What If You Had $1 Billion for 24 Hours?

What if you had one billion dollars for 24 hours? There's a catch: anything you buy is gone at midnight. You can't give money away. And anything you buy for someone else turns to dust. You'd buy a skydiving company just to jump for free. You'd put your mum's birthday on every screen in Times Square. You'd buy a baseball team just to bat… until a billionaire with a gold ring starts following you, and midnight finds you on a jet over the Atlantic. This is Part 1. 0:00 Two minutes to midnight 0:30 The man in white 1:37 $11,574 a second 1:57 "I own it" 2:40 Happy birthday, Ma 3:28 #BillionDollarKid 3:51 The man with the ring 5:17 The storm 6:43 Midnight 7:47 Day two The maths: to spend a billion dollars in one day, you'd have to spend $11,574 every second. Sleep eight hours and you've wasted about $333 million. A large private jet costs about $70 million. A minor-league baseball team, $10–50 million. What would YOU buy first? Tell us in the comments. Could've Been Tales: the lives you could've lived. Subscribe for new What If stories: https://www.youtube.com/@CouldveBeenTales?sub_confirmation=1 Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): "Investigations", "Sneaky Snitch", "Floating Cities", "Lightless Dawn", "Eternal Hope". Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl), CC0. #whatif #animation #couldvebeentales