - Listener Feedback on Show Ending

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast.
0:02.5	I'm Sam Marks.
0:03.7	I'm Derek Sparts and I'm Johnny FD.
0:05.8	We're self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money and use modern technology to invest like a boss.
0:10.2	Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our hard-earned cash.
0:18.0	Hey everyone and welcome to episode of 310 in the Vest Like a Boss podcast.
0:24.8	Our final one, welcome to the show, Sam and Derek.
0:28.6	Wow, you're just going to drop the mic like that without any like prep work?
0:32.6	You just secrets out.
0:36.5	Never say final, final. Final for now. I i don't know we don't know what we're doing
0:42.1	yeah we're just glad derrick's still alive and he seems to have a house but maybe not a podcast
0:48.8	studio yeah you should we go over that first so is that why we're shutting down because
0:54.0	your your podcast series right down? We should blame it on that. We should totally use that as a scapegoat. Right? Yeah. Yeah. We'll claim insurance on that. The whole show as well. Well, we'll never record an episode of ILAB in Pacific Palisades again i would bet but actually i didn't even have
1:13.3	that studio anymore i shut it down last summer funny enough there was uh new owners that came in and that got
1:18.9	very greedy and more than doubled my rent and i was like you know what no i'm not doing that it was way
1:23.8	above market value for everything else in the area and then i just decided i was like you know what I don't think I even use it enough to even have this anymore. So I got rid of it. And actually, everything is just in storage right now. So I guess I lucked out, actually. But I do really miss having like a place to work and everything. And yeah, if you haven't been following, obviously a huge truck of Los Angeles started on fire. And the first big fire was in Pacific
1:45.2	Palisades. And it was literally the neighborhood where my podcast studio was in. It's called the Pacific
1:49.7	Pacific Pacific Palisades Highlands. It's, I thought it was so cool that I'm on top of a mountain.
1:54.0	And, you know, you're in L.A. But you're away from everybody. And there comes downsides to that
1:59.5	too, including wildfires. But, you know, all that stuff had been there since at least the 70s, never had a, there's been fires up there, but nothing like that. And this was just, I don't know, it was wild. I was there that morning. I got videos and pictures and stuff. And I was like, I've never seen a fire move so fast. We had 100 mile an hour wind gusts that day. it the the craziest winds in LA in like 20 or 30 years I've never been a wind like that where it's like you feel like you're being pushed over I don't know if you guys have ever been in like a like a hurricane or something like that it was it was like a hurricane with no rain it was just it was crazy and then just, I saw how fast the fire was moving. And I was
2:34.9	like, I got to get out of here. And then everybody else was just leaving at the same time. And it just came from the top of the mountain, came down and consumed the whole town. And it's just, it's gone. I mean, it's, it was like unreal. My home is totally fine. I'm in Venice. So if you don't know the area. Malibu is on
2:51.2	fire. They usually have a lot of fires. And then you go
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