195 - Beast Games from MrBeast® (feat. Juniper)
Added 2025-06-25 06:00:07 +0000 UTCJuniper (Western Kabuki, Ill Conceived) and the lads grab their blue jerseys and throw coconuts down a hill as they cover the first season of MrBeast’s nightmare of a game show: Beast Games. Topics include the horrific filming conditions, the so-called “games”, and what it means to watch the full-villain arc of one Jimmy Donaldson.
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Western Kabuki: Juniper and Caleb with their trusty producer Alex delve into internet topics du jour.
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Ill Conceived: A podcast about natalism. Hosted by Josh Boerman (The Worst of All Possible Worlds, Traditional Scrench) and June Sternbach (Western Kabuki, The Onion)
Media Referenced in this Episode:
Beast Games. Amazon. 2024.
2,000 People Fight For $5,000,000 by MrBeast. December 19th, 2024.
Beast Games is the Average Mid Show on TV by Entertainment Media Strategy Guy. January 28th, 2025.
'Beast Games' Is the Biggest Competition Show Ever. Crew Claims Behind the Scenes Was Chaos by Steven Asarch. Rolling Stone. December 26th, 2024.
Las Vegas staff say MrBeast should be 'blacklisted,' cite OSHA, medics set for failure by Mingson Lau. KSNV News. September 28th, 2024.
MrBeast’s ‘Beast Games’ Hits 50 Million Viewers in 25 Days, Amazon’s Biggest Unscripted Show Ever by Selome Hailu. Variety. January 16th, 2025.
"Player 991 - Jeremy AMA!" on Reddit
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Interstitial: “1,000 People Play Go-Fish for $1,000,000" // Written by A.J. Ditty // feat. David Armstrong as “Mr. Beast/Mister Beast/Confused Contestant #1”, Eleanor Philips as “Karl/Confused Contestant #2", and A.J. Ditty as “The Man in the Trench Coat/Confused Contestant #3/Overworked Crew Member”
Comments
I yelled “oh my God” at the end of that horse corner. Genius. All of these games are horrible and weird. The way MrBeast talks is really annoying, but listening to all of you try to explain the games is fun.
Elizabeth Power
2025-06-30 00:25:43 +0000 UTCMy take on his thing about “stories” is that he had a chance to talk with real reality tv producers for the first time and they used their industry jargon about stories and characters in conversation with him, and he became obsessed with it because it’s a useful way to talk about how shows like that are edited and presented to their audience. Like many YouTubers he lacks training and industry experience but has a/b tested himself into producing things in very similar ways to how tv does it. Now that he’s on real tv, he’s learning a lot of the things he should reasonably have already figured out and struggling to catch up, or use those things to make work in his own creative voice (because he is fundamentally not a creative person).
Ben Ferber
2025-06-30 00:06:12 +0000 UTC
