E548 MrBeast

30:15But I mean, like at the time, you know, obviously everyone thinks the videos they make are great. And I thought I was making like insanely great videos, but they're just trash. And like the problem is I didn't have anyone to teach me how to edit. So I'm like learning on my own. I didn't know anything about cameras, didn't know anything about anything. And then 16, no one's watching them. 17, no one's watching them. And I'm like, fuck, I just like, I only, my whole life I was just like, I just want to do YouTube. I need to make enough money by the time I graduate high school so I can do this. Or I'm fucked because like I didn't have good grades or anything.

30:44And, you know, we didn't have much money because my parents were over leveraged in 2008. They're in the army, bought some properties 2008. And then the recession or financial crisis hit, went bankrupt, lost everything. um so like my mom was also like fuck right my son's just gonna be like can we get back in there yeah like just gonna be homeless and she she hates it and and so i finally 18 about to graduate high school still no one watches the videos no one gives a fuck i'm making graduation night uh yeah i remember like yeah it's just like my mom's like all right it's time to accept reality gotta go to community college gotta get a degree and i was just like i didn't want to but i was like okay let me just pick the easiest lamest fucking degree i think it was like some communications degree my local community zoning is one of them but then uh two weeks into it i just was like fuck this shit and so every day because i didn't have enough money to move out i just go to college but then i would just work on videos in my car and i was just like okay in six months my mom's gonna find out that i have straight zeros kick me out of the house i gotta get it where people are watching my videos enough where i can like live off of it over the next six months and then And I just started doing a bunch of stupid stuff like around this time when I counted to 100 ,000.

31:56Yeah, it's so classic. And a lot of other things like that. Watching somebody semi-unconscious count their way through like the 80 ,000 is unbelievable. Yeah, it was. There was one part I think at 93 ,000 where I was like 92 ,999, 91 ,000. I actually went backwards. I didn't realize it. And then I just went 91 ,001, 91 ,002. So I like, yeah, it was because I was so just out of it at that point. Yeah, there are other moments in that where you're like, yeah, somebody help this guy or something. No. But anyways, around that point, I had a month where I made 20 grand. And then I was like, mom, I have straight zeros.

32:30I'll move out tomorrow. And then it's moved out. So that and then, yeah, then we just kept reinvesting it all. And here we are. So it's like a 15 year journey. And it's been pretty crazy. Was it hard to learn to reinvest in yourself? Is that like a I know you kind of mentioned a minute ago. Was that like a thing? Is it hard to learn to reinvest? No, for me, it always came natural because like I I've well now it's a little bit crazier because we're traveling everything. But back then I lived in a place that was seven hundred twenty dollars a month and I split it with someone. So I needed three sixty for rent and I had like a two thousand five Dodge Durango, which was that expensive.

33:01So it was like, OK, a thousand dollars to cover my expenses. Everything else just pour back in. You know what I mean? So if you just live like below your means, then like it allows you just to go crazy and throw everything back into it. And I just was like a fucking machine back then that lived to make the best videos possible. And so every dollar was just a way to just make a better video. Wow. So you want to make the best video. There's something about it that you want to make the best video. Yeah, well, it's I've obviously studied the algorithm, studied the tens of thousands of YouTube videos.

33:33I'm a data nerd. And what's interesting is the data always just shows that the better a video is, the more views it gets. It's like if people watch it and enjoy it, YouTube gives it more views. So it's like, yeah, it's the better. That's that's what took us from 100 ,000 views a video to a million to 10 million views a video to 20 to 40 to 50 to 100. It's just, you know, people notice when you put in the effort to go above and beyond. So they just keep coming back. Yeah. I mean, that we are watching. I mean, I know this will be on Amazon, right? Yeah. Prime video, the B-scam thing. Yeah. But watching some of your stuff is just like, man, this is like fantastical.

34:07you know it's like fantasy there's fantasy parts of it um what was one you guys just put up about you went out into these like uh like this cave and seven days in the underground cave is that a was it a real cave or not a real uh so we did seven days in a cave and seven days in underground city which one are you underground city yeah that's in romania that's uh that was crazy it was so great because it's like it's mixes like past and present it's like i can't it's like are we the mayans or the aliens here there's this mix of like yeah you know where is this a real city is it not it it looks brand new but then it's also has these well and the romans used to mine salt out of there i think it was like uh something crazy like two billion uh pounds of salt have been mined there or something ridiculous yeah so it's been used for over a thousand years and then they built a little underground city there and there's a ferris wheel and everything It's so mind-blowing that, like, how deep that is.

35:01There's a real Ferris wheel there. Yeah, in that underground city. Yeah, that's a part of it. That's one that it's just, like, I can't tell sometimes when it's new or old. It's, like, it's just fantastical. You know, that's what it feels like to me. It felt like, dang, this is dang fantasy, you know. So you're a Mr. Beast. Is there a Mrs. Beast? Do they have a Mrs. Beast? I mean, I have a girlfriend. Okay. But, you know. I didn't know. I just call her Tia. Okay. So you just call her by her natural name or whatever God-given name. um do you remember your first girlfriend ever or no uh yeah but you know i'm i love my current girlfriend okay oh yeah yeah that's what i was just or yeah i was just thinking like were you good at having girl like was there ever a girl that you even had a crush on in your neighborhood or anything you were a kid you don't have to say her name no it's bro when i um i when i was growing up i was so i mean i still am but i was incredibly awkward i had a lot of pimples when i was a teenager.

35:55I have scars on my forehead from, I was, I was an acne up freak that just obsessed over YouTube. I don't, I didn't know how to talk to a woman. Like if they were like, hi, I'd probably just be like, uh, what are you? So it was fuck no, no. I mean, but it kind of worked to my advantage a little bit because that's why I just grinded so much from 11 to 18, which most people probably would have been trying to talk to girls or, you know, actually that'll kill all your time exactly whereas i was just like fucking you'd play baseball and grinding on youtube every second of the day so it worked out in my advantage do you know accutane uh oh yeah i keep saying didn't it kill it didn't kill jessica simpson what happened to her and that wasn't her sorry yeah i don't know it might have killed someone i mean it's a pretty intense thing but i took accutane and it just got rid of all my acting oh it helped yeah oh yeah and actually i was one call of duty youtuber i watched when i was younger he just said that he started taking and all this acne went away and i was like okay so i asked my dermatologist and i took it and then all my acne went away as well and i was like holy shit where was but i didn't take it till i was like 19 or 20 and i was like my god why didn't someone tell me about this anybody tell you yeah when i was 15 or 16 what and i probably it's probably for the better because it's pretty intense but it like dries your skin out like crazy and it gets to the point where the your skin will get like it shrinks your pores too so like the blackheads on your nose will literally come out on their own and like you'll like wake up one day and you'll just have like all this stuff like if you squeeze blackheads they'll just be sitting on top of your nose it's like a miracle like when people with that worm rod in the ground you ever seen that when they electrocute the ground to get the yeah basically like that yeah and it's it was a crazy thing so anyways i'm saying this because if there's any of you out there in the same spot as me accutane changed my life i hope to be like that call dude a youtuber was to me when i was younger to you it was it was wild some dude on call it he's like hey get some accutane yeah he would just do it like a story time and talk about how he fixed is acne and i was just like oh it changed my life dude we had to get this blotter they had something there was this finally i got a prescription because mine was bad too dude like and i was afraid to smile because sometimes you would have that hard patch and it would just be like it would be like a gang of acne like yeah ms third acne or whatever that was my fucking forehead for years yeah and you would smile and it would fucking just squirt on somebody it was almost like you were um you were afraid to make certain faces because a couple of them would go off you No, it was like, you know, like.

38:17Actually, I don't know if mine was that intense. And if you get them like in here in the corners of my nose, it was so scary. And I already have a big nose. So if I get a pimp on it, I'd have to stay home until it went away or whatever. Yeah. God, dude. Yeah. Acne was crazy because you didn't do anything, right? You've been at home. You're just growing up or whatever. Yeah. And then God's like, oh, yeah, you little bastard. I know. It's like you see these people who don't wash their face and they just have perfect, flawless skin. and then you're over here doing everything you can and you got you know 100 blackheads on your nose and probably 40 pimples on your face and it's just like why why why am i being punished you know like why me and we had this blotter stuff it was like this this green stuff came out at one point you have to put it all it had a like a blotter almost like a um for playing bingo yeah and you put it all over your skin but it had green it was green right it's kind of green and you couldn't tell right when you put it on but if you were at school and you had a white shirt or something your whole shirt of your neck would start just getting green throughout the day because you'd sweat it down you know it was harrowing how old are you i was probably 11 12 me growing up we had proactive or whatever the fuck that was that's what i don't i don't remember this green shit you're talking about we had prayer and some other shit that they had yeah meeting the first girl was oh i remember in our apartment complex some dad i remember this is the first girl that i maybe had a crush on her something the dad got a daughter a drum right for christmas or whatever yeah and she would make her play like on the back porch she would practice and i would go around and listen and um she would play uh what's that ice cube song it's like um it was a good day bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum yeah kind of thank god bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum yeah no bark no bum bum bum bum bum bum bum she would play that dude and i would just go down there and i just fell in love listening to her play that yeah and i remember that it was like the first what happened between you guys oh nothing there was some violence between our families a little bit my brother had some issues i think with her brother but there uh but that was like the first crush what kind of violence uh somebody like got upset at somebody and somebody threw like a, like a stomp or whatever through somebody's bathroom window.

40:35It got, they really got hot sometimes, dude. But between me and her, she didn't know that. I don't think she ever knew that, but I would listen to her play that. And the dad would yell at her to fucking play it. He was, I think a Raiders fan or whatever. Anyway, sorry, kind of rambling. You just got back from India, right? Yeah. Nice, dude. How was that? Have you ever done shows or anything in India? I went to India when I was a student. We went to Madras and we worked at like a children's home. It was like, um, it was just a week, but it was magnificent, man. Some of the most beautiful, energetic humans in the world, you know, like a lot of happiness I felt like over there.

41:12Um, so I really enjoyed it. What was your experience like? Yeah, I enjoyed being there as well. Um, well we, yeah, it was, it was pretty, pretty intense. Not gonna lie. We like when I, I mean, it got off to like, I literally, as I'm walking out of the airport, there was just a bunch of people there waiting, you know. Right. So I took some photos, said hi to people, whatever, got in my car. And then that video that someone filmed got posted on like this big, like, I guess celebrities are like a really big thing, like Bollywood stars in India. And so like they posted on this Instagram account and it got like 20 million views in like the next 10 hours.

41:50So basically, um, like everyone knew I was in India after that, which we also said we were coming. Cause we were going to like, you know, uh, talk on a stage cause I was launching a product and things like that. But it got, uh, pretty intense cause people were trying to find which hotel I was in and they were like camping out at all the hotels. And so like, I'm like, as we're pulling in, like with my seat really reclined, cause I didn't want to know. And somehow they figured out which one we're staying at. And then there's people waiting out there and there's it, it got pretty crazy. And then we, we just like launched our chocolate bar at a mall.

42:20There's a feastable over there? Yeah, feastables. We launched it over there. And there was like, I mean, it was crazy. The amount of people that showed up. We were just talking on stage and whatever. But the problem is so many people are showing up there that they like, like people were going on in places in the mall where they weren't supposed to getting in locked doors. And the line and crowd was getting so big, they made us end it early and leave, which was annoying because like I felt bad because so many people showed up. And I just wanted to at least like wave and say hi to a lot of them.

42:48um and then yeah we just uh i met a lot of the biggest indian creators over there and super cool filmed some stuff wow yeah we just we what was also interesting is um we did this uh meet and greet with a bunch of uh bollywood actors like their kids and just said hi to them and um i've just never watched any bollywood films so i was just you know hanging out saying hi to some of these people and like i took a photo with this kid and one parent and uh then one of the guys beside me who just works there was like, Hey, do you know who that guy is? It's this. And he showed me like an Instagram account and he had like 60 million followers.

43:23I was like, no, he's like, Oh, that was the guy I just met. He's like, yeah, I was like, Oh, cool. And then I took a photo and said hi to another kid with, with his mom. And he's like, the guy was like, she is, she's like in these movies and like this. And there he was like freaking out. And I was like, and I, I didn't know who any of these people were. And so I was like, okay, now I need you to tell me who they are before they walk up. And so he was like, it's just this random guy. I just met. Um, and he's just like okay here's here's this person's instagram account it'd be like 30 million followers like there apparently there's like twice as many people use uh instagram in india than in usa so i i didn't know any of this but like it's a really good you forget about that and just how many people there are yeah and uh and um tiktok's banned in india so that makes more people use instagram and so it's like really really big over there because i was like it was i was it was crazy there's so many people that i met that just had crazy high follower accounts and it's like i you don't see that over here in America.

44:14And then I looked into the data because I'm a data guy and I was like, oh my gosh, like a fuckload of people use it over there. And the usage skyrocketed after they banned TikTok. And same thing with YouTube, actually, like India, more people watch YouTube in India than in America. Because again, like in America, we're competing against TikTok over there, they're not. And then the fact that there's over a billion people. So it's like a huge market. YouTube is bigger over there too then. Yeah. YouTube's bigger over there. So it's like a huge market but um no i had a great time uh and it was just it was pretty intense though like i posted an instagram story showing us driving down the road and they're just everywhere we drove there's just you dozens of kids that would just run along the side of the road and follow our car just excited yeah yeah and so it was it was i felt i felt loved yeah i felt very loved that's that's for sure i was like damn people over here they care um and it was it was cool it's cool yeah it's a lot of good energy over there and it's safe energy too so the excitement i feel like in a place like india you don't feel like it's gonna get to the place was it getting shady you think not like uh that i thought people would stab me but they're how do i say it in a way where it doesn't sound like a being a diva they were a little less uh concerned for personal space over there they're they're like more they'll run up to you and get like really billions of people it's not a lot of personal space yeah they're they're like get your own pillow like in america you know people dab you up like a group of five or six people and they'll stay a foot or two away you But over there, they'll just run up and hug me and get really, really close.

45:38And it gets a little intense sometimes. I noticed some of them did not give a fuck about my personal space, especially if it was a bigger group. Oh, they'll hide in your mouth if you leave it open. Yeah, I know. So that was an interesting thing. Yeah, I remember people were sleeping on the side of the road there, I remember, in India when I was there. You would just be driving at night and people just, you know, somebody was just walking. And I guess they decided to get some rest or whatever. But, yeah, you don't even get your own pillow in India. Like you lay down and then there's other, you know, people have a little quad.

46:06It's just, there's a lot of people there. There is. You know, there's a lot of folks. You were talking about feastables, dude. And thank you guys sent me some, you know, I go the whole day. I don't need any sugar. Middle of the night, crack open to a box of feastables that some asshole sent me. And I'm that asshole. Yeah. And they're awesome. Thank you. And the peanut butter one is probably my favorite one. Thank you. But then it's like, I just have so much, you know, I freak out in the middle of the night and cause I'm just a damn sugar pervert. and then now I just can't go back to bed, you know, but thank you.

46:36And, um, but what I want to say is, would you ever do like a Willy Wonka type of thing? Cause I feel like this, I mean, you already are kind of there, you know? So, you know, we put 10 golden tickets in it one time. I didn't know that. Yeah. No, it's all good. So, uh, we, uh, it's funny you asked. So yeah, that's a great idea. We should, it's almost like we should put 10 golden tickets in random bars. I should build a chocolate factory, fly them down and have them compete for it. Did they, did you already do all that? Yeah. um but hey it's it's it was pretty cool it was years ago most of your fans probably have no idea i did it um so yeah we put the golden tickets out i built a actual chocolate river and you know what's funny this i don't even know if i've ever told this story but we i like it's the day before we're gonna film you know the 10 golden ticket winners are in town and i go to the chocolate factory to just you know check out things and the chocolate river is just not there like we We literally had like a multiple feet deep spread across this warehouse, like Chocolate River.

47:36And it's like there. But then I come back the next day and it's just not there. Like it's literally empty. The entire river is gone. What happened, you think? We don't know. I mean, I guess there was like a hole in the lining on the bottom of the river we built. And it just all sank through. I don't know. But see, that Chocolate River right there. Oh, my God. I did not know this at all. Yeah, pause it right there. And who's that the guy that took it? No, that's Nolan, one of our friends. And then that's a he every time someone got eliminated, they got in the boat. We paddled them down the chocolate river out the factory.

48:05But yeah, so it's like the day before and I just walk in and there's like a waterfall and everything, but it's just empty. And I'm like, where the fuck did my chocolate river go last night? And so we had to like blitz to refill it and redo the entire thing. It was a fucking shit show. Just search up Mr. Beast Chocolate Factory and you can see like he can see what it actually looks like on YouTube. um i'm sorry i'm so behind on that no it's all good i have so many crazy stories i can tell you about the fucking crazy shit we've done like who else has built a fucking chocolate factory yeah i didn't even know here skip ahead to the inside yeah or yeah right there look at that shit on and candy and everything yeah pause it wow yeah so those are real real candy i mean it was fucking difficult to keep the bugs out of there oh yeah you don't think about that bugs like candy yeah and so we gave the the winner the option of you know keep the factory or just have five hundred thousand dollars and i was like yo like this shot of fact or chocolate river is probably going to disappear tends to do that uh these candies are all going to go bad in the next few days this is going to be an absolute disaster take the money i'd recommend you take the money i'll give it to you i mean i'm not you know i will but i just it's going to cost you like six figures to like clean this shit up like i don't want to just dump that on you you know Was there Bobby Flay in that too?

49:26At the end is Gordon Ramsay. So the last challenge they did is they had to cook a dessert, and then whoever Gordon Ramsay said did the best won the Chocolate Factory. Oh, wow. And he looks a little bit like Charlie from the original Chocolate Factory. Pull up a Charlie from the original Chocolate Factory photo there. Let's do a little side by side. Compare Gordon Ramsay to him. And I'm going to be so accurate here, which blew my own mind, actually. Yeah, actually. Actually, Carl, the guy to the right of Gordon, kind of looks like him. Let's go. Hold on. no the picture on one is up one wait no that scroll yeah uh no right there to the left left on that side right there yeah carl kind of looks like that so pretty close huh yeah your imagination pretty close right there holy shit what is that shirtless photo of gordon wait wait no go to that shirtless one what am i looking at there when did he start posing like that i don't know my boy That's one vote for Bobby Kennedy right there, dude.

50:23That's crazy, bro. Oh, Bobby Flay. Bobby Flay's daughter is beautiful, actually. Man, I don't care if she hears it. She's super talented. That's exactly what I mean. She's also a stunning young lady. But what are we saying? No, I got more to say. I'll tell you this. Yeah, so you already did that, man. Yeah, and what's also interesting is while we were filming that video, I was doing a different video where I didn't eat any food for two weeks. What's the longest fast you've ever done? I just did three days the other day of only water. How was it? Or I did 72 hours. It was good. Got a little temperamental.

51:01Yeah. But I kind of enjoyed it. And how long do you do? I did 14 days, only water. Only water. Yeah, I lost, what was it, like 20-something pounds? Was it to lose weight or just to? You know, it was for a video just to see what happens. And after like day five or six, you're pretty fucking drained. You have no energy. You know, it's interesting. If you read online about extended fast, people will be like, oh, you'll lose minimal muscle mass and it's mostly fat. And which seemed like a lot of Reddit threads and things when you first Google it, that's what it tells you. So I did a DEXA scan before I did my extended fast, you know, where they measure the fat muscle in your body and do one after.

51:35And I was like, I lost like six pounds of muscle. It was like pretty depressing how much muscle I lost. Yeah, you lose it. Yeah. Which I mean is obvious, but that's not what the internet said would happen, which I was like someone needs to like correct this because yeah it was it was pretty depressing um so i lost whatever it was like 13 pounds of fat seven pounds of lean mass um but it's depressing because in your show you start to and you don't want to explain to people hey i'm fasting because people think something's going on with yeah but even after you start eating like the muscle didn't just come back yeah so it's like yeah that was that was pretty brutal but it was yeah it was intense not eating i and i still was filming and working throughout it so like on day 10 and 11 and 12 like it was really fucking with me like i i'm standing up was just like brutal you know and like walking around or anything like that because you have no energy you needed a real cane like willy wonka yeah yeah there yeah that was that was intense and did you what were you did you notice like um but your clarity got pretty sharp as a whip were you able to use that people say that but no for me it never that never hit i never got that like uh a superhuman clarity because that's what i was hoping for yeah no i just like i was just fucking tired man all the time i was too tired to have clarity um oh i could read people's damn minds i thought that guy was naked at first on the right former all pro nfl tackle russell okung is also over 150 pounds since retiring including losing 100 pounds in 40 days by fasting every day yeah that's just that's crazy we just started a video where we uh or we're about to start it after when i go back home we built a gym like a just a weightlifting gym um and then we put a big red circle around it and then we're going to give a guy uh either i don't know which one um if he loses 100 pounds before he leaves that red circle and so and he has a trainer in there and he has a chef at everything he'll need and then um yeah and then exciting yeah so like that video might take like a year you know and so he just he's living in there we have cameras set up and it's just like lose 100 pounds or or leave you know and if you lose 100 pounds before you leave you you win the money that's fair dude They should do that around like an IndyCar race, you know?

53:42Just put a big, huge circle around like a Talladega or whatever. Why? And just be like, lose 100 pounds. Oh, I didn't think about the end of it. Another video we're about to start, too, is I bought a jet. And then we're grabbing two people who just graduated from pilot school or whatever, just got their license. And we're going, if you guys live in this jet for the next 100 days, don't step foot out of it once. So in the next hundred days, you get to keep the jet. So then they'll own a private jet, but they can fly it around or do whatever. Just as long as they don't leave. They just can't leave.

54:13Yeah. So like, I'm hoping they'll like fly to New York and just Uber eat some pizza to the door of the jet. Then fly to California or whatever. And it just like, yeah, that'll be a fun one. Yeah, that sounds interesting. Is there a video? Say if you got to, they shut you down. They're like, Beast, you're done. No more beasting around here, boy. Get out of here, Beast. What if people were like that? And then you had to make, you got to make one more video. do you know what it would be you think that's uh only one more i mean because you're already you've i mean you've got the five million dollar you know you've upped the ante yeah well that's on the the show but on youtube because i don't i don't have that i don't have streaming money on youtube you know what i mean um i don't i don't know man we've there's not because there's so many things i want to do it'd be hard to pick one oh there are yeah you still have a ton of ideas oh unlimited i mean the bottleneck for me is not ideas it's just like actually pulling them off you know because a lot of these are multi-million dollar projects to take months upon months to set up months to film months to edit etc so it's just like they're pretty brutal like one of the ones we did recently that i thought was really cool but like this is an example of how much time it takes is we we built a bunker underground i don't did you see that one i know i'm not sure okay but so we had to dig like a super deep hole we bought a bunker put it in cover it up and then build pull up the like the outside of it for him so he can see what it looks like and then we had to yeah that top one right there.

55:32I've seen some of this. Yeah. So that that's a bunker we built. And then those two people, if they live in there for a hundred days, they want half a million dollars. Oh, they did it too. Yeah. Yeah. And then like, but you have to set deck the bunker and then, um, so that's like multiple months of building and everything. And then you put them in there and then that's still three months and 10 days of filming. And then, you know, you have to have like camera crew there going around the clock and you have to have a medic there just for safety and all these other things. And I have to check in every day.

55:58And then now you come out the other and you have 100 days worth of footage, which takes, you know, editing team forever to come through and watch and edit and then build stories. So like, that's like a eight month long project. You know what I mean? So that's, they're just like, it's a lot. Yeah, it's very, very intense. And that's the thing is like, the fact that I can do all this for a YouTube video, it was like unfathomable when I was growing up. Like, it's crazy to see like the kind of content that can be supported by YouTube. You know, like I think on that video, we probably spent like four and a half million dollars making that yeah just on that between the bunker and the prize pool and everything and how many uh shows can you have like can you have a couple of things going like that at once yeah we have to i try to upload two videos a month so we have to be working on six to eight videos at a time because these videos take months to pull off so because if we're only working on one at a time then i'd only upload once every like three or four months and do you come up with most of the ideas yourself or do you have kind of a team when you guys kind of pull them yeah so that's where it's interesting because uh the ideas are incredibly important because like you i do a lot of seven day challenges right i spent seven days buried alive i spent seven days in solitary confinement seven days of cave underground city seven days on zero island blah blah and what's interesting is like you could do seven days buried alive so me laying in a coffin for seven days or you could do theoretically right i could lay in a bathtub for seven days right both take the same amount of my time both are me just laying there but the one in the bathtub isn't going to get any views no one gives a fuck the one of me laying in a tomb underground everyone will care because like fucking what the fuck this dude buried himself alive so it like shows like the theoretically it's kind of the same thing but this idea is just in a different setting environment and we'll probably get 10 000 times more views and so it shows like the importance of the idea if that makes sense like it's not uh views or success isn't just isn't directly correlated with the effort you put in a lot of it has to do with what is the overarching concept and so once you kind of realize that you just like you're really obsessed with how do I come up with crazy cool original viral ideas and so that's what I spent most of my teenage years obsessing over and I used to do every single day I would brainstorm video ideas and I'd write them write them down and that's how I built like I just like google sheet with like 10 ,000 ideas on it it's ridiculous I thought of trying to sell that to youtubers at one point because there's so many there I could never film them but then after a while now that things have gotten so big and I have to like film 25, 28 days a month and I have all this stuff going on.

58:24I can't do an hour a day. So I hired people to do it for me. And then, you know, like once a week, they'll just go, Hey, here's 200 really cool, unique ideas. I'll flip through them. And, you know, they'll usually inspire something in my head because a big thing too, is like, this is what, um, I've probably said this on podcasts before, but like, if there was a, like a fruit in Africa that if you ate, you grew two feet taller and you didn't know that existed until I just told you right now, right. You that you know it exists, you could. And so it's like very important to always be intaking new information and learning things because that's how you, you know, come up with more original creative stuff.

59:02Like I, I noticed when I first started hiring people to like, you know, start brainstorming stuff for me that like after two months of someone doing this, you would just basically start getting the same ideas on autopilot, right? Like if a guy really likes basketball, you'll start to notice like, Oh, 10 % of his ideas have to do a basketball, but it's not because basketball is like the greatest idea is the most viral thing is just because that's what he watches and so you know and you'll notice if someone watches baseball though oh now they conveniently have baseball ideas and and so what you want is you just want to get someone who you just almost like want to make them constantly learn and absorb new information listen to 10 different podcasts one episode of each not 10 of one listen you know watch every sport not one and you you almost have to like to train people to help you come up with good ideas you have to just train them to watch a bunch of different content and absorb information and you'll see it come out in their ideas if that makes sense so first of all you'd find somebody who you like okay i like this that this person comes up with ideas and then you'd be like now i just need to have i need them to encourage them to consume different things it's almost like an information ingredients different ingredients to come out with a different cake exactly yeah so you control their information diet and by information diet that's so wild i mean and that's yeah i mean i obsess over things so yeah it's important but that's that's that's been super helpful um because yeah it's just that's how we because a big part of getting 100 million views theoretically on a video is if uh any you know is it something someone has seen before or not like uh there's this ted talk i watched one time and he was talking about how you know if you're driving down the road you just see a cow you you're probably not even gonna look at it right who cares you've seen him all the time but if you're driving down the road and there's a purple cow you're gonna look like four times you're gonna to remember that.

1:00:45Like you, you know, someone could ask you a year later and you'll be like, yeah, I saw a purple cow. And it's like, the only difference is it's purple. And it's kind of the same way on social media, right? Like if you're scrolling through videos and it's something you've seen before, nothing too crazy. It's just the, it's almost like you should visualize is like, that's the equivalent of someone seeing a cow. But if it's something they've never seen before, like you putting a bunker underground and two people living in it, that's, that is the equivalent of a purple cow on social media. Like, how do I make something that Prince would drink milk out You know what you just say like how do you make something that Prince would drink milk out of Prince?

1:01:17Prince musician with his last name Prince. Prince. Okay. I'm talking about Prince from Minnesota. no oh prince i've heard the word little rick yeah that song he's a musician but purple he was like a purple guy gotcha gotcha so like how do you make this right gotcha two thousand princes right but he's the he's he's the one-on-one yeah he's prince gotcha gotcha right like that's what i'm saying like how do you i gotcha yeah i'm saying the same thing you're saying yeah yeah you know So that's a very important thing. So it's just if anyone watching ever wants to do social media, make your ideas the purple cow.

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1:05:51Like, what are some common misconceptions about you or your work, do you feel like? Well, that's a good one. I would say the biggest one is I think people think we make content for kids. and like, you know, but that's a great answer. Yeah. And it's a lot of, cause I've been famous, famous air quotes, I don't know, but for a while now. And I, the thing is when I was like, in my young, like 20 years, I'm 26 now when I was like 20 or 21, I didn't have much experience with storytelling or, or like making these like videos with contestants and like how to like show what they were feeling or anything.

1:06:30So back then the videos came across a little like, uh, ADHD, like fast paced or whatever. Cause I, it's not like I had Christopher Nolan as a father teaching me, I was just learning storytelling as I was going. So a lot of my videos back then got a lot of views and like same when I was like 22 or 23, but you know, the last three years, we've really leveled up the storytelling and building characters and especially the last 18 months and gotten better at like making content that, um, you know, people in their twenties and thirties would be like, well, this is like good and could enjoy. But because a lot of people haven't seen my newer videos and watch my older ones, they still think all my videos are like that.

1:07:03So they just kind of like push it off so like when someone says like ah your videos are too ADHD and you don't have any storytelling I'll usually like show them like one or two of our newer videos I'll be like oh my god this is great and I was like yeah let me guess you just haven't seen a video in two years I'm like yeah and so that kind of is a little bit of a misconception I'm constantly fighting yeah is that you're still like this kind of just entertainment for kids or that your entertainment your ability to entertain is also still junior yeah exactly and so um which obviously younger people watch the video.

1:07:35Oh yeah. Great. I mean, I think like anyone, you know, could watch that bunker video and be like, well, this is just high quality, entertaining stuff. It's not like you have to be, yeah, it's not like the child inside of me liked it and the adult inside of me liked it. Exactly. You know, so that, that would be one, um, I guess the other misconceptions of, of it is like, I, we, I mean, we, it looks like a lot of these videos just, you know, it just looks like me and the boys having fun because that's what I want it to look like. I want to put the boys in an environment where they're just themselves and things like that.

1:08:03I think people think what I do is a lot easier than it is. Like these things are monster, monumental projects that are a bitch to fucking do. And it's like, you know, and you know, a hundred plus million people are going to watch it. And you know, like, so everything's just got to be fucking great and perfect. But we don't have years to do these things. We're trying to do what most people would do in a year, in two months. So it's like, you know, it is tight timelines. And it's just, we don't have the budgets of these giant studios or anything when we're doing these YouTube videos. And it's just, it's, it's very, very difficult.

1:08:34You know what I mean? Like I have hundreds of employees full time. You do. Yeah. That depend on that YouTube channel. You know what I mean? At Mr. Beast Productions. Yeah. Yeah. I, I don't even know if we, I guess Mr. Beast Studios. But yeah, it's, it's just a lot of pressure because it's, yeah, it's just a lot of people depend on it. These, and it's, it's just absurd to think that I have all these employees and we're spending all this money. And I just assume like the magical YouTube algorithm when I post this video is just going to give it to a hundred million people every single time. And it's like, it's just like, that's a lot of stress.

1:09:04And it's like, it's a lot of people who, you know, watch the, it's just a lot of everything. It's a lot of pressure, a lot of stress. And it's like, if I don't film, then there's no video. So it's also not a typical business because, you know, you can, any other company, you can replace basically anyone. But you are the business. Exactly. I am. Like literally, if I'm just like, yo, for the next month, I don't want to film. The business is dead. You know what I mean? So it's like, it's, uh, yeah, it's, I, I wouldn't, I, I just, it's a lot. It's just a lot. No, it seems like a lot, but do you, did you know it was going to be that much stress?

1:09:39Do you find that you like the stress? Like I remember even just for myself, right? Like we have responsibilities now we do like six episodes a month now. And at first I remember I could barely do one episode a week was tough in some weeks it still is, but then some days I'll go through and it's like, this just starts to feel easier. I start to kind of acclimate to where I am. And then there's a part of my brain that's like, okay, well now what can we do? But that same part of my brain is just the brain that, that forgets like fucking, we barely just got to this place. And are we even okay here?

1:10:09Right. So it's tough for me to like monitor the different parts of my brain. The one that wants to do more or try new things. And the one that also wants to make sure we're okay. We're at and not be happy. Right. And be happy. Yeah. It's like yeah so most of the time i work now it's like um i guess what my my question is like i don't know what it is man do you know what it is i get what you're trying to ask it's like how do you uh which side of the pendulum are you swinging between being stressed and wanting to die constantly or like prioritizing being happy and like that basically yeah and are you able to battle that do you know did you know you were as competitive in and or do you think you're competing against like the algorithm or you want people to see it like you know what is that thing that are you able to notice like, cause I don't even know sometimes what drives me to do things or even want to learn more.

1:10:56Yeah, I would say I, like you, I'm just incredibly, incredibly, incredibly competitive. I just love winning. And it's, the thing is, I think people have a misconception. They like try to put everyone, especially famous people in a box where it's like, this is what motivates them. And this one reason is why they do everything. And I believe you can be motivated by multiple things, right? Like one thing that pushes me is the fact that, you know, a lot of my friends I grew up with work for me and right. And I don't want to ever have to fire them because we can't afford to pay them. I have people who, you know, moved across the world to come work for me.

1:11:28So, you know, that's one thing that motivates me being able to provide for the people who risked everything. Another thing that motivates me is I just love entertaining people. And the fact that I get to entertain a hundred million people or 200 million people or whatever it is, like, I think our average videos are doing 200 million views the first year. Like, I know that's a thing that won't last forever. Right. I mean, that's like, at some point, you know, I'm not going to be able to upload something and 3 % of the humans alive are going to watch it. You know what I mean? So part of it is I want to make sure I'm like taking advantage of the opportunity I have here because this is like, I, what, and when I'm 40, I can't expect that.

1:12:00You know what I mean? Like, um, and so that's one. And another one is like, it just, for whatever reason, it just is like built in my blood. Like, this is just what I do. Like working is just what I live for. And like, I don't really know what else to do with my life. Like it just, I'm just a machine that goes. And if I'm not working on something like stimulating and pushing and innovating, I just kind of get depressed. And like, I'm like, why am I alive? What am I doing? You know, you get that from was one of your folks, you think? No, I've just kind of always been like this. My mom hates it because I don't really celebrate wins or anything.

1:12:33I just always grinding on things. And yeah, I don't know. I think just some people are hardwired like that. And I think, but I, I think you just got to be who you are. Like that, it just is who I am, but there's, there's other people who see my lifestyle because I've talked about it on podcasts and, you know, a lot of creators want to be like me and, um, and then they end up scaling up bigger teams and they end up trying to do videos like me and then they end up there find out they're miserable and they'd fucking hate it. And it's too much stress and pressure. And so I wouldn't, I wouldn't advise this for most creators, right?

1:13:03Like I don't, I don't, like, I don't have work-life balance. I just, you don't work. No, I just, I mean, I'm like, there are some months where, you know, I film 28 days and I still have to run festivals. I still do, uh, you know, uh, film 28 days on the main channel that I, I filmed for our beast philanthropy channel. I still film stuff for Tik TOK because we have over a hundred million followers to Tik TOK and I have to do stuff on Instagram. I still have to network and do these things. And, um, it's, it's like, I mean, it's basically if my eyes are open, I'm there to work. It's like, you know, I have a person whose job is just to help me basically write everything I want to accomplish on a whiteboard.

1:13:36I mean, it will take up the size of this wall. And it's like all my priles and things I could be doing things I should be doing things. other people need me to be doing. And then, you know, we'll just go in the next seven days, I'll circle all the things I want to do ancillary on top of what naturally I have to do. And, um, and then he'll just like schedule out basically every second my eyes are open. Um, and, and, uh, which is good because it helps me. I sometimes fall into the trap of being reactive. Like, you know, my content, you know, channel needs me to film this, this needs feastables needs me to do this.

1:14:05And, but you know, you're never going to achieve something great if you're just constantly like a ping pong ball being told what you need to do by your employees. So occasionally you need to be proactive and do other things that, you know, people wouldn't think of and be a little bit more of a visionary. So doing that kind of helps make sure I'm prioritizing things correctly and things like that. Well, it's interesting because in the beginning, you're kind of working for yourself because you're the creator, but then you build an audience and then you start to work for the audience in a weird way.

1:14:31Right? Yeah. Yeah. And there's no judgment against that, but I just noticed that in my own life in the beginning, like I'd give anything to have an audience, you know, but it's more like me. It felt like me being me, but then it's also starts to feel like you now, now you have the audience. Now you have somebody to work for. Yeah. You, you, I, yeah. Cause you technically couldn't just 180 and like, you know, uh, cause if you did, you'd lose your audience. And so, yeah, I guess technically you're working, working for them in a way. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. I was going to say, what did you learn about being a boss?

1:14:58Like, cause I never wanted to be like having any employees, right. I never even wanted to be an employee. I didn't want to have any employees. I wanted to have pizza, you know, sounds like the life. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to live in a park. But what I'm saying is, um, oh shit, hold on. I know what it is. I think that what did you learn about yourself? Like about being a boss? Like I learned that if I don't show up in a comfortable way, then it's, it affects my, how my employees are. I've learned that I have to communicate better as to what I want or because people don't just know what I want.

1:15:32Yeah. Those are some things that I've learned, learned the hard way kind of, were there things that you've learned just about being a boss? Oh, I mean, of course. Um, cause I went from one to, I think now across everything I employ over 400 people. So full time. So it's like, yeah, I mean that when I first started hiring people, I was, I was 19. So like, or not maybe even 18. So I was a teenager with no idea. I mean, yeah, you asked what I learned. I mean, at the start, I literally went to, this is how stupid I was when I was a teenager I literally went to uh a comedy club or whatever comedy Tariq what was it comedy it was just the open mic open mic yeah Tariq was one of the people hired there it's funny he's still here seven days later seven years later but uh I went to an open mic and I was just like you know um I want my YouTube channel to be a little funnier so I'm just gonna go hire some random comedians at an open mic so I just went to one and then I just was like writing on like a notepad every time they they made me laugh the comedians and then the ones that made me laugh the most.

1:16:27I just afterwards went backstage and I was like, yo, you want a job? You want to help me make YouTube videos? And that's how I first started hiring. And then after that, I went into like my local Best Buy, you know, like the electronics store. This is fucking stupid, but I didn't know what I was doing. Like, obviously, if you want to hire people, you should just go find production people or people with creative experience or whatever, not going to a local Best Buy. And I hired like seven people in my local electronic store. And so I have like this ragtag group of comedians and this ragtag group of people who sell fucking laptops.

1:16:58And I'm like, yo, mixed in with some people I just hired from my high school. And I'm like, and we're making these videos that are getting views and like I'm scaling up. And I'm like, you know, I'm like, guys, let's give my three million subscriber three million pennies. And they're like, how the fuck do we get three million pennies? I'm like, I don't know. And we're just like brute forcing shit. And I mean, it was an absolute dumpster fire. I didn't know what I was doing because I wish I had a mentor or something. But then after a while, I realized, oh, maybe I should hire people who have a little bit of experience in this field, not laptop salesmen and comedians.

1:17:30And over time, we kind of started to figure it out. But you stayed in motion, it sounds like, too, though. Like, oh, yeah. You're like, this is how I do. I need something funny. I'll go to a place that has funny. I need a guy who can, you know, sell refrigerators, but talk about also iPods. Right. I'll go to a Best Buy. Right. Yeah. The Best Buy is the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life. Pretty crazy. Because some of those people are just smoking weed and wearing a shirt. They're not even clocked in. Yeah, it was. Like wearing a blue shirt. It was not the highest quality people. Yeah. One of them ended up being a convicted felon, too.

1:18:02And I didn't even realize that when I hired him. But yeah, so it's just like, oh, you know, Best Buy hired them. I'm sure they do. They're fine. Yeah. I realized I was supposed to do background checks when I was a teenager. Obviously, we do that now. But yeah, I mean, everything. I didn't know how payroll worked or taxes. I didn't know what a CFO was or bookkeeping. So it's just like a lot. And I just had to learn it through trial and error. But we have an audience the whole time. So it's not like I can just pause things and then go, oh, let me just get rid of all these best buying comedians and replace them for real people.

1:18:34So I have to keep filming. But these videos we're filming are videos no one's ever done before. So these are really complicated things that are constantly going wrong. I think back then, one in three videos I filmed, I didn't like it. So I scrapped it or it got fucked up when we were filming it or whatever, because like it was these were just big spectacles and we just didn't have the team for it. And I was reinvesting everything. And like there was one time where I like I accidentally overspent and we were like negative two hundred thousand dollars. Yeah. My mom was like losing her fucking mind.

1:19:06And I was like, it's fine, mom. I'll just next month. I think we'll make like, you know, two hundred grand or whatever. And I'll just like spend a little less. and we'll dig out of this hole. She hated it. Because she was helping me with the finances? Well, that, but we just didn't have money growing up. And so when I wanted to, I think one month we made like$100 ,000 and she was very adamant. She's like, just put 20 % away. Just let me build a nest egg, this and that. And I was like, no, actually I was thinking of just giving like$100 ,000 to Twitch streamers. I think that'd be a good video people would like.

1:19:40And she's like, for 10 hours straight was like, why not give them 80 ,000? It's like, because I, and this is where I'm a lot better at communicating now than I was back then. I was like, I mean, you're talking like, this is a guy who grew up with pimples, didn't communicate much, sat in his room and fucking worked on YouTube videos and obsessed over, you know, business and entrepreneurship where everyone else just want to watch South Park. And so I, I didn't relate to anyone. So my social skills, like skills were negative 10 ,000. So I was horrible at communicating things. So I'd just be like, and like in hindsight it's kind of obvious but at the time like there's a huge language barrier between me and my mom because all that existed in this brain was make the best way it was possible you know and she didn't fully get that and like that was that was it i was i was a robot that that that is what i live for and i was a i was not a human at that time and so i was just like if we made a hundred grand why would i not spend the hundred grand on videos and she'd be like put some away and i was like but if i put it away i would just spend it on other videos so why can't I just spend it on videos now.

1:20:38And we would just do that hours every single day. You're like, if I put away 20 grand, you know that I'm only going to be able to make 80 % of the best video I could make at that time. You know, it's just, but I'm just like, why am I putting the money away? Right. I was like, mom, I did not make a good video. Exactly. I was like, mom, my rent is like$350. I, the car's fine. Yeah. I was like, why do we need to put away? And she's, she'd just be like, and, but, and I also didn't fully realize this, but you know, she would even get trauma to like 2008 when they lost everything. thing went bankrupt and so she was like we got to save something yeah exactly but yeah so that that's what would make it intense and i didn't fully understand it at the time either so it would like get her to the point where she would cry because i would reinvest everything and she just like didn't want what happened to her in 2008 to happen to me and i just like didn't care at all i just like wow trust me videos and so that happened that was a thing for a very long time but eventually she got to the point where she's like you know what i'll just trust you and that's when that's when things got great because then like it helped my relationship with her a lot because she started stressing less and she just believes you know i got it she's like jim you'll figure this out exactly and like mr b sun beast yeah when shit happens she just goes i know you'll figure it out i'm like thanks like no need for you to cry or freak out like i got this wow did you ever do something nice for your mom something do you guys ever go to a concert together or something uh y 'all like to do anything together right now i don't really get any time off so So we joke like in 10 years, all the things we'll do when like things kind of cool off.

1:22:09Oh, yeah. But no, she gets it. She actually sent me a message like I think it was like four days ago, like a really long message saying how like she's very grateful that she still gets to work with me and do things with me and how like most people in my position would like push their mom away. But we do a lot of our bonding is like doing work stuff and things like that, because it's like then it's like something I truly care about. You know, like if we went to a concert, like she would see through that facade. She would know I'm not doing that because I care. Just doing it to like check a box.

1:22:37So, but when we work together, it's like genuinely fulfilling and it's cool to like. She likes to work too. Yeah. Well, it, the stuff she was doing when we're building the business. No, that was very stressful. Now we have it to stuff that's a little more chill and where it's fun. Like, you know, we have hundreds of employees that have Divi cards and all these things. And so we have a lot of bank accounts. You know, how do you know, you know, someone's not just stealing money. Yeah, for sure. Who else can you trust besides your mom to control the master accounts? because at some point there's a master key of someone who could i mean if they wanted to just withdraw a million dollars and just fucking run to mexico right you know so like that's like a really big thing that i counted my mom just to like manage the accounts and make sure there's no fraud and stuff like that because i don't fucking know like um and things like that um but yeah it's uh it's been a it's been a fun journey and so i'm very grateful for my mom it's kind of crazy that like moms just put 18 years of their life just pouring everything into building a real yeah this human and and it's a risk dude yeah like this human and most humans look up most humans or whatever wait most humans they're it's you know it's a shaky business just being a human i know and then they just unleash you in the wild and then you just move on and it's like it's just wild it's really a crazy premise you know yeah because i'm thinking about how like you know when i i love to spoil my mom because i'm like you just like gave everything for 18 years, especially after 2008 and all this stuff, you know, worked multiple jobs just so I could like, at the time, what you thought was just be a brat and work on YouTube videos.

1:24:08And you thought, you know, just basically it almost would have seemed by my purpose in life was to make it as miserable as possible. Yet you kept raising me and didn't give up on me. Um, and it's like, so I think of that and then I'm like, fuck, I need to spoil my mom. It's like, you know, like I think of a different parallel universe where I'm not in this position. It's like, damn, I would never have been able to like repay her for all that time. Spoiler as much. Yeah, or spoiler as much. There's been recently, like in the news and stuff, I'm not as abrupt on it, but there was like, it seemed like they were trying to like poke holes in you guys' company and stuff.

1:24:41Yeah. But a lot of it, like there were, I don't know if there was like different allegations and stuff. Yeah. If it was against you or your company, but none of it, from what I've seen, there was never any validity to it, right? Do you believe that there was actually something going on at your company that was bad? Or do you believe that other people, like at a certain point, if your company's doing so well, that other companies are outside dark interests, get upset and try to lead reporters or create a negative buzz? um is that a crazy question no no it's accurate it's uh the thing is again i have hundreds of employees that i employ full-time but i've also hired hundreds of people in the past and sometimes like uh you know sometimes we have hundreds of contractors just working on singular videos because the sets are so big so we work with lots of people it's impossible for there never to be anything negative you know that's why you have hr and things like that so um no i mean it would it'd be crazy to say there's never been any issues where no one that's ever worked for me has ever been unhappier or, you know, one employee's never said anything, you know, dumb to some other employee that made them want to complain or things like that.

1:25:56So, but I think the thing is, it's just obviously completely blown out of proportion. Like that's not a thing that's just particular to us, any company with hundreds of employees, obviously there's going to occasionally be something someone says is something that's inappropriate or something that's not ideal, but that's where, when we're made aware of it, we obviously have HR look into it or if it's something serious we'll bring in an outside third party have them look into it and just tell us what to do yeah I mean and it's weird for you because if something happens at Nike then it's like there's an issue there's something happened at Nike but if something happens at a production company and you're are basically the you're exactly the business then a lot of it probably just feel yeah like I have people I employ that I've never met in my life I probably never will I mean because we just have so many um people and some of them don't work in my hometown and things like that.

1:26:41So yeah, I mean, the answer is like, yeah, it's absurd to think that, you know, hundreds of people or sometimes over a thousand when we scale up contractors working together all these hours that there'll never be any issues. And yeah, all I can really do is make sure I'm not creating an environment where we're influencing that, which we're doing our best. And like, and then when those kinds of things happen, just bring in someone to look into it and just be like, yo, tell me what to do because I'm a fucking YouTuber. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah. You know, if someone says something like, you know, Hey there darling or whatever.

1:27:15And then someone, that person feels like that was inappropriate. Like, I don't want to be the judge of that. I want to, I don't want someone in my company to be a judge of it. I want to bring someone in and be like, yo, talk to them, gather the facts and you tell me what I'm supposed to do, which is what we do. And that's all I, I really can do. You know? Yeah. Yeah. It would seem like, God, it would just seem like so much stuff is out of your hands when it's got to be tough when you're a creator, you know, because you want to be do every you know you kind of want to do everything and have it as a business scales it's kind of tough because you can't you know um what else did i want to ask you about oh i wanted to ask you about he's got the flash cards sorry dude no it's cool i went as long as i could that's about that was a long for me uh so yeah like you've had like we were talking earlier about like philanthropy so you had like you've taken plastics out of the ocean right you put um help people with eyesight um you put the water you've done water wells in africa yeah zambia oh yeah in africa all across zambia or africa did you um like what is is is there like a overall goal of like a big crazy vision you see for the future of like some sort of philanthropic idea for us or just in general yeah just in general it could be anything um well the thing i've been focusing most of my time on in that area recently is yum.

1:28:35So for festivals, obviously chocolate is made of cocoa. There's a lot of unethical stuff that goes on on cocoa farms. I don't know if you're aware of that. Look, I've used, yeah, it depends on what kind of farms we're talking about, but I, yeah. There's some definitely, yeah. In West Africa. So majority of the world's cocoa comes from Kotavara, Ghana. It's like, I believe like 70 % of the world's cocoa. and like kutabaravana kotavar kotavara uh kotavar yeah kotavar yeah kotavar yeah and then ghana they're on the left oh and ghana kotavar and ghana yeah okay two countries are on the left side of africa kind of like we're the round part right there it's like the perfect place to go grow cocoa and so but 46 of the labor on farms there which is where almost all the cocoa in the world comes from is child labor so it's like pretty pretty like just a lot of things going on there.

1:29:23And so that's where I've been focusing on my attention because obviously we need a lot of cocoa for feastables. And so we used to get our cocoa from Peru, which ethical sourcing is not as big of a problem over there. And we use a lot of family owned farms and blah, blah, blah. But the thing is, there's not enough cocoa comes from Peru to supply big chocolate. And I wanted to show like, so saying I ethically source my cocoa from Peru doesn't really prove anything because big other chocolate companies will just go, okay, but we can't do that. There's not enough cocoa in Peru. So like that doesn't count.

1:29:56It's not possible to ethically source cocoa in West Africa. So, um, uh, and I knew if Feastables kept growing, eventually we'd have to switch over there. So this past year we switched our supply chain over there and we've been just working with the, have you ever heard of Tony Shacoloni? Probably not. Tony Shacoloni? Yeah. No. And is it a real person? Well, it's a reporter who went like super deep, uh, in exposing like the chocolate industry and really interesting guy yeah yeah and then but and he was like and no no chocolate companies would uh ethically source their cocoa and he kept exposing them and none of them would he be a cool guest you think yeah yeah he'd be awesome wow it sounds crazy i didn't know there's bad chocolate yeah so he started his own chocolate company to prove that you could ethically source and he called it tony's chocolate only because it's the lonely oh yeah i've seen those yeah badass baller company and so i've been working with them to figure out how we can also ethically sourced our chocolate because they're they're the only ones really doing it clean cocoa dude yeah so we are built a supply chain with them and so like all our farmers were fair trade certified and then we pay our farmers a living income because a big reason why there's child labor is because farmers in west africa just don't make enough money so it's like that is like if you're to rank the issues like the number one issue is just income like they just can't even afford to hire adults even if they don't make enough so what they do and what we're doing for feastables is, um, we pay, there's a living income reference price where they basically look at the cost of bread, the cost of living cost of inflation, blah, blah, blah.

1:31:22And they go, if a farmer were to sell you a metric ton of beans, if they don't get paid this number, then they won't be able to make a living, uh, income. They won't be able to live, which then means they'll be forced to use child labor because if not, it's like they're, that's the only way they'll be able to survive. Right. So they need to have children working. Yeah. So they need to make, uh, and I'm paraphrasing this is mile high stuff, but they need to make this theoretical number, which is living in income reference price. And so that's what we guarantee our farmers. So if like they theoretically sell us the cocoa, a metric ton of cocoa for less than that, we'll pay a premium on top and be like, no, here's extra money.

1:31:55This is what you need to make so you can actually live. But you know, we don't want child labor on the farm. So we'll, we'll guarantee you'll, you'll make this much, but I don't want to see fucking nine-year-old Timmy on the cocoa farm. You know what I mean? um so that's like the big thing um and then do like they have farm coaches that because another way to help farmers make more money is not just pay them more but it's also helped them get more yield out of their farms so they have coaches that will help counsel them and you know theoretically try to help them get five or ten percent more yield out of the same hectares they have um occasionally some supplies it's like very like all about getting it because it's an income problem for a lot of them why they're using child labor you could go to the farm and be like stop using in child labor, but if they can't survive, the family can't eat if the kids don't also work.

1:32:42Yeah. So, um, that's, that's been a big journey. I actually spent recently a week in Ghana, just going through the whole supply chain. So I worked on the farm, you know, and then you laid the crack, the pods laid out to dry and then saw like where they dry and then where they store the beans. And they, even how like the government, like, um, does QC on the beans went through the whole thing all the way to the ship. Just like, so this has been the last year, probably like a good fucking chunk of my time has been going to like figure out ethical sourcing with them because it's, it's very like, it's very expensive, you know?

1:33:12So I just want to make sure we're doing it right. And, um, yeah. And also that's a way of, that's a really a big form of philanthropy itself because, you know, just teaching these people how to do, how to have more success in their own lives. I mean, that kind of stuff is huge. You teach one person in an area and then they can be a leader and teach other people. It's like, you don't even realize kind of the Well, the bigger thing is that I hope to, um, like, I hope to get it where if feastables keeps growing, where we can be like, look, we're a big chocolate company and we're ethically sourced and we're profitable.

1:33:43So then we can look at other big chocolate companies and go, you have no excuse, right? Right now they can all just say it's impossible. You don't understand, you know, you don't have scale at companies our size. This is like, this is a fairytale dream, but cause no one's doing it. Um, you know, that's actually doing serious revenue. So if we can get to that point where theoretically we're selling a billion dollars a year of chocolate and it's ethically sourced and it's profitable then like they have no excuse exactly and so like because there's over a million kids in child labor and on cocoa farms in west africa right now yeah and like feast world itself is not going to be able to get all a million out but if we could theoretically get tens of thousands of kids out of child labor and then use that in my you know platform and stuff like this to bully everyone else then hopefully that can create a snowball that gets hundreds of thousands of kids out of that you know big chocolates going down boy I like that.

1:34:30I mean, it's just. I hate three musketeers. I'll say it out loud. And when people eat them, and I'll say this. When people eat them, I judge them. No comment. I don't want to get sued. Yeah. I'm just saying I don't like them. Yeah. He does not like three musketeers. And I can say that, can I? Yeah, you can say that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like them. I can say I don't like three musketeers either. Not because of anything. Just I don't like them. Oh, no. I don't know any of their behaviors. I don't know what they're doing before they mail it to me or whatever. I don't like it. I never have liked it.

1:34:59And I don't even believe in it. Yeah. Which is also a way that I feel about it. Like when I open it up, I don't even, I don't even believe in it. And paydays, the nuts aren't any good in them anymore. And they were better when my mom. Paydays, I feel like if they had like a little more saltiness, a little more nuts, those things would be the bomb. Yeah. The chewy stuff in the middle is just a little too overpowering now. I agree. Yeah. Paydays are like so close to being a phenomenal product. Yep. And the nuts used to be a little more, they had more edges on them. They looked like more nuts. Bro, I relate.

1:35:28I had a payday recently. I thought the same thing. I was like, this fucking shit in the middle. There's no flavor. I want more fucking salt. It fell off for me, and I don't know when. My mom used to get them sometimes. It would be like a special thing that she would get, but she would let us watch her eat them. I'm going to tell you this. Have you ever dealt with, like, you're so big on YouTube. Do you ever deal with sanctions and stuff on there? Have you had to deal with that? Is that a conversation you have with them? Sanctions? Or they say, like, you can't do certain things. Do you have to, like, submit all your videos and, like, go through a process like that?

1:35:58Um, well, can we even talk about that? We can, we can talk about the conspiracy theorists are going to run away with this, but a lot of, uh, there's, uh, when there's like, um, a higher ad, uh, what is it? When you get bigger, there's like a Google preferred or whatever, where it's like a, for bigger advertisers, like Coke or whatever, like premium advertisers, they want to make sure they're not advertising on, you know, bad content. So like for bigger channels, YouTube, if they'll review your video before it goes up just to make sure it's clean and you're not just like saying Hitler a thousand times to make sure it's good for bigger advertisers.

1:36:32So they review it for that, but they do that for, I believe, thousands of creators right now, which, you know, but you don't have to do that. It just helps you get higher ad rates. But no, I mean, I just post whatever. They don't know what I'm doing or anything. And they're pretty chill. Do you think they're in a tough position? With what? Just like having to set up parameters for different videos and like the effect that it could have on certain people and that sort of thing. Like, I always just think about it from my perspective. I'm always like, well, we're upset. You know, sometimes like, oh, they'll make us take a joke or this joke or this sort of thing.

1:37:02They may not, you know. Well, the thing is, they're not making you take it out. They're just saying, if you don't take it out, you won't get higher ad rates. That's a good point. Think of any brand that spends a billion dollars a year marketing. That's them saying, hey, YouTube, if they hear if any of these things are in a video, we don't want to be on it. And YouTube just going, hey, take this out or we can't put these premium ads on you, which I think makes perfect sense. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Sometimes I only look at it from my perspective i'm not able to look at it from like oh also yeah this is a platform where they allow us to put our stuff up exactly and then so they also are trying to do business as well yeah you know um what else do we have here we're almost done i mean we can keep going i'm having fun you don't drink right i i've maybe drank like five times in my life i don't like the way it makes me feel it's like is it out of control that it makes you feel you think no it's just like well so i didn't drink alcohol till i was like 23 or 24 i wanted to stay the fuck away from it because I have a very addictive personality.

1:37:53So my goal is to go my entire life without ever drinking alcohol. But then I was like with Logan Paul one time or I was at a casino gambling and then Logan Paul was there and then he was like, let's hang out. And then - Was it a UFC fight or something? I don't even remember. It might've been like Floyd Mayweather versus Conor McGregor or something. Oh yeah. I don't know. But so I was like, okay, let's, we can gamble together. And then we're walking to like the tables and he stops by a club. He's like, let's just go in here. It'll be one minute. I was like, oh my God, I fucking hate clubs. They're so boring.

1:38:23So I go in there. One minute turns into like two hours and I'm just so fucking bored. And I just caved. I was like, okay, I need to just drink. And I'd never drank in my life, but I'm like something. I need something. I'm dying. A lot of people need to drink to be around the pulse. Yeah, so that's what I like. That was the time I did it. And then I was just like, oh, I just kind of like feel weird, but it's not a happy word. It's just like, this is, I just don't like it. You don't dig it. Yeah. Yeah, I think people, I think it's getting less and less popular in the world, kind of, especially with like younger generations, just like, they just think it's kind of dumb.

1:38:52Yeah. It just, I don't know. I, I, I don't know how to describe it. It's like, it just makes me feel stupid and like, but not a good stupid. It's not like a happy stupid. It's like, it's just dumb, like a waste of time. Yeah. I've definitely, I've done a lot of that. In July, you tweeted, if you were to lower the age for president that you might run, um do you still think that ever um no no i mean i i might when i'm older but not if they lowered it that was mostly a joke just because i knew people would freak the out and talk about it um and it worked but i would uh if i were to it would probably be like when i'm like 50 or 60 because i would need to like accomplish everything i want in business and stuff and then probably take like 10 years and i'd have to go be like a do something at the local level and then the state level and work my way up.

1:39:45But yeah, we'll see. But there could be potentially a president beast. You never know. Oh yeah. One hundred percent. You never know, especially about if you learn a lot. Do you, um, has Elon ever reached out to you to do something cool together? Cause I mean, you guys at a certain point, you guys are both like, um, uh, pioneers in certain schools of thought and, and, and certainly creative folks. Yeah. I mean, he's pioneering, taking us to Mars, electric cars, talking with your phone through your brain, digging tunnels fixing traffic you know getting rid of a trillion dollars of waste in the government now and this and that and i'm pioneering funny videos yeah so i don't know if i put those in but um but kidding but um he yeah we we bumped into each other at the super bowl said hi um i i don't i think he asked me do do do i think people call it call x twitter still or do people call it x and I was like, yeah, most people call it Twitter.

1:40:40I've noticed he's like, interesting. I think I was kind of like the gist of it. And then, but outside of that, no, not really. I mean, I'm in talks with people at SpaceX and even clicking ideas and things like that, but not Elon himself. Yeah. Yeah. We tried to ask if we could interview those, the two people stuck up in that. Oh my gosh, that'd be crazy. I wanted to be the first one because people are like, who you want to get on your podcast? And they're like, anybody. And I was trying to think, who can you not get in? like, oh, somebody's not on earth. Yeah. That's who you got to get. Yeah, that would be sick.

1:41:10Somebody who's just loitering or whatever, you know? And I love how they're not aliens, but yeah, it's like, all right. Do you think you could get Elon on here one day? Do you think you would do? I think maybe. Yeah. They just, they offered to send me a Starlink if I want to get one. So I might get one. Are you using them? Oh yeah, Starlink's amazing. Bro, when you're in fucking Zambia in the middle of nowhere, that's the only, Starlink in Antarctica was amazing. Like Antarctica, you're in the middle of nowhere. and I mean literally the furthest from human civilization on the planet and yeah you can get internet.

1:41:41It's such a phenomenal product. Did you see anything cool like unique because a lot of people say in Antarctica that they're hiding secret stuff up there that there's that kind of energy. Oh boy. Yeah. Antarctica you should go to Antarctica at some time in your life. Oh I would love to go up there. It is. So there's like you go to South America and you get on a Boeing 747 like an actual commercial plane. You go to South america yeah you go all the way to like the very bottom like of chile okay antarctica's at the bottom yeah yeah um and then uh you board like a commercial plane like you're flying like fucking delta here and it just starts flying and you just you fly over the ocean and then you see just this just endless abyss of white snow and mountains and you just keep flying deeper and deeper and deeper into it and then you just see there's just fucking ice runway i mean it's the sketchiest thing you'll ever see in your life.

1:42:33And it just lands this commercial airliner there. I had no idea of any of this going into it. I kind of went into it pretty raw and you get off. It's just this janky little like ladder thing type B. It's they know. Yeah. Go down one image right there. That one. Click on it because they have to brush all the snow off. Yeah. That's what you land on. Wow. Just ice. And then then that's not the one we went to. But then there's just this research facility where there's like three big tents that researchers work out of. And then there's like a hundred tents that they all live out of. Um, so there's no actual terminal.

1:43:05No, because, uh, there it's like, so the time where it's like sun 24 seven, but then there's like these intense winters, like three or four months a year where it's like dark and you can't be there. So they have to pack everything up and leave. You can't leave anything behind. So it's like a temporary thing. Um, and so we get out and there's all these researchers doing experiments and cool shit. And I'm just like, Hey, I'm here to film a video. Um, so, and then a snow. So we were supposed to just be there for like two days or three days or whatever but a snowstorm hits so what we were going to do is just go out in a random direction and then just set up a camp in the middle of nowhere in antarctica and try to survive for 50 hours oh yeah but there was an intense snowstorm so we're just we had to sit in these research facilities and wait them out um and one of them was so crazy it's like this uh tent with like door and it like flew the door flung it open it was so intense that we had to like tie like hold the door shut because it's like like barreling snow and i'm like my god i think we're gonna die like it was crazy they're like we haven't had a storm like this in a while and like uh you have like all these little tents that you live in and like the big communal tents for the where everyone hangs out and stuff and the little tent like we had to build like actual snow walls around our tent because there's so much wind blowing that like our tents would have got swept away so we had to i had to barricade the i'm like this is just the normal thing they're like yeah that's just what happens and so you're like building a wall around your, your, you know, metal pole reinforced tent that you're going to sleep in.

1:44:29Um, and like when the winds would pick up at night, I'm, I'm like, fuck, it's like, is my tent just going to fly off? And there's nowhere to run to. Yeah. You just run to the bigger tent, but it's like, it was crazy, you know, and also in Antarctica probably it's like, you can't pee or shit in the snow or anything like, because you can't leave anything behind. Like that's massively illegal. And so everything ever, all your waste and stuff, You have to store and carry and hold and that kind of stuff. Fly back with it? Well, they will. But you'll just put it in like a piss tank where they'll hold on to it.

1:44:58Oh, okay. And the shit bag, this big shit thing they had. But also, you get snow blindness because everything's white and the sun reflects. So you have to wear glasses when you go outside or it'll literally blind you, which was like, that was crazy. Yeah. Imagine, first of all, you're almost blind, can't shit. Yeah. Well, so you wear these tinted glasses. What are you even doing, dude? It's like you're 80 years old. It's so beautiful, though. It's, like, crazy to just see. You're just in the middle of nowhere. It feels like you're on a different planet. And it was, like, sometimes you just walk outside.

1:45:34You just walk in a direction. You just see nothing anywhere. And it was awesome. Is there a zoo or anything like that? No, there's nothing. Is there any? No animals, nothing? No roads or nothing, huh? No, there's literally nothing there. I mean, like, so after the snowstorm calmed down, we just went out, like, got on these, like, little skis or things went far away. Um, but this is where it gets scary because there's crevasses and, um, ravines and things like that. So you could be walking and then just fall a hundred feet and die. Right. Cause there's like the snow could, uh, have like slightly piled up over like a hundred foot gap in between the ice or things like that.

1:46:07So you have to have like this device go on in front of you that checks to make sure there's not just like a giant hole you're going to fall in. You have to mark everything. So we go out in this random direction, scan everything. And then we scanned like this little like 100 foot square foot perimeter, put up flags. And it's like, guys, if you walk across those flags, there's a chance you'll fucking die. So boys stay within this unless we scan more areas. And then, yeah, we just started setting up tents, raw dogging it in the middle of nowhere, Antarctica, far away from the research facilities.

1:46:36And it was it was a fucking awesome experience. And then there's this mountain that no one had any records of someone climbing. So we climbed this pretty tall mountain. And so I got to name it. um which i named it shopify because they sponsored the video and helped make the whole thing happen but yeah so but like uh it was crazy man climbing up this mountain and i just i had no idea how we did that i it was can you pull it up just like go to the 50 hours in antarctica uh is it nice like and there's no people there's not like antarctic and you can't go to a bar nothing there's nothing no there's literally nothing like this there's research facilities do you think there's crazy stuff going on down there like they say there's a lot of uh no i don't think there's anything i didn't i yeah that see look at that wow it's fucking crazy yeah we were deep in there and it's super cold huh yeah it depends on the time they're they're well so the uh problem is like when you move around and you have so many layers you start to heat up and then you take the clothes off and then you get really cold yeah so you look where we went to is there a chance that at one point it was thawed out and it was a normal land and we'll be able to explore it one day and we just don't know or that's complete nothing well there's uh it's not straight like those are real rocks and stuff so it's ice on top of stuff so yeah there is land um and it is crazy that oh my god yeah look at that snowstorm we got hit with so this is after we left the research facility and now we're going to set up camp and like yeah those those are the goggles you have to wear to not go blind um and then right here is where it's like a human i did a rod kind of oh that's the island that's the mountain you named no no that's just black around yeah the mountains behind us over there and then this is us setting up our tents and just i mean we're just a bunch of stupid kids i don't i don't know how we pulled this off yeah you could have lost a kid easy well yeah obviously we had a safety expert there but yeah but obviously that's it then just skip ahead like towards the end where you see me climbing up the mountain it's probably yeah i don't know maybe after this or before i just wanted to see or yeah and that's just an ice thing you're in yeah Keep going to the left.

1:48:40Is that an igloo? No, that's the tent, but it's metal reinforced. Yeah, to the right a little bit. Yeah, right there. Just hit it. Right click a couple or double tap. Yeah, so look at this right here. This is us climbing up the mountain. Look at those views. It's fucking gnarly. Oh, Shopify mountain. Yeah, I did an ad read. I was like, what's the most interesting time I can do an ad read? And I was like, where people wouldn't click off. I was like, you know, while I'm climbing this mountain, it'll probably be more interesting. Do you think you'll get to do a video with Kim Jong-un ever? I mean.

1:49:16Like a game show to help some of his citizens? I feel like they would think it's Western propaganda. I don't think they would let me. You know, when I first started uploading in China, they called me like an American capitalist or whatever. Whatever. We posted some of our videos that got views. they're like this American capitalist so we start so I stopped posting the videos where we give away money and just more like the challenge videos and then they're like oh this is cool so they just don't like the money as the goal yeah I don't know they don't want to inspire they don't want their people to see that I don't know what the logic was but I just noticed that a lot in the comments so I was like okay let me just switch up what I'm posting over here what do you watch on TV man you watch anything what am I watching do do do I'm about to start Penguin that i haven't that hbo show i haven't started that yet oh yeah i've seen that yet either that was on the list for tonight um honestly i'm watching beast games like i probably watched that episode we watched earlier a hundred times to give still notes on it yeah notes but i've also now i just get enjoyment out of watching other people watch it because that episode's mostly locked but i'm like so good man yeah i've watched like maybe 30 people watch it so it's like my my like a guilty pleasure.

1:50:32It's just watching like what other people watch my show. So that's awesome. And to know that it's more for adults. It's like you still, I think you're right. I think you're perfectly right. Like when you think about Mr. Beast, it's like, um, you, you, there's a party that still thinks part of it's for children and it is for children, but it's also for everyone. But beast games is definitely for everyone. I mean, it's the most aged up, mature stuff we've ever done. And I just, I just can't wait, man. Cause we spent over a year working on that. I I told you how much money we spent on it. It was so much time and effort.

1:51:01And like the YouTube videos you make and then you upload two months later to sit on this for so long and we have 10 episodes of it filmed. It's like just to put it out in the world will just fucking awesome. God fucking damn it. I can't wait. So that's something that excites you just to see people see it. Yeah. Oh, I'm so excited. I'm so, because most people have no idea what it is and the ones that are going to watch it. And they're just, I feel like their minds are just going to be so fucking blown. The fact that you told me everybody's on their own individual platform and how many platforms were there?

1:51:30A thousand towers. Yeah. That's crazy, bro. Yeah. I had to build a thousand of those. And then a thousand high, uh, well, we need a 3000, uh, hydraulic presses or whatever they're called to open them and, uh, 3000 hydraulics. And it's like to build those and then a thousand foam pits and a thousand crash pads. And then we had to rig up a thousand lightings and a thousand GoPros and then to build all that. And then the screens on the side. And I mean, even just$5 million of real money, having that there and all that stuff and then building the sets it's and that's just one of the 10 episodes you know what i mean so we had to do that 10 times built a fucking city name one show who's just gone okay this field build enough housing for 500 people build a sports facility build two massive five story towers build a helipad build this build that build that and make it look good in a wall yeah closest thing i can think is that angola prison rodeo have you ever heard of that it's down in uh no outside of baton rouge i mean it's not like what you're talking about but it's like They put on a pretty good event once a year down there, and the prisoners do the rodeoing.

1:52:31Wait, what? Yeah, the Angola Prison Rodeo. Angola Prison. Pretty awesome if you're into that kind of stuff. But yeah, you would definitely be able to do this way better. But just letting you know there's a little bit of competition out there. Wait, so those are prisoners? Yep, they put them all in this circle, right? And if you leave the circle, they send the bulls through, and if you leave the circle, you lose, right? And what do the prisoners get out of it? I think they get like time with a basketball or something. I don't know what the prize is. I'll have to look and see what the prizes are.

1:53:01This is crazy. What?

1:53:05We stayed in there. And this is... He really wants that prize. Right. But yeah, just to let you know, so there is a little competition out there. Oh my. Have you ever seen... The last question I have for you, you ever seen that show Hands on a Hard Body? You ever see that movie? No. Wow. Hands on a Hard Body. There was a car... somebody somebody went to a mall oh that one uh the documentary yeah i haven't seen it but i've heard of the the last take handoff car keeps it type yeah yeah okay i've seen a clip of that on tiktok and they all have their hand on a hard body the original one is great oh there's a musical now that's hilarious yeah and the guy's like nothing getting me to take my hand off but he's gone we did last take handoff lamborghini keeps it he did yeah with 50 people well this is how somebody trump somebody walked up and was like hey you want this chocolate bar and i got like i would love it and Took it with both hands.

1:53:53Damn. Who takes a chocolate bar off somebody with both hands? And he made a mistake. And he lost. Yeah. So we did one too where we took a million dollars in cash, had people put their hands on it. And I think one of the four people, I don't remember, because after like 18 hours, you start to like forget, you know, you're not 100 % focused. I think he just like reached to grab something and then was like, oh shit, and lost a million dollars. They say that the world will be changed by individuals and humans. And sometimes you start to think that that's not going to happen, you know, that people are going to expect the government to do it.

1:54:25But then I think you meet somebody like you and you're like, wow, anything is maybe possible, man. I think that's kind of like a feeling that I really got spending time with you today, man. Yeah, thanks for sharing your new show with me. And is it tough for you to like, so if you spend so much time working and would it like, is relationship something that's hard for you to navigate? I know you said you have a relationship. Is that a tough thing for you to drop in and also be like a regular person? Like, cause I'll notice I'll invite a girl over and then I'll sit there and do work. Yeah. Well, that's relationships.

1:54:55Just even outside of dating have always been a problem for me because like, I, I think this might've been a traumatic experience cause I still picture it to this day and I occasionally have dreams of it. But I remember when I was like 15 or 16, like I was so obsessed with YouTube. I remember like at lunch one time, like one person literally just looked me dead in the eyes and said, do you know how to talk about anything besides fucking YouTube? And I, that like, and I was like, whoa. And I like, and then I was like, okay, I'm going to not talk about YouTube. And then, so I just didn't talk like, and like at one point someone unironically asked me if I was mute, like, cause I was just like, in my head, I was like, well, people think I talk about YouTube too much.

1:55:37I don't know anything else besides YouTube. And so I just didn't know what to do. And it was like very like traumatic for me because I was so fucking obsessed with it growing up. And the problem is though, right. And back then I thought, okay, I'm a freak of nature. I'm the problem. And I tried to, I tried to watch South park and I think it's a good show, but I just didn't find it interesting. And, um, and my, like opportunity cost brain back then was like, no, I need to be working. This is blah, blah, blah. And so I just never related to anyone. I thought it was because I'm a freak and it's all me, me, me.

1:56:07But then I, as I, when I was like 18 or 19 and it got a little smarter, I realized, no, it's just in my school, there just weren't people who are interested in the same things as me. And so I was like, that's, but it is what it is. I don't need to change who I am. I just need to change the people I'm around. And that was like a big turning point for me. Um, and so, uh, no, I don't struggle with the relationships. I, well, I mean, if you just put me in a room with, um, someone who doesn't, isn't trying to achieve anything or doesn't want to do anything extraordinary and just wants to play video games and blah, blah.

1:56:35Like, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't relate to him. I'd be a struggle. Um, but you put me in a room with someone who is building a business and trying to do something cool. Like, I mean, we could probably talk for 10 hours straight. You know what I mean? So it's just all who you're around. It's just, those people are pretty rare and you, you don't stumble into them. You have to be very diligent to like have those kinds of people in your life. So yeah, that, that just putting myself around the right kind of people has helped like crazy. And my, my current girlfriend, she's amazing. And she understands that like, you know, growing the channel and making great content.

1:57:05And right now with Feastables, because we're trying to build an ethical supply chain. So I'm doing this on fucking steroid hard mode and all these other things I'm trying to do. It's like, it's not easy. And like, you know, she gets it, you know, like there are just some days where I won't be able to come home. There are just some days where, you know, I'm going to film for 16 hours and I'm going to, I will come home and I don't even know if my eyes will be open. Like I'm going to come home and just pass out because it was so intense. And, um, so it's great. Like, and we, we communicate really well and that kind of stuff.

1:57:32And I'm very happy. Um, but yeah, I guess that's kind of the gist. Like, did you have to say like, will you sub, can I subscribe to your heart or something like that? Like, no, I, um, it's actually nice though, because one thing I've found is, um, because we're not robots. You do have to take time off, even though I hate that you, you can't work all the time. And so I found that in the past, I would just like, if I went eight days, like really hard or nine days, like sometimes I could get it to 10 or 12 in a row, I would just like wake up and just feel like shit and crash and I need to like watch an anime or something to like decompress and blah blah but I found like if I consistently spend time with my girlfriend I don't like boil up to this point where I'm so stressed and I need to crash I'm losing my mind at borderline gonna have a mental breakdown you know what I mean yeah kind of navigated a little bit yeah it's like you know because then I get these it's like decompression shots when I hang out with her like more consistently because it's like you know when you just go home alone to an empty bed it's like what do you do but I just sit there and think about work.

1:58:28But if you have this beautiful woman, you're like, oh, this is cool. Let's talk about things. And it's like, helps you like take your mind off work. So I've noticed that's been a good benefit is like, I don't, I just don't have like borderline mental breakdowns as often. Yeah. Yeah. Connections. So you got to connect with people to get put you in a little bit better, better place. And yeah, it's important. Um, uh, Jimmy, thanks so much, man. Thanks for spending time, dude. I'm definitely a fan. And, you know, yeah, I'd love to chat again sometime about business or something. And, you know, it's funny.

1:58:58You meet people. Sometimes you think they're heroes or they're great. And sometimes once you learn about them, it's kind of like whatever, you know, they were better to see from afar. I'm sorry that I was better from afar to let you down. Maybe next time. I was going to say, that's not the case, man. I'm excited. Yeah, I'm excited for everybody to see Beast Games. Are you ever doing a show in North Carolina? If they're children or adults? Yeah, man, we'll come over there for sure. I'll invite you. Yeah, if you do a show in North Carolina, we'll be there. I'll invite you to one. Thanks so much for all the content and entertainment.

1:59:26I'm excited to see what you do in the future, man. I think you inspire a lot of people. Stop being so nice. I hate getting compliments. No, but I think it's just like anything is possible. I agree. I hate fucking getting. That's what I'm giving them to you. I'm going to start complimenting you. This podcast was amazing. You had great questions. It was very free flowing. I thought, you know, sometimes you just go on a podcast and it's an absolute shit show, but this one wasn't. And I think you're very exceptional at what you do. And watch your mouth, all right. Your vernacular is very good. And I just really loved your shoes and how you did things.

1:59:52and I thought your squad was pretty good. They're very welcoming. You made sure I had two cans of Celsius. That was awesome. Just all around a good environment and everything. Thanks, man. Well, we'll see about that. Mr. Beast. See, am I the only one? All right, to close it on this, am I the only one that feels uncomfortable when people talk about you like that? Oh, I can't. It makes me really uncomfortable. I can't wait for them to get done saying something nice. And I've had to train myself to just sit there and take it because I used to always change the subject and it would make it even more uncomfortable because and kind of awkward.

2:00:26So now I've just like practice like doing this, but because before I noticed my default would always just be to these people start complimenting and I just change the subject instantly. Yeah, me too. I'll be like, oh, that's sweet of you to say we should go outdoors. That's what I'll say. Yeah. Interesting. Anyways. So what? Yeah. Oh, it's very sweet of you. I was wondering the other day if the Jets will win anything this year and And people are like, what are we even, you know? But yeah, it's gotten, yeah, sometimes you navigate it a little bit better as time goes on, you know? Is this brand also paying?

2:00:54Nope. I just like their water. Wait, so Celsius had to pay. These guys got it for free. Yeah. But we'd like to get a water. My goal one day is to make a water. Let's see if that makes it in. This is my goal, to make a water, right? I'm going to have a wellness facility for people who are recovering from addiction, right? And it's on land that has an aquifer so they can access water. And the people that are getting well are helping to create like. So you employ the people with addiction so you get them out. Yeah. And then the water gets sold and the money goes to the facility. Yeah. So it's like because so many people have been ruined by addiction that our government supported.

2:01:30Right. Or didn't really combat like an opioid epidemic. So I'm like, well, how do you beat them? And you get something everybody needs that's clean for people, which is water. And then every time they buy it, they're helping somebody get clean, you know. Or what if you give them drugs and they go sell drugs and then they just put their addiction to good use? Oh, that's what you're talking about? Yeah. Yeah? I feel like that'd do better. Because they probably know the drug landscape and other addicts really well. Oh, that's a good point. You're kind of putting them in a whole new territory. Yeah, exactly.

2:02:02I feel like just lean into what they're good at. They're a drug addict. Just let them sell drugs. You know what? We'll try both. We'll try both, you know? And we'll get some. All right. He's been trying to end this for like five minutes. All right. Bye. Now I'm just floating on the breeze And I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone Oh, but when I reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind I found I can feel it in my bones But it's gonna take... Let's drink Welcome to Best Marc Factororders cuidadojusts.com