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MrBeast's $100,000 Shark Swim, Glass Bridge Rematch, and a Day in the World's Coldest Room

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This video is a string of quick, high-stakes challenges. Jimmy (MrBeast) offers cash to friends, crew members, and subscribers for swimming among sharks, crossing a canyon on a slackline, and wading through alligators. Running through all of it is an endurance test: Airrack, a fellow creator, sits in what the video calls the "coldest room in the world," and every hour they last earns $10,000 for a random person.

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0:06

A Swim Through Sharks for a Fan

The video opens on a boat surrounded by sharks. Jimmy guesses there might be "a thousand," and someone else doubts it's that many. A backpack holding $100,000 sits out in the water. The twist is that the swimmer, Chris, won't keep the money. If Chris retrieves it, the cash goes to Chris's "number one fan," who happens to be standing on the boat.

The crew points out sharks swimming nearby, and Jimmy tells Chris that the faster they grab the money, the faster they can get out. Chris gets the backpack and swims back. Jimmy hands the $100,000 to the fan and suggests they thank Chris with a kiss.

0:55

Hot or Cold: Airrack's Endurance Test

Next Jimmy brings Airrack to two rooms, the coldest and the hottest in the world. Airrack calls both options horrible and picks cold. Once inside, Jimmy points out the one upside: the room has a bed. Then he explains the rules. For every hour Airrack stays in, a random person gets $10,000.

That recipient is there to cheer Airrack on, saying they won't leave until Airrack has won millions. Airrack answers that the two of them will "bankrupt Jimmy today." Jimmy shows what $10,000 looks like and leaves to film the other challenges.

1:28

The Glass Bridge Returns

For the next challenge Jimmy brings back the glass bridge from his Squid Game recreation, along with contestant 456 from that video. The setup is 15 platforms. At each step the player picks left or right, and a wrong pick means falling. Anyone who reaches the far side keeps $456,000.

Jimmy says the odds of getting across are extremely low, so he simply reads out the full sequence of correct answers and tells 456 to start jumping before they forget. 456 gets the second platform right ("It's left for sure"), which leaves 13 to go. They fall a few steps later, and Jimmy notes afterward that "it was Tareq lefts in a row."

Contestant 067 gets the same deal. Jimmy recites all the answers, 067 asks to hear them again, and Jimmy says no. Partway across, 067 makes a choice that Jimmy first calls "the good option" and then corrects to "not the good option." 067 falls but says they're fine. Jimmy admits he expected the contestants to get further.

Chris goes last, having now heard the answers read out to two other people. Chris says it's "a bad time to have a horrible memory." At one point Jimmy says he's glad Chris "picked the right one here," and Chris answers that they actually picked the left one. Chris falls, Jimmy says he gives up, and the video moves on.

3:19

Sleeping Through the Cold

Airrack says their plan is to curl up in the ice bed and sleep through the whole day. When Jimmy comes back at the one-hour mark, he hands over the first $10,000. In the time-lapse Airrack was in bed almost the whole time, and Airrack confirms they were sleeping and that it "was great." The crew decides that won't do, since, as someone puts it, you can't feel cold while you're asleep. Chris is called over to do something that disrupts the nap. Afterward Jimmy tells Airrack to go take a nap and leaves to keep filming.

3:53

Slacklining Across a 1,000-Foot Canyon

The next stop is the top of what Jimmy calls a 1,000-foot canyon. A contestant can keep $20,000 waiting on the far side if they cross on just a slackline. She says she's nervous because the wind keeps rising and dropping. The rule is that she stays in the challenge as long as she isn't dangling from the rope.

Jimmy does a sponsor read during the crossing and says he can barely focus on it because of what's happening. Meanwhile the people watching describe her as fearless and completely focused, and she never looks around. She reaches the money and calls it "one of the scariest things I've ever had to do."

Hour Five and the Hoodie Deal

Back at the cold room, Airrack has been inside for five hours. They say they're bored and, worse, "horribly cold," but they keep telling Jimmy they're going to bankrupt him. The video's narration says Airrack was still going strong, so the team made it harder. Jimmy pauses the timer and says it stays paused until Airrack hands over their hoodie.

Airrack bargains: they'll give up the hoodie if Jimmy gives the recipient another $10,000. Jimmy agrees and they shake on it. Jimmy remarks that Airrack's hand is cold, and he reminds them that nobody is forcing them to stay. Asked whether Jimmy is bankrupt yet, he says no, he has "tons of money." Airrack stays.

6:06

Steal or Split: Another Steal

A contestant named Marcus is offered $40,000. They can steal all of it or split it with a random person they will never meet. Jimmy has also brought back someone who lost out on $10,000 to a steal in an earlier video. This time that person watches and gets asked to predict Marcus's choice. They say steal immediately and don't want to think about it.

They're right. Marcus steals without hesitating, and the onlookers watch as Marcus throws the cash around like a "money bath" and poses for photos with Chris. Jimmy goes to talk to the person who just missed out on $20,000. He says this contestant was "so much worse than the girlfriend before," because the earlier stealer at least hesitated. Jimmy jokes that the returning victim is "forever gonna be here," and someone asks whether they'll just keep running the game until a person actually splits.

7:00

The Alligator Capital of the World

The crew then goes to a place Jimmy calls the alligator capital of the world, where he says there are hundreds of alligators. Two briefcases with $20,000 sit out among them. When Jimmy offers the money, his crew turns it down before he can even finish asking.

Jimmy says he expected that, which is why he brought Brian, who has handled animals their whole life. Brian agrees right away, and the others contrast them with Tareq, whom they call "a wimp." Brian walks past alligators, one of them right at their feet, and backs some off by voice ("You go away"). Jimmy points out that one alligator didn't like this and tells Brian to step lightly. Brian reaches the briefcases and wins $20,000. Then Jimmy asks how Brian plans to get off the island. Brian says they hadn't thought about it, and Jimmy admits he hadn't either. The video cuts away before answering.

8:27

Airrack Calls It at $80,000

Back in the cold room, Airrack says they've never been this cold and have nothing left, so they have to get out. Jimmy tells them they just passed another hour mark, which means another $10,000. He asks whether they're happy stopping at $80,000. Airrack and the recipient say yes, and the recipient is given the $80,000 in cash.

Jimmy jokes that it's time for the hottest room next. Airrack refuses and calls it psychopathic to go straight from the coldest room to the hottest. To close, Jimmy says most of the contestants in the video were random subscribers and suggests that subscribing "could literally win you money."

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