#2527 - Mr. Beast
7/16/20262 hr 54 min
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is a YouTuber, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Beast Industries and Beast Philanthropy, and the creator and host of the Prime Video competition series “Beast Games.”
www.beastgames.com
www.beastphilanthropy.org
www.youtube.com/@MrBeast
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:01
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out The Joe Rogan Experience Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day.
Joe Rogan· Host0:09
[upbeat music] It must be very easy to get people to do your show.
Jimmy Donaldson· Guest0:15
Uh, well, I mean, yeah, seeing how we give away millions of dollars, it's- Oh. [laughs] Yeah, usually [laughs] people are very excited about it. The actual, the, uh, the, the only hard part for us is, you know, if it's a longer one, just the time off work, so... 'Cause sometimes, like- Oh, right ... when we shoot, like, Beast Games or stuff, you know, it can go for a month. But besides the work stuff, of course.
Joe Rogan· Host0:33
Does it... Are there people that haven't been able to do the show 'cause they couldn't get a month off work?
Jimmy Donaldson· Guest0:37
Oh, yeah, tons. Of course.
Joe Rogan· Host0:39
Oh, God.
Jimmy Donaldson· Guest0:39
So we always have like a... Even, like, the day before, you know, sometimes people get cold feet. So if we're doing something with 100 people, we'll usually have 10 backups just because, you know, the, the people- I would imagine that the type of person that would do your show would have a job that they could quit. [laughs] [laughs] Well, uh, yeah, I mean, I guess it depends, right? Whether it's the YouTube channel where we're- Yeah ... you know, doing, um, you know, 100 families compete for $250,000, or it's Beast Games, where they're competing for 5 million. The 5 million, people are way more excited for. Some of the, you know, the YouTube videos, it's not as, like, grandiose, where they're like, "Eh, I don't know if I wanna lose my job for a 1% chance of winning 250K," so...
Joe Rogan· Host1:14
Well, how many people, when you do Beast Games, how many people are competing?
Jimmy Donaldson· Guest1:17
Uh, so the newest season we just shot, we, uh, grabbed one person from, uh, every country on Earth, so it was around 200.
Joe Rogan· Host1:22
Whoa.
Jimmy Donaldson· Guest1:23
Yeah. Which I... was actually pretty cool because you would put them in these, like, crazy games, and you'd see how someone from, like, the Asian P-S- you