[exciting music plays]
[crowd cheering]
[Howie] Okay, Megan.
Ashley has correctly called bullshit.
And if Billy and Ishpal also called BS,
the most you can walk out of here with is $25,000.
But if Billy believed you, you will have $75,000.
-[exhales] -Billy, what did you think of her answer?
You told me to believe you.
[suspenseful music playing]
I decided I believed you this time.
-[Howie] Boom! $75,000. -[crowd cheering]
[Howie] Okay, Megan.
Now you're worth $75,000, which you can take and go right now.
The next question, though, is $100,000.
And if you go to the $100,000 question,
I will tell you that I have one more lock left in the game.
And I'll let you use that lock at $100,000.
That'll be the last lock of the game. Wanna go for it?
-Let's go. -[Howie] She's going for it. All right.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
$100,000. The question is…
[dramatic music plays]
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, Niagara Falls. B, Old Faithful."
"C, Mount Rushmore. Or D, Stonehenge."
[chimes]
Your answer is locked.
You know the true result.
They don't.
Tell them.
The answer is Niagara Falls.
[chimes]
Like I told you guys, I'm a geologist.
I've done field camps up in the Niagara Falls area,
up in that part of New York.
-[chiming] -And this is something that you learn.
-So, it's Niagara Falls. -[panel chimes]
[Howie] Billy, you believed Megan last time.
What did you think of this answer?
[Billy] Okay.
You looked directly at me
when you began your answer
as if I was your saving grace.
[all laughing]
-Maybe you will be. -[Howie] So what did you call this time?
I'm calling bullshit.
[Howie] Bullshit?
Yeah. 'Cause it's geology, not geography.
Tell him. Tell him how good he's doing.
[suspenseful music plays]
Billy, I have a Masters in Geology.
The answer is Niagara Falls.
-[upbeat music plays] -[crowd cheers]
It was right.
And you were wrong again.
Billy. Come on, bud.
-$100,000 is yours. -[Billy groans]
-[crowd cheers] -You'll probably take the lock, right?
-I'll take that lock. -Why wouldn't you? Okay.
So, the lock, she's locked in at $100,000.
She can't leave with any less than $100,000.
Tell me something right now.
If you won the million dollars,
what would it mean to you?
-Um, I have two kids, five and seven. -[Howie] Mm-hmm.
And we love to travel.
There's still a lot of the Western U.S. that we haven't seen yet.
There's a lot of great geology out there that I'd like to see.
-I dig. -[crowd laughs]
-Yeah, it'd be-- -See what I did?
Geology rocks, see?
-[laughs] Ah! -It would be a very cool chance
to travel and see some of the Western U.S.
-A million dollars would do that. -A million dollars would do it.
But know what you're going for now? A quarter of a million dollars.
And you could see a lot of the country for a quarter of a million.
-[crowd cheering] -Here we go.
So, for $250,000, the question is…
[suspenseful music plays]
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, the Rosetta Stone. B, Titanic."
"C, Dead Sea Scrolls. Or D, Pompeii."
[music continues]
[chimes]
[Howie] All right. She answered the question.
This is for $250,000.
Megan, tell them.
The answer is the Rosetta Stone.
Um, Jean-Francois Champier was, uh, kind of part of that English and French
kind of exploration period in the early 1900s.
They were really exploring Egypt, you know,
finding all of the different artifacts and things like that.
And he is the one that found the Rosetta Stone.
[tense music plays]
[chimes]
Ashley.
[inhales] You know, Megan, I think you're very familiar with stones.
And that's why you chose that answer.
Because it'd be easy to make something up.
So, I call bullshit.
-[crowd groans] -[Howie] Whoa.
Bullshit.
Megan. Were you right? Or were you bullshitting?
[suspenseful music plays]
-You called wrong, 'cause I was right. -[groans, laughs]
[Howie] Boom! With the correct answer, it moves you up to $250,000.
Both Billy and Ishpal believed you, so they stay in the hunt for the hot seat.
You, young lady, got a quarter of a million dollars,
-which you can take right now. -[exhales]
But after the quarter of a million dollars,
you are only three questions away from one million dollars,
which is four times what you have right now.
How many times have you been in a position
where one million dollars was just sitting there
right in front of you for the taking?
I have never been in that position until now,
and I'm here to take it.
-[Howie] Really? -[crowd cheers]
-Let's keep going. -All right.
[crowd applauding]
[Howie] A half a million dollars is on the line right now.
Because if you don't get this question right and you bullshit,
and they all catch you bullshitting, you go home with $100,000.
So here we go. Here is the question.
[intriguing music plays]
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, bus. B, voice."
"C, face."
"Or D, kiss."
[chimes]
[Howie] All right. She locked her answer in.
Look at the focus on these guys. It's amazing.
Half a million dollars is on the line. Go ahead. Answer the question.
The answer is bus.
I speak German.
And the E-U combo in Seuss can also be pronounced like "us." Seuss.
[chimes]
-[chimes] -[Howie] All right.
You could have left with $250,000,
but you decided to risk it for a chance to double it.
I'll let, uh, Ashley start.
I love languages.
And I wasn't sure whether or not to believe you that you can speak German.
In-- in my, you know, experience,
I've seen that the E-U-S-S would mean "oice" like "voice."
And so, I called bullshit.
-[crowd groans] -[Howie] Okay. You called bullshit.
Megan.
Do you speak German?
And more importantly, were you giving them the correct answer?
[speaking German]
-[in English] That was bullshit. -[Billy] Oh…
[Ashley chuckles]
[chuckles]
-Wow. -[Billy] Wow.
[Howie] The actual answer was B, voice.
So, Ashley correctly called your bullshit.
But were you able to convince just one of the other challengers?
Billy, what do you think?
Yeah, so,
I would have liked to have locked in my answer earlier,
um, before you started speaking German,
I had already locked in my answer.
I believed you.
-[crowd cheers] -[Howie] Boom!
-Oh my God. -[laughs]
Okay, Billy believed you. You got a half a million dollars.
Ishpal, tell Megan what you locked in with.
So, um, although I've guessed her tell correctly the last three times,
I got it wrong this time.
-I believed you. -[Howie] You believed her too.
If you'd gone to Billy or Ishpal, you still were worthy
of a half a million dollars.
-Whoo! -[Howie] Wow.
You've got half a million dollars. We've asked eight questions.
Three times, you lied. You didn't know the answer.
Yet, you have the possibility right now of going
for three quarters of a million dollars, one step away from one million dollars.
You could take the half a million right now and go home.
But you are two questions away from one million dollars.
A life-changing amount of money.
Are you gonna take your half a million right now and go?
Or are you at least going one more time?
[suspenseful music building]
I wanna go another time.
-[crowd cheers] -She's going another time.
Yes!
[Howie] You just turned down half a million dollars.
The next question for three quarters of a million dollars is…
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, simple sketches or diagrams."
"B, common-sense estimations."
"C, working backwards from an answer."
"Or D, making exaggerated assumptions."
Answer the question.
Lock it in.
[chimes]
All right. Your answer's in.
And it is locked.
[tense music plays]
This is worth three quarters of a million dollars.
You know how this works.
You either need the correct answer
or convince just one of the challengers that you have the correct answer.
Tell us your answer.
The answer is working backwards from an answer.
This is actually something that I do all the time in my day-to-day job.
I drill wells a mile deep and three miles long.
Uh, this is a technique that we use when we're planning our wells.
[suspenseful music plays]
[Howie] All right.
$750,000 is on the line.
[dramatic sting]
You heard her answer.
Do you buy it?
[chiming]
[chimes]
Ishpal.
I don't know. I was a little unsure on this one.
The well explanation made no sense.
It felt like she was just throwing in
something that she does to try to make it seem like a real answer.
I don't understand what wells had to do with anything.
So, I called bullshit.
Seems like she was grasping for straws.
[Howie] She was grasping for straws.
Ashley, what did you think?
You know, they say we don't use math in real life.
But I was like, "Hey, maybe you actually do in your job."
[crowd laughs]
[Ashley] But the problem is,
I also agree with you, Ishpal.
I thought that she just kinda threw that example in
to kinda make it seem relatable to her own self.
So…
I called bullshit.
[crowd groans]
[Howie] Wow.
You have two bullshits.
Before I reveal what Billy thought of your answer,
I want you to reveal what your answer was for $750,000.
Were you telling the truth?
Or was it a lie?
[suspenseful music plays]
I do use a lot of math in my everyday job.
But my answer was bullshit.
[crowd exclaims]
So, it was common-sense estimations,
the real answer.
Do you realize what's on the line? You still look calm and cool.
That's okay.
The difference between this, if…
-if Billy believed you… -[tense music plays]
…you have three quarters of a million dollars,
which ties the highest winner ever on the game show Bullsh*t.
But if Billy sniffed out the bullshit and didn't believe you,
you would have to leave
with $650,000 less
-than this question is worth. -[Ishpal exhales]
$100,000. There's a lot on the line.
-It's a lot. -It hurts.
I came to win the million,
and you only get the million by going through 750.
-[exhales] -$750,000.
Billy, is she going home, or is she staying? Answer.
[suspenseful music plays]
Fermi problems is when you take the estimation, I think,
of a number to the nearest tenth percentile or something.
Problem with that is,
uh, I'm not good at math.
[crowd laughs]
[Billy] Uh…
[music fades]
I believed you.
-Whoa! -[upbeat music plays]
-Three quarters of a million dollars! -[crowd cheering]
-[Megan laughing happily] -It's three quarters of a million dollars!
-Oh my gosh. Let that sink in. -Whoo!
-[Howie] Tell me what you're feeling. -I honestly can't believe it.
You know, of the different answers I've given where I was right,
I wouldn't place that as my best bullshit, so…
-[sighs] -It is your best bullshit so far,
because it's the only bullshit that has gotten you
-three quarters of a million dollars. -My God.
[chuckling] That would classify as a really good piece of bull.
-That's amazing. -[crowd cheering]
[tense music plays]
$750,000 is yours.
If you leave now with $750,000,
you will be tied for the highest amount
-given away to date. -Oh my God.
-[crowd applauds] -There is one question left.
One question.
You will be the biggest winner in the history of Bullsh*t.
Not just the game.
-Just bullshit around the world. -[all laugh]
[Howie] One question.
[exhales]
One more step.
[exhales]
You said you wanna take it all the way.
You are on the precipice of "all the way."
You walked into this building with nothing.
You have the chance to leave here right now with $750,000.
[Megan] You know, when I'm at home,
watching game shows, which I love to do 'cause I'm a nerd,
I'm always the one screaming at my TV, "Go for it. Go for it."
And I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't go for it.
-You're going for it? -I'm going for the million, Howie.
-[Ashley] Oh! -One million dollars.
-[crowd cheering] -This is the first time on Bullsh*t
we have a player playing for one million dollars.
Wow.
-I'm… I'm nervous. -Yeah.
Every one of you, focus on this last question and watch her.
It's all about the question, the answer, and one million dollars.
-Here we go. The question is… -[suspenseful music plays]
[reading question]
[continues reading]
"A, a 10,000-gallon hat in Austin."
"B, the belly of a whale in Maine."
"C, a giant potato in Idaho."
"Or D, a pair of fuzzy dice in Las Vegas."
[music continues]
[chimes]
[tense music plays]
All right.
She is locked in.
She knows
whether her answer is right or wrong.
If it's right,
one million dollars is automatically yours.
If it's wrong, she has to convince one of you that she knows the answer.
Answer the question.
The answer is a 10,000-gallon hat in Austin.
-[chimes] -I said I had a Master's in Geology.
And that Master's is actually from the University of Texas at Austin.
I lived there for three years while I was in school,
then lived there for another year afterwards, working.
Uh, when you live in Austin, the catchphrase is, "Keep Austin weird."
You may have heard it.
And this is absolutely the kind of weird thing that Austin's known for.
[music continues]
[exhales]
[Ashley chuckles]
-[Howie] They're still staring at you. -[laughs]
This is, like, the biggest game of poker I've ever been involved in.
[chuckles softly]
Remember, this is your last chance at accuracy,
and the most accurate one of you is gonna end up in that spot.
That can be you next playing for the million dollars.
So, if you think she's telling the truth,
-lock in that you believe her. -[chiming]
If you think she's trying to get away with an incorrect answer, lock in BS.
-[chimes] -[music fades]
[Howie] The challengers have all locked in.
[tense music resumes]
Might as well rip the band-aid off really quickly.
One million dollars.
Megan.
Did you get the correct answer?
[suspenseful music playing]
I did live in Austin for four years.
[music continues]
But that was bullshit.
[crowd exclaims]
[Howie] Ooh…
The correct answer is a giant potato in Idaho.
Who knew?
So the key is,
we are sitting on the precipice
-of one million dollars. -[breathes deeply]
[dreamy music playing]
If all three of them have called bullshit,
the most you can walk out of here with is $100,000.
$900,000 less than the million dollars.
Your fate, your future,
is in the hands of Ishpal, Billy, Ashley.
One million dollars.
-Ooh. -[music intensifies]
-You could have walked with $750,000. -[exhales]
You seem emotional.
This is probably the coolest thing that's ever happened to me.
And I'm so glad I went for it, even if…
even if I didn't get the million, I'm glad I went for it.
How will you feel…
if they called bullshit?
I'm still happy to walk with $100,000.
That's a lot of money, and I'm glad I went for it.
I… It's a bummer to watch a game show
and you want that person to just go for it.
And you know that they're nervous, but you're just rooting for them.
And so I hope people were rooting for me to take that chance.
It's easy to say when you're on your couch, "Go for it."
Everybody loves somebody who takes a chance.
-That's right. -No risk, no reward.
That's right. I couldn't--
I couldn't win a million if I didn't go for it.
[suspenseful music building slowly]
Well, I will say,
we asked you ten questions.
Half of them, you got wrong.
That's right. These were tough trivia questions.
And we're talking about one million dollars.
All you need is one of them.
If you see that thumbs up, that means…
-[chuckles] Oh my God. -…you walk away with one million dollars.
It's wild.
It is wild.
For the million dollars, I'm going to start with…
Ishpal.
I was really torn on this one, to be honest.
You did that same thing with the well answer
where you just gave something
-that was too convenient from your life. -Hmm.
And I just didn't buy it.
[music intensifies]
But at the same time, I could have sworn
that I'd heard that the 10,000-gallon hat was a thing you could stay in.
So, I…
[music building]
…believed you.
-Boom! -[crowd cheers]
-One million dollars! -[Megan gasps]
-That's all it takes. -[laughs]
[Howie] One person to believe your bullshit.
One million dollars.
-The very first time… -Whoo!
…on Bullsh*t The Gameshow.
You are the biggest winner ever!
-[laughs] -You are a millionaire!
-And, uh, you played this game so solidly. -Oh my God.
So-- it's so amazing to watch you.
You were so stoic. And I know you were emotional.
I know this meant everything to you.
-I know this changes your life. -Oh my God.
-[crowd cheers] -Talk to me! You're a millionaire!
This is crazy. I love trivia.
And I love game shows and, like,
this is like the Super Bowl of trivia for me.
And I never thought I'd be in a-- this position.
And I had waffled on whether or not to go for it.
And I woke up this morning and said,
"If you get the chance, you gotta go for it."
-[crowd cheers] -One million dollars!
-I am so thrilled for you. -Thank you, Ishpal!
I am so happy for you.
Wait till your kids see this.
The only problem you're gonna have in life now
is explaining to your kids why they shouldn't lie.
-[all laughing] -Because lying just made you
an absolute winner and millionaire right here on Bullsh*t The Gameshow.
-[crowd cheering] -[triumphant music playing]
Oh my God. This is so crazy, you guys. [chuckles]
I'm emotional 'cause I love trivia, and I'm nerdy, and I love game shows.
And I never thought that I'd get to put all those things that I love together
and win a million dollars.
I have two kids. So, college funds are ready to go.
Um, it's just such a stress relief. Like, this is life-changing money.
And I just wanted to go for it.
When I'm at home, I root for people. And I wanted people to root for me.
[crowd cheers]
Our last contestant just won one million dollars.
That's right. One million dollars.
She was a geologist and she rocked the game.
-[crowd laughs] -See what I did there? The… Anyway.
The next person going for one million dollars is…
-Ashley. -[crowd cheering]
Oh my God.
Honestly, I'm nervous.
[laughs] I'm nervous. I can't even, like, lie about that.
I just watched Megan win a million dollars.
So, hoping for the best.
I do improv for fun.
And so, you have to get up there and kind of just, like,
react to whatever is happening around you.
So, my strategy is to look them in the eyes and, you know,
be their friend and be a warm personality to them.
-Trust me? -Oh… Let's get it.
I'll try my best at the trivia,
but I have no problem bullshitting if I have to.
-[crowd cheering] -Welcome here.
Thank you so much for having me.
Tell me more about yourself.
My name is Ashley. I am originally from Mansfield, Ohio.
-Right. -And I'm a morning show radio producer.
I would imagine, in radio,
lying and bullshit is a big part of the… You know, 'cause you're putting on a show.
Yeah, especially as a producer, you have to do a lot of fact-checking.
And when you're on the air, you can't stop, so…
It's whatever you say goes.
-So maybe that's what got you up here. -Maybe.
You were the most accurate. You were able to detect it.
-Yeah. -But can you dish it?
-We'll see. -[Howie] That's gonna be the thing to see.
-You wanna meet the challengers? -Let's do it.
-Kiera. Tell me about yourself. -[Ashley chuckles]
Um, I'm originally from Florida.
I'm one of seven,
-raised by a single mother. -[Howie] Wow.
And, uh, I've bartended
for the last, like, 11, 12 years of my life
in New York, Florida, and Los Angeles.
-Wow. -[Howie] Wow.
Well, welcome here to Bullsh*t.
-Warren, tell me about yourself. -Hello.
Hey, I'm-- I'm Warren. Um, I'm 33.
Um, I'm from North Carolina, live in Raleigh.
And I'm a fraud investigator for a living.
-A fraud investigator for a living? -Yep.
-Good luck. -Yeah, I'm a little nervous.
-[chuckles] -[Howie] Okay.
And, Ishpal, you get one more chance at getting into the hot seat next.
All right. You ready to play?
-Readier than ever. -Here we go.
You are ten questions away from one million dollars.
Let's do it.
[suspenseful music plays]
Ashley, the first question is…
[music fades]
[closing theme music plays]