Leslie Myers
The headwriter for the last 36 hours who hails from Simi Valley and struggles to remember her own name.
Highlight Bits & Quotes
10The Mr. Beast Writers' Room Roll Call
The writers for YouTube icon Mr. Beast introduce themselves, revealing a high-stress environment fueled by caffeine, whiteboards, and a lack of chairs.
"I'm known as coach."
"I am headwriter of Mr Beast and I have been so for the last 36 hours."
"I'm in charge of the first 15 seconds of every video."
The 15-Second Hook and Brainstorming Chaos
Paul Trace explains his role in nailing the first 15 seconds of a video before leaving, while the team attempts to pitch increasingly nonsensical challenges involving school buses and spaceships.
"Breathing stops engagement."
"What if you put a spaceship in a school bus and tried to drive the school bus?"
"I don't think we made one sentence of sense yet."
Two Truths and a Truth: Corporate Culture
The writers play a game revealing the dark reality of working for the Beast, including 80-hour days, giant Mendocino Farms orders, and a half-mile long 'punishment slide'.
"We work 80 hour days and we produce a 100 ideas a week."
"It's a slide punishment but it's also exercise."
"They found Amelia Earhart actually this week."
Wellness Checks and Alter Egos
A high-decibel wellness alarm interrupts the session, followed by a discussion of Mr. Beast's various alter egos like Mr. Yeast and Mr. Grease, and a pitch for a second Las Vegas in the ocean.
"Wellness check time!"
"Mr. Yeast loves bread."
"Do you know the GDP of a minor country like Japan? That's our budget."
The Energy Drink Source Pitch
Paul Trace claims his energy drink is coursing through him like a wildfire, allowing him to act as a 'source' for the drink's own pitch: a psychological game involving mystery food and ex-partners.
"This energy drink is coursing through me like a wildfire."
"The drink is the source. I am the source."
"The twist is the food is nothing different, the food is normal, but we freak them out with the amount of money."
Leslie's Granny Voice and the Tar and Feather Box
Leslie Myers enters a caffeinated trance as her 'granny voice' character, leading to a chaotic sequence where she is threatened with the 'tar and feather box'—which is actually just a crossword app.
"This is Leslie's granny voice. This is when I drink the caffeinated Werther's Original."
"We have to put you in the tar and feather box."
"It's an app. It's a placebo. It's a crossword where every answer is tar or feather."
100 Mr. Beast Episodes in a Row
The writers' room descends into a rapid-fire pitch session, listing increasingly absurd and dark Mr. Beast video concepts involving world leaders, prehistoric animals, and psychological torture.
"We pitch 100 episodes in a row to camera until we stop."
"We built the biggest slip-and-slide in the world in the demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea."
"We found every age JonBenet Ramsey could be and we put her in a room."
The English Channel Glass Tube
Leslie Myers pitches a convoluted idea involving a glass tube across the English Channel where fish identify people with money to meet Penn and Teller.
"The fish get to meet Penn and Teller in Las Vegas."
"Just like Teller, fish don't talk."
The Hornet Economy and Nat Geo
The writers reminisce about a scrapped video where they gave hornets $50, resulting in a complex insect society with education and mental health systems.
"They also just invented math."
"It was hornet math, so it was a completely different type of calculation."
The GDP of Japan Budget
The writers discuss the infinite budget for their next Mr. Beast video, comparing it to the GDP of Japan. Paul Trace struggles with the concept of raising his hand to pitch.
"Do you know the GDP of a minor country like Japan? That's our budget."