Taken from JRE #1788 w/Mr. Beast:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5lokpznqvSrJO3gButgQvs?si=3b11f017392a4e0f

Yeah, it's been crazy, because I've been doing it since I was 11.

and so it's just like, basically every year it's just gotten crazier and crazier.

Well, The first few years I wasn't even making money off YouTube.

But once I started making money, I was making a dollar a day, and I saved up for a couple months.

I bought a microphone, saved up for half a year, got a computer, and I've just always reinvested it.

And so it's like literally just all, I mean I was like as awkward as they came.

No money, no nothing, and I just basically just obsessed over YouTube every day for a decade.

Are your first episodes available when you were 11 years old?

No, because I had a friend when I was 13 that found my channel, and so I deleted all the videos I got really self-conscious.

But so everything from 13 and up is there and yeah, they're that's terrible.

That's still cool Yeah, so what did you do when you first started like what was the first idea?

The very first video Weirdly enough I played this stupid game and some hacker Like killed my base when I was 11 and so I uploaded it and my first video got 20,000 views like instantly because it was like all the people that play the game was like oh shit You can hack in this game.

it's a really small game But I uploaded that and I got 20,000 views and that was probably the best thing that could have ever happened to me cuz then I was I was hooked from day 1 literally like most people it takes hundreds of videos before you get like 1 view and somehow The very first video I uploaded at 11 got like 20,000 views and then I was just like oh I fell in love and I've been hooked ever since.

Wow, so it was kind of almost by accident.

Essentially, yeah, it was that, and then, because this was way before YouTube was even a thing.

know, no 1 was really a YouTuber, hardly anyone made money.

When did YouTube first get, when did it launch?

YouTube was a thing, but the partner program wasn't really a thing.

And it was definitely back before it was cool.

When I was doing YouTube when I was 14 and

now it's cool if you wanna be a YouTuber in high school or middle school.

It's like, you're just worried they would try to play your videos in class or make funny or stuff like that for it.

So, but how did it evolve to what it is now?

Was it a slow, sort of a gradual increase in numbers?

Yeah, I mean it was about as slow as it gets.

When I was a young teenager, I was getting no views, had no money, had no equipment.

So for the most part, I was just trying to scrounge money so I could buy equipment because I was using my brother's old laptop And so like my first couple hundred videos.

I didn't have a microphone like imagine just like frackley terrible voice And so once I got monetized I saved up for a few months like I told you I bought a microphone I think just give you a mile high history, and I saved up for like 6 months I mean, I was just doing video game videos, and they're terrible, but I saved up I got a real computer, so now I could actually record the video game at high quality.

I have a microphone I'm like 15, and I just kept going and going trying to figure out like what are some of like the hot spots like I essentially up until 18 I had been doing YouTube pretty religiously but I was making no money like this is kind of the turning point was when I graduated from high school and my whole life I was like I want to be making enough money by the time I graduated to do this full-time.

I was still only making a couple hundred bucks a month.

So I graduated high school and my mom was like, either move out or go to a community college.

And I didn't have enough money to move out, but I really just, I hated school with a passion.

But she forced me to go to community college.

I just can't stand like having to just sit there and listen to this dumb stuff and listen to some teacher read out a book.

So what I did was I would act like I was going to community college, but I would just work on videos in my car and edit and stuff like that I had straight zeros and so now the clock had started because like once my mom found out I was screwed

Yeah, exactly And so I would act like I was going to college that whole time But I wasn't and I didn't have enough money to move out and that was kind of when I was just like 15 hours a day all in I was like I'm fucked if this doesn't work And I actually I had some videos pop off I couldn't tell you which ones but I had a month where I made 20 grand because I just had some videos just do really really well and then I came home and I was like yeah I haven't been going to college and I moved out the next day my mom almost had a heart attack because she she doesn't understand YouTube or anything back then and she just like she was like man this guy's gonna work at McDonald's I wasted all this time Like I invested 18 years in this 1 I get.

That's where I've lived almost my whole life.

Oh, I always knew Little Jimmy was gonna be a success.

Even in high school, I never once studied.

I literally wouldn't even take my books home.

I legit don't think I studied once all of high school at my house And so we would fight a lot I didn't have the best grades and so I would I would just make videos and she didn't understand it Especially cuz back then it was just a whole different world like yeah There wasn't really a thing as a full-time YouTuber and stuff and so there's a lot of a lot of arguments a lot of drama but ended up working out she's happy.

The thing is it's like nobody saw this coming right so you can't you can't blame her.

Especially me in like the middle of North Carolina in a small town I had like horrible acne I'm you know especially back then really awkward it's like no 1 like people would have bet a million dollars that I wouldn't be a YouTuber.

But I just have hyper obsession and I love this.

You give it enough time, anyone can solve it.

Well, there's a lesson in that for people, really.

If you do have a hyper-obsession to something, there's a lot of people that think that because they're bad at school or because they're not interested in school, that they're destined to be a loser.

The problem is school is too rigid like regular public school system sit down under employed underpaid teacher Disinterested not really connected with the work.

You're not connected with it You just can't wait to go home and do what you like to do exactly and You get this thought in your head, like, oh my god, I'm gonna be a loser.

I mean, that's how I was when I was in high school.

Well, and you take it a step further, because I thought, especially if you're like extremely passionate about something at a young age, where most kids are, then you're even, it's more exacerbated that it's like, you know, I didn't talk to anyone.

I hardly had any friends because I was so obsessed with YouTube, as back then just no 1 cared.

So it's like, I thought I was just like, just didn't even know how to speak.

Like, literally, I just couldn't hold a conversation with a single person, because people would just tell me all you talk about is YouTube.

And I would try to talk about something else, but back then I was so hyper obsessed, I literally just didn't know how to.

Were you obsessed about other channels, your channel?

Everything, from learning how to editing, the pacing of the videos, ideas, what's going viral, what's trending, what's hot.

Especially back then I had no idea what worked.

I mean, I had to like self-teach myself everything.

Even, you know, frame rate on cameras, coloring of the video, just stuff like that.

So like YouTube videos and tutorials or something?

Most of my growth came actually after I graduated high school.

Basically what I did was I somehow found these other like 4 lunatics.

We were 3 of us were college dropouts, 1 was a high school dropout, and 1, I don't know, he just like quit his job.

We all were super small YouTubers and we basically talked every day for a thousand days in a row and did nothing but just like hyper study Like what makes a good video?

What what's good pacing like how to go viral and we just call it like daily masterminds We would just get on Skype every morning and like some days like I'd get on Skype at 7 a.m.

And then I'd go to bed and I'd wake up and I'd do it again.

And we'd do things like take 1,000 thumbnails and see if there's a correlation to the brightness of the thumbnail to how many views it got.

Or videos that get over 10 million views, it's like how often do they cut the camera angles or things like that.

Yeah, just I mean for, like we were very religious about it and so that's where most of my knowledge came from is I just surround myself with these lunatics and just every day, like we didn't do anything, we had no life.

But everybody had sort of a similar vision.

Yeah, exactly, and so we all had like 10, 20,000 subscribers when we met, and by the time we stopped talking we all had millions of subscribers.

And we all hit a million subscribers within a month.

It's crazy, Because it's like, if you envision a world where you're trying to be great at something and it's just like you learning and fucking up and learning from your mistakes.

Also, my mom told me not to curse, sorry mom.

If someone could just edit out the swear words and give it to me.

Yeah, so I could give it to my mom to listen to, that would be great.

But like, you mess up, you learn from your mistake, you mess up, you learn from your mistake, you mess up, you learn from your mistake.

You in 2 years might have learned from 20 mistakes, or if you have 4 other people who are also messing up, and when they learn from their mistake, they teach you what they learned.

So hypothetically, you 2 years down the road have learned 5 times more of the amount of stuff So it just like helps you grow exponentially way quicker if that makes any sense It

does yes, so but it's interesting that you thought about it that way and sort of a systematic approach like that This is not dumb luck

No, I mean it was like like they say 10,000 hours of mass or something, we probably put it at 40, 50,000 hours.

We're talking like every day, all day, like literally nothing.

We had no friends outside of the group, that was your life.

I'm actually re-reading that book right now, that Malcolm Gladwell book, Outliers, that talks about that 10,000 hours principle.

It totally applies to what you did, 100%.

I mean, it sounds like you were just all day, every day, and which makes sense.

What do you have now, 90 million subscribers?

Well, across everything, we're closing in on 200 million subscribers.

Yeah, because have you seen our dub channels?

So we actually, which I'm kind of curious why you don't do this.

We do our videos in other languages as well.

And so, and what's, I can't wait to get to show you this because I actually have a really cool

If it is, yeah, we have voice actors and everything Wow So these are the exact same videos on my main channel, but we pay voice actors to dub over them we translate the text in the video every day.

Yeah that was actually 1 of the fastest growing channels last year.

Okay now click on a video so we can kind of hear it.

Mis amigos y yo volveremos a la primaria.

Al final de la clase haremos un examen de 10 preguntas.

Yeah, so that's, now just, I won't pull them all up, but now

So you got a Portuguese translator as well?

yeah And so cuz you know if you Google it's like only whatever less than 10% of the world speaks English, so 90% of the world can't even enjoy your content.

And when I realized that, I was like, wait a minute, 90% of the world can't even watch this stuff.

And so go back to the Spanish 1 real quick, because that's our biggest 1.

And sorry for anyone watching who doesn't have the visuals.

Yils, we just started doing this like 6 months ago and it's crazy how viral some of these videos have gotten.

And the problem with me is I don't know if someone's gonna translate it, if they're gonna say exactly what I said.

So we have like, before a video gets uploaded, we have 3 different people who basically write the transcript, and then if the words don't line up on all 3, then, or sorry, let me think about the process.

We have something like that because I was worried about that as well.

I think we take the original transcript and we have it dubbed and then after so we have a 2 different people right out and if it doesn't line up with the original than is like it's a red flag and we look at it

yet we built some system I'll have to worry about that and the final point is and spanish the guy who does my jobs is the same guy who does spider-man we managed to convince him So a lot of those comments are like why does he sound like spider-man or is mr.

Hilarious yeah, and so what we do is when we go into these markets We get celebrities to do my my voice so then like the local people in the language freak out.

So like, Japan's coming up and I can't say who, but we secured like a giant voice actor from an anime to do my dubs and whenever we launch in Japan, I know they're gonna lose their freaking minds.

I think, I just had the blessing of finding what I loved at a young age.

So like, to get to this level, it takes a decade.

Most people don't find what they love until they're young 20s, so they'd be wearing that in their 30s.

I just lucked out and found it when I was really young.

The fact, 1 of the things that I was really impressed by when I started looking into you after my daughter introduced me, is that you invest so much money into the show.

So you don't go crazy, you don't have a Ferrari or anything nuts?

I think living your life chasing a nicer and nicer car and a bigger and bigger box to live in is kind of a dumb way to go about life.

Yeah, so I actually, funny enough, I lived in a super below average home and I kind of learned why famous people don't live in below average homes because someone broke in, stole everything I owned.

So I had to get a little nicer house for security reasons, but before I was robbed, I mean like my place was like a little duplex, 700 a month, you get a roommate's 360 split.

Well now I drive a Tesla just because of the, you know, getting off of gas and stuff like that.


Speaker 0: The Joe Rogan experience.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been crazy, because I've been doing it since I was 11. Really? Yeah, so now I'm

Speaker 0: 23,

Speaker 1: and so it's just like, basically every year it's just gotten crazier and crazier. And I used to make a dollar a day. Well, The first few years I wasn't even making money off YouTube. But once I started making money, I was making a dollar a day, and I saved up for a couple months. I bought a microphone, saved up for half a year, got a computer, and I've just always reinvested it.

And so it's like literally just all, I mean I was like as awkward as they came. No money, no nothing, and I just basically just obsessed over YouTube every day for a decade.

Speaker 0: Are your first episodes available when you were 11 years old?

Speaker 1: No, because I had a friend when I was 13 that found my channel, and so I deleted all the videos I got really self-conscious.

Speaker 0: Oh no!

Speaker 1: But so everything from 13 and up is there and yeah, they're that's terrible.

Speaker 0: That's still cool Yeah, so what did you do when you first started like what was the first idea?

Speaker 1: The very first video Weirdly enough I played this stupid game and some hacker Like killed my base when I was 11 and so I uploaded it and my first video got 20,000 views like instantly because it was like all the people that play the game was like oh shit You can hack in this game. It's a game called battle parts. I guarantee you no 1

Speaker 0: was called

Speaker 1: battle parts No 1 here has ever heard

Speaker 0: battle card

Speaker 1: battle pirates

Speaker 0: battle pirate

Speaker 1: it's a really small game But I uploaded that and I got 20,000 views and that was probably the best thing that could have ever happened to me cuz then I was I was hooked from day 1 literally like most people it takes hundreds of videos before you get like 1 view and somehow The very first video I uploaded at 11 got like 20,000 views and then I was just like oh I fell in love and I've been hooked ever since.

Speaker 0: Wow, so it was kind of almost by accident.

Speaker 1: Essentially, yeah, it was that, and then, because this was way before YouTube was even a thing.

Speaker 0: Like, you

Speaker 1: know, no 1 was really a YouTuber, hardly anyone made money.

Speaker 0: When did YouTube first get, when did it launch?

Speaker 1: Like 2006 or whatever. YouTube was a thing, but the partner program wasn't really a thing. No 1 was making money. And it was definitely back before it was cool. When I was doing YouTube when I was 14 and

Speaker 0: 15,

Speaker 1: now it's cool if you wanna be a YouTuber in high school or middle school. Back then, no 1 gave a fuck. You know what I mean? It's like, you're just worried they would try to play your videos in class or make funny or stuff like that for it.

Speaker 0: So, but how did it evolve to what it is now? Was it a vision? Was it a slow, sort of a gradual increase in numbers?

Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was about as slow as it gets. When I was a young teenager, I was getting no views, had no money, had no equipment. So for the most part, I was just trying to scrounge money so I could buy equipment because I was using my brother's old laptop And so like my first couple hundred videos. I didn't have a microphone like imagine just like frackley terrible voice And so once I got monetized I saved up for a few months like I told you I bought a microphone I think just give you a mile high history, and I saved up for like 6 months I mean, I was just doing video game videos, and they're terrible, but I saved up I got a real computer, so now I could actually record the video game at high quality. I have a microphone I'm like 15, and I just kept going and going trying to figure out like what are some of like the hot spots like I essentially up until 18 I had been doing YouTube pretty religiously but I was making no money like this is kind of the turning point was when I graduated from high school and my whole life I was like I want to be making enough money by the time I graduated to do this full-time.

And I wasn't. I was still only making a couple hundred bucks a month. So I graduated high school and my mom was like, either move out or go to a community college. And I didn't have enough money to move out, but I really just, I hated school with a passion. But she forced me to go to community college.

And that was the worst thing ever. Like that made me hate life. Like borderline suicidal. I just can't stand like having to just sit there and listen to this dumb stuff and listen to some teacher read out a book. So what I did was I would act like I was going to community college, but I would just work on videos in my car and edit and stuff like that I had straight zeros and so now the clock had started because like once my mom found out I was screwed

Speaker 0: Were you aware of that? Like yeah, you're running a risk.

Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly And so I would act like I was going to college that whole time But I wasn't and I didn't have enough money to move out and that was kind of when I was just like 15 hours a day all in I was like I'm fucked if this doesn't work And I actually I had some videos pop off I couldn't tell you which ones but I had a month where I made 20 grand because I just had some videos just do really really well and then I came home and I was like yeah I haven't been going to college and I moved out the next day my mom almost had a heart attack because she she doesn't understand YouTube or anything back then and she just like she was like man this guy's gonna work at McDonald's I wasted all this time Like I invested 18 years in this 1 I get.

Speaker 0: Where were you living? What part of the country?

Speaker 1: North Carolina. That's where I've lived almost my whole life.

Speaker 0: And so how does she feel now?

Speaker 1: Oh, she's great. Is

Speaker 0: she like flabbergasted?

Speaker 1: She's beyond happy. Yeah, she loves it. Put her in front of her friends. She loves talking about it, obviously.

Speaker 0: Oh, I always knew Little Jimmy was gonna be a success.

Speaker 1: No, she doesn't try to hide it. We would fight all the time. Even in high school, I never once studied. I literally wouldn't even take my books home. I legit don't think I studied once all of high school at my house And so we would fight a lot I didn't have the best grades and so I would I would just make videos and she didn't understand it Especially cuz back then it was just a whole different world like yeah There wasn't really a thing as a full-time YouTuber and stuff and so there's a lot of a lot of arguments a lot of drama but ended up working out she's happy.

Speaker 0: The thing is it's like nobody saw this coming right so you can't you can't blame her.

Speaker 1: Especially me in like the middle of North Carolina in a small town I had like horrible acne I'm you know especially back then really awkward it's like no 1 like people would have bet a million dollars that I wouldn't be a YouTuber. It makes no sense. But I just have hyper obsession and I love this. You give it enough time, anyone can solve it.

Speaker 0: Well, there's a lesson in that for people, really. If you do have a hyper-obsession to something, there's a lot of people that think that because they're bad at school or because they're not interested in school, that they're destined to be a loser. And that's not true. The problem is school is too rigid like regular public school system sit down under employed underpaid teacher Disinterested not really connected with the work. You're not connected with it You just can't wait to go home and do what you like to do exactly and You get this thought in your head, like, oh my god, I'm gonna be a loser.

I mean, that's how I was when I was in high school. I thought I was gonna be a loser.

Speaker 1: Well, and you take it a step further, because I thought, especially if you're like extremely passionate about something at a young age, where most kids are, then you're even, it's more exacerbated that it's like, you know, I didn't talk to anyone. I hardly had any friends because I was so obsessed with YouTube, as back then just no 1 cared. So it's like, I thought I was just like, just didn't even know how to speak. Like, literally, I just couldn't hold a conversation with a single person, because people would just tell me all you talk about is YouTube. And I would try to talk about something else, but back then I was so hyper obsessed, I literally just didn't know how to.

Speaker 0: But what were you obsessed about? Were you obsessed about other channels, your channel?

Speaker 1: Everything, from learning how to editing, the pacing of the videos, ideas, what's going viral, what's trending, what's hot. Especially back then I had no idea what worked. I mean, I had to like self-teach myself everything. Even, you know, frame rate on cameras, coloring of the video, just stuff like that.

Speaker 0: And how did you learn? Did you learn from YouTube? Yeah, well. So like YouTube videos and tutorials or something?

Speaker 1: Most of my growth came actually after I graduated high school. Basically what I did was I somehow found these other like 4 lunatics. We were 3 of us were college dropouts, 1 was a high school dropout, and 1, I don't know, he just like quit his job. We all were super small YouTubers and we basically talked every day for a thousand days in a row and did nothing but just like hyper study Like what makes a good video? What makes a good thumbnail?

What what's good pacing like how to go viral and we just call it like daily masterminds We would just get on Skype every morning and like some days like I'd get on Skype at 7 a.m. And I'd be in the call until 10 p.m. And then I'd go to bed and I'd wake up and I'd do it again. And we'd do things like take 1,000 thumbnails and see if there's a correlation to the brightness of the thumbnail to how many views it got. Or videos that get over 10 million views, it's like how often do they cut the camera angles or things like that.

Speaker 0: Really? So you micro-analyzed

Speaker 1: everything? Yeah, just I mean for, like we were very religious about it and so that's where most of my knowledge came from is I just surround myself with these lunatics and just every day, like we didn't do anything, we had no life.

Speaker 0: But everybody had sort of a similar vision.

Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, and so we all had like 10, 20,000 subscribers when we met, and by the time we stopped talking we all had millions of subscribers. And we all hit a million subscribers within a month. It's crazy, Because it's like, if you envision a world where you're trying to be great at something and it's just like you learning and fucking up and learning from your mistakes. Also, my mom told me not to curse, sorry mom. If someone could just edit out the swear words and give it to me.

Sorry mom. Yeah, so I could give it to my mom to listen to, that would be great. But like, you mess up, you learn from your mistake, you mess up, you learn from your mistake, you mess up, you learn from your mistake. You in 2 years might have learned from 20 mistakes, or if you have 4 other people who are also messing up, and when they learn from their mistake, they teach you what they learned. So hypothetically, you 2 years down the road have learned 5 times more of the amount of stuff So it just like helps you grow exponentially way quicker if that makes any sense It

Speaker 0: does yes, so but it's interesting that you thought about it that way and sort of a systematic approach like that This is not dumb luck

Speaker 1: No, I mean it was like like they say 10,000 hours of mass or something, we probably put it at 40, 50,000 hours. We're talking like every day, all day, like literally nothing. We had no friends outside of the group, that was your life.

Speaker 0: I'm actually re-reading that book right now, that Malcolm Gladwell book, Outliers, that talks about that 10,000 hours principle. It totally applies to what you did, 100%. I mean, it sounds like you were just all day, every day, and which makes sense. What do you have now, 90 million subscribers?

Speaker 1: Well, across everything, we're closing in on 200 million subscribers.

Speaker 0: Jeez!

Speaker 1: Yeah, because have you seen our dub channels? No. Can you pull that up? Just search MrBeast and Estevaniol. So we actually, which I'm kind of curious why you don't do this.

We do our videos in other languages as well.

Speaker 0: Really?

Speaker 1: Yeah. And so, and what's, I can't wait to get to show you this because I actually have a really cool

Speaker 2: story most

Speaker 1: Cool to the channel.

Speaker 0: So you can who does this?

Speaker 1: If it is, yeah, we have voice actors and everything Wow So these are the exact same videos on my main channel, but we pay voice actors to dub over them we translate the text in the video every day.

Speaker 0: Mr. Beast in Espanol.

Speaker 1: Yeah that was actually 1 of the fastest growing channels last year. That's

Speaker 0: so smart.

Speaker 1: Okay now click on a video so we can kind of hear it.

Speaker 2: Mis amigos y yo volveremos a la primaria.

Speaker 3: Al final de la clase haremos un examen de 10 preguntas.

Speaker 1: So scroll

Speaker 3: down so

Speaker 1: we can see the comments. It's all in Spanish.

Speaker 0: That's dope.

Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's, now just, I won't pull them all up, but now

Speaker 0: the other countries.

Speaker 1: Yeah search mr. Beast Brazil if we do it

Speaker 0: So you got a Portuguese translator as well? Yeah, that's dope.

Speaker 1: Yeah, same thing

Speaker 0: What a great idea man,

Speaker 1: yeah And so cuz you know if you Google it's like only whatever less than 10% of the world speaks English, so 90% of the world can't even enjoy your content. And when I realized that, I was like, wait a minute, 90% of the world can't even watch this stuff. And so go back to the Spanish 1 real quick, because that's our biggest 1. And sorry for anyone watching who doesn't have the visuals. So set it to most popular.

Yils, we just started doing this like 6 months ago and it's crazy how viral some of these videos have gotten.

Speaker 0: Wow, 51 million. Yeah. And the problem with me is I don't know if someone's gonna translate it, if they're gonna say exactly what I said.

Speaker 1: Well, you have quality control. So we have like, before a video gets uploaded, we have 3 different people who basically write the transcript, and then if the words don't line up on all 3, then, or sorry, let me think about the process. We have something like that because I was worried about that as well. I think we take the original transcript and we have it dubbed and then after so we have a 2 different people right out and if it doesn't line up with the original than is like it's a red flag and we look at it

Speaker 0: interest and

Speaker 1: yet we built some system I'll have to worry about that and the final point is and spanish the guy who does my jobs is the same guy who does spider-man we managed to convince him So a lot of those comments are like why does he sound like spider-man or is mr. B spider-man? Hilarious yeah, and so what we do is when we go into these markets We get celebrities to do my my voice so then like the local people in the language freak out. So like, Japan's coming up and I can't say who, but we secured like a giant voice actor from an anime to do my dubs and whenever we launch in Japan, I know they're gonna lose their freaking minds.

Speaker 0: That's a brilliant idea. That's so smart. So you have how many employees then?

Speaker 1: I mean, across everything, over

Speaker 0: 100,

Speaker 1: I don't know. Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 0: And what are you, 23? Yeah. That's crazy.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild. I think, I just had the blessing of finding what I loved at a young age. So like, to get to this level, it takes a decade. Most people don't find what they love until they're young 20s, so they'd be wearing that in their 30s. I just lucked out and found it when I was really young.

Speaker 0: It's that, but it's also your vision. The fact, 1 of the things that I was really impressed by when I started looking into you after my daughter introduced me, is that you invest so much money into the show. All the money

Speaker 1: I make. Why do I need money?

Speaker 0: So you don't go crazy, you don't have a Ferrari or anything nuts?

Speaker 1: No. I think living your life chasing a nicer and nicer car and a bigger and bigger box to live in is kind of a dumb way to go about life. Yeah. Yeah, so I actually, funny enough, I lived in a super below average home and I kind of learned why famous people don't live in below average homes because someone broke in, stole everything I owned. So I had to get a little nicer house for security reasons, but before I was robbed, I mean like my place was like a little duplex, 700 a month, you get a roommate's 360 split.

Yeah, and just drive a normal car. Well now I drive a Tesla just because of the, you know, getting off of gas and stuff like that. But yeah.

Speaker 0: So you don't go crazy at all with cash? No.

Speaker 1: I really try not to. I think that's like just a bad way to go about life. Also it is a little hypocritical because I run a nonprofit and you know we have you seen our beast philanthropy channel? No. Can you pull that up as well?

We do a lot of stuff for helping people and so also if I lived in a 10 million dollar mansion while I'm feeding people and trying to help people in my eyes it's also a little hypocritical as well. So in every area, I feel like it's just better if I just live below

Speaker 0: my means. You're just very wise for a young man because a lot of 23 year olds would be balling out of their fucking mind right now.

Speaker 1: Zoom out, well yeah, I also have some stories about that too but. You do? Yeah, because I did have a phase where I did ball out a little bit and then I realized, yeah, this doesn't make me happy.

Speaker 0: What did you do during the balling out phase?

Speaker 1: I bought an i8 and I also bought some designer clothes, like some $1,000 shirts and stuff like that. Ironically, all of which was stolen when my house was broken into. So it was kind of perfect because I was like, I don't know if I really care about this stuff anymore, and then someone just stole all my expensive shit, and I was like, perfect.

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