Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1788 - Mr. Beast
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1788 - Mr. Beast' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1788 - Mr. Beast

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Showing my day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Wow, I've done quite a few, I've never...
Okay, here, hold up, just talk to me for like a minute.
Okay.
This is so freaky to me.
Is it really?
Yeah, to hear my own voice.
We need to put this on the video.
I mean, I'm recording, but...
Okay, good, we're recording already.
Have you ever had a guest, like, freak out about that?
No, you're the first freak out because of headphones.
Not headphones, no, it's because I hear my own voice.
I'm very conscious of that.
So now I'm like, fuck, my inflection or whatever isn't...
Sounds fine.
Okay, no, I know it sounds fine.
It's just, fuck, whatever, I'll suck it up.
You don't have like a button you can press to kill it?
No, no.
What the fuck?
So when you're playing video games, you don't hear yourself, right?
No.
Yeah, I don't either, but yeah, I hear it's different, sorry.
Yeah, don't worry about it, dude.
That's what you sound like.
Now you know.
I mean, I've seen videos, I knew what I sound like, just in real time.
Hearing it.
It sounds like I'm speaking to myself.
Fuck it.
But you're not, you're speaking to me.
The purpose of it is when you and I talk and we can hear each other's voice at
the same
sound level, we don't talk over each other.
Because people tend to talk over each other, just normal, normal conversation.
And one-on-one conversation?
Yeah, normal conversation, people talk over each other accidentally, you know,
but when
you hear both sounds, both voices at the same sound level, it sounds really clunky
in your
ears.
It's imperative when you have three people.
If you have three people and you don't have headphones on, it'll be a disaster.
They just, everyone starts talking over each other.
And then when you're listening to it, it's like unlistenable.
It's hard to...
That makes sense.
Yeah.
All right.
So we're just rolling right now?
We're rolling, man.
What's happening?
How are you?
First of all, let me just tell you how impressed I am with what you've done.
I think what you've done is amazing because your channel and your, this, what
you've done
on YouTube is completely unique.
It's completely you.
Thank you.
Like your personality comes through, the way you've like crafted these, these
things that
people have to do, these tasks and these games and this fun shit you do.
And it's wildly popular.
And I didn't know about it until I guess about a year ago.
I told you my 11 year old is fucking obsessed with your show.
Obsessed.
And she told me, and we were in a hotel in Vegas.
I was there for the UFC and she was watching YouTube.
I'm like, what are you watching?
She's like, oh my God, it's Mr. Beast.
And she was so into the show.
And then I watched it and I was like, wow, this is actually really entertaining.
It's fun stuff, man.
Thank you.
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's been crazy because I've been doing it since I was 11 and.
Really?
Yeah.
So now I'm 23.
And so it's just like, basically every year it just got crazier and crazier.
And I used to make a dollar a day back.
Well, the first few years I wasn't even making money off YouTube, but once I
started making
money, I was making a dollar a day and I saved up for a couple months.
I bought a microphone, saved up for half a year.
I got a computer and I've just always reinvested it.
And so it's like literally just all, I mean, I was like as awkward as they came,
no money,
no nothing.
And I just basically just obsessed over YouTube every day for a decade.
Are your first episodes available the 11, when you were 11 years old?
Uh, no, because I had a friend when I was 13 that found my channel.
And so I deleted like all the videos.
I got really self-conscious.
Oh no.
But so everything from 13 and up is there.
And yeah, they're fucking terrible.
That's still cool.
Yeah.
So what did you do when you first started?
Like what was the first idea?
Uh, the very first video, um, weirdly enough, I played this stupid game and
some hacker like
killed my base when I was 11.
And so I uploaded it and my first video got 20,000 views like instantly.
Cause it was like all the people that played the game was like, oh shit, you
can hack in
this game.
It's a game called Battle Pirates.
I guarantee you no one listens.
What is it called?
Battle Pirates.
No one here has ever heard of it.
Battle Card?
Battle Pirates.
Battle Pirates.
Yeah, it was a really small game, but I uploaded that and I got 20,000 views
and that was probably
the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
Cause then I was, I was hooked from day one.
Literally like most people, it takes hundreds of videos before you get like one
view and somehow
the very first video I uploaded at 11, got like 20,000 views.
And then I was just like, oh, I fell in love and I've been hooked ever since.
Wow.
So it was kind of almost by accident.
Essentially.
Yeah.
It was that.
And then, cause this was way before YouTube was even a thing.
Like, you know, no one was really a YouTuber.
Hardly anyone made money.
When did YouTube first get, when did it launch?
Like 2006 or whatever.
YouTube was a thing, but like the partner program wasn't really a thing.
No one was making money.
And it was definitely back before it was cool.
Like when I was doing YouTube when I was 14 and 15, like it now, you know, it's
cool if
you want to be a YouTuber in high school or middle school back then, like no
one gave
a fuck.
You know what I mean?
It was like, you're just worried they would try to play your videos in class or
make fun
of you or stuff like that for it.
So, but it, how did it evolve to what it is now?
Was it a vision?
Was it a slow, sort of a gradual increase in numbers?
Yeah.
I mean, it was about as slow as it gets.
I mean, I can, so like when I was a young teenager, I was getting no views, had
no money,
had no equipment.
And so for the most part, it was just like, I was just trying to scrounge money
so I could
buy equipment.
Cause I was using my brother's old laptop.
And so like my first couple hundred videos, I didn't have a microphone.
Like imagine just like crackly, terrible voice.
And so once I got monetized, I saved up for a few months.
Like I told you, I bought a microphone.
I can just give you a mile high history.
And I saved up for like six months.
I mean, I was just doing video game videos and they were terrible, but I saved
up.
I got a real computer.
And so now I could actually record the video game at high quality.
I have a microphone.
I'm like 15 and I just kept going and going.
Trying to figure out like what are some of like the hotspots.
Like I essentially up until 18, I had been doing YouTube pretty religiously,
but I was making
no money.
Like this is kind of the turning point was when I graduated from high school
and my whole
life I was like, I want to be making enough money by the time I graduated to do
this full
time.
And I wasn't, I was still only making a couple hundred bucks a month.
So I graduated high school and my mom was like either move out or go to a
community college.
And I didn't have enough money to move out, but I really just, I hated school
with a passion.
But she forced me to go to community college.
And that was, that was the worst thing ever.
Like that, that made me hate life.
Like borderline suicidal.
I just can't stand like having to just sit there and listen to this dumb stuff
and listen
to some teacher read out a book.
So what I did was I would act like I was going to community college, but I
would just work
on videos in my car and edit and stuff like that.
I had straight zeros.
And so now the clock had started because like once my mom found out, I was
screwed.
Were you aware of that?
Like you're running a risk?
Yeah, exactly.
And so I would act like I was going to college that whole time, but I wasn't
and I didn't
have enough money to move out.
And that was kind of when I was just like 15 hours a day all in.
I was like, I'm fucked if this doesn't work.
And I actually, I had some videos pop off.
I couldn't tell you which ones, but I had a month where I made 20 grand because
I just
had some videos just do really, really well.
And then I came home and I was like, yeah, I haven't been going to college and
I moved
out the next day.
My mom almost had a heart attack because she didn't understand YouTube or
anything back
then.
And she just like, she was like, man, this guy's going to work at McDonald's.
I wasted all this time.
Like I invested 18 years and this is what I get.
Where were you living?
What part of the country?
North Carolina.
That's where I've lived almost my whole life.
And so how does she feel now?
Oh, she's great.
Is she like flabbergasted?
She's beyond happy.
Yeah, she loves it.
Put her in front of her friends.
She loves talking about it.
Obviously.
Oh, I always knew little Jimmy was going to be a success.
No, she doesn't try to hide it.
We would fight all the time.
Even in high school, like, you know, I never once studied.
I literally wouldn't even take my books home.
Like, I legit don't think I studied once all of high school at my house.
And so we would fight a lot.
I didn't have the best grades.
And so I would just make videos and she didn't understand it, especially
because back then
it was just a whole different world.
Like, yeah, there wasn't really a thing as a full-time YouTuber and stuff.
And so it was a lot of arguments, a lot of drama, but it ended up working out.
She's happy.
The thing is, it's like nobody saw this coming, right?
So you can't blame her.
Especially me in like the middle of North Carolina in a small town.
I had like horrible acne.
I'm, you know, especially back then, really awkward.
It's like no one, like people would have bet a million dollars that I wouldn't
be a YouTuber.
You know, it makes no sense.
But I just like, I have, you know, hyper obsession and I love this.
And, you know, given enough time, anyone can solve it.
Well, there's a lesson in that for people, really.
Like to just, if you do have a hyper obsession to something, there's a lot of
people that think
that because they're bad at school or because they're not interested in school,
that they're destined to be a loser.
Yeah.
And that's not true.
You can, the problem is school is too rigid.
Like regular public school system, sit down, underpaid teacher, disinterested,
not really
connected with the work.
You're not connected with it.
You just can't wait to go home and do what you like to do.
Exactly.
And you get this thought in your head like, oh my God, I'm going to be a loser.
I mean, that's how I was when I was in high school.
I thought I was going to be a loser.
Well, and you take it a step further because I thought, especially if you're
like extremely
passionate about something at a young age where most kids are, then you're even,
it's
more exacerbated that it's like, you know, I didn't talk to anyone.
I hardly had any friends because I was so obsessed with YouTube as back then
just no one cared.
So it's like, I thought I was just like, just didn't even know how to speak.
Like literally, I just couldn't hold a conversation with a single person
because people would just
tell me all you talk about is YouTube and I would try to talk about something
else.
But back then I was so hyper obsessed.
I literally just didn't know how to.
But what were you obsessed about?
Were you obsessed about other channels, your channel?
Everything from like learning how to editing, the pacing of the videos, like
ideas, what's
going viral, what's trending, what's hot, especially back then I had no idea
what worked.
I mean, I had to like self-teach myself everything, even, you know, frame rate
on cameras,
coloring of the video, just stuff like that.
And how did you learn?
Did you learn from YouTube?
Yeah, well.
So like YouTube videos and tutorials or something?
Most of my growth came actually after I graduated high school.
Basically what I did was I somehow found these other like four lunatics.
We were three of us for college dropouts.
One was