MrBeast Hits Back at "Clickbait" Headlines During 3 AM Podcast

MrBeast ( MrBeast Universe)
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MrBeast joins Dexerto’s Mike Kent to discuss his most viral moments from YouTube, Twitter and beyond. From exploring the Egyptian Pyramids and filming every single day for 5 months, to Prime's Beast Games criticism and his obsession with League of Legends, we interview MrBeast about headlines written on him, and give the most-subscribed YouTuber the chance to set the record straight on this MrBeast podcast.
You want me to respond to this honestly?
Yeah, sure.
Headlines like this got me in trouble with the Egyptian government.
If you want Ronaldo to hang out with you again, don't smell him.
Definitely don't bark at him.
Maybe just act normal.
Mr.
Beast to officially place bid for TikTok purchase.
You guys just write articles on everything, don't you?
Jeez.
Obviously, it'd just be awesome.
Well, you better follow Jimmy.
He's going to ask you.
Show me.
Toss me that phone.
Toss it here.
Let's see if he follows me.
Why are you downplaying my records?
Well, Jimmy, you know what?
It's called views.
I looked in my rear view mirror and I was like, oh, I think this person's following me.
And I just remember thinking, like, what the is my life?
I don't want to be famous.
Jimmy, welcome to Clickbait.
Thank you.
I want to get your take on some headlines we wrote about you across the years.
Oh, gosh.
First off, do you read much of DeSoto's stuff?
I like when you guys, like, tweet the summaries of it.
I usually read it.
And then, you know, if it's super spicy, I'll go over to the article and give it a read.
I mean, you guys, you guys put out a lot of articles.
That's true.
We do.
Yeah, like how many articles have you written on me specifically?
So actually, that's a question that we have for you.
We only have the data from 2021.
But how many articles do you think?
And we'll answer it at the end.
I mean, I feel like at this point, it's like every week.
You probably have written like 60 on me.
Since 2021?
Yeah, I would say like 60.
OK, OK.
Interesting.
I think it's a lot higher.
Watch to the end to find out.
OK, cool.
Well, let's bring up the first headline.
MrBeast literally rented out the Egyptian pyramids for upcoming YouTube video.
Can can I you want to want me to respond to this honestly?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah. Headlines like this got me in trouble with the Egyptian government
because we didn't literally rent the pyramids.
They let us use the pyramids for 100 hours, but we didn't technically rent it.
So after literally after you guys ran this story, I know I'm not even joking.
This is actually a perfect one to start with.
You did trouble with the Egyptian government.
You don't know. I'm not even joking.
After you guys ran the story, the high ups in the Egyptian government called us
and they're like, are you telling people we rented out the pyramids?
We don't rent them out.
And I was like, no, it's just that's just, you know, the article.
And then your article went super viral and everyone was like calling me about it.
And like I had at least 50 like famous people go, you know, how much does it cost?
I want to rent out.
Someone was like, I want to rent out the pyramids for my bar mitzvah.
I was like, you can't rent out the pyramids.
And they're like linking your article.
Well, sorry, Jimmy. It's my bad.
Just don't go to Egypt.
And what was your kind of biggest challenge with Egypt?
Obviously, it wasn't rented as we've now established.
Just drop the literally.
Maybe after this, just go edit the title.
The thing about the three great pyramids of Egypt is
they're literally one of the seven wonders of the world.
Yeah. And, you know, it's kind of the national treasure of Egypt
and arguably the coolest thing on the planet.
So I thought it was just a pipe dream that we'd ever get access to them.
Like I kind of said it as a joke.
I was like, oh, I want, you know, I would love to have the pyramids.
It's seven days in it.
Couldn't get seven days.
But after like talking with the month after month, they slowly like
warmed up to the idea and I was like, oh, we're getting somewhere.
And eventually, I mean, it took so many twists and turns.
At one point we were talking with the United Nations.
I mean, it was crazy.
All the hoops he had to jump through.
And eventually my team's like, we got a yes.
And I didn't believe it until I actually started filming the pyramids.
I was in constant doubt like, no, this isn't actually going to happen.
And then, you know, they gave me the keys.
I explored it. And I mean, it's a really good video.
Also, I know you said we got you in trouble with the Egyptian government.
We also there was a bit of a storm on Twitter as well
that we kind of started as well.
Oh, yeah. Someone also got 400,000 likes.
I mean, this article just caused a lot of issues for me.
I don't know why.
Is that why you made us do this podcast at 3 a.m.?
Yes. In my opinion.
Yeah, I'm filming.
Hey, to be clear, it's 2.30 a.m.
But yeah, I'm filming a video with 100 people, 100 circles.
And I was supposed to finish filming like, you know, four hours ago.
They've just been waiting to film this podcast.
But now we're even.
We'll chalk it up as 1-1.
And yeah, I think he called you a white devil, which is nice.
Yeah.
Now, when I brought up that tweet, notice how I didn't mention that part?
I didn't want to relive it, but you know.
Sorry, Jamie. That's what we do here.
And so, yeah.
And when it comes to like Twitter in general, like when people give you
kind of negative feedback, like how do you how do you respond to that?
Like what's your kind of take on it?
Because it's just impossible to please everybody.
It is. Well, especially on my side, because hundreds of people watch the video.
So like that's the thing is you have to when you're at this level,
you have to have your own moral and ethical code.
And you have to just like you have to have something you stand on and believe in.
And and if you believe what you're doing is moral and you believe it's ethical.
I know this sounds weird because we make YouTube videos and stuff,
but you have to kind of like there's always going to be opinions on both sides.
And like you have to figure out what it is you value and what is correct
and good to you.
And then, yeah.
And once once you have that and you firmly believe in it,
it doesn't matter if other people are telling you, like, no,
you shouldn't use your money to help 2000 people walk in.
You should use your money to do this thing.
Or I don't agree with it, blah, blah.
It's like, you know, I can read it.
And it's just like, well, this is what I want to do.
This is what I believe in.
And I think it's that.
But when you don't have that and you're just at the whim of whatever
the Internet says, that's where I think it will just drive you mad,
because then you're always trying to please everyone.
And that's just impossible, you know, and then you're just going to be dissatisfied.
Does that make you less inclined to do kind of educational style stuff
because it is that often is a conflict around that?
No, I'd actually say in the past, I didn't do as much educational stuff
because it's very hard to make educational content entertaining.
And but that's something I'm trying to work in more and more of my videos.
Pyramids, there's a lot of educational stuff.
And the video we did recently where we helped 2000 people walk again,
we really focused on educating, like about how insurance
sometimes denies people prosthetics and how, you know, you can donate prosthetics
and how prosthetics change their lives.
And like I tried to work more of that in.
I would say it's more just a lack of skill.
Like Mark Rover does it really well.
Like he makes these really big entertaining spectacles that also educate you.
And Mark Rover is like,
you know, one of the very few people on the platform that can do both
entertainment plus education.
Like there's a different way of saying is there's like very few YouTubers.
I know that a 12 year old would be like, yo, that guy makes amazing content.
That's also educational. Mark Rover is one of them. Amazing.
Let's hit the next one.
MrBeast set over 28 Guinness World Records for Beast Games Amazon show.
Yeah, actually, you know, it was 50 world records, but 50.
Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say like I was I was going to say literally downstairs.
You want to.
I was going to say on the Impulsive podcast, you did say over 40 records.
So that's obviously the Beast Games themselves.
Insane. Why are you downplaying my record?
Well, I'm going to speak to the writer about it, but.
But yeah, did he just make up a random number?
Did I say 28 somewhere?
I think I think he'll have definitely said a 28 at some point
when I did, when we wrote the article.
But then after that, you'd said over 40.
But I think as well, because.
Oh, that might have because I might have said that
while I was still in the process of filming it.
OK, I was like, did this guy just make up a random number?
No, not this time.
Yeah, but so many records broken.
Kind of what was the what was your favorite record that was broken?
And what's the most niche one, do you think?
Yeah, my favorite one's definitely largest cash prize in history.
I mean, isn't that crazy that of every competition reality show
that's ever happened?
No one's given away more money in a single season than us.
We have the largest grand prize. Isn't that crazy?
That is crazy.
This also come out after it's at the last ad as well.
So we can talk about, you know, what?
And, you know, I say we give away five million dollars.
You know, I can't say anything else besides that.
But yes, we in the first season of these games,
we give away over 20 million dollars between all the prizes we give out,
which is also another world record.
But the thing is, it's not even like we were like
trying to break all these world records.
We're just doing it.
And we just had a Guinness person there.
And they're just like, oh, this is a world record.
And I was like, oh.
Well, I was just I just need a giant ping pong cup.
How hard is it to work with a company like Amazon where, you know,
they used to doing things in a certain way?
I'm sure you got a lot of feedback.
But yeah, you can tell from the beast games itself that there's
definitely a lot of YouTube element to it in terms of retention.
Like, you know, did you have to kind of push back on them?
Was there any back and forth in terms about what you wanted to do?
Was it kind of it's the Jimmy show?
It was horrible.
I'm just kidding.
No, the reason we went with Amazon is because so we talked to every streaming
platform, but all the other ones just wanted like control over the edit
and creative control and this or that.
And I was like, hey, guys, I you know, I get like 200 million views a video.
I kind of have a rough idea what my audience wants.
Like, can I just, you know, make a show I think my audience will like?
And some platforms are like, no.
And I was like, oh, it's a little weird.
But Amazon was like, yeah, that makes sense.
You seem to know how to make content your audience likes.
Go for it.
And so that's why I ultimately chose Amazon is because they gave us
control over the edit.
They let us make the show we wanted to make.
And for better or worse, that's what I got.
I'm very happy with how it turned out.
Like in hindsight, there are definitely some things I would change and do better.
And so season two is going to be infinitely better.
But I'm so grateful.
Like Amazon was awesome to work with.
I mean, like, you know, we I've never done something at this scale before.
So there's times where I was behind on deadlines or, you know, maybe we
were like edit the video.
Episode one is due to edit on this day.
And I'm like, hey, I know this is a deadline, but if you give me like another
week, I can make it better.
And, you know, is there any way we could just change
all these systems and processes?
And this is a big company, but they were always willing to work with me.
And it was I'm so glad I went with Amazon.
So Beast Games, obviously a huge competition.
But, you know, you you're a very busy man, as we've kind of witnessed here.
You kind of did so many different things.
It's only 2.30.
So how did you how did you fit that into your schedule?
Like, how did you even get enough time to do it?
Like, yeah, was that kind of quite stressful time in your life?
Oh, it's brutal, because the thing is, we were consistently uploading on YouTube
even though we filmed Beast Games.
So the thing is, like we basically I filmed every day for like 60 days.
So two months leading up to it, I was just doing main channel video,
main channel video, main channel video, main channel video, main channel video.
So then we could backlog videos.
So then and then Beast Games, we filmed 15 hours a day,
every day for basically 45 days straight.
And then we burned through the backlog of the videos.
So then I come out of these games and it's like, oh, ----,
we have no main channel videos.
And so now it's made.
So it's basically like probably like five months of basically filming every single day.
It was it was it was brutal.
It was very brutal.
Does that take a toll on kind of like, you know, the relationships that you have?
Like, you know, you just recently engaged.
Does that does that take a toll on that relationship?
Did you guys write an article? I mean, proposing?
Yeah, we did.
These guys got everything.
Yeah, it definitely it takes a toll on everything.
I mean, like it's it's it's a weird
like being a top tier YouTuber, you can almost compare it to like
it's a weird comparison.
I know some people are going to clip this and be like the ego,
but it's almost like being a top tier athlete.
Like you always have to be on point.
Like, you know, it's not a thing that you just deserve.
It's something you got to wake up and earn every single day.
And like, you know, there are millions of people who want to be YouTube
or there are tens of millions of people who want to be YouTubers.
There are millions of YouTubers, I believe, that do a full time as a career.
There are like there are,
you know, probably 20, 30, 50 million people who want to be me,
who want to be the biggest YouTuber in the world, who are, you know,
and there are millions that are obsessing every day
over how they can take my spot, how they can dethrone me,
not like specifically get 300 million subscribers.
But they that's that's what their dream in life is to be the biggest.
And so, you know, it's just a thing that like if you want to stay on top,
you just got to make a lot of sacrifice, to be honest.
So obviously there's been huge support for it.
There has been a lot of, you know, you've been top of Amazon
on various different charts.
Yeah. And obviously, as the episodes keep releasing, we expect that to continue.
But it's not always been positive, is it?
Mr Beast hits back at Critic for negative review of Beast Games calling it painful.
So, yeah, you know, I think one thing that I noticed
when a lot of the reviews came out,
I think it was only based on a couple of episodes.
Yeah. And, you know, there was especially the mainstream media.
They seem to kind of have a different opinion to it, to the audience.
I mean, if we look at Rotten Tomatoes, I think it's 30% critic score,
but 90% audience score.
Yep. Yeah. Is it frustrating to see that?
Well, what's interesting is the the critic score is based off of eight critics.
So it's like when people reference the critic score on Rotten Tomato,
it's like you're literally just referencing eight people.
Whereas when you look at our popcorn score, which is probably over 10,000
reviews, it's 90 percent, nine out of ten.
But then you look at the critic score, would you say it was three out of ten?
Originally at the time, it was two.
I think the tweet that you responded to was that it was
I think you said, yeah, one sad person who doesn't like me can just label
something a thousand people pour their lives into a two out of ten
when it's clearly not. Yeah.
Well, so the thing is, all those so all the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
came out when only two of the ten episodes had dropped.
So they rated the entire series based off of two episodes.
Most of the reviews came in like right when the show dropped.
So I don't think they watched the show and they just rated it one star.
So, I mean, here's the thing, like not everyone's going to like the show.
And so it's just like if if someone objectively watches all ten episodes
and they say it's terrible, then that's their opinion.
And then all I would ask is, hey, could you tell me like why?
And then I'll work to improve it in the future.
So at the end of the day, I'm making the show to entertain the audience,
not eight random critics.
So it just is what it is. You know what I mean?
And in the show itself, I find that there's kind of a lot of psychology.
Yeah. They've been there for a month.
They all love each other, supposedly.
But then when the time comes. Yeah, exactly. Right in the back.
When it comes to the psychology of that, you know, do you have help there?
Do you speak with kind of people who delve in that area
or is it kind of just purely just what you and your guy,
what you and your team have come up with?
Yeah. Like for the game, they're in game.
Yeah. Just in terms of like, you know, when you're going to, you know,
when you're going to potentially make people stab each other in the back or.
We don't make anyone do.
No, of course. To be clear, there's no making of doing of things.
But you put them in a scenario where they could also be a hero,
but they choose to stab each other in the back.
But yeah, no, I get what you're saying.
Yeah, it's I just have like you said, you have a phenomenal team
that writes good articles.
I have a phenomenal team that just writes great games like we.
I mean, it's hard to imagine of a company
that's come up with more games in the last couple of years than us.
There might be. I don't know. I'm just making things up.
But like, you know, these games like we invented so many games
that just have never existed before.
And that's something like I've just got a killer team that is very creative.
And yeah, they're just like every week coming up with like ten,
20 games that don't exist.
I'm like, that's weird.
But occasionally I'm like, yo, that's good.
You know, I just save them and use them.
And do you ever kind of have a challenge where people have to do something?
You're like, do you feel bad about it at all?
Because there's so many like in the episodes, there's so many people
that are like, you know, a lot of the people, a lot of the theme, at least
is that a lot of people are struggling.
A lot of people need help. Yeah.
And so then to be able to then to eliminate someone that, you know,
has essentially been kind of talking about their trauma or their issues
or whatever it is. Yeah.
Is that hard sometimes to kind of put that?
Yeah, there are all the times there are moments where because I like these games,
I did nothing but film this for 45 days.
I was there on set, you know, 15 hours plus a day every day.
I got to know a ton of these contestants, especially deeper in.
I was spending every night,
you know, just hanging out with them by the fire or whatever at the park
that we had in the city and just, you know, hearing all their stories.
And so it was even more brutal for these games
on some of these because like I actually knew a lot about
they weren't just random people.
I knew a lot about their stories.
And then when they got eliminated, it hurt.
But that's also why we gave every single person $2,000 that showed up.
And, you know, it's it's just
one thing that a lot of people don't see is like
after these like season one of these games, we got so many emails
and messages from people saying like, you know, you know, I obviously I was sad.
I didn't win the money, but I didn't realize how many friends I made.
And like I you know, I just got hung out with these three people
and we did this thing or I just well, I made like like there's this one email
that I occasionally just randomly think of.
I don't know why, but when I read it, I was like, well, I was I expect this
like this one lady said that she just after like college,
she just didn't make that many friends and she like works from home.
And like these games was like the first time in like 10 years
she'd really gotten out of the house and she made so many friends
and it like made her so much more often.
She very long email about how it changed her life.
And like you made her way more confident.
And she's like, I don't even care that I didn't win money.
I'm just so glad about the experience.
And we get so many messages like that, which you wouldn't think.
But, you know, these are just normal people right now.
As far as I know, no one that competed in these games is a millionaire.
They're just like all just typical people working typical jobs.
And so like to be able to experience something like that
and like get out of their comfort zone and meet new people
and be in these challenges like I think a lot of them got things out of it
that, you know, weren't just monetary, you know.
What's been your biggest takeaway from Beast Games?
And you kind of mentioned it just before their season two.
Is there any details on that? Can you share anything?
I can't talk about.
Is it going to happen about season two? I can't say yet, but I'm sure
when the time comes, you'll see a Deserto article on it.
But no doubt.
Just like, yeah, exactly.
Just like every little other thing in my life, you'll be there.
So we're just keeping a track of your history.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, just if you ever unsure what you've done or what's being said.
You can just go on the Deserto page, Mr. Beast.
Perfect. You can just have a look down.
You should just have a Mr. Beast tab.
We do. Oh, really?
Not at the top, but this time.
Yeah, you should just literally just put one up.
We're going to move on now to the biggest article
in terms of views that we had.
So really, on your website?
On our website, since 2021, of the number of articles
that were mentioned at the end, this is the one that got the most views.
I think it was a couple of hundred thousand, at least,
if not more, maybe a few.
Yeah, this this this article got a few million views on Deserto.
Just based on this title, Mr.
Beast urges man to change his name to avoid getting sued.
So you remember this?
No. Who did I tell to change their name?
So it's actually. Oh, wait, wait.
Was it Deez Nuts? It is correct.
That's funny.
Did you have any other unexpected copyright disputes like that?
Is anyone because you must get people all the time trying to.
Oh, yeah. Fake lawsuits all the time.
Was there any of the scrap names or flavors that you didn't end up releasing
because you were like, oh, that's scrap names.
Not not really, I'm more just.
I mean, this is the thing that pops in my head is like I had like
is really difficult.
Like so on our peanut butter bar, it just says peanut butter.
But like for like weeks, I was like, should it say creamy peanut butter?
Would people like it more if it's a creamy peanut butter or just peanut butter?
And so that's crap names.
But like that, that's the kind of stuff I do.
Give me one of those feasible bars, just throw it right beside you.
Thank you. That's a good though.
Where does feasible rank in your kind of priorities?
Clearly not high because we're doing a podcast.
Yeah, very high.
I mean, a lot of my time in 24 went to solving ethical sourcing
because there's a lot of unethical things that go on in the chocolate supply chain.
And so I don't even know if me and you have talked about this,
but most people don't realize this, but majority of the cocoa
in the world comes from West Africa and 46 percent of labor on cocoa farms
in West Africa is child labor.
And so, yeah, it's pretty brutal.
So when I found that out, I was like, oh, this is this is a thing.
And so I went to all the big chocolate companies.
And truthfully, a lot of people just didn't give a ****.
And I was like, well, I give a ****.
So that's what I spent a lot of time last year on,
which is figuring out, you know, how do we do that?
And the number one reason there is child labor in West Africa
is because people don't pay their farmers enough.
So since they're in such deep poverty, they literally just can't afford
to hire labor, so they have to use kids or whatever child labor.
And so if you want to solve child labor in your supply chain,
you have to pay your farmers a living income.
And so that's what we do.
One hundred percent of feasible farmers make a living income,
which, you know, to calculate that, obviously a living income
in West Africa is different than a living income in USA,
which is different than a living income in Japan.
So we look at all the cost of like, you know, a house there or inflation
or bread or whatever.
And then there's this thing called a living income reference price.
And that's what we guarantee our farmers will make in exchange for that.
We audit their farms, you know, talk to the kids, interview the parents,
make sure there's not child labor going on.
Yeah, I'm just trying to show that, like, you can run a large scale
chocolate company ethically with the philanthropy work.
Do you get a lot of negative feedback on that as well?
Do you get more for that than you actually do for the for the rest of the stuff
you do? That's an interesting question.
I mean, I think I said this on Theo Vaughn.
And but yeah, I is it weird to put my foot on the chair?
I don't know. I don't care. OK, I'll do it as well.
Yeah. You tell me.
Yeah, I you know, I could upload a video where I do like one dollar
vacation versus two hundred thousand our vacation.
No one cares. Like, yeah, it's a good video. It'll do well.
But then if I upload a video where I help, you know, two thousand people walk again
or I built a hundred wells in Africa that will give clean drinking water
to a couple hundred thousand people over the lifetime of the wells.
Yeah. I mean, if you open Twitter, you'll see a lot of,
you know, opinions on it.
And so it is fascinating that like, you know, when I decide to take millions
upon millions of dollars and help people, everyone has an opinion on it.
But, you know, when other people take millions of dollars and buy a mansion,
no one cares. You know what I mean?
And yeah, it just it it seems weird.
But it is what it is, because like truthfully, if you look at it,
like the film topic videos on my main channel are the worst performing videos.
So the worst performing videos on Twitter, actually, you mentioned that
you were like, I've uploaded this is probably my worst performance video.
Oh, it is. Yeah. And which are the worst performing videos.
They're the videos that generate the most hate.
And like if I didn't do them, people would criticize me way less.
But I don't really care.
I just do them because that's what I want to do.
And I think of what we're you know, I help people better the world where I don't.
And so it just kind of is what it is.
And that's what you know, if you think listen back to when we started this,
that's why I think you have to have your own moral compass and code and like
ethics. And I believe what we're doing is helping people.
And I believe in what I'm doing.
And people complain is all they want.
But I'm not going to stop helping people.
You know, I mean, I believe a world where there's 30 million less pounds
of trash in the ocean is better than one where there's not 20 million more trees,
clean drinking water for 100000 people, et cetera, et cetera.
Like they could complain all they want.
I'm not going to stop, you know.
We're talking about stopping.
It sounds like you're trying to add another thing to your resume.
So we'll go to the next one.
Now, I know the title of this one isn't necessarily quite accurate either.
However, let's talk for it.
Yeah. Mr.
Beast takes private jet to officially place bid for a tick tock purchase.
So not
let me think of what I can actually say on here.
Why do you want to buy Tito?
Well, obviously, I don't have the 50, 100 billion, whatever it ends up being.
But yeah, I'm working with groups.
I'll be careful what I say.
Yeah, sure. You don't have to say no.
You don't have to say like specifics.
But what's your motivation to to get ticked off or to be part of it?
Well, I mean, obviously, it just be awesome.
You know, I mean, tick tock is like the
I'm not supposed to talk about this stuff publicly right now.
So you'll have some fun articles potentially coming up.
OK, cool. Or I'll be really sad. We'll see.
Well, we'll leave it at that.
Well, you're very popular, man, which leads on to our next topic.
Mr. Beast turns the table on paparazzi who followed him to dinner.
What did when what did I do?
So you were followed to dinner by a paparazzi channel,
which I've actually experienced myself.
You start critiquing their YouTube channel.
What's your kind of relationship with the press in general?
Obviously, here with us now, I ******* hate them.
The horrible, the horrible, especially the ones that read all the article.
What's kind of your issue with the press in general,
especially kind of the more mainstream media?
So, you know, what's my relationship with the press?
I mean, to be honest, I don't really have one.
They don't really talk to me.
I mean, it's ironic because I'm sitting here with you.
But I mean, I didn't even really know you guys until like
the past month.
Yeah. I asked about this because your fiance, sorry,
she went to university in Edinburgh for the last year,
which is where I actually live as well.
And I said, oh, did you?
Why do I live in Edinburgh?
So cold.
Well, it is cold, but it's the most beautiful city in the world.
Well, you don't get it.
And also my freezing.
It's freezing.
It's only freezing here like two months a year.
It's freezing there like 12 months a year.
Yeah, that is true.
It is pretty cold there.
But you said when I asked you about that, I was like, you know,
did you end up getting mobbed when you went out and stuff?
And you basically said you just can't really go out.
You know, is that a fear of yours to go out, get mobbed
or to be hounded by the press or anything like that?
Yeah, I would say fear.
It's just it's just the reality you have to live in at this size.
It's just been interesting because I've I've been a decent sized
YouTuber now for six years.
But it's so interesting to see how it changes over the years,
because when I hit 10 million subscribers, I thought like that's that's fame.
Like this is what it's like and whatever.
I go in a Walmart and I take like one or two photos.
But it's like there's just such a big difference
between having 10 million subscribers and now I think we're on 350 million.
And it's like every year I'm like, OK, this is like probably as crazy as it'll get.
But it just keeps getting crazier and crazier.
And like like a more recent experience is like I was like,
I looked in my rearview mirror and I was like, oh, I think this person's following me.
And so then I took a right hand turn and they took a right hand turn.
I was like, interesting.
And I took another right hand turn and they took one.
I was like, OK, let me do one more right hand turn.
Let's see.
And then I I did one more and I was like, OK, they're just following me.
So then I took another one and I basically just like in a block,
I just like went like this for like it felt like 20 minutes.
But as I'm being dramatic, it was probably like two or three minutes straight.
And then eventually I just rolled down my window and I was like,
just ******* stop following me.
And then they eventually just stopped.
And, you know, and so you just deal with like random stuff like that.
But it's not even like I was out anywhere in public.
They just like to just recognize me through the window.
And so which is why I get my windows super tinted, because people all the time
like you can't how do you avoid that? Right.
Like you just chill in your freaking car and people look over and they're like,
oh, and then they roll down their window.
They're like photo.
And I'm like, no, don't dox my car.
And then they don't care. And it's a whole thing.
So then I tip my windows like crazy.
But then I get pulled over a bunch for having tinted windows.
And I'm like, explain to the cop.
I'm like, you know, like, come on, I like I'm trying not to get stalked
and harassed. Can we just.
And they're always like, no.
And I'm like, OK, understandable. No special treatment.
And then I pay the ticket. It's a lot.
But I try to remind myself, theoretically, when I'm at an airport
and it's a late night flight, I've been flying for 10 hours and it's
it's brutal and I'm feeling really agitated.
I haven't slept, especially when it's coming off a long shoot.
And, you know, someone comes up to me and maybe it's not the most polite way.
I just try to remind myself, like for them, this, you know,
I might be the only celebrity if you've classified me in one as one
like that they ever meet.
And like for them, this is a big deal, right?
For me, this might be the 10,000th time I've done this.
But for them, this is a one on one experience.
They're never going to forget it.
And like I got to put myself in that frame of mind.
Like this is a big deal for them.
And it's like sometimes people might act weird
or do something they wouldn't normally do out of excitement
just because it's like they've never had this happen before.
And so I just got to keep that frame of mind.
And I try to like, you know, even when I'm feeling depressed or down
or I'm tired or I really just don't want to interact with a fan
because we're all human and we have those moments.
I try to just put on a smile and like just put myself in that position.
Like they're always going to remember this.
It's a one on one experience.
Do everything in your power to make them happy.
It is what it is. You signed up for this life.
Yeah. Do you ever get a feeling where you're like,
I wish I would just wasn't as famous?
I just want to live a normal life.
You know, I don't know if I told this story before on a podcast,
but the worst one was when I mean, we were like these $1 versus videos.
We're flying like, you know, all the time, like back to back to back to back.
I'm basically living on a plane for whatever.
Like nine days, 10 days straight.
And one of those videos, like we had like a super late late.
Not late. We custom.
So we landed in America.
You know, I haven't slept in two days.
And like there's a long line in customs.
It's probably New York or something.
And like this line is like a two hour wait.
And it's just like a zigzag one.
It's one of the longest ones I've ever been in.
And I'm just in this line with my hood up staring at the floor.
And I'm like, I just hope no one recognizes me because like I'm deep in this line.
Like there's no hide in here.
You know what I mean now?
And it felt like there's like probably like a thousand people in this line.
And, you know, there's people to your left and right to the zigzags.
A little kid to the right just kind of like looks up and it's like, Mr.
Beast, it says it really loud.
And then, you know, ask for a photo.
And I'm like, shh, please don't draw too much attention.
I take the photo.
But now everyone else is like, oh, that's a famous dude.
Because you just took a photo.
And then obviously a bunch of people recognize me and they're asking for photos.
Then people start asking for photos.
They don't even know who you are.
But they're just like, oh, I want a photo because everyone else taking a photo.
And oh, I just call my kids.
And I'm just sandwiched in this line with a long wait time.
And people are just running all up and down the line.
I haven't slept.
And I also like hadn't showered in a while.
And I was like, damn, this was probably turning out terrible.
And I've already taken like 40 of them.
In that instance, I was like, I don't I hate being famous.
I don't. And I was like, I asked one of the TSA people.
I was like, can I just like go to the front?
Like, I don't mean to have an ego, but this is like brutal.
As like kids are just like, Mr.
Beast and tap me on the back.
I'm like, please.
And they're like, no.
And I was like, OK.
But I had my assistant there.
So then eventually I was I just got out of line.
My assistant went in line.
I just like sat in like a janitor closet.
And I just remember thinking like, what the **** is my life?
I don't want to be famous.
And then he texted me when he got to the front and just ran up there.
But yeah, you have moments like those.
And it's like it sucks.
But it kind of is what it is like, you know.
Yeah. Well, obviously, I'm not mega famous or famous.
People recognize you from the articles.
Yeah. People are like, wow.
Holy ----.
You're the one who wrote that article about Mr.
Beast turns the table on the paparazzi.
Whoa. But I do always think when it comes to celebrities, I just think it's got it.
You know, people think it's just all glitz and glam.
It's like you just do all these amazing things.
But which I don't blame you for, because I was the same way.
Like when I was a nobody, I used to see these crazy articles
about how, you know, a celebrity was rude to paparazzi or didn't have
like the most pleasant interaction with the fan.
And I would always be like, man, what assholes.
But now that I'm in this scenario, I have a lot of sympathy for, you know,
because there obviously are people who are more known than me,
like theoretically Taylor Swift.
And it's like it's just a thing.
Like every time you leave your house and do anything,
you just are accepting that you're going to take 100 photos.
You're going to have two awkward interactions.
You're going to have someone stalk you.
You coin flip whether or not someone trails your car home.
Like then you experience that day after day after day after day, year after year
after year, and it it definitely builds up if you're not careful.
It would be easy to snap.
And it's like a constant thing where you have to just like, you know, be on point.
You know, Mr.
Beast wants to fix U.S.
health care and calls for government reform.
We kind of just spoke about this a little bit before, but you did the amputee video.
Yep. And then, you know, in previous when you've previously done it,
you've not necessarily spoke out about it.
What was different this time for you?
What made you want to kind of speak out and kind of talk about the the problem
that you perceive in the U.S. health care system?
Yeah, I want these videos to to have, you know, as much impact as possible.
And and that video, you know, I do think one thing
we've lacked on is the educational side and not just like, you know,
we'll help people, but then also educating the viewers
on how they can also help and what they can do.
And so that's something I really focused on in the helping 2000 people
walking in videos while we're helping these 2000 people walking in,
educate the viewers on like how, you know, this is crazy.
Then the richest country to potentially ever exist in history.
There are people who don't have legs and a YouTuber is stepping in
to give them legs, which is just crazy, especially the weirdest scenarios of all
is like even if you're like just a hardcore capitalist,
like there are people who can't work because they they they lost their legs
right in the car wreck or whatever, you know, heinous thing.
And because they lost their legs, they literally can't work a job.
And so they're like by giving them a leg or two legs
or something that lost both of them, they literally can go back to work,
earn income, become productive members of society, pay taxes.
And it's like a massive net positive.
And so like people in those scenarios, like I honestly can't fathom
why you wouldn't want, you know, someone to just it's just silly.
It's really silly.
And and then obviously that's not how you should look at it.
I'm just, you know, speaking to people who only care about money.
But it's also on the flip side, it gives them their life back.
It allows them to not have to have someone, you know,
go get stuff from the fridge for them.
It allows them to go get something from the fridge, like basic things,
like getting out of the bed in the morning, just taking a shower.
All of a sudden, these don't become like really difficult things.
It just makes them a human.
And it's like as a human, you should want this for them.
You know, do you think that, you know, you've obviously got plans
or you've you've mentioned plans about becoming president?
Do you have an article for that?
I actually don't think we do in this list.
Well, you guys are slacking that week.
No, we definitely had to get fired.
Wait, wait, wait.
We definitely wrote about it.
We just don't have it in this list.
So, yeah, no, we definitely wrote about it.
Don't worry, Jimmy, we've got you covered there.
Would reform in health care be kind of one of the things that you'd lead with?
The thing is, I can't I can't.
Yeah, I'm 26.
I can't run till I'm 35.
But even then, I'm not.
Realistically, if I were to run for president,
it probably wouldn't be until I'm like late 50s or 60s.
So, you know, things are going to change so much.
But I mean, health care might already be reformed by then.
So I don't even want to like talk about any of it till like another two decades
because America, by the time I run for president,
it's not going to be the same as it is today.
You know what we got next?
Mr. Beast shuts down.
This is a fresh one.
It's a fresh rumor.
He's launching a meme coin and still gets called greedy.
Yeah. For some reason, it was trending on Twitter that I was launching a meme coin.
Bunch of like crypto pages were like, Jimmy's about to launch a meme coin.
It was gaining steam, like a lot of tweets with thousands of likes.
This is right after Trump launched his meme coin.
We're talking about it.
And yeah, I opened up Twitter and I was just saw it all.
And I was like, guys, I'm not launching a meme coin.
And then people started like dunking on me and be like, wow, greedy Mr.
Beast, not launching a meme coin, doesn't want us to get rich off his brand.
And I was like, whoa, this is this is just what what is 2025?
This is not what I was expecting the reaction to be like.
Yeah. And anyway, where do you stand in the crypto space?
Is it something you're interested in?
Have you been kind of heavy into it at all?
Not really. Right now, I just got so much going on with festivals and videos
and doing things like this and the bajillion other things like I'm good.
I'm not launching a coin.
I'm good. Let the other influencers launch their coins.
They can they can handle it.
They can take the heat when it goes wrong.
OK, we're going to go a little bit back in time here.
Young Twitch streamer pressured by Mr.
Oh, OK, Mr.
Beast impersonator to destroy Xbox one.
I was going to say I did not do that.
I don't know if I actually.
Oh, that's 2019.
Do you remember this? No, not at all.
So a streamer received a Mr.
Beast impersonator in his chat.
He told him to get a lot of money if he wrecked his Xbox.
So it was obviously a long time ago.
But I guess what I wanted to talk about mainly on the back of that is,
you know, the rise of people scamming those people.
You know, are you concerned about stuff like AI as it gets more developed?
I mean, I've seen stuff that's involved you.
I've seen you in adverts and stuff that you clearly weren't advertising.
I know, you know, is that a legitimate issue that you guys have?
Is it something that you kind of try and deal with?
Of course, one of the biggest problems I have is like
people just rip my face and then now they use artificial intelligence
to do voice the voice.
And so it sounds a lot like me.
And then they'll be like, download this
gambling site that they use it a lot on.
It has like a pig.
I don't even know the name of it.
But it's just like they'll just be like a thousand free coins.
And I'm like, I never said that.
But it's like it starts to sound really real.
And so I'm working with all the social media platforms to one thing that
we've worked with the social media platforms on is like getting it
where people can't make accounts with the name Mr. Beast.
Because that's brutal is when it's an account named Mr. Beast
and then it has an ad and they use speech to speech to sound like me,
then it's like you can't really expect like someone who's 14
to like really discern that.
But on YouTube, you can't make an account named Mr. Beast.
And that's helped a lot.
Like because before, I don't know why, but they made it
where you could use other people like anyone like two people
could have the same name on YouTube.
And I think that might still be a thing.
But at least the word that I feel like on Twitter,
you could still get away with it.
No, Twitter's already.
Yeah, because like, well, now that you have to pay whatever eight dollars a month
and if you get caught in person, you don't get that money back.
So Twitter's are not impersonation on Twitter's not bad.
Impersonation on YouTube is great because they've really it used to be horrible.
So many people used to impersonate me on YouTube, but they they cracked down on it
and they figured out you can't use Mr.
Beast in your name and it's like much better there.
It's I'd say it's more
probably on the.
Well, honestly, now every platform is working with me to like do it.
So they'll have like it spikes, but then I'll make them aware.
And I'm like, this is a huge problem and they crack down and solve it.
So it's not too bad at the moment.
But yeah, like three years ago, it was a problem.
Like I would see tweets every single day of people being like,
oh, I just sent you a thousand dollars.
And I'd be like, no, that's not me.
Why do people do that? Yeah, I know.
And I broke. And that's why.
But it's like so I used to occasionally do tweets where I'd be like,
you know, where I'd call these scams out.
But not everyone sees the tweets, which is why I was like, OK, screw it.
I'm going to stop just complaining, do something that which is why I went
straight to the platforms and worked with them to solve a lot of this.
Just on the topic of AI in general, you know, is it something that you kind of
can see being implemented more within your company?
Is it something that you're kind of interested in working with?
You know, you've got a very kind of being around here for the last couple of days.
You've got a lot of staff. There's a lot of people here.
Nothing seems to be done in that regard in terms of AI.
But is it something that you kind of want to implement more in the future?
And, you know, what are your general thoughts on it?
Yeah, I want to implement it where we just make an A.I.
Jimmy and I just don't have to film.
I get it.
Kwebbelkop style. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kwebbelkop. But no, I was going to make a joke.
Majority, I love you.
I'm not going to make that joke.
No, but right now, the big thing is like that video downstairs that we're filming.
We have 400 cameras running 24 seven.
And it's like really hard to find footage of like if I'm like, oh,
add the final shot where I mentioned peaceful.
We don't mention peaceful in this video or like, oh, this is a little too serious.
We need some funny jokes.
So we'll use A.I.
to like auto transcribe all the the audio and the whole thing.
So then you can just search, you know, pull up straight to the clips.
We also use A.I.
to just like cut, you know, because sometimes we walk away
with like 100000 hours and it's like, OK, I don't want to pay people
to watch all 100000 hours, which is stupid.
So, yeah, like it will just like cut all the dead space out.
I'll go through and, you know, figure out all the shots
that are just like pretty useless and auto chop it out.
And so little things like that.
But I mean, it's definitely going to transform.
Oh, and the other thing, too, is the big cool thing we've done
with dubs or with A.I. is my dubs.
We we we have the voice actor, you know,
read the script.
And so it's still a voice actor.
But then we change the voice actor's voice to sound like me.
Right. So it's not text to speech.
It's it's speech to speech, right?
Because text to speech isn't good enough yet.
And people love that because, you know, like being able to hear me speak.
Theoretically, we don't do it in Spanish,
but like if you could, if you're a Spanish speaker
and you heard Jimmy speaking Spanish instead of some voice actor,
Jimmy's paying to speak Spanish, it's a whole different experience.
Is that surreal hearing yourself essentially?
Oh, yes. It's so crazy. Yeah.
And can you tell it is it complete?
Can you tell it to you then completely is it?
What I would say, give it six more months and it'll be indistinguishable.
Right now, you can still slightly tell.
Nice. Nice.
TikToker spends forty thousand dollars to get Mr.
Beast's attention.
Yeah. Makes a big mistake.
Do you remember this?
Oh, yeah, because he he didn't follow me.
So I couldn't. Correct.
That's what it was. Yes.
Yeah. So TikToker Ryan Prunty spent forty thousand dollars
on three billboards and a park bench ad to get your attention.
And I saw it. But he didn't get your attention.
Well, no, he got my attention.
But yeah, I saw it.
And then, yeah, this guy did spend all this money to get my attention on TikTok.
He finally got my attention.
And then I click on his profile and he doesn't follow me.
And since he didn't follow me, I didn't have a way to DM him.
So I just tweeted this out.
Like, look at this guy.
Spent 40 grand to get my attention, but I have no way to communicate.
I just thought it was really funny.
And apparently they wrote an article on it. Of course.
You know what?
I think this is a good time for a feastable peanut butter chocolate bar break.
I don't want to open the floodgates for people trying to get your attention.
But do you mind when people try and do that?
Like, do you mind that people try?
Because you've done it yourself in terms of, you know, you did stuff
Just talking about that quickly, when you look back on that,
do you think, I can't believe I did that?
Well, there's a difference between saying someone's name a hundred.
You're not going to eat it?
Well, I just want to chew on mine.
Oh, but it's fine.
I'll be honest, Jamie, I'll be honest.
We've smashed a lot of Feastables in the last few days.
If I eat any more Feastables, I might die.
All right, he gets past.
You know, there's like a lime and it's hard to draw it,
but just use common sense, like, you know,
if you make a cardboard cut out of me and you're coming to my city
trying to find me to give it to me, that's annoying and weird.
That's cross the line.
But honestly, if you spend $40,000 on billboards to get my attention,
as long as you don't get butthurt if I don't see it, like that's fine.
You know what I mean?
I wonder what you expected from that.
Like, what do you expect?
Well, I mean, we'll never know.
You should have followed me on Twitter.
Well, yeah, that's why I made sure when everyone's coming out,
I was like, you better make sure you follow.
You better follow Jimmy. He's going to ask you.
Show me.
Toss me that phone. Toss it here.
No, hey, hey, hey, stop. Toss it.
Toss it. I got it.
I know how to search YouTube on your thing.
Toss that bad boy.
There we go.
Producer Dan.
All right, Producer Dan, let's see if he follows me.
Mr. Beast.
You're not subscribed?
What's your Apple password?
You don't subscribe.
It's only five euros a month.
Oh, subscribed.
Oh, that's not the paid.
Oh, that's the paid feature.
Thank you for the five dollars a month.
Yeah, make that a dessert to a payment.
Wait, let's go.
We'll cover the five dollar subscription, Jimmy.
He's not subscribed on YouTube.
Dan, you don't subscribe on YouTube.
OK, I'll give him a pass.
He watched all of the Ronaldo video.
He really liked that one.
There you go.
But wait, my newest video, you clicked off 20 percent.
And oh, damn, bro, if you don't like me, just tell me.
Bro, that's people.
The Ronaldo video is the only one he finished.
Oh, no, you finished my Olympics video.
He's just a big.
He's just a big sports fan.
Yeah, that video was very mass appealing.
I don't blame you.
Here. I just hit play.
Can you let this video play through for retention?
Thank you.
And there was another
stunt that I saw someone pull off, which was
he kept tattooing his name on him until you meet him.
I do not remember that one.
I saw a guy that recently did it with KSI and KSI said, I'm not going to meet you.
Yeah, that's I'm not going to call you.
But then he keeps doing it like I don't know.
Do you feel a bit lost sometimes where you're like these people are just clearly?
Yeah, but the thing is, you can't interact with that person or you shouldn't
because then it just encourages way more people to do it.
You know. Oh, hold up.
Yeah. Can someone hand me a lunchly?
What were you saying?
So, Logan Paul, you say his name 100,000 times.
You ever think you'd launch a business with him?
Hell no. But here we are.
And, you know, you face a lot of criticism for the kind of relationship
between Logan, KSI and yourself.
People kind of saying, oh, it's not authentic, that kind of thing.
Now, where do you where do you kind of what do you say to the critics
that kind of question the trio and what you guys are trying to do?
Yeah, I mean, it definitely we come from three different
complete sectors of content and it all couldn't be further apart.
But I do. The thing is, right, like if you look at pre-made meals like this
and a grocery store, they're just full of junk and they're just terrible.
And so Prime is obviously wildly successful.
Everyone knows that it's the hottest, fastest growing beverage in history.
Feastables is the fast growing snack product to ever exist that I'm aware of.
And so just like it made so much sense to pair them together.
And JJ, I didn't know too much until we start.
Obviously, Logan, because I said his name a hundred thousand times.
And, you know, he's been in quite a few of my videos.
But JJ, I don't really know him too well until we launched this.
But, you know, he's a great guy.
And it just made sense to put our products together and just go out
Lunchables and give people higher quality ingredients.
What's the power dynamic like between you three?
Because you're all essentially people that kind of, you know,
got to the top of their games, your strong personalities, you know,
is that clashes?
Is that kind of like wanting to kind of be above the other?
Is there a kind of almost competitive between you?
No, I was worried that'd be an issue.
But no, we're all like on the same page.
We just want to see it succeed, you know.
And, you know, if they have something they feel very strongly on,
then I'll hear them out and, you know, they'll hear me out as well.
But for the most part, we tend to agree.
You know, we're just trying to make, you know, what's take what's already out there.
Like the leading competitor.
We'll take this one because someone just handed it to me.
So like the leading competitor for this, they don't use real cheese, right?
Their their cheese is literally called cheese product
because so much of it isn't actual cheese.
They have a lot of nitrates in their turkey.
It's just like all around so much.
We this says cheese on the front because it's real cheese.
And then this is turkey, obviously, without nitrates and blah, blah, blah, blah.
And so we just take what's already out there and just, you know,
make a higher quality version for roughly the same price.
And that's kind of our goal.
So it's like a pretty straightforward mission.
We worried that it was going to put another target on your back
when it comes to launching a product like this, you know, especially
essentially marketed towards a younger audience.
Did you expect the backlash, I guess, that you got from a lot of people?
Well, the thing is, so there's there's two kinds of things.
Like there are people who will say this isn't better
than the leading competitor out there.
And that kind of backlash is just not actually true.
I mean, it just is.
I mean, if you look at it.
But there's other people who have said, well, we don't just want,
you know, something that's better than the leading competitor.
I'm you know, I can just say we don't just want something
that's better than Lunchables.
We want something better overall, which if that's your criticism,
that's fair criticism.
And so, you know, the thing is, this is just day one.
Our next skew, I don't think the boys would mind me saying
is a grilled chicken skew.
We've been putting a lot of time and effort into it.
Like as far as I know, Lunchables doesn't sell grilled chicken skew
or have a grilled chicken skew.
And we've been going all out on it.
And hopefully that drops in the next couple of months.
And I think people are going to be like, well, like I took all the feedback
or we took all the feedback
that people were giving us and implemented in this product.
And so feedback's fine.
You know, as long as it's like actual real feedback, if you just say,
oh, this sucks.
Well, there's nothing I can do about that.
But, you know, if you give us something objective,
like I'm always down to improve the products, like I'll say,
you know, nothing's perfect. You know what I mean?
So because, you know, there's a lot of people came out
filming YouTube videos or it's moldy, this, that, the other.
You know, it's kind of I know I think you've addressed it previously.
You kind of said that, you know, inevitably with a fresh kind of product,
that's that's that's going to happen if people leave it out, et cetera.
You know, everything is USDA inspected.
We have rigorous oversight.
There there is no mold when the stuff leaves our factory.
I mean, we have every QC quality check on the planet.
You could have like we hold this to the highest regard imaginable.
But once it leaves our factory, I mean, obviously it's out of my control.
Like this. What happens if I just left this here?
And then tomorrow I came back and opened it.
Yeah, there might be mold on the cheese.
You know what I mean?
Because I just left it out here in the oven, unrefrigerated.
And so, yeah, that's that's just something that's completely out of our control
once it leaves our factory.
Here's a little segway talking to KSI.
I first met him at an esports event back in the day.
So here we go.
Mr. Beast claims he's 100 percent going to buy an LCS team.
This is back in 2022.
Yeah, we have a rich esports history.
So we thought, you know what?
Why not ask a very important question?
When are you going to get that LCS team, Jimmy? What's happened?
Yeah. No, I bro. I love League of Legends.
I don't know if I've ever talked about League of Legends on a podcast,
but this let's talk about it.
Yeah. You're hitting a lot of furs.
I I want to own a LCS team.
It's just I got a lot going on at the moment.
I'm going to buy one and League keep the esports team popping.
I'm going to get around to it eventually.
I might truthfully be another three, four years.
But I at one point in my life, I don't think I've ever said this,
but I wanted to pretend like, you know, this is when I was like 14 and just dumb.
But I wanted to be like a pro league player.
I used to look up to Baker and all the top players.
I just like I would watch the **** out of League every year.
And it was one of the few things I related to, like other people with,
because like some of my friends in my middle school played league
and we would talk about it at lunch.
And I've been playing league now for.
Well, is it 20, 25?
Yeah, I've been playing for 13 years or something like that.
I've been playing for a very long time, so it would be awesome
if I like made **** you money to just like buy an LCS team
or tons of money into the salary, spoil the players, you know,
import the best players and like try to make a run for worlds.
That would be amazing.
See Faker on the Mr. Beast team.
I mean, if he's viable, what would you call the team?
I guess probably beast or something.
I don't know.
It's what matters more is winning.
I mean, it would not be a thing about making money.
It would not make money at all, especially if I want to win worlds.
But it would purely be like a like this would be my version of, you know,
like rich people buy like NBA teams and football.
I don't have that kind of money.
But so this would be like my a poor man's version of that buying an LCS team
and stacking and trying to win worlds.
Do you look across people like Ludwig and Moist?
You know, they're creating.
Well, they've just joined forces to have a team at the moment.
You know, is that kind of inspiration for you?
Is that something you like?
OK, that makes it is possible for me to do that quite.
I'm not doing it for the love of esports.
I'm doing it for the love of League of Legends.
I ******* love League of Legends. It's such a great game.
Why did you not go pro other than obviously because I just suck.
And I mean, the highest rank I ever got was platinum.
So what's your timeline?
Do you think when when's a rough idea when we could see a beast LCS team?
Probably another three years, realistically.
Yeah, we just got to keep the esports team poppin.
I don't want to see a decline in viewership.
I want to finally get a team and we win worlds.
And everyone's like, no one cares.
League's dead.
Like, keep this ---- going.
One day I'll step in.
Do you think there's any other game that could kind of replicate
like that love you have for League?
Call of Duty used to have that, but I kind of grew out of Call of Duty.
But for some reason, League of Legends is one of those games
you never stop playing.
You just like you never actually stop playing League.
You know what I mean?
I don't know if that's relatable to anyone else.
It's just such a great game.
So as of right now, I can't fathom like picking up a game.
Now I'm playing it for 13 years.
Like I have League.
Talking of competition.
Yeah, there's a new kid on the block that is threatening your YouTube crown.
Whoa. Yeah.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldo, as Speed would say, beats MrBeast's
record for YouTube channel subscriber count.
He did.
How does how does it you've even been on a video on there?
You were kind of again.
I think we've done three videos on his channel together.
And yeah, and you've done videos on your channel as well.
So what's it like working with someone like Ronaldo?
And, you know, do you think he took on board your advice?
Because not to critique Ronaldo by any means, but it does feel like
when you watch his videos, it doesn't feel like it's made by a YouTuber.
It feels like it's made by a production company.
So have you been kind of giving him advice?
And, you know, are you concerned at all for your record there?
Well, you know, he definitely shattered my record for most subs gained.
In a month.
And honestly, I don't think I'll ever take that back.
That's probably his forever.
The title of most subscribers overall.
That's a different story, you know.
But yeah, filming with Ronaldo was was crazy.
I told this story before, but, you know, when I was in contact with his team,
I was like, yo, just give me like three minutes.
I'll like I'll literally set up the challenge where like he can
like we can film it on his way to the bathroom.
Like he can like literally be well, I understand how busy this man is.
We can literally film this on the way to Ronaldo using the bathroom.
Like if that's what I got to do, I just really want to film with Ronaldo.
I think my fans would love to see him in action in a video.
And that's kind of how it started.
And, you know, they they did what I like to do with a lot of people, too,
as they kept the expectations low under promise over deliver.
So they're like, yeah, we'll see if we get like 30 minutes and blah blah.
But then when I, you know, as it was getting closer
and we got there, Ronaldo was like, no, you can have as much time as you need.
It's like what he was telling our team.
And like I was like, wait, what?
Like because we were set up to like do it in a, you know, like boom, boom, boom.
In and out.
And then like when around Ronaldo showed up, you know, he was just kind of like,
yeah, you know, like I just want you to have a good content
and like just let me know you can have as much time as you want.
And I'd love to hang out afterwards.
And I was like, but what did what did he just say?
And he was just so chill, went with the flow, easy to hang out with.
And we finished filming.
And I was like, you know, because I still wanted to be very respectful.
And so I was just quick efficient.
He's the most fallen man on earth.
Hopefully I pass him one day.
But for now, most fallen man on earth, obviously ******* Ronaldo.
He's you know, everyone loves him.
And so I was just like, we got done.
And I was like, OK, you're good to go.
Thank you. Thank you.
You know, and he's like, you want to come hang out?
And he invited me over to his house.
I was like, well, I was giving him every out in the book.
Like, you don't have to entertain me.
You know, you filming this was great.
Like, and he's just a very nice guy invited me over.
We chatted off camera a lot and just hung out.
It was just like not what I was expecting.
Like, I felt like he treated he treated me way better than I ever imagined.
Very respectful, very giving of his time.
And it was really a good experience, to be honest.
Do you think he's obviously speed's obviously got this obsession with him?
You know, do you think he's not met him because it's just so?
Yeah, I mean, did you talk about it all outside of in the.
Yeah, I know. I.
Well, I mentioned to me that he knew who speed was.
Obviously, he's seen it.
And they met briefly for a couple of seconds.
That's right, I believe.
But yeah, maybe speed when you you hang out with Ronaldo, maybe just act normal
as a word of advice from someone who sat on his couch, spent hours with Ronaldo.
Like, just be chill.
You just be yourself, speed.
Don't cry. Don't freak out.
Don't smell them.
Definitely don't bark at them.
Just we all know all of those things are going to happen as well.
I know. But if you the thing is, if you want Ronaldo to hang out with you again,
just act normal speed and to finish it off.
And you get 60 since twenty twenty one.
Yeah. You get 60.
It's actually two hundred and eight.
What the ****?
Why do you?
I haven't even I mean, an upload of two hundred and eight videos
since twenty twenty one, though, he's talking four years.
Yeah, I literally haven't even uploaded that many videos.
You guys, you guys just write articles on everything, don't you?
Well, Jimmy, you know what? It's called views.
Yeah. I mean, if I'm getting clicks, keep it going, I guess.
Yeah. OK, cool.
Well, I really appreciate your time.
Yeah. Thanks for having me.
I'm going to enjoy my lunch as you do your outro.
Well, that'll be the outro, to be honest.
We'll just we'll just cut it dead.
Potential baby.
