#1788 - Mr. Beast

Jimmy Donaldson (0:15)

Here, hold up, just talk to me for like a minute. This is so freaky to me.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Is it really?

Jimmy Donaldson (0:19)

Yeah, to hear my own voice.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

We need to put this on the video. Okay, good, we're recording already.

Jimmy Donaldson (0:25)

Have you ever had a guest like freak out about that?

Joe Rogan (0:27)

No, you're the first freak out because of headphones.

Jimmy Donaldson (0:30)

Not headphones, no, it's because I hear my own voice. I'm very conscious of that. So now I'm like, fuck my inflection or whatever.

Is it?

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Sounds fine.

Jimmy Donaldson (0:39)

Okay, no, I know it sounds fine. It's just, fuck, whatever, I'll suck it up.

You don't have like a button you can press to kill it? What the fuck?

Jamie (0:47)

So when you play video games, you don't hear yourself, right?

Jimmy Donaldson (0:49)

No.

Jamie (0:50)

Yeah, I don't either, but yeah, I hear it's different, sorry.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Yeah, don't worry about it, dude. That's what you sound like. Now you know.

Jimmy Donaldson (0:56)

I mean, I've seen videos, I knew what I sound like, just in real time hearing it. It sounds like I'm speaking to myself. Fuck it.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

But you're not, you're speaking to me. The purpose of it is when you and I talk and we can hear each other's voice at the same sound level, we don't talk over each other.

Jimmy Donaldson (1:11)

Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

Because people tend to talk over each other, just normal.

Jimmy Donaldson (1:15)

In one-on-one conversations?

Joe Rogan (1:16)

Yeah, normal conversation, people talk over each other, accidentally, you know. But when you hear both sounds, both voices at the same sound level, it sounds really clunky in your ears. It's imperative when you have three people.

If you have three people and you don't have headphones on, it'll be a disaster. They just, everyone starts talking over each other. And then when you're listening to it, it's like un-listenable. It's hard to...

Jimmy Donaldson (1:36)

That makes sense, yeah. All right, so we're just rolling right now?

Joe Rogan (1:40)

We're rolling, man. What's happening? How are you? First of all, let me just tell you how impressed I am with what you've done. I think what you've done is amazing, because your channel and your, this, what you've done on YouTube is completely unique, it's completely you, like, your personality comes through, the way you've, like, crafted these things that people have to do, these tasks and these games and this fun shit you do, and it's wildly popular. And I didn't know about it until, I guess, about a year ago.

I told you my 11-year-old is fucking obsessed with your show, obsessed. And she told me, and we were in a hotel in Vegas. I was there for the UFC, and she was watching YouTube. I'm like, what are you watching? She's like, oh, my God, it's MrBeast. And she was so into this show. And then I watched it, and I was like, wow, this is actually really entertaining.

It's fun stuff, man.

Jimmy Donaldson (2:28)

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

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Really?

Jimmy Donaldson (2:33)

Yeah, so now I'm 23 And so it's just like, basically every year, it just got crazier and crazier. And I used to make a dollar a day back. 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. I 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.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

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

Jimmy Donaldson (3:05)

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.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

Oh, no.

Jimmy Donaldson (3:13)

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

Joe Rogan (3:16)

That's still cool.

So what did you do when you first started? What was the first idea?

Jimmy Donaldson (3:21)

The very first video, weirdly enough, I played this stupid game and some hacker killed my base when I was 11 And so I uploaded it. And my first video got 20,000 views instantly because all the people that played the game was like, oh shit, you can hack in this game. It's a game called Battle Pirates. I guarantee you no one listens.