That's it. It's official. Your boys gone Hollywood. That's right. We don't just have a business celebrity on the pot today. Not a tech celebrity. Not a tech celebrity.

Not a tech celebrity. Not a some guy who's famous on Twitter. I'm talking about a bonafide star Netflix special Obama knows this man's name. We got Hussain Minhaz on the show today.

If you don't know who he is, he's got a Netflix comedy special called Homecoming. He had a show on Netflix that did six seasons called Patriot Act where he got, you know, he was like sort of like almost a poke in the bear with the Saudi prince and he was really calling out a bunch of people was amazing. He got his start on the daily show with John Stewart.

And I just caught up with him because I went to his show. He's touring. He's doing a world tour right now 50 something cities and he did eight shows in the Bay Area. I went to the last show. And he did it like eight shows over the weekend. And they all sold out. He was at the Masonic theaters thousands of people in the crowd. And this dude was just on fire. He was just like, I'm going to be a real big fan of him.

He was just on fire. He was so good. So funny. And he's a great storyteller, which is something, as you know, I love storytellers. So I was learning from him, taking notes basically. And this podcast turned out kind of amazing because he listens to the pot. He's not just some guests that showed up and says, all right, what do you want to ask me? He's a listener. So he knows the vibe. He knows the feeling. He's like, yeah, you know, you want to buy the Lakers and Sam wants to buy a lake.

You're crazy crypto better. And he's Mr. conservative Vanguard 500, right? You know, he likes blue collar hot dog businesses and you like, you know, crazy VR. So he knew what this vibe is all about. He wanted recorded in person. So unfortunately, Sam's not in this episode because we did it in the Bay Area. Sam lives in Austin. And, but you know, even though he was missed the episode turned out great. I'm really happy with it. It's a little bit weird. I can already hear you when you when you listen to this, you're going to be like, dude, what?

The tables got turned because Husband was just asking me a bunch of questions from the jump. He was asking me a ton of questions. And I would ask him a question, but he's a great conversation. And he was very curious. So he, he knows he feels like he knows us, because he listens to the pod. So he was already asking questions.

And so if you came here to just hear me talk to ask him a bunch of questions, I kind of apologize. I'm sort of a bum at interview. Because I took the bait. He asked a question and I would give him my answer.

And then I would remember, oh, no, no, no, no, no, people aren't here to hear me. They're here to hear him. So I would go back and ask him a question. But it really was a two way thing. Very unusual, very different than most interviews.

You guys don't know this, but we've had a bunch of successful people come on that are kind of duds. You know, not only do they not ask any questions themselves, they don't really come with much to say. And they don't have opinions and ideas.

They're just used to just sitting in a chair and answering the same 10 questions about their past, then everybody else asked them. And we actually don't even air those episodes. We dumped them, even though they're pretty big name people.

And so this one turned out very different. I think you guys will like it. It's just a real ass conversation. The, you know, the ultimate goal with this show.

The whole podcast is not to be super educational. It's not to be super entertaining. We're not comics. We're not, you know, like whatever color, daddy or whatever is not the most entertaining show.

We want this to feel like you're hanging with us. Like if there's two chairs at the table, we want you to feel like you're in that third seat. Like where the, you know, where your friends from another mother type of thing that we are friends that you would want to hang out with. We just happened to live in different cities and live in different social circles. So this show is your way.

This podcast is your way to just hang with us. And that's the feeling I think you're going to get from this episode. I felt like I was just hanging out with us and it wasn't a formal interview. It wasn't some like keynote speech.

And I think you're going to have that same feeling. Like you're just here and two people hang out riff and genuinely ask each other questions that they're curious about. We talk about his routine before he goes on on stage because when he came out, he was on fire.

So I said, I wanted to know what did you do to get yourself into that state so that you're ready to perform because I want to perform when I go into a meeting with my team or I go into a sales pitch or I walk into a boardroom and I'm trying to sell my company for $100 million.

I know I got to be on my A game. And that just doesn't happen out of anywhere. You got to practice getting into your A game. You don't want to leave it to chance how I feel that day.

You want to be able to turn that switch on whenever you want. And I know he can do that because he's a performer. He does us on stage every single night. So I wanted to learn from that. He broke down his routine three hours before two hours before one hour before what does he do to get in state.

He talks about, you know, the motivation behind why I do what he does. I do why he does he does. And also how he got his break. What is the kind of the core insights that make him successful in what he does.

And we talk about dealing with social media and the positivity, the negativity that comes along with that and how you kind of keep your brain clear of that noise as well as, you know, what he should do with his money investing his money. Ask me, what would you do if you were me.

Would you be over here? Would you be over there? What would you be investing your money in? And so it was just a good conversation. I think you guys are going to like it. Enjoy this show. And let me know you can tweet at me Sean VP. Tell me what you think about it. All right. Enjoy.

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