In this 24‑hour vlog, Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast) and his crew—Chandler Hallow, Chris Tyson, Garrett, Tareq, and others—venture into Slab City, a law‑less desert community. The video opens with a drive to the outskirts, passing the iconic Salvation Mountain, and quickly establishes the premise: exploring a place with no electricity, water, or law enforcement. The group tours a cave with wall art, visits an eccentric desert art museum run by a self‑styled "Wizard," and navigates quirky local rules (e.g., “everything is touchable”). They engage in a series of improvised challenges: a seesaw, a makeshift tent, fire‑making, and a “room of doors” game with cash prizes. Interactions with locals include an open‑mic night, a community party, and spontaneous basketball and cooking sessions. Throughout, the crew jokes, teases each other (especially Chris Tyson), and shares memes. Health mishaps arise when Chris experiences severe kidney‑stone pain, prompting the group to care for him. The vlog blends humor, spontaneous adventure, and a surprisingly warm community vibe, concluding with the crew reflecting on the day’s exhaustion, the unique camaraderie of Slab City, and plans to rest.
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Slab City is a community located in the middle of the desert. It has no electricity, no running water, and no law enforcement. Out of curiosity, me and the boys decided to spend 24 hours in the slabs. So we're getting close to Slab City, and as you see, there's roads and stuff, and then once we take this turn, it's nothing. No buildings, no nothing. So we're on the outskirts of Slab City. This right here is Salvation Mountain. It's a tourist attraction, and they recommend you don't go any further that way. It says keep out, Chandler. It says— ah, I guess there's no laws. So we're at the top of Candy Mountain and Slab City is that way a little bit more. And yeah guys, so we discovered this cave and it has art on the walls.
I'm not doing it, I'm not going in.
Chandler, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go Chandler!
This looks like something out of a horror video game. I know, 100%. Ooh, what's in here?
I don't— dude, that's— I don't want to go in there. Nope, nope, nope, we're not going in there. Oh, this is incredible. Look at the— look up, guys. Just look up. I have so many questions about how all this got here. Like, we're literally in the middle of a desert. So we're at the info thing for Slap City, the last free place on Earth. Das meme, error.enod.
Oh, it's Chris!
Look! Oh, Chris.
Where's FedEx delivering to?
That's what I want to know.
Uh, I think we should go now, guys.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of creepy.
Here, here. Don't. Nope.
Bakuta?
I'm not going in there. Garrett, you have fun. I'm going back to the car. What is this?
It's Winnie the Pooh on a grave.
That was a bad movie anyways. I don't know where we're going.
I'm just scared something's going to jump out at me at any second.
Dude, this is very scary. Yeah, let's get out of here. I'm done. We're moving on. Hey Garrett, look, it's you.
That's creepy.
Oh, lit.
You're right.
It does actually look like Garrett.
All right. Hey, Tareq, fly a drone over that so we can see what's in it. Okay. Next, we're going to an art museum owned by this guy named the Wizard in the middle of a desert with no laws.
And we have 3 rules. One, you don't have to stand on the carpeting. Two, everything is touchable. Three, you touch it and it breaks, tell them it was broke when you got here. Bowl in the bowling alley, all we ask, put the pins back. We've been homicide-free for 3 days. We're shooting for a week.
All right, Chris. You guys are doing seesaw? Yes, sir. This is the seesaw here.
I don't think I'm tall enough.
I don't like this.
I don't like this. It goes scary.
I've been on scarier rides in like amusement parks.
But I've also had straps on those scary rides, Chris.
You don't need straps in life, man.
Don't get down yet.
No, I want to get down.
No, I go first.
I thought I was going to die. Not going to lie, it was not fun.
I lost my shirt because you don't need clothes in Slab City. I'm a slab. Guys, they got memes in here.
Hyperextension stress Christmas. Yes. Come to the desert if you want fire memes. It's dangerous. First one to use the bathroom gets 10 grand.
Hi.
He's a good boy.
Bah!
Scared cat.
It's an elephant.
It's a cage full of Spider-Men. They're free-range.
They look discolored. Have Jimmy walk in the middle of the room and we're all gonna hide behind a door.
I'm in a room full of doors and they're all hiding behind a random door. If I pick the door they're hiding behind, they owe me a grand. Uh, I don't know what door I opened. I'm just gonna close that one. I guess we'll try this one. Can I have my $1,000? Hey boys, go down the scary tunnel first so I don't die. Be my shield, Chandler.
Hey guys, what the heck? What are you doing?
Chandler, you jumped so hard.
It's got a bunch of kazoos in it.
You won't blow one? Please don't, Chris.
Chris, Chris, Chris, this is where the outbreak starts. So Chris, what do you think of this place so far?
I think I want to live here. It's beautiful and it's art. Wait, hold on, one more thing.
They've got a lot of bowling balls but not enough water. So Garrett, what do you think of this place so far? No. What do you mean? No. Okay. Hey, so Chandler, what's, uh, What do you think of this place so far, Chan? What? So, Chris.
Yeah, what's up, man?
This seems a little familiar here. Uh, did this happen before? Yeah. What happened? What's happening here? That was back in the desert, right? So Chris here used to be a Boy Scout.
Yes, sir.
He used to do this all the time. Chris is the only reason we're gonna survive this challenge. Chris, can you heat this up for me? Yeah, hold up. I'm hungry.
Hold on, I'm busy.
Chris, what do these sticks mean? Cheese butt, come here.
Don't call me cheese butt, I'm not doing anything if you call me cheese butt.
He called you cheese butt. Guys, we don't need Chris, let's figure it out.
Yeah, all right, you heard it.
Remember what happened last time you said that?
Yeah, he helped us, so. So what's your plan with this, Garrett here? How are you gonna do this tent?
Um, Chris?
What's up?
There's no I in slab, Chris. When you guys buy merch, use code Chris.
Like that a lot.
Yeah, like I said in that one Twitch video, whenever you check out at ShopMrBeast, if you put in one of their codes, they get a little kickback.
Here, let me help you with that.
The easiest part.
Man, I love Chris. He just does everything.
I'm just sick of everybody relying on me for everything. Ow! Don't go in my tent.
Thank you for letting me stay in your tent.
No, get out of my tent. Get out of— your shoes are on. Don't put your shoes in my tent. Uh, I either set up your tent or make food, so which one do you want?
Can I just give you $1,000 to do both?
You heard it, folks.
There we go, it's out of there. Yeah, better not be recognized in Slab City. I am just a tourist. Chandler, there's no McDonald's out here.
So when are we leaving? There's no McDonald's out here. They told me there was restaurants. They lied to me. Chris, make the food.
Might not get any food at all.
Is there Uber Eats out here?
Wait, y'all didn't get me a chair?
Yeah.
This happened last time. Why does this keep happening?
I think it's at Walmart.
Is that Walmart? So what's going on here?
Walmart sucks.
Chris said he was an expert.
He lied.
Well, you just got demerited.
Oh, okay. Alright, figure this out then.
We did. It doesn't work.
This does not fit in here, so Walmart lied to us.
So are we gonna have to just make our own fire?
Or we could ask locals for food.
Um, yes, we're gonna have to make our own fire.
Somebody's job is to get big sticks. Somebody's job is to get big rocks.
Me and Chandler will get rocks, you and Garrett get sticks. Why'd you guys pick rocks over sticks?
Sticks are pokey.
All right, so you're getting some stickers?
Yeah. I'm getting some sticks. I'm sick and I have to do everything and it's not very fair.
Thank you, Chris.
Did you just spill all the matches? Yeah.
Remember, I am sick. Chandler, can you go away? You literally have no construction.
He told me to come over here and say dumb things. You got a couple on the ground.
I see that, buddy.
Oh, do we have more, kids?
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Oh no, no, I just want to give you guys a heads up on good stuff.
Oh yes sir.
Okay, you know about the show tonight?
No. Oh, there's a show?
Every Saturday night at sundown, open mic, live music, BYOB, anybody's skateboard.
I didn't bring my skateboard. I didn't.
Anything else?
Uh, that should do it right there.
Should do it?
All right.
Are you gonna be at the open mic tonight?
I'll be there for a little while. Okay.
All right.
I love how you called it open mic.
Yeah, he does open mic comedy.
You do comedy?
Sign up and you go on stage.
Oh, nice. Dude, that would be so cool.
That would be cool if you did comedy. We would like to record you.
Go back to your own country, you son of a bitch.
I've heard that one before. This guy is tearing up our basketball goal.
So, so far a lot of the people have actually been really nice to us. I guess that guy was just on something and he just didn't know what was going on.
Chandler, you ate all the weenies. I did not.
Dude, no, I saw you eat them all.
Play me. Let's play basketball right now.
I'm not gonna play basketball because I don't like sports. Oh, hey, I'm cooking some eggs.
So what kind of eggs are these here?
Uh, cheesy scramble.
Cheesy scramble?
Yes, sir.
That looks delicious. Should I go tell the boys the food is ready?
Yeah, weren't they having a fight about food or something?
Yeah, I think that's the reason why they're playing. Oh, so are we all dressed up and ready to go to the party? We are, and we were just thinking that going to this party is the weirdest thing we've ever done, except for the time we all sat in a circle Or the time we were in straitjackets in the insane asylum. What about the time we counted to 100,000? Oh, that was just me.
I went to Ohio.
That's pretty crazy. An old man with a beard came over here and told us there's a party. Wait, an old man told us about the party? Yeah.
Oh great.
It's my kind of party.
We scoped it out with the drone. It looks pretty dope. It was lit up. Yeah. There was empty seats. Apparently it was like a show or like an open mic and there was lights. So yeah, we're going.
That's all it takes, lights.
We like lights.
Baby, I can't sleep. I just signed up for the open mic here, and I'm gonna try to do some stand-up comedy. Uh, if I'm doing bad, just get the car ready. I was actually born in Saudi Arabia. Do you guys know where that is? Yeah. First memory was that all the women there dressed the same. They covered everything except their eyes. My second memory was that I kept losing my mom in retail stores. Thank you guys so much. Thank you for letting me do this. Appreciate it. To be honest, I was not expecting this. There's kind of like a community and everyone here just seems super chill.
They were playing a lot of music that I really enjoy and love. I had no clue that something like this was going to be just randomly in the middle of the desert.
For a place with no laws, this is actually pretty just chill, and, uh, it's kind of like a community. Everyone's getting along. I'm just kind of surprised in the middle of the desert you have this.
There's a lot of different people out here, you know. This is awesome. I honestly didn't expect this. I didn't want to come here in the first place, but this is crazy.
You want to go dance? I'll donate. Heck yeah, let's go do it.
Yeah, out in stormy weather. All right, boys, I'm staying here. I'm going to live here. No, Garrett, you wouldn't last 5 seconds out here. What?
We've been out here for 24 hours.
You wouldn't last 5 more seconds out here.
Yeah, you're right.
All right. Garrett's gone.
What if Three Knife Guy comes back?
What if he literally just popped up right behind you and grabbed you by the throat?
I mean, it's my time to go and get stabbed with 3 rusty knives.
I'm sorry, dude, if you're listening, we don't mean this.
I thought you said you wanted to live here, man.
Yeah, I talked to some of the locals. They denounced Three Knife Man.
They don't like him.
No, they don't like him.
Chris wanted to go up on stage and dance with somebody.
I didn't want to go on stage, you liar.
But he can't dance, so he chickened out. And now we're making fun of him for it.
Wow, great play-by-play. Who are you, Joe Madden?
Oh my goodness, you might as well just walk into the abyss after that one.
All right, see you guys, I'm out of here.
So the boys don't understand how this works. You can't just approach a slab city and just be like, yo, dance with me. They have to accept you. And so he was— you don't know if he was vibing with me or not, man. Can't dance.
Oh God, no.
Stop it, man.
Honestly, don't care if Chris can or can't dance, but I just like making fun of him. So it's really funny that he didn't dance.
I'm going to be honest, Chris is starting to get arrogant, you know, because he built the tents. It happens every time. I was told to talk about how Chris didn't dance. Haha, Chris.
He won't do it because he can't dance either.
Yeah, that's literally what I was thinking. Why would I make fun of him when I can't dance? So I'm in the tent and I'm not going to lie, I feel exhausted. It's been a pretty fun day. I'm going to go to bed soon.
Hmm, alright guys, it's been a long day. I'm pretty tired. Okay, God is telling me to go to sleep. It was a crazy experience, but it's time for bed. So peace out.
I think I'm gonna hit the hay. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not feeling too well. I'm gonna go ahead and go to bed. I'll see you guys tomorrow. I'm not feeling too good. I'm really sick. I think I need to go to like the doctor or something. You guys look cute spooning together though. Dude, seriously, I'm feeling really bad. I think I might have a fever.
Yeah, we'll get you some meds and we'll get you to the bathroom. Chris is apparently sick, like even worse now, so we gotta go take him to the doctor.
Yeah, I get kidney stones really bad. I've had 3 within like the last year. Shout out to kidney stones, I guess.
We picked up the campsite. We're gonna skirt skirt out, take care of Chris. So apparently, Chandler, the only thing dangerous about Slab City is Chris's kidney stones and 3 knife men. And 3 knife men. Mr. B6000, oh, oh, Mr.
B6000, yeah, you know his name.
He changed it once or twice, but I think it's here to stay.
