MrBeast & Kelly Clarkson Crack Up At 'Overnight Success' Label

Where did the name Mr. Beast come from that's been around for a minute, right? Uh, yes Well before I answer that nice to meet you. This is our first time ever talking. So in front of a live audience, it's funny So, um, yeah, Mr. Beast, I mean you can call me Jimmy if you want or Mr. Beast. Okay, if that's what Mr. Beast if you're nasty, okay, Jimmy. No, I'll call you Jimmy. Yeah, but when I was a little kid I made an Xbox live account and it the random name was just Mr. Beast 6000 that it just like generated And so that's just kind of the username I used and then as I got older everyone's like what's the six thousands? Like I don't know and so I got rid of it. Oh My god, I love that. You had to hold on to that because that's what you Like 11 Hundreds of people call me. Mr. Beast. Oh, no. Yeah Your YouTube channel though. It grew pretty quickly, right? Well, it didn't grow for eight years. Basically, maybe it was for eight years. No one watched and then yes Maybe then it just took off like over but from those eight years Like how quickly was it was the change from eight years to like being just exactly 400 million. That's insane. Yeah, it's pretty wild. Yeah Every video we upload 1% of people I've watched which is kind of crazy when I think about it I'm like, sometimes I wake up. I'm like, it's this my life. Yeah, this doesn't really make sense But you should do what you love though. That's such a lesson. Do you love and you're into and you're passionate about it's a really great Lesson. Well, yeah, because most people tend to quit before they find a success So you really have to love what you do enough to slug through it in my case eight years of no money and no one Watching it to you know, you know hit the diamond in the rough, which what was that turn though? Yeah, there's no one's watching but then everybody was watching. Yeah So in my case, I mean maybe not the proudest thing in hindsight, but I counted to a hundred thousand So I just literally hit record on a camera and I was like I'm gonna count and I'm not gonna stop till I hit a hundred Thousand it took me 40 hours and I up I just uploaded it. I didn't know this story. Yeah What I mean, I'm not the proudest of it because it's like not really talent. Although I guess maybe But yeah, so I just like I'm gonna do it. You're committed. Yeah, and so I uploaded it and everyone's like what is idiot doing? Why is he counting? Yeah and I got everyone talking and so then I watched paint dry or like I painted a wall and waited for it to dry and Then I would just like anytime there's a meme I just watch it only for 10 hours and I did that for a little while and I was just like, you know Mentally tough and I would just do mundane things for long periods And so it's kind of like watching Game of Thrones and like anime and things like that I kind of hacked a way to make money while watching TV. So but I didn't tell people that I just think you're clever Yeah points for that. You deserve the viewers for that. Yeah, I don't think I'd ever do that Like I think I'd start it like this gonna be so funny and then I'd quit to be fair Yeah, I couldn't do it again I don't know. I was a different person back then like it was it's pretty I you know in fairness I feel a lot of us can say that about things we did in our 20s or as a teenager I'm like, well, I would never do that again. Exactly. I think I was 19 at the time. Yeah, so now you have these games This is intense. It's on Amazon. So explain that for everybody. Uh, yeah, so, uh, yeah our YouTube channel We do a lot of like game show competition show type stuff like I'll put a hundred people in a circle and be like whoever leaves last wins a million dollars and People really like those so I was like, okay What if we take this competition thing that works well on YouTube We do it on a stream platform and we just make everything the biggest most contestants in history largest cash prize in history largest sets in history and you know just Amplified and that's essentially these games in a nutshell. Yeah. Yeah I mean, do you think when you were young? I think you could have won one of those like cuz you really stuck it out There uh, yeah, I mean I write the show But I would know all the twists and turns but yeah I mean usually what do well in our competition shows is And these games is big alliances and just making friends a lot of people because a lot of times will offer people money like hey I'll give you a hundred grand. You just have to eliminate all your friends and like things like that So if you can get people you trust and can't be bought then you go pretty far But that's kind of the hardest part is knowing who you can trust and who you can't so what's different in season two? How do you because you have to kind of change it up? Yeah people interested, right? So it's different. Yeah well in season one We grabbed a thousand people and which was the most any shows ever had and I kind of realized why no one's ever had a Thousand before because it's you know, you barely remember like ten names and then you put a thousand It's just like vomit on a screen. Yeah, so in season two, we dialed some things back Which is not in our nature usually go bigger and I was like, let's do ten thousand But then I was like, ah people kind of want to know their names and everything so we and season two we got the hundred the strongest people in the planet hundreds some of the smartest people in the planet had him compete for five million dollars and Yeah, just built. Well, it's hard to describe without showing I mean you kind of saw in that clip there like one of the games we'd suspended them 100 feet in the air and You know people who fell ended up losing and so they hold on because that's like a strong game for the strong versus smart Yeah, and then other games. It's like memorizing a 20 block pattern things like that. Oh my gosh Yeah, I just felt like a loser you saying it Fans are kiddos and Jimmy also likes encouraging kids to explore their passions and imaginations like he did So it's time to find out what some of Jimmy's young fans would like to know. This is ask. Mr. Beast Kidding we need to write a theme song with that being that like come on There's every segment get an intro like that. We they did. Yes. Thank you. Yes That's that is my favorite one in seven season That is that's a total song that when people would love anyway, it's like you'd work hard on this You have a million dollars She's like, you know, I got that. Okay, cool. All right. We've got some questions sent in by I'm not kidding We got to work on that. Okay a question sent in by kids on video We're gonna roll them and then Jimmy can respond. So the first one is Henry What is your favorite place you visited while filming? Favorite place Well, we we did a video. I mean it was years ago. We spent 24 hours in the desert it was just me and my friends and we were just like what we just go to a store buy random things and then just plop in the middle of a desert like we survived and That's like how long for 24 hours? But it's just like that was fun because it's just me and the boys just being really stupid in the middle of the desert Yeah, yeah, I don't even remember the desert was I was just in the middle of a desert Okay Next is from Elliot. Hi, mr. B's pleasure talking to you. This is Elliot here and I noticed you got 442 million subscribers and that is a lot. So my question to you is What is your advice on achieving that many subscribers? Thank you Well Elliot we're on 460 million Little What's my advice Honestly, just make content you love because like we talked about before it's gonna take you to have success You know many many years and if you don't enjoy it, you'll quit way before you get me No, I think that's just like like for people to hear because for us some of us it was like, oh man overnight This guy just is wasn't overnight It's eight years of you like not making money and really and there are people who probably think you were overnight For sure, and of course, I was just saying before American Idol My first day was just I'd never done anything before. Yeah. Yeah, we're both overnight success Thanks, I know you're like, well, it's eight years the next is from Chloe Hey, mr. Beast. Do you have any pets? Oh This is actually an exclusive. I've never talked about my pets. Yes. What wait, what is your what? I have a lot of pets, but we usually don't me and my fiance don't talk about it. But I I have okay fiance She's very beautiful But I we have to Shiva you news and they're so adorable Those are gorgeous dog and then my fiance anytime she sees a stray cat just kidnaps it. So okay stray cats Yeah. All right. Next is from Madison Would you rather spend 24 hours in a shark tank or 24 hours in a room filled with flying roaches Was there an either option That's a good question with shark. Well, so I'm in a tank that's perfect protect me from the shark So I assume they won't yeah, no, no, no. No, that's not the question. What's it? No, you're in the tank with the show I'm in the tank with the shark. That's what I got from it. Oh So what I could die. The other is very disgusting So I would probably just go with the disgusting one. They're locus. Even though yeah, I hate roaches. It wasn't Lucas, right? Oh my god. Did she say roach? Yeah. No, she really like thought how can I torment? No. Yeah I just read it. No, I would die. I'd pick the show you'd be fine with their shark roaches are the worst living creatures Oh, I would never do it. They don't die Yeah, I would never do it unless the inversion was a shark biting my arm off you know what though if you know how someone was right like where they were raised because I was very poor neighborhood and Roaches and then when I found out they could fly it was like a whole different level of evil and I would never I would Always pick the other thing. Okay, I think I'd rather just risk it and hope the shark is fed, you know Yeah, yeah, and we make friends. It's like Bruce. All right. Well, how about this? How about this you do 24 hours for the shark? I'm 24 hours with the roaches and for sure. I'll lie right now a national television For sure, I would die in a room full of roaches. I thought she said locusts I could do locusts Yeah, you rewrote the question to what you wanted. Yeah, I was like it couldn't be that a reality distortion Yeah, it's it. I have a lovely filter and like okay. Last one is from Turner Hey, mr. Beast. What is what video you would like to do in the future? Oh, it's something you would like to do Yeah, I could pull up my list of ideas One that actually we've been working on. Oh, this is perfect. You should put this in the episode I want to grab a hundred astronauts have them compete in like, you know space space like Challenges and things like that like living in a mock version the ISS for a week and things like that and the winner of it All we send to space so blue origin SpaceX if you want to help me out Everybody wins it gets people more into this space exploration gets people, you know more everyone minus the 99 astronauts that lost wins. Yeah Yeah, yeah, everyone else. This is gonna be so happy No, that's a good one, yeah, I love that. Okay everybody give it up for mr. B You can catch these games season 2 now in prime video