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Episode 500: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talks to Jason Yanowitz (https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz) founder of Blockworks, which covers crypto news, information and analytics. Jason shares the revenue numbers behind Blockworks, the secret to hosting profitable events, and why he would put 100% of his portfolio in crypto.  Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Want MFM Merch? Check out our store here. Want to see the best clips from MFM? Subscribe to our clips channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:45) Blockworks revenue and profitability (4:00) How to crush it with a conference (10:00) Conferences are really 3-day marketplaces (15:00) Jason's accidental MLM success story (23:00) The difference between MLMs and pyramid schemes (27:00) How Sam Ovens inspired Blockworks (30:00) The fallacy of founder origin stories (35:00) How Sam is optimizing his life (42:00) Business Idea: Beehiiv for Conferences (45:00) Business Idea: Hair transplants for the masses (48:00) Blockworks Research (55:00) Where is Jason putting his money? (1:00:00) How Sam thinks about crypto — Links: • Blockworks - https://blockworks.co/ • Blockworks Research - https://www.blockworksresearch.com/ • Blockworks Twitter - https://twitter.com/blockworks_ • Jason’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz • Sam Ovens Consulting company - https://www.consulting.com/ • Peter Turchin - https://peterturchin.com/ • beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/ • Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.com/ • Splash - https://splashthat.com/ • Hopin acquisition - https://tinyurl.com/2zn2kk3p • ‘Elon Musk,’ by Walter Isaacson - https://tinyurl.com/bde53vpr • Jeff Bezo’s Regret Minimization Framework - https://tinyurl.com/m34hmyfk 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. — Other 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

President Biden is pitting his plan for the U.S. economy against so-called ‘MAGAnomics’, the economic ideas that defined the Trump era.

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University, said the clash is all about who wins and who loses as the U.S. decarbonizes.

On the show today, Blyth explains what Bidenomics actually means and why it’s not the easiest message to sell to voters. Plus, how the United States let go of its industrial base and what it will take to re-industrialize for a clean energy future.

Then, strikes across the country are putting President Biden’s pro-union reputation to the test. And, we’ll get into what rising oil prices that could mean for the Fed and the American consumer.

Later, a listener’s perspective on why many Americans don’t feel the economy is all that strong. Plus, a bonus fantasy writing vocab lesson. And, the thing you probably didn’t know about cows?

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “40 years later, is this the end of Reaganomics?” from Make Me Smart

• • “Opinion | What Biden Can Learn from Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’” from The New York Times

• • “Biden Administration Investment Tracker” from the Center for American Progress

• • “Bidenomics and Its Contradictions” from The Wall Street Journal

• • “The ‘Bidenomics’ plan, explained” from CNN Politics

• • “UAW strike tests ‘Union Joe’s cred” from Politico

• • “The Fed’s Next Challenge: $100 Oil” from The Wall Street Journal

• • “Amazon (AMZN) to Hire 250,000 Holiday Workers, Boost Hourly Pay to $20.50” from Bloomberg

We want to hear your answer to the Make Me Smart question. You can reach us at makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

It's been a summer of record breaking heat. And for both outdoor and indoor workers, that heat poses a growing health risk. Around the country, worker advocates and industry groups are in an ongoing fight over how to address extreme heat and workplace safety. And that got The Indicator team thinking about an episode we did last year.

Co-hosts Adrian Ma and Darian Woods spoke to an economist who said heat safety regulations could be a win-win-win for workers, businesses and the economy.

You can find the original episode from last year here.

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The justification was that this was necessary to restore balance to a universe that was overpopulated and putting too much of a drain on resources.  Now instantly hazing half of the universe, is a bit extreme, but…  When the same world can’t go a week without some news article telling us that global climate catastrophe is inevitable, natural resources are running dry, or that if everybody lived like the average American we would need 4 Earths to sustain them it starts to sound like we should hear this Thanos guy out.