[intriguing music plays]
-[Howie] Imagine, if you will… -Uh, the answer is…
…you're on a trivia show.
I took, uh…
And you don't know the answer to any of the questions.
Sorry. [chuckles]
-Um… -[Howie] Scary, right?
Well, not on this show.
'Cause in this game, you can answer questions wrong,
and still win a million dollars.
-I totally believed you on that. -Whoa!
-That's all it takes! -[cheering]
-Whoo! -[Howie] Most game shows test knowledge.
No!
But here, we test something entirely different.
-I didn't buy any of that. -I was lying, bullshitting.
[Howie] The art of deception.
Sorry. I couldn't detect bullshit.
Let's go!
[Howie] Ordinary people from all across America…
-I have three beautiful children. -…will attempt to smooth talk their way…
The answer is Niagara Falls.
-…to the grand prize. -I believe you.
-Yes! -[woman] Oh my God.
[Howie] And this season, a person will win the one million dollars
just by bullshitting.
Oh yeah!
Am I lying? There's only one way to find out.
I believed you.
-[man laughs] -Welcome to Bullsh*t The Gameshow.
[upbeat music plays]
[man] All right. We're rolling. Quiet, please.
I'm Yousuf Khan. I'm 25 years old, and I'm from Palo Alto, California.
My strategy going into the game is really explain my thought process,
and try to be as logical as possible even if my answer is wrong.
And if I have to bullshit, the challengers won't know what hit 'em.
[crowd applauding]
Hi, Yousuf. I'm Howie.
-I'm Yousuf. How you doing? -I know who you are.
I'm Yousuf, a PhD student at Stanford University.
I was gonna say, "Tell me about you."
But I love that you're so excited. I love that.
I'm ready. I'm a scientist. You have to sell yourself all the time--
You're a scientist?
I'm a PhD student at Stanford University with a specialization in biophysics.
Prior to that, I lived in England. I did a Master's in Philosophy there.
-Right. -Then a Bachelor's in General Biology.
In high school, I did a bunch of trivia.
-You know-- -I feel like I'm speed dating.
[all laughing]
-You understand this game, right? -Mm-hmm.
You're telling me about the knowledge you've acquired through this education.
-Very fortunate. -You don't need knowledge in this game.
I'm about to ask you a series of trivia questions.
If you know the correct answer,
you'll win the money and move on to the next question,
and get closer to a million dollars.
But if you don't know the correct answer,
all you have to do is convince one of these three challengers right here
that you do know the answer.
Got it.
Before we start, let's meet your challengers.
Alison, Tony, and Katie.
You are playing a game of accuracy.
If you think that Yousuf is bullshitting, you call bullshit.
If you think that Yousuf actually knows the answer, then you say it is true.
-Got it. -You ready to play?
-Yes. -You are ten questions away
from one million dollars.
[crowd cheering]
[Howie] Here we go.
For $1,000, question number one is…
[Howie reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, Wing and Tail. B, Click and Flash."
"C, Stitch and Spin. Or D, Dot and Dash."
[suspenseful music playing]
[chimes]
[Howie] Okay, he locked in.
Yousuf alone is the only one that now knows
whether his answer is right or wrong.
Now is the time for you to tell us the answer.
And, challengers, watch him closely. Look at those eyes. Look at that face.
So, this is Thomas Edison.
He was a scientist. You're a scientist. Answer the question.
-Click and Flash was the answer. -[chimes]
So, cameras were coming-- you know, coming around middle 1800s.
But then what Edison did was that, the invention of the light bulb,
and his further inventions helped increase the availability and the use of camera.
So that's how I remembered the answer was Click and Flash.
I'd have a bit of concern if he named one of his kids Dot and Dash.
[Howie] Mm!
So that is his answer.
The question to you three is, does he know the answer?
Or was he bullshitting?
[tense music playing]
[chimes]
All right. Our challengers have locked in what they thought.
The one of you that is the most accurate in calling bullshit and truth
at the end of Yousuf's game is the next one into the hot seat
going for one million dollars.
Alison, you have a good sense of whether you're seeing the truth or a lie?
Um, I'd like to think so. I have three kids.
-Do you ever tell your kids, "Don't lie"? -Um, I do.
Bad advice.
It is apparently not the way to get on a game show.
-[all chuckling] -[Howie] Okay. Now,
do you think that his answer was correct?
I really wanna say yes,
but you were talking so much about, like, who Thomas Edison was.
You were educating us, trying to show us you knew a lot about Thomas Edison.
But I kind of saw the fear in your eyes.
And I think that this was a guess for you. So I think you were bullshitting.
-[crowd groans] -[Howie] Katie, what did you think?
Um, number one, I don't trust people.
So, baseline, that's where you're starting out.
Number two, you said that other names up there were less aesthetically pleasing
than Click and Flash, and I'm sorry.
Click and Flash are aesthetically pleasing names?
No, no, no, no, no.
-I'd say bullshit. -[crowd groans]
[Howie] Okay. So, two out of three think that you're bullshitting.
Now, before we go to Tony, let's see if they were right.
Was your answer correct? Or were you bullshitting?
[suspenseful music playing]
I was bullshitting.
The correct answer was Dot and Dash.
Okay. Both Katie and Alison accurately sniffed out your bullshit.
To keep you in the game, we have to hear whether Tony believed your answer or not.
All it takes is one yes
-to stay in the game. -Oof.
[Howie] If Tony picked up the idea that you were bullshitting,
then you're going home with absolutely nothing.
-Tony. -Mm-hmm?
What did you think of Yousuf's answer?
[clicks tongue, sighs]
-Oh, Yousuf. -Oh no.
-All right. I'll see y'all later. -Bye.
-[all laughing] -Aw, man.
Okay, so see what had happened was, right, he was so confident in his answer.
You sounded so educated that I believed you.
-Boom! $1,000. -[Alison and Yousuf] Whoo!
No!
I'm sorry, y'all. I couldn't detect the bullshit.
-You couldn't detect it? -No.
Reset your meter, man.
Okay, but here's the key, he just won $1,000,
and he has no idea what he's talking about.
I'll get kicked out of Stanford after missing a science question.
That's my question. I don't know, because this is a game of strategy.
This is like poker.
-Does he really go to Stanford? -Ho-ho! [laughs]
Yousuf, $1,000 is on the board.
-[crowd cheers] -You are nine questions away
from one million dollars.
I'm gonna offer you the first of two locks.
If you use the lock here, the minimum you will leave this game with is $1,000.
Or you want to risk that $1,000 and wait until it's a bigger amount.
What do you wanna do? Do you wanna lock in or you'll play on?
Well, honestly, I know my trivia. I'm really nervous.
My hands are shaking. I gotta calm down and focus.
So even though it's not the money I'd like to go home with,
I'm just gonna lock in at 1,000, get into the game and get my trivia going.
[Howie] Okay. So, congratulations.
You can't go home with any less than $1,000.
-You made $1,000, man. -[Howie] Here we go.
For $10,000, the next question is…
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, a college football game. B, a PGA tournament."
"C, a NASCAR race. Or D, a horse race."
Look at him. He's holding his hands. Are you shaking?
[chimes]
[suspenseful music plays]
Go ahead. Tell them the answer.
Yeah, so I know that this happens before the Orange Bowl,
which I know is also in Florida.
So that's why I was pretty sure it was the cocktail party.
Okay. You heard his answer.
You guys have to determine whether he knew the answer,
or he was trying to bullshit you.
[chimes]
[Howie] Everybody is locked in. I'm gonna start with you, Alison.
Okay. I know you're nervous after the last question. It was not your best start.
However, I think you're still a little nervous.
And I saw you looking up and looking to the left, trying to convince us
you knew that it was the Orange Bowl, and I still think you're bullshitting,
which is a bad position to be in twice in a row. I'm sorry to say it.
-[Howie] Yousuf. -Yeah.
[Howie] Alison once again doesn't believe you.
She was right the first time. Tell her if she's accurate again.
Well, Alison, unfortunately, I did know the answer. I was correct.
-[crowd cheering] -[Howie] Boom! $10,000.
Katie and Tony both believed you were telling the truth.
And after two questions, Katie is in the lead.
-I can smell it. -[crowd laughs]
[Howie] Yousuf, you have $10,000.
You can walk away right now with $10,000 and get out of here.
But let me tell you another thing.
You locked in at $1,000.
-Mm. -I'll give you a second lock.
-Mm. -But you can't use that second lock
any less than three levels above your first lock.
Got it.
So the next time you can lock in is at $50,000,
and that will be your last lock in the game.
-Ooh. -[Yousuf] Got it.
Do you wanna walk away with $10,000? Or do you wanna go for $25,000?
You know, Howie, first question was a mulligan.
Little nervous. I'm getting into it. I'm ready to keep going.
-Let's go. -[Howie] Okay.
-[Katie] Yeah, boy, here we go. -Here we go.
Here we go. For $25,000, here's your next question.
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, nitrogen. B, argon."
"C, fluorine. Or D, carbon monoxide."
You still can't do that one-handed, can you?
[crowd and Katie chuckles]
-[Howie] I'm trying to calm you down. -[chimes]
[chuckles]
Okay. Tell them the answer.
Well, this one was pretty easy to figure out because,
I mean, A, I knew immediately it was argon.
But secondly, it's in the answer. Inert.
Argon is the only noble gas up there. Very simple.
[suspenseful music playing]
[chiming]
[chimes]
[Howie] All right.
-Tony. -Hey.
What do you think about his answer?
Listen, I have been with you throughout this, but…
you are bullshitting, and this is how I know.
Because you stepped up to the podium and was like…
[exhales] And your eyes went that way, it went over there.
You were like, trying to tell yourself the story.
So, you're completely bullshitting us right now.
This little Professor X look and the turtleneck is not working this time.
Wow.
I did quiz bowl in high school.
Science, history, geography. You have to know this. This is like--
But that'd be a strategy I'd say to a player.
It'd be a strategy to give me bullshit when I ask you what you do for a living.
How do I know you're really a science major?
-Keep asking me questions. -Okay, so tell him if he's right.
Tony, I'm so sorry. You're completely wrong.
-My answer was correct. It's science. -Well, good for you.
[Howie chuckles] "Good for you." That's what he said.
It is good for him,
because with the correct answer, he moves up,
and now you just got yourself $25,000.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[Howie] Alison and Katie, you two were accurate again.
Okay, Yousuf. You can go home now with $25,000.
You can also go to the next question. The next question is worth $50,000.
And if you're up to $50,000, you're allowed to lock in.
What do you wanna do? Take the 25 and go home or go for 50?
I would like to go for 50.
-Yes. -[Howie] He would like to go for 50.
All right. Here we go for $50,000. Here is the next question.
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, $400,000. B, a baby Komodo dragon."
"C, three pounds of marijuana. Or D, two wheels of rare cheese."
[suspenseful music playing]
[chimes]
Okay. So you tell them the answer.
I remember this one. It was Komodo dragon.
[chimes]
So this one I remembered because he was coming back from Tokyo,
and the Komodo dragon he brought was technically an invasive species
and populated a large part of the East Coast
when Nixon came back to Washington, D.C.
[chimes]
Wow. You got a smile on your face.
Hoo! I just needed a second just to take a breath. I'm feeling good now.
Confidence is coming back.
-It really is. -[Yousuf] It's coming back.
[Howie] All right.
Katie.
-Yes. -What do you think?
So, I think I've gotten a read on your tells.
Oh?
When you really know an answer, you shake your head yes and no
-with each of the responses. -[Yousuf] Mm.
When you accidentally guess the correct answer,
you're very vague because you don't quite know how to reason it out.
And when you're wrong about the answer, you go way in depth saying like,
"Oh, it's a story I remember."
This time, you were bullshitting.
-[crowd exclaims] -And so, I selected bullshit.
Maybe he has a strategy and changes it question to question. Tony.
-Yes. -What'd you think of his answer?
-Okay. Lord Jesus, please help us. -Just call me Howie.
[all laugh]
Howie, I'm sure you've been called God or Jesus before.
So, as you were looking at the choices, I could sense that you weren't quite sure.
And then when you were giving that wrong answer,
you then was just like, "Oh, everyone should know this."
And you kept smiling as if you were trying to convince yourself
that you were telling us the truth.
So I said that you were bullshitting.
[scoffs]
Uh-uh. Don't you… [imitates scoff] …at me. You bullshitting.
Okay. Here we are. Katie called bullshit. Tony called bullshit.
What was it, Yousuf?
I was bullshitting.
[crowd exclaims]
[Howie] Whoa.
Whoa. All right.
The actual answer was three pounds of marijuana.
Two bullshits.
If Alison called bullshit, you are going home now.
And you locked in at $1,000, so you would go home with $1,000.
But if Alison believed you, you got a shot at $50,000.
Alison, what do you think?
So I saw this question, and I saw you looking at the question.
And I immediately started thinking, "He doesn't know the answer."
Then you started talking about it like,
"Yeah, he was coming back from Japan, and he brought this Komodo dragon."
I waffled.
But I waffled in your direction. So I said you were telling the truth.
-Let's go! Whoo! -[Howie] Yes! There you go. $50,000.
[crowd cheering, applauding]
You are at $50,000. As I told you, three levels up,
you got your second lock in, obviously.
I am locking in, Howie.
-Put the money in the bank! -$50,000.
You can't leave with any less than $50,000.
-Boom. -Let's go!
You're going home with big money. Here we go. $75,000.
And the next question is…
[reading question]
"A, picked blueberries. B, assisted a butcher."
"C, taste tested chocolate. Or D, set rabbit traps."
[chimes]
-It's a lot of facial expressions. -I'm sorry. I…
Okay. Next question, I… No reaction. I promise.
[Howie] Answer your question.
Uh, Roald Dahl, I mean, he wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Quiz bowl knowledge. You got to memorize books, books,
authors, titles, authors, plots, authors, characters, authors.
Taste tested chocolate. Come on.
-I see what we're doing, you're doing. -[Howie] See what he's doing?
I'm-- I'm getting into my zone.
Listen, you can get into yourself, but stay humble.
-See what money does to you? -Yousuf, tell Tony why you're smiling.
-It's taste tested chocolate. -It is chocolate.
So it's right, and you get $75,000. So, Yousuf…
[chimes]
[crowd applauding]
And on the challenger side,
all three of you believed Yousuf was telling the truth.
Remember, the most accurate one of you, if he should get knocked out
or if he finishes and goes all the way to one million dollars,
is the one that's gonna be in the hot seat.
All right. Look at this, Yousuf. You have $75,000.
-[crowd cheers] -You are halfway to one million dollars.
Cool.
You can walk out. There are no more locks now.
You can walk out of here right now with $75,000.
You can say, "Goodbye, Howie," and you could walk out and go home.
That's a guarantee.
If you decide to go on, the next question is worth $100,000.
Mm.
If you don't know the answer, you bullshit and you're called on your bullshit,
the most you can walk out of here with is $50,000.
What do you wanna do? You wanna take the 75 and go or go for 100?
-I'm gonna keep playing. I'm feeling good. -[crowd cheering]
[Howie] Here is your next question.
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, the Hoover Dam. B, Space Needle. C, Gateway Arch. D, Golden Gate Bridge."
[suspenseful music playing]
He says he's in the zone, but he's still holding onto that finger.
Yousuf, tell us your answer.
Uh, well, there's two reasons I know this. One, I went to the Hoover Dam with my dad.
The tour guide talked about us being quiet so we could hear the humming noise.
Secondly, based on the structure of the Space Needle,
Gateway Arch, and Golden Gate Bridge,
none of them is able to reverberate enough sound to give a humming sound.
The Space Needle, too tall, too thin. Gateway, too thin.
I've been to Golden Gate Bridge. I'll tell you what.
You don't hear eerie humming sound. You're hearing cars.
All right. Let's start with Katie.
She's been 100% accurate reading you throughout this game.
Katie.
So, I too have been to the Hoover Dam.
And you're right, they did say to keep quiet and listen to the hum.
But to me, it was the most soothing hum ever.
Great for a song.
I see up there "eerie," and I go, "Eerie humming, soothing humming."
And I decided, you know what? Once again, you overexplained.
So I went with my gut, and I said you were bullshitting.
[crowd groans]
-[Howie] Tony, what did you think? -[Tony] Um,
I definitely call bullshit and here's why. Because when he's real confident,
he's, like, two-handed and all… [smacks lips] Mm-hmm, um…
Doing all this stuff or whatever. And this time he didn't do that.
He was on the struggle bus trying to figure out how to convince us.
-[Howie] The struggle bus? -Yeah. Um, so,
uh, clearly you were bullshitting.
[Howie] Okay. Well, I'm gonna ask you, Yousuf.
Did you know the answer? Or were you bullshitting? Go ahead.
[suspenseful music playing]
-I was bullshitting. -[Tony] Of course.
Okay. The correct answer is the Golden Gate Bridge.
That's hilarious 'cause I live in SF, and nobody's ever talked about this once.
So, if Alison thought you were bullshitting,
-you are going home with $50,000. -[tense music playing]
But if she believed you,
you have $100,000. Alison?
So earlier in the game, we got two bullshits and it came down to me.
I looked you in the eye, and I waffled, and I ended up believing you.
And this time, I have to say I didn't waffle at all.
I called bullshit right away.
[Howie] Three bullshits. You get eliminated from the game.
-I'm out. -First, let me just say, thanks so much.
No, really, we make fun and it's fun here.
-It's a fun game. -[Howie] It is a fun game. And $50,000.
-Whoo! -[Howie] $50,000!
-And he got half the questions wrong. -[crowd cheering, applauding]
Wow.
[Katie] Whoo!
[Howie] Storytellers come from all walks of life.
-I'm in the cannabis industry. -I'm a rocket scientist.
-I'm a voice-over artist. -A morning show radio producer.
A fraud investigator.
I grew up in a cult.
[Howie] So who will climb that ladder to one million dollars?
Boom!
Our next person making their way
to the hot seat for one million dollars, with 100% accuracy, is Katie.
[crowd cheers]
-Oh! -[Alison] Wow!
My heart's in my throat. My stomach is somewhere around my small intestine.
Um…
Ah!
Right here into the hot seat,
-which has no seat. -[Tony chuckles]
[Katie] My strategy going into this is to be
over-the-top, more sweet, endearing.
Are you nervous?
You know, yeah.
I work in politics. I'm around BS all the time.
So I've learned from the best, and I think that that will help me here.
Let's say hello to Katie.
-Hello, Katie. -Hello.
-How are ya? -Okay.
Tell me about yourself.
Um, well, I live in New York.
-Um, I-- -Okay.
I love New York. Somebody write that down. That'd be a good bumper sticker, right?
I love New York.
With a heart, maybe?
-Very original. -Thank you.
Yeah, I bounced around a lot in careers in my life.
But now, I work in communications. I run my own firm, actually.
We help out tech companies, non-profits, anything in between.
That's what we do.
Do you find yourself lying much?
Um, you know, I believe that the best communications come from honesty.
-Uh-- -Oh, not here.
[laughs]
I'm a Catholic girl. Gone to Catholic school my whole life.
-Amen. -[Howie] Wow.
I know someone up there might be a little mad if I lie too much.
-[Howie] Right. -So…
-Try to stay on the straight and narrow. -[Tony laughs]
All right. These are your challengers.
We have Alison. We have Tony. And we have a new contender, Ellyn.
Ellyn, tell me about yourself.
I am from New Jersey,
and I am a podcaster.
What is your podcast about?
It's true crime.
-Oh, true crime, that's big. -[Ellyn] Yeah.
-I'm onto you, Katie. -All right. So that is your money ladder.
Each answer, as long as somebody believes you or it's correct,
will move you up that ladder closer to the one million dollars.
Are you ready to start for $1,000?
You betcha.
[suspenseful music plays]
The first question is…
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, mononucleosis. B, tetanus. C, salmonella. Or D, cholera."
All right.
I would even start looking at her right now.
Does she look like somebody who knows the answer?
[chimes]
That is it. You have locked in your answer. Let me hear your answer.
So, my answer is B, tetanus.
-[chimes] -Uh, the reason that I, uh, know
that it was B, tetanus is that, uh… [chuckles]
So it wasn't a rusty nail. It was a rusty staple.
But when I was a kid, we had staples in our carpet, you know?
It was an old house that was built in the 1950s back in Philly.
And I stepped on one of the staples sticking out of the carpet.
And my mom was like, "Oh my God, you're gonna get tetanus."
-So then we had to go to the doctor. -Don't tell me. Tell them.
Tetanus. Yes, because I did it.
I was the dummy that tried to give myself tetanus.
[crowd laughs]
-[Howie] Okay, that's your answer. -It's my answer.
-Is any of this true? -[suspenseful music plays]
Were there telltale signs?
Did she seem confident about her answer?
Did you notice some moves in her eyes or her body language?
That's the key to this game.
[chimes]
I'm gonna start with…
Ellyn.
-Katie, I love your whole librarian look. -Oh, thank you.
It'd make me think that you know a lot about science.
-But that-- -My degree is in physics, so… [chuckles]
That story…
Ah, I don't know.
It sounded a little like you were talking in, like, autocorrect there to me.
-[Tony] Oh! -Um, so I'm gonna say bullshit.
-[Tony] Wow. -[Howie] A little harsh.
[laughs]
Was there anything about her demeanor or the way she delivered it
that made it seem like bullshit?
Yeah, a little bit superfluous with the arms.
-[Tony and Howie chuckle] -[Howie] All right, Katie.
Were you telling the truth? Or was it a lie?
[suspenseful music plays]
I was telling the truth. I-- I did step on a staple.
-And I did really get tetanus. -Yes!
$1,000.
It was not fun. I did not enjoy it!
$1,000 is yours. You were telling the truth.
You had that answer right. And, uh, did you believe her?
-I did. Yeah. -You did, Tony?
-Tony believed her. Did you, Alison? -Yes, Howie. I sure did.
Okay. That's the game you are playing.
Ellyn, you were wrong.
-Those two were right. -Yep.
So you are playing for accuracy. You're not trying to get her out.
It's to get yourself in.
-Yep. -I like the way you did it, though.
All right, but it was still wrong.
-[laughs] -One answer. $1,000. You got it correct.
You can use the first of your two locks right now.
But if you don't lock in now,
you can also decide to go on and say, "I'm gonna lock in at a higher number
to guarantee me more money when I leave."
[suspenseful music plays]
-[music rising] -So the question to you is…
[music stops]
-Deal-- No, wrong game. I'm sorry. -[Tony laughs]
-Old habits. I'm sorry. -Good callback.
-It was a good callback. -I'm sorry. [grunts] Where am I?
[laughs]
Okay. What do you wanna do?
You wanna lock in now? Or do you wanna wait?
I would love to not have taken a plane ride for nothing.
-[chuckles] -So, I'm going to lock in at 1K
to guarantee myself $1,000.
[Tony] Oh, yay!
A nice dinner out in New York. You know how the prices are, but…
-I love it. -All right. We're going for $10,000.
-[crowd cheers] -Here is the question.
"In the UK, which of the following is sometimes referred to as
'a bit of how's your father'?"
[with British accent] "A, getting drunk. B, committing a crime."
"C, flatulence. Or D, sexual intercourse."
-[crowd laughs] -[Howie chuckles]
[chimes]
She is locked in. Katie, answer the question.
Okay. So, the answer here is D, sexual intercourse.
[chimes]
Now, how do I know this? Once again, anecdote time.
So I was working at this company. Um, it was in the UK.
And so we would go to London to, like, "bond."
And of the things that we talked about… we talked about getting drunk, obviously.
We talked about sexual intercourse, obviously.
But flatulence and committing a crime never came up.
I'd heard "a bit of how's your father?"
I was pretty sure it wasn't getting drunk, so I locked in with D, sexual intercourse.
-[suspenseful music plays] -[Howie] Hmm.
[chiming]
Okay. Instead of going to the challengers, I'm gonna start with you, Katie.
Tell them if that was true.
That was true, yeah. [laughs]
-[upbeat music plays] -[Tony] Wow.
[Howie] $10,000 is yours.
-That was true. -Thank you, Britain.
You guys clicked in and all three of you believed Katie was telling the truth.
-Do you have a significant other? -No, no. Very single, painfully single.
-[Tony] Oh… I understand. -[Ellyn] Oh… Katie, do you wanna talk?
-I understand. -You don't know if that's true.
I felt the reality and the pain in that statement.
I gotta say, like, I felt it.
When you're single,
that's how… You're like, "I am single AF." Like, so I felt that.
-[all laughing] -[Howie] Here we go.
Next question is worth $25,000.
-Wow. -You flew all the way out here
for $1,000. You said that was worth it.
You already have ten times more than that.
Ten flights.
Yes. Did we… We didn't pay for your flight here?
-No, you did, you did. -[Howie] Oh, okay. All right.
-[laughs] -I thought this was Hulu. It's Netflix.
All right. What do you wanna do? You wanna go for 25,000?
-I have… -Wanna take the ten?
…this sneaking suspicion that men in New York
wouldn't date me for only $10,000,
-just given my track record. -[laughs]
I'm gonna go onto the 25K for the sake of my dating life.
-[Howie] Yeah. -Yes.
-[crowd cheers] -[Howie] $25,000 is on the board.
-For single people everywhere. -[all laughing]
[Howie] Okay. Here is the question.
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, stand still. B, sing loudly while backpedaling."
"C, run toward it. D, shout and wave your arms."
Super… Say the word.
-Superfluously, yeah. -[Howie] Right.
There you go. Answer the question. Lock it in.
[chimes]
She locks it in.
-I love that stone face. -Only she knows whether she's right.
Now is the time for you to tell us the answer, and we will be watching,
we will be looking, we will be listening,
and discerning whether you really know the answer, or are you lying?
-[suspenseful music playing] -That's your job.
I'm just gonna do it for fun. Go ahead, answer.
So, the answer actually, once again, is D.
[chuckles] Um, I was a Girl Scout,
and as part of the training, we obviously talked through,
you know, what it is to do when you wave your arms.
Fortunately, when I went to Yellowstone with my family,
we got a repeat of that lesson.
And so, yeah, I've heard it twice now.
More times in Girl Scouts. It's shout and wave your arms.
[tense music plays]
You wanna make yourself look big to scare the bear.
[chimes]
-[Howie] Katie. -Yes.
Let's start with you again. Were you telling the truth?
-Or were you bullshitting? -Uh…
I was lying, bullshitting.
[crowd exclaims]
So the actual answer, we can see,
is stand still, which is the exact opposite.
Yeah, yeah. [laughs]
So you knew you didn't know.
I had it actually narrowed down to those two, and I--
-You were just guessing. -Yeah.
-Can I be honest? I was looking closely. -Oh!
And it really seemed like you knew what you were talking about,
but it doesn't matter what I think.
-Only one. -[sighs]
-Yep. -One person had to buy your story.
[exhales deeply]
I'll start with Tony.
-You heard what she had to say. -I did.
Talk to me about it. What is your feeling about her answer?
[exhales] Katie's been very hard to figure out.
But she got me, Howie. Like, I was… I believed it.
-She was like, "I was a Girl Scout." -There you go!
-Yes! -I was a Girl Scout.
-[Howie] He bought it. He bought it. -I believed it. [chuckles]
-[Howie] $25,000 is yours. -[crowd cheering, applauding]
-You see that? -Ah!
You guys wanna know who's in the lead right now for getting into the seat?
-Is it me? If it's me, then yes. -You don't wanna know?
-That's pressure on us. No. -You don't wanna know?
Will you tell us anyway?
No, I'll leave it up to you. You said no.
I'll have them put it on the screen somewhere.
It's somewhere on the screen. I don't know because they're doing it in post.
It's not happening now. It's postproduction.
Okay. So you have $25,000 right now, young lady.
You can leave with $25,000, but here's what I will offer you.
If you want to stay,
I will give you another lock at $50,000.
So you'd have to stay in one more time to get that lock.
-$25,000 is yours. You can leave now. -[whispers] I know that's a lot of money.
-[whispers] That's a lot of money! -What does $25,000 mean to you?
[sputters] That would make a huge difference.
As you mentioned, living in New York,
it's pretty expensive. I don't have blinds.
-I have towels up over my windows. -Oh no!
-Really? That's where your towels are? -Yeah.
So after the shower, the neighbors must love you.
-[laughs] -You know, people got some shows, yeah.
-[all laughing] -Okay. So what are you gonna do?
[suspenseful music plays]
I-- 1K, like, not mad if I go home with that.
But 50K… Oh my God. That would be crazy.
So we're gonna-- we're gonna try for at least one more.
-We're gonna try that. -Katie!
-Wow. -[Ellyn] Yes!
-[Katie] Phew. -You just said no to $25,000. You said no.
-Ah! -You're gambling now $50,000.
If this does not work out well for you, you'll only go home with $1,000.
Yes, sir. [chuckles nervously]
[Howie] Okay. Here's the question.
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, a key pocket. B, a lighter pocket."
"C, a watch pocket. Or D, a pencil pocket."
[suspenseful music playing]
Lock in your answer.
[chimes]
[Howie] She is locked in. Tell us your answer.
Okay. So, the answer is C.
-[chimes] -I actually work with Levi's.
I do their morning brief every morning. It goes out to the entire company.
Um, so I have to know everything about Levi's.
I know when they were founded and the oldest pair of jeans ever found.
It was found very recently in a small town in California.
Um, so, yeah. It is absolutely C, watch pocket.
-All right. What'd you think of that? -[Katie] Yeah.
-It's interesting. -No, I'm… It was a rhetorical question.
Oh, I thought you wanted us to answer.
-Oh. -You have to lock in. [chuckles]
Do you think she knew what she was talking about?
Do you think she made up a story?
Did somebody actually head out to California for gold
and find the oldest pair of Levi's?
[crowd laughs]
-[chimes] -[Howie] Does she collect pants?
I don't own any pants. Fun fact.
Well, it's a fact.
-Let us judge whether it's fun. -[all laughing]
I think it's fun.
Okay. She is playing for big money. Alison, what do you think?
I feel like you were really overselling that, like,
"I work for Levi's. I do their morning brief. I know this."
Throw in a news fact we've all read about.
The oldest pair of jeans, I've read that article too.
So, I had to say that I felt like you were bullshitting that.
You were selling it too hard to distract us
from the fact that you didn't know the answer.
-[Howie] Tony, what'd you think? -Upon studying Katie…
I call bullshit,
just because I think her strategy is to stand there very, like, stoic,
because she doesn't know the answer.
And then she locks it in, and then she stands there like,
"What am I going to tell these people?"
And then it's like she knows everything.
I'm like, "You can't know everything." I'm a fashionable person,
but I couldn't tell you anything about Levi's. So, I call bullshit.
[tense music plays]
-[Howie] Ellyn, what did you think? -Love you, mean it. But that was…
-The superfluousosity of it all. -[Alison chuckles]
-New word. Don't-- Go with me. -[Tony chuckles]
-But listen. I call bullshit. -[laughs]
And if you're right, we eat humble pie.
I want you to win the money, but I call bullshit.
This is the thing. If you're wrong, and you know whether you are,
if you're wrong, you're out.
And the only way to move up closer to one million dollars is to be right.
And?
[dramatic music plays]
[Howie] Does Katie know what she's talking about?
Is it a lie?
Was she telling the truth?
Remember, $50,000 is on the line now.
Is it game over? Or will she have a shot at one million dollars?
We'll find out in the next episode of
Bullsh*t.
[crowd cheering]
[closing theme music plays]