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MrBeast | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #548

today's guest is one of the biggest content creators in the world he's an
entrepreneur
a youtube guru and he has created more energy and excitement into the world of
giving back
than possibly anyone he has a new show called beast games where a record-breaking
1 000 people
compete for the largest prize in entertainment history five million dollars
grateful to finally
catch up with the one and only mr beast
um so is this is it already started we going yeah we'll start right now man let's
do it uh mr beast
jimmy nice to see you today likewise bro that's awesome man so beast games that's
the show
yeah so before this we were i was showing him episode one of a show i have
coming out december
19th and what'd you think of it we watched it and then he started talking his
team was like hit the
cameras like wait wait yeah now i'm dying to know what do you think oh i
thought a lot of things man
first of all i thought that you are obviously you're this wizard of oz willy
wonka kind of um william
wallace of finances type of um energy going on okay you know there's a lot of
that a lot like
i've never seen a show where every i mean couple minutes there's a there's like
another uh twist
of possibility right yeah i kind of realized how many game shows are missing so
many little elements
in there where they could manipulate the situation more or create more of an
environment for like um
competitors in the game to make choices that would affect them and others you
know yeah when like
basically having layers and stuff like that but the big thing is no one's ever
set up like that many
cameras before because it's a logistical nightmare so it's hard to do these
kinds of things normally
unscripted because like you know we we had unfathomable amounts of footage like
over 100 years of
footage from that episode 100 years of footage yeah because i mean we had to
have over 100 people work
on it and post so it's like to be able to do something at that scale even just
like to set
up the cameras and edit and everything is uh i mean no one's ever done it
before it's diabolical almost
yeah you know yeah you said there's a lot of uh world records that were broken
in the in the shooting
of the of this uh series yeah 40 guinness world records wow yeah oh we have
like so many plaques now
that we have up on our wall i'm basically making a wall out of uh guinness flax
just from the show
what uh what are some of the records you guys broke uh most contestants ever in
a show largest
cash prize in a show most cameras recording at once in a show uh most people
which you saw yeah
and uh show like most money given away in the first episode of a show just like
stuff like that
yeah oh that's the most people probably since 9 11 i would think oh my gosh
and we might have to take that out uh yeah and that's it i shouldn't have said
that i'll say
something else um yeah i haven't seen that many people uh at the same time wait
why was there a
cut before you say what you're saying right now huh oh there's just we needed
something
he had to use the bathroom yeah yeah just had to use the yeah i had already i'd
already soiled the
conversation uh oh that's the most people at once that i'd seen since um oh
since i was in the
parking lot of a widespread panic concert you know but that was lsd
um that kind of works a little yeah i think that's actually honestly you should
keep the
first one okay well here we go dude you said it on me that's a great point you
make the choices man
yeah do you feel like this wizard like because i'm as i'm watching i'm like man
there's so many
things i'm like where does the motivation come from is it too like do you get
so much joy out of
like having the manipulation of the situation is it giving away the money is
because there's so many
moments in the world like watching people's feelings change like what is it for
you that
like have you been able to figure out because you've done so many of these uh
types of um competitions
and opportunities for people right yeah i mean this the thing is you i feel
like i'm motivated by a lot
of things and and these kinds of game shows it's fun to like create
environments that have never been
created for and and just like well let's just see kind of what people do like a
lot of that is just like
mass behavioral psychology like if you offer someone money to eliminate other
people how much money would
it take you know um so it's kind of a little bit of that but it's also i just
like making great content
and like i like do you know making things you can't find anywhere else because
it's just fun to like
see how the world reacts to it yeah so in this instance or in a lot of what we
do like we one time
we put we just put a big circle on the ground we put 100 people in it and we
just were like whoever
leaves last gets half a million dollars and then it's just like how long does
it take who's gonna
leave um like those are the kinds of things i like personally and just curious
on like what the
is going to happen you know yeah what's like one thing you've learned then
about people's psychology
have you learned or does it change a lot like are you learned like are there
some general rules you've
learned that people will uh like behave around money or that sort of thing oh
yeah that's an interesting
question that's i honestly i feel like people are uh a lot nicer than you would
think like they're not
as uh uh they don't tend and maybe it's because when we do it they know the
video is going to be
seen by 100 million people so they're they're thinking of their personal image
but a lot of times
i have given people the opportunity to like screw other people over for some
money and usually they
don't take it or they like push like it requires way more money than you would
think you know like
someone who'd theoretically be making thirty thousand dollars a year and you
would offer them 10 grand
but it means this other person gets eliminated or gets you know punished in the
challenge and a lot
of times like they'll say no you know and i'm like whoa that's not an easy
decision to make like
there's some integrity here you know yeah you mentioned that we were taping
that you were surprised
about some people's integrity exactly especially during this show like i
sometimes throw a large
copious sums of money to eliminate other people to like offer it to certain
people and they say no
and i was always just like what the wow this is crazy is there one age group or
gender group or
any demographic you can give me on who it seems like after doing a lot of
challenges where you've
gotten to see some integrity um no this it's uh pretty this is 10 episodes if
we watched it all you
would see episodes of that yeah you would see that it's like pretty widespread
across the board i
mean maybe the i don't think a senior citizen some seniors can't make it
through that you saw that
one 70 year old she passed which is she passed away no past the challenge oh
god i hope she doesn't
pass away before the share show airs that would be bad no i don't think people
some seniors i don't
know if i would let one of my grandparents watch this yeah just the levels of
yeah your heart beating
there's a lot yeah yeah that's what i was going for what what i really wanted
is like in my youtube
videos sometimes people say they don't have enough emotion or they lack the
storytelling or whatever
and part of it is like it's just youtube when you go to like a stream platform
like amazon prime video
or netflix you're like sitting down to watch something usually for like hours
and you're to watch like
this longer story and show but when you go to youtube more than likely like you
know you're going there for
a quicker hit you're not sitting down expecting to watch a 10 episode series
like you're just clicking
on videos and watching so content put up on youtube is just different it's like
you know series don't
do as well and you you know and so it's much easier to build characters and
feel emotion over these 10
episodes six hours of content than it is in a 20 minute video because you have
like 10 minutes to
build them up but then you got to wind the story down because the video is
going to end in 10 minutes
you know what i mean so my big thing here was like i really wanted you to feel
something and and i
wanted to like flex those muscles and like actually build characters and like
give emotion and things
like that you know like when we were watching that even though i've already
seen it like 100 times
already i could feel my heart pounding yeah i mean or it might have been the celsius
i was drinking i
don't know but like i really could feel the emotion that's what i want like
when people watch the show
i want them to have very intense feelings yeah oh i mean i definitely did man i
and the interesting
thing to me too is like a lot of times with game shows and um it's the
contestants that you start
to get to know right yeah but with this it's not the contestants like well you
will later on but
because there's a thousand of them right first i gotta you know lay down the
hammer axe you know 900
of them or whatever and then we can build them up ah i see and i definitely
learned why no one ever
uh does stuff with a thousand because that's the most contestants ever it's it's
a lot to like just
everything is you know a thousand hotel rooms a night you know what i mean if
the hotel room is
200 that's 200 000 a night and just hotel rooms and you're feeding them and
even like every little
thing is so expensive when you times it by a thousand and then like to record a
thousand people you need
a thousand cameras just to buy a thousand cameras is a bitch and then to hook
all the cameras up to the
server we need like 56 miles of cable and to run it over there and then you
need like 250 camera
people to check in on them and so it's like i know why people don't do reality
shows at this scale
because it's so expensive um like yeah what was the total budget of this show
uh can you can i want
to tell you about it can you just believe it so it doesn't make it in for sure
okay can we believe
it in some artistic way so at least looks exciting you know just be like what
the um or do this
sure put that over my mouth it was uh we spent dollars oh my god yeah i hope my
mom's all right
i didn't mean it don't cancel me no i'm just trying to give some different
kind of gives me different reactions put that in the intro oh my god bro that
you spent that much on
this yeah because it gets crazier like that first one we we built a thousand
towers and those are real
towers that have actual hydraulic press doors that are have to be safety proof
with giant foam and
crash pad at the bottom with the light system right because we're turning them
red and green and then
we had to build custom software to connect it all where you press the button
and some of the lights
change and then we had to rig like i told you a thousand cameras in there to a
giant control center
like just that first episode alone was i mean crazy man and do you have to take
it all down at the end
yeah yeah i didn't i don't own that building yeah because the problem is like
we needed six massive
hangars so like we basically in canada there's like these six giant airport
hangars and we were just
like hey can we use those and convert them all to these big sets and then right
outside is a field
and that's where we built that city which was also so i i have in this field at
one point i have
like 800 people working over here just building a city in the middle of a field
and i've got like 600
construction people in these six hangars just building these other sets and
then i have all
these i mean at some points we had like over 2 000 people on set just in this
town in canada so it
was it was crazy were you employing just a lot of locals i mean just you were
just you would set up
you would put out the employment opportunities in advance uh yeah we we worked
with uh two different
unions and then yeah we hired a bun