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MrBeast Shares What It Really Takes To Become THE BEST On YouTube (Interview w/ MFM & Hasan Minhaj)

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0:00 – 4:58
Intro
1. MRMrBeast
  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 m- second of the day until I just have a mental breakdown, I burn out, 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. [upbeat music]
2. SPSpeaker
  All right, in this episode, we are gonna talk about-
3. HMHasan Minhaj
  Wait, one second. Look, we gotta let the guy, MrBeast, actually do the intro.
4. MRMrBeast
  Guys, in this, we're gonna teach you how to make a fucking million dollars. If you don't have a million dollars, we're gonna show you in this podcast.
5. SPSpeaker
  All right, that was way better than us. Yeah, that's right, MrBeast, the biggest YouTuber in the world, joined us on My First Million, and Hasan Minhaj, one of the biggest comedians in the world. We did a four-person pod in person. This is kind of amazing.
6. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah, so look, check this out. I think Sean actually mentioned this on the podcast, but about three, four weeks ago, he said he's gonna create this thing called Camp MFM. So basically he rented a house, a big old mansion in North Carolina, and he DM'd, like, 20 different people, a bunch of different founders and a bunch of interesting people. But then he also DM'd MrBeast and Hasan, and he told them to come. I didn't actually think they were gonna show up, and so we were just sitting here at night recording a podcast, and they walked in and joined us, and it was amazing.
7. SPSpeaker
  Yeah, it was crazy. Seeing one of the biggest YouTubers in the world, one of the biggest comedians in the world. They kinda interviewed each other, and they talked about their creative process, what they're self-conscious of, what it's like to work for them, how much they put into each thing that they do. It was pretty nuts.
8. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah, it was... I mean, it was amazing. They, they made fun of me at first-
9. SPSpeaker
  [laughs]
10. HMHasan Minhaj
  ... 'cause I was nervous, and I was. It was awesome.
11. SPSpeaker
  Yeah, it was a big deal. It was awesome.
12. HMHasan Minhaj
  Um, so check it out. I think you're gonna dig it. Wait, hold on.
13. MRMrBeast
  Yeah.
14. HMHasan Minhaj
  Are we rolling?
15. MRMrBeast
  We're rolling.
16. HMHasan Minhaj
  All right, we're live?
17. MRMrBeast
  We're doing it.
18. SPSpeaker
  All right.
19. MRMrBeast
  If it, if it's not recording, you're just not getting it.
20. SPSpeaker
  Yeah, you're not getting it, dude.
21. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah.
22. SPSpeaker
  You're not getting Jimmy.
23. HMHasan Minhaj
  Um, all right, we're live. Uh, wait, what were you saying?
24. MRMrBeast
  This is the most, uh, interesting crossover ever.
25. SPSpeaker
  Yes.
26. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah.
27. MRMrBeast
  Why are the, are the four of us sitting here?
28. SPSpeaker
  I have no idea.
29. MRMrBeast
  Let's put him on the spot-
30. SPSpeaker
  Yeah
4:58 – 6:34
What Hassan and MrBeast think of each other
1. HMHasan Minhaj
  a wild crossover.
2. SPSpeaker
  You guys just met tonight.
3. HMHasan Minhaj
  We met, like, an hour ago.
4. MRMrBeast
  Yeah.
5. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah.
6. SPSpeaker
  All right, give me first impressions. What do you think of, uh, MrBeast?
7. HMHasan Minhaj
  He's a cool guy.
8. SPSpeaker
  Nice.
9. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah, he seemed really cool.
10. SPSpeaker
  What did you think coming in?
11. HMHasan Minhaj
  I just knew he was a, a big, like, prank, stunt.
12. MRMrBeast
  [laughs]
13. HMHasan Minhaj
  He's the, he's the voice of YouTube. He's the voice of a generation.
14. SPSpeaker
  Did he surprise you, or he's how you thought he'd be?
15. MRMrBeast
  Yeah, I thought-
16. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah, I thought, I thought-
17. MRMrBeast
  ... he's a leader in these questions
18. HMHasan Minhaj
  ... I feel like, I feel like his, uh-
19. SPSpeaker
  Oh, you're gonna get your turn too. [laughs]
20. HMHasan Minhaj
  I feel like his, like, curiosity, enthusiasm, all that stuff is really cool. Yeah, I s- I listened to him on Rogan. He was really, he's really fascinating.
21. SPSpeaker
  And what about you? What was your first impression?
22. MRMrBeast
  Uh, I mean, kind of the same thing. Like, it was, I mean, you're just easy to talk to, which I think was very nice. Like, we were talking for, like, an hour.
23. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yo, Shaan, [laughs] Shaan just turned this into Indian matchmaking so fast. [laughs]
24. MRMrBeast
  [laughs]
25. HMHasan Minhaj
  You're like, "What does she do?"
26. SPSpeaker
  YouTube.
27. HMHasan Minhaj
  "What does she do?"
28. SPSpeaker
  Hold hands.
29. MRMrBeast
  I love, bro.
30. SPSpeaker
  Hold hands. Just hold.
6:34 – 17:31
How do you measure success?
1. MRMrBeast
  I just love winning. I just wanna win." [laughs] And I was like, "Yes." Sounds about right. I'm, I'm about this. Yeah. I like that. I mean, like money is cool, but you know, I, I live in my studio. I don't have like a mansion, I don't drive a Lamborghini. So it's like, I like money 'cause it can... I can hire more people and grow my business, but not so I can like increase my lifestyle or whatever. So, which, you know, most people when you say... That's why I li- I prefer to say I love winning 'cause it, it kinda encapsulates it a little bit more. 'Cause if, if you just like, you know, talk about money, then people just think you just wanna buy expensive stuff. Do your employees who-
2. SPSpeaker
  We, we, we went to his office today, or we went to his studio, and he's like took us on tour. Cool. This is where we blow shit up. This, uh, this guy's-
3. MRMrBeast
  Traan blew me off, by the way.
4. SPSpeaker
  [laughs]
5. MRMrBeast
  [laughs]
6. SPSpeaker
  Yeah, yeah. You, you weren't supposed to-
7. MRMrBeast
  Air Canada flight delays blew him up. [laughs]
8. SPSpeaker
  [laughs]
9. MRMrBeast
  Yeah, yeah. Kidding, kidding.
10. SPSpeaker
  Uh, but we, we walk through. He's like, "All right, yeah, this is this boardroom. This is my office." And so we go in, and it's basically like, imagine like kinda like a, a, a gaming chair, computer. That's standard. Next to it, just like two other objects in the room. Just take a guess.
11. MRMrBeast
  Uh, that he had?
12. SPSpeaker
  Yeah.
13. MRMrBeast
  A Nalgene water bottle and a- Just like a bench press on the floor?
14. SPSpeaker
  A bench press.
15. MRMrBeast
  Straight up bench press.
16. SPSpeaker
  A bench press directly next to the desk. [laughs]
17. MRMrBeast
  Mm-hmm.
18. SPSpeaker
  And then the walls were just like a Steve Jobs quote, an Elon quote, a Steve Jobs quote. And then there's like a timeline, like, at this age, Steve Jobs was here. At this age, Steve-
19. MRMrBeast
  Holy shit
20. SPSpeaker
  ... You're motivated by that shit.
21. MRMrBeast
  I'm trying to try and stay, uh, ahead of it. Also, some of those Elon quotes aren't even real. I love to just put fake Elon quotes, so if people read it to see if they're like, "Oh, that's inspiring," or just completely made up.
22. SPSpeaker
  [laughs] Well, they're not that in sync. But one was just-
23. MRMrBeast
  [laughs]
24. SPSpeaker
  ... one right in front of your desk goes, "Work super hard." [laughs]
25. MRMrBeast
  [laughs]
26. SPSpeaker
  Elon Musk.
27. MRMrBeast
  No, that's one of the real ones. But I have my assistant like trying to find the dumbest things Elon's ever publicly said, so I can put mixed with all the real quotes just to see if people believe them or not. Were you good at school? Were you- Like, no. Horrible. Really? God awful. Wow, okay. Yeah. Yeah, that was like, I mean, I would act like I was studying, but, you know, I was filming videos. I actually, my entire high school career never brought my book bag home or anything. I would just like throw it under like the bleachers, and in the morning I'd just grab it. Your first video was what? You were like 12, right? Yeah. Oh, actually, I started making when I was 11. Yeah. Wow. Holy shit. So, and yeah, and it's crazy 'cause I see 11-year-olds now, and they're like this tall, in sneakers, and I'm like, "How was I making videos?" [laughs] Uh-huh. This, this kid looks... Wait, wait. Is your first video still live? Uh, no, because I got embarrassed 'cause people would play it in class. So I deleted my channel, and then I made a new one when I was 13. So a little- Wow, but the 13-year-old videos are still live? Yeah, 13 are still up. Wow. Okay.
28. SPSpeaker
  He had one that's dope that's like a message to myself in five years.
29. MRMrBeast
  Uh-huh.
30. SPSpeaker
  Calling his shot.
17:31 – 26:20
How do you run your company?
1. MRMrBeast
  Yeah.
2. SPSam Parr
  Have you had, like, how'd you learn how to run a company? Do you ever, have, do you, did you have to hire someone?
3. MRMrBeast
  Yeah, that, that's what's hard, 'cause, like, yeah, um, yeah, sure, he wants, come on in. That, that, there's a couple questions.
4. SPSpeaker
  Okay, so you take over.
5. MRMrBeast
  Yeah, you take over.
6. SPSpeaker
  So the question was, like-
7. SPSpeaker
  What's it like working with him?
8. SPSpeaker
  Oh, it's great.
9. SPSpeaker
  No, but-
10. SPSpeaker
  I mean, it's always different.
11. SPSpeaker
  No, but-
12. SPSpeaker
  No, it really is.
13. SPSpeaker
  Come on.
14. SPSpeaker
  It's always, here's the thing.
15. MRMrBeast
  You wanna lead the-
16. SPSpeaker
  Here's the thing.
17. SPSpeaker
  No, bro.
18. SPSpeaker
  No, here's-
19. SPSpeaker
  The camera's rolling
20. SPSpeaker
  ... here's the thing. Here's the thing.
21. SPSpeaker
  We know it's great.
22. MRMrBeast
  [laughs]
23. SPSpeaker
  Like, you're fired.
24. SPSpeaker
  [laughs]
25. SPSpeaker
  You're, you're-
26. SPSpeaker
  I'm fired. I'm already fired.
27. SPSpeaker
  I mean, h-
28. SPSpeaker
  I'm already fired
29. SPSpeaker
  ... like-
30. SPSpeaker
  The house Tariq gonna answer that, but not me.
26:20 – 28:18
Doing good while getting attention
1. MRMrBeast
  Right.
2. SPSpeaker
  But what I was saying what's so cool about, um, what you do is I think really what you've tapped into is joy and spectacle and wonder.
3. MRMrBeast
  [laughs] Yeah.
4. SPSpeaker
  Which is, which is, like, a counter to that.
5. MRMrBeast
  Yeah.
6. SPSpeaker
  And it's very rare to see that really take off on the internet.
7. MRMrBeast
  Yeah.
8. SPSpeaker
  So what made you feel like, "I'm gonna do that," versus do videos that part-
9. MRMrBeast
  Oh
10. SPSpeaker
  ... that might, that might agitate people per se?
11. MRMrBeast
  Yeah. Well, I do think in general it is a little bit easier just to piss people off and get attention.
12. SPSpeaker
  For sure.
13. MRMrBeast
  And it's a lot harder to do good and get attention, so that's why I think a lot of people don't. But for me, because we just had this ability to go viral, it's just kinda like there's a world where I make videos and I don't help people, and there's a world where I make videos and I do help people.
14. SPSpeaker
  Mm.
15. MRMrBeast
  The one where I do help people's just a little bit more fun, so that's why I do it.
16. SPSpeaker
  Right.
17. MRMrBeast
  I don't... I... You know, PR-wise I should have a better answer, but that's kinda the truth.
18. SPSpeaker
  [laughs]
19. SPSpeaker
  [upbeat music] Our software is the worst. Have you heard of HubSpot? See, most CRMs are a cobbled-together mess, but HubSpot is easy to adopt and actually looks gorgeous. I think I love our new CRM. Our software is the best. HubSpot. Grow better.
20. SPSam Parr
  What creators do you guys look up to?
21. MRMrBeast
  Oh, I'm curious to see what you say.
22. SPSpeaker
  What creators do I look up to?
23. SPSam Parr
  YouTubers-
24. SPSpeaker
  Um-
25. SPSam Parr
  ... podcasters, comedians.
26. SPSpeaker
  [ts]
27. MRMrBeast
  Podcasters.
28. SPSpeaker
  I was gonna say creators.
29. MRMrBeast
  [laughs] Yeah. Yeah.
30. SPSpeaker
  It could be any- it could be anybody?
28:18 – 33:47
Fitting in vs standing out
1. MRMrBeast
  And weirdly enough, like, growing up I didn't listen to music or watch movies, so I was, like, so out of culture.
2. SPSpeaker
  Wow.
3. MRMrBeast
  It was brutal.
4. SPSpeaker
  There's this, uh-
5. MRMrBeast
  Which is part of why I was an introvert
6. SPSpeaker
  ... there's this Conor McGregor quote-
7. SPSam Parr
  Wow
8. SPSpeaker
  ... where they're like, you know, he was on BBC or something, and they're like, "Oh, it's a bigger appearance, not just niche UFC thing."
9. SPSam Parr
  Yeah.
10. SPSpeaker
  And they're like, "What do you think about this team or this game?" He's like, he's like, "You know, the, uh, yeah, that one you said? They're great."
11. SPSam Parr
  It was like, it was like Arsenal or something. [laughs]
12. SPSpeaker
  Yeah, he's like, "Oh, Arsenal." And they're like, "You don't know anything about Arsenal, right?"
13. MRMrBeast
  [laughs]
14. SPSpeaker
  He's like, he's like, "I don't watch the new..." He's like, "I don't watch, I don't follow the news. I don't watch sports. I don't do anything." He goes, "I have lost my mind to the game." He goes, "I am obsessed with my game."
15. MRMrBeast
  Whoa.
16. SPSpeaker
  "I have lost my mind to it. I don't have time to, for anything else. I don't wanna know about anything else."
17. MRMrBeast
  Wow.
18. SPSpeaker
  "I only wanna know about this game." When we were hanging out I feel like you had that vibe, where you were like... Uh, you said a couple things. You were like, "I decided I was gonna be a YouTuber, and I was gonna make great videos, and it didn't matter if I died the most famous YouTuber of all time or 90 years old with 1,000 subscribers. I was gonna make great YouTube videos."
19. MRMrBeast
  Yeah.
20. SPSpeaker
  Like, that's-
21. MRMrBeast
  Yeah
22. SPSpeaker
  ... that's what I decided I was gonna do, and that's all I do.
23. SPSam Parr
  What was the first You-
24. SPSpeaker
  I wake up and I do that thing
25. SPSam Parr
  ... what was that first YouTube video that you saw that, like, kinda filled you with that wonder, where you're like, "Wow"?
26. MRMrBeast
  Oh, well, this guy actually, uh, got hacked, like, a very long time ago, this, like, Call of Duty YouTuber, and they, like, leaked his earnings, and he had made, like, $100,000 a year the last few years. And I remember being, like, 10 and being like, "What the fuck?"
27. SPSam Parr
  Uh-huh.
28. MRMrBeast
  "They make that kind... They make money doing this?"
29. SPSam Parr
  Yeah.
30. MRMrBeast
  And I was just so mind-blown that they actually made money. And it's like-
33:47 – 37:01
What are you trying to figure out?
1. SPSpeaker
  What are you guys trying to figure out right now? 'Cause I think if you watch a lot of interviews with people, it's like they... It's all buttoned up. It's all figured out.
2. HMHasan Minhaj
  Mm-hmm.
3. SPSpeaker
  They're already successful. It's all working.
4. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah.
5. SPSpeaker
  And then the person who's watching these videos, typically somebody who doesn't have it all figured out.
6. HMHasan Minhaj
  Right.
7. SPSpeaker
  And they're just sort of like, "Oh, that's different." Like, "That'd be nice to have it all figured out." But the reality is nobody's got it all figured out, right? Like, we were in your office. The whiteboard's full because you're thinking of new-
8. MRMrBeast
  Yeah
9. SPSpeaker
  ... like, where are we going, what's not figured out, we gotta figure it out. So what's on both y'all's plate of, like, what are you still trying to figure out in your game?
10. MRMrBeast
  Uh, well, I'll let you take it first.
11. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah, Shaan, what are you trying to figure out?
12. MRMrBeast
  Yeah, what are you trying to figure out?
13. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah. Come on, Shaan.
14. SPSpeaker
  Uh, I'm trying to figure out... I, I'll tell you, I'm trying to figure out if I wanna go all in on content creating.
15. HMHasan Minhaj
  Wow.
16. SPSpeaker
  Like, I basically built businesses. I have the most fun doing this, but I don't know if I have the most fun just 'cause it's a hobby.
17. HMHasan Minhaj
  Right.
18. SPSpeaker
  And, like, I, you know, I only get the good.
19. MRMrBeast
  Go all in.
20. SPSpeaker
  I don't put, put all the work in. Or-
21. MRMrBeast
  If, if you love it, then go all in. I mean, it's not gonna be less fun.
22. HMHasan Minhaj
  Do you love it?
23. SPSpeaker
  I love doing it the way we're doing it now.
24. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah.
25. SPSpeaker
  If I was like him, obsessed every hour of every day, trying to be like, "How are we gonna grow this channel?" I might not love it as much.
26. HMHasan Minhaj
  Did you like doing the Twitter thing?
27. SPSpeaker
  Uh, for a period of time. It got old.
28. HMHasan Minhaj
  Yeah.
29. SPSpeaker
  Yeah.
30. HMHasan Minhaj
  Mm-hmm.

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