We Surprised 30 Strangers with a $12,000,000 Castle

[Music] my friends welcome to the last episode of this season as some of you may already have been suspecting yesterday is merely the front for my mafia operation okay um always good to have you on set listed on poor leona we just want to uh tell the audience about the apparel that we're selling on cthiscomfort.com we don't need any mention of a drug front or a mafia listen to me boys this is my [ __ ] business okay i control everything i get the [ __ ] out of my face as i was saying i'm about to make you an offer that you cannot refuse oh my god for the next 48 hours i'm going to make everything 20 off before 20 because i'm a man of the people i'll do 30 off all of the best sellers seek discomforts ever made only for the next 48 hours you're welcome [Music] everyone's got their eyes closed all right actually complete chaos what do you think's happening i feel like you're gonna shoot us we found these people all over new york and not right now [Music] one of the things we do best at yes theory is creating experiences for strangers that they'd most likely never get offered otherwise and recently as covered restrictions were lifted in new york for the first time the big apple is back open for business and since it was hit extremely hard by the pandemic we wanted to surprise some spontaneous new yorkers with an absolutely dream-like experience so as a throwback to one of our favorite adventures three years ago we surprised 16 backpackers in europe with a knight in a mansion how are you feeling right now we wanted to take that experiment to a whole new level by surprising 30 complete strangers and a few subscribers with an overnight stay in an actual castle with hidden rooms multiple buildings and perched on an absolutely gorgeous hill this is truly going to be one of the most unique stays anyone will ever have but obviously saying yes to a free experience like this would be a little too easy so to make sure our yeses were truly spontaneous we were instead going to ask people on the street to say yes to a 24-hour mystery adventure without having any clue what they would actually be doing if you're watching this video on the day we posted it today is seekers day seekers day is our annual tradition to celebrate the start of yes theory back in the summer of 2015. as a part of this celebration we decided to make seek discomfort more accessible to our community than any other day of the year seek discomfort at the end of the day is what funds everything we create with yes theory and so this is just a small thank you for empowering us to do what we love while also enabling other people's dreams that we meet along the way seekers day isn't only about celebrating the start of yes theory however it's also about celebrating the most badass and self-organized community on youtube and celebrating all the connections we've had with strangers throughout the years but unfortunately something we haven't been able to do as much of this past year so to make up for lost time we decided to go big [Music] wow the buildings are so tall yeah it's new york city i haven't been here in so long what the hell oh oh yeah oh my god oh yeah we're in new york city yeah wow life is crazy crazy jumps up [Music] we are in new york city and we're loving it this is one of these yesterday experiences where the people who are being asked to go on the experience can't know what the experience is because it's an easy yes you pitch them out right now oh i'm official hey hi uh how are you doing today whatever it is that you're selling i don't want it i know i'm not selling anything actually i'm i'm pitching you because we we do these crazy events you see these crazy adventures where we take strangers out of the comfort zone strangers dudes and crazy you're you're you should go to prison now i'm a stranger and you're asking me yeah well then buy it [Music] excuse me guys we're making a film about spontaneity and saying yes can we interview you no i mean yeah obviously like yeah you can't i can't you can't say no what did you say to bring your magical epic experience to new york we meet on wednesday morning this week yes i i would love to when i have a thing on wednesday otherwise i would be so in because i will say yes to all of them oh cheers yeah getting first that's nice let's ask these people excuse me guys are you a spontaneous person what are you doing wednesday yeah sorry i'd rather not i have to work we decided to design a really epic experience for 30 strangers that are going to say yes to this and they can't know what they're saying yesterday oh my god everybody you guys by the way you you're the first people to be open to this so thank you we just started yeah yeah really oh yeah i'm spontaneous oh yeah thank you guys for being so cool yeah yeah our first guest of the day our first session they're really cool really chill yeah i love that she's a teacher too like that's going to be something really cool that she could show to her students throughout i wanted this right now i'm sweaty and i'm not even doing the pitching i can't i can barely use the camera because i'm sweating into my eyes it's so damn hot milk was a bad choice we're going to put the camera down and then 4 p.m or something so i'm so sorry thomas what's going on a really cool subscriber that came and shared something very sweet so i decided to invite him on now i would not be where i'm at at this present moment if it weren't for what you guys beautifully started at stefan's he was at stefan speech at ut austin one one match wow thank you appreciate it i'll message you about one sounds good guys cheers a lot of you guys a lot of color a lot of pride i love it a lot of yes energy in new york a lot of pride a lot of color out today and we love to see that great [ __ ] words bro like that i just came up with that on the spot it was crazy this was very just random yeah you guys just they actually came up to us because they were in crisis they they don't have their phones and they wanted to call their friends then we started talking through and i was like you know what let me just pitch let me there you go can i can i tell you what we're in new york doing yeah what do you think so we make videos around the themes of saying yes and seeking discomfort okay we decided to set up what is potentially like our most epic experience for strangers we want to challenge strangers to say yes got five people today here so now we're splitting up in two teams ready i'm ready ready i made porn ready you're on wednesday wednesday you guys should be on one thing all right introvert we're the introvert side right now why am i nervous i can't ask you a good question oh forgot it you gotta go all right what happened you got to go are you a spontaneous person so the commitment is you would give us your wednesday the only catch is that you just say yes yes wait when i'm dead yeah oh my god what's your name stephen ammar is this yeah please okay experience for 30 strangers that are going to say yes to something they don't know what they're saying yes i'm it would be adorable if you bring the two-year-old oh he's allowed to come absolutely oh i'll bring him that would be so funny are you guys reading this one thing would you guys consider yourself open to a potential spontaneous adventure sure yeah okay this is literally the highest asps ratio we've ever had anywhere in the world new york is on fire we're gonna take a bunch of strangers out from new york this secret event which i can't tell you after a few more yeses and inviting some subscribers we randomly met on the street all the spots at the castle were filled do they know that we're pulling up in vans no this is bad holy crap oh my god hey what's this is exhausting how's it going good morning he's in his no face i'll compensate for this excitement oh this is the first time we do something like this where there's more women that said yes than men so looks like a lot of people came so i wasn't there when they were picking up the van i'm so sorry for how they look they look like the creepiest white van you've ever seen so right now we're gonna go on a mysterious drive up north and uh we'll we'll reveal everything there without further ado let's get the adventure started [Applause] i'm nervous why i don't know why wouldn't i be ignorant we've got a van there this is surreal this is surreal right now what's happening drive to the unknown destination [Music] jay what if we said you could get unlimited ice cream today you have to think about that one yeah slowly winning over chase [Music] with the vote [Music] all right we are approaching eight minutes away let's ask for eyes to be shut please okay we're rolling through okay everyone's got their eyes closed here let me give you hands what are we doing right now with all these people all right guys thank you all for saying yes this is one of the craziest things we've ever done we didn't even know if it was possible in the u.s we wanted to surprise everybody with a night in a place that is usually not accessible to normal people so tonight we're going to be spending it in a castle [Applause] welcome everyone we've prepared for you a little poem welcome here strangers yet friends to be thank you for saying yes to yes theory castle olympics is the name of the game and the winning team won't just get fame but as sweet fit for kings and fit for queens and the losing team will have more threadbare means and we'll spend the night in a tent outside sticks are hot guys thanks a lot [Applause] we'll follow us inside for opening ceremonies and then we'll have a little tour of the castle we got to talk about this oh this is completely not period accurate there's no other costumes at walmart [Music] what oh my god wow this is an actual castle this is madness [Music] [Music] welcome to the castle we'll get a tour of the castle from the owner downstairs is a place called the king suite you want to go down and yeah yeah yeah check that out anybody taller than me okay you have to duck your head all right this is uh the king suite so behind us you know how to dress you know i knew it [Music] i don't see it [Music] his own fantasy it's really it's amazing damn not bad for our intro exercise i want you to find someone you don't know and spend five minutes together asking each other what your biggest yes in life has been exciting besides today yeah and then instead of introducing yourself in our circle in five minutes you're going to introduce your new friends if everyone wants to circle back up we will go ahead and introduce our fellow knights and nitrous suits she realized that she had this passion for skydiving and fell in love with that biggest lesson she learned during that trip was the realization that i can do what i want when i want my name is jay i'm two years old i like trucks i haven't lived for that long yet it's two years in but life is fun so far her biggest yes would be becoming a mother but also additionally on top of that having a grandson and that is like the biggest yes [Applause] gather with your team of four make a crest a family shield chase okay what's the game plan oh he's going for it oh my god did you do that wow look at this teamwork you guys are all done i'm not gonna lie chase is better [Music] put down your markers it's time to deliver your crests we are team presents uh here comma now and it's built like a present present that's why we didn't do that we pull ourselves right p q cubed it stands for purple passion power gold bold ball and brunette four gb3 we are team yellow fire and this is our press wow look at this formation what are these transformers [Music] we are the late monsters pick two team members to oust the other team out with a joust just you guys know what's at stake this is your home for the night [Music] welcome man [Applause] come here i cannot believe i'm doing this you have insurance to sleep in a tent that's so stupid [Applause] congratulations to everyone for trying your best so take a moment freshen up for dinner put on your best outfit and prepare to be entertained the knights of yestery you've all been ordained right welcome to our crib just the this is actually bigger than my apartment and then we have this little extra room right here another wonderful view [Music] wow oh cam is the bartender what the heck is this this is for brain surgery i'm pretty sure [Music] what's up hey you're still in my shop good evening everybody six years of doing this guys it feels pretty surreal to be celebrating with everybody tonight if we learn anything is that discomfort is the greatest tool to connect people that's why for our six years we wanted to create an experience of discomfort that had a really amazing reward celebrating the best way we can which is with strangers with the belief that strangers are just friends you haven't met yet right away in the in the car rides on the way here people were just like dropping in getting to know each other stories and this is like the greatest thing to see yes theory in action to see it working in front of our eyes is there's nothing that we that we can think of that makes us happier so half of you had no idea what yes theory is before you know a couple days ago but we're just so happy that this is like your entry point to who we are to what we are and what we want to stand for with everybody that you know crosses our path it started with we're all all three of us going against the grain and going against what most of our families and friends wanted us to do or expected us to do but these are the moments that make it all worth it so thank you for saying yes thank you for being open and thank you for bringing meaning to everything that we do yeah so thank you [Music] [Music] tonight [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] guys should we go for a swim yes that's good especially if everyone was like [Music] who's ready in the middle of the night i can't believe everyone went yeah that hundred percent never really happened that doesn't really happen all right guys we go now in the water yes yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] is we all need somebody [Music] wow this is truly the highest vibration of yes theory energy we've ever felt and bringing together a group of strangers group of friends you guys understand like this is your job like like that is mind-blowing like your purpose is to push people into their understanding of what they are you've changed my life like can you understand that that alone is insane like you've changed somebody else's life today to be able to join yes theory for these adventures and to be placed in a situation like this where i'm just surrounded by energy i can actually feel very eye-opening to be able to experience something like this and connect with people and actually listen and feed off other human beings so i'm grateful for the fact that all of you guys exist and are bringing this into the into the world i don't know every single one of you guys very well but i know i can go up to literally anyone and just cry and talk and that's absolutely magical thank you i love you actually i feel like i've found some belonging and now i'm so so grateful and now i i feel lucky and i feel like one and all of you like i want to give you a group hug maybe we should do it and we'll just end with a big yes inhale and then we'll exhale to yes [Applause] our ability to involve strangers in our videos was completely taken away from us for 18 months so to end our season with such a meaningful experience was life-changing and revitalizing for us as well to feel reconnected with who we are and what we do to bring people together in a safe spontaneous and authentic environment for the first time in a long time and remember the connection that seeking discomfort nurtures left us feeling incredibly connected to our mission i know some of you have been confused by changes within yes theory but i hope that you know that behind the scenes we feel more excited by our grander mission than ever before we have some incredible ideas that we are working on we are excited to continue providing tools for this amazing community and we're thrilled to have you here along with us i'll leave a final reminder the seeker's day is today and it's a celebration of all of you by making seek discomfort more available than it's ever been before and making all of our best sellers of all time 30 off for the next 48 hours so i hope that you'll join us in spreading our message further by going to seekdiscomfort.com right now and getting some for yourself or for a friend thank you for watching us this season we're about to go on a break for a little while to rest and spend some time with family we'll be back posting on our second channel recently renamed to the proud philosophy that we live by every single day seek discomfort we'll see you soon

Channel: Yes Theory

Views: 2,003,502

Keywords: yestheory, seek discomfort, yes theory strangers, yes theory travel, yes theory subscribers, getting out of your comfort zone, Amazon FBA, yes theory castle, yes theory mansion, asking strangers, yes theory asking strangers, surprising strangers, fun video with stragers, yes theory give back, yes theory new york

Id: Vn-2L8absR0

Length: 25min 53sec (1553 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021