Joe Rogan Experience #1788 - Mr. Beast

[Music] okay here hold up just talk to me for like a minute okay this is so freaky too is it really you had to hear my own voice we need to put this on the video okay good we're recording already have you ever had a guest like freak out no you're the first freak out because of headphones not headphones no it's because i hear my own voice i'm very conscious of that so Now i'm like [ __ ] my inflection or whatever isn't uh sounds fine okay no i know it sounds fine it's just [

__ ] whatever i'll suck it up you don't have like a butt you can press to kill him what the [ __ ] when you're playing video games you don't hear yourself right no yeah i don't either but yeah i hear it's different sorry yeah well don't worry about it dude that's what you sound like now you know i i mean i've seen videos i Knew what i sound like just in real time hearing it it sounds like i'm speaking to myself [ __ ] it but you're not you're speaking to me the the purpose

of it is when you and i talk and we can hear each other's voice at the same sound level we don't talk over each other because people tend to talk over each other yeah just normal normal one-on-one yeah normal conversation people talk over each other accidentally you know like but when you hear both sounds both Voices at the same sound level it sounds really clunky in your ears it's imperative when you have three people if you have three people and you don't have headphones on it'll be a disaster they just everyone starts talking over each

other and then when you're listening to it it's like unlistenable it's it's hard to that makes sense yeah all right so so we're just rolling right now rolling man what's happening how are you first of all let me just tell you How impressed i am with what you've done i think what you've done is amazing because your channel and your this what you've done on youtube is completely unique it's completely you like your personality comes through the way you've like crafted these these things that people have to do these tasks and these games and this

fun [ __ ] you do and it's wildly popular and i didn't know about it until i guess about a year ago Uh i told you my 11 year old is [ __ ] obsessed with your show obsessed and she told me and we were in a hotel in vegas i was there for the ufc and she was watching youtube i'm like what are you watching she's like oh my god it's mr beast and she was so into this show and then i watched it and i was like wow this is actually really entertaining fun

stuff man thank you yeah it's it's it's been crazy because i've been doing it since i was 11. and really yeah so Now i'm 23 and so it's just like basically every year just gotten crazier and crazier and i used to make a dollar a day back well the first few years i wasn't even making money off youtube but once i started making money i was making a dollar a day and i saved up for a couple months i bought a microphone saved up for half a year i got a computer and i've just always

reinvested it and so it's like literally just all i mean i was like as awkward as they Came uh no money no nothing and i just basically just obsessed over youtube every day for a decade are your first episodes available the 11 when you're 11 years old uh no because i i had a friend when i was 13 that found my channel and so i deleted like all the videos i got really self-conscious uh oh no no but so everything from 13 and up is there and yeah they're terrible so that's still cool yeah so

what did you do when you first started like what was the first Idea uh the very first video um weirdly enough i played this stupid game and some hacker like killed my bass when i was 11. and so i uploaded it and my first video got 20 000 views like instantly because it was like all the people that played the game was like oh [ __ ] you can hack in this game it's a game called battle parts it's a guarantee you know what is it called battle parts no one has ever heard of battle

card battle pirates battle Pirates yeah it's a really small game but i uploaded that and i got 20 000 views and that was probably the best thing that could have ever happened to me because then i was i was hooked from day one literally like most people it takes hundreds of videos before you get like one view and somehow the very first video i uploaded at 11 got like 20 000 views and then i was just like oh i fell in love and i've been hooked ever since wow so it was kind of almost by

accident Uh essentially yeah it was that and then because this was way before youtube was even a thing like you know no one was really a youtuber hardly anyone made money when did youtube first get when did you launch like 2006 or whatever yeah youtube was a thing but like the partner program wasn't really a thing no one was making money right it was definitely back before it was cool like when i was doing Youtube when i was 14 and 15 like it now you know it's cool if you want to be a youtuber in

high school or middle school back then like no one gave a [ __ ] you know what i mean it was like you're just worried they would try to play your videos in class or make funny or stuff like that for it so but it how did it evolve to what it is now was it a a vision was it a slow sort of a gradual increase in numbers and yeah i mean it's about as slow as it gets uh i mean i can So like when i was a young teenager i was getting no

views had no money had no equipment so for the most part it was just like i was just trying to scrounge money so i could buy equipment because i was using my brother's old laptop and so like my first couple hundred videos i didn't have a microphone like imagine just like crackly terrible voice um and so once i got monetized i saved up for a few months like i told you i bought a microphone i didn't just give you a mile High history and i saved up for like six months i mean i was just

doing video game videos uh and they were terrible but i saved up i got a real computer so now i can actually record the video game at high quality i have a microphone i'm like 15 and i just kept going and going um trying to figure out like what are some of like the hot spots like essentially up until 18 i had been doing youtube pretty religiously but i was making no Money like this is kind of the turning point was when i graduated from high school and my whole life i was like i want

to be making enough money by the time i graduated to do this full-time and i wasn't i was only making a couple hundred bucks a month so i graduated high school and my mom was like either move out or go to a community college and i didn't have enough money to move out but i really just i hated school with a passion but she forced me to go To community college and that was that was the worst thing ever like that that made me hate life like borderline suicidal i just can't stand like having to

just sit there and listen to this dumb stuff and listen to some teacher read out a book so what i did was i would act like i was going to community college but i would just work on videos in my car and edit and stuff like that i had straight zeros and so now the clock had started because like once my mom Found out i was screwed um were you aware of that like yeah you're running a risk yeah exactly and so i would act like i was going to college that whole time but i

i wasn't and i didn't have enough money to move out and that was kind of when i was just like 15 hours a day all in i was like i'm [ __ ] if this doesn't work and i actually i had some videos pop off i couldn't tell you which ones but i had a month where i made 20 grand because i just had some videos Just do really really well and then i yeah i came home and i was like yeah i haven't been going to college and i moved out the next day my

mom almost had a heart attack because she she didn't understand youtube or anything back then and she just like she was like man this guy's gonna work at mcdonald's i wasted all this time like i invested 18 years and this is what i get where were you living what part of the country uh north carolina that's where i've lived almost My whole life and so how does she feel now oh she's great she's she like she's happy yeah she loves it you know put her in front of her friends she loves talking about it she

obviously oh i always knew little jimmy was gonna be a success no she doesn't try to hide it we would fight all the time even in high school like you know i i never once studied i never i literally wouldn't even take my books home like i i legit don't think i studied once all of high School at my house um and so we would fight a lot i didn't have the best grades and so i would i would just make videos and she didn't understand it especially because back then it was just a whole

different world like yeah there wasn't really a thing as a full-time youtuber and stuff and so there's a lot of a lot of arguments a lot of drama but ended up working out she's happy the thing is it's like nobody saw this coming right so you can't You can't blame her especially me in like the middle of north carolina in a small town i had like horrible acne i'm you know especially back then really awkward it's like no one like people would have bet a million dollars that i wouldn't be a youtuber you know it

makes no sense um but i just like i have you know hyper obsession and i love this and you know you give it enough time anyone can solve it well there's a lesson in that for People really like to just if you do have a hyper obsession or something there's a lot of people that think that because they're bad at school or because they're not interested in school they're destined to be a loser yeah and that's not true you you can the problem is school is too rigid like regular public school system sit down underemploy

underpaid teacher disinterested not really connected with the work you're not connected with you Just can't wait to go home and do what you like to do exactly and you get this thought in your head like oh my god i'm going to be a loser i mean that's how i was when i was in high school i thought i was going to be a loser well and you take it a step further because i thought especially if you're like extremely passionate about something at a young age where most kids are then you're even it's more exacerbated

that it's like you know i like i i didn't talk to anyone i I hardly had any friends because i was so obsessed with youtube as back then just no one cared so it's like i thought i was just like uh just didn't even know how to speak like literally i i just couldn't hold a conversation with a single person because people just tell me all you talk about is youtube and i would try to talk about something else but back then i was so hyper obsessed i literally just didn't know how to but were

you obsessed about were you Obsessed about other channels your channel everything from like learning how to editing the pacing of the videos like ideas what's going viral what's trending what's hot especially back then i had no idea what worked i mean i had to like self teach myself everything even you know frame rate on cameras coloring of the video just stuff like that and how did you learn did you learn from youtube yeah well so like youtube videos and tutorials or something Most of my growth came actually after uh i graduated high school basically what

i did was i somehow found these other like four lunatics we were three of us were college dropouts one was a high school dropout and one i don't know he just like quit his job we were all super small youtubers and we basically talked every day for a thousand days in a row and did nothing but just like hyper study like what makes a good video what makes a good thumbnail what what's good Pacing like how to go viral and we would just call it like daily masterminds we would just get on skype every morning

and like some days like i'd get on skype at 7am and i'd be in the call until like 10 pm and then i go to bed i wake up and i do it again and oh you know we do things like take a thousand thumbnails and see if like there's uh correlation to the brightness of the thumbnail how many views it got or like you know like Videos that get over 10 million views it's like how often do they cut the camera angles or like things like that really so you you micro analyzed everything yeah

just i mean for like we were very religious about it and so that's that's where most of my knowledge came from is i just surround myself with these lunatics and just every day like we didn't do anything we had no life um but everybody had sort of a similar vision yeah exactly so we all had like 10 20 000 subscribers when we met and by the time we stopped talking we all had millions of subscribers and we we all hit a million subscribers like within a month it's crazy because it's like if you envision a

world where you're trying to be great at something and it's just like you learning and [ __ ] up and learning from your mistakes also my mom told me not to curse sorry mom if someone could just like edit out the swear words and give it to me mom yeah So i could give it to my mom to listen to that would be great um but like you know you mess up you learn from your mistake you must have learned from mistake you in two years you know might have learned from 20 mistakes or if

you have like four other people who are also messing up and when they uh learn from the mistake they teach you what they learn stuff like hypothetically you two years down the road have learned like five times more of the amount of stuff So it just like helps you grow exponentially way quicker if that makes any sense it does it does so but it's interesting that you thought about it that way in sort of a systematic approach like exactly this is not dumb luck uh no i mean it was like like they say ten thousand

hours of math or something probably put like forty fifty thousand hours we're talking like every day all day like literally nothing we had no friends Outside of the group that was your life i'm actually rereading that book right now that malcolm gladwell book outliers that talks about that 10 000 hours principle it totally applies to what you did 100 i mean like it's it sounds like you were just all day every day and which makes sense and what do you have now 90 million subscribers uh well we across everything we're closing in on 200 million

subscribers yeah because Have you seen our our dub channels no uh can you pull that up just search mr beast and estimate so we actually which i'm kind of curious why you don't do this we do our videos in other languages as well really yeah and so and what's i i can't wait to get to show you this because i actually have a really cool thing you're just going to be cool to the channel so you can watch who does this uh Yeah we have voice actors and everything wow so these are the exact same

videos on my main channel but we we pay voice actors to dub over them we translate the text in the video every mr beast and espanol yeah that was actually one of the fastest growing channels last year and it just started so smart okay now click on a video so we can kind of hear it so we can see the comments uh it's all in uh spanish like that's dope yeah so That's uh now just i won't pull them all up but now the other countries yeah search mr beast brazil if we do it oh

so you got a portuguese translator as well wow that's dope yeah same thing oh a man what a great idea man yeah and so because you know uh if you google it it's like only whatever less than ten percent of the world speaks english so Ninety percent of the world can't even enjoy your content and when i realized that i was like wait a minute okay 90 percent of my the world can't even watch this stuff um and so go back to the spanish one real quick because that's our biggest one and sorry for anyone

watching who doesn't have the visuals so set it to most popular you'll like we just started doing this like six months ago and it's crazy like how viral some of these videos are not 51 million yeah And the the problem with me is like i don't know if someone's gonna translate if they're gonna say exactly what i said well you have quality control so we have like before video gets uploaded we have three different people who basically write the transcript and then if the words don't line up on all three then or sorry let me

think about the process we have something like that because i was Worried about that as well i think we we take the original transcript and then we have it dubbed and then after stuff we have like two different people right out and if it doesn't line up with the original then there's like uh it's a red flag and we look at it interesting yeah we built some system where i don't have to worry about that oh and the final point is in spanish the guy who does my dubs is the same guy who dubbed spider-man

we managed to convince him so A lot of those comments are like why does he sound like spider-man or is mr v spider-man uh that's hilarious yeah and so what we do is when we go into these markets we get celebrities to do my my voice so then like the local people in the language freak out so like all right japan's coming up and i can't say who but we secured like a giant voice actor from an anime to do my dubs and whenever we launch in japan i know they're gonna lose their freaking minds

that's a Brilliant idea that's so smart so you have how many employees then uh i mean across everything over a hundred i don't know wow and what are you 23 yeah that's crazy yeah it's wild i think i just had the blessing of finding what i loved at a young age so like because to get to this level it takes you know a decade most people don't find what they love to their young 20s so they'd be wearing that in their 30s i just lucked out and found it when i was really young it's that

but it's also your vision the the fact one of the things that i was really impressed by when i started looking into you after my daughter introduced me is that you invest so much money into the show i don't i don't why do i need money so you don't like go crazy you don't have a ferrari or anything nuts no i i think living your life chasing like a Nicer nicer car and a bigger and bigger box of living is kind of like a dumb way to go about life yeah yeah so i i actually

funny enough i lived in like a super below average home and i kind of learned why famous people don't live in uh below average homes because someone broke in stole everything i owned sandy i had to get a little nicer house for security reasons but before i was robbed i mean like my place is like a little duplex 700 a month you get a roommate's 360 split right yes and uh just drive a normal car well now i drive a tesla just because of the you know getting off of gas and stuff like right but

yeah so you don't go crazy at all with cash you know i really try not to i think that's like just a bad way to go about life also it is a little hypocritical because i run a non-profit and you know we uh have you seen our beast philanthropy channel no can you pull that up as well we do a lot of stuff for Helping people and so also if i lived in a 10 million dollar mansion while i'm feeding people and trying to help people else in my eyes it's also a little hypocritical as

well so in every area i just i feel like it's just better if i just live below you're just very wise for a young man because a lot of 23 year olds will be all in out of their [ __ ] mind right zoom out well yeah i also have some stories about that too but you do um Yeah because i did have a phase where i did ball out a little bit and then i just i realized like yeah this doesn't make me happy what did you do during the ball and out phase uh

i bought i ate and i also bought some designer clothes like some thousand dollar shirts and stuff like that um ironically all of which was stolen when my house was broken into so it's kind of perfect because i was like i don't know if i really care about this stuff anymore and then someone just Stole all my expensive [ __ ] i was like perfect you set aside a bunch of [ __ ] you money at least so that you never have to worry about money again i've always reinvested back in the channel sometimes i

run out of money and i've taken it alone really yeah but you've taken a loan multiple times you're making astounding amounts of money yeah but hypothetically if like uh you know you do a brand deal and a brand Owes you a half a million dollars sometimes you don't pay for four months you know i already spent that half a million dollars when i gave it away in that video so it's like you know it's like there's never been a point where i'm like negative technically money's inbound but sometimes you just have to wait but i

gotta keep going and keep filming you know wow that's just it's very unusual that someone would spend that Much money reinvesting in the show yeah that's which ironically is why we made more money last year than any other youtuber on the platform because it's i don't well the thing is like for youtube a lot of people are very young uh and so i think it's like there's so much money in this industry but most people are so young that they just don't even realize the opportunity they have and they don't they don't understand a lot

of these things right and so i i think that's Like it shouldn't be revolutionary that i reinvest all my money like that's something businesses have been doing for centuries you know what i mean right it's it's not that crazy but i think just like i was saying like people are just so young and they don't understand like you know the the opportunity you have here i mean if you have 50 million people that watch everything you do you can start business you can do anything You know what i mean um it's very valuable well the

thing is though you're treating this like an established business and i think there's a lot of people that get into youtube and they're just they have no idea what they're doing and they have no business sense and even though you didn't pay attention in school you're obviously wise enough to recognize that the right thing to do is to invest that's what makes it unusual because like you give a 23 year Old the kind of money that you're making most of them are going to just go [ __ ] crazy oh it's think even younger because

i started getting money was 1920. and so there's there's so many things i want to say on that because i agree and i feel like i have some good advice to add for people in those positions but uh there's a couple things first first off the to be like this successful as a youtuber you kind of have to understand Like there's like three different pillars that make like uh like get us where we are like you have to have the business sense reinvest higher scale up i mean the things we're doing are huge logistical nightmares

have you ever tried to buy a private island and uh you know and you buy private island and there's no beach and so you have to terraform a beach and build a pier and stuff like that is that what you did yeah i mean there's so many you guys Bought an island yeah because we uh did a video where leave island keeps it and then so we buy an island and it looks better on the internet and then you go see and there's no beach well [ __ ] now you gotta import five thousand pounds

of sand where's the island uh somewhere in the bahamas uh so someone won it so the person someone won a [ __ ] island yeah we're actually about to do something similar again coming up Um how much does an island cost that one was like 800 grand and then we put like 100 grand into like renovating it um and then wow how big is the island uh it was huge like three football fields or something like that it took quite a while to walk to the other side this is it yeah yeah that one i

bought this entire island you can get an island for 800 grand yeah in the bahamas that's kind of a shock how many islands are in the bahamas Um i'm gonna be honest i have no idea but like that beach you see there we had to build that beach it was it's really yeah so that sand wasn't there we had to import it so it was just like rocky coastline exactly and and we needed a beach to film on so we basically had to build a south park and so did you put a house up there

or like is it just denied the person who won it just sold it oh did they really yeah right away yeah he's like i don't [ __ ] want elsa Then sell it and so these people how do you find them uh this one the contestants uh it's different for every video this one i i'd have to see them all in particular like this one's a mix of random people and my boys um the hard thing is like sometimes i love pulling random people but if you grab a random people sometimes people just don't know

how to act on camera they freeze up and they they're Really not good for content and so like in an ideal world everyone in my videos are just purely random which is what i'm trying to get towards because i'm trying to get better at like filtering out the random people that just freeze up and aren't good on camera that one's a little older so some of those are like people i knew because i knew they would make good content because i i would bring someone in a video and they'd win something they'd Just freeze up

and they'd do nothing they'd just be like oh thanks and then all the comments are like no one just said oh thanks when you win a hundred grand this is fake mr beast is fake all this is fake i'm like no it's real the fact that he's acting like that shows it's real but like the masses don't understand that so i have to be like very like strategic on how i pick people or everyone's just like oh this is fake they didn't they didn't react so how do You pick people do you have an audition

do you have a conversation with them do you meet them i literally just hired a casting director and usually we just like get large amounts of people they filter through and we're just looking for like people hey do they need it like do they actually need this help would it benefit their life you know obviously they can't be super rich and then all it's literally just like put a camera in front of them and do they freeze up That's it i just can't have people like freezing up because then it just like it i don't

know it's just not content and it's i can't just pause the show and like explain like oh they're not talking right now because they you know so when they meet you is it for the first time yeah when we film it's usually for the first time so the casting person sets everything up and they get these applicants it really just depends on the video because like Some videos like squid game there's 456 people um that one we dropped like a shirt we grabbed 100 random people that bought the shirt and then the other 356 we

just got from a local college we literally just went there put out flyers and the first 356 people that called we just brought them in um you brought them in but did you vet them no that because there's so many people that's what i'm saying it's like different videos what's that did you see that sweet game video i Saw part of it yeah yeah that was wild that that was the most expensive thing we've ever done how much did it cost a little over four million dollars jesus christ because we had cg recreated all the

sets it's like and the thing is like there's not really room for error you know i mean like this [ __ ] has to work you know um and so like you know engineering like the glass bridge we legit had to build the glass bridge where you dropped them and safety and All that stuff yeah and when you're doing this are you bringing in stunt people like how are you coordinating all this for for like to set up challenges like well if you're doing something where you drop people off how do you make sure that

they don't die well there's there's phone below it and obviously it's safe uh everything you know we do we safety tests beyond belief that video we had over 100 different people working on so yeah you know i Mean that i don't even know how many people we had working on that clash bridge thing that one was very stressful because it's also it's like you know you spot a trend squirt game's hot it's not like you have six months to pull it off it's like [ __ ] this is hot it's not gonna be hot in

a couple months like we're doing it we gotta do it in the next month and so it's like you know we've it's basically like three or four warehouses just Filled with like these crazy like sets and and all this stuff has to move concurrently um yeah i mean it's it's hard without the visuals to even be again to explain it because like like the first set we had was like literally like the size of a football field and we need go to the very beginning uh yeah that's the glass bridge one but yeah look at

this set like those are real walls we built those things are [ __ ] huge sorry mom for Swearing um yeah oh well uh like that it's you can't even tell the scale of how big that room is uh in the shop but that's 456 people and look how tiny they are what are you hitting them with uh so again again this is like uh the crazy stuff that people don't even realize we have to do so we had to build these squibs on them so when people got out uh because in squid game you

got shot when you got out right we can't shoot people So the next best thing is we put a device on them that when they get out it just shoots out ink to signify that they got out so everyone had a device strapped to their chest that we had to custom build and we had to build software in an app uh and then we had like a hundred spotters around so if i said red light and they kept moving the spotter would click the app on their app and basically pop their script so you developed

an app specifically just for This yeah that's hilarious i wish i had it on me and so you would see all 456 people you'd see their face and then when they got out uh the spotter would pop them out that's the thing like there's so much stuff that goes on behind the scenes to make this stuff happen that like people don't even realize that's why no one else does what we do because it's it's like it's stressful it's hard and it's brutal wow and where did you get the doll the The doll that spins its

head around i mean that one yeah some company and uh in europe they they built it for us so it's like 50 grand what do you do with that after you're done with it that's that's the problem because none of our videos are the same it's like usually we give stuff away or we just put in storage but like i know like where's that doll now uh i i don't want To lie to you i have no earthly idea i mean i'll buy it oh you'll buy it yeah i want to put that doll in

my studio okay i think that would be dope as [ __ ] wouldn't it a little doll head come on man that thing would be cool as [ __ ] to have that here and then so now skip to the next scene i mean because i i can run you through it that's why like this originally was supposed to cost two million dollars but as we're going through it it's like [ __ ] now it's two And a half oh [ __ ] it's three and i was like okay you can't get any more than

three million and next thing you know like you actualize the budget afterwards it's like [ __ ] four million dollars holy [ __ ] and this is did you have to take all this down once you were done yeah and then you just leased these warehouses no we own them we own them okay we have one of the largest studios on the east coast oh so you built warehouses specifically so that you can Do all kinds of stuff like this well and so you can pause it he could suggest to this that's kind of the

problem for me is like we're reinvesting so much money in the videos and pushing him to the max but i also need space like right because like the videos are so big that so if you want to you can't just work on a video for a week you got to be working on months in advance and so you basically got to always be working on an ideal world six to ten videos well if One video takes up your entire warehouse how the [ __ ] do you work on the other five right so like space

is a huge bottleneck and i'm in the middle of nowhere in north carolina there's not tons of studio space and stuff like that so we have like three or four studios um that we uh the newest one is what i call our campus that we built it's a giant 10 million dollar studio and it's kind of like a money game because like i want every investor to go big on videos but i Also need to build infrastructure so it's kind of like a bouncing act but we built this huge uh it's six seventy thousand square

feet six or fifty five thousand of like studio space uh because also the problem is if you get like uh warehouses they always have beams and you can't film it there's beams so it's like uh it was easier just to uh renovate this place sorry i'm just going on random tan no it's good it's great i love it and so basically we have This ginormous warehouse soundproof uh i can do [ __ ] like blow up a car in it because there's like a thousand sprinklers that you'll drown before you you uh burn to death

in there or like light a fire or anything uh which is good so we can do dumb [ __ ] it's like the perfect wonderland but even then like even though this place is great and it's 10 million dollars it's still like usually only houses one or two videos so we need to build another one and it's Just usually like a money game now how much micro managing do you do because i'm looking at this and i'm seeing like you've got everything you've even got the cookies like in the shape of the umbrella so that

you like have to get someone who makes the cookies for you but make sure that you could still cut them out with it but that's one of the easiest things yeah but even that even that being easy it's like you got to make sure everything's right so yeah I can imagine like one screw up like if someone makes bad cookies that you can't cut through right of course and they crumble oh we do test on tests on tests on tests um leading up dude this one was crazy the the tug of war scene look at

that set isn't like freaking crazy that's amazing yeah and that's so they're over foam so they just drop down they're dropping a pile of foam yeah that's incredible dude that that's probably one of the coolest Shots i've ever gotten yeah i mean this is like something that looks like a set from fear factor or something i mean it really looks like look at this one too pause it there look at that [ __ ] it's crazy yeah i love it no it's really cool i i love what you do i just think it's amazing how

much dedication you have to this thank you because no one's telling you to do this this is not like you have like universal studios is behind you and they're like Mr beast this is what we planned and we've hired these people you're doing all this yourself taking all the risks coming with the ideas and you know every step now people it's like what's it saying it's like you're crazy until you're a genius or whatever i don't know not that i think i'm a genius but it's like basically up until like two years ago every step

of the way too people are throwing tomatoes and telling you you're Stupid for reinvesting you know right everyone thinks you're off your rocker you've lost your mind and everyone also thinks like the life cycle of youtubers like two years and it's like well you know in two years you're gonna be irrelevant when it's only two years if you just don't do interesting [ __ ] you know yeah well i think it's two years if you don't continually push yourself exactly innovate continue if you're innovating adapting and like Doing cool stuff i mean you can have

a career as long as 10 years in my opinion that but that's in the same in everything i think i mean television shows how many television shows are really popular for a while and they drop off yeah exactly and because they don't innovate yeah yeah they get the cookie cutter formula also that that video too looking at the view count reminded me um i think netflix and total has 220 million subscribers and and that Video just crossed 220 million views wow so it was it was a big dub yeah i mean obviously it worked i

mean just incredible incredible that you were able to pull it all off during the time where squid games was really relevant because like if that came out today i'm sure it'd be really interesting but it wouldn't people wouldn't be obsessed with it yeah because when squid games first came Out i mean it was a phenomenon for like a couple of months exactly you got a small window to act in yeah and you got to design everything and build everything and i also want to put out there i have some amazing people on my team because

that video without like i mean i've so arguably some of the smartest people in the world when it comes to just creating viral content in youtube and stuff like that without them that wouldn't be Possible because it's not like i'm over there like designing every little set and i'm you know custom building the squibs that were rigging on them and designing the app you know we it's taken a long time but like i would literally without doubt my mind say we have the smartest people in the world when it comes to making viral content and

like no one else can do this type of stuff you have to be very nimble you have to really think outside the box and it's Like one day you're trying to figure out how to secure a sub the next you're trying to figure out how to go to antarctica the next building sweet game in real life the next you're bearing me alive for 50 hours you know it's like you have to it's like you don't find people that specialize in stuff it's like just people i don't know who just have a willing to learn and

adapt and like you know keep because it's all different and how do you find These people how do you find these people that you work with uh i mean it's been hard a lot of them are just like lunatics that really love doing interesting things because it is fulfilling because like it's it's different it's not like you're going and doing the same cookie cutter stuff every day so a lot of people find that fulfilling and usually it's people with good work ethic that want to learn and then we kind of train them up it's kind

Of been my best result because like i said no one specializes in all that stuff you know what i mean also people who work in unscripted or like shows like that where it's not like a set uh plan typically do better in our environment but like someone who worked like if you worked on wheel of fortune you would do horrible in our environment you you wouldn't even understand it's like because like you know we don't tell you what to do we kind of like give you A little bit of rain to make decisions and you

got to pivot and it's like no no no we've never built squid game in real life before we don't know if it's possible to like build a 40-foot wall in this coliseum it's like they might cap you at 35 well then now you have to decide well does 35 still look good on visual on the camera and stuff like that so it's like people who are also able to think for themselves a little bit so I mean do you guys have like weekly meetings where you talk about this stuff i mean we work in the

office are you working every day well not every day but you know pretty close to it yeah i mean if it's closer to a video you know it gets crunch time but like right now we're not even really filming that much um because we've just had some a lot of videos fall through because of cobin is it stressful to have like such a big staff uh yeah i Mean my life is very stressful because we haven't even touched on like have you seen our gaming channel or reaction no i want to get to all that

but i just just the way the whole thing is structured is fascinating to me because obviously you're at the top and you're the guy who was calling the shots and it's your channel but it seems like you've got a whole ecosystem under you of course and you're [ __ ] 23 years old i mean that's wild [ __ ] to be Managing all that i could step away and those guys could create just the most viral videos ever we have a machine these people are geniuses i mean it i i lucked out with quite a

few of them they're really intelligent the way you put them together was just finding people that you thought were interesting i mean how long did it take to develop a 100 employee roster yeah well not all 100 are on the main channel right because Like uh we have the gaming channel which probably has like 24 people like on our gaming channel we have like five four or five people that like their full-time job is just to build the maps like everything we do in minecraft we custom build and we custom code stuff and then we

have a dozen people that work on a reaction channel the main shot i don't know where we're at but uh it's probably like half of it um and i don't know they're just like the People they just come from everywhere i don't know how to explain because it's like i basically just hired one person a month every month for like the last five years essentially wow that's that's amazing so like what is a typical day for you like when you're trying to figure out like what you're gonna make a video of next do you get

together with your friends and brainstorm do you do you have like an idea that you come up with while you're driving your car or Something so that's where it gets interesting i've i so the difference between a video on youtube and this is where i can go infinitely in depth they haven't seen a video with a million views or 10 million views usually isn't that like the 10 million view video or actually a better example would be a million views and 30 million views the video with 30 million views usually didn't put in 30 times

the effort like they might have put in two or three Times the effort and just had a way better idea does that make sense yes and so once you kind of understand that which i understood like i kind of started to understand that like when i was 19 you realize that like the idea is so freaking important like you could theoretically most youtubers watching this you could pull triple the views with half the work if you just have better ideas like no joke it's that extreme um and so once you realize how Important ideas you

just obsess over well how do i get more ideas how to get better ideas so i i used to just spend an hour every day brainstorming ideas i don't anymore um but like probably like four years that just every day i just spent an hour and i would just do something different one day i'd use a random word generator like uh i don't know just say a random word dog uh you know i adopted a hundred dogs i gave my friend 50 dogs or i i gave a Dog a million dollars for dog troops whatever

i saw i take in random words i see what pops in my head i write those down and i take in another random word and like i i've i've studied it very intensely i've tried like lucid dreaming to see if i could trick myself to come up with ideas while i'm sleeping and stuff like that i i work really well when i intake inspiration and i see what pops in my head that's like the most effective way for me to come up with Ideas so it's like i just try different ways of intaking inspiration whether

it be like traveling random words flipping through a dictionary things like that and that's always for me been the way to like consistently come up with good ideas well so you you actively seek these ideas out and you try to come up with different ways to just have them manifest yeah exactly and then once you do then you sit down with the crew and you go okay how do we make this and then How does that work but then we you know the we can't start working on the video until we know what it is

right you know i i've a guy named tyler who i've known for years i went to high school with he's just phenomenal and so you know then we have to write the video and actually figure it out like so if i want to bury myself alive for 50 hours like what does that look like what are we doing in there because until you know everything you're doing You can't start working on it and then you know you come up with it and then we have you know our people who basically make it happen but then

the problem is it's like oh well you you wrote you wanted a a giant ball in a coffin but like they're like oh well you can't get a giant ball and so then it's like just months of back and forth like figure and this is where most people fall apart and why like this one work in traditional media because It's like you don't write a script and then just hand it to them especially because it's not scripted like you know so you can't just uh say like here's what we need and they just do it

and then it magically happens because like once they start working on it there's like all these things like oh well this is impossible this is impossible so it's like a back and forth for months and then it's like usually it's like well Since this didn't work that means this doesn't work in the hypothetical thing like uh like you know you can't light a firework in the coffin or whatever or like you can't light a fire if like one of the bits was me to cook food well because the ventilation you can't light a fire in

there so then it's like you got to change it so it's like a lot of back and forth like that over the course of months and then you get a final product which is why you need Intelligent people working on it so they can like do that and they can occasionally make decisions on their own without having to push it all up to me because then i want to kill myself and this has been all just a trial and error sort of thing from the beginning of your first videos to now yeah do you ever

stop and like look at when you got a video like that that is 224 million views and look at how insane your reach is and go how the [ __ ] i know It's crazy well and that's just in english you read the other channels uh other languages as well yeah i mean i i don't know i don't even know how to put into words i mean it is crazy it's it's like they obviously just feels like numbers on the screen but if i try to visualize 100 million people it's unfathomable now you're in an

unusual situation too because youtube is you know It's a weird place because it's got these you have like partnership deals right so you get a you get a piece of the ad revenue but yeah you essentially don't have a contract like youtube can just go you know what [ __ ] mr beast let's get rid of them why would they of course they shouldn't it's a terrible idea but you're in this weird like if they change the way they monetize things for any reason i know that has happened To certain people right where they used

to have uh some sort of uh a deal with youtube where they were making videos and for whatever reason youtube demonetized them and they go into full-blown panic yeah i mean obviously you're not controversial in the sense yeah we're not anywhere near the line and like a lot of that like isn't youtube it's like the advertisers putting pressure on them and they're just trying to you know um but you have Been my point was have you been approached to be independent of something like that because you're so big at this point you could have your

own servers your own website your own deals with advertisers where you get 100 of the revenue rather than you know i love youtube i i mean like you got to think about it like youtube comes pre-installed on android you know obviously google uh owns youtube or alphabet but also google and so people Go there through google i mean like all all roads point to youtube yeah i love being the biggest creator on youtube i i [ __ ] going into my own thing that sounds stupid like hell no like i can have you know one

of the largest audiences in the world and i can i instead of thinking about building my own platform i'd rather think about building businesses leveraging my audience off of youtube like you know like beast burger and our snack brand and other stuff like that i Feel like that's a better use of time instead of just nuking my audience well i don't think it would nuke your audience my point is i think you're so big that you would i think like anywhere yeah but you would take that but then you don't have like because we're constantly

gaining new growth new and new people like last year we gained uh on the main show alone we're the most subscribed to channel in the world we gained 36 million subscribers on the Main channel like really yeah if i had my own platform it'd be like one or two million you know what i mean right like so it's like and it's it's still going up you know across all the channels we're getting like seven million subscribers a month like that would just plummet if i use my own platform do you have an ultimate plan for

all this um i mean i just love youtube it's it's been my life's passion and so i ever meet them uh people youtube yeah you Ever go there and have a pow wow uh no i mean i've talked to some people but it's like i don't really need anything brother you should massage your feet yeah they really should just sit you down jimmy you're doing so well youtube if you're listening i'll take the foot massage yeah that's what they should be doing with you did you set up a throne just sit there with a crown

on and and then they dunk your feet in a thing and they do your nails and and so i might Have a different view than most people but you know i i didn't have much and it's all 100 of everything i've never worked a job i've never made like anything it's all been from youtube it's incredible i used to make a dollar a day so i i love this platform more than anything listen i love you too too all the problems that they have i think it is absolutely amazing that they've created this thing where

someone can make a living in an incredible living Just creating anyone in the world can like yeah i i if you like i don't know how to say this doesn't sound arrogant but like if you knew what i know about like how to make a good video and go viral even if you had zero subscribers you could be making 100 a month in half a year right if you anyone in the world can be a successful youtuber and to me that's like the beauty of the platform yeah it really is it's and it's very unique

in that There's a lot of other platforms but no one ever figured out a way where someone could be fully dedicated to it and make a living off of it i guess maybe twitch and then i guess there's a few other ones where people make money but not at the scale not even close not even closest scale you know that was one of the most difficult things about um going to spotify was leaving youtube because i was like man like our growth On youtube is pretty crazy like i don't know if that's a smart move

to just leave and so the compromise was we could still put clips up on youtube yeah that was really the only way i was willing to do it i wasn't willing to just abandon it it was a great idea because that's like i i don't really use spotify that much but i you know all the time your your clips occasionally pop up i'm like on my homepage on my tv and so if you in my world because like you there are like These different worlds now like there are some people that only use tik tok

so like if you're not in tik tok you just don't exist in the world right that's kind of how i view it in my world it's it's pretty big youtube so like if you just were not existing on youtube like you wouldn't exist to me you know hypothetically in my world yeah well i i mean i exist on tick tock but it's not me like someone's just uploading my content on tick tock really yeah at a Certain point in time i guess i should step in and do something you should on tick tock but tick

tock is such a sketchy [ __ ] application have you ever seen like uh the breakdown that these software engineers have done of tick tock of how intrusive it is uh no they said it's the single most disturbing piece of software they've ever had to back engineer because the amount of like cross platform really spying it Does well i know like if you're um and like if you travel to a different state like even now in texas like my tick tock fee will be a lot more texas content it's definitely location based and if you're

i have had instances where i would say certain things in conversations and then later that night i would get into my feed something similar like if i talked about dogs a lot and then i'd weirdly start getting tick tocks about Dogs i have noticed that type of stuff my friend told me that she was talking to this lady and they were just having a conversation and then she looked at her tick tock and tick tock suggested her based on that tick tock knew that her and this lady were next to each other physically because their

phones were next to each other wow so tic toc suggested that she follow that lady that's crazy that's and take note can be pretty addicting i actually recently Uninstalled it just because even though my ticket is mostly like gym and like actually finance stuff so it's like i actually don't i enjoy the content on it and i don't think it makes me a worse person but i found i was spending like two hours a day on tick tock and i was like ah just scrolling through videos yeah that's what i was like that's a little

much so i uninstalled it yeah it's it's a fine line between enjoyment Getting something out of the content and then just this weird empty obsession yeah we're just spending time staring at people's stuff yeah yeah but i think you can curate the feed though where it is beneficial which is what i tried to do and i i had it in a good place where like you know when i opened tick tock it would motivate me to work out and like it would motivate me to go work so it's good but sometimes just it takes a

little long Because you can see your time on app and so usually i try to i try not to spend more than like an hour and a half a day on social media so when i saw that two hours i was like [ __ ] do you know the difference between the way china does it versus the way the american does it no it's really interesting china first of all between the the hours of 10 a.m and 6 p.m kids are not allowed on it they can't be on it they won't let them on second

of all When you're on it the difference between like tick tock in america america's like dances and people doing pranks and people doing things to try to get viral views in china it highlights uh scientific achievements athletic achievements it highlights like people doing things accomplishing things wow and it's it's so it's a lot more curated yes much more but curated by the ccp where they're trying or or you know whatever in conjunction with where They're trying to elevate the quality of the lives of the kids that are addicted to this tick tock so instead of

it them being addicted to like putting piss in the hand soap container instead of doing something like that like oh what they're doing is like showing science experiments they're showing innovation they're showing kids accomplishing great athletic goals and it's it's motivating people to do good things and improve themselves which is Totally possible here but the problem is you would have to have some sort of uh like overview like some sort of orwellian restrictions oh wait brought down from the governments to like make sure that kids only see that kind of thing but here in america

if you did that like people just wouldn't use it they'd be like oh [ __ ] this i'm going to instagram reels or youtube exactly so do you put stuff on tick tock As well yeah we we use tick tock um so you have like a team that does all that exactly i'd say like one or two percent of my time go to tick tock like 90 plus percent goes to youtube because essentially like i think they like the most the i can i can hire like creative people to to help come up with like

bits i can hire production people to help do the the videos and editors the only thing i can't outsource is like me actually filming you know at the end That's like the only thing that like i'm the only person that can do so in an ideal world i spend as much time as my or much of my time as possible filming and not doing other stuff because we have multiple different channels and stuff like that so like peak performance would be me like 90 of my work week is just filming [ __ ] and and

nothing else yeah i mean when you're in the middle of all this and you have all this stuff going on whether it's the social media Stuff and the filming stuff and the coming up with the new content new ideas and then managing the fact you have a hundred [ __ ] people well we haven't even gotten into the side companies or the side channels either no the the beast burgers and all that jazz yeah first of all where's mr beast burger how many of them do you have uh so right now we don't have any

physical we have 1600 virtual restaurants oh so you order it online and then they deliver it yeah so Like uh let's say you own a mom and pop restaurant you you literally just sign up um go through the course you learn how to make all this stuff in a menu and you just order our ingredients in our packaging and then you just flick it on on uber's door dash grubhub and you can start taking orders and we let you keep a majority of the revenue so it's basically like it's a win-win for restaurants especially when

covet first hit it was like huge for a lot of Restaurants because i was pushing it really hard back then and like some restaurants were literally laying off people and then they started uh serving beast burger and some of them doing like 10 grand a week not like in total revenues whatever their cut was lower but it allowed them to not have to like lay off part of the workforce or keep their employees and stuff like that um and and so yeah and this idea came out Of what uh we were approached by some company

and the more i thought about the more i just realized it was just a great idea so we have a partner a guy basically a guy who's been doing restaurants his whole life he so actually that's how we started because he owned 300 restaurants so he launched with three his 300 restaurants and like that first day they all sold out they were having like run to local stores to buy ingredients to keep up with orders Like the ubereats like delivery lines were like out the door it was it's pretty bad so we had to like

quickly expand up um and we've just been adding like 50 restaurants a week ever since wow yeah and so now we're about to start doing our first physical restaurants as well and that should be fun your mom must be so baffled a kid she thought wasn't doing jack shirts he's creating virtual restaurants it's incredible man that's yeah it's Actually insane and so we've been doing it for like probably like 15 months now and we're about to cross a 100 million in top line revenue across the restaurants wow so that's one side business what other side

businesses do you have so we just launched our snack brand um just our first thing is a chocolate bar it's uh just basically like only four ingredients just a slightly healthier version of chocolate problems if you make things too healthy Which is what i've found with my restaurant is i i would love to wean people off like super unhealthy stuff but if you like we did lettuce wrap like where you just replace the bun with lettuce no one orders it if you go like too extreme in the healthy side just no one cares um so

it's like i found like the best spot is just to make things like 20 healthier and then people still order it if not then it's just useless um so i wanted to do a snack brand and I'm experimenting with that so it's just basically slightly better for your chocolate bar just higher quality ingredients a little bit less ingredients what do you put in it um well you just pull it up there it is mr beast bar i mean like i said it's not crazy healthy but um and yeah it's got quinoa on it yeah um

i love that one i know i have some out there i'll have you a taste test i think i'm sure it's good quinoa mixed with chocolate bro they put Chocolate on ants and people eat it you know i mean everything with chocolate is good well and so our our big marketing stuff for this because everything i do it's gotta you know have the spectacle is 10 random people are going to get flown down to compete for a chocolate factory in a video um yeah so we're still working on building the chocolate factory that's what i

was doing yesterday before i flew out here so when you say a chocolate factory is It going to be a real place that makes chocolate no it's going to be kind of like the willy wonka one where it's like decked out i most people i feel like are just going to take the money instead i'm going to they can keep the chocolate factory or i'll just give them like half a million dollars 99 of people i feel like would rather just take the money yeah because then you have to sell the chocolate factory exactly because

it's yeah like because in willy wonka it's Not like it was a chocolate factory it was like you know they had the chocolate river and all that so like that's what we're trying to figure out right now like we're literally building like a chocolate river and i'm trying to figure out like how do you keep chocolate flowing and from going bad and like being [ __ ] disgusting and [ __ ] like that so does your you you said you're trying to make your chocolate bars healthier do you use like stevia for Sweeteners or is

it just all sugar like what is it uh i mean honestly i'm still educating myself in this stuff so i'd rather not go in depth because you could probably run circles around me on this type of stuff uh nutrition stuff yeah exactly um just i think just like uh just getting the here i mean just pull it up and you just roast it okay let's see the ingredients so here we go created by experts does it have an ingredients list about And about maybe yeah i hit about i could also probably just pull it up

on the about page there must be something i'm not clicking somewhere here if you want to just search for it and then pull it up once you find it yep yep um so other than that as are there other businesses you have that are like side brands yeah so the the dub channels i Showed you we are actually we're building a dub studio in mexico and we're building dubsters across the world and we're actually doing that for other creators as well so you so to dub foreign languages onto english videos yeah so if you were

a youtuber and you wanted your videos in a bunch of other languages just come to us well we'll start up the channels we'll uh translate the thumbnails translate the content do it all for you so you have like a whole Business set up in mexico uh well we have our business is unilingo we're based sugar cane cocoa bean cocoa powder sunflower flour lecithin um so that's all that's in there yeah that's good uh total sugar where's that okay total sugar that's that's whatever like i said i wanted to take it extreme but the problem is

if you go too extreme that no One will order it so right that's where like i i'll admit it's not like the healthiest possible it's a snack though yeah exactly not supposed to be that healthy it's a [ __ ] jogger bar but eventually if we could crack the code that's what i'd love like because you know most of the food we eat is [ __ ] garbage for us and so i wish that you could just be like you know this is the perfect chocolate bar and then we just magically get people to actually

eat it Are you you said you work out a lot uh i'm starting to get into it but yeah no it's the problem is it's like so we just have so much [ __ ] going on and it's like one week i'm burying myself alive the next week we're dealing with squid game when i'm not like not filming it's so [ __ ] easy like to work out but it's like it's hard to like get a routine going because like like we just went to south africa and we were going to antarctica for a couple

of days and like That's like a 12-day trip and you know it's so it's like i get it yeah but but i'm also being a [ __ ] like in an ideal world i should be working out way more consistent than i have listen man just relax on yourself sounds like you're doing a lot you're getting a lot done i want to be the best well it's amazing you obviously are trying to do that because you're amazingly accomplished at 23 years old it's super impressive thank you so when You're going to like south africa like

what did you do in south africa uh well we were we just flew to south africa uh as a stop to antarctica but annoyingly when we were about to get on the plane to go to antarctica because we're going to spend 50 hours in antarctica we're we're we're going to climb a mountain that's never been climbed before in antarctica do all this cool [ __ ] uh the p the group that went before us gave the the group In antarctica covet everyone there in covet so they had to leave and so there's no one there

to clear the ice runway for us to land so we didn't we went to south africa and literally just flew back because we couldn't go to antarctica i know it's brutal and there's only a little window where you can go to antarctica uh twice a year one's in february and because of that the the window was missed so now we can't go and they don't test the people Before they fly to antarctica i would think that's so isolated that would be like they have to test you if you're gonna go to the bahamas i know

i mean i don't know how it happened but yeah so uh now we can't go again until november which is annoying because like we had already we've been working on that video for over a month uh you know like we're gonna go to this part and play with the penguins we're gonna climb this mountain The content was like phenomenal and you're out there we have the team you're in africa ready to go there wow and then it's just like nope and so it's like it's also opportunity cost because we could have been filming a video

that would have been uploaded which that's why i haven't uploaded in a month because that fell through and so it's like not only did that fall apart but it's like the opportunity cost it sucks now that sounds A little dangerous like you're you're climbing a mountain um i mean we have experts there you know like don't make sure we're safe right but you're climbing a mountain in antarctica i mean it seems just by nature i mean the the company we were working with does this stuff all the time and they assured us it was safe

so like i mean have you ever seen that film uh 12 peaks Uh my friend actually recommended it but i haven't seen incredible it's incredible it's really wild but one of the more confusing moments is when you recognize how many people climb mount everest and there was one part where there was a window a small window of good weather and so the queue of people trying to get to the top of mount everest was hundreds of people long i saw the like a picture on twitter like near the peak there's Like 50 people waiting to

go yeah the star of the film he he took that photo that's one of them he took like a photo of the people in front of him that were trying to get up to this mountain the top of everest yeah yeah it's um that's a weird one because it's so it used to be this thing where it's like you know you would go to this far off land and you would cry climb this rugged mountain and there was no one out there and it Was so hard to do but now hundreds of people in a

day look at that crazy oh wow i didn't see that one that's insane that's the i mean even crazy you got like the like the free solo guy just climbing without anything yeah well he doesn't do this stuff no no but yeah yeah but alex honold he's been on a couple of times he's a fascinating guy yeah he scares the [ __ ] out of me i'm just talking to him My hands start sweating just talking to him just like what he does because it's like he's up 1500 2000 feet hanging on by his fingertips

with a bag of chips just hearing you say it is making my hands i know that yeah when when you watch videos of him do it and he's just so kind of calm and chill about it and he's he's very in the nicest way like almost innocent and child like the way he talks like He's his eyebrows look at that look at that oh my god jesus christ man that's so crazy i mean wow he's hanging by his fingertips [ __ ] all that gosh dang it that's funny and you know the real weird thing

is experts are convinced that he's going to die like the real experts like how many of those images are there of him doing that man well i mean he's basically hanging By his fingers there there ultimately are probably variables occasionally out of his connection look at that look at that photo look at that photo [ __ ] that yeah look oh jesus i mean like bro if someone was like a billion dollars to do this and climb to the top of the mountain and gave me five years to train i would say [ __ ]

no [ __ ] no and the thing is like he'll tell you he's not even the best climber in the world which is really wild There's guys that are better at it than him he just has a knack for doing this and and doing it without any ropes and he can he stays calm you know he knows how to just find his way up and concentrate entirely on the task at hand and the guy left look at that [ __ ] oh my gosh look at my hands feel my hands feel like i'm good i

don't you don't trust me i Don't want the joe rogan sweat on me it's good sweat very healthy it's got a lot of nutrients but that i mean that kind of stuff you're not going to [ __ ] around with like mountain climbers no no don't do that don't die man you're too important you don't you don't have to tell me but the antarctica thing when you said you're gonna climb a mountain that's never been climbed before i'm like yikes so do you Run the risk of as you continue to do these things and you

keep pushing the envelope and making more and more exciting content do you ever think like because let me tell you something one of the things that happened with fear factors we did fear factor for six years and then we came back and did it for a final season in 2011 and they were pushing it way too far it scared the [ __ ] out of me they were going with the stunts were way Bigger and that was part of the appeal they were like bigger badder crazier fear factor and while they were filming it i

was like man i am [ __ ] nervous because these are just these stunts are so much more chaotic there's so much more like the the potential for injury is so much greater no one got injured fortunately nothing serious i mean bumps and bruises nothing zeus yeah okay you know yeah because it's like you know it's a lot of Physical contact and stuff but there was moments like there was one where they had a guy uh of different people that were um there was a helicopter with a bungee cord and you were attached to the

side of this cliff by with a tree and you're trying to unlock yourself and when you do unlock yourself the bungee cord pulls you snaps you out over a canyon and you're attached to a [ __ ] helicopter dangling over this canyon wow i'm like What if something breaks man like it was it was so nuts this is it right here so these people would unlock this thing and the moment they unlocked it and then their their other their partner is uh climbing on a ladder that's below the helicopter and the moment they unlock themselves

from the tree the bungee cord yanks them yeah and while we were doing this i would come home every day from filming and i'd Be like we didn't kill anybody today i would just take a a big drink of whiskey and just sit down yeah like [ __ ] man so my point is like do you worry that as you continue to innovate and come up with new ideas yeah eventually they're going to get a little dangerous no because a whenever we do stuff we always have uh experts obviously Well okay also i just don't

push it that far the thing is i'm not just known for doing things like that like some of our videos are philanthropic we'll go buy everything in a store and give it away other videos a lot of times i just punish myself i bury myself alive i spent i trap myself in solitary confinement stuff like that and then we have like other challenges but they're like when we put 50 people in a circle it's not like there's you Know the last one the league gets half a million dollars it's not like there's anything like that

so you have no interest in pushing the envelope yeah exactly like there are different ways to push the envelope besides that even though that's not even really one of the things we do that much right um so yeah like if i can i can push by giving away more money i can push by torturing myself more i can push by like doing walking a marathon in the world's Largest shoes like i don't have to i'm not narrowed into that one vertical so for me it's the world's largest is that what you did yeah you pull

it up so we can see it they're actually not as big as you would think uh the problem is they are heavy and each shoe was five pounds and so it was brutal and i had like these just ginormous blisters halfway through the marathon it was miserable when you say the world's largest shoes like what Do you mean by that it's so much easier if you just put them up they're like size 40 shoes oh oh the lot like the largest yeah there you go so like go back a little bit so you can see

the start so it's just like a normal marathon yeah and then we just have size 40 shoes these things are freaking heavy the problem is if you go any bigger then they it's like you can't walk because they don't like bend like flippers yeah Yeah like if you're trying to walk with flippers on like snorkeling flippers i haven't but that's exactly what they told me so like we did like size 50 size 100 and like 1500 you couldn't move so this was as big as they could go where you could still move and we did

the marathon the marathon ended they shut things down and we were still only like whatever seven miles in look at you this is those shoes are [ __ ] hilarious yeah it was and we basically walked it All how long did it take you guys oh i actually don't remember weirdly enough maybe like we we so halfway through we actually laid down and just slept um so we like set up tints and stuff like that wow so like i guess technically probably like 15 16 hours but maybe only like 9 or 10 of walking were

the shoes destroyed at the end oh yeah like see the duct tape they're falling apart that's hilarious why were they so Destroyed because those aren't real shoes we had to build them and like you know this guy we hired to build these size 40 shoes that he's never built before who would have thought halfway through they started falling apart also i took a knife and i started carving out some of mine because i just i physically couldn't move my caps they were so heavy so i had to like carve out the middle to take some

weight out because i just i wasn't going to be Able to finish if they didn't get lighter so like i carved this like two pound part out and it like so going from five to three pounds made a world of a difference on that shoe yeah they say that every one pound on your feet is like 10 pounds on your back yeah that's like a hiking rule exactly that's brutal so someone had to make these for you these are not like a giant shoes exactly in a store yeah now where'd that idea come from Uh

well that was years ago god if i know just being silly yeah i i've literally i've spent so many hours like i've probably spent 10 000 hours of my life brainstorming ideas like i don't know where any of this stuff comes from anymore i just have like you know i have a sheet with like a thousand ideas on it probably like 200 like super ultra viral video ideas anyone could do and they would instantly go viral uh just like Sitting on a google doc really just waiting so you have no lack of content no we

have unlimited it's the the bottleneck is more can we do it not really like do we have viral dates which is backwards for most people most people just don't have good ideas right but so with the bottleneck is it can you do it because is it physically possible or is it they're just hard like that that's back when my videos were easier but the videos obviously have gotten harder and Harder so like like the squid game video it's just like yeah or it's not can we do it can we do it while also doing other

videos what's this jamie i think if you can carry million dollars so if you carry a million dollars you can keep yeah we got a million dollars we basically told people as much cash as they could carry they could keep and we just gave them a bag how much like does a million dollars weigh uh what's it in what what's the Denomination one dollars obviously because it looks better is that a million dollars and one dollars in that room and that was just one part of it and that's the thing like so now this is

a whatever three-time will strongest man if he can like deadlift his car we let him keep it um and it's just like this is what we call would you rather we do like a bunch of super interesting bits um and so just skip ahead to where he actually Deadlifts it so if he can dead lift the car you let him keep the car yeah which he could oh he dead lifted it easy yeah he actually didn't rest with it the size of that [ __ ] i know i mean like that's jesus christ he's so

big he's doing 10 reps of the car that is [ __ ] bananas oh my god look at the size of him it keeps giving through is there any other so you give him a car that's nice yeah barely fits in it look at this I know that was the funny part it was easier for him to deadlift the car than sit in it have you ever seen what shaq does with his cars he takes out the back seats and he has like a seat that makes sense that like i've seen like custom cars they've

made for him where the like the seat basically sits where the back seat should be yeah because he's so big like you can't have you've seen the clip where he holds like a water bottle and it looks like tiny Yeah dude we did a video we showed a video the other day of uh me and him doing fear factor because he was a host on fear factor with me one day and it's literally looks like a six-year-old standing next to his dad he's a gigantic human being but um so when you're doing these videos and

you're do you ever have one that you do it and it just doesn't live up to what your expectations were all the time um now i know you're about to ask me so Let me let me think of some um like uh yeah probably like back in the day like one out of every four videos we filmed just never got uploaded because they were just not really good yeah because especially when i was like 19 and 20 like i had no idea right you know like i'd come up with an idea let's climb a building

with plungers right right and then you know you can't do it all right so that's an example one that failed but then other times like we Spent 24 hours on a deserted island and i don't know the content wasn't really there it was kind of hot and so we were a little miserable and we weren't really like in the funny mood so like literally two days later we just went back out and redid it and we spent 24 hours on desert island and so sometimes we're like if i don't think the content's good enough we'll

just re-film it and stuff like that and so do you review it with your friends you review it personally like How do you just usually it's just me yeah so you just sit down and go this is not up to my standards yeah exactly yeah that's one thing i've never struggled with like if i if i don't think something's like good and like the best we can do and revolutionary audience will love it i have no problem killing a video even if we spent a million dollars on it i think that's probably one of the

main reasons for your success other than your obsession and your dedication and Discipline is that you don't have to like you don't have to answer to anybody like you i don't know how many people could do what you do like in in to get to your position is very unique and one of the beautiful things about something like youtube is that you can get there because other than this like if you work for you know if this was a show on nbc or something like that yeah you would have to run this by so many

people i'd kill myself you'd have so Many kitchen staff in there trying to put their ingredient in the soup but there's so many chefs they'd want to standardize things so it's replica and that's how you kill innovation yeah and then they would also say like what do you think about us doing another show similar to yours maybe one of your friends hosting and then yeah you're trying to do branch offs yeah it's brutal yeah i i get that Vibe i it's funny you bring it up because that's the world you came from i i get

that vibe sometimes when we work with production crews and i kind of see a little bit of that world how it's like a lot more standardized and uh when you work with production crews do they like come up with ideas you're like hey hey yes well it's more like uh what what am i trying to say it's like they're they're used to scripted stuff and we're not Scripted so it's like they just like you don't know like some yeah we're planning on it taking two hours the [ __ ] thing could take 20 hours i

don't [ __ ] know whatever this hypothetical scene is right and so like like the kind of way we do things to them is just seems so barbaric but it's like that's how you get that natural authentic stuff that's not scripted and if you do work with a production company then you have to deal with like i guess unions and time like They have a certain amount of time on set like it seems like you work until you get it done yeah usually yeah well so actually what we do is and this is probably one

of the smartest things we've done um is uh we have multiple different teams that we're working on building out so they rotate videos so team a will do hypothetically whatever antarctica and then team b isn't on the antarctica video and they're working on the next video and then while i'm Filming with team b team a's working on their videos so they like rotate so that way and i'm trying to build out full fully fledged production teams creative teams editing teams all super independent so then i can do a video a month and each team is

only responsible for one video which that's plenty of time to like get a video done and you know and you have down time in between your videos and stuff like that instead of like most youtubers it's just one Team and they're trying to have them do it all which just honestly isn't sustainable yeah well it seems like in your when you're looking at this business that you've built it's so large like there's no way you could just have one team they'd be dead well you'd be surprised that's how everyone else is building theirs really yeah

i mean why and people who try to do what we do but i mean it's hard enough to build one Team and you know so like building multiple ones it's just it's a lot do you have a lot of guys that are trying to copy the format that you've put together um yeah i just i the thing is it doesn't matter it doesn't really affect me i don't like to waste energy worrying about that type of stuff at the end of the day it's like it doesn't hurt Me so right before it actually probably helps

you yeah exactly because everyone gets compared to mr beast yeah like a lot of youtubers get like triggered when other people take their ideas or or whatever but do they though they really do i mean that's like a all the time like someone will do something like and it's funny it's usually like people who copy tons of other youtubers and they do one thing original and then some other people take It and they just throw a hissy fit yeah they'd probably get attention from throwing in the history whenever we do something usually like thousands or

at least hundreds of other people do it and of course yeah it's part of it yeah but when you do something like the squid games thing like there's no way anybody can yeah but see technically that's not an original idea you know what i mean so i saw some really [ __ ] take on your squid gate thing that you copying other People's content that he's profiting off of copying other people's content and it's about from a comedian i was like shut your mouth like well i think that's easy when he's doing this as well

well also the the guy who wrote games said he loved people uh doing recreational screen games he literally he did an interview he's like i love it and he encouraged it so well it's just a hater's take yeah but it's not even logical like the personal creator of the Show was like hey do this it's like okay if you insist haters are never logical but when you what my point was when you get to the position where you're at like you must have a lot of haters i don't really pay attention to it good for

you that's a great attitude yeah that's what i like to hear kind of waste the time it's a 100 a waste of time it's so stupid but it's so common for people to concentrate on that make response videos i wouldn't be a fraction of But also we don't really to be honest and most people are positive about it i mean in a day like we help people you know what i mean yes i reinvest everything i don't live in a mansion and i just try to make the best videos i can and you tell me

about you were you just touched on it earlier your philanthropy channel like what would how did that get started and what are you trying to do with that uh yes uh if you want to pull that up so basically um for i don't know I i enjoy helping people it's it's fun for me it's kind of like uh i don't know like i just i i don't have to put into words but i just i i enjoy doing good and and so you're a good person yeah well so i wanted to figure out like i

have this ability to go viral and get views uh and so i want to figure out how to leverage it to like basically build a charity on the back so this is beast's philanthropy 100 of all the revenue on this channel Goes towards our food pantry that we started so we we have we basically started our own non-profit and so i make these videos i do brand deals we sell merch and stuff like that in the ad revenue and we use that money to buy food so we can feed people and you say food pantry

like there's a sign so that's a physical location yeah so we have our own warehouse um hover over a different video to see And how how does it work like people could just go there and get food no no so basically um so uh so this is where i'll have to we we're in north carolina there's actually not a lot of big cities a lot of little cities so we actually have like in our city we have the 14th largest hospital in america even though we're like a tiny city because there's a bunch of small

communities around it makes sense to have people come from These little communities to a big hospital instead of building a bunch of little ones and so we kind of the same model with our food pantry where instead of um you know supporting a big city which most big cities already have food pantries there there's all these little communities that weren't big enough where people would actually give a [ __ ] or help them because it just you know doesn't make sense a couple thousand people or whatever so we built a big Food pantry in a

central location and we're more of a logistics company um you know we'll take like uh pick a certain community like grimesland like uh every saturday we'll load up food we'll go there and then the people in need will do a food drive and basically give them three different boxes of food a box of dairy products pantry and vegetables and then we come back two weeks later and give them food so basically they can just live off the food we supply them And we do that to a bunch of little communities and in our we just

crossed one year of operation and we were able to give away over a million meals in our first year that's fantastic oh yeah so in those boxes um this one was a special episode someone gave us 50 000 cookies go back though so where the boxes were back one more yeah right there so that's what we give to everyone that comes to the food drive completely for free we've never Charged the [ __ ] person a dime for food um that's enough to survive two weeks and it's good nutritious food we actually invested in we

got a really nice fridge too so we can like which most food pantries don't have so we can store a lot of cold goods like vegetables and dairy products um which lie also some some of these places the food pantries went under and so we come in and we take over for the old food pantries and people love when we do Because you go from like a box of i don't want a dumpster on them but you know average stuff to like now you're getting like [ __ ] milk and dairy and yogurt and also

like all these vegetables they're like what the [ __ ] this is free it's like over 100 worth of food um and so yeah it's it's been great that's awesome so how does this work like if somebody wants to go to the food pantry to get food you don't go to the food Pantry we do food we do distributions where we go to places in low income places and and do distributions and so you would just come to the distribution and you just sit in your car pop your trunk we put food and you drive

off so you just set up a shop like like they're they're standing on the side like this yeah so like the they're root they're scheduled we like the the communities are notified beforehand um is that line a bunch of people waiting for food yeah This was a special one we did for thanksgiving where we give away ten thousand turkeys for free that is so awesome dude yeah well this this isn't our normal thing but um yeah it's it's you basically you go there your first you like you'll be in the church parking lot how do

you tell them how do these people find out about well that's the thing your first food drive is not as many people but word spreads as you do them and you consistently show up at the Same time every second week and people just come and come and eventually get the line there that's nuts yeah this one because it was a bigger thing we we actually you know bought ads and spread it out you got people in turkey outfits yeah that's a turkey holocaust right there look at all those dead turkeys i know um hey i

mean people ate it's amazing it's very cool that you did this it's very cool and you see these people where You're oh you even made a turkey yeah these people that are waiting in line for these turkeys but this isn't our normal thing so it's like i said it's the the distributions we do with the other food so it's essentially like i want to grow this channel really big get it where you know it's pulling millions of dollars a month in revenue and uh do tons of brand deals and stuff like that and then just

basically use that money to buy food and feed as many People as we can that's so cool i love it man i just love that you do that and that that turkey thing when you're out there like how long does that take to get turkeys to that many people uh i mean that was like a four or five hour food drive i mean we're pretty efficient with the lines and getting through it did you run out of turkeys uh no actually we had so we had ten thousand i don't remember the number but we had

a few thousand left over that we then went To other food uh pantries and we gave to them to give to their communities that's so cool yeah and do you have someone who organizes that for you oh of course the philanthropy manager or something so his name's darren which also shout out to darren he's literally the greatest thing that's ever happened to me this this guy's a [ __ ] lunatic he he he won't let me pay him for working on the charity he's like that was in love with helping People yeah and he like

he puts in like 10 hours a day every day he's a machine you couldn't stop him if you wanted to he he loves helping people um but that's so cool so he built it out so i i met him uh i kind of stole him from a different non-profit because i met him and i loved him i was like [ __ ] yeah there's not other another person in the world i'd rather have run b philanthropy and so now yeah it's its own thing uh you know we have people that work in the Pantry logistics

people and stuff like that wow and like how does one procure 10 000 turkeys well that one again this is why the beauty of beast fencing that was a sponsored video by genio which is a company that sells turkeys and so we got them to give us 10 000 turkeys plus money to feed people for free and in exchange for a shout out in the video oh that's amazing that's brilliant exactly And so you do all this you have this food drive and then you know then people know okay that this is a regular thing

exactly and then it builds the turkey thing isn't that was a thing special but normally yeah exactly and the more you do it the more people come and then we just guesstimate the numbers and average it out and bring usually bring a little extra just in case more people come this week than others and and he just does that routinely and Right now we're doing that for like 13 communities and then we're going to build another food pantry and you know scale that up and just keep scaling up also i don't want to just do

north carolina our next food plan is going to be in atlanta and then hopefully get out of america and just keep scaling them up wow so you just keep everything you're doing you just keep expanding and scaling up exactly because i'm not trying to make money so it's Easy that's so unusual well also that's a charity so all the money goes back into it yeah is that it's so unusual that someone is so selfless and then that you have the vision to just i'm not trying to make money i'm just trying to grow the company

yeah well in that particular one i'd be [ __ ] if i didn't have darren he's like uh and just a lunatic he's literally one of the smartest people i've ever met and the Fact that he has such a philanthropic um heart like the duke could probably make like five ten million dollars a year working a normal business but he dedicates his life to charity i don't understand it but i love him well it's obviously it's mean something to him it's important yeah and so this this charity that you do with the the food bank

like how many employees are involved in that he would know better because i'm i'm not in the weeds From because like this is where you have to think about strategically the most optimal like you know in a perfect world i could be on the front lines going to the food drive getting my food but the most valuable use of my time is to make videos to generate revenue to buy food right right so i'm i'm more doing high level things like figuring out what's the next viral stunt for the charity so we can do a

brand deal and get a couple hundred grand in and stuff like that i'm Not really in the weeds of like how are we gonna do this food distribution tomorrow or like this ship ends late so blah blah this right right but probably somewhere around a dozen right now because we're only at one warehouse and you uh eventually plan on going worldwide yeah exactly just scaling it up and take it's like by watching those videos you're essentially feeding people literally because all the revenue goes to it so it's like i think like we can Get to

the point yeah we're supporting a dozen of these and just keep going bigger and bigger that's so cool what what other like i don't know this is just what this is what i do all day so i just come up with these ideas no i didn't come up it's just like i mean that's something i was passionate about i'm passionate about youtube essentially but like that's like a a parallel thing right like i've Already put in the hundred thousand hours and obsessed over youtube so it's like building a channel that like let me leverage to

grow our charity like isn't as crazy because like i already know all this stuff you know what i mean like how to go viral and and that type of stuff that's so dope dude i just love the vision that you have for this it's because it's so unusual for a young person to have such a clarity and focus yeah well pull up mr beast's gaming i Want to show you some of the other stuff too because it's it's like the main channel isn't even all we do we've we've managed to we have one of the

largest gaming channels on youtube and one of the largest reactions on youtube as well so it's like i actually spend a [ __ ] load of my time every week filming because we have uh five different channels um so this is our our gaming channel just hit videos so you can see them like these actually go really viral And so we we basically apply what we do in real life to gaming like um we invited like thousand v thousand we invited a thousand players to fight against another thousand players and the winner gets a bunch

of money or uh uh whatever right and so these these do really well actually we recreated squid game in minecraft as well um and so you know usually on mondays i film for gaming on tuesdays i film for reacts and then and then i do world once We're uploading again wednesday through fridays i film on the main channel and then saturdays when i do beast burger festivals and like all my side businesses i take calls and then i try not to work on sunday how much energy do you have to do this not enough i'm

constantly like losing my mind but it's all self-implied and at any point i could like stop so it's like no one's forcing me but it's just like it's just i don't know it's like if i don't i get Depressed it's like really yeah it's like this is this is what i live for i don't i don't have fun words because of the fact that you've just generated such an immense audience and it's just become yeah and so hit videos here so this is our reaction which also averages over 10 million views of video wow so

this is all just look at that yep so this is all just you looking at stuff online yeah whatever we think is interesting so like um you know well Done lucky's people the eight minutes of us just reacted to people super unlucky and stuff like that and that's my one of my best friends chris it's actually i don't know how but it's really funny when you just put us in a room and just let us roast and react to things and do you do this one day a week uh yes um and so actually this

day is also the same day i filmed philanthropy if we have a flamethrower video that week as Well and that's so yeah it's a lot it's a lot and there's no uh also well the thing too is like so these channels like this channel specifically doesn't cost a lot of money to run so this is like you know mostly just pure profit which is what i ran into is like my main channel because i kept taking the videos bigger and bigger and bigger they did get a point where they they weren't really profitable like i

was losing Money every video so i started this other channel so they would make money so i could lose money on my main channel if that makes sense really yeah so like the gaming channel you know like so the stuff like the squid games it's so cross-prohibitive that's like well that one because it's getting so many views might break even but yeah other videos like buying that private island and giving it away and terraforming it Like yeah [ __ ] no you lose money on that yeah a lot of videos like we did a video

we like sold houses for a dollar right and uh uh yeah like and the thing usually it's like i think things are gonna cost less than they do but like it ended up costing over a million dollars and it probably only made like 600 grand so like that was like a 400 000 rl and i take like that all the time but that's why i have these other things to like so i can afford to so i i don't i don't Really care if a main channel video makes money or not it's just like in

general it's does everything at least semi supplement it so i can if that makes any sense it makes a lot of sense so you you you kind of have a safety net of sort of almost like backup revenue yeah sure that everything essentially if i didn't have these the main channel videos would i just wouldn't have been able to keep making Them bigger and then i don't know like i would just be sad because then they'd have to be lamer which is a lot another reason why people don't do what i do because like a

lot of people just aren't profitable like they don't make money well i just don't think people would be as obsessed as you are like you've got a very unique vision with this stuff it's it's when i'm talking to you and i recognize the scale of it all it's it's massive that's all i do I understand but i mean you must have some sort of a social life too right not really i don't that's the problem but it's not from i love it and i wouldn't trade for anything well there's not a lot of human beings

that ever get to a position like you're in it's a very rare place thank you i mean the question now is like can we keep it going because like i said last year we were the highest earning youtube channel In the world and the most subscribed to youtube channel in the world which is great it's like [ __ ] yeah and then you realize well if we're gonna do better this year that's that's gonna be pretty hard uh because we got beat number one so just uh just keep going though keep grinding well it seems

like you could do it i mean if anybody can do it you could do it do you have like a grand vision i sort of asked you this before but like When you think of your future and you think like do you have an idea in your head of where you would like all this to go to because it seems like the world's your oyster like you you could kind of keep going and do whatever you want like do you have a vision yeah i mean i do in a way see it a little bit

as like elon's paypal like you know maybe when i'm 30 and if i'm not doing youtube anymore i'd move take the money and move on to the next business like Tesla spacex and stuff like that um but i don't know i mean right now i've spent up to this point my entire life hyper obsessing over how to go viral youtube youtube youtube youtube making videos how to go viral so it's like that's really it i just want to do this as long as i can and just keep growing it though the thing is like if

it gets to a much larger place like you are at what is it 90 what million on Your main channel 91 on the man what happens when you hit like 300 million what if it's like everyone in the country subscribes to you you just keep going i mean i i want to do youtube for at least another 10 years because i don't think youtube's going to slow down youtube's still growing year over year no i don't think it's slowing down exactly so like why would i not want to be the biggest youtuber on the platform

like why do i need to do anything else Like i just want to keep growing be at the top and i think the platform's just going to get bigger with time but as you do more and more of these squid games type things do you see yourself putting more and more time into production and more and more time to bigger because it seems like you want to ramp things up with each one you want to make it grander than the one before yeah but and that's why i need the smartest people in the world uh

around me because i because Like because i'm filming so much i don't have time to be in the weeds and so which i already have like i told you before some geniuses but i need more if you're out there and you know how to do production hit me up um but yeah ideally you just build out the team so i'm not the one like having to micromanage and do it where do you think you would be if it wasn't for this i don't know um i i i have like a problem i'm like so Obsessed

like i like devote my life to one thing and that's just all i live for that's not a problem man no i know but that's an amazing gift true but that's where i don't know what it is i mean i could have devoted like that like laser-like focus like cocaine-like addiction could have been on painting bowling balls or something [ __ ] dumb so i i'm just grateful it was like at a young age it was something like this that has infinite upside and you can Just i can just obsess and i can obsess forever

you know before youtube was there another thing that you concentrated on with that kind of hyper focus um i mean a little bit of baseball i i got crohn's when i was 15 so i like i played baseball nonstop um and then when i got crowns i lost like 50 pounds like [ __ ] that um you got crohn's disease right but crohn's is something that's a genetic disease right so yeah it just Manifests itself it started to emerge yeah you're not born with it or i guess yeah most people get it like when they're

around 15 to 20. i mean i guess you're born with the genetics thing but i guess it doesn't actually inflammation doesn't occur until that age yeah and so i lost like 40 pounds because i was going to bathroom like 10 times a day and so i was a little obsessed with baseball um i like literally was playing like two or three hours a day there was A period like where i actually i kind of like quit youtube when i was like 13 14 like so i can just really focus on baseball but then once i

got that which was probably a blessing i was like [ __ ] it i don't care anymore and i just went all in on youtube so this crohn's does this make you do you have to seriously regulate your diet yes very regulated diet i i have very probably words like i run out of energy very easily like because that doesn't Make sense how's that possible you have so much energy i don't i'm probably one of the least energetic people you ever meet but you do so much how is it possible i have no energy i

don't know but because my immune system attacks itself so it's very draining right um and so yeah i get very tired easily i take a lot of naps and stuff like that i have a buddy of mine in ohio that has it and he can't eat bread he can't eat like i can't eat like a [ __ ] load of Stuff so you can't have one of your own burgers uh no actually that's fine it doesn't flare me up even even when i eat burgers i usually take off the buns and just eat me i

don't i don't really like bread that much anyways um but no that that's fine and the chocolate bar actually is is good on my stomach too which is why um i'm pretty happy with that as well so what is it that really [ __ ] with you oh weirdly enough corn for whatever the [ __ ] reason corn Just like if i want diarrhea tomorrow just give me some [ __ ] corn really yeah um corn anything spicy anything like overly overly processed i'm trying to think like what exactly is crohn's like what what is

the immune system doing i'm gonna be honest i've never fully understood it it's something about my intestines where like the lining of it like the immune system attacks it so my intestines are super inflamed and so if It's not in remission i basically just can't digest food because it's just like it's so inflamed food just passes through and you just like [ __ ] it out oh wow yeah so it's like brutal which is why when i first got it i lost like 40 pounds in like a really quick time span it's often with uh

ulcerative colitis too yeah i think a friend of mine has it ulcerative colitis is a little bit more extreme version of crohn's so thankfully i got a little bit of the dulled down Version but uh yeah like sometimes it'll flare up and then i'm just like i'm dead i just i just lay in bed all day and i can't really do anything is there any medication that you can take that improves it yeah so i'm on what's called remicade and so every eight weeks they just do an iv with a huge bag which essentially suppresses

my immune system so that's why i get sick very easily because The answer to my immune system attacking itself is just to [ __ ] nuke my immune system oh jesus christ i know so it's a little annoying it's unfortunate i'm stuck with it what can you do and uh there's no blows my mind that there's no cure because i i think like uh you probably google it millions of people in america i'm pretty sure have it so it's like it's pretty [ __ ] up it's annoying so i Don't understand why there's not a

better way to treat it but are there any sort of dietary remedies that maybe people have tried i'm sure if i just like dropped everything and just spent my life laser focused i could probably figure out some way to like uh seven hundred eighty thousand seven hundred and eighty thousand americans currently have crohn's yeah and another nine hundred thousand have ulcerative colitis wow yeah i don't know honestly i Haven't really thought of it's just one of those things i'm so used to it it's just life but it seems like you're such a smart guy that

dedicates yourself to things and and find solutions maybe this is something you could do yeah maybe after youtube i i throw my life at that take the money you tried uh an elimination diet yes exactly so i i don't know why i'm drawn blank i mean there's a lot of things that that aggravate it it's like like Chips um cookies or things that have corn yeah exactly probably an allergy maybe even the corn yeah so like i've done it i i know what to eat now where it's not like my diet isn't causing it but

for every reason sometimes it just flares up it's weird is there does it say anything jamie about some sort of a dietary solution for crohn's disease i've talked to my friend about this he got it right around the same age as you his name is Also jimmy um let's go he though went the other way he has had multiple inches of his colon removed yeah does he have the bag on his side he did for a while but he's pretty healthy now i mean that's why it was worse than here is if they remove it

you then have to get a you know the the bag and then you [ __ ] in the bag yeah i know an older guy who has one of those i that's my worst fear yeah that's [ __ ] gross it's gross and it's scary yeah but i know people who have gotten it and they're just like they're like when they went from being tired and miserable and all that and then they get that surgery and they feel like a normal human it completely changed their life i mean they [ __ ] in a bag

but at least now they're happy yeah it's like six and one half a dozen the other like what what's better i'd i'd rather have [ __ ] in a bag and be happy i know yeah i think about a Lot because i could just have the part i have with crohn's removed and then i'd be fine too yeah but man what if you did that and then down the road they come up with some sort of a solution right now because i was wondering if like stem cells or something along those lines i remember because

i've talked to him a long time i just looked it up i've seen when cbd was getting big there was some talks that it could help people but i Just checked and there was a study that said there wasn't anything connected on that just yeah anything that reduces inflammation yep and that so they don't know like what causes it or why a person gets it versus i could speculate but i don't i don't think he knows no i mean yeah not not that i don't exercise help it does anything help it i mean your just

immune system attacks Itself it's all right wow yeah nothing's ever really it's like it just feels so random it's weird um because i i know people who've had it like time before they like the literal only answer that they could have was just to get that part of their body cut out which is just unfathomable um yeah but anyways such as life yeah my friend's um mom died from that wow yeah back in the day When they did just used to cut chunks of your body out and she eventually passed away at a young age

as a mom she was 35. oof yeah it's it's hard this is their motto no it's still rolling [Laughter] but anyways yeah it's life i mean they're i could have cancer i could have sure much worse stuff well you have a great attitude now you know when you look back at all the Stuff that you've done and you know the fact that you've done all this while you're dealing with uh an autoimmune disease that's a giant inspiration to other people that are struggling thank you really is i mean yeah if you have an autoimmune disease

like just [ __ ] push through it i mean that's what i did and it worked well you have a very happy attitude i mean obviously you've been wildly successful in your young life but you you have a happy attitude towards Things and i think that that also is very inspirational to people yeah i mean i wish if i had thought about this i'd probably have some like badass quote but i mean the justice is like you know what like you know if it's crohn's like sitting there mourning over it or you know all day

like that doesn't do anything like if it's something that you can't it's out of your control like worrying about it's just it quite literally is a waste Of time yeah so well you're very into time management obviously you kind of have to be because you have so many things on your plate i mean essentially yeah my the more i film or or work that directly correlates the more money we bring in so the bigger videos we can do so yeah it's essentially just a formula where my time goes to optimally for videos yeah do you

have a lot of guys coming to you for advice Yeah hey i want to be like mr bees you know actually here can you pull up my twitter i have something cool i want to show them i i mentor youtubers a lot you'll probably find this cool one of the people i've been mentoring recently uh he was doing twenty four thousand dollars a month and then he recently had a four hundred thousand dollar a month uh on youtube yeah wow yeah so i tweeted out the the before and after of his revenue um and so

yeah just click on That left image so this is before i started mentoring him he's doing 4.6 million views a month 24 grand and then uh probably like seven eight months into it we got him up to 45 million views and he had a 400 000 a month wow and what are your what kind of advice are you giving something like that that makes such an exponential change in the amount of uh interactions you get um the biggest thing is it's much easier as weird as it sounds It's much easier to get five million views

on one video than 100 000 views on 50 videos does that make sense a little bit um like a lot of people like they like you could upload one great video a year and get more views than if you upload a hundred mediocre videos it's like it's very exponential like essentially like to well now i'm gonna dial back to to go vir to do on youtube you just need people to click your Videos and watch them that's literally all youtube wants and so if you get people to click your video 10 more and watch your

video 10 longer than mine you don't get 10 more views you get like four times the views right so you have to think like an exponential right like a ten percent better video is four times the view it's not ten percent more views right and so like once you understand that and you like funnel your energy better it like it makes a big difference So it's usually like just like don't make your videos [ __ ] put in effort you know like put in way more effort like really hyper obsess over these videos like triple

the amount of time you're putting in that into that video uh because you're not gonna get triple reviews you're gonna get 10x views and like because like you youtube's trying to serve people the best content possible right they don't want to serve you 100 lane videos they Just want to serve you one good one so it makes sense logically like your your homepage is the curated the best videos possible you know um and so it's really just like making these videos really really good helping them build out a little bit of team like an editor

because like you know if you're doing five jobs then you can only put 20 of your time to each well if you hire an editor he can put 100 of his time into that so he's even if he's like 20 worse Than you he's still going to do a way better job just because that's where all his time is going and he's able to obsess over it you know like you can't spend 10 hours a day editing but he can't you know have you always had this logical analytical approach to things like this yeah i

love this stuff yeah this is this is what i live for so it's like kind of going through and doing that for everything um and usually like in his case he's uploading less and even Though he went he's making over 10 times more it's with less videos ironically so uh and the videos are just better and the fans are happier everything about it's just better so you mentored this guy did you know him previously i did i knew him a little bit he's like he's always had great thumbnails but he he wasn't the best at

making good videos which is those are the easiest people to mentor they can get people to click but they can't get people to stick around so Then i you know i've obsessed over how to make good videos so now i just teach them how to make a video good and then boom the channel just goes skyrocketed but how do you have time to mentor people with all the things on your plate i just i find it fun for me it's kind of like therapeutic to go on a walk call someone and then just roast their

channel is that what you do like not meanly but it's just like yeah Like just honestly yeah i'm like i can tell you're a little lazy here like you could have put a little bit more effort the hook was a little weak like you know why why didn't you do this or the payoff or whatever and you don't ask anything of them you just uh him no i don't own any of his shell i just did it for fun that's a wild thing to do man that's so cool that you're doing that yeah he's gonna

kill it i think he's going to make who is this guy i i don't the thing is Yeah exactly because some people know who he is and then they're going to be like oh you're really successful because of mr fees which i don't like look at you good for you man so you just look at that as an exercise yeah it's fun i do that for a lot of people um it's just i don't know it also is a lot probably like six or seven it's always rotating it's also like i'm like me playing evil

mad scientist like i Tell them things and i kind of see how the theories work on their channel and like re you know confirm what i know and it's like oh yeah it is true his stats went up 10 his views 5x or like things like that so i also get a weird enjoyment of like being able to because it's nice because i don't have to do it like i can say oh do this this and this and then just hang up i don't have to go film the [ __ ] video and i just

talk to them next week and i can just look at The numbers and be like okay this work this work and kind of like see it which i i really enjoy getting to do that well that's just so selfless of you because well i mean i'm getting data and i'm learning and it's helping me better understand what works but yeah i guess theoretically i could bully these people into giving me half their channel if i wanted to no no i'm not i'm not saying that i mean i'm i would never expect that you would do

that but the fact that You're willing to spend the time and give them what you've learned that's really cool i've done podcasts where i've literally laid out exactly how to go viral every little thing i know and they're just sitting out there and it's funny because people listen to them and then like just explode on you to make tons of money and it's just kind of funny because it's literally just out there and like some people still pay hundreds of dollars for youtube course Or or anything who teaches youtube courses oh there's ones all over

the place i mean are they really yeah millions of people are trying to be youtubers so the youtube courses are they taught by successful youtubers i mean you just google it and we pick them i mean like there are tons of youtube gurus um i mean what i know is derral eves who he well i i don't even i don't know how Public he is with his stats he he's very intelligent he knows what he's doing so like his will be legit uh but also i don't want to trash people i don't know there's other

ones yeah no i understand so like you just get a satisfaction out of watching people improve and grow and knowing that you do really have a very comprehensive understanding of how this business exactly yeah exactly and i also i'm just so [ __ ] obsessed with this [ __ ] i can't stop talking about it like in an ideal world i probably wouldn't tell everyone every [ __ ] thing i know about going viral all the time but it's just like that's me that's literally all i've ever done it's like if you did the same

thing every day for 10 years like how do you talk about anything else you know but it's just amazing that it's still an obsession of yours like even though you're number one even though you just keep being more and more wildly Successful it seems like if i'm guessing you're more obsessed now than ever yeah if you took it away from me i don't know what i would do i i i love youtube more than anything like you get technically you get the unlimited upside money-wise influence-wise power-wise whatever whatever sick thing you're chasing like with youtube

you can get it all you know what i mean it's like i can't think of a more fulfilling job and i'm completely in control and i can do Whatever the [ __ ] i want you know well those are all positives for sure yeah but it's so unusual for someone to find a thing like for a lot of people people that i know and even people that like deep into their 30s they don't know what they want to do they don't have a thing and they for whatever reason they don't connect to a thing that

gets their juices flowing that gets their engine running it's the saddest thing in life it's the saddest thing in life yeah Because if you can find a thing that's an obsession that you can make your occupation yeah i don't know who said that once dave jobs what do you say uh wasn't it uh if you can find what you love there's no greater thing or something like that well it's like you'll never work a day in your life i think it's an older quote search steve jobs if you find what you love just in the

background yeah that really is one of the keys to a happy existence because I have so many people that i know that don't like what they do so many people that i know and they do it and maybe some of them are really successful at it but they don't like it yeah when the way you get that exponential growth is to obsess everything for decades not years and so like since they don't truly love what they do they never get that like crazy crazy success so for you when you release a thing like the squid

games Video you just get a wild rush oh gosh yeah especially that video you're on like [ __ ] cloud nine for usually about a day you're just like punching the air you can't you can't i you know i can't sleep i'm excited for just because that was so big a normal video not as much i'm so numb to it i've done it a thousand times thousands of times now uh we got that video like you know i'm calling everyone like what do you think because that was our first time ever Using cg in a

video two so i was just like did you think this was cringe what'd you think and you know most people were stroking me off and telling you it was good and so that felt great yeah that was good probably probably one of the few like actual like days where i was like genuinely happy now are you happy because what makes you more happy like numbers the the grand scale of things just seeing your vision come to fruition Yeah the vision seeing people recognize the work we put in like because some videos we put a [

__ ] a little work in and well that one clearly yeah exactly so that one they say but other times you know sometimes i also i have a lot of really critical people around me which i want i don't want yes men that just tell me everything's good like sometimes i'll pour my whole video and then i'll get a call right after i upload and someone just like One of my friends he it was like a a bounty hunter video and i thought it was like one of our best videos and he's just like honestly

i think this video is a little lazy and he's like here's 10 things you could have done better and i agreed with like four of them but like i i remember like that made my heart sink i was like [ __ ] this guy [ __ ] him [ __ ] and i was like no no like he's this is what you want you want honest feedback and i was like this is good you really Do want honest feedback exactly and when it hurts it's probably exactly so you got to check yourself and realize yeah

this is this makes you better um so i have a lot of people like that and squid game was one of those videos where like none of them were like saying negative they were saying positive and weird that to me was what felt the best because these are like the most critical [ __ ] ever and they're just like this is good and they didn't say Anything bad i saw the bounty hunter video that was one of the first ones my daughter introduced me to so what what about the bounty hunter video do you think

could have been better uh which he said which i agree that the beginning felt a little fake um when i like threw the knife and they were tied up the rope wasn't as visible we were on an island for that i i don't know why everything's on [ __ ] islands but we didn't have like the best like Realistic looking rope so it looked a little kitty and then uh so i agree with that we could have made it look a little more real and then he had like certain parts were a little stretched out

could have been a little quicker um and then also he was like which i this is something i suck at because like with youtube you're trying to hook people and keep them engaged especially when you're in the tens of millions of views but part of the problem of moving so quick Is sometimes you don't get as much depth than the person um because like depth can be portrayed as boring so it's like it's a constant bouncing act of like depth but also keep moving quickly and so he was like you know there wasn't much death

with the bounty hunter i don't really know like he's like i don't even know his name and i agree like but it's hard and i do a world but again it's not scripted but an ideal world while he's doing action because action's Interesting he gives death like if you're just driving and you're telling a life story that's [ __ ] boring but if you're running after me and somehow i don't know if this makes sense maybe life story's not the right thing but and you tell it then while action's gone now it's interesting and i

can kind of include it right does that make sense it does make sense so you're so that's really interesting because what you were trying to do was you're Trying to just you had an accomplishment this is you're trying to get the bounty hunter to chase you guys and all that jazz but you're even post post production or post-publication you're still looking at ways you could have added more entertainment to it of course hooked people deeper made it more complete well i mean we're not looking at also how we could we're trying to Figure because that's

not scripted like that is just a bounty hunter i didn't we didn't tell him what to say so also we're trying to make a story out of him chasing me right and i though those videos are the most [ __ ] stressful videos on the planet because what we're setting that stuff up for for forever and at any point if he catches me the video is over and everything else past that point was just for nothing and so how long did it take for him to catch You uh that one was probably like 10 hours

11 hours oh wow yeah but it's like there's no room for error right you [ __ ] up at any point and he kept because you can't i can't just be super far away then there's no tension it's a boring video i have to be close there has to be a possibility at all time that he could catch me or it's a boring video and so that means like at any point like the video could [ __ ] up and then we just [ __ ] everything's to [ __ ] all that Work all that

average just out the [ __ ] window he catches me i give him 100 grand videos over it's not fake so what would you do with that would you just try again and have another bounty hunter yeah probably i'd just eat the hundred grand you know but like renting all this stuff i mean you would probably be like a quarter million dollar l uh because just everything's so expensive right and then we'd probably just do it again next week yeah with a different One um how do you pick a bounty hunter uh just casting person

i know that's where a lot of them weren't the the most entertaining and it's not like they're like hitmen they're like bounty hunters that would like you know people who bail on bail and they go bounty hunt and stuff like that um i know they went through quite a few so like find one that actually had a little bit of a personality uh because you know i don't i don't want someone like super Hardcore serious yeah so over the years you've kind of perfected your method of creating these tasks and these games that you play

i mean you've they're all different though yeah that's the thing like that video is completely different than the video we put 50 people in a circle which is different than where people competed for an island you know right which is why like a production company would have A problem with it because it's not a formula that you could just recreate exactly that's why i'm still not consistently uploading you know because then you have [ __ ] like the antarctica thing happened or this thing happened like i mean you just don't know how often do you

upload to the main channel right now probably around twice a month actually right now once because antarctica fell through so but ideally we're gonna get back up to Starting this month twice and then as we build up the other teams hopefully by the end of the year we're doing every single week that's that's what i want and i deal with every week one a week yeah of course well actually in an optimal world speaking purely analytically if i'm putting that brain on i would be uploading twice a week i would upload every thursday and saturday

that's what would be optimal which is where i inevitably do want to get to but I mean then i'm spending like ungodly amounts of money ungodly amounts of people i mean that's i'm going to also be filming probably like 90 of my waking hours it would be like crazy or working hours um which is what i eventually want to ramp up to because like i said i don't i don't spend most of my time filming i spend most of my time working on videos but in ideal world i spend most of my working hours filming

because that's the only thing in the world i can Do and no one else can't right do you anticipate like how hard would it be to hand over the reins the creative reigns to other people i'm always gonna have to have the final saying be pitched but yeah like you can always narrow it down where you know the pitching takes less and less but now i'm never i'm always i have a guy named tyler who [ __ ] crushes it and i'd say out of anyone in The world he understands how to write content better

than any youtuber could hire him and he would just like instantly probably triple their attention it's crazy he's really good um but still like i'm always gonna have to hear it before you know we film it and stuff like that just to put my little spin on it now this squid games thing was the first time you used cg yeah do you anticipate using that in the future and right because i do you could really Get crazy as the technology evolves too right yeah but we can't be cringe with it when i use cg it's

got you know it's like it's not like i'm trying to hide that at cg right right right because we're still like the other day we are a youtube channel and it's my channel and so i don't want it to make it feel like hollywood you know what i mean um but yeah like i see it as a way to enhance sets not like like there's never gonna be a world where i'm just filming in Front of a green screen but if i have like something cool and i just want to extend it that's kind of

where i see cg useful if that makes any sense yes um do you upload to facebook yes what do you what are your thoughts on meta uh i'm gonna be honest i have no idea about anything really yeah i'm not like literally not you probably tell by talking to me i'm like 95 laser focused on you i understand yeah so like facebook is usually just our videos just Shortened a little bit because their attention is a little bit shorter and we just make them vertical and put them over there i'm i'm just uh fascinated by

where augmented and virtual reality go and where where it's going to take us in terms of you know most people it's a big commitment to put the goggles on and to hold the controllers and the standard room and the engagement that those like vr whether it's oculus or what have you that they have in Comparison to like people playing with their phones like people going on social media there's no comparison right yeah it's a tiny tiny tiny fraction of people but i'm wondering if there's going to be a tipping point because you know i'm from

an age where i grew up with no internet i'm like one of the last generations of people that grew up without an internet and didn't get the internet until i was in my 20s and that's when it all emerged in the in the World and i slowly watched it take over but no one ever would have anticipated that you'd have a device in your pocket that people would be addicted to and many people would be on it eight hours a day just staring at people's butts yeah i get what you're going to watch this virtual

reality thing there's a lot of people that are dismissing it a lot of people think but when i see zucker zuckerberg put so much emphasis on this and the fact that he's even changing the Name of his company to meta yeah and i see these commercials that they're doing with like people like staring into like these art pieces and start dancing and moving and i'm like where is this going do you do you do you think about it at all a little bit i i honestly i think the first step is definitely gonna be augmented

reality um like the google glasses or apple glasses and stuff like that um and then I mean i don't know it's hard to say because you're right technology advances so much more rapidly yeah i do believe within my lifetime i will be able to put on a full suit and just lay down and play like uh in virtual reality maybe when i'm like 60 70. and like play an actual game have sensors hooked up actually feel [ __ ] and just con you know maybe with like neurolink or some [ __ ] and control it

with my mind and actually feel like i'm in a Different world um but it's weird because like my gut's like ah that shit's like 20 30 years away but in reality like in 10 years the vr's can be more advanced than we could ever imagine and it's scary you're right it's crazy to think about you saw ready player one i'm sure right yeah of course yeah that kind of world is not outside the realm of possibility in my lifetime yeah 100 yeah it could i don't think it's going to be that long Man i don't

think i think you know like you're saying 10 15 years i think there's going to be a supply chain ramp up and stuff like that i mean it's going to take many many years um and yeah i mean 15 15 doesn't seem crazy actually even 10 seems it's just i don't know but that's like our brains aren't good at thinking about how rapidly technology advances what is the most advanced haptic feedback suit now jamie is there Anything that's new on the horizon because i know they were doing stuff that could like if you got shot

in a game it could have you ever done sandbox do you know what that is no it's fun man it's you go to a warehouse they have one here in austin and one of them is this thing called deadwood mansion so i've done it with my family a bunch of times you go to a warehouse you put the goggles on they give you a haptic feedback vest they give you plastic guns Yeah and you get i have done that i did not know that was called sandbox though and you fight zombies uh yeah yeah exactly

maybe we went to the same one yeah i went to one here two years ago yeah there's one in austin and then there's one um i've been to the one in woodland hills california too yeah did they have like the lines on the ground and stuff too for that there's like some call of duty game they had as well where there's like walls and stuff and there Yeah on the ground well you know it didn't have lines but you're just basically in a room and then as soon as they turn it on that room becomes

like this virtual world and all your friends like you see them in front of you and they're they're these avatars now like they're a pirate or something like this and then you get to do this game on a pirate ship and you can fight off these skeletons that are trying to kill you or you're uh in the zombie game and the Zombies are running at you and you're blasting with a shotgun and blood splattering everywhere and they get a hold of you you feel them touch your suit and you see like red in front of

your eyes because they're tearing you apart and you're trying to shoot them and reload your gun it's wild and it's really fun and my thought is like this is pong you know this is a just a sort of it's really fun it's Really exciting but it's going to be it's going to come a time where as this technology continues to evolve and they continue to have new innovation it'll be indistinguishable from a real experience yeah and i don't know how far away that is i'm i mean i don't know either if i dedicated my life

i could probably figure it out but yeah my thing is i'm wondering if it's going to come to a point in time where your show Is going to exist in a virtual reality world where someone could not just watch it but actually be in it yeah and be a part of it well i mean obviously if virtual reality has mass adoption of course it's it's really just when the tech gets here if everyone had a vr headset in their house yeah you probably would go to concerts in there too if just 100 [ __ ]

yeah exactly how good is the haptic feedback suits now i'm trying to look at like what they Were showing at ces and see if anybody said you got to try this one of those kinds of things i know they have things that affect your hands that's what i'm it seems like the best thing they showed were maybe some gloves and they sound very expensive and i can't tell that like they were said they were turning knobs so like i don't know how good that feels to make it seem like you're actually turning a knob or

not and what is the best like vr Setup now is it oculus is it htc vive i've been i it depends on what you want to do honestly because i i've you know i've had it for a long time now yeah so i there's not from what i've been looking a new game that's come out recently that's like oh my god check this out i would have showed it to you right right and i don't know that there is one literally all i play with my uh rift is just beat Saber yeah that's been around

for a while yeah you can actually get a really good workout with that i agree it's so much fun you're swinging your arms around and another thing that's really great with uh the oculus there's a boxing game that you play so you got this because the way oculus is set up um the one we had back at our woodland hill studios like just an ipad was controlling it right so you have the headphones and they're pretty light and Then you have these things on and you're in this virtual ring and you're boxing this character and

every time it hits you you see like a flash of light in front of your eyes and so you're you're basically shadow boxing but you're you're reacting to a thing so you you're moving and you get a good cardio workout you could actually get a really solid weight i've never seen this i was just this popped up on the thing i was like this is a preview of an iron man vr game Which if this is like this could get into like uh triple a title game where they're spending a lot on a game like

this where you move in game but you're not moving in real life it gives me severe motion sickness and i feel like it does for a lot of other people i know as well where like like obviously you're not flying in real life and you're not moving right in your life but you're moving game that that always [ __ ] with me So it makes you want to throw up yeah just or just gives me like a giant headache i wonder if there's something they can give you for that like a drama mean or one

of them little things they put on your wrist like if you got on a boat you know yeah i know you didn't get into ready player too but that is part of what happens in the fictional lives world where the thing got Too real because they've upgraded it you have if you spend more than 12 hours in it your brain starts disconnecting and you can die that's the sense they work that into the physical i'm sure zuck's taking that into account that's probably going to be where they come up with a human brain interface you

know the human brain interface question it's like if how much time have you spent looking at what elon said About neuralink outside of your podcast nothing it's um it's very complicated because the first steps about it are really undeniably important because the first steps about it are reconnecting people's spinal cords the first way that it's going to be implemented is people that have like severe spinal cord injuries yeah so someone who has an injury like that they'll be able to do something Where this this implant interfaces with the brain and somehow or another can control

the nerves or activate parts of the body i'm not exactly sure how it's done but it's going to allow people that are paralyzed to walk it's crazy so it's which which is an undeniably amazing thing there's no ethical questions about that the ethical questions arise when you realize that you're going to be putting this quarter-sized hole in someone's head and Then you're going to put wires into their brain and it's going to change the way human beings inform interface with information he said it's basically going to increase this is his words it's going to increase

your bandwidth to your to your access to information and you're going to be able to talk without words yeah i remember he said that on your podcast as well i mean [ __ ] if anybody else said that i'd be like shut up [ __ ] but when elon says That i was like [ __ ] he probably i mean he's not saying that wildly he's probably got a plan yeah you know for coming up see now you're making me wish i was more educated than this because that's so fascinating there's so much cool [

__ ] going on like vr or that that it's [ __ ] there's so much cool [ __ ] and i'm my feeling is the way the internet sort of just changed life if you go back to Pre-internet versus post internet people there's a lot of problems that people have with the internet right there's cyber bullying there's a lot of people that are disconnected a lot of kids in particular have a real problem with social media fomo and just with people bullying them and then comparing their lives to other people there's a with girls in

particular there's a lot of like serious psychological issues that Have come with social media but it came out of nowhere man i mean we're talking about like the real implementation of social media or mass scale where it started affecting people's lives as early 2000s and now here we are maybe like 2010 yeah really was phones it was so iphone 2007 right yeah so that's really which took years to ramp up yeah like maybe even 2010's a little early because i agree it's like it's not like we've had A hundred years to study how this [

__ ] affects us exactly it's it's all very recent yeah and it changed lives so quickly it went from you know 1990 almost no one had a phone a cell phone to 2020 everyone has a cell phone yeah to what is it 20 years from now what is it 30 years from now i mean when does this new technology get implemented and Completely change the way human beings communicate with each other i don't i don't think it's going to be that far away man i think once it gets going the problem is and the way

elon was explaining it you're going to have such a competitive advantage if you have this chip if you have this neural link you have this setup you could just get an infinite loan out to get it put in well not just that but the you know we've always had this problem Where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer like what happens you know from the haves and the half knots once the haves have a [ __ ] neural link and now they have literally like an infinity pill that they're taking that gets uh

what is that movie with bradley cooper limitless you got a limitless pill they're taking and then out of nowhere they have Incredible access to information literally learning everything i know everything i've spent my whole life studying just downloading your brain into this sex yeah and what if it gives you an in energy too because you think about what are people taking when they're taking stimulants like adderall well they're taking something that stimulates their brain i mean it stimulates your central nervous system but it's it gives your brain more Information more or more energy rather but

if we could if you could do that electronically where you're not juicing yourself up with amphetamines but instead you're enhancing all the capabilities of your entire neural network yeah crazy bro we're going to be robots we're going to be cyber people i don't i don't know in our lives but i think so yeah yeah i think so i think it's going to happen quick i think once i think this Is the big fear is ai right what people are worried about is a sentient artificial intelligence that's far superior to ours that realizes that we're not

just outdated but we're kind of dangerous and we ruin the environment and just decides to get rid of us yeah and take over as the new life form you accidentally write something that's like help us solve climate change and that's like the solution is just kill the humans well marsha mcluhan wrote about This in the 1960s he said human beings are the sex organs of the machine world sex organs of the machine world elaborate on that well we make the machines the machines need us to make them we are how they replicate so once once

the human being creates a machine that's better than it why would the machine keep it around if they create an artificial life form that can make better artifact like we're we're we're incredibly advancing Compared to most of the creatures on this planet but in compared to what's possible i mean god-like powers infinite powers are possible if you just scale up from what we can do now with nuclear power and video and 5g that you could send australia in a second it's wild [ __ ] you can do right now imagine how far that keeps going

and where it's going to go well if it eventually goes to an artificial creature an artificial being that Someone constructs and it's not biologically based at all so it doesn't have any of the pitfalls that we have in terms of our our reliance on emotions and fear and our desire to breed and ego and all these different weird things disease none of those has zero zero those things will be obsolete i mean in a hypothetical world i agree but the hypothetical world is being worked on right now by the the smartest [ __ ] people

in the world that's why it's sketchy see and that's where i i'd rather just live my own little bubble just do my own little thing you you know you you figure that out with them you guys handle it just here just make sure i don't get killed by this ai and i'll just i'll be over here i'll make youtube videos i'll do my thing i'll feed people listen i'm not figuring out [ __ ] i'm just talking i'm just talking and i get to talk to smart people but the the Thing that i'm worried is

it's gonna sneak up on us that and i think one of the ways that we avoid artificial intelligence i mean if you look at like the possible pitfalls like how does how does this play out one of the ways we avoid being obsolete is we integrate and that's what i think neuro link is i think neurolink is a no-brainer at some point or some something like that you Know because right now your rate of learning is just as fast you can read i mean it just makes sense to be able to download information if that

is possible if that is something that can physically happen then it's obviously going to happen eventually um because it's a no-brainer yeah i had coleman hughes on the podcast and he disagrees he thinks it's going to be so much more difficult to sort of replicate the The the human mind because there's so little we know the human mind but one of the things that i i don't know if i've said this to him i forgot to say it to him but my position on that has always been we don't have to replicate the human mind

we just have to replicate its ability like the idea that you have to replicate the human mind well you have to understand the human mind and you know just the neurons and all the cells Working together and the human neurochemistry and the neurotransmitters there's so much [ __ ] going on in the brain constantly it's an intensely complex process but they don't have to recreate that just make a nothing a new thing rather that does what the brain does but does it better and we've essentially started doing that with artificial intelligence computers i mean look

what we've done with chess right it used to be they Thought the one thing that shows that human beings are more intelligent than computers is the computers can't beat them at chess and now they beat people at chess quick not only do they beat people at chess now computers get creative and they come up with their own moves what do you mean own moves their own moves they come up with their own openings like computers come up with different patterns of playing chess that Haven't been established by grand masters and not just chess it might

be actually go that i'm thinking of which go is apparently much more complex than chess i remember the alphago documentary yeah yeah and so these computers here it is deep minds ai is helping to rewrite the rules of chess deep minds researchers are letting alpha zero play with different rules to find out how to improve the game they're creative At least in the context of the game of chess these so look that didn't used to be the case 10 years ago 30 years ago they're getting better at thinking like how long did you see them

ex machina no you didn't no how dare you what what even i never saw that movie wait oh my gosh i i purely grew up on youtube i haven't seen hardly any That's wild it's it's incred it was incredible you can accomplish like singular focus you know i said something to him earlier it's like is that on youtube no it's popular i mean that's how you get successful at a young age you just oh man obsess and cut everything else out i'm not doubting that yeah but you would love ex machina it's a [ __

] amazing movie it's one of my top 10 favorite Movies of all time and it's a movie about this guy who's a super genius the guy on the far right he's been in star wars and what's that dude's name jamie oscar isaac oscar isaac he's awesome and he creates and who's the girl i don't remember her name off top of my head well let's just give her some props find out who it is but anyway it's an amazing movie it's one of my top 10 all-time favorite movies someone listening to this text me to watch

it That oscar guy is fikla vikander alicia vikander oscar isaac and then dom hall dom hanol gleesom is the computer coder that this guy hires so oscar the nathan guy is this like super genius who lives in this very remote location and he's been secretly working on an advanced super complex version of artificial life and he has literal artificial humans in this Compound that you realize are human or you realize are not human along the way and one one that he has this guy do you know what the turing test is no the turing test

is uh a test that was created by this guy is it arthur turing alan alan turing alan turing was a guy who he devised a test to find out the idea was if you could interact with a computer and Not know that it's a computer then it would pass this test if you could interact with something and it would behave and think and communicate like a human being yeah and so he was kind of brought on the computer coder to interact with this woman who was clearly a robot but she was so seductive and beautiful

and and the way she communicated was so enticing that it was essentially passing the turing test even though he knew it Was and alan turing which is really crazy alan turing existed he was born in a barbaric time and i believe he lived in the uk and he was gay and he was tried and prosecuted for being gay and they made him take drugs that i think he they made him take like a chemical circumcision drug not circumcision castration drug a chemical Castration drug that killed his libido and he wound up committing suicide so the

um one of the leading fathers in concepts of artificial intelligence was killed by the stupidity and ignorance of human beings yeah which is really wild 1952 is convicted of gross indecency with another man and was forced to undergo so-called organotherapy chemical castration it's crazy that's that wasn't even 100 years Ago no man wow 1952. two years later he killed himself with cyanide at just 41 years old alan turing was driven to a terrible despair and early death by the nation he'd done so much to save it's an amazing story and it's it's so heartbreaking because

it shows you like the stupidity and the ignorance and the prejudice of human beings destroying a guy who had this vision to understand like what what what possibly be can be coming down the line In terms of artificial life yeah and if if he was 40 then that i mean he would have lived to like 2 000. he's seen some wild [ __ ] yeah exactly imagine what he would have came up with once computers actually [ __ ] worked yeah exactly yeah i mean who knows how much we would have advanced his ideas and

concepts but yeah with all that stuff i wish i had more value to add but it's like honestly this is like a lot of what you just said Probably like the first time i've ever thought of half that [ __ ] really yeah i don't really really spend too much time thinking about futuristic stuff i'm usually just you work in computers uh you work on computers yeah your [ __ ] gets uploaded too yeah but i work in content you know yeah so it's it's interesting you're definitely like getting my gears turning i just i

wish i had more value to add oh you're great man stop um x mocking it Though you must see it yeah you must see i'm gonna watch it you have to it's i mean you don't have to do it everything i mean seeing how hard you vouched for it i i kind of have to watch it i've watched it like four or five times at least i love it yeah do you watch films do you watch any films no i was last time you saw a movie uh well i watched the spiderman no way home

because that was cool but yeah but that Just came out on apple didn't it isn't available now on uh apple tv my 11 year old that's obsessed with you is also obsessed with spider-man yeah everyone is at the moment tom holland's crushing it but like growing up like i was like since youtube's what i do i should consume youtube so if i consumed like uh movies or other stuff i always kind of saw it as a waste of time unless it was culture so then then it would make sense to watch it like it makes

Sense to watch spiderman so i know what's going on in the world yeah but for the most part like for me what's optimal is just watch a bunch of youtube so then i better understand what's trending and how to make better videos and pacing and stuff like that so you just you're constant youtube uh yeah i'm not as much anymore but when i was growing up a hardcore i would call it like an information diet like i would only watch youtube so i was constantly Just ingesting like you know how to make better videos that

was your isolation diet right yeah or um yeah so when you um when you talk about spider-man you can't not talk about the into the spider-verse have you seen that one the animated one no i've really only seen the newest one because it was so huge the best one is enter the spider-verse okay what do you think jamie yeah well i've that one's just [ __ ] but I haven't seen this one either and i've heard they could win oscars and whatnot which the other one did with an oscar but like they're talking like this

was such a good move there was a lot of movies that came out though the newest one yeah crushed it it was phenomenal and i i didn't even watch the old spider-man's and i feel like i understood everything well i hope it wins it awesome i think this from what i even heard this is almost like a real Action version of that animated one like there's oh yeah versus that combined and uh i don't know how visually comparable it was i don't think it's in 3d like the other one was well to enter the spider

verse the fact that it's animated you could just do so much more with animation because you can get away with stuff yeah you know you don't it doesn't have to be realistic you can you can or it also doesn't have to you don't have to have stunt people or cgi like It's all animated and i feel like animation does a better job of portraying emotion like with i don't even know how to put in words but with like movements and stuff like that because right it doesn't have to be so just like realistic yeah i'm

kind of amazed that they don't have more feature-length animated is it one two years movies oh when is that coming coming out uh probably this year later this year this is the summer Oh wow october october oh all right nice but that's that's probably more an american thing because like you know anime is is exploding here right um so i am surprised it hasn't seeped over more into just like the the culture what we consume here yeah it's it's exploding on youtube too i mean it's like there's so much anime content on youtube yeah what

is what is happening how's that happening because that's another thing My kid's into yeah i mean i i love anime because i the stories are so weird that it inspires me i feel like it's actually a really good way to like develop create creatively um like death note what you've probably have you ever heard of that yes like one of these families yeah yeah this story is about a book that fell from the sky and you can write any name in it and they die i watched that movie yeah well the the anime is obviously

better anyone who the movie's Good though well the anime if you'd like that you'd like to animate it's 30 times better anyone who's seen the anime like is just shaking in their boots because it's like a common thing everyone hates the [ __ ] movie what yeah uh go to the movie jamie because the movie was good those anime dorks need to get out of the [ __ ] i mean you should try watch a couple episodes of the anime and see it's like it's the pacing on in the anime it's It's one of my

favorite shows is is really good and just uh i don't know i feel like it just moves so much better the movie kind of made me cringe at a few parts really yeah i mean it was silly but it was that's the thing it was a little bit more silly where it's like the anime is like very serious and it uh really gets you because they essentially condense what is it dozens of episodes down to a two-hour movie right and what's his name william the [ __ ] his Name is the voice of it the

voice of the demon willem dafoe that's right yeah he's in it he's the voice of the demon he's the the guy that shows up when the dude starts putting names in the book and has people killed the dude meets him in a in a laboratory there he is it's a cool looking demon does it show it or did you skip ahead Trailer yeah no they show it they'll show it a little bit but it's i thought it was fun yeah right there yeah but the the point is like this um you know the show is

just something so different that you don't find here right at least when i grew up and i was watching a little bit of tv i felt like it was just all like crime scene shows and like different variations and it's like or like game Shows it's all like the same tried and true [ __ ] was like that's what i love about anime it's just like you get stuff like that like you'll never ever ever find anything like that over here um and there's it's i don't know for me like that extra creativity is so

much more entertaining it is weird though like i wonder what is it about japanese culture where they tapped into that and it it's obviously very exciting to kids yeah or to people of all ages to be Honest i mean i don't know i don't know mass data but i just even the people i see like everyone recently even like a lot of youtubers talking about to their audience like anime is exploding it's very graphic too man my kid we were on vacation and i always give her a hard time i was like which one you

watching now and she's like this one's called demon slayer and she tries to explain to me like you watch demon slayer a little bit i'm still working on it It's super graphic yeah i watched i was like jesus like they you know they really kill people yeah like it's a wild bloody mess i know i mean that's what i love about anime is that for a lot of them they don't hold back i i prefer that but i guess for you and your stance as a father it's a little different well i don't want to

protect her from fake violence it's just it's weird to me that she likes it it's Weird it's when you have children one of the weird things is like what disturbs them and what doesn't and why like what is what freaks them out what doesn't freak them out and what freaks her out or used to freak out is like realistic depictions of horror you know i feel like honestly i'm the same way yeah no i mean what you're saying that's not normal no no i think it is okay yeah but anime because it's not realistic because

it's clearly a Cartoon yeah it seems to be oh it's like who killed kenny like you bastard like when south park when kenny would die every do you don't know [ __ ] kenny in south park i mean i've heard the name today i've never watched south park oh no oh it changed oh no what is happening here are we in an alternative universe what planet are you using you're talking to a youtube baby a guy what i saw south park as a waste of time He is younger than south park i do believe well

south park's current i know but i mean just the the still amazing right now so you've never seen the south park movie i've never watched southpark oh my god you've never seen when when you're done like that's more relevant in your world i guess so i mean before i was a comedian i love comedy you don't love like did you ever see team america world Police nope jesus you know and you're not but basically this is partly why i didn't have any friends growing up i'm serious like just youtubed out yeah no that's that's the

problem like that legit what you're experiencing that's how i felt every day about every little thing throughout my teenage life and that's why like i felt like i was a [ __ ] freak because i was like i just Like youtube listen man i get it no but like now i'm i'm confident i don't i don't give a [ __ ] like i find it funny but like that's what's interesting because when i was at a younger age i didn't it confused me and i felt like a weirdo and i say that for people who

are hyper obsessed listening so that that cause there are people listening to this who are probably a little bit younger that are hyper obsessed over certain things and probably feel like that and That for like i just surround myself with youtubers and people that care about youtube so i don't i don't have that problem you know what i mean yeah but you just gotta find those people that have those same uh whatever obsessions you know what i mean no listen it's obviously paid off in a huge way for you i'm not in any way criticizing

it i don't think i just like bringing that up for people to hear because like i'm serious that Was like one of the like just the things i just couldn't figure out growing up i just like i just couldn't find anyone that i related to it was i was miserable so [ __ ] miserable um and so but it paid off it did that's like saying that but that's the thing it's like and this is the thing that gets covered in outliers and it gets covered and when a lot of people try to study hyperachievers

like what is it about these people that makes them so Successful and with you it's clearly this singular dedication to content creation exactly to the point where you don't even [ __ ] watch south park yep crazy so you give up everything even if it means you don't fit in yeah yeah which is what you have to do but it doesn't seem like it's a sacrifice for you that's the beauty of it the beauty of your story is that there's obviously discipline and obviously you work hard but it's love It's a passion it's you're clearly

obsessed with this still all these years in top of the food chain you're still guns blazing and constantly trying to add add more to what you're doing thank you pretty dope dude i agree i don't i i'm grateful like genuinely just grateful that i found what i loved and it's like it's not like a broken record but i mean i don't that's like that's the type of [ __ ] they should teach in school like that's you should have Classes how can you find what you love because like once you find what you love you

don't have to tell someone to like study you don't have to force someone to do it they just do it because it's like built in you it's part of who you are i couldn't agree more to but the problem is like we were talking about earlier that you have these underpaid teachers who are not really engaged with what they're teaching they're just kind of spitting it out in This large class they're not connecting but even then like what we're talking about here isn't even just supported in the curriculum you know right it's i mean and

i don't know that's why i'd have to do research i don't know if everyone's like us and if they found what they loved they'd go all in and or figure it out but i don't know i just feel like that's something that's just super just in general in american culture like just That like helping people find their passion because i feel like that's like that's just what holds so many people back they're just doing [ __ ] they don't love 100 but the question is like is there enough passion projects out there for everybody to

do what you do or to do what i do well the things that chase what they enjoy because i did youtube for no pay for years and i Did it making hardly anything and i did this podcast for no money for years yeah this podcast cost me money for like the first five or six years that i was doing it exactly and so even if even if i was making minimum wage through on youtube i'd still be way happier than if i was making like three or four times on a wage doing something else of

course yeah yeah and so you also kind of have to factor that in whereas if you do what you love you don't necessarily need as Much i think with a lot of people the problem is external pressures like obviously your mom wanted you to go to college and you know my parents didn't want me to do a lot of the things that i did but luckily for both of us we didn't listen and i think that's the thing it's like yeah but how do you transfer that to a child how do you tell a young

kid coming up you've got to learn how to be stubborn and you got to learn how to know when you're right yeah You've got to learn how to chase down the things that actually excite you i mean the flip side we took some big risks yeah i know you know i have a friend who actually i support similar thing all in 50 000 in debt channel didn't take off whatever and so he quit and like ruined his life so it's like i don't it's not all sunshine and rainbows not everyone's gonna end up like us

and so i i pay him like 10 grand a month he's good he's not Homeless anymore but um so it's like i don't know i don't know where the line is where it's like we're not giving people advice i could potentially [ __ ] them over because obviously that you know even though you might be less happy you have a higher chance of not being homeless by being a sheep and doing that stuff there's a thing like that with comedians too right because um i have friends that i thought were really funny and you're you

know going back a decade Ago like i remember hanging out with them at the comedy store going 10 years from now this person is going to be killing it 10 years from now they're no better off than they were then yeah and i don't know why and i don't know what it is and they can be funny i've seen them have really good jokes on stage pretty good stage presence but for whatever it is they've never been able to get that real traction and then just build on it with the most like one of The

things that i see with you is you have massive momentum and all this inertia that's going towards like getting things done and you keep building on it you keep adding to the machine like ah exactly some people don't do that for whatever reason and i don't know if that's a teachable thing well i mean there's there's more to it it's like also you know like my first brand deal everyone in the world is like god just You know set the money aside put this in the ira do this thing and i'm like no i'm just

gonna go spin it on a video uh or whatever like people always want you to set aside money or de-risk things and like yeah it's like everything kind of like points to you doing the what's opposite of what's optimal you know what's optimal for growing a business is hella risky so it's like i don't know but it's also there's no real precedent i mean there is you now But like in the world of your of this content creator on youtube it's not like there's like decades of history that people could study exactly and that's one

of the hardest things like if you're trying to become like a great basketball player get a [ __ ] mentor there's plenty of people who have spent their lives like you know nba players or college players at a high level get a mentor anything you're doing if there's someone who yeah if you can get a mentor Kid it's like [ __ ] cheat codes it's like that guy i took from 20 grand to 400 grand a month like that that would take him like a decade on his own i was just like here you go

just do this you know once a week for eight months um and that's the thing yeah for what i did no one has done it and so i never there's never any point where i could have a mentor that could help me um and i don't even know what you were saying that inspired this but it is something that's Like a pet peeve of mine like bro it's a mentor is a [ __ ] cheat code if you're in an industry where you can get one get one like people like a lot of people enjoy

if they're really passionate about what they do they enjoy talking about those they'll mentor you for free just because it's what they love but what's fascinating about a guy like you is you didn't have a mentor and you became one exactly you figured the system My point would be like if i if i knew what i knew now like three years ago i mean i'd be on half a million subscribers or whatever like my growth would have been so much more extreme it's like knowledge is just so op and like that's like i don't know

just one of my things i just really want to drill in your [ __ ] heads it's like if you're in an industry where there are other experts like just have them teach you what they just spent the last 20 Years studying don't you go on your own 20-year journey like just learn from them then start your journey you can learn so much from people that have already accomplished things you can but at some point in time you also have to learn how to be yourself agree yeah you leverage it you you know filter out

the stuff you want to keep or whatever but it's it's like i don't know it's just it's there's nothing more valuable in life in My opinion at least entrepreneurial wise uh than than having someone like that no it's massive and it's also creates a community because like clearly you've done an amazing service for these people that you helped and they'll probably play it forward and if they pay it forward and then they do it for other people like i do that with comics and i see other comics do the same thing where they help other

stand-ups and and and mentor them And take them on the road and give them gigs and give them advice and you see it growing and there's like a community that comes out of that that's also it's very valuable yeah and fun like new friends friends good times like that's one of the cool things about your videos it's like it's not just you having fun you have this whole gang of friends and everyone's laughing and having a great time and you look down it's like 50 Million views like holy [ __ ] which is beautiful on

purpose um and that that environment that feel is so hard to get because you know most most people want to again with these big projects you want to script it because scripting gets budget down gets filmed you can take a 50-hour shoot and reduce it to five minutes or sorry not five five hours if you script it you know which you can also reduce your budget cost like sixty percent of your script [ __ ] and so that's why you don't see a lot of stuff like what we do because no one wants to do

it authentic and just like let [ __ ] happen you know things can go wrong or take away longer they just want to script it and then give you know the boys lines and [ __ ] like that but part of the things going wrong in your videos is what makes it funny exactly exactly and that's why i do it the way i do which is now it's more normal but when i was Growing especially as i'm like bringing people from l.a like hey can you help me or other people try to help make this

stuff happen it's like so unorthodox and like everyone every person has an idea of how you can like make things more efficient and there always points back to like some form of scripting and it's like no [ __ ] no go away yeah that's uh that's i mean look you've got a formula and it's not even a formula it's just Authenticity exactly like chris one of the guys in the videos he's my first subscriber he's been my my friend it's not like i went to l.a and hired some actor he just literally he's been day

one um and then the other guy carl he was my editor that uh chris literally just became friends with and chris was like i don't want to film unless carlos around i was like well [ __ ] all right carl you're part of the team and and chandler the other guy Was my janitor uh and we had him in a video because someone like backed out or something so we were like [ __ ] it you're here just go in and then he said one line like it was a challenge where they couldn't leave a

circle uh our last leap circle was 10 grand and he asked at one point he was like can i throw my poop at the other contestants to get him out i was like no but people thought that was the funniest thing ever that he would think about donuts poop and everyone's Like we want the poop guy back and so my janitor ended up just uh you know and then he also became really good friends with chris as well in that video and so now my janitor is one of our uh people and so it's like

we're all just friends and it's not like it none of it's not like we're hand selecting actors from la or new york it's literally just like yeah just random guys from north carolina that get along well well i think that's why it works because no one Feels like an actor and everyone feels like just a regular person having fun i guarantee you they're all hanging out right now just like doing some dumb [ __ ] like watching anime or whatever like that that's i know i'm very grateful and how we've gone this many years this

many videos and they don't hate each other and they still are friends it's i don't know i feel like i've gotten a little lucky there cause they legit hang out and do stuff all the time I think it's a little bit of trickle down from the top too because you're so generous and you're so friendly and you have such a good time and you do enjoy this sort of camaraderie that like all that kind of it always is like whoever is like the head guy it trickles down to everyone else in the environment it makes

it it really does like you set the tone yeah i agree i'm i'm grateful well i mean but It's like again i just i got a little lucky i didn't hand select or anything it's just like oh we're all friends and somehow here we are you know now they all have millions of followers we're all still friends and they're not like divas or anything and it's been good well listen man it's awesome i'm i'm happy for you i think it's it's cool as [ __ ] i think it's an amazing example for people and it's

also it's for young people to realize that There is this path and it's not just a path of like modern you know moderate success it's a path of massive success gigantic 224 million view videos and and it all is done by a regular guy yeah you just you have to just and you know it's what is it it's like if you uh if you don't find what you love you you're just not you're gonna quit before you get to that point you genuinely have to find what you love If you get any take away sorry

it's like a habit to look at the camera so sometimes like you have to find what you love because if you find what you love and you obsess over day after day week after week month after month year after year for a decade you're going to achieve some form of success but if you don't truly love it you're going to quit way before you get like that compound growth and and you really Get ultra levels of success so in my opinion the easiest way to be successful just find something you truly love and yeah wise

words from mr beast last question why mr beast where's that name oh you know xbox live like xbox yeah it just uh uh when i was like 11 i got it was just like it randomized and it was like mr b6000 and so my username used to be mr b6000 and then on xbox and that's what i used On my youtube channel and then when i was like 14 or 15 i was like why the [ __ ] is there 6 000 in this but i was like [ __ ] like i only was getting

like 100 videos i was like [ __ ] it's part of my brand 100 views video brand whatever the [ __ ] that is like i don't know and i had like this just uh i removed the 6000 then i put it back and i just like every month i'd add it back and remove it but then i dropped to 6 000 and it was just mr beast Wise words for mr beast ladies and gentlemen thank you thank you thanks my pleasure it was a lot of fun i really appreciate it and congratulations now i

don't have to keep listening to my [ __ ] self sorry bye everybody [Music] you