#2527 - MrBeast

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Joe Rogan** (0:06)
Trained by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. It must be very easy to get people to do your show.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:16)
Well, I mean, yeah, seeing how we give away millions of dollars.
Yeah, usually people are very excited about it. The actual, the only hard part for us is, if it's a longer one, just the time off work. So because sometimes when we shoot like beast games or stuff, you know, it can go for a month.

**Joe Rogan** (0:32)
But besides the work stuff, of course, are there people that haven't been able to do the show because they couldn't get a month off work?

**Jimmy Donaldson** (0:38)
Oh, yeah, tons, of course. So we always have like 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, I would imagine that the type of person that would do your show would have a job that they could quit.
Well, yeah, I mean, I guess it depends, right? Whether it's the YouTube channel where we're doing 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 YouTube videos, it's not as grandiose. They're like, I don't know if I want to lose my job for a 1% chance of winning 250K.

**Joe Rogan** (1:14)
Well, how many people, when you do Beast Games, how many people are competing?

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:18)
So the newest season we just shot, we grabbed one person from every country on earth. So it was around 200 Yeah, which was actually pretty cool because you would put them in these crazy games and you'd see how someone from the Asian Pacific countries would react versus someone in South America and they'd play and think so differently because they have such different upbringings. So it was really cool.

**Joe Rogan** (1:38)
Did you have to, I mean, you must have had to thoroughly vet these people, right? Make sure they're not insane?

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:43)
Make sure you don't have a serial killer? We do the psych and background checks, of course.

**Joe Rogan** (1:48)
How do you get that information if you're going, I mean, if you have, how many countries are there? First of all, it's 190

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:55)
We went off of whatever the Olympics do. So it's like 100, something around 200

**Joe Rogan** (1:59)
Yeah.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (1:59)
Plus or minus a couple.

**Joe Rogan** (2:01)
So some of them have to have some shitty infrastructure.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (2:04)
Oh, I mean, I think one of them has literally 40,000 people living in it. Like it was, what is it? Not the, it's something sea islands, not the Cayman Islands, but some island country. And yeah, I was like, wow, like my town, which has 100,000 people, is two and a half times the population of your country. Well, I was joking with the contestant because I was like, if you win the $5 million, you could technically give a $200 dividend to every single person in your country. It's like, it's that crazy. That's that little people living there. Wow.

**Joe Rogan** (2:31)
Yeah. That's the kind of country where you're like, I wonder if you could buy that country.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (2:36)
I mean, the GDP is probably, you know, a couple hundred million dollars if I were to guess.

**Joe Rogan** (2:40)
Like someone like Elon or something like that could buy the country.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (2:43)
There's probably thousands of people in America that could. I mean, I feel bad. People from that country listening that we didn't say the country. OK, true.

**Joe Rogan** (2:49)
We're good. We're good. We didn't say it.

**Jimmy Donaldson** (2:51)
Exactly. It's not yours.

**Joe Rogan** (2:52)
They should know what they are.
They're a country of 40,000 people. That's just what it is. Nothing wrong with that. But it's it is weird how many countries there are. And if you've got a person from every country, what are the odds you're going to get good data as to whether or not they're a criminal?

**Jimmy Donaldson** (3:10)
Well, that's why I mean, if you saw, like, my other budgets on what I have to spend on casting those people, it was ridiculous to be able to get them all. Because basically what we did is we grabbed multiple options for each country. And what I was worried about is that, like, the contestant from blank country would suck. And then the country would be like, Jimmy, you hate us and you purposely picked this absolute moron. So we would pick two or three from each country and then we let people from those countries vote on who should compete. Oh, smart. I had to get multiple from each. So I think I ended up spending over a million dollars just on aggregating and casting and background checks and everything and then putting it out there so people could vote on it. But that way, whatever, like Georgia and Europe, if that guy is an absolute moron, it's on them. They picked them.