YouTube Star MrBeast Is Building an Entertainment Empire (1)

In early August, a seven-person team is on the ground floor of Beast Industries in Greenville, North Carolina, studying how to light water on fire. This has been going on for a few weeks. Lead producer Maddie Montana has already identified the essentials—propane to fuel the fire, a conduit to funnel the fire to the water—and is now penciling out the cost of a propane tank, PVC piping and cement. When Jeannot Szwarc filmed Jaws 2, their research has revealed, the crew poured oil directly on the water and lit it on fire. That’s not the way it’s done ...