Sam Parr got an email from Lance Armstrong, replied with his phone number, and Armstrong called back within minutes. Later, Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda tweeted appreciation for his podcast. Both moments came through unconventional routes that traditional paths to fame would never have created.
One time I got an email. You could tell it was Lance Armstrong by his Gmail. And I was like, I don't believe this is really Lance Armstrong. If it is, here's my phone number. Call me right now. And he called me within like 3 minutes. He called, he goes, Sam, what's going on? And I was like, Lance, is this really you? And I remember thinking like growing up playing sports and I could never achieve the athletic greatness enough for them to acknowledge, you know, my talents. One time we had like the lead singer of Linkin Park, Mike, He like tweeted out that he likes our pod and the hustle, whatever. And I was like, oh, that's sick. I would have wanted to have met you, but there's no way I could have gone down this normal path. But if we went this weird way, we finally kind of met. And I found that to be very strange and awesome.
