Top 5 Interviews of 2022

**Ben** (0:16)
Happy New Year, MFM fans. This is, of course, producer Ben. And for this episode, we just wanted to share some of the best interviews from this year. So as I went through and looked at every single interview, there was really tough to pick, to whittle it down. There were some really great interviews this year, including a lot from Q1 and Q2 that I had forgotten about.
So I wanted to resurface some of those, remind you of them, give you a little sampling, a few little segments from those interviews, and hopefully they spark something, remind you of some parts that you loved and you can go back and listen to some of those interviews. So first up, we've got MrBeast and Hasan Minhaj live from Camp MFM talking about their work styles.
Is your company ran like a normal company at all?

**Sam Parr** (0:57)
Well, and the reason I was asking was because my employees sometimes would complain that I'd be like too aggressive, changing things too much. But you seem more aggressive than I am.
And for a certain type of person, they like that. But for you to achieve your goals, you're gonna have to have a lot of people and then every once in a while process and every once in a while infrastructure and every once in a while planning.

**Shaan Patel** (1:14)
Are you a perfectionist?

**MrBeast** (1:15)
Well, of course, yeah. I just like to make the greatest YouTube videos possible. And that's literally all I want. So yeah, I mean, if it's not the greatest video, I just won't upload it. It's after you scrap a few videos, we kind of, everyone, you know, just kind of starts to figure it out.

**Hasan Minhaj** (1:28)
Does it scare you that you can't stop? Do you ever feel like, damn, I'm like, I'm just throwing all these coals on the embers of the algorithm.

**MrBeast** (1:36)
I like to use a better analogy. It's like a treadmill where I'm like 12, like at full speed and I've been going out a couple of years.
No, it doesn't scare me. But so like I was telling him, the way I like to work is like, I like to go basically wake up, obsess over something, go to bed, wake up, obsess, go to bed, like every second of the day until I just have a mental breakdown and burnout. And then I like take a day off or maybe a day and a half off. And I like to go right back to it. So I don't like work certain days. I just go as hard as I can, every ounce of my entire body until I just crash.
And somehow that's sustainable.

**Hasan Minhaj** (2:06)
What time do you sleep?

**MrBeast** (2:08)
Right now, usually around 3 a.m.

**Hasan Minhaj** (2:11)
And then you get up at like.

**MrBeast** (2:12)
Whenever, they tell me what to do.

**Sam Parr** (2:15)
Well, I'm just shocked at like the numbers. So like some big numbers for revenue for your other businesses.
And you have to have infrastructure for that. So that's why I was wondering, I was like, cause you are like this.

**MrBeast** (2:25)
Oh, gotcha.

**Sam Parr** (2:26)
On the stereotype, you're like this crazy, creative person who's disorganized and that's perfect. But to sell that much of candy and or of burgers, like you got to be.

**MrBeast** (2:36)
Yeah. So those are all separate entities. So for our snack brand, we hired Jim who helped build our X bar and we built a team around him. So that's a whole independent company that doesn't even work out of her studio. And same thing with Beast player. So that's the beauty. I like to just find people who are just the best in the goddamn world at their job and then just empower them and give them money.

**Sam Parr** (2:53)
So how many people work at the studio?

**MrBeast** (2:57)
In the studio, like 60, because we don't have enough space to fit everyone. So that's why we're trying to build more but building things just take forever.

**Sam Parr** (3:03)
Do people like working for you, you think? The reason I'm asking is like these like creative types.

**Palmer Luckey** (3:10)
I'm like curious about like, because it's not like a normal company where it's like, we are all trying to achieve this.

**MrBeast** (3:15)
It's like, no, we're trying to make me big.

**Hasan Minhaj** (3:17)
I've been on both sides of it where I'm on Jon Stewart's show, I'm on Trevor Noah's show. So I'm like, I'm facilitating somebody else's show. And then I've been on the other side of it, where it's like, no, it's my special, it's my show, it's my movie or whatever. So there's also certain projects where I'd be like, I'd love to learn from you. So there's been shows and movies that I've done, like the morning show, like I've never done a sexy one hour drama. I wanna learn from Reese Witherspoon. I wanna learn from Jennifer Aniston. I wanna learn from the show creators. Like, how do you do that? How do you shoot that? What's that lens? What are you doing that? Is that a 50? Is that a 75? How did you do that tracking shot? Why did you do that tracking shot? Let me see the script. Let me see the future script. There's all these things where I'm like, I just wanna absorb. I just wanna see how you do the whole thing.