Losing $5,000,000 Strengthened His Faith
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
What would you do if $5 million was on the line?
In this episode, Jerrad sits down with Beast Games runner-up Cory Sims — the fan favorite who captured hearts by refusing to compromise his faith and integrity.
Cory shares what it was like to:
• Compete for 42 days without phones or outside contact
• Face life-changing decisions with $5 million on the line
• Lose the final challenge — and discover God had a bigger plan
We also talk about fatherhood, faith under pressure, and the surprising lesson Cory learned after walking away without the money.
Turns out… some things are worth more than $5 million.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:16.9 | Well, Corey, I was just telling you, man, right before we hit record that we've been doing |
| 0:20.5 | this show for 10 years, bro, and we've had all kinds of different guests on the show. And I was telling you how my kids don't care at all, like anybody that I've ever had, they just, they're not impressed at all. Um, but this is the one exception. They are most impressed. They've been asking me all week, like when I'm going to talk to you, what time you're going to be hanging out with me today. |
| 0:39.2 | So for the sake of our audience, but also for the sake of my kids, they are so excited that you're here today. I'm really pumped to meet you, man. Introduce yourself for the audience you may not be familiar. Absolutely. My name is Corey Sims. So honored and grateful to be on your podcast. Huge fan of what you're putting out. Great content. Beast Games season two, contestant 191. Unfortunately, I didn't win. Came in second place, made it all the way to the end. But I know that was God's plan. So everything is great. Yeah, dude. Well, I want to talk about all of that and that's why my kids are |
| 1:11.8 | so excited obviously mr bese beast games all that stuff they they're the ones that hooked me on to it |
| 1:16.4 | uh for some background context um what i've been trying to do with my family is like we'll have a |
| 1:22.4 | we'll have our family dinner time and then we've tried to figure out some kind of way that we as a family |
| 1:27.0 | can connect all six of us and i've got kids at various ages from preteen, teenagers all the way down to five-year-old, seven-year-old. So it's like trying to get us all six to do the same thing is very hard. And so one of the things that we've tried to do is to find a family show that we could watch together, which this day and age is actually kind of hard to find something |
| 1:46.1 | that we can all sit down and it's clean and it's like wholesome. |
| 1:50.4 | And so we came across Beast Games and were like, |
| 1:52.9 | this is a perfect show for all of us as a family to watch together. |
| 1:55.6 | So we started watching this last season and this season, |
| 1:59.1 | and you became a fan favorite in our household pretty quickly, |
| 2:03.1 | mainly because you were playing fair, you were playing with integrity, and it was clear to us, |
| 2:08.4 | even before, like, I think you had said anything overtly, that you loved Jesus. |
| 2:13.5 | Like, it just came out in your demeanor, like, oh, this guy loves Jesus. |
| 2:16.1 | I think I might even at the very |
| 2:17.5 | beginning of the season said i bet you that dude loves jesus because of the way you were talking and |
| 2:21.5 | acting you know the spirit of god um was really resonating through you bro so it was really cool |
| 2:26.8 | but anyway um i would love to hear bro like for for somebody who's never seen the show it's like |
| 2:32.6 | the biggest game show in the history of the world's like the biggest game show in the history of the world. |
| 2:34.4 | You've got the biggest cash prize in the history of the world. |
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