00:02It must be very easy to get people to do your show.
00:06Well, I mean, yeah, seeing how we give away millions of dollars.
00:09Yeah, usually people are very excited about it.
00:12The only hard part for us is, you know, if it's a longer one, just the time off work.
00:16Because sometimes when we shoot like these games or stuff, you know, it can go for a month.
00:20But besides the work stuff, of course.
00:22Are there people that haven't been able to do the show because they couldn't get a month off work?
00:25Oh, yeah, tons, of course. So we always have like, even like the day before, you know, sometimes people get
00:30cold feet.
00:31So if we're doing something with 100 people, we usually have 10 backups just because, you know.
00:35I would imagine the type of person that would do your show would have a job that they could quit.
00:41Well, yeah, I mean, I guess it depends, right?
00:43Whether it's the YouTube channel where we're, you know, doing, you know, 100 families compete for $250,000.
00:48Or it's Beast Games where they compete for $5 million.
00:50The $5 million, people are way more excited for.
00:52Some of the, you know, the YouTube videos, it's not as, like, grandiose.
00:55They're like, I don't know if I want to lose my job for a 1% chance of winning $250
00:58,000.
00:58Well, how many people, when you do Beast Games, how many people are competing?
01:02So the newest season we just shot, we grabbed one person from every country on Earth.
01:06Whoa.
01:07Yeah, which was actually pretty cool because you would put them in these, like, crazy games and you'd see how
01:11someone from, like, the Asian, you know, Pacific countries would react versus, like, someone in South America.
01:16And they play and think so differently because they have such different upbringing.
01:19So it was really cool.
01:20Oh.
01:20Did you have to, I mean, you must have had to thoroughly vet these people, right?
01:24Make sure they're not insane.
01:25Make sure they're not, you know, the serial killer.
01:27We do the psych and background checks, of course.
01:29No.
01:30How do you get that information if you're going, I mean, if you have, how many countries are there?
01:34First of all, it's 190.
01:36We went off of whatever the Olympics do, so it's, like, something around 200.
01:40Yeah, plus or minus a couple.
01:41So some of them have to have some shitty infrastructure.
01:44Oh, I mean, I think one of them has literally 40,000 people living in it.
01:47Like, it was, what is it, not the, something sea islands, not the Cayman Islands, but some island country.
01:53And, yeah, I was like, wow, like, my town, which has 100,000 people, is two and a half times
01:57the population of your country.
01:58Well, I was joking with the contestants, because I was like, if you win the $5 million, you could technically
02:03give a $200 dividend to every single person in your country.
02:06It's, like, that crazy.
02:07It's that little people living there.
02:08Wow.
02:09Yeah.
02:09That's the kind of country, like, I wonder if you could buy that country.
02:13I mean, the GDP is probably, you know, a couple hundred million dollars, if I were to guess.
02:17Right.
02:17Like someone like Elon or something like that could buy that country.
02:19There's probably thousands of people in America that could.
02:21I mean, I feel bad, people from that country listening.
02:24Well, we didn't say the country.
02:25Okay, true, true.
02:26We're good, we're good.
02:26We didn't say it.
02:27Exactly.
02:27It's not yours.
02:28They should know what they are.
02:29Yeah.
02:30They're a country of 40,000 people.
02:31That's just what it is.
02:32Nothing wrong with that.
02:33But it is weird how many countries there are.
02:37And if you've got a person from every country, what are the odds you're going to get good data as
02:45to whether or not they're a criminal?
02:47Well, that's why, I mean, if you saw, like, our budgets on what I have to spend on casting those
02:51people, it was ridiculous to be able to get them all.
02:54Because basically what we did is we grabbed multiple options for each country.
02:57And what I was worried about is that, like, the contestant from blank country would suck.
03:01Right.
03:01And then the country would be like, Jimmy, you hate us and you purposely picked this, you know, absolute moron.
03:07So we would pick two or three from each country and then we let people from those countries vote on
03:11who should compete.
03:12Oh, smart.
03:12So it wasn't even one.
03:14I had to get multiple from each.
03:17I think I ended up spending over a million dollars just on, you know, aggregating and casting and background checks
03:21and everything and then putting it out there so people could vote on it.
03:23But that way, you know, whatever, like Georgia and Europe, if that guy's an absolute moron, it's on them.
03:29They picked them.
03:31Right.
03:31That's actually very smart.
03:32Exactly.
03:32How did you come up with the concept for this show?
03:34Like, first of all, how the fuck do you have time to do that show as well as do your
03:43YouTube show?
03:45Yeah, I just don't sleep much during those because like B-scans basically is 30 days of just, you know,
03:5118 hours a day filming.
03:52And so for people who might not have heard of it, it's essentially the largest cash prize of any show
03:57in the world.
03:57Season one, we had the most contestants of any show in the world and the largest sets of any show
04:06ever to exist.
04:07And I was just like, what if you take like a reality show, but you just ramp everything up to
04:11the absolute maximum.
04:12And like, like season one, we gave away $22 million just one season.
04:16Right. And, you know, some of the biggest game shows in the world right now give away $250,000.
04:20Like we're giving away $2 million every episode.
04:22Yeah. Look at that. That's wild.
04:24All those people. That's so crazy. That sets amazing.
04:27Yep. And then we build a city. And so.
04:33Holy shit. My, my whole thesis behind it with, uh, this is, you know, you, when you watch these, you
04:38know, game shows or reality shows, there's a lot of takeaways.
04:40And like after the show, they'll put people in a room and they'll be like, Hey, talk about what happened
04:44here. And it's like intercut.
04:45And I was like, well, what if we just have a thousand cameras and we just let people be themselves
04:50and we kind of just show it in real time.
04:51So we also like in season one, we broke the world record of most cameras ever used in any production
04:56of any movie show, anything ever.
04:58So like this set right here, there's over 1200 cameras in there.
05:04And the most room is so big. Yeah. It's, it's bigger than the football field.
05:08And so there's a thousand contestants. We have to have an a cam on all of them.
05:11So there's like a pole on each of the platforms on them.
05:15Plus there's hundreds of cameras in the roof and blah, blah. There's over 1200.
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