5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)

- October 21, 2025 (5 months ago) • 37:56

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00:00	MFM	This podcast is called "My First Million." If someone is trying to get from zero to a million dollars, these are the tools that I'm using to make a million bucks. So today I want to talk about — I want to show five or six different apps that I'm using, some that I think you should be using. We can just go through them: underrated, hidden gems that you probably never heard of that will make you more productive and make you more money.
00:30	Sam Parr	And the reason why this is fun is because a lot of people in the audience are like me, which is—they're like, "I'm a really good Googler." That's the extent of how good I am on computers. I'm pretty good at ChatGPT, but you are, like, three steps above me in terms of being technical. Then there are people who are, like, ten steps above that. But you're kind of a good balance: someone who's on the outer edge, an early adopter, yet can also relate this to, kind of, a Neanderthal like me. </FormattedResponse>
00:58	MFM	I appreciate that. Yeah — I'm just gonna try to clearly explain as much as possible. I tried, I tried to pick examples of apps that literally anyone could use that are gonna make a big difference in their lives. By the way, I know people are gonna listen to this. Some people are gonna be like... because there's a lot of AI haters out there, Sam.
01:18	Sam Parr	"Why?"
01:19	MFM	Why? Because they see stuff like this, which I will show you: an AI-generated Taylor Swift, and they're like, "You are ruining the world." Okay. But, you know, this is where technology is going. This episode is for people who want to use it to their advantage, and that's what we're here for.
01:41	Sam Parr	Alright, Greg — fire me up. What do we got? How am I gonna look like T Swift?
01:45	MFM	Alright, you want to start with that? </FormattedResponse>
01:47	MFM	Friends, listen: what you're seeing, right...
01:49	MFM	Now is crazy. We are crossing a line in human history, where the boundary between reality and fiction is vanishing.
01:57	MFM	And this is not Hollywood—billion-dollar, high-production studio. This is open source. This comes from your computer, with a click of a button. Most people would not be able to even tell the difference now. So, be safe. </FormattedResponse>
02:09	MFM	Out there, question what you see. Verify what you believe. Follow.
02:13	Sam Parr	Who must stay ahead of the curve? This is Sarah. </FormattedResponse>
02:15	MFM	Sounds just like Taylor, and it looks pretty much just like Taylor. I think the coolest thing about it is—look at her mouth movement: it looks exactly like this guy on the top, my friend Cyrillo. You can do this not just with Taylor Swift. You can do this with Mark Zuckerberg, with Jensen Huang, anyone you want. You can kind of deepfake them.
02:36	Sam Parr	"Dude, this... it looks like—she looks like Taylor Swift. I think she's a pretty woman. In this one, she's got a stronger jawline than normal, so it doesn't look exactly like her. "What's interesting: I think you should do a use case for each of these. Do you want to hear a crazy use case I learned about? I knew someone who was wealthy, and someone discovered they were out of town. A person used one of these deepfakes to call the building and say that a handyman would be coming—please let them up into their apartment. It was a criminal, and they robbed the apartment. These deepfakes are very nerve‑wracking for these reasons."
03:15	MFM	Yeah, and that's—there is a dark side to it for sure. Bad stuff is going to happen, and we need to be aware of it. I'm especially concerned about grandmas and parents getting scammed.
03:31	Sam Parr	Dude, I've almost been scammed — I get scammed almost weekly, so it's not just grandmas. What's the service? What's the app that makes these videos?
03:40	MFM	So, this is using an open-source model called "Wan 2.2." It's by the Alibaba people.
03:48	Sam Parr	"Mhmm."
03:49	MFM	So it is a Chinese app. Yeah—so, you know, beware. For a lot of people, using open-source technology is kind of difficult. There are apps like Enhancer.ai that allow you to just use their SaaS platform. You can pick it and you don't need to look at a GitHub. There's another one called Freepik which does the same thing. I think it's worth people playing around with. Two: this is the anime. Basically, you record a video of yourself talking and you can pick a character. You're right—it doesn't look like Taylor Swift exactly; it's more like "Tyler Swift." So if you wanted "Tyler Swift" or, you know, "Matt Zuckerberg," it's fun to play around with and use as content for your brand or just for having fun—your personal brand as well.
04:46	Sam Parr	That's cool. When do you think this will be good enough for me to use in ads or things like that?
04:51	MFM	I mean, it's 100% good enough to use in ads. Wow. Now, I wouldn't use, you know, Taylor Swift in an ad because you might not get approved by Meta. But, you know, people are using JFK and Play-Doh—things that are in the public domain.
05:12	Sam Parr	Uh-huh.
05:13	MFM	"That you could use to create ads for, and it's working."
05:17	Sam Parr	So I can go to Enhancer.ai, which I'm on, and I can... film a funny script of what I think JFK would say to promote MFM or something like that, and I can actually use that in an ad because JFK is considered public domain.
05:32	MFM	Exactly. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but from my understanding, yes. There's this guy by the name of PJ Ace—I just had him on my podcast. He's amazing. He's like the number one AI video ad guy, and he's literally getting hundreds of millions of views on his AI videos. I've seen him... he'll work with, you know, the largest companies on the planet. And so he's using—look at this—he's using Sam Altman here.
05:57	Sam Parr	So, wow— is there a way? What would be the best way? I'm looking at this PJA's guy and I'm like, "This sounds awesome; I want to use this immediately." What would be the best way for me to do that?
06:09	MFM	First, you need to write a script. If I were to—if you know what I would do—I would use ChatGPT and Claude to come up with a script idea. We won't have time to go through a tutorial on that today. Then I would create reference frames. I would use one of the image models, like Enhancer or Freepik (maybe we can go into that later), to create images of what the storyboard for the 20-second or 30-second ad might look like. Oh my gosh. Then I would animate those frames to create a cohesive story. That's basically the process: you use ChatGPT, Claude, you use Enhancer and Freepik, and then you might want to—if you're pro—use a pro tool, you know, Premiere or Final Cut Pro to get...
07:04	Sam Parr	Yeah, okay. This is awesome. What's the next one?</FormattedResponse>
07:06	MFM	Have you played with Perplexity Browser at all?
07:09	Sam Parr	No, I actually used Perplexity the other day because I watched one of your videos, "How to Use Sora," and I saw that you said Perplexity is good for researching. I forget exactly what you said in the video, but I used it to research how to make a viral video or something like that. Then I put that into Claude and got the script from Claude, and then I put it into Sora. Is that right?
07:31	MFM	Yeah, so it's a hassle to move browsers. Everyone has everything set up on their current browser—maybe they're using Google Chrome—but having an AI-first browser is an absolute game-changer. There are options like Perplexity, Comet, Dia, Opera, and a few others. For today's example, we're going to use Comet because that's the one I think is the best. I just want to go through a few workflows, so by the end of this demo I think everyone will be like, "Yeah, I need an AI browser."
08:04	Sam Parr	So, do you use—let me clarify—do you use Perplexity.com instead of Chrome? Yes. Okay. So, this is not a cool thing. This is AI—it works. Okay. Oh.
08:17	MFM	And I can't go back. Going back would—my eyes would bleed. It is too slow. Once you get used to an AI browser, you will not go back. Just like now, you use ChatGPT over Google probably 95% of the time. So I saw this ad for a company called One Bone, which is a clothing brand for big-and-tall people. I'm actually not big—I'm pretty tall. I'm 6'3" and I weigh 165 pounds. I'm not that big, but I clicked on it anyway because it looked pretty cool. So, let's just say I'm like, "Okay, I'm 6'3", I'm going to add this to cart." I always get to this point—I don't know if this is just me, Sam—but I always get to where it's the discount code, and I'm like, "Okay, there must be a discount code I can use here." Then I learned there was a scam involving Honey [browser extension]. Someone did a Coffeezilla-type video where they said Honey is "getting a referral/affiliate fee" on your data and on your purchases.
09:32	Sam Parr	Yeah, yeah. I saw that. That was about six months ago.</FormattedResponse>
09:35	MFM	Yeah, exactly — it went viral. So here's an example of how I would use Comet: I would say, "I want to use a discount code."
09:43	Sam Parr	Oh my gosh.
09:44	MFM	I don't know any. Can you find one—only find one that works—and add it to this forum? Oh my gosh, this is awesome. What's cool about Comet is it sees what's on your screen. You can see on the right-hand side it's looking and searching through, in this case, 10 different sources, and it'll hopefully work. If it doesn't, you can keep prompting it to get it to work. So look: "thrift ten one saved $66 on my two jackets."
10:25	Sam Parr	Greg, have you ever heard of "girl math"? Is that what it's...
10:27	MFM	Called Harry.
10:27	Sam Parr	"Sorry, have you heard of girl math? I think this is an example of girl math—you've just made $60 shopping."
10:33	MFM	It's basically free.
10:35	Sam Parr	Basically, you just got paid $66.
10:37	MFM	I bought a jacket for £350, man, and I'm 165 pounds. Yeah, but it's free.
10:44	Sam Parr	That's awesome. This is girl math — I love this. That's cool. Hey everyone, really quick: I can already tell that this is an episode you guys are going to be taking a lot of notes on, and that's kind of a pain in the butt to do while you're either watching or listening to this. So we actually made it really easy — we made the entire episode into a downloadable PDF. That way you can just sit back and enjoy the podcast now and get the notes later. The link is in the description below — click it if you want those notes now. Back to the episode.
11:14	MFM	So, the next thing I've been using Comet for has been finding exact moments in YouTube videos. I'll say something like, "Open up Assistant on the right-hand side. Find and play the exact moment Steve Jobs talks about Apple's intersection of liberal arts and technology." Then Comet's agents go and figure out where that is. Wow — and I can... yeah. It basically downloads the transcript and searches it. Look how fast it is.
11:45	Sam Parr	Dude, I do that all the time. If I'm doing copywriting, I'm like, "Oh — I remembered a good hook." I once watched a video of Steve Jobs where they made a small offhanded comment, but I don't remember which one. I think it was at a graduation talk, but I don't remember which one. This would save so much time — being able to just ask it to find that moment.
12:05	MFM	It saves a lot of time, and you’re in kind of... you’re in flow state. If you wanted to do this on Chrome or another browser, you’d have to open another tab, Google it, find it, and watch it. That pulls you out of your zone. How am I able to run five companies that are successful? It’s because I have a lot of tricks like this that help me save time. At the set, it says here the quote begins at the seven‑second mark. You can actually tell—if I say “play this video,” it should play the video. Yeah, see? It opened up a new tab and you can hear it; it’s literally playing.
12:46	Sam Parr	"That's crazy."
12:47	MFM	And then you can go back to the assistant and say, "This is a cool talk. I'm a founder—what are the most interesting takeaways for me? Write it in an essay." I find that YouTube is just such a wealth of information—literally everything. There's so much there. World leaders are on it, the biggest founders on the planet are on it, and podcasts and other learning content from YouTube are so amazing. I just find myself going to videos like this and thinking, "Look how amazing."
13:25	Sam Parr	I wish I would've known about this. I actually just installed a Chrome plugin that gets the transcript from YouTube. It does it a little bit better than the normal YouTube transcript button. I installed it so I could copy and paste the transcript into ChatGPT to ask it these questions.
13:43	MFM	Yeah, this is going to make your life a lot easier. You're going to be way smarter from this — not that you need to be. You're a smart guy, Sam, but no, we'll take any edge we can get.
13:55	Sam Parr	I am a few brain cells away from just being a talking monkey, my friend. I could use anything I can get. Okay — so the "perplexity" comment? That's awesome. I like that.
14:05	MFM	I'll do one last one with Perplexity comment, and then we can move on. You can ask it — one of the hardest things I have to do as a founder is hiring good talent. So you can say, "Find and go to the LinkedIn profile of someone who worked on Apple AI and now at Meta." Wow — it'll actually go and do that.
14:28	Sam Parr	So, is this free?
14:30	MFM	It's free. It just came out a few days ago — free for everyone.
14:36	Sam Parr	Wow — and I...
14:36	MFM	I have no relationship to Perplexity, by the way. I'm just... I'm a happy person, you know. It makes my life better, right? So I'm happy to talk about it.
14:45	Sam Parr	I pay, I think, $200 a month for LinkedIn Recruiter. Oh yeah — LinkedIn Recruiter has value, but this would have helped as well, and maybe in lieu of it [LinkedIn Recruiter], and for free.
15:02	MFM	"Well, watch this. The LinkedIn profile of Mark Lee matches our criteria. He worked on Apple AI as a research engineer and is now an AI research scientist at Meta. So, let's say, Sam, that you wanted to hire him for Hampton."
15:15	Sam Parr	It would only cost $100,000,000.
15:17	MFM	It would only cost between $100,000,000 and $500,000,000. But what you can do is say, "Can you craft an email—oh my gosh—that is going to get this guy to work for me? I'm the CEO of Hampton."
15:38	Sam Parr	"What's the URL? joinhampton.com"
15:42	MFM	joinhampton.com
15:44	Sam Parr	"Yeah, it's just gonna say, 'Good luck, buddy. Get in line, pal.'"
15:51	MFM	I hope this message finds you well. My name is — you know — [your name]. I'm the CEO of Joy and Hampton. We're assembling a... you know. This is... it's not bad, and you can kinda craft it to make it your own, right? But what's really cool about this is... this looks great. My name is Sam Parr. Can you send this email for me on my Gmail?
16:18	Sam Parr	Oh my gosh.
16:21	MFM	So what it'll do is it'll basically create an agent that will send this email for you. You can actually connect your Gmail. Wow. Yeah — I'm not going to do it right now because... I'm not Sam Parr, and I'm not trying to spend $100,000,000 hiring this guy. But you can actually connect your Gmail and start sending emails.
16:40	Sam Parr	Man, this is just so nutty. A lot of people watching this will mock me and make fun of me. But for the real nerds—I use Whisper... is it called "WhisperFlow"? </FormattedResponse>
16:50	MFM	"Yes, whisper flow."
16:51	Sam Parr	I actually talk to my computer a lot. I have it set up so the little globe button on the bottom-left of my screen — I just hold that button and have a conversation with it, and it types for me because I hate typing. Literally, my fingers hurt sometimes. So I just have conversations with my computer, and if I could do that now in the purple in Perplexity's comment, that would make life way better. </FormattedResponse>
17:17	MFM	Yeah. So, speaking to computers — like how you're doing with WhisperFlow, which is another underrated AI tool — once you do it, "you can't go back." Here you can see a keyboard: you can only get to 45 words per minute. With Flow, you get to 220 words per minute. It's too slow to go back to a keyboard after.
17:37	Sam Parr	For those listening, you have to check out WhisperFlow — or I think it's called Whisper. It's actually shockingly hard to find if you Google it, because they spell "whisper" in a startup-y way. I think it's like "w i s p e r" [spelled with spaces]. The way it works is: I have it set up with a hotkey. I just click one button and talk to it. Sometimes I'll make a mistake and say, "Oh, whoops, I mean this." For example: "Can you pick me up a burger — I mean, I actually want a taco." If I'm texting my wife, it will not send the first thing; instead, it will send the second thing. Or I'll say, "So my opinion on that is broken down into three points: one is this, two is this, three is this." It formats it so it says, "My opinion is this:" then: 1. Number one — this paragraph. 2. Number two — this.
18:25	MFM	100% — I think people could use Whisper Flow for Teams. I think that's an underrated kind of hack. Using the snippet library that they have, you can create these snippets like: calendar, hours, support, intro, FAQ. Then you can just say "calendar" or "hours" and it will just throw it in there.
18:45	Sam Parr	"Oh my gosh!"
18:47	MFM	I love Whisper Flow. To me, it's the same level up in productivity that you're going to see if you're moving from Chrome to an AI browser. What I'm asking is: are you more interested in talking about AI Excel or content automation on TikTok—getting followers on TikTok?
19:06	Sam Parr	I don't like TikTok, but I do want to know how to get followers. I want to know more about the Excel thing, because I've been trying to find a replacement... I wanted to talk about Google Sheets — I actually use Google Sheets; I don't use Excel. I think I saw one company get funded about a year ago, but I went and demoed it and it was only fine. So I haven't found a good solution for this.
19:30	MFM	So yeah, if you're anything like me, you hate Excel. I don't even know what a "macro" is, honestly.
19:36	Sam Parr	Yeah, I don't know what that word means, but I hear people say it all the time.
19:39	MFM	Like to me, an Excel sheet is almost like a terminal. When I'm in the terminal, I'm overwhelmed, so I try to avoid going into Excel as much as possible. But there's this thing called TryShortcut.ai. It's from a research lab of—like—ballers; some of the best researchers on the planet created it, and their first product is an AI-first version of Excel. It's similar to Comet in the sense that, on the left it sees your screen (a cloud version of Excel), and on the right-hand side you have prompts. You can just use natural language to tell it what to do, and it works. For example, literally one minute before this call, I actually used Comet to find— I was like, "give me a sheet of financial data that I can upload to TryShortcut." I uploaded it to TryShortcut. As you can see, it's this list of companies: how much market cap they have, how much revenue they have, how much gross profit they had. I said, "analyze my data for key insights." It gives me all the key insights. Now, if I wanted to say, "build me a DCF analysis" or "build me an income statement" or "explain this" or "explain that," you can do it. And it works. Can you ask it?
21:00	Sam Parr	"Do you have a question right now? Ask it." "Sure. Which stock would Warren Buffett pick based off of this data?" The reason I'm asking is I actually bought a book called Warren Buffett on Accounting or something like Warren Buffett on Balance Sheets when I was trying to learn accounting. I wanted to figure out what he sees—what sticks out to him. But the book was really hard to read. These are complicated concepts. This might just do it for me. </FormattedResponse>
21:25	MFM	Yeah, yeah. It has all— it has this data that is on screen, but it's also looking... it's sending agents all across the internet to figure out what is happening. And so the beauty of this is: this context + that context — you end up getting really good outcomes. Then you can also say, "Warren Buffett's pick is Apple," so we're getting some data here. Now that it's giving this data, you can actually say, "Create a new document based on this that shows the operating cash flow."
21:58	Sam Parr	Yeah. Wow.
22:00	MFM	This is a big deal. I just saw that they have this now, which is an Excel plug-in. So even if you don't want to use their cloud-based solution, you can just basically download it. Look — it only has 36 ratings. This is how early you are to this.
22:17	Sam Parr	"I'm gonna be number 37." "That's great. Are you usually...?" What I've done is I have uploaded my financials—either my P&L, my business's P&L, or sometimes even my personal income statement or my personal net worth—and I will ask ChatGPT questions based off of that data. Would you feel comfortable doing that here in Comet? "[Not comfortable] because it's not any revealing information. It's just numbers; it's not like a Social Security number or anything like that. But would you feel like it would give you good advice?"
22:48	MFM	Yeah, I mean, I would feel comfortable. I think I would feel more comfortable, though, just doing it locally on Excel so you're not uploading your data to the cloud — because who knows what could happen. If it's really sensitive data, I do recommend just using Excel. Like, why not? You don't need to have it on the cloud, right? Most people use Excel.
23:11	Sam Parr	But, look, look what you...
23:12	MFM	You can do a lot here. It's not even just querying. On ChatGPT, you can query the data and ask, "What would you do here? What would you do there?" But you can't say, "Build LBO models, TCF analysis, or pro forma statements." This is basically a "financial analyst in a box" that you can use, and it's pretty... </FormattedResponse>
23:37	Sam Parr	Cheap. Wow — this is magical, and this is free.
23:41	MFM	You get a certain amount of credits for free. It's not that many credits — I think it's four.
23:46	Sam Parr	That's cool. That might be number two, and comment might be number one, but it'd be close so far.
23:54	MFM	"Yeah, I knew you'd like that one. You're probably going to hate this one, but I'm telling it to you anyway."
23:59	Sam Parr	Okay.
24:00	MFM	And the reason I'm telling it to you is just because there's an arbitrage moment where, I'm sure you've probably seen these slideshows on TikTok where...
24:09	Sam Parr	No, I actually don't use TikTok, but maybe you can convince me. I think this AI content is just garbage. I'm a purist — I want content like Mr. Beast.
24:22	MFM	I bet you people—I bet you've favorited, shared, or liked AI content, but you just haven't realized.
24:29	Sam Parr	Dude, the other day I saw a clip where a guy made a fake potato launcher. He shouted at a grandma, and it was the funniest thing I've ever seen.
24:39	MFM	"Yeah... did you see Stephen Hawking?"
24:42	Sam Parr	Yes, on a vert ramp. Yeah, yeah—it's great. So, yeah, I guess I'm kinda being convinced in real time here.
24:50	MFM	Yeah, and I think a lot of these types—what I'm showing here, these TikToks—are like "Six mistakes we made during pool planning and how to avoid them." You would never think that that's actually AI.
25:03	Sam Parr	"No, that looks real."
25:04	MFM	That looks real. Okay.
25:06	Sam Parr	How do I... do I fake the world?
25:09	MFM	Here's what I'll say: a lot of people are vibe-coding software right now, but the hardest problem is how do you get customers to that software? One way is to own a bunch of accounts on TikTok that you can send traffic to. I believe there's an arbitrage right now to use AI to create these accounts — basically meme accounts — and then sell your software through them. There's a piece of software called Real Farm. This thing must do like $10,000 a month MRR [monthly recurring revenue] or less. Not many people know about it, but it's a way to automate TikToks to drive traffic to your website.
25:53	Sam Parr	Just TikTok, not Instagram. Just TikTok.
25:57	MFM	I mean, you probably could upload it to Instagram, but from what I've seen it performs best on TikTok. How it works is you can source images from, let's say, Pinterest—Pinterest has tons of images. For example, if you want to create a slideshow titled "Top eight protein sources ranked by bioavailability and cost," you add a prompt and generate the slideshow. You can see the slideshow over here.
26:24	Sam Parr	"That's crazy."
26:25	MFM	These images are super clean. The cool thing is that TikTok is promoting slideshows right now, and you can just schedule and publish them. So, within about 30 seconds, you have a piece of content in your niche that you can schedule.
26:42	Sam Parr	Wow, man. I have a friend who created an app. He's a man who helps men do Kegel exercises, which basically prevents premature ejaculation during sex. I was like, "Man, this is neat and all, but this is really hard to promote. I wouldn't want to brag—I don't feel comfortable bragging about using this app." And when you go to Real Farm, I see Real Farm... real—what is their URL? [real.farm]
27:09	MFM	"real.farm"
27:09	Sam Parr	Like, I see the companies who use it, and I'm like: I see a16z and I see Substack, and I'm like, "Really? You guys use this?"
27:18	MFM	Yeah, I don't—I don't know if they use it, but I do know that if you want to fight for customers right now, and you want audiences, slideshows and TikTok slideshows are a great way to do it. And then, you know, why pay an agency thousands of dollars a month when you can just use a product like this?
27:34	Sam Parr	You wanna know something funny? Do you know who Steven Bartlett is? I do. Steven used to work for Sean — he was like Sean's intern or something — and then he left to start his first business. Apparently Sean tells a story (and it's public) about how he had a whole bunch of Twitter or Instagram handles. They were things like "Things Teens Say About Georgia" or "Art History" where they just told stories about art history, and he would get all of them popular. Then you would spend money with him — you would buy an ad — and he would have his meme accounts tweet out or post your product on Instagram. Within ten minutes it would go viral or it would be highly ranked in the app store. This is kind of in the same vein. You know, I'm teasing and making fun of it, but I'm on the real dot farm [unclear phrase]. He's got this one where he uses old art to make these slideshows. I'm such a— I watch those all the time. If it's something like, you know, "The Top 10 Strangest Missing Person Cases," I watch all of them.
28:37	MFM	Totally. So, that's what I'm saying: we've watched this. There's some way to do AI slop that just is cringe and looks bad. But some of these slideshows—and he also has a UGC [user-generated content] ad avatar feature on Real Farm—that I think is pretty interesting.
28:55	Sam Parr	What's that called—"Real"? Oh, "Real"—the same website?
28:57	MFM	It's the same website, but they basically have a way that you select a template — let's say this sleepy-looking guy over here in the hoodie — and you're like, "Okay, I want to create an ad." Then you come up with the hook. You can use ChatGPT or Cloak to come up with the hook, or you can actually be creative yourself. For example: "My top three matcha brands." You choose the background music, and then it creates the ad using AI. That's crazy.
29:28	Sam Parr	Like that? Look real. That looks real.</FormattedResponse>
29:30	MFM	"That looks real. This looks real."
29:31	Sam Parr	So, this guy is... he's...
29:33	MFM	A fake guy you set up. You create the product video. You can use AI to create the product video, or, if you want, you can create it yourself—like with an iPhone.
29:45	Sam Parr	It does look like green paint, not matcha. But, you know... I guess that's because I'm staring at it.
29:51	MFM	Sherwin-Williams' new Matcha — that's...
29:53	Sam Parr	What it looks like.
29:56	MFM	Yeah. And like I said, you know, it's not perfect. But I also think that we're looking at it surgically. The average person, just swiping in their brain-rotted frame of mind, probably doesn't see it that way — to them it just looks like paint.
30:08	Sam Parr	"Yeah, they're just a fat pig in a cage, just saying, 'Buy — I want to buy stuff, you know, I want to buy stuff.'"
30:13	MFM	"Yeah, and what's an account like?"
30:15	Sam Parr	This is worth it if you're just...
30:17	MFM	"Like reviewing matcha brands, and you have thousands of followers—yeah, that's probably worth a lot of money."
30:24	Sam Parr	Dude, this stuff—whenever I see it, the capitalistic side of me is like, "This is awesome." Then I find myself slowly becoming a socialist, thinking, "Oh my god..." Or maybe we're just a bunch of palantirs in our house, watching us, and we're just buying dumb stuff from AI ads. Okay, that's interesting though. Regardless of whether I make fun of it, I think it's kind of cool. What's another cool one?
30:48	MFM	Okay. This one is also... you're gonna hate this, I think, but...
30:53	Sam Parr	Mmm... sign me up. This is...
30:55	MFM	Not just for you—it's for people looking for jobs. There's this thing called "AI Apply", and if you go to the website, you could—let's say you're looking for a job—literally apply to thousands of jobs automatically via AI.
31:14	Sam Parr	"That's crazy, man. This is crazy."
31:17	MFM	It also has this cool thing—there's like an interview buddy, so it helps you get real-time interview help and answer interview questions. It helps you build a resume, it helps you build a cover letter, and obviously the core feature is the auto-apply thing. Now, why I like this is: I get my feel in our little tech bubble that the economy is good and everything, but people are suffering right now and it's really hard to find a job. Any way you can find an unfair advantage to get in the room, I support. It does suck for the HR managers and, you know, the people at the companies getting all these AI applications, I will say that though.
32:00	Sam Parr	That is insane, man. I hate this, but yeah — I get it. I get the need. It says that it's loved by 1,000,000 users, so a million people use this.
32:09	MFM	A million people have used this. I actually tweeted, "What are some underrated apps?" The CMO replied with this. Some guy said, "Yeah, but if you're the company getting these, this sucks." The CMO then responded, saying the next version of the product is helping companies filter out AI applications.
32:31	Sam Parr	"This is like, if Nestlé owned the hospital. Do you know what I mean?"
32:36	MFM	Yeah, exactly.
32:39	Sam Parr	"It's like we're gonna fatten you up, and then give you a bunch of medicine to make you skinny, and then we're gonna fatten you up, yeah."
32:45	MFM	It's amazing, and it's probably going to be a great business. But I think that, again, I'm always looking for the arbitrage opportunity.
32:53	Sam Parr	I’ve seen it, yeah. I get the money-making perspective. I think that if you haven't made your first dollar and you're looking to do something, then this is the future. My business that made me money was a newsletter that had advertising in it, so I am no one to talk about any of this. But sometimes, when I see this stuff, I do get pretty bummed out. I think — and this will always happen — people who are older will always look at younger people and say, "Back in my day we cared about our jobs," or "we were more craftsmen." I'm gonna preface all that with that, but does any of this make you feel bad?
33:29	MFM	"Yeah, so—well, this podcast is called My First Million. If someone is trying to get from $0 to $1 million, these are the tools that anyone could use. There are no capital restrictions, and you don't need to be in Silicon Valley to win. If I'm trying to make a million bucks, these are the tools I'm using. I grew up with no connections and not a ton of money, so I have a soft spot for people who are starting out—going from zero to one. That's who I'm focusing on. I'm focusing—I'm dead; that's what I've dedicated my career to doing: helping people, being in the light‑bulb business, and helping people have light bulbs so they can actually change the trajectory of a life. That said, I don't want to go on X and Instagram and see AI slop all day long. I love X and I love Instagram, and we have kids now. We don't want our families to be addicted to these products. I do feel a sense of responsibility as well.
34:45	Sam Parr	"But I do think it's interesting. I think that the generation before the Internet came around probably said the exact same thing."
34:53	MFM	They said the same thing.
34:54	Sam Parr	I think that the generation before the Industrial Revolution would have said the exact same thing: things tend to work themselves out. This is the first time in my life that I'm old enough to be thinking, "Okay, are you getting on or getting off?" Whereas if you're a young person, you're just born on. There was no "getting on or getting off" for the internet. I was born to the internet — that's just how I grew up. Now I'm old enough that I'm not defaulted into it, and I have to learn about it. This is the first time I've experienced that.
35:28	MFM	"Yeah, I mean, we are getting older, you know, and we've seen some of these shifts. But I agree — what's the difference between brain-rotting on TikTok and watching TV for eight hours a day?"
35:40	Sam Parr	These tools are really cool. Do you—how many hours a week are you just nerding out and finding all these interesting things?
35:48	MFM	I mean, that's one of the reasons why I love the design agency. The design agency is working with all the top AI apps to build up this stuff. Sometimes I just sit in meetings and I'm like, "You know, teach me everything about Character AI. Teach me everything about Jasper AI. Teach me everything about these tools."
36:07	Sam Parr	How many of them are you proficient in?
36:10	MFM	I spend probably 10 hours a week playing with new tools. I would say I'm proficient — I'm native in about 10 tools**, let's say.
36:27	Sam Parr	Man, well, thank you for filling me in. I do feel it's funny. For years I was the "young guy"—the one my parents would ask how to turn their internet on or plug their TV in because they thought I was a computer geek. I was never actually that. Now I feel like I'm even further away from the AI epicenter, but I'm so happy that I have friends like you who can pull me toward it a little bit, show me what's cool, and not make me feel stupid for not knowing what it is. That's the value you provided to our audience this episode, so I appreciate you doing that.
37:04	MFM	It's literally my pleasure. It's an honor to do so. Like I said, I'm in the light bulb business, so now, if you had one, two, or three light bulbs—even if some of the stuff you saw today was, "that's a little bit cringe; I wouldn't do that"—there might be a way that you can use some of these tools in a way that works for you. I think that's the important part and the important takeaway. So, Sam, thanks for having me on and letting me share my nerdy stuff. I'll see you next time.
37:34	Sam Parr	Alright, that's it. That's the pod.

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5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)

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