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Podcast: Ten Thousand Posts
Episode: Number of the Beasts: 10k Watches Beast Games
Description: This week, we watch BEAST GAMES, the game show hosted by Mr Beast in which he imprisons thousands of ordinary Americans and pits them against each other in a series of mundane games, largely for his own amusement.
We talk about the financing behind the Amazon Prime show, Mr Beast's struggle to become a household name, and why the the novelty and excess required to game the Youtube algorithm doesn't quite work on a streaming platform.
We also chat about Mr Beast's weird proposal picture to Mrs Beast, and why all game shows need to...