This summer, my sons and I went looking for YouTube’s biggest star

A road trip on the hunt for MrBeast

By Megan K. Stack

By the time we crossed the state line into North Carolina, we’d listened to the full two and a half hours of MrBeast’s interview with podcaster Joe Rogan and I’d started to suspect that our plan had serious flaws.

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