All right, Tom.
This is the first time you've had to BS, and Megan accurately called you out on it.
You know, if these two also called BS, you're going home with nothing
because you chose not to lock in at $10,000.
Let's see what Billy thought of your answer.
Uh, yeah, uh, that last answer, I found something very different.
Uh…
As soon as you locked in your answer,
I noticed that you kind of moved to the back.
Almost like you were afraid of what your screen said.
That's right. That's… That's right.
I was trying to read.
-Yeah, sure.
Uh… So, I immediately saw that.
And I was like, "Whoa, that's very different."
"This guy doesn't know what he's talking about."
But…
I then heard your explanation,
and I was like, "Yeah, George Bush is kind of an idiot."
Uh, so, I…
I actually believed you.
-Yes! -Boom! There you go.
You gave it away.
Since Billy believed you, $25,000 is yours.
-But you wanna hear what Ashley thought?
-I do. -Go ahead.
Honestly, I thought you looked exactly like a politician
-when you were delivering that spiel.
-But I believed you.
$25,000.
Your bullshit convinced two out of three challengers.
-Wow. Wow. -He's really good.
You can go for $50,000 now. You can lock in.
I will lock this one, and that is just for my wife.
-If I don't, she'll kill me. -Okay.
-Otherwise, I'd go the whole way. Yes. -Good man. Good man.
If I don't do that for my wife, I'm a dead man.
-I might as well stay here. -Really?
-All right. Here we go for $50,000.
The question is…
"A, spaghetti. B, tortilla chips."
"C, garlic bread. Or D, mashed potatoes."
-I don't even know what that means.
-Some Cincinnati chili. -Said the guy from Vegas.
-Yep.
All right, tell them the answer and they'll decide
whether you really know the answer or this is BS. Go ahead.
Well, you know, Cincinnati chili,
I mean, if you've ever been to Cincinnati before,
um, everything's a little bit different, a little bit interesting and original.
And what they do with their Cincinnati chili
is they pour it over their spaghetti.
For some reason.
-Okay. Well, they heard the answer.
Yeah. It's good.
And you could just tell us this time. Are you bullshitting?
No. It's 100% true. I've actually had it.
-Boom!
-Okay. $50,000 is yours.
I love your laugh.
Whoo!
-Fifty grand already. -Isn't that amazing? Just look at that.
Wow.
All three challengers are happy as they too were accurate
and believed you had the correct answer.
All right. So $50,000 is yours. You can go home right now.
Or you can go for $75,000.
Howie, I would love to go for 75,000.
-Okay, here we go, for $75,000,
the next question is…
"A, a nurse. B, a radio operator."
"C, a mechanic. Or D, a lab technician."
All right. You've locked in your answer.
He knows whether he's just got to share the truth or deliver some BS.
Here is his answer.
During World War II with Queen Elizabeth,
she's always taking care of everybody in her family.
And one of the things that she did there was… She was…
She helped out as a nurse during World War II
because every hand was needed,
especially during the bombing of London.
-Every single person was doing something.
And she wanted to chip in to show her support to the people.
-Billy. -Yeah.
Tom just told you what the Queen did during World War II.
What were you thinking about his answer?
That was really long.
Almost like you were telling this fable about World War II.
Your voice also kind of got a little lower.
Well, don't be too surprised by that.
-Whoa. -Oh.
-Oh, my. -Did you ever do radio?
-Oh, yeah. I used to do radio. Oh yeah. -Okay.
-I didn't believe you. I called bullshit.
-He called bullshit on you, Tom. -Amazing. For my radio voice!
He heard a tone in your voice go lower,
and he detected bullshit in your tone.
-Interesting. -It is interesting. Tell him.
Was it true?
Or was it bullshit?
It's, uh, well…
It's bullshit.
It's actually a mechanic.
-You heard the tone. -The Queen was a mechanic.
-Wow.
Yeah.
You were pretty good at making up a story,
but not good enough to get by Billy.
-You only have to get by one challenger. -One.
But if they call you on your bullshit, you locked in at $25,000.
Your wife is gonna be happy and you have nothing.
-So, hopefully… -As usual.
…one of these young ladies believed your BS.
$75,000 is on the line right now, Tom.
Hoo!
Megan, did you believe him?
It was kind of a bit of a rambling tale.
Um, but unfortunately, I bought it.
-Oh! -Boom! There you go.
-Wow.
Megan, thank you.
-BS got you to $75,000. -Whoo!
Wow.
-How do you make $75,000? -Oof!
-Just a little bullshit.
-Ashley also believed your BS.
But only one of you will get to play for the million dollars next.
All right. $75,000.
You got three times what you wanted to give your wife.
Or you can keep going toward that $1 million.
The next question is worth $100,000.
Howie, we're going to $100,000.
-Whoo!
-Let's play the game. -He's a gambler.
Here we go.
The question for $100,000 is…
"A, The Empire Strikes Back. B, Casablanca."
"C, Mallrats. Or D, Beetlejuice."
You've answered the question.
And you've been told
whether you are right or wrong,
and only you know that.
So, I ask you to tell them the answer.
Yeah, well, Netflix sent out a classic film.
Casablanca is one of the most classic films in the world that everybody knows.
And that nobody is gonna… Everybody wants to see that.
So they're gonna save it, use it, and watch it.
-Okay.
You've all locked in.
Ashley.
Answer.
You know, I think I need a step stool over here
so I can look you in the eyes.
'Cause I'm a little… You throw me off, I'll say.
Good.
You just said it's a movie that everybody knows.
I mean, we can name any movie that everybody knows, you know?
Uh, it just didn't sound too confident to me.
So, I called bullshit.
-You didn't sense confidence… -Hmm.
…so you're calling bullshit?
-Yeah. -Megan, what did you think?
I thought your demeanor changed,
uh, you know, from the other questions that you answered.
I thought you were a little too serious on this one,
uh, maybe trying to keep a straight face.
And I called bullshit.
Really?
So, the two ladies are calling bullshit on you.
Mm.
Before I go to Billy,
-I'm gonna go to you. -Yes.
To inform the ladies so far of what they've been hearing.
What did they just hear from you?
Casablanca? You heard bullshit from me.
-Ladies can pick that up. -Yes.
Okay. The actual answer is D, Beetlejuice.
Okay?
-So, Billy…
Billy and you are the same height.
-So this is eye to eye. He is right there. -Right, Bill can see my eyes.
-Now, if Billy calls bullshit,
you go home with $25,000 and a happy wife.
-Yes. -Yeah.
But if Billy believed you,
$100,000.
Billy.
His future is in your hands.
$100,000 is a lot of money.
Um, I'm a huge movie buff myself.
This question was tough. I could see it in your eye.
It was tough for me too.
But I believed your logic, and I believed you.
-Boom! $100,000.
-Billy. Come on, man.
-Billy! -Tough question. I-- I--
-Oh! -Sound logic. I don't know.
Fix that bullshit detector.
-Come on. -Billy, you're a hero.
-Whoo! -That's yours. Six figures.
-You can lock it in. -I'm locking that in.
-Please. Absolutely. -Locking in $100,000.
-Happy wife. -Happy wife.
So, no matter what happens on this game,
you can't leave with any less than $100,000.
-Amazing.
Does that give you the confidence to go all the way to one million?
We're about to find out.
So far, I've asked you six questions.
Half of them you've gotten wrong. Wow.
Doesn't seem fair.
There's cash.
-There's Bitcoin.
And now, there's bullshit.
-Worth a lot of money.
Okay. For a quarter of a million dollars, here is your next question.
"A, take pills twice daily."
"B, don't swim on a full stomach."
"C, no grapefruit juice with meds."
"Or D, take antibiotics with food."
Okay. He's answered.
Tom, tell them the answer.
So if you don't wanna decrease the metabolic capacity in your intestines,
you obviously want your antibiotics to go in there
so you can absorb them better with the food.
That's why you should eat while you take your antibiotics so you do not decrease
the capacity of the medications.
All right. Megan.
What do you think of that?
His answer didn't quite sit right with me.
I…
I didn't like that explanation
with the, you know, decreasing and the antibiotics.
The-- the question specifically talks about,
you know, the capacity of something in the intestine.
So, I said bullshit.
Really? Okay, Billy, what'd you think?
Uh, did you ever--
If you could picture, um, a salesman
being thrown into a room to sell a product without knowing what the product was…
…that's what it sounded like.
-Um…
So, I called bullshit.
-Oh, my gosh.
Wow.
So, so far, there's two out of three bullshits.
-What were you doing? -Well…
Um, I was bullshitting.
-I had no idea what CYP34A is.
The actual answer is no grapefruit juice with meds.
So, if Ashley called bullshit on you,
you're going home.
Ashley, you look like you were struggling.
You were the last one to lock in.
-You listened to every word. -Yeah.
This has been the hardest you seemed to have struggled with locking in.
You know, it is, because you have a really good game going on right now.
And so, you really confused me here, and I was really down to
what you looked like when you were giving your answer.
And, you know, you looked…
You looked a little uneasy. You looked like a salesman.
But, uh, I believed you.
-Boom! -Oh!
-Quarter of a million dollars! -Wow.
-Quarter of a million dollars! -I know! I know!
-He lied. -It's the tells. It's the tells.
-Come on. -Thank you, Ashley.
She bought the BS. And you know what that BS cost?
-Cost us a quarter of a million dollars… -Whoo!
…in your pocket.
-Whoo!
Only three questions left
-to one million dollars. -Whoo!
All right.
-You have a safety net.
-$100,000. -Yes.
Right now, you can walk out of here with $250,000.
But you're just three questions away from one million dollars.
And you realize your record now.
You have bullshitted more than you've gotten answers correct.
The bullshit and your skill, and as she says, is working for you.
So you have to make a decision.
"Do I leave now and take a quarter of a million dollars?"
"Or do I go for the chance of a lifetime?"
"Do I keep heading toward that one million dollars?"
What do you do?
The next question is worth a half a million dollars.
-Are you moving on? -I'm moving on.
This is a chance of a lifetime.
-No way I'm giving this up. -Oh my gosh.
-Yeah. -Let's play the game.
-Wow. -Let's play the game.
And for a half a million dollars, this is the question.
"A, mud. B, water pistols."
"C, pillows. Or D, eggs."
He answers the question.
And now, Tom tells you,
the challengers, the answer. Go ahead.
So, Songkran in Thailand, it's very, very hot.
And it's always hot, um, during that time.
And water pistols are filled with ice-cold water.
It's Super Soakers, buckets of water, everything.
They throw it all over everybody to bring in the New Year,
to wash away the old, bring in the new.
I'll start where we ended. Ashley.
Yeah, I gotta call bullshit, man.
It was, uh… You just started with "Thailand is hot."
-It's hot. -I mean, yeah.
But it just-- it just seems like you were trying to detract from your original…
-You were trying to buy yourself time. -Okay.
So, I called bullshit.
Okay.
Megan, what'd you think?
-Thailand is hot.
-I'll give you that. -Hey.
However, I-- I was having a hard time picturing, you know,
a Buddhist celebration
with, like, Super Soakers and water pistols.
So, I said this was bullshit.
Two people have already called bullshit.
So if you are lying and Billy thinks you're lying, then…
Yeah, it's not so bad. You'll go home with, uh, $100,000.
Why don't you tell Billy before he tells you
what it was that you just served your challengers?
Oh, Billy, I served up a heaping tray of truth.
-You got it.
-All water. -It is.
That was all water.
-That's a half a million dollars.
That's why he started with "It's hot." So you cool off with the Super Soakers.
-Fine. -Oh, he got us.
Billy, what did you think? Did you buy it or not?
-I bought it. -So, Billy was accurate.
-You have a half a million dollars. -Whoo!
-Wow. -A half a million dollars.
You could walk out with half a million dollars.
But look at that ladder.
You locked in at $100,000.
You are two steps away from the chance of a lifetime.
You wanna keep going? Or do you wanna go home now with the cash?
Howie, we're, uh…
I'm nervous. I'm happy. And I'm gonna keep on going.
-Oh my God. -Let's play the game.
-Nice.
Here we go. The question is…
"A, And so on. B, That's the end."
"C, And that was all. Or D, All was well."
I feel the tension and the excitement in the room.
Big money on the line.
Three quarters of a million dollars.
Tom, go ahead. Tell them the answer.
Hoo!
Whoo, this is big.
So…
The Harry Potter series ended after all of that with "All is well."
Seven books. And that was it. That's how it ended up.
Billy, you believed him on the last one and you got him here
to three quarters of a million dollar question.
What do you think of this answer?
Uh, yeah, I don't think you've ever read Harry Potter.
You don't say.
-Uh, I called bullshit.
-All right. He was just looking-- -All right.
Don't apologize. You're playing a game.
-That's the game. You may be right.
Megan, what did you think?
I felt like you didn't spin enough of a-- an answer for us.
It just seemed kind of like
you were grasping at anything, trying to buy yourself time.
So, I said bullshit.
Okay.
You said he didn't do enough. But sometimes less is more.
-True. It's true. -It can be.
Two BS's on the, uh… challengers.
Ashley is left.
Before Ashley's answer,
why don't you tell them what you got?
All was well, you guys. D.
Boom!
-750,000!
-That is the correct answer for $750,000. -Oh!
Is he good or just lucky? I don't know.
He knows Harry Potter.
-Whoo! -Whoo!
Whoo!
-Oh my God.
And now, you are sitting so pretty.
You have three quarters of a million. You can leave now.
-One question away from $1 million.
-has gotten this far. -Oh!
You are one question away from the chance of a lifetime.
You are one question away
from one… million… dollars.
-All right, so-- -You look emotional.
I'm getting emotional. Thinking through this, um…
I would love to have a house for my wife.
Mm-hmm.
That would mean so much for me, so…
You know, to give her the life that she deserves, um…
That's really what I'm thinking about.
I want my wife to have a house. I want her to have a great life.
And… Hoo!
This is great. I'm scared. I'm emotional. It's there.
But I do think that I need to take the $750,000.
-$750,000. -Whoo!
-Three quarters of a million. -Good man.
Wow.
-Seven hundred and fifty. -Whoo!
Three quarters of a million dollars.
Look at you. I see the tears. It's welling up.
-This is a life-changing moment.
Thank you so much. It was so amazing playing with you.
Thank you for-- for, ah…
What an amazing experience. This has changed my life.
This has changed my wife's life. I couldn't be happier.
And I'm so happy that I'm just completely full of bullshit,
and I had a chance to show everybody!
Well, you did it.
Thank you for sharing a little bit of your life with us
-Thank you, Howie. Thank you so much. -Good night, buddy. Thank you.
-Thank you, guys. -Bye.
Everything just changed in that moment.
I came in here cool as a cucumber. I had no idea the emotions would hit me.
When Howie looked at me and he said "$750,000,"
that's when I realized it, and…
Whoo! Boy, I'm happy.
And now, the one that moves into the hot seat next… is…
-Megan. Come on up.
I have a Master's in Geology, so I'm a scientist at heart.
And my strategy going in is to be cool, calm, and collected.
Let's find out if you have what it takes
to go all the way and walk out of here with one million dollars.
I'm a mom of two young kids. Some people might underestimate me.
But they're wrong.
I once had my children believing
that the ice cream truck only plays music when it's out of ice cream.
I think I'm a pretty good bullshitter.
All right.
Before we play, let's meet our new challenger, Ishpal.
You're new here. Tell me about yourself.
So I went to Notre Dame Law School. I graduated, passed the bar.
I'm waiting to get sworn in. And I also do stand-up comedy.
So, big fan of yours.
Oh, wow. Well, that's great. I hope to become a big fan of yours.
Okay. And Billy and Ashley each get one more shot at the hot seat.
Megan, tell me more about yourself.
I have a Master's in Geology
from one of the top institutions in the country.
And I'm a geologist in the energy industry.
I'm an avid trivia player and a trivia host.
Okay.
-I'm ready. Let's play.
-Here we go.
First question for $1,000 is…
"A, Canis Major. B, Hydra."
"C, Scorpius. Or D, Leo Minor."
The answer is in.
Tell them, Megan, what your answer is.
The answer is Canis Major.
Sirius is known as the dog star.
And Canis, again, the root of the word canine refers to dog.
The answer is Canis Major.
-So, that's what she said it is.
The question to you three is,
is this bullshit?
Or does she know what she's talking about?
You guys have all locked in your answers.
Ishpal, you're the newest here.
-What did you think of her answer?
-At first she looked really nervous. -Right.
Her heart, you could see it beating in her chest.
But then she thought it through. She chilled out. I like her reasoning.
I agree with it. I think she told the truth. She was right.
-Boom! $1,000 is yours.
You convinced Ishpal you had the correct answer.
And that's all it takes to keep playing.
But I just want to ask you, was that the truth?
That was right.
Okay, you were right, as were all the challengers.
-All three believed you. All right, Megan.
You've got $1,000, and you have a little decision to make.
I have something called the lock.
You could lock in right now at $1,000.
And that means that you can't leave with any less than where you locked in.
You wanna lock in now or keep playing?
-I wanna keep playing. -You wanna keep playing.
-We're going for $10,000 right now.
For $10,000 or absolutely nothing,
here is the next question.
"A, a printing press. B, a merry-go-round."
"C, a jet plane. Or D, a combine harvester."
All right.
The answer is in.
Go ahead.
The answer is jet plane.
This refers… Um, I don't even know what to call it,
to the device that we've all seen in TV and movies where you're moving,
you know, to move the plane up, move it down.
"Balls to the wall" means all the way forward, full throttle,
fast as you can in that plane.
-Hmm!
That's her answer, people.
All right, Billy.
Yeah, uh, I saw you take a look at the answers.
And then I saw your body start moving faster,
you're breathing faster.
Almost like you got into panic mode.
Uh, and so, I don't know.
I-- I-- I don't believe you.
-I call bullshit.
He called bullshit. He saw you panic.
Why were you panicking?
I mean, I don't think I'm panicking. I'm…
I might be a little nervous, but I'm still confident in what I know.
So, is Billy right?
-Billy, you're wrong. -That was true.
You know what that means. You are correct. $10,000 is yours.
As far as your other two challengers go, Ishpal also called BS.
But Ashley was accurate once again.
Okay, Megan. You have a decision to make.
You could lock in right now. Do you wanna lock in at $10,000?
The next question is worth $25,000.
Or do you wanna wait a little bit for your lock?
I wanna wait for the lock.
Wanna wait for the lock. We're going for $25,000.
And the question is…
"A, Clueless. B, White Men Can't Jump."
"C, The Cable Guy. Or D, Sister Act."
You locked in your answer.
Again, you know whether you got the answer right or wrong.
Let's see if they could figure it out.
Give them the answer.
As if. The answer is Clueless.
Uh, I'm a millennial myself. This is one of my favorite movies.
This is kind of like a little trivia fact about Clueless.
If you know it, you know it.
It actually comes up pretty often in trivia games as well.
Okay. That's her answer.
Ashley, I haven't talked to you yet.
-No, you haven't. -No.
And, you know, I-- I've been looking at your hands.
And your hands kind of… They were slow to answer this time.
You didn't seem as sure.
-Your answer sounded great, but…
-It was in the hands? -It was the hands.
You gotta have your eye on the game.
Your eye is on the game. So, you're calling…
Bullshit.
Okay. She called bullshit because of your hand movement.
Megan, tell her why your hands were moving that slowly.
Was this the right answer?
This was not the right answer.
-So you were…
-This was bullshit. -Eagle Eye Ashley.
-I like that name. -Ashley caught me.
The right answer is actually White Men Can't Jump.
Remember how this is played?
You just need one person to be convinced by your bullshit.
Now, as much as they're looking at you when you're answering,
you're looking at them.
Do you think any of the two remaining challengers
bought your bull?
I think maybe Billy.
-Wanna hear from him? -Let's hear from Billy.
She thinks she sold you the bullshit.
I bought it.
-Thanks, Billy. -Yes. There you go. $25,000.
Billy, you have a reputation.
All right. We're three questions in. $25,000.
I'm gonna ask you one more time. You wanna lock yet or wait to lock?
I wanna use that lock.
-We're gonna lock right now at $25,000,
which means you can't go home with any less than $25,000.
Next question is worth $50,000, and the $50,000 question is this.
"A, the bread's ingredients. B, where the bread was baked."
"C, the number of slices in the loaf. Or D, what day the bread was baked."
All right. She answered.
And now, tell them.
The answer is what day the bread was baked.
My family actually used to own a small grocery store
in central Pennsylvania in the middle of nowhere.
My grandparents ran it. My dad ran it for years.
What day the bread was baked.
Billy.
You bought--
You bought her bullshit last time.
Did you buy it this time?
Uh…
No, no, I-- I didn't buy it this time.
I'm calling bullshit.
Why didn't you buy it?
Well, I didn't buy it because, uh,
it was very quick, uh…
quick to give us a backstory.
It was super vague about your family business
that was handed generation to generation
to explain that the bread ties color explains a date.
I don't know.
Last time, he bought the bullshit.
This time, you can't get away with it, young lady, can you? Tell him.
Billy, you should trust me. I was right.
-No! Come on!
And my family did own a grocery store.
-Okay. Now, $50,000 is yours.
-Congratulations. -Oh…
You had the correct answer. Ishpal, once again, didn't believe you.
But Ashley did.
So, you could take $50,000 right now and go home.
That would be a quick, fast, easy $50,000.
Or you can keep going. The next question is worth $75,000.
I'm gonna keep playing.
Okay. She's gonna keep playing. For $75,000, here is your next question.
"A, the Blue Devils. B, Crimson Tide."
"C, Fighting Irish. Or D, Nittany Lions."
All right. Her answer is locked in.
She knows the result and only her.
Tell them the answer.
The answer is the Blue Devils.
LeBron was from Ohio. I'm from Pennsylvania.
It was a huge news story, obviously, when he was drafted into the NBA.
All right. You heard the answer. Was she telling the truth?
-Is it a lie?
-Lock it in.
I will start with you, Ashley.
You know,
I'm from Ohio.
I've seen pictures of LeBron in his high school uniform,
and it wasn't blue.
So, I call bullshit.
-Whoa.
So she thinks you're bullshitting.
I'll just let you, Megan. I'll let you answer.
That was bullshit.
The correct answer was C, Fighting Irish.
So, Megan, you bullshitted. You need one of them to believe you.
Your fate is in the hands of Billy and Ishpal.
If all three of them have called bullshit,
you are gone and you leave with $25,000.
Hoo!
Did they buy the bullshit?