MrBeast, 25, made his fortune using a long list of revenue streams that include posting highly produced and sometimes controversial videos to his 189 million YouTube followers, selling merch and through his Feastables snack bar line. Feastables is now being sued by a Jacksonville company.
Although Pepe, who is based south of Boston, usually has everything shipped to the festival site, this year the party of five is renting an RV and turning it into a road trip like the Griswolds, he said.
Founded in 2012 to highlight gourmet food trucks and craft breweries for a “day of eating, drinking and fun, FTFA expanded the festival to two days in 2019.
Pepe also hosts the Diehards Radio Show, a national sports radio talk show recorded in his home studio and broadcast on 95 U.S. stations including WTKP in Panama City. Radio s been my life for 25 years, said Pepe, who started working with FTFA three years ago as a marketing director and radio partner before becoming owner in November 2020.