MrBeast | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #548

Today's guest is one of the biggest content creators in the world um he's an entrepreneur a YouTube guru and he has created more um energy and excitement into the world of giving back than possibly anyone he has a new show called Beast games where a record-breaking 1,000 people compete for the largest prize in entertainment history $5 million grateful to finally catch up with the one and only Mr Beast and I will song [Applause] s um so is this is it already started we going yeah we'll start right now man uh Mr Beast Jimmy nice to

see you today likewise bro that's awesome man so Beast games that's the show yeah yeah so before this we were I was showing him episode one of a show coming out December 19th and what did you think of it we watched it and then he started Talking his team was like hit the cameras like wait wait wait now I'm dying to know what do you think Oh I thought a lot of things man first of all I thought that you are obviously you're this Wizard of Oz Willie Wonka kind of um William Wallace of finances

type of um energy going on okay you know there's a lot of that a lot like I never seen a show where every I mean couple minutes there's a there's like another uh Twist of Possibility right yeah I kind of realized how many game shows are missing so many little elements in there where they could manipulate the situation more or create more of an environment for like um competitors in the game to make choices that would affect them and others you know yeah when like basically having layers and stuff like that but the the big

thing is no one's ever set up like that many cameras before cuz it's a logistical nightmare so it's hard To do these kinds of things normally unscripted because like you know we we had unfathomable amounts of footage like over 100 Years of footage from that episode years of footage yeah because I mean we had to have over 100 people work on it and post so it's like to be able to do something at that scale even just like to set up the cameras and edit and everything is uh I mean no one's ever done it

before it's diabolical almost you know yeah you said there's a lot of Uh world records that were broken in the in the shooting of the of this uh Series yeah 40 Guinness World Records wow yeah we have like so many plaques now that we have up on our wall I'm basically making a wall out of Guinness plaques just from the show uh what are what are some of the records you guys broke uh most contestants ever in a show largest cash prize in a show most cameras recording at once in a show uh most people

which you saw and show like most money given Away in the first episode of a show just like it's like stuff like that yeah oh that's the most people probably since 911 I would think at oh my gosh we might have to take that out yeah and that I shouldn't have said that I'll say something else um yeah I haven't seen that many people uh at the same time wait why was there a cut before you say what you're saying right now huh oh there's just we needed something to he had to use the bathroom

Yeah just had to use the yeah I had already i' already soiled the conversation uh oh that's the most people at once that I'd seen since um oh since I was in the parking lot of a wise spread panic concert you know but that was LSD um that kind of works a little yeah I think that's honestly you should keep the first one there we go dude you said it on me that's a great point you make the choices man yeah do you feel like This wizard like cuz I as I'm watching I'm like man

there's so many things I'm like how where does the motivation come from is it to like do you get so much joy out of like having the manipulation of the situation is it giving away the money is because there's so many moments in there where I'm like watching people's feelings change like what is it for you that like have you've been able to figure out because you've done so many of these uh types of um Competitions and opportunities for people right yeah I mean this the thing is you I feel like I'm motivated by a

lot of things and and these kinds of game shows it's fun to like create environments that I've never been created for and and just like let just see kind of what people do like a lot of that is just like Mass Behavioral psychology like if you offer someone money to eliminate other people how much money would it take you know um so it's Kind of a little bit of that but it's also I just like making great content and like I like do you know making things you can't find anywhere else because it's just fun

to like see how the world reacts to it yeah know so in this instance or in a lot of what we do like we one time we put we just put a big circle on the ground we put 100 people in it and we just were like whoever Leaves last gets half a million dollars and then it's just like how long Does it take who's going to leave um like those are the kinds of things I like personally I'm just curious on like what the gonna happen you know yeah what's like one thing you've learned

then about people's psychology have you learned or does it change a lot like or have you learned like are there some general rules you've learned that people will uh uh like behave around money or that sort of thing oh yeah that's an interesting question that's I Honestly I feel like people are uh a lot nicer than you would think like they're not as uh uh they don't tend and maybe it's because when we do it they know the video is going to be seen by 100 million people so they're they're thinking of their personal image

but a lot of times I have given people the opportunity to like screw other people over for some money and usually they don't take it or they like push like it requires way more Money than you would think you know like someone who' theoretically be making $30,000 a year and you'd offer him 10 grand but it means this other person gets eliminated or gets you punished in the challenge and a lot of times like they'll say no you know and I'm like wo that's not an easy decision to make like there's some Integrity here you

know yeah you mentioned that where we're Taping that you were surprised by some people's Integrity exactly especially During this show like I sometimes throw large copia sums of money to eliminate other people to like offer it to certain people and they say no and I was always just like what the wow this is crazy is there one age group or gender group or any demographic you can give me on who it seems like after doing a lot of challenges where you got to see some integrity um no it's uh pretty this is 10 episodes if

we watched it all you 10 episod of that yeah you would see that It's like pretty widespread across the board I mean maybe the wom I don't think a senior citizen could some seniors can't make it through that you saw that one 70-year-old and she passed which was she passed away no passed the challenge oh God I hope she doesn't pass away before the sh Show airs that would that' be bad no I don't think people some seniors I don't know if I would let one of my grandparents watch this just the levels of yeah

your heart beating There's a lot yeah yeah yeah that's what I was going for what what I really wanted is like in my YouTube videos sometimes people say that they don't have enough emotion or they lack the storytelling or whatever and part of it is like it's just YouTube when you go to like a streaming platform like Amazon Prime video or Netflix you're like sitting down to watch something usually for like hours and you're to watch like this longer story and show but when you Go to YouTube more than likely like you know you're going

there for a quicker hit you're not sitting down expecting to watch a 10 episode series like you're just clicking on videos and watching so content put up on YouTube is just different it's like you know series don't do as well and you you know and so it's much easier to build characters and feel emotion over these 10 episodes six hours of content than it is in a 20-minute video because you have like 10 Minutes to build them up but then you got to wind the story down because the video is going to end in 10

minutes you know what I mean so my big thing here was like I really wanted you to feel something and and I wanted to like Flex those muscles and like actually build characters and and like give emotion and things like that you know like when we were watching that even though I've already seen it like a hundred times already I could feel my heart pounding I Mean or it might have been the celsi as I was drinking I don't know but like I really could feel the emotion that's what I want like when people watch

the show I want them to have very intense feelings yeah oh I mean I definitely did man I and the interesting thing to me too is like a lot of times with game shows and um it's the contestants that you start to get to know right yeah but with this it's not the contestants like well you will later on but because There's a thousand of them first I got to you know lay down the hammer ax you know 900 of them or whatever and then we can build them up a I see and I definitely

learned why no one ever uh does stuff with a thousand because that's the most contestants ever it's it's a lot to like just everything is you know a thousand hotel rooms a night you know what I mean if the hotel room is $200 that's $200,000 a night in just hotel rooms and you're feeding them and Even like every little thing is so expensive when you times it by a thousand and like to record a th000 people you need a th000 cameras just to buy a th000 cameras is a and then to hook all the cameras

up to the server we need like 56 miles of cable to run it over there and then you need like 250 camera people to check in on them and so it's like I know why people don't do reality shows at this scale because it's so expensive um Like yeah what was the total budget of the show uh can you can I want to tell you but can you just believe it so it doesn't make it in for sure can we bleep it in some artistic way so it at least looks exciting no just be like

what the um or do this sure put that over my mouth it was uh we spent oh my God yeah I hope my mom's all right I didn't mean it don't cancel me no I'm just trying to give some different like trying to give some Different reactions put that in the intro oh my God bro that you spent that much on this yeah because it gets crazier like that first one we we built a thousand towers and those are real towers that have actual hydraulic press doors that are have to be safety proof with giant

foam and crash pad at the bottom with the light system right cuz we're turning them red and green and then we had to build custom software to connect it all where you press the Button and some the lights change and then we had to rig like I told you a thousand cameras in there to a giant control center like just that first episode alone was I mean crazy man and do you have to take it all down at the end yeah yeah I didn't I don't own that building yeah cuz the problem is like we

needed six massive hangers so like we basically in Canada there's like these six giant airport hangers we were just like hey can we use those and converted Them all to these big sets and then right outside is a field and that's where we built that city which was also so I I have in this field at one point I have like 800 people working over here just building a city in the middle of a field and I've got like 600 construction people in these six hangers just building these other sets and then I have all

these I mean at some points we had like over 2,000 people on set just in this town in Canada so it was it was Crazy were you employing just a lot of locals I mean just you were just you would set up you would put out the employment opportunities in advance uh yeah we we worked with uh two different unions and then yeah we hired a bunch of people locally and and things like that so yeah it created a lot of jobs locally there and where does your joy come from like because you give away

you've given away a lot of money right and you give away a lot of Joy while I'm watching Like there's something also like there's moments in there as I'm watching I'm like oh what would I do in that instance right and then reaction if scre see the reaction if is get screwed over and you kind of think like okay what feeling would I want to have you know and and then like in the moment you're like oh yeah I would definitely take the money but then right now looking back when I start to even think

about some of those Moments I'd be like man it must have been really tough to leave and have those people feel so maybe I wouldn't have right it's just it's interesting just as a viewer all the little moments that I kind of navigate and then kind of learn about myself but what do you get like like you give away so much money do you feel like you're like making up for something in a past life or like is there something that like um you didn't grow up with a lot of money you know no And

so do was it do you like when you think back on little moments like did you see somebody give some money once and it made you feel excited or like are you able to connect any of those dots as you get a little bit older and have some more breath of time you know that's where I I should come up with this you know thr heart throbbing story of like I just want to you know help people because I couldn't when I was younger or whatever but the honest truth is like I Know how to

make content go viral we're really good at making good content and I just believe a world where I help people is just more fun than a world where I don't and that's kind of really it I just I've noticed where you know videos where we do help people or give away money I tend to just be a little happier enjoy it a little bit more and so I just lean more that way um that's that yeah I mean that's the truth I mean I could I could one time for fun cuz like everyone Has these

like PR publicists and PR people I just talked to one uh I was like huh what advice would you have for me and they're like you need to come up with a better story and why you help people and I was like well what I because this is what I usually say it's like well the truth is just as slightly more fun than when I don't they're like no you need to come up with a better one like you know like you were saying like you know say like you helped a homeless Person it brought

you immense joy and all this stuff and I was just like yeah that feels kind of fake yeah so yeah that's yeah sometimes that's just the truth it is and it's a very simple truth yeah I like helping somebody out it's just more fun than if I don't yeah yeah I mean yeah it's scary to think that though like recently I was giving giving some money to some people that had been suffered from a storm right um from some flooding and uh but then I'm not saying That to make myself look exciting or anything but

it was nothing like this and if they see that and then hear what I get they like oh this is guy this guys well I mean this is just our reality show but yeah in general I don't know if you've watched too many of our videos but we built 100 Wells Africa we uh oh yeah I know you help yeah you guys have given blond stuff you've taken uh Plastics out of the ocean yeah but what the the wells stuff that one was Interesting or really eye openening for me because we were one of them

like we went like four hours into the middle of nowhere and you're like you know in places where these people don't have internet like they're I mean really intense poverty and it's like it's pretty eye openening I I would recommend if anyone ever has an opportunity to like just work on a project or do something in places like that it's like crazy to think that we're on the same Planet you know what I mean and people who like don't even have access to clean water and have to walk an hour every morning to go to

a river to get water but then you look upstream and there's literally cows in that same water that they're you know drinking out of because that's like that's the world they live in and like we have anyways I don't know just yeah no look no I think putting things in a perspective right changes things for people exactly were You was did you have to like kind of achieve a certain amount of finances before you were able to start giving away finan finances kind of no I've always like my first brand deal was $10,000 and I

just walked outside and gave it to a homeless person wow so I've just always done it because it's just like you know if I um do this then hopefully this video makes $15,000 and then I'll give away $15,000 and then hopefully that video makes $20,000 I'll Give away 20 and so I just had that idea where I was like What if I just give away the money and then it makes more money and I give that away and then I've just kind of been doing that for like eight years and now you're at $5 million

which is the largest amount that has ever been given away in a game show or in a reality show in any show really no one's ever given away I think squid game was the most of 4, 560,000 wow did you want to beat that kind of oh yeah that's Why the number was five million yeah but we also gave away like you know another 15 plus million on top of that just throughout the show no I love it because you hear so many companies that companies that just like it's about their bottom and it's like

this is like the opposite of that it's like let's do something good and let's make a bunch of money but then let's let's give it away yeah the opposite of like all the other treacherous type of um uh capitalism That you hear about you know yeah I mean I it's interesting because now that I've done like a streaming show or whatever uh it's like a lot of these shows their cash prizes like $250,000 $500,000 it's like I I wonder why they don't give away more you know what I mean like you'll watch this whole you

know 10 episode show just to see who wins 250k and it's like the first three minutes of our show we gave away a million dollars yeah you're like yeah this is yeah so It'll be interesting I'm curious to see how people react to it because just but anyways no you're going to make other yeah dude we had a dude he would give you 10 bucks to look at his butt right wait what yeah when I was uh you know when I was younger than I am now for sure he was a child I didn't want

to say a child but you just pretend I was a child right because I was and this guy would give you 10 bucks to look at his butt right not up close far away you Know but it was like so yeah that guy could have us a lot more do you need to file a police report I have no idea dude but I'm just saying it's like everybody has a game show and you're like yeah people these these prizes are cheap you know that's what it was kind of what I was getting at anyway we

can take that part you were on a game show and a guy gave you $10 to look at his butt we had a dude in our area I'll be honest with you he give you $10 he'd walk off a Little bit he kind of spread his butt a little bit and you had to kind of go like that Adam and you got the money you know okay so but it wasn't it wasn't close up and it wasn't even super invasive it was like you know I get it's uh how old were you at the time

uh I was old enough to be like hey this guy's kind of a crazy guy you know but he's also cheap you know so probably 13 12 11 probably you know but anyway are you sure you don't want to file a Police report you're right dude are you sure you don't want to take care of that he's not currently still offering 12-year-olds $10 looking as cuz we might want to put an into that yeah you're right actually and maybe that's the type of game we can go to do next is trapping guys like that you

know $12 butt games that's different anyway I shouldn't have said anything like that um just so our viewers know right I know you have the largest YouTube channel um That that exists the most that they can have on there um you have more subscribers than I think people in America uh yeah I haven't thought of that but what's the population of America sorry to cut you off J me like 300 million right almost four oh it's almost four is it the same America population 334 oh yeah we're we're about the same we're at 330 yeah

so we're tied with America yeah I guess it's uh I mean I uh It's crazy man like eight years ago I was in high school so it's kind of funny when I think about it because eight years ago I'm raising my hand to use the bathroom and then yeah I guess now we have the same subscribers is America yeah yeah it's pretty yeah that's the difference pretty wild how it happens it's uh it's a lot man you know what's interesting because you're you're talking about like our large subscriber Count is it's like when when I

had like uh 10 million subscribers I was like I thought this is Fame like this is you know like I would going to Walmart and I don't know maybe one person would asked for a photo and it was like this is cool this is what it's like but you don't there's just like such a big difference where and this is going to sound obvious but where I'm at now than when I had like 10 million subscribers or where I was like four years ago and It's it keeps getting crazier every year and every year like

like people will follow in my car to like you know if I'm out and they see me they'll like try to stalk me so they can see where I live like wow you know that's like that kind of stuff didn't happen four years ago or almost anything I do uh ends up on the internet right like um one time I was like at a drive every time I go to a drivethru it's like flipping a coin on whether or not 10 like someone's going To go Mr Beast and then all the people in the back

going to run to the window and it's going to be the thing that's you know kind of intense or if it's just like a really really old person and I'm like always super happy when like I pull up to a drive-thru and it sounds like they're 50 cuz I'm like yeah I'm good but if they if they sound like they're in their 20s or 30s it's it's brutal cuz then it's like one time someone did that they opened it she was Like you're Mr Beast I was like yeah and she goes to whip out her

phone I like hey I don't want people to know what I'm driving like we could chat but let just please no photos cuz then if it goes viral I'm going to have to sell this car and like it's just a lot of work God and she's like okay and then she goes to get the food and she comes back and there's just I see just 10 other people that work I won't even say the restaurant but behind her coming up with their phone's Recording I was like I thought I could trust you and I had

to drive off before they handed me my food because I was like if I don't they're going to start filming people will see the car drive blah blah and then it's funny like the next day I see on redit Mr Beast is an just drove off and it's like no you forgot to tell the part where I was like hey please don't dox my car you know just imediately leaves that whole thing out and so there's a lot of that Like or another time I was at a restaurant I I don't even know who I

was with but uh someone paid for my food and um I was like the I went I asked for the bill they're like oh someone paid for it they're like told me to tell you they like your videos I was like cool how do I tip and they're like I well we don't have a bill and I was like okay so I just left and then the next day I see on the internet Mr B stiffed me and didn't leave a tip or whatever and it's like Someone paid for my meal I didn't get a

bill it's not like I carry cash you know so and I was just it's so I have so many instances like that where like no one gives a when you're smaller about all these little things but like as I've gotten bigger yeah it's just like every interaction it's uh it's like a 10% chance this thing's going to end up on the internet and or they're going to try to twist things or or whatever and it's just gotten crazier like people like I Said follow me or um yeah it's it's interesting yeah and you get well

you get to a point also with popularity where you've also gone o you can't go back first of all you can't unbe yourself well I actually I can unuse myself if I wear a beanie I've noticed like I've I've tried all sorts of outfits when I fly to see which ones get if I put my bangs in a beanie and put that on because I've never worn anything like that in my videos the amount of Photos I take go down like crazy wow yeah so it's like a and then if I combo the beanie with

like a pair of glasses cuz I also have never worn glasses in my videos it it takes it down so I've like St stud did cuz like I used to just rock a hood but that's kind of like suspicious it's like especially in places where it's not cold people like kind look like a bank robber but he's at United Ain makes them like double look and then they're like oh so the Hood Strat doesn't work um but the the beanie and glasses Strat that's that's the key yeah if you want to be like low key

yeah no I think there's different ways to do different little disguises I I I do think it's interesting what you're saying though like about like I I would notice um this is just for me but I would notice like someone would pay for my food sometime at a restaurant but then I would read like oh he didn't thank us for it right like so really They were paying for it so I would like engage with them right which is it's okay but it's like at some point it's like maybe I'm do withs I'd rather just

pay for the food yeah I'd rather just pay for my food I didn't know that there was this other exchange to it right so I'm not complaining I'm happy for the extra food but if I'm in a hurry or something and now I'm in a a different spot and now I'm in a conversation where somebody also then wants to ask you About a business bu thing or something it's like you know there's no rule book for these kinds of things right there's no rule book for it so you kind of have to like learn on

the go like what do I do when random people pay for my food oh I guess this is the random people paid for my food etiquette I have to stand there and demand a bill from the waitress five times until they give it so I can tip I then have to walk around the restaurant and find who paid for it And thank them it's like these are the the things that you just kind of have to learn as you get more famous yeah yeah well it's just interesting you know and people will be like oh

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probably 13 or 11 you know Xbox Live I just was randomizing the name and it Gave me like the name Mr b6000 and so that was just like my Xbox gamertag when I was playing Call of Duty so they gave you that did they ever come after you and try to claim any title to it uh well no cuz it's just like a random name generator and they don't own it but then um so then when I started a YouTube channel I just called it Mr v6000 and then um everyone was just like why is

the 6,000 I was like I don't know and then I eventually just dropped it and There was Mr Beast so that's kind of how it came about but in terms of how I got where I am now I started making videos when I was uh 11 had no clue what I was doing they were absolute trash and then uh no one watched when I was 11 no one watched when I was 12 no one watched when I was 13 no one watched when I was 14 no one watched him when I was 15 and then

I started to get like holy is anyone ever going to watch these I'm like four years in like I'm Like having depressive mental breakdowns because I'm poor and everything I have but I mean like at the time you know obviously everyone thinks the videos they make are great and I thought I was making like insanely great videos but they're just trash I just um and like the problem is I didn't have anyone to teach me how to edit so I'm like learning on my own I didn't I didn't know about cameras didn't know anything about

anything and then 16 no one's Watching them 17's no one watching them and I'm like I just like I only my whole life I was just like I just want to do YouTube I need to make enough money by the time I graduate high school so I can do this or I'm because like I didn't have good grades or anything and you know we didn't have much money because my parents were over lever in 2008 they're in the army bought some properties 2008 and then the recess or financial crisis hit went bankrupt Lost everything um

so like my mom was also like my my son's just going to be get back in there yeah like just going to be homeless and she she hates it and and so I finally 18 about to graduate high school still no one watches the videos no one gives a I'm making not even on graduation night uh yeah I remember like yeah it's just like my mom's like all right it's time to accept reality got to go to Community College got to get a degree and I was Just like I didn't want to but I was

like okay let me just pick the easiest lamest degree I think it was like some communications degree my local community Zing is one of them but then uh two weeks into it I just was like this and so every day cuz I didn't have enough money to move out I just go to college but then I would just work on videos in my car and I was just like okay in six months my mom's going to find out that I have straight zeros Kick me out of the house I gotta get it where people are

watching my videos enough or I can like live off of it over the next six months and then I just started doing a bunch of stupid stuff like uh around this times when I counted to 100,000 yeah so which and a lot of other things like that and I watching somebody semi unconscious count their way through like the 80,000 is unbelievable yeah it it was I well there was one part I think at 93,000 where I Was like 92,93 I actually went backwards and didn't realize it and then I just went 91,000 one 91,000 two

so I like it's yeah it was it because I was so just out of it at that point yeah there oh there moments in that where you're like yeah somebody helped this guy or something you know but anyways around that point I had a month where I made 20 grand and then I was like mom I have straight zeros I'll move out tomorrow and then It's moved out so that and then yeah then we just kept reinvesting it all and here we are so it's like a 15-year journey and it's been pretty crazy was it

hard to learn to reinvest in yourself is that like a um I I know you kind of mentioned a minute ago was that like a thing is it hard to learn to reinvest no for me it always came natural because like I I have a well now it's a little bit crazier cuz we're traveling everything but back then I lived in a Place that was $720 a month and I split it with someone so I needed 360 for rent rent and I had like a 2005 Dodge dur angle which wasn't that expensive so it was

like okay $11,000 to cover my expenses everything else just pour back in you know what I mean so if you just live uh like below your means then like it allows you just to go crazy and throw everything back into it and I I just was like a machine back then that lived to make the best videos possible And so every dollar was just a way to just make a better video wow so you want to make the best video there's something about it that you want to make the best video yeah well it's I've

obviously studied the algorithm studied the tens of thousands of YouTube videos I'm a a data nerd and what's interesting is the data always just shows that the better a video is the more views it gets it's like if people watch it and enjoy it YouTube gives it more views so it's like yeah it's the better the that's that's what took us from 100,000 views a video to a million to 10 million views a video to 20 to 30 to 40 to 50 to 100 it's just you know people notice when you put in the effort

and go above and beyond and so they just keep coming back yeah I mean that yeah watching I mean I know this will be on Amazon right uh yeah Prime video the Beast games thing yeah but watching some of your stuff it's Just like man this is like Fantastical you know it's like fantasy there's fantasy parts of it um what was one you guys just put up about you went out into these like uh like this cave and seven days in the underground cave is that a was it a real cave or not a real

cave uh so we did seven days in a cave and seven days in underground city which one are you talking underground city yeah that that's in Romania that's uh that was crazy it was so great cuz it's like it's Mixes like past and present it's like I can't it's like are we the Mayans or the aliens here I there's this mix of like yeah you know where is this a real city is it not it it's looks brand new but then it's also has these well the Romans used to mine salt out of there I

think it was like uh something crazy like two billion t uh pounds of salt have been mined there or something ridiculous yeah so it's been used for over a thousand years and then they built a a little Underground city there and there's a Ferris wheel and everything it's so mindblowing that like how there's a real Ferris wheel there yeah in that underground city yeah that's a part that's one it's just like I can't tell sometimes when it's New or Old or it's like it's just it's Fantastical you know that's what it feels like to me

it felt like dang this is dang fantasy you know um so you're a Mr Beast is there a Mrs Beast do they have a Mrs Beast I mean I Have a girlfriend but I you know I I didn't I just call her Tia okay so she you just call her by her natural name or whatever God given name um do you remember your first girlfriend ever or no uh yeah but you know I'm I love my current girlfriend okay oh yeah yeah that's what I was just or yeah I was just thinking like were you

good at having girl like was there ever a girl that you even had a crush on in your neighborhood or anything when you were a Kid you your name no it's bro when I um I when I was growing up I was so I mean I still am but I was incredibly awkward I had a lot of pimples when I was a teenager like I have scars on my forehead from I was so I was an acne up freak that just obsessed over YouTube I don't I didn't know how to talk to a woman like

if they were like hi I'd probably just be like uh what are you you know so it was no no I mean but it kind of worked to my advantage a Little bit because that's why I just grinded so much from 11 to 18 which most people probably would have been trying to talk to girls or that'll kill all your time exactly whereas I was just like you playing baseball and grinding on YouTube every second of the day so it worked out in my advantage do you know Accutane the uh yeah Accutane didn't it kill

it didn't kill Jessica Simpson what happened to her and that wasn't her Sorry yeah I don't know it might have killed someone I mean it's a pretty intense thing but I took Accutane and it just got rid of all my acting yeah oh yeah and actually I was one a Call of Duty YouTuber I watched when I was younger he just said that he started taking acain all his acne went away and I was like okay so I asked my dermatologist and I took it and then all my acne went away as well and I

was like holy where was but I didn't take it I was like 19 or 20 and I was like my God why didn't someone tell me about this anybody tell you yeah when I was 15 or 16 what and I probably it's probably for the better cuz it's pretty intense but it like dries your skin out like crazy and it gets to the point where the your skin will get like it shrinks your pores too so like the blackheads on your nose will literally come out on their own and like you'll like wake up one

day and you'll just have like all the stuff Like if you squeeze blackheads they'll just be sitting on top of your nose it's like a miracle like when people with that worm rod on the ground you ever seen that when they electrocute the ground to get the basically like that yeah and it's it was a crazy thing so anyways I'm saying this because if there's any of you out there in the same spot as me acutane changed my life I hope to be like that Call of Duty YouTuber was to me when I was Younger

to you it was it was wild some dude on Call of Duty like hey get some acutane yeah he would just do like a story time and talk about how he fixed his acne and I was just like oh change my life dude we had to get this blotter they had something there was this finally I got a prescription cuz mine was bad too dude like and I was afraid to smile because you would have that hard patch and it would just be like it would be like a gang of acne like Ms Thir acne

or whatever your that was my forehead for years yeah and you would smile and it would just squirt on somebody it was almost like you were um you were afraid to make certain faces because a couple of them would go off you know it was like you know like I actually I don't know if mine was that intense I and if You' get them like in here in the corners of my nose so scary and I already have a big nose so if I get a pimple on it I'd have To stay home until it

went away or whatever yeah um god dude yeah acne was acne was crazy cuz you didn't do anything right you've been at home you're just growing up or whatever yeah and then God's like oh yeah you little bastard I know it's like you see these people who don't wash their face and they just have perfect Flawless skin and then you're over here doing everything you can and you got you know 100 blackheads on your nose and Probably 40 pimples on your face and it's just like why why why am I being punished you know like

why me and we had this BL BL stuff it was like this this green stuff came out at one point you have to put it all it had like a blot almost like a um for playing Bingo and you'd put it all over your skin but it had green it was green right it was kind of green and you couldn't tell right when you put it on but if you were at school and you had a white shirt or Something your whole shirt of your neck would start just getting green throughout the day cuz you'd

sweat it down you know it was harrowing how old are you I was probably 112 Me growing up we had Proactive or whatever the that was that's I don't I don't remember this screen you're talking about we had prayer and some other that they had yeah meeting the first girl was oh I remember in our apartment complex some dad I remember this is the first girl That I maybe had a crush on or something the dad got a daughter A Drum right for Christmas or whatever yeah and she would make her play like on the

back porch he would practice and I would go around and listen and um she would play uh what's that Ice Cube song it's like um it was a good day bum bum [Music] yeah kind of thank [Music] God yeah No play that dude and I would just go down there and I just fell in love listening to play that yeah and I remember that it was like the first and what happened between you guys oh nothing my there was some violence between our families a little bit my brother had some issues I think with her

brother but there uh but that was like the first Crush what kind of violence uh somebody like got upset at somebody and somebody threw like um like a stump or Whatever through somebody's bathroom window it got neighb neighborhood got hot sometimes dude but I but between me and her she didn't know that I don't think she ever knew that but I would listen her play that and the dad would yell at her to play it he was I think a Raiders fan or whatever um anyway sorry kind of rambling um you just got back from

India right yeah nice dude how was that have you ever done shows or anything in India I went to India when I was a student we went to madrass and we worked at like a children's home it was like um it was just a week but it was magnificent man some of the most beautiful energetic humans in the world you know like a lot of happiness I felt like over there um so I really enjoyed it what was your experience like yeah I I enjoyed being there as well um well we yeah it was it

was pretty pretty intense not going to lie we like when I I mean it's it got Off to like I literally as I'm walking out the airport there was just a bunch of people there waiting you know um so I took some photos said hi to people whatever got in my car um and then that V video Someone filmed got posted on like this uh big like I guess uh celebrities are like a really big thing like Bollywood stars in India and so like they posted on this Instagram account and it got like 20 million

views in like the next 10 hours so basically Um like everyone knew I was in India after that which we also said we were coming cuz we were going to like you know per uh talk on a stage cuz I was launching a product and things like that but it got uh pretty intense cuz people were trying to find which hotel I was in and they were like camping out at all the hotels and so like I'm like as we're pulling in like with my seat really reclined CU I didn't want to know and somehow

they figured out which one we're Staying at and then there's people waiting out there and there's it it got pretty crazy and then we we just like launched our chocolate bar at a mall um there's a feable over there yeah febles we launched over there and there was like I mean it was crazy the amount of people that showed up um we we were just talking on stage and whatever but the problem is so many people are showing up there that they like like people were were going on in places in the mall Where they

weren't supposed to getting in locked doors and the line and crowd was getting so big they made us end it early and leave which was annoying because like I felt bad because so many people showed up and I just wanted to at least like wave and say hi to a lot of them um and then yeah there I met a lot of the biggest Indian creators over there and super cool filmed some stuff and wow yeah we just we what was also interesting is um we did this uh meet And greet with a bunch of

uh Bollywood actors like they're kids and just said hi to them and um i' I've just never watched any Bollywood films so I was just you know hanging out saying hi to some of these people and like I took a photo with this kid and and one parent and uh then one of the guys beside me who just works there was like hey do you know who that guy is it's this and he showed me like an Instagram account he had like 60 million followers I was like No he's like oh that was the guy

I just met he's like yeah I was like oh cool and then I took a photo and said hi to another kid with with his mom and he's like the guy was like she has she's like in these movies and like this and there he was like freaking out and I was like and I I didn't know who any of these people were and so I was like okay now I need you to tell me who they are before they walk up and so you'd like it's just this random guy I just met um and

he's Just like okay here's here's this person's Instagram account it'd be like 30 million followers like there apparently there's like twice as many people use uh Instagram in India than in USA so I I didn't know any of this but like it's huge you forget about that just how many people there are yeah and a uh and U Tik tok's banned in India so that makes more people use Instagram and so it's like really really big over there because I was like it was I was it Was crazy there's so many people that I met

that just had crazy high follower accounts and it's like I you don't see that over here in America and then I looked into the data because I'm a data guy and I was like oh my gosh like a fuckload of people use it over there and the usage skyrocketed after they Bann Tik Tok and same thing with YouTube actually like India more people watch YouTube in India than in America um because again like in America we're Competing against Tik Tok over there they're not and then the fact that there's over a billion people so it's

like a YouTube is bigger over there too then yeah yeah YouTube figure over there so it's like a huge Market but um I had a great time uh and it was just it was pretty intense though like I posted an Instagram story showing us driving down the road and there just everywhere we drove there's just you dozens of kids that would just run along the side of The road and follow her car and like yeah and so it was it was I felt I felt loved yeah I felt very loved that's for sure I was

like damn people over here they care um and it was it was cool it was cool yeah it's a lot of good energy over there and it's safe energy too so the excitement I feel like in in a place like India you don't feel like it's going to get to place was it getting Shady you think not like uh that I thought people would stab me but There're how do I say it in a way where it doesn't sound like a being a div they were a little less uh concerned for personal space over there

there there are there are like more they'll run up to you and get like really billions of people there's not a lot of personal space yeah like get your own pillow like in America you know people dab you up like a group of five or six people and you they'll stay a foot or two away you know but over there like they'll just Run up and hug me and like get really really close and it gets a little intense sometimes like I noticed like some of them did not give a about my personal space especially

if it was a bigger group oh they'll hide in your mouth if you leave it open so that was that was an interesting thing they just yeah I remember being they would people were sleeping on the side of the road there I remember in India when I was there you would just be driving at night And people you know somebody was just walking and I guess they decided to get some rest or whatever um but yeah you don't even get your own pillow in India like you lay down and then there's other you know people

have little quad it's just there's a lot of people there you know there's a lot of folks um you were talking about febles dude and thank you guys sent me some you know I'll go the whole day I don't need any sugar middle of the night crack open into a box of Feasta bles that some sent me and uh yeah and they're awesome and the peanut butter one is probably my favorite one thank you but then it's like I just have so much you know I freak out in the middle of the night and uh

cuz I'm just a damn sugar pervert and then now I just can't go back to bed you know but thank you and um but what I want to say is would you ever do like a Wily Wonka type of thing because I feel like this I mean you already are kind of There you know so you know we put 10 golden tickets in it one time right no I didn't know that I didn't know no it's all so uh we uh it's funny you ask so yeah that's a great idea we should it's almost like

we should put 10 golden tickets in random bars I should build a chocolate factory fly them down and have them compete for it did they did you already do all that yeah but hey it's it's it was pretty cool it was years ago most of your fans probably have no idea I did it um so yeah we put the golden tickets out I built a actual chocolate River and you know it's funny this I don't even know if I've ever told this story but we I like it's the day before we're going to film you

know the 10 golden ticket winners are in town and I go to the Chocolate Factory to just you know check out things and the chocolate river is just not there like we like literally had like a multiple feet deep spread Across this like uh Warehouse like chocolate River but and it's like there but then I come back the next day and it's just not there like it's literally empty the entire River G happen you think we don't know I mean I guess there was like a a hole in the the uh lining on the bottom

of the river we built and it just all sank through it we we I don't know but see that chocolate river right there oh my God I did not know this at all yeah pause it right there And was that the guy that took it uh no that's noan one of our friends and then that's a he every time someone got eliminated they got in the boat we uh paddled them down the chocolate River out the factory but uh yeah so it's like the the day before and I just walk in and there's like a

waterfall and everything but it's just empty and I'm like where the did my chocolate River go last night and so we had to like Blitz to refill it and redo the Entire thing it was a show just search a Mr be Chocolate Factory and you can see like he can see what it actually looks like or on YouTube um I'm sorry I'm so behind on that no it's all good I I me I have so many crazy stories I can tell you about the crazy we've done like who else has built a Chocolate Factory yeah

I didn't even know why here skip ahead to the inside yeah or yeah right there look at that oh and candy and everything Yeah pause it wow yeah so those are real real Candy I mean it was difficult to keep the bugs out of there oh yeah you don't think about that bugs like yeah and so we gave the the winner the option of you know keep the factory just have $500,000 and I was like yo like this or chocolate river is probably going to disappear tends to do that uh these candies are all going

to go bad in the next few days is this going to be an absolute Disaster sh money I'd recommend you take the money I'll give it to you I mean I'm not you know I will but I just it's going to cost you like six figures to like clean this up like I don't want to just dump that on you you know was that Bobby fle in that too uh at the end is Gordon Ramsey so the the last challenge they did is they had to cook a dessert and then whoever uh Gordon Ramsey said

did the best won the Chocolate Factory oh wow and he looks a Little bit like Charlie from the original Chocolate Factory pull up a Charlie from the original Chocolate Factory photo there let's do a little side by side Ramsey and I'm gonna be so accurate here which blew my own mind actually yeah actually actually Carl the guy to the right of kind of looks like let's go hold on no no The Pitch Out one is up one wait no down scroll yeah uh no right there to the left left on that side right There yeah

Carl kind of looks like that we're pretty close huh yeah your imagination pretty close right there holy that could be him what is that shirtless photo of Gordon wait wait wait no go to that shess one what am I looking at when did he start poses like that I don't know dude my boy that's one vote for Bobby Kennedy right there dude that's crazy bro oh Bobby Fay Bobby F's daughter is beautiful actually and I Don't care if she hears it um she's super talented that's exactly what I mean she's also stunning young lady um

but what are we saying no I got more to say I'll tell you this um yes you already did that man yeah and what's also interesting is while we were filming that video I was doing a different video where right didn't eat any food for two weeks what's the longest fast you've ever done I just did three days the other day of only water It it was or I did 72 hours it was good got a little temperamental yeah but I kind of enjoyed it and how long do you do I did 14 days only

water only water yeah I lost uh what was it like 20 something pounds it was was it to lose weight or just to no it's was for a video just to see what happens um and you like after like day five or six like you're pretty drained like you have no energy you know what's interesting if you read online about Extended fast people would be like oh you'll lose minimal muscle mass and it's mostly fat and which seem like a lot of Reddit threads and things when you first Google it that's what it tells you

so I did a dexa scan before I did my extended fast you know where they measure the fat muscle in your body and do one after and it was like I lost like six pounds of muscle it was like pretty depressing how much muscle I lost you lose it yeah which I mean is obvious but that's not What the internet said would happen which I was like someone needs to like correct this because yeah it was it was pretty depressing um so I lost whatever it was like 13 lb of fat 7 lbs of lean

mask um but it's depressing cuz then you're so you start to and you don't want to explain to people hey I'm fasting because people think something's going on with you yeah but even after you start eating like the muscle didn't just come back and so it's like yeah That was that was pretty brutal but it was yeah it was intense not eating I and I still was filming and working throughout it so like on day 10 and 11 and 12 like it was really with me like I I standing up was just like brutal you

know and like walking around or anything like that cuz you have no energy you needed a real cane like Willy Wonka had yeah yeah there yeah that was that was intense and did what were you look did you notice like um but your Clarity got pretty sharp as a whip were you able to use that people say that but no for me it never that never hit I never got that like uh a superhuman Clarity cuz that's what I was hoping for no I just like I was just tired man all the time I was

too tired to have Clarity um oh I could read people's damn Minds I thought that guy was naked at first on the right former allp proo NFL tackle Russell okong is L over 150 lbs since retiring including losing 100 lb In 40 days by fasting day yeah that's just that's crazy we just started a video where we uh or we're about to start it after when I go back home we built a gym like a just a weightlifting gym um and then we put a big red circle around it and we're going to give a

guy uh either I don't know which one um if he loses 100 pounds before he leaves that red circle and so and he has a trainer in there and he has a chef at everything He'll need and then um yeah and then exciting yeah so like that video might take like a year you know so he just he's living in there we have cameras set up and it's just like lose 100 pound or or leave you know and if you lose 100 pounds before you leave you you win the money that's fair dude they should

do that around a like a um indie car race you know just put a big huge circle around like a uh tallad dager or whatever why and just be like lose 100 Pounds oh I didn't think about the end of it I didn't video we're about to start too is I I bought it Jet and then we're grabbing two people who just uh got like graduated from Pilot School or whatever just got their license and we're going if you guys live in this jet for the next 100 days don't step foot out of it once

in the next 100 days you get to keep the jet so then they'll they'll own a private jet but they can fly it around or do whatever just as Long as they don't leave they they can't leave yeah so like I'm hoping they'll like fly to New York and just Uber eat some pizza to the door of the jet then fly to California or whatever and it just like yeah that'll be a fun one yeah that sounds interesting is there a video say if you got they shut you down they're like Beast you're done no

more beasting around here boy get out of here Beast what if people were like that and then you had to make you got to make one More video do you know what it would be you think that's uh only one more I mean cuz you're already you I mean you've got the $5 million you know you've up the Annie yeah well that's on the the show but on YouTube because I don't I don't have that I don't have streaming money on YouTube you know what I mean um I don't I don't know man we've there's

not because there's so many things I want to do it'd be hard to pick one oh there are Yeah you still have a ton of ideas oh unlimited I mean that the bottleneck for me is not ideas it's just like actually pulling them off you know cuz a lot of these are multi-million dollar projects to take months upon months to set up months to film months to edit Etc so it's just like they're pretty brutal like one of the ones we did recently that I thought was really cool but like this is an example of

how much time it takes is we we built a bunker Underground I did you see that one I know not sure okay but so we had to dig like a super deep hole we bought a bunker put it in covered it up and then build pull up the like the outside of it for him so he can see what it looks like and then we had to yeah that top one right there I've seen some of this yeah yeah so that that's a bunker we built and then those two people if they lived in there

for 100 days they won half a million dollars oh they did it too yeah Yeah and then like but you have to set deck the bunker and then um so that's like multiple months of building and everything and then you put them in there and then that's still 3 months and 10 days of filming and then you know you have to have like camera crew there around the clock and you have to have a medic there just for safety and all these other things and I have to check in every day and then now you

come out the other and you have 100 days worth of Footage which takes you know editing team forever to come through and watch and edit and then build story so like that's like a eight Monon long project you know what I mean so that's they're just like it's a lot yeah it's very very intense and and that's the thing is like the fact that I can do all this for a YouTube video it was like unfinal when I was growing up like it's crazy to see like the kind of um content that can be supported

by YouTube you know know like We I think on that video we probably spent like $4 and a half million dollars um making that yeah just on that between the bunker and the prize pull and everything and how many uh shows can you have like can you have a couple of things on like that at once yeah we have to I try to upload two videos a month so we have to be working on six to Day videos at a time because these videos take months to pull off so because if we were only working

on one at a time then I'd only upload once every like three or four months and do you come up with most of the ideas yourself or do you have kind of a team when you guys kind of pull them yeah so that's where it's interesting because uh the ideas are incredibly important because like you I do a lot of s-day challenges right I spend seven days buried alive I spent seven days in solitary confinement seven days in cave underground city seven days on desert island blah blah blah and What's interesting is like you could

do seven days buried alive so me laying in a coffin for seven days or you could do theoretically right I could lay in a bathtub for seven days right both take the same amount of my time both are me just laying there but the one in the bathtub isn't going to get any views no one gives a the one of me laying in a tomb underground everyone will care cuz it's like what the this dude buried himself alive so it like Shows like the theoretically it's kind of the same thing but this idea is just

in a different setting environment and we'll probably get 10,000 times more views and so it shows like the importance of the idea if that makes sense like it's not uh views or success isn't just isn't directly correlated with the effort you put in a lot of it has to do with what is the overarching concept and so once you kind of realize that you just like get really obsessed With how do I come up with crazy cool original viral ideas and so that's what I spent most my teenage years obsessing over and I used to

do every single day I would brainstorm video ideas and I'd write them write them down and that's how I built like I have this like Google sheet with like 10,000 ideas on it it's ridiculous I thought of trying to sell that to YouTubers at one point because there's so many there I could never film them but then after a while now that Things have gotten so big and I have to like film 25 28 days a month and I have all this stuff going on I can't do an hour a day so I hired people

to do it for me and then you know like once a week they'll just go hey here's 200 really cool unique ideas I'll flip through them and you know and they'll usually Inspire something my head because a big thing too is like this is what um I've probably said this on a podcast before but like if there was a Like a a fruit in Africa that if you ate you grew 2 feet taller and you didn't know that exist until I just told you right now right you wouldn't have been able to brainstorm ideas around

eating that fruit but now that you know it exists you could and so it's like very important to uh always be intaking new information and learning things because that's how you you know come up with more original creative stuff like I I noticed when I first started hiring People to like you know start brainstorming stuff for me that like after two months of someone doing this you would just basically start getting the same ideas on autopilot right like if a guy really likes basketball you'll start to notice like oh 10% of his ideas have to

do a basketball but it's not because basketball is like the greatest idea is the most viral thing is just because that's what he watches and so you know and you'll notice if someone Watch baseball though oh now they conveniently have baseball ideas and and so what you want is you just want to get someone who you just almost like want to make them constantly learn and absorb new informations listen to 10 different podcasts one episode of each not 10 of one listen you know watch every sport not one and you you almost have to like

to train people to help you come up with good ideas you have to just train them to watch a bunch of different content And absorb information and you'll see it come out in their ideas if that makes sense so first of all you'd find somebody who you like okay I like this that this person comes up with ideas and then you be like now I just need to have I need them to encourage them to consume different things it's almost like ingred different ingredients to come out with a different cake or whatever so you control

their information diet by you know information diet that's so wild I Mean and that's yeah I mean I I obsess over things so yeah it's important but that's that's that's been super helpful um because yeah it's just that's how we because a big part of getting 100 million views theoretically on a video is if uh any you know is it something someone has seen before or not like uh there's this Ted Talk I watched one time and he was talking about how you know if you're driving down the road you just see a cow you

you're probably not even Going to look at it right who cares you've see them all the time but if you're driving down the road and there's a purple cow you're going to look like four times you're going to remember that like you you know someone could ask you a year later and you'll be like yeah I saw a purple cow and it's like the only difference is it's purple and it's kind of the same way on social media right like if you're scrolling through videos and it's something you've seen before Nothing too crazy it's just

it's almost like you should visualize as like that's the equivalent of someone seeing a cow but if it's something they've never seen before like you putting a bunker underground and two people living in it that's that is the equivalent of a purple cow on social media like how do I make something that Prince would drink milk out of you know wait what did you just say like how do you make something that Prince would drink milk out of Prince um Prince musician what's his last name prince prince okay you know I'm talking about Prince from

Minnesota I no oh Prince I mean I've heard the word little r know that song He's a musician but purple he was like a purple guy got you got you got so like how do you make this right there's 2,000 princes right but he's the he's he's the one1 yeah he's Prince gotcha gotcha right Like that's what I'm saying like how do you I got you I got you I'm saying the same thing you're saying I think you know so that's that's a very important thing um so it's just if anyone watching ever wants to

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December with betterhelp visit betterhelp.com Theo today to get 10% off your first Month that's betterhelp [Music] hp.com H EO like what are some common misconceptions about you or your work do you feel like well that's a good one um I I would say the biggest one is I think uh people think we make content for kids and like you know but oh that's a great one great answer yeah and it's uh a lot of because I've been famous famous air quotes I don't know but for a While now and I the thing is when I

was like in my young like 20 years old I'm 26 now when I was like 20 or 21 I didn't have much experience with storytelling or or like making these like videos with contestants and like how to like show what they were feeling or anything so back then the videos came across a little like uh ADHD like fast-paced or whatever because I it's not like I had Christopher Nolan as a father teaching me I was just learning storytelling I I Was going so a lot of my videos back then got a lot of views and

like same when I was like 22 or 23 but you know the last three years we've really leveled up the storytelling and building characters and especially the last 18 months and gotten better at like making content that um you know people in their 20s and 30s would be like well this is like good and could enjoy but because a lot of people haven't seen my newer videos and watched my older ones they Still think all my videos are like that so they just kind of like push it off so like when someone says like ah

your videos are too ADHD and you don't have any storytelling I'll usually like show them like one or two of our newer videos like oh my God this is great and I was like yeah let me guess you just haven't seen a video in two years like yeah and so that kind of is a little bit of a misconception I'm constantly fighting yeah is that you're still like this kind Of just entertainment for kids or that you're Your Entertainment your ability to entertain is also still Junior yeah exactly and so um which obviously younger people

watch the videos I mean I think like anyone you know could watch that bunker video and be like whoa this is just high quality entertaining stuff it's not love the child inside of me liked it and the adult inside of me liked it exactly you know so that that would be one um I guess other Misconceptions of of it is like I we I mean we it looks like a lot of these is just you know it just looks like me and the boys having fun because that's what I want it to look like I

want to put the boys in environment where they're just themselves and things like that I think people think what I do is a lot easier than it is like um like these things are Monster Monumental projects that are a to do and it's like you know and you know a 100 plus million People are going to watch it and you know like so everything's just got to be great and perfect and but we don't have years to do these things we're trying to do what most people would do in a year in two months so

it's like you know it is tight timelines and it's it's just we don't have the budgets of these giant Studios or anything when we're doing these YouTube videos and it's just it's it's very very difficult you know what I mean like I have Hundreds of employees full-time you do yeah that depend on that YouTube channel you know what I mean at Mr Beast Productions uh yeah I I I don't even know if I guess Mr be Studios um but yeah it's uh it's just a lot of pressure because it's uh yeah it's just a lot

of people depend on it these and it's it's just absurd to think that I have all these employees and we're spending all this money and I just assume like the magical YouTube algorithm when I post This video is just going to give it to 100 million people every single time and it's like it's just like that's a lot of stress and it's like it's a lot of people who you know watch the it's just a lot of everything it's a lot of pressure a lot of stress and it's like if I don't film then there's

no video so it's also not a typical business because you know uh you can on any other company you can replace basically anyone you the business exactly I am like literally if I'm just like yo for the next month I don't want to film I know the business dead you know what I mean so it's like it's uh yeah it's I I wouldn't I yeah I just it's a lot it's just a lot no it seems like a lot but do you did you know it was going to be that much stress do you find

that you like the stress like I remember even just for myself right like we have responsibilities now we do like six episodes a month now yeah and at first I Remember I could barely do one episode a week was tough and some weeks it still is but then some days I'll go through and it's like this just starts to feel easier I start to kind of acclimate to where I am and then there's a part of my brain that's like okay well now what can we do but that same part of my brain is just

the brain that that forgets like we barely just got to this place and are we even okay here right so it's tough for me to like monitor the Different parts of my brain the one that wants to do more or try new things and the one that also wants to make sure we're okay where we're at and not for be happy right and be happy yeah it's like yeah so most of the time I work now it's like um I guess what my my question is like I don't know what it is man do you

know what it is I get what you're trying to ask it's like how how do you uh which side of the P pendulum are you swinging between being stressed and Wanting to die constantly or like prioritizing being happy and and like that basically yeah and are you able to battle that do you know did you know you were as competitive in and or do you think you're competing against like the algorithm or you want people to see it like you know what is that thing that are you able to notice like cuz I don't even

know sometimes what drives me to do things or want to learn more yeah I would say I like you I'm just incredibly Incredibly incredibly competitive I I just love winning and I it's the thing is I think people have a misconception they like try to put everyone especially famous people in a box where it's like this is what motivates them and this one reasons why they do everything and I I believe you can be motivated by multiple things right like one thing that pushes me is the fact that you know a lot of my friends

I grew up with work for me right and I don't want to ever have to fire Them because we can't afford to pay them I I have people who you know moved across the world to come work for me so you know that's one thing that motivates me being able to provide for the people who risked everything another thing that motivates me is I just love entertaining people and the fact that I get to entertain a 100 million people or 200 million people or whatever it is like I think our average videos are doing 200

million views in the first year like I Know that's a thing that won't last forever right I mean that's like at some point you know I'm not going to be able to upload something and 3% of the humans alive are going to watch it you know what I mean so part of it is I want to make sure I'm like taking advantage of the opportunity I have here because this is like I what and when I'm 40 I I can't expect that you know what I mean like um and so that's one and another one

is like it just for whatever reason it just Is like buil in my blood like this is just what I do like working is just what I live for and like I don't really know what else to do with my life like it just I'm just a machine that goes and if I'm not working on something like stimulating and pushing and innovating I just kind of get depressed and like I'm like why am I alive what am I doing you know who do you get that from was your one of your folks you think no

I've just kind of always been like this my mom Hates it cuz I don't really celebrate wins or anything I just always grinding on things and um yeah I don't know I think just some people are hardwired like that and I think but I I I think um you just got to be who you are like that it just is who I am but there's there's other people who see my lifestyle because I've talked about on podcast and you know a lot of creators want to be like me and um and they end up scaling

up bigger teams and they end up trying To videos like me and then they end up they're find out they're miserable and they hate it and it's too much stress and pressure and so I wouldn't I wouldn't advise this for most creators right like I don't I like I don't have work life balance I just you don't work no I just I mean I'm like there are some mons where you know I film 28 days you know and I still have to run fetival I still do uh you know uh film 28 days on the

main Channel then I I film for a Beast philanthropy Channel I still film stuff for Tik Tok because we have over 100 million followers on Tik Tok and I have to do stuff on Instagram I still have to network and do these things things and um it's it's like I mean it's basically if my eyes are open I'm it's like you know I have a person whose job is just to help me basically write everything I want to accomplish on a whiteboard I mean it will take up the size of this wall and it's like

all my Prils and things I could be doing things I should be doing things other people need me to be doing and then you know we'll just go in the next seven days I'll Circle all the things I want to do ancillary on top of what naturally have to do and um and then he'll just like schedule out basically every second My Eyes Are Open wow and and uh which is good because it helps me I sometimes fall into a trap of being reactive like you know my content You know Channel needs me to film

this this needs Feast needs me to do this and but you know you're never going to achieve something great if you're just constantly like like a ping pong ball being told what you need to do by your employees so occasionally you need to be proactive and do other things that you know people wouldn't think of and be a little bit more of a Visionary so doing that kind of helps make sure I'm prioritizing things correctly and things Like that well it's interesting because in the beginning you're kind of working for yourself cuz you're the Creator

but then you build an audience and then you start to work for the audience in a weird way right yeah yeah um and there's no judgment against that but I just noticed out in my own life in the beginning like I'd give anything to have an Audi you know but it's more like me it felt like me being me but then it also starts to feel like you now now you Have the audience now you have somebody to work for yeah you you I yeah because you technically couldn't just w a and like you know

uh because if you did you'd lose your audience and so yeah I guess technically you're working working for them in a way yeah yeah yeah um yeah I was going to say what did you learn about being a boss like cuz I never wanted to be like have any employees right I never even wanted to be an employe I didn't want to have any Employees I wanted to have pizza you know you know sounds like the life yeah yeah you know what I'm saying I want live in a park but what I'm saying is um

a hold on I know what it is I think that what did you learn about yourself like about being a boss like I learned that if I don't show up in a comfortable way then uh it's it affects my how my employees are I've learned that I have to communicate better as to what I want because people don't just know what I Want right there's some things that I've learned learn them the hard way kind of were there things that you've learned just is about being a boss oh I mean of course um because I

went from one to I think now across everything I employ over 400 people so full-time so it's like yeah I mean that when I first started hiring people I was I was 19 so like or not maybe even 18 so I was a teenager with no idea I mean yeah you ask what I learned I mean at the start I Literally went to this is how stupid I was when I was a teenager I literally went to uh a comedy club or whatever comedy Tariq what was it comedy it was just an open mic oh

Open Mic yeah Tariq was one of the people hired there it's funny he's still here seven days lat or seven years later but uh I went to an open mic and I was just like you know um I want my YouTube channel to be a little funnier so I'm just gonna go hire some random comedians at an open mic so I Just went to one and then I just was like riding on like a notepad every time they they made me laugh The Comedians and then the ones that made me laugh the most I just

afterwards went backstage and I was like yo you want a job you want to help me make YouTube videos and that's how I first started hiring and then after that I went into like my local Best Buy you know like the electronic store this I mean stupid but I didn't know what I was Doing like obviously if you want to hire people you should just go find production people or people with creative experience or whatever not going to a local Best Buy and I hired like seven people in my local electronic store and so I

have like this rag tag group of uh Comedians and this ragtag group of people who sell laptops and I'm like yo and mixed in with some people I just hired from my high school and I'm like and we're making these Videos that are getting views and like I'm scaling up and I'm like you know I'm like guys let's give my 3 million subscriber 3 million pennies and we're they're like how the do we get 3 million pennies I'm like I don't know and we're just like brute forcing and I mean it was an absolute dumpster

fire I didn't know what I was doing because I I wish I had a mentor or something um but then after a while I realized oh maybe I should hire people Who have a little bit of experience in this field not laptop salesmen and Comedians and um over time we kind of I started to figure it out and um but you stayed in motion it sounds like too though like you kept you're like this is how I do I need something funny I'll go to a place that has funny I need a guy who can

you know sell refrigerators but talk about also iPods right I'll go to a Best Buy right yeah the Best Buy is the dumbest thing I've ever done my life Pretty crazy cuz some of those people just smoking weed and wearing a shirt they're not even clocked in yeah it was it blirt it was not the high yeah highest quality people um one of them ended up being a convicted felon too and I didn't even realize that when I hired them but yeah so I was just like oh you know Best Buy hired them I'm sure

they do they're fine yeah I didn't realize I was supposed to do background checks when I was a teenager obviously We do that now but yeah I mean everything I I didn't know how payroll worked or taxes I didn't know I didn't know what a CFO was or bookkeeping so it's just like a lot um and I just had to learn it through trial and error but this we have an audience the whole time so it's not like I can just pause things and then like go oh let me just get rid of all these

best buying Comedians and replace them for real people so I have to keep filming but these videos we're Filming are videos no one's ever done before so these are really complicated things that are constantly going wrong like I think back then like one in three videos I filmed just like I didn't like it so I scrapped it or it got up when we were filming it or whatever because like it was these were just big spectacles and we just didn't have the team for it and I was reinvesting everything and like there was one time

where I like uh I accidentally overspent And we we were like negative $200,000 a lot yeah my mom was like losing her mind and I was like it's fine Mom I'll just next month I think we'll make like you know 200 Grand or whatever and I'll just like spend a little less and I we'll dig out this whole like she hated it because she was helping with the finances well that but we just didn't have money growing up and so like like when when I wanted to like when I think one month we made like

$100,000 and she was like very adamant she's like just put 20% away just let me build a nest DEC this and that and I was like no actually I was thinking of uh just giving like $100,000 to Twitch streamers I think that'd be a good video people would like and she's like she like for 10 hours straight was like why not give him 880,000 it's like because I and this is where I I'm a lot better at communicating now than I was back then I was like I mean you're talking like this Is a guy

who grew up with pimples didn't communicate much sat in his room and worked on YouTube videos and obsessed over you know Business and Entrepreneurship where everyone else just wanted to watch South Park and so I I didn't relate to anyone so my social skill like skills were negative 10,000 so like I was horrible at communicating things so I'd just be like and like in hindsight it's kind of obvious but at the time like there's a huge language Bearer between me and my mom because all that existed in this brain was make the best videos possible

you know and she didn't fully get that and like that was that was it I was I was a robot that that that is what I live for I was a I was not a human at that time and so I was just like if we made 100 Grand why would I not spend the 100 Grand on videos and she'd be like put some away and I was like but if I put it away I would just spend it on other videos so Why can't I just spend it on videos now and we would just

do that hours every single day you're like if I put away 20 grand you know that I'm only going to be able to make 80% of the best video I could make at that time you it's just why am I putting the money away I was like Mom to not make a good video exactly I was like Mom my rent is like $350 I the car's fine yeah I was like why do we need to put it away she's she just be Like and but and I also didn't fully realize this but you know she

would even get trauma to like 2008 when they lost everything went bankrupt and so she was like like we got to save something yeah exactly but yeah so that that's what would make it intense and I didn't fully understand it at the time either so it would like get her to the point where she would cry because I would reinvest everything she just like didn't want what happened to her in 2008 to happen To me and I just like didn't care I just like trust me videos and so that that was a thing for a

very long time but eventually she got to the point where she's like you know what I'll just trust you and that's when that's when things got great because then like it helped my relationship with her a lot because she started stressing less and she just believes you know I got it she's like Jimmy you'll figure this out exactly and like Mr Beast Sun Beast yeah When happens she just goes I know you'll figure it out I'm like thanks like no need for you to cry or freak out like I got this wow did you ever

do something nice for your mom something did you guys ever go to a concert together or something what youall like to do anything together right now I don't really get any time off so I we joke like in in 10 years all the things will do and like things kind of cool off but but no we she she gets it she um she Actually sent me a message like I think it was like four days ago like a really long message since how like she's very grateful that she still gets to work with me and

do things with me and how like most people in my position would like push their mom away but we we do a a lot of our bonding is like doing work stuff and things like that because like then it's like something I truly care about you know what I mean like if we went to a concert like she would see Through that facade she would know I'm not doing that because I care just doing it to like check a box so but when we work together it's like genuinely fulfilling and it's cool to like she

likes to work too yeah well it the stuff she was doing when we're building the business no that was very stressful now we have it to stuff that's a little more chill and where it's fun like you know we have hundreds of employees that have divy cards and all these things and so We have a lot of bank accounts you know how do you know you know someone's not just stealing money so who else can you trust besides your mom to control the master accounts cuz at some point there's a master key of someone who

could I mean if they wanted to just withdraw a million dollars and just run to Mexico right you know so like that's like a really big thing that I counted my mom just to like manage the accounts and make sure there's no fraud And stuff like that because I I don't know like um and things like that um but yeah it's uh it's been a it's been a fun journey and so yeah I'm very grateful for my mom it's kind of crazy that like moms just put 18 years of their life just pouring everything into

building up yeah this human and and it's a risk dude like this human and most humans look up most humans or whatever wait most humans they it's you know it's a shaky business being just Being a human I know and then they just unleash you in the wild and then you just move on and it's like it's just wild it's really a crazy premise you know yeah cuz I'm thinking about how like you know when I I love to spoil my mom cuz I'm like you just like gave everything for 18 years especially after 2008

and all this stuff you know worked multiple jobs just so I could like at the time what you thought was just be a brat and work on YouTube videos and you Thought you know just basically it almost would have seen my my purpose in life was to make you as miserable as possible yet you kept raising me and didn't give up on me um and it's like so I think of that and then I'm like I need to spoil my mom cuz like you know like I think of a different parallel universe where I'm not

in this position it's like damn I would never have been able to like repay her for all that time spoiler as much yeah yeah or spoiler as Much there's been um recently like in the news and stuff I'm not as abrt on it but there was like uh they were try it seemed like they were trying to like poke holes in you guys' company and stuff yeah but a lot of it um like there were I don't know if there was like uh different allegations and stuff against if it was against you or your company

but none of it the it from what I've seen there's never there was never any like uh validity to it yeah right do you Believe that there was actually something going on at your company that was bad or do you believe that other people like at a certain point if your company's doing so well that other companies or outside dark interests get upset and try to lead like reporters or create like negative Buzz um is that a crazy question no no it's accurate it's uh the thing is again I have hundreds of employees that I

employ full-time but I've also hired hundreds of people in The past and sometimes like uh you know sometimes we have hundreds of contractor just working on singular videos because the sets are so big so we work with lots of people it's impossible for there never to be anything negative you know that's why you HR and things like that so um no I mean it would it'd be uh crazy to say there's never been any issues where no one that's ever worked for me has ever been unhappier or you know one employee has never said Anything

you know dumb to some other employee that made them want to complain or things like that so um but I think the thing is it's just obviously completely blown out of proportion like that's not a thing that's just particular to us any company with hundreds of employees obviously there's going to occasionally be something someone says is something that's inappropriate or something that's not ideal but that's where when we're made Aware of it we obviously have HR look into it or if it's something serious we'll bring in an outside third party have them look into it

and just tell us what to do you know I mean and it's weird for you because if if something happens at Nike then it's like there's is there something happened at Nike but if something happens at a production company and you are basically the you exactly the business then a lot of it probably just feel yeah like I have People on unlo that I've never met in my life I probably never will I mean because we just have so many um people and some of them don't work in my hometown and things like that so

yeah I mean the answer is like yeah it's absurd to think that you know hundreds of people or sometimes over a thousand when we scale up contractors working together all these hours that there'll never be any issues um and yeah all I can really do is uh make sure I'm not creating an Environment where we're influencing that which we're doing our best and like um and then when those kinds of things happen just bring in someone to look into it and just be like yo tell me what to do because I'm a YouTuber you know

what I mean right yeah you know someone says something like you know hey there darling or whatever and then someone that person feels like that was inappropriate like I don't want to be the judge of that I want I don't want Someone in my company to be a judge of I want to bring someone in and be like yo talk to them gather the facts and you tell me what I'm supposed to do which is what we do and that's all I I really can do you know yeah yeah it would seem like God it

would just seem like so much stuff is out of your hands when it's got to be tough when you're a Creator you know because you want to be do every you know you kind of want to do everything and have it as a business scales it's Kind of tough because you can't you know um what else did I want to ask you about oh I wanted to ask you about he's got the flash cards sorry dude it's cool I went as long as I could that's about that was a long for me uh so yeah

like you've had like we were talking earlier about like philanthropy so you had like you've taken Plastics out of the ocean right you've put um help people with eyesight um you put the water you've Done water wells in Africa Zambia oh yeah in Africa 100 Wells all across sambia or Africa did you um like what is is is there like a overall goal of like a big crazy Vision you see for the future of like some sort of philanthropic idea for us or just in general yeah just in general it could be anything um well

the thing I've been focusing most of my time on in that area recently is um so for feasts obviously chocolate is made of Cocoa there's a lot of unethical stuff that goes on on Cocoa Farms I don't know if you're aware of that a lot of child look I've used yeah it depends on what kind of farms we're talking about but I yeah well there's some definitely yeah in West Africa like uh so Mo majority of the world's Coco comes from cavar or Ghana uh it's like I believe like 70% of the world's Coco and

like karavana K kavar kotara uh kotar yeah kotar yeah Kar yeah and then Ghana they're on the Left oh and Ghana kotar and Ghana yeah two countries they're on the left side of Africa kind of like where the round part right there it's like the perfect place to go grow Coco and so but 46% of the labor on farms there which is where almost all the Coco on the world comes from is child labor so it's like pretty pretty like just a lot of things going on there and so um that's where I've been focusing

a lot of my attention cuz obviously we need a lot of Coco for Febles and so we used to uh get our cocoa from Peru which you ethical sourcing is not as big of a problem over there we use a lot of uh family-owned farms and blah blah blah but the thing is um there's not enough cocoa comes from Peru to supply big chocolate and I wanted to show like so saying I ethically Source my cocoa from Peru doesn't really prove anything because big other chocolate companies will just go okay but we can't do that

there's not Enough Coco in Peru so like that doesn't count it's not possible to ethically Source Coco in West Africa so um and I knew if febles kept growing eventually we'd have to switch over there so this past year we switched our supply chain over there and we've been just working with the have you ever heard of Tony shakon probably not Tony shalone no and is it a real person well it's a reporter who went like super deep uh in exposing like the chocolate industry and child Interesting guy yeah yeah and then but and he

was like and no no chocolate companies would ethically sourc their Coco and he kept exposing them and none of them would he be a cool guest you think yeah yeah he he'd be awesome wow it sound crazy I didn't know there was bad chocolate out there yeah so he started his own Chocolate Company to prove that you could ethically Source it and he called it Tony's chocolate Lon because it's the Lonely I've seen those yeah badass baller company and so I've been working with them to figure out how we can also e The Source our

chocolate um because they're they're the only ones really doing it clean Coco dude yeah so we uh built a supply chain with them and so like all our farmers were fair trade certified and then we pay our Farmers a living income because a big reason why there's child labor is because farmers in West Africa just don't make enough Money so it like that is like if you're to rank the issues like the number one issue is just income like they just can't even afford to hire adults you know they don't make enough so what they

do and what we're doing for febles is um we pay there's a living income reference price where they basically look at the cost of bread the cost of living cost of inflation blah blah blah and they go if a farmer were to sell you a metric ton of beans if they don't get paid this Number then they won't be able to make a living uh income they won't be able to live which then means they'll be forced to use child labor because if not it's like they're that's the only way they'll be able to survive

so they they have to have children working yeah so they need to make uh and I'm paraphrasing this is M High stuff but they need to make this theoretical number which is living income reference price and so that's what we guarantee our Farmers so there Um if like they theoretically sell us the Coco a metric ton of Coco for less than that we'll pay a premium on top and be like no here's extra money this is what you need to make so you can actually live um but you know we don't want child labor on

the farm so we'll we'll guarantee you you'll make this much but they I don't want to see nine-year-old Timmy on the cocoa Farm you know what I mean um so that's like the big thing um and then we do Like they have Farm coaches that because another way to help farmers make more money is not just pay them more but it's also help them get more yield out of their Farms so they have coaches that will help counsel them and you know theoretically try to help them get five or 10 % more yield out of

the same hectors they have um occas give them some supplies it's like very like all about getting it because it's it's an income problem for a lot of them why They're using child child labor like you could go to the farm and be like stop using child labor but if they can't they survive yeah the family can't eat if the kids don't also work yeah so um that's that's been a a big journey I actually spent recently a week in Gana just going through the whole supply chain so I worked on the farm F you

know and then you laid the crack the pods laid out to dry and then saw like that where they dry and then where they store the beans And even how like the government like um does QC on the beans went through the whole thing all the way to the ship just like so this has been the last year probably like a good chunk of my time has been going to like figure out ethical sourcing with them because it's it's very like it's very expensive you know so I just want to make sure we're doing it

right and um yeah and also that's a way of that's a really a big form of philanthropy itself because you Know just teaching these people how to do how to have success in their own lives I mean that kind of stuff is huge you teach one person in an area and then they can be a leader and teach other people it's like you don't even realize kind of the res that you I hope to um like I hope to get it where if feasts keeps growing where we can be like look we're a big chocolate

company and we're ethically sourced and we're profitable so then we can look at other big Chocolate companies and go you have no excuse right right now they can all just say it's impossible you don't understand you know you don't have scale at companies are size this is like this is a fairy tale dream but because no one's doing it um you know that's actually doing serious Revenue so if we can get to that point where theoretically we're selling a billion dollars a year of chocolate and it's ethically sourced and it's profitable then like they have

no Excuse exactly so like cuz there's over a million kids in child labor and on Cocoa farms in West Africa right now yeah and like Feast builds itself is not going to be able to get all a million out but if we could theoretically get tens of thousands of kids out of child labor and then use that in my you know platform and stuff like this to bully everyone else then hopefully that can create a snowball that gets hundreds of thousands kids out other yeah big Chocolate's going down boy I like that I mean it's

just I hate Three Musketeers I'll say it out loud and when people eat them and I'll say this when people eat them I judge them no comment I don't want to get Su yeah I'm just saying I don't like him yeah he does not like three musketeers and I can say that can I yeah you can say that yeah yeah I don't like them I could say I don't like three musketeers either not because of anything just I don't like know any of Their behaviors I don't know what they're doing before they mail it to

me or whatever I don't like it I never have liked it and I don't even believe in it yeah which is also a way that I feel about it like when I open it up I don't even I don't even believe in it and paydays the nuts aren't any good in them anymore and they were better when my mom paydays I feel like if they if they had like a little more saltiness a little more nuts those things would be the bomb Yeah it's it's a the the chewy stuff in the middle is just a

little too overpowering now I agree yeah paydays are like so close to being a phenomenal product yep and the nuts used be a little more they had more edges on them they looked like more nuts I I bro I Rel late I had a Payday recently I thought the same thing I was like this like in the middle it's just not there's no flavor I want more salt it fell off for me and I don't know When my mom used to get them sometimes it would like a special thing that she would get but she

would let us watch her eat them I'm going to tell you this um did you do you ever dealt with like you're so big on YouTube Do you ever deal with sanctions and stuff on there have you had to deal with that is that a conversation you have with them sanctions like or do or they say like you can't do certain things like you have to like submit all your videos and And like go through a process like that um well can we even talk about that or no we yeah we can talk about the

the conspiracy theorists are going to run away with this but a lot of uh there's uh when there's like um a higher ad PL uh what is it when you get bigger there's like Google preferred or whatever where it's like uh for bigger advertisers like Coke or whatever like premium advertisers they want to make sure they're not advertising on you know Bad content so like for bigger channels YouTube if they'll review your video before it goes up just to make sure it's clean and you're not just like saying Hitler a thousand times um to make

sure it's good for bigger advertisers so they review it for that but they do that for I believe thousands of creators right now which you know but you don't have to do that uh it just helps you get higher ad rates but um no I mean I just post whatever they don't know what I'm doing Or anything and um they're they're pretty chill like do you think they're in a tough position uh with what just like having to set up parameters for different videos and like the effect that it could have on certain people and

that sort of thing like I always just think about it from my perspective I'm always like well we're upset you know's like oh then make us take aoke or this joke or this sort of thing they may not you know well you The thing is they're not making you take it out they're just saying if you don't take it out you won't get higher ad rates that's a good point think of any brand that spends a billion dollars a year on marketing that's them saying hey YouTube if they here's if any of these things are

in a video we don't want to be on it and YouTube's just going hey take this out or we can't put these premium ads on you which I think makes perfect sense yeah that's what I'm Saying sometimes I only look at it from my perspective I'm not able to look at at it from like oh also this is a platform where they allow us to put our stuff up and then so they also are trying to do business as well you know um what else do we have here we're almost done um I mean we

can keep going I'm having fun you don't drink right uh I've maybe drank like five times in my life I don't like the way it makes me feel it's like is it out of control that It makes you feel you think no it just like well so I didn't drink alcohol till was like 23 or 24 I wanted to stay the away from it cuz I have a very addictive personality so my goal is to go my entire life without ever drinking alcohol um but then I was like with Logan Paul one time or I

was I was at a casino oh yeah g gambling and then um Logan Paul was there and then he was like let's hang out and then um was it a UFC fight or something I don't even Remember it might have been like Floyd Mayweather versus Conor McGregor or something I don't know but so I was like okay let's we can gamble together and then we're walking to like the tables and he stops by a club he's like let's just go in here be one minute I was like oh my God I hate clubs they're so

boring so I go in there 1 minute turns into like 2 hours and I'm just so bored and I just caved I was like okay I need to just drink and I Never drink my life but I'm like something I need something I'm dying a lot of people need a drink to be around the so that's when I like that was the time I did it and then I was just like oh I just kind of like feel weird but it's not a happy weird it's just like this is I I just don't like it

you don't dig it yeah yeah I think people I think it's getting less and less popular in the world kind of especially with like younger generation it's just like they Just think it's kind of dumb yeah just I don't know it I I I don't know how to describe it it's like it just makes me feel stupid and like but not a good stupid it's not like a happy stupid it's like it's just dumb like it's a waste of time yeah I've definitely I've done a lot of that um in July you tweeted if you

were to lower the age for president that you might run um do you still think that ever um no no no I I mean I I might when I'm older but not no if they Lowered it that was mostly a joke just CU I knew people would freak the out and talk about it um and it work me but I would uh if I were to it would probably be like when I'm like 50 or 60 because I would need to like accomplish everything I want in business and stuff and then probably take like 10

years and I'd have to go be like a do something at the local level and then the state level and work my way up but yeah we'll see but there could be potentially a President Beast you never know oh yeah 100% you never know especially after you learn a lot do you um has Elon ever reached out to you to do something cool together because I mean you guys at a certain point you guys are both like um uh Pioneers in certain schools of thought and and and certainly creative folks yeah I mean he's pioneering

taking us to Mars electric cars talking with your phone through your brain digging tunnels fixing traffic you know getting Rid of a trillion dollars of waste in the government now and this and that and I'm pioneering funny videos yeah I I don't know if i' put those in but um but kidding but um he yeah we we bumped into each other at the Super Bowl said hi um I I I don't I think he asked me do do do I think people call it call X Twitter still or do people call it X and I

was like yeah most people call it Twitter I've noticed he's like interesting I Think that was kind of like the gist of it yeah and then um but outside of that no not really I mean I've been talks with um people at SpaceX and even' been cooking ideas and things like that but not Elon himself yeah yeah we tried to ask if we we could interview those um the two people stuck up in that sh oh my gosh that'd be crazy I wanted to be the first one CU people are like who who you want

to get on your podcast and they're like anybody and I was trying to think Who could you not get like oh somebody who's not on Earth yeah right that's true you got to get somebody who's just loitering or whatever you know and um I love how they're not aliens but yeah it's like all right do you think you could get Elon on here one day do you think I think maybe yeah they just they offered to send me a star link if I want to get one so I might get one are you using them

oh yeah starlink is amazing bro when you're in Zambia in the Middle of nowhere it's the only it's starlink in Antarctica was amazing like Antarctica you're in the middle of nowhere and I mean literally the furthest from Human civilization on the planet and yeah you can get internet it was it's such a phenomenal product did you see anything cool like youi because a lot of people say on artico that they're hiding secret stuff up there that there's that kind of energy boy yeah Antarctica you should go to Antarctica at some time in your life it

oh I would love to go up there up there uh so there's like uh there's you go to South America and then you get on a Boeing 747 like an actual like commercial plane you go to South America yeah you go all the way to like the very bottom like of Chile oh CU antartic is at the bottom yeah yeah um and then uh you board like a commercial plane like you're flying like Delta here and it just starts flying and you just You fly over the ocean and then you see just this just endless

abyss of white snow and mountains and you just keep flying deeper and deeper and deeper into it and then you just see there's just ice Runway I mean it's the sketchiest thing you'll ever see in your life and it just lands this commercial airliner there I I I had no idea of any of this going into it I kind of went into it pretty raw and uh you get off it's just this janky little like ladder Thing type be um it's uh they no yeah go down one image right there that one click on it

cuz they have to brush all the snow off yeah that's what you land on wow just ice and then um then that's not the one we went to but then there's just this uh research facility where there's like three big tents that researchers work out of and then there's like aund tents that they all live out of um so there's no actual terminal no because uh there it like so the time We're it's like sun 247 but then there's like these intense winters like three or four months of year words it's like dark and you

can't be there so they have to pack everything up and Lead You can't leave anything behind so it's like a temporary thing um and so we get out and there's all these researchers doing experiments and cool and I'm just like hey I'm here to film a video um so and then a snow so we were supposed to just be there for like two days or three Days or whatever but a snowstorm hits so what we were going to do is just go out in a random Direction and then just set up a camp in the

middle of nowhere in Antarctica and try to survive for 50 hours but there was an intense snowstorm so we're just we had to sit in these research facilities and wait them out um and one of them was so crazy it's like this uh tent with like door and it like flew the door flung it open it was so intense that we had to like tie like Hold the door shut cuz it's like like barreling snoow and I'm like my God I think we're going to die like it was crazy they're like we haven't had a

storm like this in a while and like uh you have like all these little tents that you live in and like the big communal tents for the where everyone hangs out and stuff and the little tents like we had to build like actual snow walls around our tent because there's so much wind blowing that like our tents Would have got swept away so we had to I had to barricade the I'm like this is just a normal thing they're like yeah that's just what happens and so you're like building a wall around your your you

know metal pole reinforced ttin that you're going to sleep in um and like when the winds would pick up at night I'm I'm like it's like is my ENT just going to fly off like and there's nowhere to run to yeah you just run to the bigger ttin but it's like it was Crazy you know and also in Antarctica bro it's like you can't pee or in the snow or anything like because you can't leave anything behind like that's massively illegal and so everything all your waste and stuff you have to store and carry and

hold and that kind of stuff fly back with it uh well they they will but you'll just put in like like a piss tank where they'll hold on to it and the and the bag that like this big thing they had um but also You get snow blindness because there everything's white in the Sun reflect so you have to wear glasses when you go outside or it'll literally blind you which was like that was crazy yeah imagine first of all you're almost blind can't yeah well so you wear GL these like tinted glasses what you

even doing dude it's like you're years old it's so beautiful though it's like crazy to just see you're just in the middle of nowhere it feels like you're on a Different planet and it was like sometimes you just walk outside you just walk in a direction you just see nothing anywhere and it was a zoo or anything like that no there's nothing is there any no animals nothing no roads or nothing huh no there's literally nothing there I mean and like so after the snowstorm calmed down we just went out like got on these like

little skis or things went went far away uh but this is where it gets scary because there's Kasses and um Ravines and things like that so you could be walking and then just fall 100 feet and die right because there's like the snow could have like slightly piled up over like a 100 foot Gap in between the ice or things like that so you have to have like this device go in front of you that checks to make sure there's not just like a giant hole you're going to fall in you have to mark everything

so we go in this random Direction scan everything and then we uh Scann like this little like 100t s foot perimeter put up flags and it's like guys if you walk across those flags there's a chance you'll die so boys stay within this unless we scan more areas and then yeah we just started setting up tents raw dogging it in the middle of nowhere Antarctica far away from the re research facilities and it was it was a awesome experience and then there's this mountain that that no one had any records of someone Climbing so we

climbed this pretty tall mountain and so I got to name it um which I I named it Shopify CU they sponsored the video and helped make the whole thing happen but so but like uh it was crazy man climbing up this mountain and I just I had no idea how we did that was can you pull it up just like go to the 50 hours in Antarctica uh is it nice like and there's no people there's not like antarctican you can't go to a bar nothing there's nothing no there's Literally nothing like this there's research

facilities so do you think there's crazy stuff going on down there like they say there's a lot of uh no I don't think there's anything I didn't I yeah that see look at that wow it's crazy yeah we were deep in there and it's super cold huh yeah it depends on the time they're they well so the uh problem is like when you move around and you have so many layers you start to heat up and then you take the clothes Off and then you get really cold yeah see look where we went to is

there a chance that at one point it was thought out and it was a normal land and we'll be able to explore it one day and we just don't know or that's complete nothing well there's uh it's not straight like those are real rocks and stuff so it's ice on top of stuff so yeah there is land um and wow it is crazy that oh my God bro yeah look at that snowstorm we got hit with so this Is after we left the research facility and now we're going to setup camp and like yeah those

those are the goggles you have to wear to not go blind um and then right here is where it's like a human ID a rod kind of oh that's the island that's the mountain you named no no that's just yeah the Mountain's behind us over there yeah and then this is us setting up our tents and just I mean we're just a bunch of stupid kids I don't I don't know how we pulled this Off yeah you could have lost a kid easy we obviously we had a safety expert there but yeah but obviously that

then then just skip ahead like to towards the end where you see me climbing up the mountain it's probably yeah I don't know maybe after this or before I just wanted to see or yeah and that's just an ice thing in yeah keep going to the left is that Igloo no that's a the tent but it's metal reinforce yeah to the right a little bit yeah right there just hit it Uh right click a couple or double tap yeah so look at this right here this is us climbing up the mountain look at those views

it's gnarly oh Shopify I didn't addre I was like what's what's the most interesting time I can do an ad read and I was like where people wouldn't click off I was like you know while I'm climbing this mountain it'll probably be more interesting do you think you'll get to Do a video with Kim Jong-un everever um I mean like a game show to help some of his citizens feel like they would think it's Western propaganda I don't think they it would let me you know when I first started uploading in China um they were

like they called me like a American capitalist or whatever whenever I uh post my like we posted some our videos that like uh got views they're like this American y capitalist so we start so I stopped posting the videos where we give away money and just more like the challenge videos and then they're like oh this is cool so so they just don't like the money as the goal yeah I don't know they don't want to inspire they don't want their people to see that I don't know what the logic was but I just noticed

that a lot in the comments so I was like okay let me just switch up what I'm posting over here what do you watch On TV man you watching anything what am I watching I'm about to start penguin that I haven't the HBO show I haven't started that yet oh yeah I haven't seen that yet either that was on the list for tonight um honestly I'm watching Beast games like I probably watched that episode we watched earlier a 100 times to give still notes on and think of yeah notes but I've also now I just

get enjoyment out of watching other people watch it Cuz that episode's mostly locked but I'm like so good man yeah I've watched like maybe 30 people watch it so it's like my my like uh guilty pleasure is just watching like what other people watch my show so that's it's awesome and to know that it's more for adults it's like you still I think you're right I think you were perfectly right like when you think about Mr Beast it's like um you you there's a part of you that still thinks part of it's for children and

it is for Children but it's also for everyone but Beast games is definitely for everyone I mean it's it's the most aged up mature stuff we've ever done and I just I just can't wait man because we spent over a year working on that I told you how much money we spent on it was so much time and effort and like the YouTube videos you make and then you upload two months later to sit on this for so long and we have 10 episodes of it filmed it's like just to put it out in the

world will Just awesome God damn it I can't wait so you're so that's something that that excites you just to see people see it yeah oh I'm so excited I'm so cuz most people have no idea what it is than the ones that are going to watch it they're just they're I feel like their minds are just going to be so blown great the fact you told me everybody's on their own individual platform and how many platforms were there a thousand Towers yeah that's Crazy bro yeah I had to build a thousand of those and

then a thousand uh well we need a 3,000 uh hydraulic presses or whatever they're called to open them and uh 3,000 Hydraulics and it's like to build those and then a th000 foam pits and 1 th000 crash pads and then we had to rig up a th lightings and 1 th000 GoPros and then to build all that and the screen on the side and I mean even just $5 million of real money having that there and all that stuff and then Building the sets it's and that's just one of the 10 episodes you know what

I mean so we had to do that 10 times built a city name one show who's just gone okay this field build enough housing for 500 people build a sports facility build two massive five-story Towers build a helipad build this build that build that and make it look good and a wall yeah closest thing I can think is that Angola Prison Rodeo have you ever heard of that it's down in uh No outside of bat rou I mean it's not like what you're talking about but it's like they put on a pretty good event once

a year down there and the prisoners are do the rodeo in wait what yeah the Angola Prison Rodeo Angola prison pretty awesome if you're into that kind of stuff but yeah you would probably you would definitely be able to do this way better but just let you know there's a little bit of competition out there wait so those are prisoners yep They put them all in this circle right and if you leave the circle they send the Bulls through and if you leave the circle you lose right and what do the prisoners get out of

it some I think they get like uh time with a basketball or something I don't know what the prize is I have to look and see the pr are this is crazy what he stayed in there and this is he really wants that prize right but yeah just letting you know so There is a little competition out there have you ever SE the last question half you you ever seen that show hands on a hard body you ever see that movie no wow hands on a hard body there was a somebody somebody went to a

mall oh that one the documentary yeah I I haven't seen it but I've heard of the the last take handoff car keeps a type yeah yeah okay I've seen a clip of that on Tik Tok and they all have their hand on a hard body the original one is great oh There's a musical now that's hilarious and the guy's like nothing getting me to take my hand off but he go we we did last take can off Lamborghini keeps it he did yeah with 50 people well this is how somebody trumped somebody walked up and

like hey you want this chocolate bar and I got like I would love it both hands damn who takes a chocolate bar off somebody with both hands and he he made a mistake and he lost you yeah so we we did one too where we put took a Million dollars in cash had people put their hands on it um and I think one of the four people I don't remember but like CU after like 18 hours you start to like foret you know you're not 100 100% focused I think he just like reached to graph

something and then was like oh and lost a million dollars they say that the world will be changed by individuals and humans and sometimes you start to think that that's not going to happen you know that people are going to Expect a government to do it but then I think you meet somebody like you and you're like wow anything is maybe possible man I think that's kind of like a feeling that I really got spending time with you today man um yeah thanks for sharing your new show with me and um is it tough for

you to like so if you have if you spend so much time working and uh would it like is relationship something that's hard for you to navigate I know you said you have a Relationship is that a tough thing for you to drop in and also be like a regular person like cuz I'll notice I'll invite a girl over and then I'll sit there and do work yeah well that's relationships just even outside of dating have always been a problem for me because like I I think this might have been a traumatic experience because I

still picture it to this day and occasionally have dreams of it but I remember when I was like 15 or 16 like Because I'm was so obsessed with YouTube I remember like at lunch one time like one um person literally just looked me down in the eyes and said do you know how to talk about anything besides YouTube and I that like and I was like whoa and I like and then I was like okay I'm going to not talk about YouTube and then so I just didn't talk like and like at one point someone

unironically asked me if I was mute like because I was just like in my head I was Like well people think I talk about YouTube too much and I don't know anything else besides YouTube and so I just didn't know what to do and it was like very like traumatic for me because I was so obsessed with it growing up and the problem is though right and back then I thought okay I'm a freak of nature I'm the problem I tried to I tried to watch South Park and I I think it's a good show

but I just didn't find it interesting and um and my like Opportunity cost brain back then was like no I need to be working I this is blah blah blah and so I just never related to anyone I thought it was because I'm a freak and it's all me me me but then I as I when I was like 18 or 19 it got a little smarter I realized no it's just in my school there just weren't people who were interested in the same things as me and so I was like that's but it is

what it is I don't need to change who I am I just need to change The people around and that was like a big turning point for me wow um and so uh no I don't struggle with the relationships I well I mean if you just put me in a room with um someone who doesn't isn't trying to achieve anything or doesn't want to do anything extraordinary and just wants to play video games and blah blah like yeah I mean I wouldn't relate to him i' it be a struggle um but you put me in

a room with someone who is building a business Um and trying to do something cool like I mean we could probably talk for 10 hours straight you know what I mean so it's just all who you're around it's just those people are pretty rare and you you don't stumble into them you have to be very diligent to like have those kind of people in your life um so yeah that that just putting myself around the right kind of people has helped like crazy and like my current girlfriend she's amazing she understands that like You know

growing the channel and making great content and right now with febles because we're trying to build an ethical supply chain so I'm doing this on steroid hard mode and all these other things I'm trying to do it's like it's not easy and like you know she gets it you know I me like there are just some days where I won't be able to come home there are just some days where you know I'm going to film for 16 hours I'm going to I will come home and I don't Even know if my eyes will be

open like I'm going to come home and just pass out because it was so intense and um so it's great like and we we communicate really well and and that kind of stuff and I'm very happy um but yeah I guess that's kind of the gist like did you have to say like we you can I subscribe to your heart or something like that like you no I um it's actually nice though because one thing I found is um because we're not robots you do have to take time off Even though I hate that you

you can't work all the time and so I found that in the past I would just like if I went eight days like really hard or nine days like sometimes I get it to 10 or 12 in a row I would just like wake up and just feel like and crash and I need to like watch an anime or something to like decompress and blah blah but I found like if I consistently spend time with my girlfriend I don't like boil up to this point where I'm so stressed and I Need to crash I'm losing

my mind at border going to have a mental breakdown you know what I mean yeah kind of navigate a little bit better yeah it's like you know because then I get these it's like decompression shots when I hang out with her like more consistently because it's like you know when you just go home alone to an empty bed it's like what do you do Bes I just sit there and think about work but if you have this beautiful woman you're like oh this is Cool let's talk about things and it's like helps you like take

your mind off work so I've noticed that's been a good uh benefit is like they don't I just don't have like borderline mental breakdowns as often yeah so yeah connection some you got to connect with people they get put you in a little bit bit better place and yeah it's important um uh Jimmy thanks so much man forend time dudee I'm definitely a fan you know yeah I'd love to chat again sometime About business or something and you know it's funny you meet people sometimes you think they're they heroes or they're great and sometimes once

you learn about them that's kind of like whatever you know they were they were better to to see from afar you know I'm sorry that I was better from afar to let you down maybe next time I was going to say that's not the case man um I'm excited yeah I'm excited for everybody to see Beast games um are you ever doing a show In North Carolina if they're children or adults yeah man we'll come over there for sure I'll invite you yeah if you're doing show we'll be there I'll invite you to one uh

thanks so much for all the content and entertainment I'm excited to see what you do in the future man you I think you inspire a lot of people so nice I hate getting conf but I think it's just like anything is possible I agree I hate getting that's why I'm giving I'm start complimenting you This podcast was amazing you had great questions it was very free flowing I thought you know sometimes you just go on a podcast it's an absolute show but this one wasn't and I think you're very exceptional at what you do your

vernacular is is very good and I I just really loved uh your shoes and how you did things and I thought your squad was pretty good they're very welcoming you made sure I had two cans of Celsius um that was awesome and just all around a Good environment and everything thanks man well we'll see about that Mr Beast see does am I the only one to close it on this am I the only one that feels uncomfortable when people talk about you like that oh I can't it makes me really uncomfortable I I I can't

wait for them to get done saying something nice ex and I've had to train myself to just sit there and take it because I used to always change the subject and it would make it even more uncomfortable because And and kind of awkward so now I've just like practiced like doing this but because before I noticed my default would always just be to the people start complimenting and I just change the subject instantly yeah me too I'll be like oh that's sweet of you to say we should go Outdoors that's what I'll say like yeah

interesting anyways so yeah oh it's very sweet of you I was wondering the other day if the Jets will win anything this year and people were like What are we even you know but yeah it's gotten yes you navigated a little bit better as time goes on you know is this brand also paying no I just like they water the wait so Celsius had to pay these guys got it for free yeah but we'd like to get a water my goal one day is to make a water let's see if that makes in this is

my goal to make a water right I want to have a half like a um Wellness facility for people recovering from addiction right and it's on a on land That has an aquafer so they can access water and then the people that are getting well are are helping to create like uh so they they you employ the people with addictions so you get them out yeah yep and then the water gets sold and the money goes to the facility so it's like cuz so many people have been ruined by addiction that our government supported right

or didn't really combat like with opioid epidemic so I'm like well how do you beat them And you get something everybody needs that's clean for people which is water and then every time they Dr buy it they're helping somebody get clean you know or what if you give them drugs and they go sell drugs and then they just put their addiction to good use a talking about yeah yeah I feel like that' do better cuz they they probably know the drug landscape and other addicts really well oh that's a good point you're kind of Putting

them in a whole new territory yeah exactly I feel like just lean into what they're good at they're a drug addict just let them sell drugs you know what we'll try both we'll try both you know okay and we'll get some we'll get some all right he's been trying to end this for like five minutes all right bye now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be Cornerstone oh but when I reach that Ground I'll share this piece of my life found I can feel it in

my bones but it's going to take