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I'm having a great time with you, Sean.

This is definitely the last time I'm ever doing this.

Hey, what's going on everybody? For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans and

watching Hot Ones. It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings. And

today we're joined by Mr. Beast.

He's an entertainment industry juggernaut who's built an empire on

survival stunts, enormous cash prizes, philanthropy, and much more.

Feastables is his snack brand and his record -shattering competition series is

back for season two. Check out Beast Games, now airing on Amazon Prime Video.

Jimmy, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me. Hey, guys. I am terrified because I don't normally eat

spicy food, but it should be a lot of fun. Yeah, I'd imagine that there's

probably a reason why this has taken more than a decade for the two of us to

together. We meet, what, like twice a year at conferences or events, and we're

always like, yeah, we should do it. And half the reason is because I'm terrified

of the hot wings, and the other half is because we're both busy. So I'm excited

we can make it work.

Okay, I start here.

Okay, garlic delight. Cheers.

Okay, not too bad.

I mean, my mouth's burning a little bit.

I'm concerned what the hell is number five if that's number one, but so far

we're good.

Locked in, baby. Yeah.

So psychology is woven into the fabric of beef games with dilemmas that mirror

classic ethical debates like the trolley problem, which was featured in season

one. Yeah. What, if anything, have you learned about human behavior hosting

show? Like, are there any patterns you've observed?

you would think people would be way more ruthless than they are. That's what

I've noticed watching the video. The way people sacrifice themselves for the

team, it happens much more often than I think. Exactly. And so we have the

largest cash prize in history they're competing for, yet sometimes people do

something that worsens their odds.

Help a friend they just met two weeks ago. And so, honestly, BCM kind of

out my faith in humanity quite a bit because I'm like, wow.

that person just turned down a million dollars for these strangers and so i

don't know but there's also double side of it because they know the show's going

to get tens of millions of views and so they're also worried about how they'll

be portrayed on it so it's not also just you know helping people out but it's so

it's interesting to see all these dilemmas and to see what people care

more than others um and then the really funny part is seeing like on tick tock

after we drop these things everyone's like no i would have just taken a

dollars and so it's kind of funny because that's what people say but then

they're in that spot they always act differently

Okay, let's do it.

Okay.

Tastes about this warm.

Okay, so you know.

Yeah, there you go.

I should swallow faster.

Sometimes you just have to let the thought speak to you a little bit. You

they can be a little misleading at first.

From burying yourself alive to spending days on end in solitary confinement,

what's the most you've ever put yourself in the noble pursuit of entertainment?

So there's three things I hate. I really hate being in the sun because I'm

white. I burn like crazy. I don't know. I share the experience. Yeah, I

understand the point. Yeah, and so when we did a video of seven days on Desert

Island, it was basically everything I hate, like being sleep deprived. And

I also really hate insects, like having bugs bite you is annoying. And so on day

two, on seven days on Desert Island, I woke up after sleeping on the beach. I

didn't know sand fleas were a thing. And my leg is just covered with thousands

of little, I thought I was going to die. I was like, what?

Like everywhere from my waist down, just like bug bites everywhere.

I mean, I couldn't see my skin there so much. And then I was like slightly

sunburned and I was really hot. And I was like, nah, I'm out. I'm out. So I

quit. It's one of the few times I've ever quit a challenge.

And I was just like, no, we got to go back. And we went back out there and we

did it.

That first time, like, it was the most miserable I've ever felt in my life.

My nose is, like, dripping snot. I don't know if that's a side effect, but let's

keep going.

Oh, the producers must not like me. That's a lot of sauce.

Okay, is this what Jennifer Anderson and everyone had?

This is the white hop mustard sauce.

Okay. I like the taste.

I'll wait.

It really hits when you breathe, so I'm going to breathe. Mm -hmm.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Okay.

Hit the milk.

Mm -hmm. It's time.

Okay. So, you're known for being a mentor to countless creators on YouTube

not gatekeeping the lessons that you've learned along the way. So, if you'll

humor me, I want to pull up the mock -up of what we expect your thumbnail to

look like for this video. Do you have any notes for our editor, Mari?

I do think the background's a little noisy, especially because if you were to

shrink that thumbnail down for a phone... Wow, my tongue is actually

need to stop letting this touch my tongue.

It would be kind of hard to tell.

So maybe just a little less noisy background. But for the most part, this

what people have come to expect from your brand. So it'd be weird if you

deviated too much, to be honest.

If there was going to be an evolution or change, I think it would have to stem

from you because...

People can tell when it's authentic to you. Hot Ones is you. You know, there's

no Hot Ones without Sean and Vice versa. So it's like, if it doesn't come from

you and the audience doesn't feel that, they're just going to revolt. So I can

say whatever, but honestly, whatever I say, if you actually did it, it would

just piss them off.

You know what I mean?

Okay. Avenir and Peach. That's interesting.

And this to me.

is the first kind of step i can tell me it's also the first one that's actually

making me cry yeah and then this is where i'll tell you be careful around

eye you know you'll have this i'm gonna i'm just gonna put this over here yeah

we have lots of napkins yeah thank you that one uh is full of not uh

my airways are opening up i can breathe clearing the sinus this is nice i

apparently i'm sick i didn't know

Do you have a take on the way the legacy chocolate giants have reacted to

upstarts like yours? And are you at all motivated by rivalry?

A big part of Feastables is there's over 1 .5 million kids in illegal child

labor. And Cote d 'Ivoire in Ghana, where almost all the world's cacao comes

from, it's in West Africa.

And so I actually talked to a lot of other big chocolate companies, and

just kind of like, yeah.

Child labor is just how you get cacao.

There's nothing you can do about it.

So anyways, I'll save the long story, but that's why with Feastables, we pay

our farmers a living income reference price. We use fair trade beans, but in

exchange, they have to let us audit and remediate the child labor on the farm.

So we do sourcing completely different than big chocolate companies do. So I

imagine they're not the happiest because now that we're doing that and we're

proving that you can ethically source the cacao, it shows that they could. If

they wanted to, they just don't.

Would you believe me if I told you we're at the halfway mark?

Thank God.

Oh, I took way too big of a bite. We're in it, baby.

I need smaller bites. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that one.

I think that was the step up, to be honest.

I've taken like three hits of this, and it's not going down. Three hits, yeah,

yeah. You've been, yeah, the chocolate hits.

But now, enough. Not on these.

And then I would suggest maybe slowing down because sometimes the milk problem

that you create for yourself can be worse than the hot sauce problem. Oh, I

would rather have diarrhea than my tongue be burning. I'm just speaking

experience. That's a future me problem. You do you. Me right now needs the

tongue not to burn. Right. Okay. Then let's continue to be instinctive.

Grab the jug. Yeah, I just... I don't know. Who needs these glasses? I'm just

chugging. I'm going to need a lot. I hate spicy stuff, but I'm doing this

because I love you, and I think this will be fun, but... Oh, my gosh.

That was only five?

Too quick?

And swallow.

Okay.

So... You built this empire on escalation, you know, bigger prizes,

larger scale.

Do you ever think about the ceiling of that, or is the constantly accelerating

spectacle the thing that's fun for you?

Yeah,

so we do always, while speaking, while your tongue is burning, it's

We do always one -up everything, but the thing I think most people look at one

-upping yourself as linear.

The only way to do it is to give away more money or do a bigger set, which we

quite a few times, increase your prize pool or build bigger sets.

You're right, it is getting harder to talk.

People have seen me give away a bunch of money, a bunch. They've seen me build

big sets, a ton.

Now, the thing that will keep them coming back, because eventually they'll

numb to those two things, I think is good stories that make you feel

And that's been my main focus. And that's like theoretically a lever over

if that makes sense.

I'm following. I'm following. You know, no matter what you're going through,

eloquent in the fog of war over here, Jimmy.

Let me just grab a new napkin. Yeah.

Keep them in rotation.

Ooh, I like that name.

How dramatic am I compared to other people?

I like these kinds of episodes where somebody puts you to the brink, to be

honest. I really tell them I don't handle spicy stuff well.

How many Scoville's is that?

So this is another step.

You know, like now we're approaching.

Oh, God, there's sauce in my milk. Get off.

I know.

A lot going on.

So I once heard you talk about how painful it is to see people drop out of

school or quit their job to pursue content full time. Yep.

How do you think about the balance between the ambition of chasing one's

and the reality that such a small percentage of the people who try break

through?

I think that...

In my case, I... Oh, the more I talk, the more... Oxygen on the fire.

Do you want some ice cream?

Yes, ice cream would be... Here, come on in. Oh, she was ready. We are always

ready. We're always ready. You knew that was coming.

If I think about it, let this sit on my tongue, I can answer the question.

Yeah, give it a shot.

Okay, this is good. I'm good.

I don't feel it.

It was either I wanted to be a YouTuber, I didn't care.

If it's that important to you and you're willing to make all those sacrifices

and willing to really go all in, then I don't think it's as crazy.

And most people don't want it that bad. And in that case, I don't recommend you

take the risk. Like, only take the risk where you could potentially, I mean,

truly ruin your life if it really means that much to you where you can't

envision yourself being happy unless you achieve it. And I think maybe you'd

agree with this, too, but, like, being on the inside of it, unless you love it,

it ain't worth it anyway. Exactly. That's the other thing. Like, unless you

really, really love what you do and love creating content, like, You're going

to, if you were in my shoes, you would get trapped in a hell accidentally.

Like this. Right, yeah.

You could be tethered to this seat eating scorching hot chicken wings for

decade.

All right, let's keep going.

And including this thought, this is da bomb beyond insanity.

Oh, God. I don't, bro, I don't like the symbol. I'm sorry.

Screw that bottle. I don't like the symbol on this. It scares me.

Am I going to be okay?

Okay, prepare mentally.

All right, let's do it.

Oh, God. Why are you showing your heart?

I wanted a small bite.

Oh, no.

So, I was watching an interview that you did with Tex Serto.

Yep. Where you talked about how in high school you would fuck people up. Oh,

yeah, I would. Well, you know what? That's easy to do with a clear mind. Try

doing that after you've eaten a gauntlet of scorching hot chicken wings. So, if

you'll humor me, I have a...

I have a fast math pop quiz for you. Go for it. All right, if DJ Khaled taps out

after the third wing on the Hot Ones gauntlet, what percentage of the lineup

remains uneaten?

60 % or 70%. Bang, bang, bang.

You're renting a studio for $5 ,125 per day. If you shoot there for 12

days straight, what does your rental bill come out to?

No.

I've never felt my tongue this bad.

I'm feeling nerves on my tongue I didn't know I had.

I'm sorry. I don't know what you said.

Okay. You don't have to ask. It's fine.

You have 88 chocolate bars to split equally in 11 care packages. How many

chocolate bars in each care package? Eight. That's easy. You got that.

My tongue is burning.

You've done a brand deal that pays you 23 % of $650 ,000 in

back -end revenue.

What's your check for that?

Hold on.

What's 2 % of $50 ,000? That is $1 ,000.

Is that what you said, 20?

$130 ,000.

Oh, wait, but you said the three?

I don't know.

Close.

$149 ,500.

How are we feeling?

You can tap if you want to.

Bro.

Come on.

One second. Sorry.

It's only two more.

Well said.

This next one, if you're ready, is the Smoke Squash Reaper X.

Bro, it's coming back.

Whatever.

Whatever. Let's do it.

Is my tongue red?

It's actually a little white, to be honest. I think it's the ice cream. The

cream. Okay.

I'm sorry, guys. This interview is not going to get any better.

I'm sorry.

Okay. From a $100 ,000 sundae to a $70 ,000 pizza, you tried some of the most

expensive stuff in the world. Which ultra -luxe menu item was most worth its

outrageous price tag?

None of them. None of them, bro.

It's crazy because, like, a $5 Smashburger will taste better than a $70

golden pizza with, like, black truffles on it. I do not like expensive food.

It's weird. Like, you're not missing out, like, at all.

The more expensive, like caviar, I don't like caviar at all.

It's just like fish eggs. Oh, my gosh.

I need more ice cream.

What were we talking about?

All right, Mr. Beast.

You can call me Jimmy.

I don't want to.

We'll keep it how it is.

Throw a smoke coming out of my mouth?

No, but in post, we can make it happen. How much is left?

You know what? And this is the truth.

After you leave the studio, for 20 minutes, you'll be floating a little

then it'll clear, and you'll almost feel like you could do it again.

Okay? I am starting to feel it in my stomach. My gosh.

A lot of ice cream, a lot of milk.

All right, I just feel burning.

You don't have to eat it. No.

I'm not quitting.

Bro, I swear, people are going to put me in TikTok edits beside other

celebrities, and they're going to be like, oh, it's not that bad.

Please tell me most people struggle.

No matter what you're going through, no matter how silly you feel, way crazier

things have already happened on this show. You know, there's a long legacy.

There's a long history.

The TikTok edits are just going to find the one person that's like, oh, that's

not that bad.

Don't think about the TikTok edits at a time like this. We're one bite away.

We're one bite away.

We're one bite away from getting there.

We're one bite away from getting there.

What they'll do is they'll admire the determination to get through this.

the odds.

I'm shaping the narrative right now.

I'm shaping the narrative right now.

I feel like I'm going to throw up.

Let's do it.

And with that, the wings of death are behind us. You have conquered the hot

gauntlet. And to close things out, you published a video called, Hi, Me in 10

Years, where you talked to your future self, a 17 -year -old Jimmy Donaldson.

With a trillion Scovilles coursing through your veins, I'm wondering if you

could send another message to your future self, and if you want, you can

down the barrel of the camera. What would you tell Jimmy in 10 years if he's

considering doing Hot Ones again?

Don't. It's not worth it. It's not worth it. It's literally not worth it.

Sean's cool.

It's not worth it.

And with that...

I've never eaten spicy food again.

Jimmy, you have taken on the Hot Ones gauntlet and lived to tell the tale. Now

there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you. This camera,

this camera, this camera. Let the people know what you have going on in your

life.

Well, I just dropped Beast Game Season 2. Do you want to watch it?

I actually... Hey, I'm going to throw up. I'm going to go to the toilet.

That's hot.

Do you feel that way? Like, do you want to run?

I'm going to go to it real quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I need to wash my hands.

That's hot as shit.

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