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Speaker 1: This is the Fitzy and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Who tuned into Beast Games because the series has been released.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome, Like I loved Beast Games.

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Speaker 2: There were so.

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Speaker 1: Clever and some of the mind games and manipulation, the

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Speaker 1: trust exercises.

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Speaker 2: Can you tell us what Beast Games are?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's mister Beast Jimmy Donaldson from YouTube fame, and

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Speaker 1: it's a series of games where he had five million

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Speaker 1: dollars up for grabs squid game. I'm trying not to

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Speaker 1: give too much away because it didn't end up being

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Speaker 1: five million dollars. It was up for grabs, but there

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Speaker 1: was a series like the production was massive, fitsy like

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Speaker 1: that built a hotel type situation.

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Speaker 2: What's what's his net worth?

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Speaker 1: Mister Beast? I haven't got his Tommy, do you want

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Speaker 1: to go for his net worth? Because you've got some

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Speaker 1: figures here too. Tube star For anyone who doesn't know

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Speaker 1: who mister Beast is, he's a YouTube star. He was

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Speaker 1: out here last year. My kids got to meet him

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Speaker 1: in the Opera House, which was the highlight of their

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Speaker 1: life because he's got what's the chuckle bar called best nuts?

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Speaker 1: Feastable Beast he's got feastables, which just races off the shelves.

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Speaker 1: But just his stats on YouTube, right, he's got three

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three million subscribers. So in fact, after this,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you something, So he has two point six

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Speaker 1: billion views each month, So that's one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: two million hours of content of his that he's created.

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Speaker 1: And the amazing thing is it didn't gain popularity until

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Speaker 1: he'd made like two hundred and eighty videos. So just

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Speaker 1: from his videos alone, there's four point two million dollars

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Speaker 1: a month, so we're over fifty million dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: Then you look at sponsorships as over seven million a month.

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Speaker 1: And someone not long ago said I would buy mister

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Speaker 1: Beast for a billion dollars. I think mister Beast's team

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Speaker 1: turned around and said I would need about twenty of those.

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Speaker 1: So that's yeah. I mean, he and a couple of

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Speaker 1: others were looking to buy Twitter, weren't they.

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: Uh that's no, sorry, no, no, no, no, not Twitter. They

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Speaker 1: were looking at buy Snapchat.

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Speaker 2: Oh I feel we're talking about it's TikTok. They were

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Speaker 2: looking to buy TikTok. I'll explain to you after seven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Why I'm in a world of hurt today. Anyway, Tommy

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Speaker 2: his net wealth, what do you.

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Speaker 1: Got half a billion dollars mister beast five hundred mil.

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Speaker 1: But on Jimmy you just got engaged to and I

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Speaker 1: think he's only nine years old. Oh, congrastulates the world

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Speaker 1: on Beast Time. It's in Whipper with Kate Ritchie is

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