Beast Games finalists confront MrBeast (Beast Games Reunion Episode)

- Beast games is not a normal show. - JC was greedy to take the 650. - Oh, no, don't tell them what they want to hear. Tell them the truth. - Yes, the juicy stuff. - So this is not gonna be a normal reunion. - Dino, I'd like your attention right now. Dino is a 60-year-old white man from Hollywood. He instinctively chose jazz because he thought that black women were friends. - We have a little twist. - Well, well, well. Yeah, maybe it was self-fished, but I have a lot of support on Reddit and so forth. - We're gonna talk about the beef all bent are off. I'm playing me against nine. - Here we are. - Calm down. We're gonna get a little too rowdy up here. - We're gonna talk about the drama. - The Habibi Brothers. - Would you guys change anything about? - Absolutely not. - You know, we're putting this on the internet. - Oh, okay. - Some surprises. - I got a hard-to-do question for you. - Oh, go. - You got 89% from the fans. 13% from the critics. Why the difference? - I don't know if we have to keep opening these rooms. - What changes would you make if you were the owner of TikTok? - Oh. - I'm your host, John Ushai. - One thing that we learned about you afterwards is that you're a professional poker player. They believed it and I'm like, oh my gosh. - This is great. - Did you tell your husband right after the show ended that you turned down a million dollars three times? - In that moment, I knew like it was over and I felt like I let a lot of people down. (upbeat music) - Before we get into it, make sure you subscribe and ring the bell because we have so many big videos coming out, more interviews and more studio tours, more video breakdowns. So hit that button so you don't miss it. And now back to the video. - So let's kick it off. - Can we see your bank account? - I'm kidding. - Can you actually share with us, can I say this? - Yeah, yeah. I showed him a screenshot before he came up of us sending him the money. - And I got a screenshot of it. - And he got it. - Speaking of that. Okay, now that we got the top 10 here, we prepared a little graphic, taking a look at how much each of you might need to point it on the show. - Oh, gosh. (audience laughs and applauds) - Dude, look at my 50 cents, let's go! - She made 50 cents more than Patrick. (audience laughs and applauds) - All right, I spoke with all of you before this in preparation. I sent out some surveys. One of the questions I asked was, was there anyone who you thought did not deserve the money they won? - Oh. - Oh my gosh. (laughs) - Jump right into it, why don't you? - Six of you said JC. - Whoa. - Why? - 'Cause 650,000 is absolutely greedy. - Oh. - Can you elaborate? I mean, JC has a family. He talked about trying to pay off his debt, taking care of his kids. - You don't mention one number and then take more than that, and then say, "I'm justified in taking that." It's not how that should go. - JC, do you want to respond? (laughs) - I would jump right into it. - I'll wait for my turn. I didn't think it was gonna get this hot this quick. - We're getting into it. - But I'll wait for my turn to respond. I have a reason for why I did what I did. - Isn't this your turn right now though? - Yeah, it's your turn. - Like go. - No, because you weren't in my shoes. You can say, "I would not have done this if I was a-a-a-a-a-a-a." You were not in my shoes. Trust was already broken. Game on. I'm taking the money. You know what? I said it before, and I'm gonna say it again. And I'm gonna say it loud for the people in the back. (crowd cheering) I will never ever, ever, ever choose any of them before my family. Period. (crowd cheering) Period. - Wow. - This is a good reunion. (laughs) We're having fun. - Wow, I did not expect it to get that heated that soon. - I was very nice. I don't know about heated. It could've got spicy, but I'm lukewarm right now. - Let's make it a little. Well, we got some clips. Let's make it a little bit spicier. - Oh, God. In the middle of the city is $1 million. - This million is up for grabs in the next challenge. Starting with the player in house one, you'll each come out of your house one at a time to take as much or as little of the million dollars as you'd like. - I didn't expect that at all. - Really? - Yeah. This is guaranteed money. - This is your money? - I would pay off my mortgage and my debt. - How much debt? - A lot. - Do you feel comfortable sharing? - With mortgage, credit cards, loans, I probably owe about $5.30. - Whoa, you can take exactly what you need to pay off all your debt. - JC, I trust more than anyone here because he was in my red cue box challenge with me. - It's such a short amount of time. I've grown to love you guys. That gives you all my dollars until he's had a lot of take care of you. And I don't know what to do right now. - And he said he'd take me to top and now I'm number four. So, yeah, I don't see them sabotaging you whatsoever. I trust everyone on them. - I know I'm gonna have a target on my back, but I'm not guaranteed the $5 million either. I want to leave something for Emma. - So what do you think at 566? How much are you taking for yourself? - I'm gonna take 650. - Whoa, okay. - I trust more than anyone here. - Emma, I wanted to give you the floor because you said something beforehand but you said I would have not have trusted people so easily and I would have played more for myself. - Yes, I mean, being at my age 22, I feel like there's still a lot of learning I have to do. And I do need to trust myself more than anyone in this game. And I feel like that was my first big betrayal in my life so it was very shocking to me. However, looking back, yes, initially I was very hurt but as I've had time to think about it, I realized he did what he had to do for his family. This is a show to earn money and I can't be mad at that even though it did hurt my feelings. I have forgiven you as a person, but I will never forget the situation. - I get it. (audience applauding) - It's incredibly mature. - I think. - It's incredibly. - Do you have anything to. - Yeah, I want to share what led up to that point. Prior to that happening to when it comes up to me and says, "Hey JC, you are trusting the wrong people." What do you mean? Jeff, Patrick, engage. They want you out. They are coming for you. Impossible. These are three people that I trust the most aside from Emma. Impossible. The player comes up, we separate. Jimmy. Hey guys, Gamer, nobody talked to each other. We go into our bunkers and then it hit. Earlier that afternoon, before our family arrived, I walked over to Patrick's bunk and as I approached the steps I hear laughter and talking and I knock on the door. Complete silence. I knock again, I hear scattering. I open the door. I see Tawana running out the back. I see the boys standing there, pale face, talking over each other, nothing makes sense. The first thing I said is, "What's going on?" That's the very first thing I said because it didn't make sense to me. Patrick decided to say, "Oh, she just got spooked." Spooked about what? It didn't make sense to me. So when I said in my bunk, and I was in my own thoughts, and I said, "Okay, Tawana's not lying. It all synced back to that moment. I felt betrayed. I felt let down. I felt angry because I let my guard down. And I trusted people that I thought I could trust. Shame on me. And at that point, I decided it's game on. All bets are off. Done. Wow. And I want to say to this day, and I'm going to call them out because I have to, to this day, because that's what I do. I'm dramatic. It's in my DNA. To this day, they do not remember anything about that conversation. They don't remember, no, we didn't say that. For misleading me, for misunderstanding what they said, take that somewhere else, man. Thank you. All right. I'm glad we're getting these other perspectives out there. There's a lot of people who you named there. Tawana, do you want to respond to anybody else? Do you want to respond to that? I mean, he took a very long time to say the same thing he already said. Oh, good. OK, I want to switch topics a bit. Mike. Yeah. getting off the hook here, man. That's true. You're not getting off the hook here. It's right before the tower challenge took a little bit more than his fair share of money. And we have played a clip. It is finally your turn. You can take 100 grand, like 830 did. I have a specific number in my head. I'm going to go with 223,000 because it's my birthday. How crazy is that? It's just nuts to look at it, you know? I think I have a really first place. What's the problem? Would you make that same decision again? I would, yeah. When I have the chance to get some money and not kick anybody out, it's great, you know? Let's go. Let's play a game. I don't know if we have to keep opening these rooms. Do you expect this to play out like these scenarios when you, Tyler, Clips, and we're planning out these challenges? Because it's not a particular idea. I mean, if you were to ask me before we started filming, I would have said the first person's just going to take the million. And then, but on set, I had no idea what was going to happen. I wanted to breathe frame on a moment that you could see so much emotion in this person's face. If we could play the moment that, to want to, you realize that just won the 10 million. That 10 million in cash is represented on a check. And that's six briefcase. I think six briefcase has the check. Is there anything you want to say to that? You should pick. You had played so hard that entire game when he said briefcase six, which had the 10 million dollars in it. What was going through your head? Sorry. Oh, what? [APPLAUSE] I honestly felt like, in that moment, I knew it was over. And I felt like I let a lot of people down. Like, it wasn't about the money for me. But I felt like, all the end of the beginning of the games, I didn't have any idea about the money. Like, I didn't think about the money. It was just, I want to get to the end of these games. And then, as I got closer, I was like, oh, I can really, like, this can happen. I can make a difference. And then, when he got the first briefcase, I was like, oh, let Jimmy down, I'm going to the game. And then, I was like, I let the kids down. I let everyone down. And then there was a moment where you see me smile, because I was happy. I really was happy for you. And it was just so much, like, after being through so much, it was just-- it was bittersweet. Like, I felt like I left people down, but I was so happy that you were going to do so much good. So it was just a good time. [APPLAUSE] Why did you pick the number six? I was just trying not to signal anything, like, my heart was pumping so hard. Did you pick up on any of those cues from her? It-- yeah, I told to one of this earlier. It didn't matter. Really? I had already picked six when we were up top looking down at the briefcases. Interesting. The six was talking to me for days. Really? Tell us more about that, like. So first, when you think about the money grab, Patrick picks five, and he gives me key number six. So-- Oh, wow. I'm now in bunk six. We spent the whole day in 64. There's a prayer, I say, a couple of times a day that has six words in the first verse. Then we go to the top six. And then I don't know if there's a clip here, but you're talking to us about it. So I'm already going-- it's six. Really? Then you spin it. You put your hand down. You know which one you put it on? Six. Really? Then you spun it again. This is before she mixed them. This would be before she mixed them. To be clear, you spun it again. I don't know if it was in front of me or in front of you. It said six. I'm like, oh, oh, my gosh. It's six. So a lot of what I did was a little bit performative. I knew I was going six. But I also wanted to see what she was responding. I have a question. Like you put the three briefcases on the top. Like was there a rule? No, she could do whatever. It just had to be on the thing. Because I was like, so in my mind, having to choose out of 10 briefcases would have made your odds better. Why did you leave those out? Well, those were still in two. Yeah, he could pick from up there. Those were still in play. Gotcha. If she wanted to, she could have stuck all 10 up there. And then yeah, he'd just grab one of them. But honestly, when you're in that situation, your nerves are just going a million in your brain, you can't think straightness. You're just reacting, just moving in. Looking back now, I know what I should have done. But should what it could have. There's always meant to be the way it was going to be. I was worried he was going to hear you moving him, because you didn't move too many. I was like, oh, gosh. What did you think when they picked it on the first time? Because I remember before we were talking about what's ideal case scenario. You're like, oh, man, I hope it goes three, four, five rounds. Yeah. Well, you know-- How many rounds do you think it will go? About what the first case scenario is. Ideally, it's out the first round. I mean, there's a 10% chance. Round one would be brutal, the fans would be pissed, because one of you would even get a chance. Yeah, a four would be awesome. Then if we were like five or six deep, that would be crazy. I didn't think it would be the first one. I mean, obviously, it's a 90% chance it wouldn't. I was flabbergasted. But I think it worked out well, because you guys had that tension where you was like, what'd you say? And it built up really well. I mean, it would have been very brutal. If she was just put it there, and he was just like six, but they gave us plenty to work with. So I don't think it mattered. It still turned out really good. We had a really solid build up. So yeah, I actually think it worked out well, because it might have got a little repetitive if it went too long. And obviously, everybody knows Tijuana. Like, she is intimidating. She's got-- She's got someone to be intimidating. I'm supposed to be intimidating. Oh, trust me, I try. From the get, when I walked by you when you were kind of talking to Gage with the coin flip, I'm like, if there's any chance I win, I need you to see a side of me that you've never seen. So I was like, I need to try to get your head somehow. And you kind of spit it right back at me. I'm like, oh my gosh. This is not going well. [LAUGHTER] It was. It did catch me off guard. I was like, yeah, I was like, where is this coming from? Dave, I was like, whoa. OK. I was trying to make jokes on set to bring the energy down a little bit. I was like, damn. Tijuana, I just want to say, you said you let people-- you let nobody down. Nobody. [APPLAUSE] I mean, Tijuana, I give you a lot of props for saying no to a million dollars three times. And I met your husband. You talked so much about your children. Was that conversation hard coming home? I think after all is said and done, there's always the what a shit a cut is. The first two, one million percent, no. Like, I don't regret that at all. My family understands why I didn't. And they don't question why I didn't take the money. You know what I mean? I think a lot of people are like, oh, you're stupid. I would have taken it. But the first time, it would have been sending people home to take the money. The second time, we talked and we said, hey, there's enough for everybody. This is kind of a side quest on the whole game. Let's all get something. And then we can move forward for the final goal. The last one is this quarterbacking. You know, it's what we call it Monday Morning Quarterbacking. I may not have gotten the win at the end, but I'm still going to keep fighting for what I want and what I believe in. I'm still going to get my non-profit off the ground. It's just going to be in a different way. Did you tell your husband right after the show ended that you turned down a million dollars three times? Or did you build up to it over time? No, I ripped that bandaid off right away. Right away? Like, hey, miss you. By the way, I rejected a million dollars. By the way, yeah, coming home without the million dollars. But I mean, for myself, how do you live with yourself? How do you live with yourself when you look people in the eyes and say, hey, I won't do this. This is the plan, and you just stick to it. That's all. OK, another question we ask you guys. How do you feel you came across in the final edits of the episode? Ooh. I haven't talked to any of them at all. All right, on a scale of one to 10, 10 being the most accurate, one being the least accurate, six of you basically said you were happy with it. Four of you said you wish you would have come across better. Whoa. And I'm wondering, is there anything you want to express or elaborate on to the millions of viewers from may not seen a side of you? Tens of millions. Tens of millions that may have not seen the side of you on camera that came out on the show. I do want to clear something. For everyone's info, me and Jessie are good. We're good. We're totally fine. Let's go. I never flat out said like I was lying to her. That did not happen. Everyone knows what you're doing. What did you say? See, depending on where you throw is where I'm going to throw. Whoa. So you're saying you'll only throw at 947 if she throws at you first? Yeah, first. Whoa. She went for 831 instead of 937. That was good. Wait, wait, wait, wait. She didn't throw at you, but you still threw at her. 937 just did the exact opposite of what she said earlier. I just remember on set going, Whoa, that's not what she's saying. said but yeah if I remember correctly um I said that and then a couple rounds later is when we were targeting each other and then that's when yes he got me out. It's Mack here Macklence of Deceptive Ed. I want to know but yes you and I are good I would never thought out lied to you see we're good I just want to say that. Do corny hey dude hey dude how's it going? I feel like you are so authentic in the way that you're portrayed and nothing fades in your percent. Yeah props to the editors and Mack and you guys for creating all this but absolutely represented me exactly how I am and you know working with God and how I want the world to see me and also maybe take some take some notes from how how to act in some situations exactly how I wanted it to be. Do you wish you when they started throwing at you that you tried to like get them all to gang up on someone else on the wall child? Yes my biggest regret is not teaming up with the girls and going towards you know because we had a conversation yeah yeah we had a conversation of the line yeah I would change that for sure before the finale so like when if I remember correctly we had a conversation and I I initiated it first I said you guys want to be an alliance and yes he said yes and Corny was unsure which you know we didn't know what we're doing so we had no idea but we all could have done in the lines it's not Corny's fault but you could have had half the people yeah so we just all went for ourselves instead but and maybe you guys want to get out you know yeah a lot of what if gauge you're being awfully quiet over there mr. 10 million coin flip I know right I was portrayed as like a very you know mellow subdued like under the radar quiet person this is a perfect metaphor for how you played the game does let everybody else do it out I mean a little bit I felt like I mean I had some great interactions with all of you guys and everyone and I feel like they didn't portray me in like the light hearted kind of goofy way that I would have liked it I mean a lot of it was very serious I was like you know on the bleachers all alone looking out the quiet one but yeah I was I was okay with it how did you get the balls to decide to do that coin flip yes like what but you would have been eliminated like yeah did you think there was going to be an advantage or tell us tell us what's going on your head part of part of it was I thought there might have been a advantage there that was one aspect the other several there were several aspects in my thought process I thought that I kind of needed to redeem myself a little bit after the last game having to you know pretty much backstab three people and tell them that I was gonna vote for them and then not vote for them so maybe get back in like the good graces a little bit so you felt obligated to risk your spot a little bit for sure and also like as I was portrayed like by everyone else as well so I felt I felt really bad about that and then I just thought it would be so cool I thought it'd be so cool if it was if I could do it yeah could you imagine if you had lost though you know you would have replayed that in your head every night forever I would have been like would I have won the five million dollars yeah yeah that's what anybody else have done the coin toss if gauging would you have to come on you really thinking about it like I was really the honest I think you're taking them on no no for real like I was like ask everybody like I was really like I was like let me feel it let me just and I'm feeling the vibration of the coin a hand just snatches up under me and I'm like oh well he's got it okay but if he didn't touch it you would have done it I don't know if I would have done it like I was like really like toss me in my head but I was really thinking about it Jeff was there a world where you out would have done it no but I looked at gauge right away and I saw gauge in a way I've never seen him and I'm like oh he's doing it like a hundred percent he's doing it I just want to make him feel good about it you did make up okay you're like never-in-man kind ever-in-man kind no and then gauge it like never-in-man okay it's first ever I mean get us book yeah you get me that's right you made you rich you're rich richer richer richer yes see oh memory challenge I don't even think about that pattern oh dude absolutely still I do imagine walking on the street you know what's crazy is he even told you it was to the left you know what so okay so before we went into that challenge we were put on ice which is essentially when we can't speak to anyone and I had just gotten told like hey watch out for Jeff so I was already by Tawada she had told me like hey be careful oh no no no no but hold on hold on okay like Jeff and Gage are in alliance and I kind of thought Tawana was in there but then she wasn't really in the alliance because she was just cool with everyone so I was already like dang Jeff was to take me out I was like well why I was like oh cuz this is the game I was like oh why am I so dumb you made it across who would you have eliminated you know after thinking about it I do think it was gonna be Gage I'm sorry Gage I just so in the tower you lied to me buddy I helped you and you lied to me so I was like Gage and then after I don't remember that actually lying to you specifically and with the intent he's like I just kind of lie it wasn't like a serious lie I think it was misinterpreted because my intention was to say that you're just one of the three people he thought he could vote for no in that moment that's just like what I had remembered and after that like during the ball toss you never looked at me or you never said anything to me whereas Jeff he told me immediately straight up like hey you know if this was just part of my strategy like I'm sorry no hard feelings and I respected that you know like immediately and of course Tawana had just helped me out in the tower so Jeff helping me out with the pattern I was already like all right he's good but in that last moment when Jeff told me to scoot over one right he like touched his beautiful beautiful hair and I was like oh man Jeff doesn't know either I'm cooked and I was like you know what I'm just gonna bet on myself because that's that's a decision I'm never gonna regret you know every single time if I lose by betting on myself I'm proud of that decision wow give it up that's a beautiful thing and so so if you did make it across it would have been gauge and then would you have taken the million dollar oh absolutely dude you would have you would have shown the money so it would have been it would have been the same outcome she just would have got the million instead of gauge yeah yeah no I would have never like taken this away for I mean Jeff I know your family we we had just met them before that million dollar bribe and then with Tawana we essentially had the same dream building a shelter you know we grew up similarly so I I couldn't take that away from them yeah that's beautiful yesy Patrick you are awfully quiet over there man haven't you haven't asked me a question so I had a lot of time to spend with these guys on set and every time I would see Patrick he would tell me these rules of v-skinks that he would come up with and I want to play a clip that we prepared that people didn't see on the show of me asking Patrick about a few of those rules and him getting a little cocky rule number one listen to klitz rule number two ask questions rule number three trust your friends and rule number four don't take Jimmy's bait and since looks like four people are getting out tonight that's all I'm gonna give you right there's more rules oh yeah there's ten the top ten rules of v-skinks what's rule number five rule number five of v-skinks yeah well I guess I'll have to tell you when I see tomorrow after I meet did you see him tomorrow no tell us a bit more about your rules of v-skinks and just some of the psychology like you were breaking down every little detail you know for years I always want to do this show called survivor and it was just a dream of mine growing up and it was something I wanted to do to help my parents out and then we heard about the show called b-skinks and I had tried to maybe like apply to be in one of their videos and that was always the goal is to help my parents out with the money I got and so for three years I didn't take a vacation at my job just for the chance that I would maybe get some opportunity like a different show like saving up PTO so you could take time off literally yeah so like my family would be like hey we're going on a vacation or we're going to like go have dinner or do this in this other city I'm like yeah I gotta go study this video like I'm trying to figure out challenges and so anyway long story short I get into the show and one of the things I which I love when people make fun of like I love being but of the but of the joke but I really stood by don't take Jimmy's bait and here's why we got screwed in cubes what they don't show is that we had a rest day before the cubes in episode three in cubes before that we had a rest day and then we had like a dance party that night that they don't show that was so fun epic and so I'm like my friend comes up to me he's like you're kind of fun but like you look a little pensive and I'm like I don't know man I got a bad phone Jimmy's gonna screw us tomorrow and it was a Brennan shout out 7-11 and so It's like three of 'em. And so for like 40 minutes, I just like tell 'em some theories and he tells me what he thinks. And so the next day, we do a sack race. Seems like it's gonna be fun, right? And I'm like, oh, dang, I got it wrong, okay. And then right after sack races, I look up 'cause me, bringing in Matt, or right in front of the cube, Jimmy's above us, and he's like guards, handcuff them. And I'm like, oh my God, we're screwed. And so I really had my guard up for Jimmy, you know, having some kind of trick on us and a challenge. And so when it came to episode eight with Million Dollar Bride, I thought, all right, well, I'm just gonna take zero. You know, it's either an advantage or a disadvantage. I wanna make a bold play that I can be proud of and stand by. And so I decided, I'm gonna take zero dollars, and it's either gonna be awesome. And I'll have an advantage in the next challenge. Maybe you have to carry the weight of your money, maybe it's some advantage just in that challenge in some way. Or it's gonna be this big disadvantage where you don't have any buying power for a vote, or you don't have the money you need to accomplish the goal in that challenge. - I have something, I wanted to ask. When I watch it, so if JC actually did end up sending you guys money to vote for him, would you guys have? Like, so if he sent you like 50 grand, you wouldn't have voted for him, would you have Pat? - I thought about it a lot, and we talked on the sixth round, and I told him I would vote for him, but I was obviously so mad like a lot of the rounds. - No, no, no, let's talk real talk. - Okay, real talk? - Don't tell them what they wanna hear, tell them the truth. You guys all met before and said, we are in agreement, it is a witch hunt. Nobody here is going to vote for JC or Michael. - Really? - And they were all in agreement. We are not gonna take bribes from them, we are not gonna vote for them. That is what Courtney told me, and I believe it, because this is the most honest person in the whole entire game. - And so that's why you didn't even try to send money to any of them. - No, so they set the precedence. - I do wanna keep it moving, because there's another person that a lot of you guys turned on. A big episode that people talked about all across social media with a trolley problem episode. Lambo's versus best friends, loyalty, betrayal, or what do you know? - What do you guys change, how you treated Dino? And how he was eliminated after he said no to $1 million and saved a lot of you guys on this stage. Because social media has a different take on that episode. - I'll say, I don't understand why people were getting mad at Dino that he picked jazz. He just had to do what he thought was strategic. - He's a skill to the state. I don't, I don't understand. - Oh you, you wanna take it again? - Yeah, I don't know. - I know you don't speak hard and I understand your position, but I really wanna speak on this, because I feel like out of the top 10, I'm really the only one that can. And what I want to say is that jazz is the individual that was under the radar, completely just a solid player. She is the black Emma in our position, right? And coming from a black girl, right? So Dino, and Dino, I'd like your attention right now because this is gonna be the only moment that you're really gonna get this. For you, Dino, and to answer your question, I can't change what I did. I ragged on him and I ragged on him hard because Dino is a 60 year old white man from Hollywood. But let me just say this, at no point in the game, was there a major camaraderie with the black women playing in Beast Games? We played based on who we were. I'm very different from Tawana. Tawana's very different from jazz. Jazz is very different from Moe. Moe is very different from Mia. Mia and Mia come from the same state city, different places. I'm from the county more so she's the city. But it's like, we come from the same place, but we're totally different. And so the thing that I want America to understand is when I said that no one is gonna respect you, I wasn't talking about the world. I was talking about the players because when I have these individual and one-on-one conversations with everyone, they've all said, yeah, it was obvious because we all know what the relationships were like in the game. The relationships in the game were a part of the strategy. And I understand why he used it. I'm not faulting him in this moment, in retrospect, for his decision because it's not something that I feel like he was intentionally racist, you know, trying to accomplish that goal. No, by no means. However, I want the honesty of knowing that you chose that it's no different than if it was nine black people and one white, or it's eight black people and two white people sitting up here and then it's like, oh, the black people are gonna just choose the white. It would have been the same thing. So I just want the honesty in that. I want the world to understand that it wasn't a direct blow to him and his character as an individual, but it was definitely to bring awareness in the fact that we do have things that we've inherited from what we've culturally come from. And that was a diversity that I felt like the show touched on in many other ways, but I wanted to make sure that I spoke on that because I love jazz and I felt like she deserved that respect that was not mentioned. (audience applauding) - There's so much to unpack there and we have a little twist. Obviously, this couch here is an empty for a reason. - Is Dino coming up? - So we thought we'd invite up Dino to the stage. Come on up. - Come on up. (audience applauding) - All right, well this a lot to unpack there, have a seat. So Dino, what's your thoughts on that? - Well, well, well. So yeah, when it came down to the train situation there, basically Queen and I, she gave me a pound. She said she's stepping down, completely supported that. She steps down and then lo and behold, Jimmy with his twists. He says, "Oh, by the way, whoever steps down "is automatically immune and going to the top 10." And I'm like, oh my gosh. So I look back and I had four, possibly five people that I thought, without a doubt, I'm gonna have the support, especially helping them out when I turned down the million dollars. And so I go, this is a no-brainer. I step down, lo and behold, then, you know, Tijuana steps down, of course, as well. You know, as you called everybody out, they supported Tijuana. And I just said, "Hey, no good deed goes unpunished "and we moved on." So, and then once all that took place and then it came down to, you know, Tijuana asked me to step on the tracks. I was on the tracks. And when I was asked to pick someone to join me, I look back and everyone, in my mind, everybody was scrambling, hiding behind each other. J.C. stood straight and he stood in his spot. And then jazz was standing next to J.C., but everybody else was scrambling behind. And it says, "Come on, like, you've got to pick somebody, "you've got to pick somebody." And in my eyes, I looked at J.C., and I know he has his two boys relating to those to my two grandsons and said, "Okay, I'm gonna leave J.C., "and I looked over and I felt a bit rushed "and I selected jazz." And yeah, maybe it was selfish but I have a lot of support on Reddit and so forth. There's a decision I had to make. (audience laughs) And so, anyway, the decision's been made, folks. - I don't know who's calling himself. - Hey, and I didn't grow up in Hollywood. I grew up in Linwood, California. I grew up with Black and Mexicans, and that's my neighborhood, so. (audience cheers) - Right? (audience applauds) - Black, Mexican. - No, Black and Mexican, also. - And also, a lot of people don't know this, but Dino, you fought in the fires in LA, and we're on the front lines helping put that out, so I wanna say thank you as well. (audience applauds) - Thank you. - Thank you, everybody. - Thank you, man. - Keep it up, Dino. - Thank you. - All right, another big moment from that trolley episode was Akira and Mia. - Oh gosh. - Both of whom are here today, and I wanted to invite them on stage, so give it up for Akira and Mia. - Okay. (audience applauds) - How's your island? - Wow, okay. (audience laughs) - By the way, did you keep the island, or did you give the cat, when you give away islands, which-- - We gave her the option, I mean, you can answer it. They gave me the option to keep it or to exchange it for the monetary value, and-- - And she chose to keep it, right? - No. (audience laughs) - What do you think I did? - Well, I mean, I really did want to own some property there, but it just, in my best interest, with everything being uninhabited, I chose the cash value. (audience applauds) - Plus, if she chose to keep the island, she would have had to pay taxes on it, which would have been crazy. So, I mean, it's a logical thing to do to take the money. - Do you remember what you said to Akira, on the trolley problem episode? - Seems like it's all black females. What does that tell you? - I didn't think I could win this 5 million, when I'm here to help somebody else win it. The only way to do that-- (audience applauds) (audience cheers) - Let's go, I'm so proud of you. (water splashing) - Be proud of this game that you played. You deserve better. - I can't hear you. - I don't want to hear you. - We good. We used to hear the competing as a woman. - I don't think there's anything to say to you. - Point blank, period. - And you about to be next on the play with me. I'm scared to catch. (laughs) - Do you some nice lights up here? (audience laughs) I'm just curious, as you guys reflect outside of the heat of the moment, are there things you would have done or said differently? - Well, I know that a lot of times, when you're playing the game, it's like, honestly, you forget the, well, I forgot the cameras were there. So I was just, it was just an honest response. And like people see the snarkiness of me, but I was quiet a lot of times in the game. So I observed a lot of people. The cameras show me have a lot of expressions and talk a lot, but most people that actually know me, they didn't know me until that ending part of the top 60 or top 20. That was when they actually found out who I was. So I got a chance to sit on a bus with people from New York to Ontario, Canada. And through that time, I got a chance to see how people interacted with certain people and chose not to interact with others. So the energies were there to get to know people. It's just the people that they got to know were probably the people that looked like them and they went to school with them, was familiar. So all I would have to say from that episode, it was what it was. I do respect the way Akira approached this conversation. I will say, however, that a lot of times, I feel, as though to me, eliminating me was one thing, but to eliminate two other people that didn't even have a chance to even get to be known or have a conversation or even get to the top. To me was just like, it could have been done a little bit better, it could have been mixed up, but it wasn't my decision to make. And I was disobedient in what I was doing. Meaning that my spirit should have went up and competed against Akira, but I was just exhausted mentally from all the things that I went through before that. Obviously, we didn't know each other very well. And I was very closed off from most of the game. Even in the final '21, I only knew half the people. So going into it is very easy to get rid of people. I didn't know. I think it would have been much tougher to make some of those decisions if I did have deeper connections. And unfortunately, once we got into the top '60, I did go on vacation, and we never had time to connect. You were fighting for your life out there. Coming back into the city, we went into two different challenges. The first time we really talked was right after we went back in, top '21. And then we just never had the chance. So I never got to see your story, and seeing it play out live was really beautiful. And I did feel bad that I did end your dream. But also, I felt really happy that you did come away with the island and that life changing money. So I am sorry, but I wouldn't change anything that I did that day. That's like one of the first apologies of the night. [APPLAUSE] Those are-- I mean, what's funny is they won more money than a lot of people over here. OK, probably one of the biggest moments on the show that just sent shockwaves was episode three, The Cubes. Ooh. And especially the Habibi brothers who had this moment. My two brothers married to me. I was going to be the one going home. They told me this earlier. I said, fine, if I'm going home, you can't decide one of the two, then you can come with me. So let's see how they do. I think one of you two should go. Well, I don't think one of us should-- I think one of us three should go. I am not going on the show. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Right now, your decision is going to result in all three of us living. That means you're guaranteed to leave. I'm not going to break. And exactly. You stood up for yourself. And I know you're stubborn. I can tell you. If I go down, I'm going down together. You're negotiating your demise. If you-- I'm going to say it one more time. I'm going to say it one more time. The point that you are making is you are negotiating your demise. I don't know. So I don't want to get bullied. Like, I don't want you guys to think that I'm like not at all, like, whatever they go out with. Just be careful to make me touch you out to be a villain. I don't want you to become a villain. I know it. I'm not playing. You're not playing? Draw the cards. Draw the cards. Draw the cards. Oh, has it. He's back it out. Has it? Back it out. Do you want to go home? I mean, no one wants to go home. No, but still draw the card. I was never part of this conversation. I'll give you guys 10 more seconds. I'm not going to fear a pressure. All right, guess nobody wants to play the game. Even though she clearly didn't want to play, 20 minutes of non-stop manipulation might have just changed her mind. We're just going to say screw it and do it again. He's not going to participate, but whoever makes it will keep that in their back of their mind, moving forward. So you want to do the card game again? It's just going to be us, too. Whoever gets it over. Really? And you're not doing us? All right, the Dector Shumbles. I had a good chance, and I'm just going to go in here. I want to get this over with. Three, two, one. I told you I'd do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it, guys. They're probably going to think you're evil, but it works. You didn't have to play. So we played, me and my brother were secretly talking to each other the entire time. And basically, she doesn't know about it. Whoa. Whoa. All right, well, wow. There's a lot there. I'm going to invite up the Habibi brothers to ask them a few questions. Everyone, say, "Sember down." We're getting a little too rowdy up here. Here's a microphone. Would you guys change anything? Absolutely not. Whoa. You know we're putting this on the end of the program. Keep going. So it's played off a little bit, not how it truly happened in there. So first and foremost, Maddie, the player that was in the cubes with us, 2-2-5. We were friends from before. She was kind of like in our friend group. So we went in after the sac race. As a lot of people did, we were not the only situation, but we went in with our friends. And before the games even began, she told us, I'm not going to play a game. One of you, too, has to self-sacrifice for the other. Before you even explain the rules. Before the rules are explained. She put two and two together. And you know, told us that one of you guys get out just because we're brothers. And we weren't the only situation that happened in the cubes. And I'm sure as anybody else out there who has a sibling or a family member, if you were put in a situation similar to ours and put in a cube where somebody puts you up between a rock and a hard place, you're going to fight tooth and nail to be able to get out. And at that point, it's the person that you trust the most with you. You're going to push as hard as you can to get to that position. So once she said that-- I'm prior to, I kind of thought about it in my head. And I said, well, if it comes down to it, and I need a self-sacrifice, I'll push my brother to go forward and self-sacrifice. But then she said that and I said, well, I'm going to go forward and work as hard as I can to be able to get both of us to go through. And if we go home, we go home. I thought what I needed to do. And at that point, it was-- Oh, sorry, you can't hear me. I thought you were going to hold his hand. Yeah, at that point, we're going to do what we need to do. And we're going to work just to play a game at that point. Because that's what we're fighting for, just to play a game. You know what's interesting is the theme of family. I'm sensing from all of you guys. And who is family, whether it's blood or chosen? Actually, if you're wondering why we have an empty seat here, in the audience is just the top 60. But we made an exception. Maddie, come on out. [CHEERING] You can respond firsthand. [CHEERING] Did you have a mic? It's so good to see you in the reunion. If your guys is first time meeting in person since filming, yeah, meeting in person, yes, speaking no. OK. What do you have to say about how you came into the challenge before camera started rolling? So one thing that I don't think anyone really knows is I actually have a degree in math and economics. But we realized what the challenge was going to be. I was like, this is a very obvious game theory problem, which is a very common economics situation. So immediately, when we got in the queue, I said, hey, guys, I have absolutely nothing to gate by sacrificing myself. But you, too, do. Your brothers-- it would-- to the naked eye, it's obvious. Like, OK, one of them should self-sacrifice for the other, push their brother through. So that's what I did. And I stood my ground for about two hours. And then I remembered that I know them. And they are very stubborn people. And economics class is not always real life. Because in real life, people are not always textbook rational. And egos exist. And there's a lot of emotions at play. So that obviously didn't work out. If she didn't handcuff herself, the timer's ticking. 30 seconds left. Would one of you have bit the bullet? Or would you both have just gone home out of stubbornness? Absolutely not. Really, yeah, absolutely not. So one thing we did talk about-- because we had a little bathroom break before the rules were explained. And she'd said this before the bathroom break. And so the game's already playing in our head. And we're like, oh my god, what are we going to do? And I looked to my brother and I tell him, I'm like, we can't go home. We can't go home. Sorry, we can't cuff ourselves. Neither of us. If she doesn't want to, she didn't want to play fair, then we're all going to go home. And we're going to stand on principle on that. can't sacrifice. prices, what you're saying. We can't sacrifice ourselves during a play game. - But if you put it over the wrong card, would you have handcuffed yourself? - Oh yeah, at that point it was, we played a game and it's, it's not, at that point it's my time to go. Which I do wanna bring something up and I think this is ironically hilarious. So prior to us drawing before you even came into our cube, we were trying to establish the rules of the game and I was, you mentioned that the ace was gonna be the lowest card and if anybody plays any card game or poker at all, ace is the highest. And at that point I said that's not worth me arguing. I'm just gonna, I just wanted to play a game. So I didn't say anything, I accepted it and then at the end I drew a king and she drew a king. - Through the ace. - Yeah. How aware were you of how social media and the internet would react as you guys were going through this and making decisions? - Like in the moment? - Yes. - It wasn't even a thought. Like while we're playing the game, it wasn't a thought 'cause that's an afterthought. We're just focused on trying to get as far as we can in the game so it wasn't. But then afterwards when social media came out and people were hating, we just, we kind of embraced it, we knew it was gonna be like something for sure but it not to this magnitude of like, oh my God. - We hate you. - While she was crying didn't really help. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. Eating Chipotle or whatever while she's going through a remote business. - Laughing at someone crying. - Not the best off. - Yeah. - At the end of the day we're here to create content. - Yeah, of course. You did a great job with that. - It was kind of interesting though, seeing how like crazy. I feel like RQ bloked and then everyone else were like, having tea parties and having horses and sushi. I'm like, well I feel like we used the phone wrong. (laughing) - Cool, well I wanna thank you guys for coming out, speaking your truth. Maddie thanks so much for joining us to the surprise game. Give it up one more time. Let me be your brother. - Let me do it. - Maddie. (applauding) - Thank you guys, thank you guys. We actually have one final surprise for you all. - As you guys know, our friends at T-Mobile are amazing. - Absolutely. - Yes, yes, there we go, switch the lights. Bring it on up, come on in guards. - Bring out the guards. - Bro. - Yes. - We're not done. - Our friends at T-Mobile are huge fans of all of you. The top 10 are all getting a brand new phone, free T-Mobile service, and of course all those amazing magenta status travel perks and benefits. I've been with T-Mobile for a while now, and it's clear why they always hook me up. They're literally the best. - That they're huge fans of all of you. They wanted me to say they were inspired by the connection you guys shared, the amazing friendships you built on the show, and they want you to stay connected. Thank you T-Mobile for helping us make Beast Games possible. Thank you. - Everyone give a round of applause. (applauding) - All right, and now I'm gonna talk to Jimmy for a bit about his honest thoughts of Beast Games, and then we're gonna talk to Jeff about how he's gonna spend his $10 million. Give it up one more time for the top 10 finals. - Okay, this is gonna be fun. I wanna start off with the finale, and play a clip from "My Behind the Scenes" right after we ended filming. - How do you top this? - Oh, don't you worry. There are plenty of ways to top this. - It's crazier than this. - Oh yeah, no doubt about me. The way better. There's so many things we learn. So many, so many things. I mean, this is great, but yeah. (laughing) - Oh my god, this is great. I think we see 10 million at all your new records. - Seems like something I would say. I couldn't believe you said that after that episode and giving away $10 million. Oh, what was the biggest thing you learned looking back? - The biggest thing I learned looking back, it is a little hard to get to know. Like, everyone, you know, gets to know like the top 10 and 20, but you don't really know too many people have the first two episodes. So, to be honest, in the future, I'm probably gonna be way more cutthroat, like instead of eliminating 500, we should eliminate like 800 at the start so you get the numbers down. Just sucks 'cause the most people are gonna show up and instantly get out, but I think that would be better for character building. - Well, there's a lot of obvious stuff now that I've watched the show maybe 45 times that I've pieced together. I think like, one of the silliest things is like, when we had people take bribes on episode one, they also got out, you know, and you eliminated everyone to your left and right. And I think it would have been way better if the person who pressed it didn't get out, so then we have like more people, you know, 'cause we build these people up and then they instantly get out and they're not in episode two. Whereas like, imagine the guy who took the $100,000 bribe, was still in episode two, you know, at the end. That would have been really cool. So, like, there's like, we did that kind of subtly throughout the show is like, we'd spend an episode building someone up and they'd get out, but it would have been better if they stayed in. And so it's a lot of little things like that that's like hindsight 2020. I also, it is, I mean, it worked great for the finale, but it's so sad that I don't get to put 10 million in the title, so in hindsight, you know, maybe just make that part of it, 'cause I'm paying 10 million, but 90% of people, you know, just think it's 5 million, which is a little brutal, but the last two months are like, people keep coming up to me. It's like, holy shit, you gave away $5 million, so I'm like, well, yeah. (laughing) I'm only good new. - Okay, I got a hard hitting question for you. - Oh, go, all right. The critics review of the show is very different than the fan review. On Ron Tomatoes, you got to 89% from the fans. 13. (audience cheering) - Yep. You can just stop there. 89%, what else do we need to talk about? - 13% from the critics on Ron Tomatoes. - From seven critics, seven, who only watched the first two episodes. I agree. (audience cheering) Yes. - Why the difference? - I don't know, I mean, we'd have to call 'em, but I mean, they literally left it within like, the reviews within like an hour of the show dropping, so I'm like 99% sure they didn't even watch it. (laughing) But at the end of the day, as long as the people who like, the 70 million people that watch the show enjoyed it, like, what else matters? So, I mean, coming from YouTube, I'm new to this whole critic thing. I don't know why you need to segment. Oh, these 10 people versus these 10 million people, like, shouldn't all that matters, is that the audience enjoyed it? So, to me, it doesn't really matter. Was there any feedback or criticism of the show that you're like, actually, that's a great note. - Oh yeah, tons. You know, maybe a little more skill-based stuff. Just, you know. (audience cheering) All right, all right, no, don't cheer too loud. Okay, don't get so happy. But yeah, I, in the future, I definitely want a little less luck in it. I mean, you don't know until you go through it, but it would, it would feel better if it felt like certain people earned things more instead of like, lucking through. I actually really liked when we gave people the option to do chance, you know, skill or whatever. So, giving people more of the option, so if it is luck-based, it's like, they decided. I think it's a much better way of going about it. - There's one night on set when we played "Settlers of Canton" with the top 10. And-- - Did I win? - Actually, I think you did. - Okay. (audience laughing) - And it was fascinating to see you as a player, like, how strategic you were, how measured you were. And I just wanted to put you in the situation of if you were a contestant on Beast Games. - Yeah. - What would you do in these situations? - Oh gosh. - I'm gonna wrap it fire, ready? - Yeah. - Episode two, if you're on the tower, would you take the $1 million? - Of course, it's $1 million, your odds are better. I don't know, why did you guys say no? (audience laughing) You could, you could've asked 25% of the players, what are we doing? (audience laughing) - I'm kidding. - I'm looking at Dino. - Oh no, I'm not. I mean, a million bucks plus your odds are better. - You would take the million dollar bribe. - I mean, yeah, it's a million dollars. - Even if you promised all the people, you're like, I'm gonna go there, say no. - Well, you just, you know, ignore that part. (audience laughing) - In episode three, they're the cubes. - Oh gosh. - How would you go about getting out of the cube if the two people in there with you were Carl and Chandler. (audience laughing) - Whoa. - Wait, Carl and Chandler, are you guys in here? I'll do it. - Hey. - Huh. - How did you get the door open? - He's asked me how I'd manipulate you and the cube. - If you were in the cube. - If I had that, like, it was me, you and Chandler? - I would just never do that. I would be the villain for sure. (laughing) - You'd be the baby. (laughing) I'm kidding. (audience laughing) I'd probably try to get him to play me in a board game. Maybe in Monopoly, 'cause Monopoly's, like, chance. - You're calling a board game. - Yeah. Well, I'd probably pull each aside and be like, let's try to figure out how to team up on the other one and, like, make our odds better. - Pull each of them aside individually. - Yeah. - Episode five, would you compete for the island or skip that challenge? - Oh, definitely compete, right? 'Cause you have one in 10 chance and 1.8 million. I'm actually, only nine people did it, which is surprising, 'cause, you know, it's, what was it? 1 in 65 or 1 in 10 at 1.8? I mean, it's just, like, the EV score is just so much better. I was shocked 10 people didn't even go out there. - Episode eight, the challenge where there's a million dollars in the middle, and each contestant had to go out one by one and five. - It was all million. - So if you went first, if you were into a honest position, you would go out and you would take how much? - Yeah, I would take the million, and then I'd just give it to 'em on the towers or something. I mean, they didn't know that at the time, but, yeah, you would figure it out. - Wow. - Then you have all the control, that'd be awesome. - I could, obviously, would have played this completely different than you guys. So I probably would have been eliminated, like-- (laughing) - How much do you think about that when you go through creating the games with Tyler and Clizner? Like, how much do you put yourself in the shoes of what somebody would do? - Oh, obviously every game, but how it played out and how we thought things would play out were two completely different things, which I think is one of the beauty of the show, but there obviously was a lot more integrity, a lot more camaraderie, and honestly, way nicer than we thought in a lot of instances, which is through off a lot of the equations for some of these games, which one, in particular, comes to mind? Um, I mean, obviously at the end of episode two, I mean, I thought for sure someone was going to press it at like 200k, and then it just went up to a million, but it was awesome because that cliffhanger was perfect and, you know, people still come up to me and they're just like, "There's no shot that's real," and I'm like, "I don't know what to tell you." In the finale, would you have flipped the coin and risked elimination, but potentially, no. No. Especially because Tijuana sounded like she was going to do it too. I just, that was crazy. I have to ask about the $10 million coin flip. I'm like, for months leading up to that, I mean, I know you haven't even asked a question. Yeah, but we were like, "Yeah, we'll just throw this in there and no one's actually going to like do it." Yeah. You know, we're like, there's the EV ratio, like imagine filming for a month and then just gambling at all on a coin flip that everyone else benefits from. It makes no sense. Yeah, I was going to say like, talking to you, Carl, like, Chandler, like everybody didn't think it was going to happen on it. Oh, no. You probably have a thousand shots of me going no shot. This is going to happen. I was like, "Yeah, we'll probably just cut it out the show because no one's going to do it and it doesn't make sense." I even, I told Tyler, he's the, you know, for when we post this, like, the guy who writes a lot of our stuff, I was like, "Why are we even doing this? It's just a waste of time." Like, who would actually in the right mind flip this coin? How do you think about when you add more money on the show? I was there with you on set the Tesla for the Trainverse Lambo episode for the trolley problem episode. You guys just stuck another $100,000 in the trunk. Like, I think that was a game time decision. How do you make those decisions of like, "Okay, let's add more money. Let's add another $5 million." Like, do you ever think about, "Oh, the return of adding more money?" Or is it just for fun? Well, if we thought about the return, we wouldn't because I don't think I got $5 million out of it. It's just, no, I mean, these things are pre-plan beforehand, because obviously, because of compliance, I can't, like, change too much on set. So, it's usually just whatever we agreed to going into it, to be honest. Do you ever worry about raising the bar too high, Jimmy, to the point where, like, audiences become too desensitized to, like, what it means to win $10 million on the show? Like, that is so above it. Yeah, but that's the beauty of that is, if they're desensitized to the money, I'm giving away. I don't know how to watch any other game show, so I think that's more of a problem for everyone else, not us. I thought it was fascinating how, in the past week, you put out the first three episodes of Beast Games for free on YouTube. Yeah. Why? Just to get more people hooked, so then they would come over to Amazon and watch the rest. It's been great so far, like, people are watching it and it's causing a spike on the show, because just some people, you know, just wanted to see it before they committed to buying a prime. What's been the impact of Beast Games on filming your YouTube content? Like, have you tried to do more challenges like you did in the games? Have you tried to up the production quality? Has there been a change or impact on your YouTube content? Oh, yeah, definitely. I think if you watched the pyramid video we just did, you'll see there's way more cinematic shots. It's way just everything about it. We actually, it's in 4K, which I think that was, like, we're starting to do all our YouTube videos in 4K now. People prefer YouTube videos that feel a little more amateur, especially because over half of the viewership on YouTube now in America is on television, so we started upping the quality of our cameras because it was like, oh, the show looks great. Now it makes my YouTube channel look like garbage. So we started bringing in the bigger rigs and using more high quality cameras, and so far the reception on YouTube has been great, so it's way more cinematic, way higher quality content, and even I just think even the storytelling and things like that in our content has gotten much better. So, I learned a lot. It also helped because we had a lot of traditional people, which is just the lens that I didn't normally learn from. I was learning around a lot of different people, so like learning from them over the 45 days and then pulling it all over to YouTube was really helpful. Yeah, especially now I think YouTube just announced that TV is the most watch. It's over half of US viewership is now on television for YouTube, which is crazy when you think about it, because it used to just be a phone thing, but as cable's dying, everyone switching over to YouTube on TV. I want to say, I was about to change and think about story versus spectacle. Yeah. I thought it was fascinating. Episode one, biggest spectacle, you know, thousand contestants, 500 people eliminated roughly, trap doors, pillars, like crazy production. Episode eight, nobody eliminated. Jeez. Maybe just people walking in and out of houses. I want to know what they think. Which do you guys like better? Raise your hand if you like episode one better. Raise your hand if you like episode eight better. Wow. That's interesting. No one got out in episode eight. Wow. Yeah, you know the top 10 and it really built them up and came across better, as opposed to just dropping people like you have to constantly. Yeah. What did that teach you about, changes you and make to your content moving forward? I mean, obviously we know the objective. Did it where you feel how you feel in episode eight, ideally sooner in like episode two or three? I think at the crux, we just didn't get rid of enough people at the start. So we just got to get the numbers down sooner and then it'll be much easier because you know, if we have 30 or 40 people, it's not hard. It's just hard when you have 400 because, but if you're only going to focus on 30, why have 400? So just get the numbers down. Yeah. How do you try to find stories when it was that many people? Like you had people like ask questions like questions like, I mean we had 150 people editing this. So it was, yeah, they were shifting through an unfathomable amount of footage. The, I mean, the other thing too is definitely giving our editors more editing time. I mean, we were right up to the deadlines and then we'd get Amazon to like give us a couple of extra days and then we'd shove a couple or shave a couple of days off doves and then we'd sell them it earlier. So we give the editors like ideally an extra month to like focus on it because even though we had so many people, it's just like, there's just way too much footage. Like episode 1 with 1100 cameras, it was just, it was brutal. But deeper in the show when there's only 10 people, it's like, you know, you can watch everything that was said during that whole day and so it was much easier to like grab the optimal stuff and put it in. Yeah. It's so fascinating, Jimmy, to be able to interview you through the years as you go through different life stages and see how that impacts your videos. You really think I'd engaged. Yeah. I did the thing. Yeah. I was here. I don't know where she got here, but shout out to Tia, she was wonderful to have on set. I'm wondering does being engaged soon to be married, one day having kids, does that change how you view? I don't know. I don't know what's at the cave. Where do you think that? I don't know where you got that from. Having a family, thinking about all that in the future, does that change how you think about the challenges and the contestants who come on your videos? That's a deep question. Really not? No. Because there's a lot of like family dynamics. Like you look at like Jeff and Tawana, like you're not just investing in them at that point so their families. Yeah. Um, I mean those like obviously when we brought the families out, like I, I don't, you don't need to have like a wife or kids that understand like oh this hits emotionally and feels good. So I hate to give you a layman answer, but probably not. Love you Tia though. If you're here. It's reported that you placed a multi-billion dollar bid on TikTok. Well, I did. I'm part of the bid. Part of the bid. Well, first of all, yeah. I don't have billions of dollars. Oh, yeah. First of all, I want to ask you the true, if you could talk about the bid on TikTok. And if you win the bid to buy TikTok, I'm curious, what is your experience being the top YouTuber and now having a streaming show influence in terms of owning a platform? Like what changes would you make if you were the owner of TikTok? Yeah, I mean, I'm really not allowed to say much, especially because this is going to be on the internet. So that's, I can't, I don't know. You're going to give me a trouble here. They're going to kick me out of the deal. That's fair. Pass me on a month. I have a way better answer. Any other thoughts, reflections, like looking back, such a monumental show? I mean, people love the show. You guys are great. I mean, it's seeing the internet's reaction to it has been amazing. Honestly, I feel a little empty because I'm going to get up next Thursday and I'm not going to be able to check Reddit or Twitter, I'm going to, you know, just have to go back to normal life. It's kind of sad. But no, people loved it and Amazon's happy and you guys killed it. Thank you. All right. It's time for the man at an hour, the guy won $10 million, let's bring out Jeff. All right, I just have to ask, Jimmy, you're telling me, did you wire the $10 million to Jeff today? I, a lot of you know, we don't pay people until the episode air, so this episode obviously aired at 3 a.m. today. So he just got paid literally today. Did you ever, were there ever nights where you doubted that it would be real? Oh, yeah. You doubted that the $10 million. Well, I mean, it was just like, like, it's a lot of money. This happened five months ago and like, my wife's like, I'm like, hey, like, do you believe it? She goes, it's not in there yet. Yeah. Like, who knows what's going to happen. That's a good wife. Yeah. I mean, we show the screenshot of it and the, because it's crazy to see that. Yeah. And post, they'll throw it up on the reunion. So here it is. I don't know what camera I'm supposed to be looking at, but if you're curious, obviously your information will be blurred, but there's the big 10 million. So it is paid as of now, all 20 plus million should have been paid to everyone. So it's crazy to see like, all this like, play out. Jeff, how did you keep it a secret for five months? We spoke a few times. Like, it's almost like, yeah. Yeah, tell me about that. Like, that must have been the hardest secret to keep. You won 10 million. Of course, it's hard, but it's also like, what I got to experience, and I think Clitz said it when we were down to the final 10, like, think about everything you've gone through and how fun it was. Like, believe it or not, the people who watch it will feel the same thing. And like, kind of like, hit me like, I can't take that away from my mom or my sister, even though they pride me. - They didn't know 'til today, or? - Yeah, my mom didn't know 'til this morning. - Whoa. (audience laughs) - Whoa. - That's crazy. What was her reaction? - I mean, they lost her mind. I mean, and especially as I got further in the game, I was kind of leading them astray. Like, they thought I was for sure when you'd eliminate an episode of nine by kind of the way I was acting with them. And then I just said, "Hey, in the final six, "I'm like, "You kiddin' me, I gotta talk about." I got to talk about Lucas. Two episodes in a row, like, in my book, that's a winner. Like, however, the finale works, or ends, I consider myself a winner. - Man, I can't believe they didn't know 'til today, that's insane. - It's dedication. That's why I didn't leak, though. I appreciate it. - But what's crazy is, because Jack, my nine-year-old, was there at the finale, he hasn't told a soul. - Wow. - Let's go. - Shout out to Joe, that is not easy. (audience applauds) - Jack, you're gonna be the coolest person in your school now. When you go to school, Nick, you know, I spoke to a lot of people who came on the show, and they sacrificed a lot. People left their jobs. But a lot of them were a bit younger, you know? They could kind of roll the dice, and do this last hurrah. You had a family at home. You were in sales, you had this whole life in San Francisco. How did you make the decision to say, I'm gonna potentially not look at my phone for 30 days to risk trying to make this crazy dream happen. I was at our annual conference for the association for creating efficiencies two years ago, and the woman came on stage to give a keynote, and she goes, "Hey, everybody, I have the silver bullet "to how to cure rare disease." Everybody's on the edge of their seat, and she goes, "You need to find a celebrity "who has a child with it." - Holy shit. And so for me, I go, obviously I'm not a celebrity, but I need to figure out how to get a platform, and how to get a voice. And so I've kind of toiled with it all the time. Early last year, my nine year old, eight year old of time, is like, "Dad, I want you to watch this video with me. "I want you to watch this video, it was Mr. Beast." And then I see it on a link for application on a billboard, like a casting billboard. I go, I put it on my whiteboard. I set alarm on my phone, and the day came, I think it was like May 31st. And so I recorded a video, I'm like, "Screw it, I'm doing it." - Wow. - But I didn't tell my wife that I did it until I got in. 'Cause I didn't want her to start planning and freaking out that I'll be gone for 30 days. (laughing) But yeah, it was Terry Jobishel, who inspired me to kind of go, "You gotta get out there and get a platform." And wow, forever grateful for being there to hear that. - Wow. And how, so far have you seen people talking about it more than the creative deficiency disorder and everything? - I got a DM on Instagram from a mom in Argentina, who said she had never heard anybody talk about creative transporter deficiency except her doctor. She thought her kid was the only one in all of Argentina, and she kind of felt like she was finally part of a group and finally heard, and wow. - Yeah, that's the stuff that's why I'm doing what I'm doing. - Dang, wow. - To put it in perspective, we were talking on set, how many people in the world have creatine transporter deficiency? - Diagnosis like under 400 in the entire world. - Yeah. - But we think it's under diagnosed by 100 fold. I think most parents kind of give up, because the diagnosis journey can take years to try to really figure out and pinpoint it. - And for people who aren't aware of the effects of this condition, can you just explain it? I know you've said it on the show, but I just want people to have full contact. - For sure. Our bodies make creatine naturally, and they travel through the blood to get to the organs and the muscles, and there's a transporter. Lucas's transporter, or kids with CTD, their transporter is broken. So their bodies make the energy, creatine fine, but their organs or muscles can't receive it. And the symptoms are kind of cognitive delays, developmental delays, epileptic, low tonal. So it's just failure to thrive. So it's just, and there's no treatment for it. Yeah. - And how, if people want to help you, how would you recommend they reach out? Let me message you on Instagram. - Yeah, I mean, you can message me on Instagram. You can go to creatineinfo.org, which is the nonprofit that is the primary funder for research. And there's more on my website to legacyatre1.com. - After we watched the finale together for the first time last night, I started going through Twitter and social media, and just trying to see some of the reactions of what people thought. - Well, before you read them off, have you been reading social media? Keep it up with it. - Yeah. - Only messages. So I don't know like what, have you read the Beast Game subreddit or anything? - Oh wow. - Have you? - Of course. - Yeah, I want to see what they think of everything. - That's actually really, what have you seen that stuck up? - Well, this stuff I said before, more skill-based, follow-up. - Interesting. So you don't read Twitter or search your name on it. - I do, but not, I haven't done it since, I mean, the last 24 hours have been a little, a little crazy. - Yeah, you should search 831 on Twitter. (laughing) - It's all right. - It's overwhelmingly positive. - Yeah, it's very positive. - Here's a comment I thought just summed up everything I saw when I was researching. Quote, and I'll put this on screen. Tears as I watch the Beast Games finale, episode 10, the winner was well-deserved, and I'm glad the contestants didn't leave with nothing. Great show, W wrote, W all around. - Yeah. (audience applauding) - What are your first plans with the $10 million? - First thing I'm gonna figure out, how much, taxes I would owe? - Yes, I'm, you know, please pay your taxes. - I wouldn't, please. - I wouldn't do that. - When you sit the full $10 million, it's on him. Please pay the taxes. - Oh yeah, you don't get withdrawal as well. - Yeah. - No, no, no. - Yeah, so I'm glad, so I have the pretty screenshot of the $10 million. - But it's scary, because he owes a lot in taxes. Sometimes to help out people we withhold and pay the taxes for him, but we sent the full money. - Yeah. - Pay the taxes, don't go to jail. - Of course, jail's like, I got it. April 15th, we're all good, yeah. - And so, you know, for me, it's finding projects that we can fund to help find kind of a cure. And again, a cure is gonna take time, you know, it takes finding a technology or a therapy that works, and then you gotta put it through clinical trials. So there's some awesome stuff going on at Stanford, and some places in Canada too. And we're gonna find out which projects are best to fund and try to get some stuff rolling. - Love it. - We talked quite a few times after the finale taping and tonight about just preparing yourself for how, you know, the world would react to finding out that you won, the $10 million. Could you talk about some of the things you did to get ready and take this opportunity and ride the momentum? - Obviously, the X's and O's, you know, talking to attorneys, couples counseling. You know, like really making sure that we're prepared as a team, but also just kind of recommitting to, who do I want to be, you know, they say, kind of money doesn't change you, but it definitely brings out who you are. And so for me, it's, you know, I want my ultimate drive of why I believe I won was 'cause I wanted to receive the prize so that I can share it. And for me, sharing it means helping kids like Lucas. So hold me to it, you know, and I want to be that person who's gonna make a difference for kids like Lucas. - Are you gonna quit your job? - I don't, yeah, you won't see me in a W2 again. - Was there anything that you bought or you spent knowing that the $10 million was coming or you just played it conservatively until you saw the wire? Pretty conservative. We went on a vacation, my kids had never gone to a beach vacation even though we live in California. So we did a beach vacation over Christmas and Lucas had a blast. We did swim lessons up until that. So he was much better prepared. And it was nice knowing that we had it, but we couldn't share it. It's a weird thing when it's happened, but it hasn't happened. And I'm sure you have that all the time with your challenges. - Yeah. Like knowing it's coming, but it not being there and so you have to like, yeah. - I think Cruz said something to my wife after the finale is like, she looked at him, she goes, what just happened? And Cruz is like, nothing happened yet. In five months, it will happen. - Ooh. - Like how professional we talk. - Yeah, how professional, yeah. - And did that play into the games? - As professional as, that is not true. - Oh, wow. - So that was a joke that landed so bad that they thought it was true. - Oh wow. - I thought you were, I don't believe that. - And so this is the shout out to Kato. Kato, I don't know when he got out in the games, but he was a professional poker player. So when we were having this conversation with Gage and Tawana, I said, oh yeah, when I used to be a professional poker player, something of that extent. And like they believed it and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is great. So I was a horrible gambler. Like horrible gambler. I haven't placed a bet in 10 years. So like, thank God. For me, yeah. So for me to be a professional poker player is like hysterical, especially to all my friends 'cause I was never good. - I'm really thinking back to this moment where you had the families come out and Jeff seeing you with your family for the first time. time on set. What did that spark in you? Like, what did that reignite? Because it seems to have an effect that a bunch of people mentioned it during the top 10. Yeah. My family means the world to me. And I have never gone 30 days and not talked to my life. And I love spending time with my kids. And like, I always thought I was cliche. Like, oh, like, the best day of my life was when my kids were born until your kids are born. And you realize it is. That was right up there with it. When they came around the corner and I saw my son and I heard him say my name. And then I see my wife and like, she's looking at me. Like, she's so proud of me. It was like, it was literally the best night of my life. Like, the top five best nights of my life. And in typical Jimmy fashion, they walk around the corner this way. We go into a challenge. And again, I think it's one of the reasons why you see me kind of get a little fired up that night. Because I was just the emotions of that night were beautifully scripted. Bravo. And shout out to them for not saying, come home. We miss you. No, they were. My wife was super supportive. Like, literally, we had like, she's like, just let you know, like, if you have a chance to call me for a bribe, I'm not going to answer. Wow. Yeah. And I told her like, when I signed up for it, I'm like, Hey, this is going to be an awesome platform for Lucas. Like I'm going to be able to tell the world about Cree team, transport efficiency. If I go far enough, she goes, she goes screw that. She goes, if you're signing up, you better win this thing. And that changed my whole mindset. I'll give you guys the final word. I'm so grateful that this happened. I texted Jimmy. I'm like, so much happened on the show. We got to do a reunion. Yeah. No, I'm glad we did. I feel like the viewers will like having like a little bit more knowledge on certain things that happened. Closure on a lot of other things. And then just getting to hear him talk more and everything. Like, this will be perfect. And because after episode 10, whenever this goes up in a month, like it will auto play for all the new people watching it. So it'll just be like a great way to like close any endings on watching the show. So I'm very glad we did it. Yeah. Jeff, any final words from you, anything that you want to share with the world, your family, your cause. My plan is to kind of put the rubber to the road. You know, I'm going to rock from the Nevada border all the way to the coast of California in the next few weeks to try to raise more awareness for CTD and for Lucas. I'm going to start on the Nevada border of California. And we're going to go 365 miles all the way to Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara area. So one mile for each day that Lucas has to suffer with CTD. So 14 basically marathons more than that. We'll have to do a marathon a day for two and a half weeks. Wow. Wow. Okay. Give it up one more time for Jeff. Thanks to Team Mobile, who knows a thing or two about keeping people connected. We have $60,000 up for grabs and a quick game to end out the night. But we're going to do, we're going to have you guys come up here, I believe, and then we're going to put a cup over there. Yep. And then you'll each get a shot kind of like an episode two and everyone who lands it in the cup will split the 60 grand. Thanks to Team Mobile. If you want to look over there, check that out. Oh, that looks sick. Okay. [MUSIC] [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE]