MrBeast drops two strangers, Hase and Grizz, in the wilderness and pays them $10,000 per day to survive. By day 40 they've earned $400,000, but freezing temperatures, hunger, and the pull of family create tension. After 74 days, they fire a flare to end it, having made $440,000 together.
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I just dropped these two strangers off in the middle of the wilderness. These two guys have never met each other in their entire lives.
Nice to meet you, man.
Every day the two of you survive in this wilderness, I'll give you $10,000.
I hope you brought enough money, man. We're here for the long run.
Hey, put that camera down. Let's head out. All right. Take care, boys. This video could make you guys millionaires.
We're just going to be poor by the time we're out of here.
I'm Hase.
Hase, I'm Grizz. Nice to meet you, man. Grizz?
All right. You're going to be my best friend for the next however long. Starting now, these guys receive $10,000 every day with the only limit being how long they can survive, which theoretically means they could win unlimited money.
Dude, if we stay a year, we're both multimillionaires. We are trying to find a camping spot, build a fire, survive the night.
I guess we should just set up camp here.
For the rest of the night, they gathered wood and went through their supplies.
We've got approximately 5 days worth of food, 2 things of water.
Looks like a change of clothes, some warm jackets, and boom, fire starter.
Let's see if we can get a fire going.
Oh yeah.
We are good.
Let's make beds out of pine needles. Won't be comfortable, but at least we won't freeze to death tonight.
We're alive. Day 2.
And in the morning, I showed up to give them their first $10,000. Boys, how was the first night?
It was cold.
It's been 24 hours, and I didn't walk over with 10 grand. You're not going to ask?
Yeah, I guess we should, right?
Yeah. Okay, just look up.
Oh my—
Here we go!
Every 24 hours, we're going to drop $10,000 out of a plane for you guys. There's $10,000.
In a parachuted briefcase.
Catch it, don't catch it.
Phil, watch out.
Bro, this is insane.
This is crazy. Bro, we're going to be so rich by the end of this video.
And on top of that money, this is your flare gun. Oh. Be careful. Shoot it up in the air, the challenge ends for the both of you, and you walk away with the money you've won.
So how long should we stay out here?
$3.6 million for the year is crazy.
All right, the plan is officially a year. We're going to split this in two. You get this.
Yes.
I get this.
Now we can't screw each other over.
But later in this video, that plan doesn't exactly work.
All right, I feel bad, but I need to steal that flare gun. I just got to shoot this thing, and I get to be a dad again.
If you fire that flare, I literally think I'm going to kill you. Well, buddy, you ready to get rich?
Absolutely. By day 3, you could say the boys were pretty tired of sleeping on the ground. So after another $10,000, they started work on building their shelter.
Going to use my jacket to gather pine needles and layer them on the shelter. All right.
I found this metal piece from a kid's swing set, and I think it's going to work great for the roof of our shelter.
Layer 1 on. Boom. Here's a section that we're working on. You can see it's got some structural poles. We get to use the parachutes and the cord, so we're going to make a rain cover on our shelter.
Everyone thinks probably that I'll be the reason we leave and fail this challenge. But this money would mean college for the kids.
And then on day 4, they started looking for a water source.
Oh, there's a swamp.
I would feel safe boiling that.
Yeah, we got to be careful because that stuff is full of bacteria and parasites. Mm-hmm.
Ooh, just a touch of the swamp.
All right, we're going to bed. Hopefully Chris snuggles up because it's cold and he's big and warm.
This is like the 3rd day in a row that we've gotten 2 hours of sleep. It's been so cold. If it rained right now, we'd probably have to go to the hospital.
But I'd do it for $10,000.
And it wasn't just the freezing temperatures that were getting to them.
We're at the end of our supplies. Grizz likes to call it a fast, which sounds so much nicer than starving.
And for the next few days, the hunger problem didn't get any easier.
We had a little square of beef jerky this morning.
That's it.
Jimmy gave us 5 days worth of food and it's day 9 right now. These are greenbrier leaves. Grizz says they're edible, I guess.
Hmm.
Yeah.
It was clear by this point that the boys were extremely hungry. But lucky for them, I had a surprise waiting for them on day 10. They've officially survived 10 days. 10 days. Bring in the helicopter.
Oh, man. I'm nervous, dude. Oh, my God.
To celebrate day 10, we're giving you guys an additional 10 days' worth of food, spices, 2 tarps, and everything you would need to fish. All of this for $50,000 of your prize money. You want some beef jerky?
Yes.
Don't eat it yet. Oh. These beans look good?
Oh, absolutely.
He's not kidding. Like, this is literally all the things we would need to fish. $50,000.
$50,000. Should we talk to him now?
Yeah.
All right. All right. All right, Jimmy.
I'll throw in 2 Feastable bars.
Yes. Let's do it.
Thank you.
Thanks, Jimmy. Thanks, Jimmy.
It was definitely a deal we had to say yes to, but that week of food literally cost as much as my kid's college tuition.
Hello!
Hey!
Hey!
Bro, I still can't believe that every time this money falls out of the sky.
The food from the crate will feed them for 10 days. But if they want to survive out here for a year—
All right, the plan is officially a year.
They'll still need to find more food in the wilderness.
So some of you may be wondering, why have they not caught fish? Well, the swamp nearby has no fish in it. What we really need is a moving water source. Water that we can fish in.
And while Hase was rambling on about his kids—
and my 2-year-old doesn't sleep very well either, so—
this happened.
I think being a dad— what is this?
This is a creek.
This is not a swamp. This is actually moving water. There's fish in here. Dude, look at this. It's like a dock. This is the perfect place for food and shelter.
And after another few days full of a surprise freezing rainstorm— boo rain—
at least now we have $100,000. They decided to move and upgrade their shelter near near their newfound water source. Good morning, Grizz.
How are you always up earlier than me?
We're gathering up a bunch of dead trees we can use for our structure.
And then we balance them together into an A-frame shape and cut the trees to the right length.
Oh!
I'm sorry.
No, it's all right. I'm glad I broke your fall.
Sorry.
All right, so maybe they had a bit of a false start. But once they got the structure back up, they spent the entire next day putting their finishing touches on their shelter. They even built a fishing dock to help them catch more food. Dock's done.
I'm pleasantly surprised.
And now all we got to do is catch a fish. Come on. Yeah. Right?
And as good as this was, without sleeping bags, the winter night was still unforgiving.
On a really cold night. Cold toes, cold feet. No sleeping bag.
So I think I knew what my next offer was. It's day 20, and they moved super deep in the woods. So now we have to get there by boat. Do you hear that sound in the distance?
What did you say?
Is that a boat?
Any minute now, when we find them, I've got a fun offer for them. How's it going, boys?
Hey, guys. Hey, hey, hey.
What's going on?
Two things. The plane needed maintenance, so I'm delivering this by hand.
Hey, all right.
This is $10,000, which puts you guys at $140,000. And second, we have an offer for you.
Ooh.
Reveal your offer. Just go ahead and take it off. Here it is. Oh.
Oh.
You can either give me $10,000 for that red sleeping bag or give me $50,000 and you get both sleeping bags. What?
5 times the amount for both?
Oh, man.
Can I take it out?
Yeah, we should look at it. Yeah, check them out.
Hang on. I just got to do this.
These are the same sleeping bags we used in Antarctica. They work very well. Here's the weather forecast. It's going to get pretty cold next week. So highly recommend you at least buy one.
When we started this thing out, we were in the 20s without anything. We've adapted to it. We have bedding. We have pine straw. We're doing pretty well in these low temperatures. I would love to have a sleeping bag, but $50,000 is—
I sleep closer to Grizz than I do my wife. So I'm not even kidding.
You're actually going to say no to both?
It's a really cold night. No sleeping bag. Yeah, so I think, I think it's final. We don't want it.
Yeah, agreed.
Wow. Not even a single sleeping bag. All right, boys, close it up. Sure, the boys could survive without sleeping bags, but that didn't solve their food problem. In between sitting out rainy days, the boys got into a bit of a routine where they would boil water, work on their shelter, and try to catch fish, which wasn't really working out for them.
We got some guts for bait. We're going to cast them out and hopefully the fish come up off the bottom of the creek.
Day after day of failing to catch any fish.
Let's go check the lines, see if any catfish are on.
They finally caught a wind in their sails.
Oh, oh, oh, Grizz!
Or whatever that abomination of Mother Nature was. What is that? Can I eat it?
First fish. It's an eel, and I think I'm going to charcoal grill it. We're going to have ourselves some American-style unagi.
This is the first thing that we've caught out here in 27 days, which is insane. We're happy to have it and we're going to make it delicious.
I don't know if this is what I would call delicious, but the fact that they haven't had a fresh meal in almost 30 days means even a rock would taste good to them at this point.
It's excellent.
It's so good.
It's really— it's just like amazingly good.
If we keep catching fish like this, we can easily stay for a year, bro.
Dude, yeah. $3.6 million.
Good night. And on day 28, they started constructing their raised bed system in their new shelter.
So it's going to be 2 tripods, 1, 2 side rails going down, slats across, and then a nice Pine needle mattress made out of parachutes.
And after seeing their new shelter become more and more comfortable, I was starting to get worried that I was going to have to pay these guys millions of dollars.
The only regret that I have, they're not bunk beds.
That's honestly an L. They were betting everything on their new shelter being right next to this creek. But that may have been a huge mistake because they couldn't catch another eel to save their lives.
Snapped it. At this point, I've spent more time in the wilderness than I have with my newborn son. I also have a 2-year-old with my wife alone. How do you explain to a 2-year-old that Daddy's going to be gone and he won't talk to you and he won't call you and he won't see you? Say they were making us an offer. What would be something that you would actually buy?
We spend a lot of time out here trying to get firewood. You know, having firewood dropped off would be really nice. I'd probably pay $10,000 for that.
We are literally in the middle of the forest. I couldn't tell you where we are anymore. All right. How's it going, boys?
How are you guys?
Doing great, man. How are you?
As a reward for surviving an entire month, I brought you a store. Oh, OK. You see, we come through all of your vlog footage, and we wrote down everything you've asked for, such as firewood, a shovel, cooking supplies, bedding, and even books and board games. It's like a dollar store, but everything costs $10,000. Oh, man. This is your store? Feel free to shop.
We've won $240,000. Might as well check it out.
What are these? Those are mosquito nets. Oh. We'll use parachutes. We don't need those.
All right, what about the hammock?
I like the hammock. But, you know, we haven't tried making them out of parachutes yet.
All right, guys, answer this. What could you not make out of parachutes?
A lot.
All right. Well, do you guys want the firewood?
How much wood?
That's the wood you get.
If it came with unlimited wood, I would buy it.
I offered them literally everything they could possibly need here, and they still weren't interested. I was beginning to think these two were secretly Navy SEALs or something. Are you guys going to buy literally anything? You make $10,000 a day. What's another $10,000?
I got to say no.
All right. In a million years would not have thought they would say no to everything. Next time I'm going to convince you two to spend money.
We're looking forward to it.
Yeah, man. See you, Jimmy.
There he goes.
In his tank.
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I am on the last belt loop. I think that we have maybe 2 days worth of food left.
That's not good. Without a This creek is not productive. We got to go to that river. If I can get to that river and the fishing is good, that'll turn all this around.
And with their rations running dangerously low, their only hope at getting food was to travel through the swamp to the river on the other side in hopes of catching some fish.
It's risky wasting all these calories, but I have to do it if we're going to make it any further.
But after a grueling hike, Hayes finally found what he was looking for.
Oh my God. Woo!
Look at that.
It's the river.
Is that not the most gorgeous thing you've ever seen? Woo-hoo-hoo! Finding this river is probably the difference between us making our goal and us tapping out early.
Fortunately, he had a secret weapon.
Grizz and I made our own fishing pole, and this is going to make catching fish easy.
With Hase's makeshift fishing pole immediately breaking, he was going to have to use his hands, and he spent hours trying.
Woo-hoo-hoo!
And failing.
Oh, no!
And if he couldn't catch a fish, catch any fish without immediately dropping them, the calories burned coming here would have been for nothing. But just when he was ready to give up—
This one's going to be it.
Ah, yeah!
Holy moly!
Yes!
I told you it was that one.
Woo-hoo-hoo!
And the luck didn't stop there.
I cannot wait to bring this back to Grizz. He's going to be so stoked.
We're eating tonight.
Yeah!
All right.
That's awesome.
Feels like this is our first real food in ages.
But in the meantime, I was preparing an offer that I know they couldn't refuse. It's day 40. They've made over a third of $1 million, and I have an incredibly special offer for them. For $10,000— and I think you're really going to like this— you both can see your wives. In fact, they're watching right now.
Oh my God.
Are you serious?
Oh man.
I can't let down my kid.
I know. I can't let down my wife.
Okay, Jimmy.
Yes!
Yes!
Hello! It's me.
It's Daddy.
Oh my God.
I smell so bad.
Hi, Talia.
As nice as it was to see their families, the visit was also bittersweet because there's one big question on everyone's mind.
How long do you want us to stay? I want you home now. Like, I do. I know you want me home, but do you need me home?
Yes, she needs you.
Yes, you need to bond with your son.
I don't care what the other guy says, "You've made enough money. I need you home." That conversation was so difficult for me. Even so, yesterday was a really good day. It had all of the things that I love. It had my family, my wife, my kids, my buddy Grizz. That was like a really huge gift. Oh, they're gone now.
Um, to hold her and know that she was safe, it really has changed It's changed the way that I'm viewing this entire challenge. Knowing I have my wife's support, I want to stay until I have $1 million.
And after some much-needed family time, Hase and Grizz were much happier than I'd ever seen them.
Hase and Grizz.
Grizz. Grizz.
Things are going to be good, man. Ambush!
Let's smoke some fish. Look at that. This is perfect.
Even when something happened that would have totally drained them before. $400,000. By now, they didn't even see seemed to mind.
It looks like someone had a gender reveal and the gender was just money.
Even though their spirits were high, there was still a problem they needed to solve. In order to get to the river to fish, they would first need to trudge through this giant swamp. But if they had a boat, they would easily be able to float down the creek to the river.
I am building a boat. The idea is to create a frame with sticks and then attach our tarp so the whole thing can float.
Not feeling super confident in the boat build.
If we can get down to fish, Without having to tromp through a whole swamp, it's worth the risk. Time for the first sea trial of my beautiful ship.
Here he goes.
Chris! Da da da da! And this is pretty ironic considering the offer I was about to bring them. It's day 50. Let's see how they're doing. Hey, bro, you guys have a village now. Wait, are you serious? You built a boat?
Yeah, man.
You're telling me this thing can actually float?
You want to try it?
Yeah, I don't know. I don't—
I—
Oh my gosh. It actually works. He built a freaking boat in the woods. All right, now that I'm aware of that, this changes a lot of things. It's actually insane that you two built a boat yesterday because I brought the two of you a boat with a Zaxby's restaurant on it.
Oh my gosh. This is so cool, Jimmy.
Before I present the offer, I want to make sure you're in a really good state of mind. This is our brand new MrBeast Box, which are now live at every single Zaxby's across America.
Oh my God. That is so good.
The MrBeast Box comes with the best tasting chicken known to man. And the cool part is every single meal comes with a Feastables bar. Our goal with this collab was to take the world's best chicken and pair it with the world's best chocolate. Indeed. Zaxby's also has 12 sauces.
There's like so many flavors happening in my mouth.
What is that?
That's really good. It's a Zax sauce.
Look how happy they are. If you want to be happy like them, just go to Zaxby's and get the MrBeast Box right now. Now that you guys have gotten your meals, your Day 50 offer is for $50,000, you can have this boat.
We don't have a motor. We don't have any way to get this thing around.
You just use sticks.
Oh, Lord, I don't know.
Since you weirdly built the boat the day before, I'll give you a discount. We'll make it $40,000.
My answer is I love the ship I made. I trust it with my life. So I'm going to leave it up to Grizz.
For $40,000, I'm going to pass on the boat. Yes! I'll get in Hase's death trap instead.
If that sinks and you have to quit— I tried. We appreciate the food. That was lovely.
Bye, Jimmy.
I'll see you next time.
So this ship That saved us $40,000.
Still a death trap. Hey, hey, hey, hey, man. When we first started this thing, it was in the dead of winter. You remember how cold it was?
Yeah. Now everything is so nice and warm.
And spring was now in full bloom and they were looking pretty comfortable.
There's a lot of flowers here. I can't say that I mind it.
What is today?
51?
I don't know. I lost track.
I hear an airplane coming in.
Where?
Oh, he's coming straight at us.
This briefcase puts us at $440,000. Time to build the Hase and Grizzle luxie.
80%. 100% of what we're sitting on here is going straight to my business.
This case. No, I don't want Katie to work 24-hour shifts anymore. This money is going to do so much for her and our family.
But while the warmer weather was nice, it presented new problems like snakes.
Don't want to get bit by that.
And rats.
Get out of here.
Every night. Oh my God. And it wasn't long until the lack of sleep started to make them irritable.
Looks like Hase is struggling to get over here. Hase, do you need my help?
What does it look like? You want to paddle upriver into the wind?
Hase, why don't you go get those fishing lines fixed?
You know what?
You shut your mouth when you're talking to me. He's angry.
Can you check those lines while you're over there?
What do you think I'm doing?
I don't know, I was just asking.
Thank you for telling me to do what I'm already doing once again.
Very angry.
Keep in mind, at this point, Hase and Grizz were very close friends, but Hase had reached the end of his rope and the jokes just weren't hitting the same. Anymore.
Grae's idea about how this would unwind is not working, obviously, because it's a stupid idea.
Hayes, I'm sorry, buddy. I did not know I was actually pissing you off. I thought that— I did not know that you were actually upset.
It's all right.
Okay.
And so, feeling frustrated, Hayes turned off his camera and paddled downriver, where he set up his camp until the next day.
Hayes has, uh, set sail, and I think he may have run away. I'll certainly be thinking about him. I know it's supposed to be cold at night He's not back in a couple days. I'm gonna have to go looking for him. Let's do something to cheer him up. So we got a huge board over here that was left by Jimmy at the last beast drop, and I'm gonna repurpose it into a table with some of our cases. This is— it's actually pretty sturdy.
And when Hayes returned home, he was not empty-handed.
Sounds like Hayes has returned from his great adventure. Nice! Oh, those are sea trout!
I'm pretty wiped out. Mind if I take a minute?
No, man, do your thing. What do you think?
Chris!
Yeah, buddy?
What's this?
It's our table.
We have a table?
Yeah.
Oh, man!
Yeah, I figured that'd perk him up a little bit.
This is a $100,000 table, Chris!
Welcome back, buddy.
It feels good to be home. Come on. With their survival needs met and their friendship restored, one question still remained— how long will they stay?
Okay, we gotta have a serious conversation.
Yeah.
The end.
Hmm.
Honestly, I'd have been done 5 days ago.
Maybe push like an extra week. I mean, hell, that's $35,000 each.
If I pulled that flare on day 70, how would you feel?
I would feel, uh, really let down and lied to. I propose at day 70 we have a conversation, decide if we're gonna push further.
That's fair. I promised Grizz that I would stay longer. For him, but I'm not happy about it.
Morning, guys. So Hayes has been a little upset. I'm seeing it. He's keeping to himself, you know, so I'm a little worried about him.
Spoken to Grizz about it.
He wants me to stay longer. He's kind of pushing me to stay longer and stay longer. At some point, I got to stop being wilderness guy and go be dad.
Another day.
Yeah.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, no, no, no.
I knew that was going to happen.
I saw it.
Oh, no. Hayes is going to check out the case that has dropped from the sky.
Day 70. I'm going to see if Grizz is good being done today. See what he says.
What are we going to do with all this money?
I kind of want to talk to you about that. I'm kind of ready to hit the flare. What do you think about that?
I want to stay longer. I know that you've got to pull away from this thing with family.
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. We've talked about it 1,000 times. I just want to know how you feel about it today. Yes or no? No.
Can you go one more day? Give yourself 24 hours just to kind of feel it out.
I thought a lot about it, but if you want to go another day, let's go another day.
How's it going, boys?
How are you, buddy?
Good. Let's go on a little walky walk. We can go over here. Let's say Hayes isn't a part of the equation.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
How many more days do you think you could survive out here?
Let's call it 45 days. Would probably be as far as I'd go.
How many do you think he has left in the tank?
He talks about it every day.
How often do you think about shooting the flare?
Every day.
What stops you?
At this stage, Grizz, you know, he wants to make $1 million, and it's hard to say no to that. I have an obligation to him too, but it's starting to go towards family.
Yeah. Yeah.
When you do shoot that flare, that's going to be crazy.
Oh, I can't wait.
You spoke here last night?
Mm-hmm. I don't want to disappoint Grizz, but— I think I'm done. I thought it would be cool to come back here to our first camp where I was shoulder to shoulder with Grizz every single night. And after that, it was like, "All right, dude. We're brothers now." I expected to walk away with a lot of money, but I didn't expect to walk away with, like, a friend for life, and that's so meaningful to me. I kind of got to think about what's right for me and my family.
Haze got so desperate that he literally went into Grizz's bag and stole the flare gun, even though it was his idea to separate it into two parts.
At this point, all I have to do is shoot this thing and I get to be a dad again, you know?
I know this thing is very challenging. What we're doing out here is not easy. I really truly do believe that you're doing what's right for your family.
I disagree.
You're providing for them in a way that's going to change their lives.
Now it's gone the other way. Now it's, I think I need— I need to be there.
I think that you've been really upset and you've been missing your family really bad. I feel like—
I think the money doesn't—
spiraled through this thing.
The money doesn't matter to me anymore. And really, the only thing that's keeping me here is you. And I'm sick of it.
Yeah. My family needs me too, you know?
And you're very good at, you know, manipulating me.
It was clear that in this moment, Grizz was going to have to make a decision: convince Hayes to continue surviving in these woods for more and more money, or be there for his friend when he needed him the most.
I can't imagine having gone through this experience with, with anyone else. I mean, I really do. Like, I genuinely think if you're like brother, you know. I'm sorry that I've just pushed you on and on and on.
I just don't want to let you down.
You're not letting me down.
Yeah, I am.
Brothers don't let each other down. It's the way it is.
Everything—
everything's got to come to an end sometime. Let me see that flare. I owe you this, and to be honest, be honest with you, I'm sorry that it's taken so long. I think it's time for us to do this thing, buddy. I love you, buddy.
Okay. You smell bad.
I think they shot the player. No, you take that one. Let's go check in on him.
Rich!
Rich! Boys! Hey, Jimmy! Oh my God, we dropped him off! When we left, this is what they looked like. And here's them 74 days later. Crazy. Yes, they look crazy. You haven't left these woods in 74 days.
Dude, I'm so ready.
One final surprise.
Oh my God.
Oh my gosh.
Hi, Tommy.
Baby. Oh.
Wow.
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