Shadowing Practice: Making the MrBeast Movie - Ep 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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What the...

My heart's pounding.

What's wrong?

On a random

Zoom call in 2021, we came up with a crazy idea.

What if we were the guys to make Mr. Beast his own life movie?

Something's going on with Kurt, I don't know.

I'm kind of scared.

But never in our lives would we have thought that after four years, it would lead to this.

We just gotta DM.

Howdy.

Mr. Beast.

Oh wow, I feel it now too.

What are you gonna say?

Why?

Why now?

Is that actually Mr. Beast?

Yes. So weird.

Mr. Beast wants to chat.

He's ready!

We got that Mr. Beast DM!

Heard you're making a movie.

So, we should probably tell you about this crazy idea.

We want to make the world's first feature -length biopic about a YouTuber.

Imagine Mr. Beast's life as a movie.

But not a documentary we mean a scripted narrative movie with an actor playing Mr. Beast.

And not the Mr. Beast you're thinking of.

We want to tell the untold story of who

Jimmy Donaldson really is.

Now this idea is wild, but what's even crazier is the story of how two filmmaker brothers from Australia with zero connections

and zero experience making an actual movie quit everything

and move to the other side of the world all because they decided they'd be the ones to try pull this off.

We don't have money, we don't have clout.

We have an amazing idea, but that's all we have.

We're talking about us by the way.

We're about to show you the unseen footage of how we started with nothing and ended up here.

Somehow hijacking the attention of the world's biggest YouTuber.

He actually just called.

But will this call with Jimmy be everything we hoped for? Do you hear me?

Hello?

Or a complete disaster?

This is episode one of our journey to making our first feature film.

The Mr. Beast movie.

You could say this is where the story started.

But starting here would be completely brushing over the reason why this idea is so valuable to us.

Growing up we both had the same dream.

We both wanted to make movies.

We used the built -in camera on our parents MacBook and posted our movies to YouTube.

They wouldn't get any views but we just loved creating them.

We made a lot of movies until one day

we were pulling up YouTube to show our family a movie we made

and to our surprise one of our movies hit the youtube algorithm

we watched it climb to two million views hi we went viral

we tried everything we could to capitalize on it to try

and make a career out of this but it just didn't work out

but it did open our eyes to the way we could achieve our dream youtube fast forward a few years

and the need to earn a living put our dream on hold for a long time

we found ourselves shooting everything but the movies we wanted to make.

We needed something to wake us up.

Then lockdown hit.

We were forced out of work and had a choice to make.

Wait till everything went back to normal or use this small window of opportunity to try again.

So we started this channel.

We were posting movies again and trying to figure out how we could make them go viral.

Trying to come up with the most foolproof strategy we could think of.

To finally start our career in making movies.

What is the craziest thing that we can do with short films on YouTube?

Some days it felt like we were onto something.

This is the start of us just doing it.

And others it felt like we might never break through.

You got any ideas?

But on one of those days, we came up with this.

I think it's an amazing tactical decision.

The first time I thought of it, I was like, let's make a full feature film about Mr. Beast.

Like, imagine that coming out for free on YouTube.

People would be like, oh, have you seen that?

Mr. Beast film.

Movie?

Mr. Beast movie.

Yeah, that's definitely the most interesting thing about it like it will get out there because it's a clickable movie.

Who wouldn't click on that?

Yeah.

We could tell this was a great idea, potentially our bulletproof plan, and we just couldn't believe no one was doing this already.

But an idea so ambitious brings up a lot of question marks.

We're from an ordinary suburb in Australia.

We've never made a feature film before.

Why would we be the guys to do this over a massive Hollywood studio?

How would we fund it?

And how would we get this idea to Mr. Beast?

Should we invest in this and try and figure that stuff out?

I just don't want to slow us down at all.

We started questioning if maybe this idea was too big.

So you don't think it should be like a short five minute film?

I don't think so.

Because that's something we could do like this week.

Because the mentality of just like, let's get it done, that always helps us.

I agree with that, but then at the same time I don't want to rush it.

Like we're only stopping ourselves when we don't believe we can do it.

So we finished the call agreeing that it would be a 30 minute short film.

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All we knew was the next step was to write a script.

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All right, vlogging time.

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We're in the common room of Lucas's apartment complex.

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What's up?

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What do we do here?

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We pretty much spend our days writing scripts.

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What do you want me to say?

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Act excited about the film.

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We sucked at talking to the camera back then.

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I'm working on the final scene of the Mr. B short film.

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This is the video that kind of inspired it.

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We found something unique in Jimmy's story here that truly resonated with us as filmmakers this really excited us

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Because now this was more than just a great marketing.

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We have a real story yeah, so then we were like let's write a film about that story because It's kind of untold,

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but it's pretty crazy

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It's been helpful to have like videos to go off

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But at the moment everything we've written is just blurted out and it's probably crap

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So we have to rewrite it hard after a few months we got the script in a really good place

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and we knew it was time to put

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this idea out into the world with the goal of maybe

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getting mr beast attention explain what you're doing just about to make a youtube short about our mr beast script

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so this right here is a script about mr beast's life me

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and my brother actually wrote it

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and it's a full -on movie script probably about 25 minutes

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in length the really cool thing is we're actually going to turn this into a movie

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so follow if you want to see it cool i'll send it to you

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and you edit it sure

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we were a little confused why the internet wasn't taking to our idea as quickly as we thought

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but looking back it makes sense mr beast just hit 100 million subscribers we thought to ourselves this story is so good

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this should be a movie we make movies

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so for the past few months

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while we've been making other short films

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we've actually been writing the script in the background there it is finished subscribe

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if you want to see his life turn into a movie

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these shorts were an absolute master class on what not to do.

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Yeah, so imagine if we made a video pitching to Mr. Beast, saying, Mr. Beast, we wrote a movie about you,

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and then asked kind of like for a shout out or like to be funded like $100 ,000 or something.

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Yeah, I think that's cool. Be honest.

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We had such a warped view of how value exchange works.

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Why would Jimmy give us a shout out and $100 ,000 just for asking?

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We can even end it by saying, we're gonna make this either way,

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but you have like 30 days to get back to us if you want to make this production quality better.

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So now the plan was to threaten Jimmy.

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You have 30 days to give me my money.

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Also, around this time, everyone was begging

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Jimmy for collabs and giving him low -effort gifts to try and get him in their video.

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People are just giving me stuff, but it's just so low effort,

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and it's not original, and it's just so they can slap my face on a thumbnail.

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That's why I say no to basically everything.

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So we made a conscious decision early on to avoid doing anything close to that.

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This idea felt too valuable to treat it like that.

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We have an amazing idea, right?

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But that's all we have.

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We don't have money.

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We don't have clout and we don't really have connections.

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So we need to use our idea as leverage to get those things, right?

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So instead we turn to the more traditional

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Hollywood method of pitching the idea to the right people.

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In hopes this would be a quicker way to get our idea to Jimmy.

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So we need to make a pitch deck.

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We needed to make a pitch deck.

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We've been working on something.

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We've been working on something big.

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And if you don't know, a pitch deck is basically a concise visual representation of your idea.

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We've been working on this thing for the past few weeks.

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Month even, months.

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We've written a script, done a mood board, posters, a synopsis.

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If this works, this is going to be the greatest thing we've just pulled up at it, bro.

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This will be a very long interview on Colin and Samir.

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Let's have a look at the pitch deck.

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Imagine Mr. Beast's life as a movie.

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The untold origin story of an awkward teen making YouTube history.

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An invitation to break the internet.

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It's about someone famous, but it's a story that means a lot to us.

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We want to be the ones to make it.

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Even that's part of the story.

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Hopefully they just want to jump on board and help us make it happen

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So we started creating a list of emails

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that it would be perfect to send to then we actually had to click send

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Once I send this my dopamine hits gonna go through the roof

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To me this is like when people say just go out there

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and do something chase your dreams actually do stuff sending this email feels like

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Chasing I feel like I'm actually taking a step forward Are we doing it?

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Kurt?

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Are you sending me?

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Yes, click send

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We said that.

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This is a foolproof plan.

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Beast, it's good to meet you.

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One of those people, for example, was Daryl Eves.

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Daryl Eves is the YouTube guru who mentored Mr. Beast and also the producer that made

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The Chosen happen.

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If you click on my bio, it says, Hi, Daryl.

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I got Twitter just to contact you.

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We have a crazy plan to turn Mr. Beast's life into a movie.

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I think we need a chat.

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Come on.

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Should we just risk it?

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Let's just do it.

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Let's pray.

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Let's pray.

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Thank you, Lord, for this opportunity to chase our dreams and to do crazy things, all for your glory.

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Turns out...

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Not one person replied and to be honest we were pretty down about that.

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We started realizing it wasn't going to be that easy.

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Maybe we hadn't fully committed yet and maybe that's what's holding us back.

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We finally built up the courage to believe in our original bigger idea.

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Meaning this was going to be our first feature film.

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And if so our next attempt had to be bigger too.

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We wanted to try to prove to the world and Jimmy that we were the guys to do this.

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Even if we only just started believing it.

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We began playing the long game.

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Growing an audience from scratch who believed in our goal.

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We started by writing a short script about another youtuber's story that inspired us, ARAC.

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Then we turned that script into what felt like a real movie trailer.

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But when the trailer didn't perform well on our channel,

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we came up with a last minute idea to surprise him with it at his 10 million subscriber pizza party.

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Thinking maybe a video about that would blow up our channel.

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But because that party's all the way in LA, we'd only make it if we left immediately.

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Should we just do it?

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How fun would it be right now just to jump on a plane,

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Go to the airport and like we're going to America to try to chase our dream.

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But the idea came too late.

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We somehow missed the last flight to LA.

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It's gone.

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We just sprinted with so much bags.

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We paid like $3 ,000 just for nothing.

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Already.

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We lost it.

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What a weird morning.

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Except it didn't feel like a total failure.

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That was the day we actually proved to ourselves just how far we're willing to go.

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The wind wasn't getting on the plane, it was getting out of our comfort zone.

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If we could just try this again with another YouTuber, surely this idea would work.

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We are at the airport.

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We booked new flights to the US, but this time for Ryan Tregan.

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How are we going to see Ryan Tregan?

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I don't know.

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In the same trip to go shoot it, we'd have to edit it, post it, and try to find Ryan and show it to him.

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Ryan, we're Filmmaker Brothers from Australia.

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We flew halfway across the world to show you something.

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We're turning your life into a movie.

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What's up, guys?

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You guys came to Austin without even contacting me?

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100%.

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Shut up.

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You guys are so exciting.

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And it actually started working.

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Bro, we freaking did it.

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We're viral.

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We freaking did it.

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Our plan became clear.

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We're making trailers for YouTubers until we make an actual movie for Mr. Beast.

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Crazy.

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You guys are crazy.

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What the was that?

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That was so wild.

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And all of a sudden we were sitting next to some of the biggest YouTubers ever.

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Only one connection away from Jimmy himself.

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So when we surprised

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Mark Rober with his own movie, we had to shoot our shot.

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We'll put your name in the credits of the MrBeast movie if...

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You pull out your phone right now and call MrBeast.

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Wow!

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I spoke to MrBeast.

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He agreed to talk to you guys if you hit a certain milestone of subscribers.

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The bad news, depending on how you want to look at it, is that number is 5 million subscribers.

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So gauntlets been thrown, gentlemen.

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Get to work.

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This was insane.

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We somehow finessed our way to get our idea in front of Mr. Beaks.

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And not only that, but we had a tangible way to actually meet with him about this movie.

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And this was the exact point we decided to take the biggest leap so far.

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We packed up everything, said goodbye to our family and friends.

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We have to say bye to all these beautiful friends.

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We love you guys.

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And with our wives, we moved to the other side of the world.

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This was our first home.

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And to say goodbye, we're moving to USA.

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Bye.

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Love you.

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It was definitely crazy to think how far we'd come since vlogging in Lucas' apartment common room in Australia.

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But after a whole year of working towards our goal in America, we started realizing that we were still so far away.

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This was going to take a lot longer than we planned.

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It takes a lot of work to get to 1 million subscribers, and a lot of YouTubers never even make it to 5 mil.

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But if we ever do, would Jimmy even remember what he promised?

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Or was it just something that he said in passing?

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We went all in, and it wasn't easy.

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But we still had that same question that we started with.

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Will we ever get to make our first feature film?

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What the...

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My heart's pounding.

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What's wrong?

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Something's going on with Kurt, I don't know.

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I'm kinda scared.

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We just got a DM.

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Howdy.

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Mr Beast.

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What are you gonna say why why now is that actually mr. Bees yes

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Hey Jimmy just say Jimbo the beast wants to chat he's ready

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This is exciting, yeah, that's kind of the plan.

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Oh my gosh, I just wanna hug you because we freaking did it.

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Is he actually just cold?

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Yeah? Can you hear me?

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Hello?

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Yo!

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Well, this is funny because I'm on a plane about to take off, so you're gonna lose me in like five seconds.

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Oh, all good.

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It's really cool to hear from you.

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Likewise.

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Oh, well, I'm flying Egypt, so I guess I'll just, maybe I'll give you a call in a day or two.

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I didn't know.

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Oh, okay.

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The suspense.

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The suspense.

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We'll make it super true.

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We'll make it to reality.

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Can you guess what we're filming in Egypt before I leave you?

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You filming in Egypt?

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Seven Wonders?

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We got the pyramids for the week.

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That's crazy.

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That's wow.

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Are you getting to the top of the pyramid?

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Yeah.

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No way.

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It's epic.

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All right, well, have a safe trip.

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It ended.

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What was that?

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After literally four years of waiting for this moment, we lost him, which leaves us no choice.

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In episode two, we're calling Jimmy back.

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He's a busy guy.

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I tried calling Mr. Beast back two times now.

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He's calling?

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Yeah.

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Okay, we're calling.

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I know you guys are working on a movie or something like that.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Making the MrBeast Movie - Ep 1”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: movie, beast, film. This video has 336 sentences and 3017 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:30. The speaker talks fast, about 183 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
beast noun	/biːst/	Any four-footed land mammal.
subscriber noun	/səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/	A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.
untold adjective	/ʌnˈtoʊld/	Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
filmmaker noun		A producer or director of films/movies.
viral adjective	/ˈvaɪɹəl/	Of or relating to a biological virus.
trailer noun	/ˈtɹeɪlɚ/	Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing.
clout noun	/klaʊt/	Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
excite verb	/ɪkˈsaɪt/	To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
foolproof adjective	/ˈfuːl ˌpɹuːf/	Of a device: protected against, or designed to be proof against, misuse or error.
howdy noun	/ˈhaʊdi/	A wife.
vlog noun	/ˈvlɑɡ/	A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.
suspense noun	/səˈspɛns/	The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
pyramid noun	/ˈpɪɹ.ə.mɪd/	An ancient massive construction with a square or rectangular base and four triangular sides meeting in an apex, such as those built as tombs in Egypt or as…
inspire verb	/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/	To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by…
shout verb	/ʃaʊt/	To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
come up with verb	To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
blow up verb	To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
break through verb	To gain popularity.
bring up verb	To mention.
brush over verb	To barely cover a topic; to skim through or lightly touch on (something).
build up verb	To erect; to construct.
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

What are you gonna say?
People would be like, oh, have you seen that?
How would we fund it?
What do we do here?
What do you want me to say?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	we've been making · we've actually been writing · We've been working
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if we ever do, would Jimmy
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have thought · We've never made · It's been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	were forced · is just blurted · be funded

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 80 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, don't, we've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shout /ʃaʊt/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, ambitious /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
Long words — get the stress right: capitalize /ˈkæpətəˌlaɪz/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like beast, subscriber, untold.

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