The Man Who Makes $1M/Year Selling Christmas Trees
Health Trends, Startups, and Predictions - December 20, 2024 (4 months ago) • 32:36
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Shaan Puri | So this christmas tree thing is kinda crazy the story is this article that I read in curbed basically it's talking about the brutal mafia style business of christmas tree sales in new york and I'm just gonna read you a paragraph here that just captures it it goes christmas trees are a big business in new york a lot of people see the quaint little shacks that appear on the side of the road just before thanksgiving with a bunch of trees and you think oh these are probably independently owned maybe by jolly families of lumberjacks looking to make a few holiday bucks that's what I thought anyways in reality a few eccentric obsessed and sometimes ruthless tycoons control the sale of almost every tree in the city they call themselves tree men and they spend 11 months a year preparing for christmas time which to them is a 30 day sprint to grab as much cash as they can | |
Sam Parr | I'm in you're in right yeah yeah yeah | |
Shaan Puri | because this needs to be a netflix show right | |
Sam Parr | yeah and is this the one about this guy named Scott well there's a bunch of guys | |
Shaan Puri | so he talks about like the different guys because they basically carved up the territories like you got harlem this one guy gets manhattan this other guy's got the east side and they all have different territories and they all have crazy names so it's like george nash and kevin hammer and it's like oh yeah nash got harlem he's a smooth talking hippie from vermont hammer is a brooklyn born scientologist he was a powerful force in the business he is the one who shaped it hammer is rumored to own half the tree stands in manhattan bringing in more than $1,000,000 every december the lore is hammer lives on a yacht somewhere in the atlantic and he visits new york only at christmas time where he holes up in a midtown hotel room with a pile of cash on the bed and a pit bull squatting on either side of him like is this even real what am I reading it sounds fake | |
Sam Parr | dude if you sell a $1,000,000 of trees in 1 month like with all your expenses like that's like a like a like a like a 150 $200,000 a year salary yeah yeah like way more or yeah you might have a pitbull but it there ain't gonna be piles of cash or a yacht but you're definitely 50% | |
Shaan Puri | I could see there's a world where there's like 50% margin all in | |
Sam Parr | well you ain't owning yachts in manhattan when it fits on $500 a year | |
Shaan Puri | you even for like 20 years this is a old article mhmm so I think yeah it's pretty crazy so this talks about like basically one interesting thing is it talks about the history of the christmas tree so it says 200 years ago the idea of putting a tree inside your apartment would be a bizarre decision it didn't make any sense this is supposed to be shelter from the outside why would you bring a tree in and it talks about how like christmas trees that are trees themselves weren't even really associated with christmas time and then it says they started to change in 18/51 there was a dutchman named mark carr who was like I think I can do this | |
Sam Parr | what's doing this | |
Shaan Puri | like selling trees to people just for the spirit of christmas and so he goes he's considered the father of manhattan christmas tree business and we don't know much about him but basically the way it describes him is he was out of work and he was he realized that he could chop up a tree from the forest bring it into the city and try to sell it to the people in the city to have like a piece of like you know nature with them and he goes and he tells his wife she's like that idea sucks this is the great story of every entrepreneur tell your wife an idea she says it sucks and you do it anyways I think that's the real american dream and so he comes in and he basically tries to associate these trees with christmas spirit with the jolly wintertime and he goes and he's he bought a got a permit for $1 to sell it inside washington market the which was like their wholesale bazaar and he starts to explain to people there that these are trees that you can stand upright in your house and it signifies christmas and he sold about a day and that kinda started the the trend of indoor christmas trees again assuming this article is not fake completely in the onion | |
Sam Parr | my parents used to do this for a living they owned a fruit stand | |
Shaan Puri | oh my god you're just sitting on that fact for 5 minutes while I'm making up shit about the christmas trees | |
Sam Parr | no so to this day I've told you my father's a produce broker so basically these are made up numbers but hypothetically he'll buy a $1,000,000 of onions from a farmer and then organize a truck to go pick them up and then sell that load of onions to walmart for $1,100,000 and hopefully make a $100,000 of profit of which 50 goes to the truck or whatever you know made up numbers but the way he got into that was my mom and dad owned a fruit stand like on the side of the road and that fruit stand made a lot of money every october by selling pumpkins and every christmas selling christmas trees and my mom would tell stories about like getting up at 5 am in the morning in order to like flip the pumpkins because I guess they can't rest on one side for too long otherwise they get lopsided right and they would package up these trees and they would just sell a shitload of christmas trees and that would like make their q four | |
Shaan Puri | I am fascinated by these kinda once a year businesses like michael girdley came on the podcast he was talking about his fireworks business where 99% of the revenue happens the day before july 4th right like this is like july 3rd is 99% of the revenue and it's like what a make or break what a like high stress but also you know kinda peak season versus off season style of business and those kinda fascinate me and we've talked about before like I think one of the great side hustles is going around the neighborhood and basically saying hey like do you want us to put christmas lights up for you we'll put christmas lights up like I think you can make you know tens of 1,000 of dollars in a 6 month sprint if you just wanted to go knock on doors and and ask you know the same question over and over again and I think that like there's a guy in our neighborhood who basically does that you know he hits up he gets like 50 houses to say yes to this thing each one of us pays you know I think I paid like $1700 for like a basic christmas lights thing that took them you know and then and and the guy who was knocking on the door wasn't even the guy who put the lights up so I don't even know if he was just like a lead gen guy I don't know who he was but you know I respect the hustle | |
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Shaan Puri | so there's a couple of health startups that just caught my eye as normally there's a bunch of these ideas that sound really great and then they just never work and a lot of them are like and they're all the things that you know basically a rich smart san francisco la new york type of person does or wants in their life and they think that everybody does and wants that and that it could be accessible to all of them but actually it's too expensive and too hard to do and too bespoke and all this stuff ideas that fall into this category were like music discovery and then there's like | |
Sam Parr | let me give you a good example this was a headline of business insider billionaires plan to launch a media brand around the zeitgeist of brooklyn exactly a billionaire launching a media company about how brooklyn is where it's at that's the worst that that that I'll take how to lose $50,000,000,000 for a $100 alex | |
Shaan Puri | you know the instagram cofounders after instagram their like revenge company was this news reading app so they basically they they got they they quit facebook and they were like facebook is kinda bastardizing instagram they're just copying snapchat and like all this shit they were kind of like making these low key like passive aggressive remarks and then they were like we're doing it again and they were they did this photo shoot of them in their like you know like in their vacation home where they get away when they wanna be creative and they say they're gonna like try to change the way that we consume news and make news you know less biased and more like easy to consume and all this stuff and like of course you know 2 years later they shut it down because that's again this kind of like smart wealthy well meaning person trying to solve a problem that they have but that not a lot of it's not basically it's not junk food like people want junk food people want cheetos and they want the cheeto dust on their fingers and anybody who's like I'm gonna take the cheeto dust off their fingers they just don't find a lot of demand typically okay so this is like what I this is like one model of the world I have and then there's but then you always pay attention to what's gonna break your frame where am I too biased where have I locked in and and maybe the world is changing underneath me and so there's 2 health startups and so daniel ek who is the founder of spotify who is awesome guy but he checks a bunch of the boxes right billionaire who's you know coming off of a you know huge you know life altering you know win of a company | |
Sam Parr | and he's been rich since he was 21 | |
Shaan Puri | been rich for a long time obviously he's at that like huberman phase where he's like you know what I need to like take care of my health I need to get a protocol and like I'm I'm gonna start taking these like you know I'm gonna start taking drugs that nobody can pronounce and like I'm gonna do all these things right and that's like a normal thing that like you know I'm sort of biohacking and like | |
Sam Parr | like protocol phase of life | |
Shaan Puri | like yeah exactly so he's in his protocol phase and so he he launches this thing called necco health and it and it even had like the other kinda like uh-oh warning signs where it's like he's not really running it he's like a part of it but he's like wait you're running spotify so how are you gonna do this like oh there's like a team that's running it okay so maybe this operator model who knows we'll see what happens so you know there were some warning signs instead there's this post that came up so he posts on linkedin and daniel posts over 60,000 sign ups in just 12 weeks it's been only 3 months since we launched necco health in london the response has been nothing short of incredible over 60,000 people have signed up for a scan which reflects a growing shift towards preventative health care and early detection and I think it's sort of like you know maybe | |
Sam Parr | dude that | |
Shaan Puri | by the | |
Sam Parr | way I think that's bullshit getting 60,000 email subscribers I I don't think that's particularly maybe because like if you go to the website like it's the craziest awesomest thing you could imagine | |
Shaan Puri | it's a $250 scan right so let's just say you know the full value of this is $15,000,000 pipeline in in 3 months now you're saying okay some of you will just looky loos sure of course so not all these people are gonna convert okay fine even if it's 1 15th of that if they booked $1,000,000 in bookings for this thing in 12 weeks for a single geographic location in london that's kind of interesting to me that's not nothing right that's not like this pie in the sky thing | |
Sam Parr | what to do | |
Shaan Puri | I think what they're trying to do is they basically they're gonna scan your body they're gonna look for moles and they're gonna look for look at your arteries and your cholesterol levels and all this stuff and they're gonna be it's like a better health check okay so if it's preventative it's not like normally you know normal health care system is you have symptoms we sort of tell you to take 2 advils you come back you're like hey I still got the symptoms and they're like okay well let's check some basic things here in the office and then you're like dude I really think something's wrong and they're like alright go get a scan right so when you're broken you get scanned and the idea where health care is going is like you get scanned before you're broken to tell you where you might break or what's starting to break so that we could fix it earlier right obviously like anybody can agree with that idea but actually doing it and making it work both technically and building the brand around it and getting consumers excited about it and getting enough funding or getting enough revenue in the door for this to be a real business it's pretty impressive to me okay so so that was the first thing that happened that that little post the second thing was I'm an investor in this thing called superpower have you are you an investor in this | |
Sam Parr | I think you told me about it and it looks amazing so superpower.com so so it says a new era of personal health the world's most advanced digital clinic to help you live longer prevent disease and feel your best | |
Shaan Puri | okay ignore all that ignore all that all it is is a 10 times better version of an annual physical | |
Sam Parr | okay I like that | |
Shaan Puri | okay you're getting an annual physical anyway if you're if you've if you're bought into the idea of I should get an annual physical here is a better annual physical and they're like okay what's a 10 x experience of the annual physical and by the way I love that idea the simplicity of that pitch of that of that of that mission I think is really really powerful and the thing costs like I don't know like 400 or $500 so it's like I I would be willing easily to pay | |
Sam Parr | dude you're on their home page right below mark zuckerberg's sister and right next to the winklevoss twins | |
Shaan Puri | oh hold on mark zuckerberg's sister | |
Sam Parr | well | |
Shaan Puri | okay well still pretty cool my excitement went up and down | |
Sam Parr | you're right next to mark zuckerberg's sister | |
Shaan Puri | shout out to was it ariel | |
Sam Parr | yeah cool | |
Shaan Puri | actually I met her I met her at a party she was she was actually very cool okay yeah me and the winklevoss twins and then a bunch of mds and balaji okay so okay okay so let me just tell you a little about this so they sent this investor update I think I'm allowed to share this so jacob one of the founders he sends us investor update and I invested in this thing like a little while back didn't kinda hear about it they were like working on it I honestly was like alright we'll see when this thing comes out and here's what they said they go the best doctors in the world already offer this today but having a concierge doctor who does this type of type of work for you can cost like a 100 k + it's right it's only for rich people so our job is to make that available to everybody okay so then | |
Sam Parr | by the way I'm going to my concierge doctor tomorrow for my checkup and it's not a $100,000 | |
Shaan Puri | would it be 20 k a year | |
Sam Parr | no maybe 5,000 a year that's it yeah yeah yeah yeah but that's okay I I don't want the facts to carol yeah I find them in the yellow pages no I don't want I do | |
Shaan Puri | have a friend who has peter attia as his doc and I think it's a quarter $1,000,000 a year so there's a range and you're on one side of that range | |
Sam Parr | you're not in the middle that's the | |
Shaan Puri | good news | |
Sam Parr | I'm definitely on one end of that bell curve it's not the good one | |
Shaan Puri | they wrote these stats and they were like we had 3,000,000 hits to our site during launch week wow I was like what and they said our wait list has grown to over a 100000 people what I I was like what is going on and so I emailed them and and their their product is the first product of the membership is a 10 x better version of the annual physical and so basically it's like | |
Sam Parr | is that the language they use in their in their documentation or you just saying this is just 10 x better | |
Shaan Puri | and this is what they sent to me in an email | |
Sam Parr | got it | |
Shaan Puri | and they're like you know basically you're gonna get a 100 + lab tests a full body report an hour long consult with your doctor unlimited qa with your doctor throughout the year additional health consults and and whatever at insider prices for $499 okay I was like I kinda buy this value prop right like I think that's gonna work and so I was like dude that's pretty crazy like like how can you even offer this for $500 secondly did you say you had 3,000,000 visits during launch week and a 100,000 person wait list like how did you do that because yeah I tweeted your thing out but like you know as much as I love to pat myself on the back I don't think I can I can help anywhere near that type of those type of numbers and they were like yeah like basically in the 1st 3 or 4 months a 100000 a 100000 people signed up for this thing | |
Sam Parr | so superpower.com their site is beautiful but the way to you you can click join did you say thank you yeah yeah that's that's | |
Shaan Puri | my thing that is I'm just I'm slipping in thank yous and your welcomes when people are not trying to give me compliments | |
Sam Parr | it's great or when you're 0.1% of the of the reason why it looks good you know like you you we we have a 100,000 person waitlist yeah do is it in person so like is the checklist done or sorry is the checkup done in person no so how do they like like you know like do the thing where I like cough | |
Shaan Puri | or I think I I I don't know because I I haven't been a customer yet I'm on the wait list still but I assumed it's like those other like all telemedicine where basically let's say they they send you to a diagnostic like you know a quest type of thing to do the blood draw got it okay your labs and then there's a doctor remote who's analyzing your labs who does the call with you does the consult talks to you all that stuff | |
Sam Parr | understood okay | |
Shaan Puri | anyways I thought that was pretty crazy traction because I was like dude if I I was like let's just take the total potential value of the pipeline you're saying during launch week or during this like kind of first couple months after you just announced the company you have $49,000,000 of potential revenue in the in the list which of course only a fraction of a fraction is that is that gonna convert but I mean it still is just like really impressive these so a lot of these health startups that I thought were kind of like wishful thinking I think something has shifted in the culture where health startups are no longer wishful thinking and people are legit willing to pay and you see this with content you see this with huberman with peter attia with brian johnson I think you just I think there's a shift happening where health is cool health is in and whatever that next layer of like the market you know that next segment of the bell curve that's interested in this but it's a big like sizable chunk it feels like another part of the bell curve has gotten unlocked of people who are willing to spend | |
Sam Parr | what's the early adopter phase is it like like it's like freaks and then it's like early adopters and then it's like everyone like what is it what's like the | |
Shaan Puri | we should rename all the segments | |
Sam Parr | yeah yeah like fuck like fucking quacks of weirdos yeah | |
Shaan Puri | people you hate to talk to | |
Sam Parr | yeah like you know | |
Shaan Puri | innovators that's the one you're | |
Sam Parr | talking about freaks and geeks yeah | |
Shaan Puri | alright so the freaks and geeks and then there's early adopters which are wannabes that's us | |
Sam Parr | yeah | |
Shaan Puri | so so we're which we we keep an eye on what the freaks and geeks are doing and we start to you know half ass copy them and then there's the early majority and the early majority is kind of like you know I'm the smart reasonable person and then you get the late majority and then the laggards which is like you know your your mom who still has a newspaper subscription and you know whatever else aol email address | |
Sam Parr | my mom does actually and I so I I I would say I'm early adopter sometimes I'm the innovator for some of these things and I think what's gonna happen based off of my pattern is I think a lot of these things are one off stuff so I have tested so many different blood work companies just because they're the latest and greatest and it's exciting to try something new in general I've not had a huge amount of repeat purchase for many of them for some of them I've like for for example do you remember forward health mhmm like I like something like that I was like oh I'm actually in or remember one medical which is you know like popular now we've been paying I've been a paying customer of theirs for like 5 years so some of them I become like recurring customers but I love trying new stuff what I think is gonna happen is now it's shifting to now the one past the early adopters they are now open to trying this stuff and so I think getting a wait list I actually think it's less challenging than it appears but making it so you come back every year is really really hard and it's gonna be interesting to see who can pull that off because I've done the per novos I've done in you know insidetracker have you or yeah like I've done everything and they're awesome it's just a matter of like which ones do I rely on every quarter or every year as opposed to I just found some new drug and I just wanna stick it in my body this one time just to see what's up and I'll like never touch it ever again there's a lot of people like me who do that by the way | |
Shaan Puri | yeah yeah you're in the on the fitness and health side I would say you're in the freaks and geeks | |
Sam Parr | category | |
Shaan Puri | right you were telling me about like you're like dude I injected this stuff in my butt and I don't have cravings anymore and vince you were talking about ozempic before ozempic had like a brand name you're like I read about it on a forum and it's amazing I don't eat candy anymore this is gonna change the world | |
Sam Parr | I think I told you about that in 21 I think it was summer of I think it was summer of 21 and or something like that maybe 22 and I remember telling you when I was like when I put this stuff in my body it feels like people who have alcohol and addiction issues I think that's gonna go away and then actually last week my friend jason went to a conference and the ceo of eli lilly I think it is the guy the maker of one of the semaglutide or ozepic competitors he announced that it has been officially approved for alcoholics so like I do put weird shit in my body just to see what's up and I actually texted you 8 months ago I think and I said this new one I forget what I called it it was like trip it started with a t and I was like this one this is the gonna be the one what was that called | |
Shaan Puri | thinking I should buy eli lilly stock when you told me that because I was like who makes this I'm I'm I'm in I learned my lesson the first time ignore like kinda writing off your weird health experiments and I was like okay I'll just blindly follow this but eli lilly is already a $750,000,000,000 company so I was like okay I don't know how much like upside is left on that like even if it became a $2,000,000,000,000 company it's like I like what am I what am I really thinking is gonna happen here with this thing so you know I think I missed that but if you look at like a 5 year span eli lilly is up you know 10 x almost in the 5 year span so 8 x | |
Sam Parr | do you do any health stuff today that you think | |
Shaan Puri | doesn't it show | |
Sam Parr | thank you the the sentence was not ending do you do any health stuff do do you do any health stuff today that you | |
Shaan Puri | trying to die | |
Sam Parr | do you do any health stuff today that you think is considered a freak and will one day be the norm yeah | |
Shaan Puri | I do 2 things I don't think these are like in the freak I I guess they are I guess if if I took a population of a 1000 people and I said how many people are doing this I think the number would probably be 0 even if I went to a crossfit type of like health community a 1000 people and I said who's doing what I'm doing I think the number is 0 you I think have done one of these things but there's basically 2 things I do on a daily basis and have been doing now for probably 2 years the first is breath work every morning | |
Sam Parr | yeah that's awesome | |
Shaan Puri | so I do breath work every morning it only takes me 6 to 10 minutes I use the othership app it's the best breath work app I think you might have invested I invested too but this is not a shill I don't even think the app is their product anymore like the app is like their side thing they have like physical locations in new york and stuff but their app is so good for breathwork so I do that the second thing I do is I work out but I don't do what most people do when they work out so you know I would say conventional workouts are either cardio or weightlifting and then some people will do like a yoga pilates something that's flexibility pliability based and my trainer got really into something and I'm into whatever he's into because he's my trainer for life and he got really into something called functional patterns it's basically a a style of training that I think the way to describe it would be | |
Sam Parr | like it helps you pick up a baby when you're old right where it's like | |
Shaan Puri | yeah it's like so it's based around core movements so like like if you like sport this will make a lot of sense to you if you don't like sport if you're just used to going to the gym and trying to get a pump this might not make a lot of sense to you but like if you play any sport baseball tennis basketball whatever it is like the core movement in all of the sports is like let's say throwing it's a it's a twist motion of your body | |
Sam Parr | yeah it's not like a a squat or a bench press where it's a linear lift weight up it's yeah I understand | |
Shaan Puri | love the pronunciation of linear there that was awesome that was that was that was like european | |
Sam Parr | yeah that was like I also call it personal finance | |
Shaan Puri | yeah exactly so the of this are alright so so yeah so if you go to a gym everything is usually static it's rigid or even if it's like a dynamic movement it very rarely involves like torque and if you do that wrong obviously you can get really hurt but doing it right matters so functional patterns is based around moving in like the 4 kind of core movements so so run or sprint throw which is a twisting motion jump and then I don't know what the I think it's just like walk like your gait and so like I literally like my workout when I go downstairs is not to like I go to my gym and it's not like some like barry's boot camp music blasting like go go go push push push it'll literally be like alright let's practice our gait and it's like are you putting the right amount of weight on your big toe how's your weight shift let's look at your ankle mobility here let's try to get strong in this position it's like things that don't even look like you're doing a workout it looks like you're rehabbing from an injury but it's an injury you never had it's like to prevent all your injuries and so like I do it my mom does it he trains like nba players with this like it's it's that type of training where it's very much for sport and it's for yeah it's it's to prevent like disease and like breakages in your body so it's a weird it's a weird style of training but that's something that I do you know 4 times a week basically | |
Sam Parr | mine mine are I think that in 15 years we're gonna look at whole foods sort of like a discount grocer where it's like you know however you look at like kroger or safeway or wherever your regional like normie brand is that's what whole foods is gonna be I think that people are gonna be like they're gonna think it's nonsense and they're gonna instead they're gonna wanna buy their meat locally so I think | |
Shaan Puri | that that because it's marketing spoken mirrors or it's just not the top of the top either is there's no more levels above that which one is it is it that it's not what they say it is it's kind of like it's just a marketing stick or there's there's even better | |
Sam Parr | it's not what they say it is and also because they were the 1st popular health food store we still hold them at with high prestige but in reality I don't think they're that high prestige I think maybe it's a lot more expensive than other alternatives but but I'm not convinced that it's actually significantly different than anything else and I | |
Shaan Puri | what makes you say that | |
Sam Parr | because if you go and look at the ingredients of the hot food bar so if you go to the hot food bar and you look at the ingredients it's shit it's not good like they got all types of crap in the in those ingredients and that like to me is like a signal that's a canary in a coal mine type of vibe | |
Shaan Puri | gotcha | |
Sam Parr | and I also when you look at the meat so when you look at the meat so I tend to buy during the summertime I have a farmer's market across the street from my house so I tend to buy my meat there and the chickens are like bright yellow have you ever seen like a like a like a chicken from a farm that you get it's like no | |
Shaan Puri | well I've seen eggs eggs look different but | |
Sam Parr | they look way different they look way different it's like a bright yellow honestly it's kind of gross if you're not used to seeing it and so all the foods have way more color in them and you go to whole foods and it it's kinda weird to think that a company as big as amazon can somehow get lots and lots and lots of fresh healthy stuff isn't it fucking insane how in connecticut in december I can still get a strawberry like that's ridiculous when you think about that like supply chain and there's no way that you could do that in my opinion in some type of like safe way like it's better to do like local in season type of thing and I think local meat in particular is gonna be a huge trend in the next 15 years you're seeing it a little bit like there's a lot of people in austin who I know that were like yuppie types not like rednecks or farmers and they would buy whole cows and you'd store it in your freezer and I think that will be more common soon do you agree or disagree | |
Shaan Puri | I do agree with that because you're right when I think about the freaks and geeks in my life a lot of them already do that it's like they have a favorite ranch yeah | |
Sam Parr | they're like where do you | |
Shaan Puri | get your meat and I was like the store what are you talking about like you know I don't have a I don't like to have farms on speed dial I don't have like a personal relationship with a ranch but they do and they have like they'll open up their freezer and there's all these like kind of like frozen steaks basically that they have | |
Sam Parr | yeah you like spend a $1,000 and you get like a year's worth of beef | |
Shaan Puri | right so like I don't know and understand that I also I don't know if this is true or this was just a one off thing but like aren't farmers markets like I've read something that farmers markets got in trouble because the they looked into where they were getting the stuff and it wasn't like from a farm it was like they were taking the safeway rejects and like stuff that was about to expire and just selling it at the farmers market I was like oh like this is this is you know straight farm to table or whatever so I don't know how much I trust like you know even my local farmer's market that's a problem with all food | |
Sam Parr | yeah and I agree with that | |
Shaan Puri | what do you trust you know | |
Sam Parr | yeah my sister one time went to ghana for some trip and she came back with the souvenir that she bought from some kids on the street thinking they've made it and it said made in china on the back and so that's basically what like this little lady selling chicken at my farmer's market might be doing so yeah that definitely could be a thing I think another thing is that in the future I think a lot of people are gonna have plants in their homes way more than they do now I think plants are gonna be a lot more popular because it keeps the air clean and I think one of the things in 20 30 years we're gonna look back and be like you had dirty ass air in your house all the time that's probably why you felt sick all the time I think that here's one natural fiber clothes that's gonna make a a a a big comeback so there's one company called ryker r y k e r I don't know these guys I just think it's cool they make all cotton workout gear workout gear in particular oftentimes you want like some type of sweat absorbing stretchy material typically that's not natural fibers and so a lot of people are wearing shorts and shirts and underwear that has plastic in it and has forever chemicals in it and I think that natural fiber clothing is gonna be a lot more in fashion in the next 10 to 20 years because of what we're gonna learn about forever chemicals and plastic in foods and then the last one is one use plastics I think we'll make a decrease I think that it's weird how much bottled water we drink and so those are some of my predictions but the the the cotton clothing I would bet a lot that that will be a very popular trend in the next 20 years a health trend | |
Shaan Puri | is there like a trade off like quality price like what what's the trade off here | |
Sam Parr | yeah like look the reason why lululemon is dope is because when you put on a lululemon pair of shorts and it has that nice stretchy feel and when you stretch it it goes right back to how it's supposed to be that is man made material so like it's good in that sense it's probably cheaper as well like natural fibers I think are probably more expensive and they like have you ever had a sweater that you wear a bunch and it starts losing shape like that doesn't happen with like a little what I call a a swishy material what's like the rain water resistant like material for like a range like that shit don't happen with that right so that there is a trade off is that like some of these man made stuff are definitely more convenient or are better performing that's why they call like like performance | |
Shaan Puri | wear or whatever | |
Sam Parr | wear yeah it's because it is like better performance right so there is yeah there is a trade off but I do think it's gonna be more popular ryker is actually the only company I found that is making somewhat interesting nontoxic workout gear but that's like an interesting it's an interesting angle for a company like that to get started in | |
Shaan Puri | right right okay fascinating do we want to wrap it there I feel inspired to be a healthier better local local eating man machine | |
Sam Parr | dude local eating is great man it's great I got a I got a nice old russian lady who makes great cheese you need you need some cheese I got a lady it's fantastic | |
Shaan Puri | wanna have a I kinda wanna have a guy or a gal for every food that I eat it's like I have like a hummus lady I got a chicken guy that seems like my future to have that | |
Sam Parr | dude I'm down alright that's it that's the pod |