Dropout Panel Changer

Summary

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Event Overview

In the February 18, 2025 episode of Good One: A Podcast About Jokes, hosted by Vulture’s Jesse David Fox, listeners are treated to a unique panel event titled Dropout Panel Changer. This event, featured at the Vulture Festival, showcases the innovative spirit of Dropout—a comedy-focused streaming service that emerged from CollegeHumor. Dropout’s CEO, Sam Reich, also the host of the popular game show Game Changer, introduces the panel where the format unpredictably shifts every ten minutes, keeping both panelists and audience on their toes.

Panel Introduction and Fun Facts

The panel features four prominent Dropout personalities: Reika Shankar, Vic Michaelis, Jordan Myrick, and Jacob Wysocki, with Bethy Squires moderating. The session begins with each panelist introducing themselves and sharing a fun fact:

• Jordan Myrick (04:05): Host of Gastronauts on Dropout. Fun Fact: “I do not eat the skins of tomatoes.”

• Reika Shankar (05:04): Enjoys Dungeons and Dragons. Fun Fact: “I'm an elf.”

• Vic Michaelis (05:10): Host of Smarty Pants. Fun Fact: “I remember a lot of birthdays, including Michael Jordan’s on February 17th and Jennifer Lopez’s on July 24th.”

• Jacob Wysocki: Briefly introduces himself as part of various Dropout shows.

Impact of Dropout on Comedy Careers and Creativity

The panel delves into how Dropout has transformed their careers and creative processes:

• Jordan Myrick (06:23): Highlights the financial viability of comedy through Dropout, noting, “You can make money from comedy. And that's been really helpful to my life.”

• Vic Michaelis (06:31): Appreciates the acceptance and support Dropout provides, saying, “Dropout has given me the wave. And that feels really rewarding because I felt like I wasn't getting that in other places.”

• Reika Shankar (06:55): Emphasizes the importance of being properly compensated, mentioning how Dropout’s payment structure pressured improv theaters to improve their pay scales.

• Sam Reich (07:29): Commends Dropout’s business model for fostering creativity by saying, “Dropout succeeds because it's a business and an institution that thrives on telling people yes… This is a place that just lets people burn.”

Fake Reunion Panel: "Daddy Issues"

Transitioning into a playful segment, the panelists engage in a fake reunion panel for a nonexistent show titled "Daddy Issues":

• Vic Michaelis (09:36): Excitedly discusses his role and the unique concept of the show, blending personal struggles with humor.

• Reika Shankar (09:52): Shares her experience portraying a Midwestern character, adding depth to her comedic roots.

• Jordan Myrick (10:53): Performs a monologue, shedding light on character development and personal aspirations:

  “I want to find a project that really let me stand out… I have to work extremely hard with little to no help to get where I am here.”

• Sam Reich (12:00): Adds humor by reminiscing about improvised moments, including Mark’s unexpected dance performance during auditions.

The segment culminates in the dramatic (and humorous) demise of Big Daddy at the hands of Bigger Daddy, sparking discussions on creative decisions and character dynamics.

Clip Setup: Sharing Personal Clips

In the Clip Setup format, each panelist presents a personal video clip:

• Jordan Myrick (19:12): Shows a home dinner scene with Sam Reich where various fictional characters make cameo appearances.

• Reika Shankar (20:04): Shares a deeply personal clip about her grandfather, intertwining humor with heartfelt memories:

  “You cannot get a DUI on a horse and stay… He died because he ran his horse into a lake.”

• Vic Michaelis (21:27): Presents a "Getting Ready with Me" TikTok-style video, blending relatable morning routines with comedic editing mishaps.

• Jacob Wysocki (26:38): Delivers a satirical take on television’s influence, critiquing mindless consumption with exaggerated rhetoric.

Trivia Game: Twilight Edition

The panel shifts to a Trivia Game focused on the Twilight series, challenging panelists with false statements that they must correct:

• Bethy Squires throws convoluted and humorous questions, leading to playful banter and incorrect yet funny answers from the panelists. For example:

  • Jordan Myrick (39:59): Attempts to dissect incorrect plot points with witty remarks:

    “They talk about the Jaco and Seth and Paul up top. But then later they say, Sam Wolfed out.”

Despite the panelists’ best efforts, they struggle to accurately address the false statements, resulting in light-hearted frustration and laughter.

Physical Challenge: Gastroplugs

The final segment introduces a Physical Challenge where panelists must perform while chewing and speaking, emphasizing timing and coordination:

• Reika Shankar (53:57): Demonstrates the challenge, leading to humorous struggles as panelists attempt to comply with the rules while maintaining composure.

• Vic Michaelis (55:30): Successfully completes the challenge, earning applause and demonstrating comedic prowess.

Announcements and Closing Messages

As the panel concludes, each member shares updates on their respective projects:

• Jordan Myrick (56:50): Announces Gastronauts streaming on Dropout and his new podcast Happy Wife, Happy Life with his fiancée.

• Vic Michaelis (57:16): Promotes his upcoming Dungeons and Dragons event and the release of Season 2 Spring of Smarty Pants on Dropout.

• Reika Shankar (58:08): Mentions her regular shows at UCB and her ongoing projects.

The episode wraps up with final messages promoting Dropout’s initiatives and encouragement for listeners to support independent comedy.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Jordan Myrick (04:15): “I do not eat the skins of tomatoes.”

• Vic Michaelis (05:33): “I love that.”

• Reika Shankar (06:23): “You can make money from comedy. And that's been really helpful to my life.”

• Sam Reich (07:59): “Dropout is a place that just lets people burn.”

• Reika Shankar (09:57): “He works in mysterious ways.”

• Jordan Myrick (10:53): “Have you seen this yet? I have been here for too many years…”

• Vic Michaelis (21:56): “Oh, I didn’t know that.”

• Reika Shankar (25:14): “I have Share and subscribe…”

• Bethy Squires (44:11): “I have an interesting mind, but I want to smell like a slut.”

• Jordan Myrick (45:22): “You guys know what I mean.”

• Sam Reich (60:28): “Simon says stand up.”

Conclusion

The Dropout Panel Changer episode of Good One showcases the dynamic interplay between comedians, blending structured discussions with spontaneous, format-shifting activities. Through humor, personal anecdotes, and interactive games, the panel not only highlights the versatility of Dropout as a platform but also underscores the camaraderie and creativity that drive modern comedy. Listeners are left with insightful reflections on the industry, the importance of supportive communities, and the enduring power of jokes to connect and entertain.

Transcript

[Jordan Myrick]

Foreign.

[Jesse David Fox]

Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes. I am your host, Jesse David Fox. This week we have our final panel from this past Vulture festival, but a new season of the podcast, the regular Good One podcast, will be coming very soon. So watch this space. What you're about to listen to was an event called Dropout Panel Changer. It demands a bit of an explanation. First, Dropout, for those unfamiliar, it is a streaming service that grew out of what was once college humor. In my opinion, the rise of Dropout as an independently operated comedy focused streaming service is one of the great stories of the last five years of comedy. And one of its most popular shows is something called Game Changer. Hosted by Dropout CEO Sam Reich, who also is longtime college humor guy, Game Changer is a game show in which every episode, the premise changes and the contestants don't know what game they agree to play until they start playing it. So Dropout Panel Changer is an event in which the stars of the Dropout universe, specifically Reika Shankar, Vic Michaelis, Jordan Myrich, and Jacob Wysocki, participate in a panel where periodically the premise of said panel changes completely. Panel was moderated by my colleague Bethy Squires. So here is Dropout Panel Changer.

[Bethy Squires]

Hi, everybody. Welcome. Welcome, Dropout fans. I'm Bethy Squyers. I'm a [e-mail] from the sign. And before we get things started, we have a little video message from Sam.

[Sam Reich]

Welcome to Panel Changer, the only panel where the format changes every 10 minutes. I'm Sam Reich and I've been remote the whole time. Our panelists have no idea what kind of panel they're on. Without further ado, the name of the.

[Rekha Shankar]

Game is panel, so we are jumping right into it.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Vic Michaelis]

Toxic behavior.

[Sam Reich]

Did not know he was gonna be here.

[Rekha Shankar]

I'm shivering. My stomach hurts.

[Sam Reich]

Truly shivering.

[Bethy Squires]

He works in mysterious ways.

[Rekha Shankar]

Ugh.

[Bethy Squires]

So this is Panel Changers. Like Game Changers, you can, in fact, win this panel. And if you win, you will receive vulchi.

[Jordan Myrick]

Oh.

[Sam Reich]

Whoa.

[Vic Michaelis]

Oh, my God.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay, I need it.

[Bethy Squires]

We have a scorekeeper, Colin, in the audience who will be judging you on unspecified criteria. Colin.

[Vic Michaelis]

Colin.

[Jordan Myrick]

What?

[Rekha Shankar]

Love, weird glasses and a great shirt.

[Vic Michaelis]

We go way back.

[Bethy Squires]

Colin, you have fans behind you that are acting as buzzers. So at any point when there might be a time to buzz in, or if you just get a little warm, those are there for you.

[Jordan Myrick]

Okay.

[Rekha Shankar]

This feels like a Chekhov's fan.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

Amazing.

[Bethy Squires]

Of all the things I think this is not, that one is not gonna get You.

[Rekha Shankar]

That feels like a clue.

[Jordan Myrick]

I forgot this wasn't a normal panel until we were sitting here.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah, well, don't worry, because the first format is. No, an earnest discussion. A normal panel.

[Sam Reich]

Oh, this part's normal.

[Vic Michaelis]

I literally love being earnest.

[Rekha Shankar]

That rocks.

[Bethy Squires]

Okay, I feel like first, what I want to ask everybody at the panel is to introduce yourselves, give a fun fact.

[Jordan Myrick]

And that means I'm first.

[Rekha Shankar]

You picked this seat.

[Jordan Myrick]

We sat down in the order we came out in, and we all agreed on that beforehand. So don't do that to me. I'm Jordan Myrick. I host.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

Thank you. I host Gastronauts.

[Sam Reich]

Yes, yes.

[Jordan Myrick]

And my fun fact is I do not eat the skins of tomatoes.

[Rekha Shankar]

Skin sucks.

[Sam Reich]

Skin sucks.

[Rekha Shankar]

Skin and sucks.

[Bethy Squires]

All right, that's an extra point for Jordan for getting a shout out that early.

[Jordan Myrick]

I only eat the flesh. That's my fun fact.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay, so now I'm sorry. I'm getting it. Okay, here we go. Hi, Vic Michaelis. I thank you so much. Appreciate it. Hi, does that count as a shout out? I'm sorry, what was your name again? And what are you into? Colin. A fun fact about me. I love Dungeons and Dragons. It's my fave. I'm an elf.

[Vic Michaelis]

Okay. Hell yeah. I'm Rekha Shankar.

[Sam Reich]

Yes.

[Vic Michaelis]

Thank you. I host smarty pants. Thank you. My fun fact. Okay, I remember a lot of birthdays. Is that interesting? Michael Jordan's is February 17th. Jennifer Lopez's is July 24th. What do we like? Colin, when's yours?

[Bethy Squires]

Let's give a point for JLo.

[Vic Michaelis]

Colin, when's yours?

[Rekha Shankar]

September 10th.

[Bethy Squires]

Okay, September.

[Vic Michaelis]

I'll see you next year.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, my God.

[Vic Michaelis]

Everyone's being sexual with me.

[Sam Reich]

Immediately catcalling.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah, yeah. Can I get points for that?

[Bethy Squires]

2 points for enduring sexual behavior with grace.

[Rekha Shankar]

Please, please.

[Sam Reich]

He wrote something down. Hi, everybody. My name is Jacob Isaki. Simply was up. I'm on a lot of dropout shows.

[Bethy Squires]

So speaking of that, what has joining this community of dropout done not just for career wise, but for your creativity? How has it changed the way you think about comedy?

[Jordan Myrick]

I think for me, it's helped me realize that you can make money from comedy. And that's been really helpful to my life.

[Vic Michaelis]

I think so much of comedy feels like you have to be waved in by somebody. Like, you could be talented, but someone hasn't waved you in and said, okay, you go be a freak here. And dropout has given me the wave. And that feels really rewarding because I felt like I wasn't getting that in other places. In my life. And it was really nice to just feel kind of that warmth and acceptance of being a lunatic.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah. And I. I think to piggyback off of both of those things. It also, I think, as a comedian is really, like, showed me our collective worth in that, like, a lot of improv theaters did not pay comedians up until, like, what, two years ago? And I think having a. Yeah, it's bad. And it's like having a place where we were actively getting paid pretty well to do what we were doing forced a lot of other people to catch up, which I think was really cool and exciting.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah. Just to piggyback on all those sentiments. I think Dropout succeeds because it's a business and an institution that thrives on telling people yes, where a lot of comedy institutions that I've been a part of in the past thrive on telling people no or getting them to shift their philosophy into, like, a unified place or a unified style. And I think that just really puts people's fire out, and this is a place that just lets people burn.

[Vic Michaelis]

We're on fire.

[Bethy Squires]

I guess, for the people who have on this panel who have developed shows, can you, speaking to what Jacob said, talk about how that process works and figuring out how to find the thing that lets you. Your heart sing out when you do it?

[Jordan Myrick]

Yeah. I think for me, something that was really nice is Dropout, and Sam in particular, being like, we do not know anything about food, and you do, and you've worked in food media and you know stuff about food. So let's combine and make a giant Power Ranger figure of all of our knowledge. So I think, like, really finding people that are good at the things that they're good at and then trusting them to do the job has been really helpful for me in developing a show because I also creative produced Gastronauts, and, yeah, I feel like it was the smoothest set I've ever been on, because we went around and we found all the people that were the top of their field knew what they were talking about, and then we just let them do their thing. Because I'm like, I'm an idiot. I don't know anything about lighting. I don't know anything about microphones or anything like that. Like, you guys, that's your job. Do it. And when you really let people do what they're good at, it gives a great product.

[Bethy Squires]

No, it's time for another format.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, no.

[Bethy Squires]

What can we find? It's a fake reunion panel, for sure.

[Rekha Shankar]

Of course.

[Bethy Squires]

So a lot of Vulture Festival panels are reunions for shows like you're the Worst. Had one last night up here. It was great. There was music. We're doing that now for a show that never existed. So from the audience, I need the name of a TV show that all of these people were on.

[Vic Michaelis]

Daddy Issues.

[Bethy Squires]

Daddy Issues?

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah. The question was a TV show we haven't been on before.

[Bethy Squires]

So, yeah, I guess starting out, whoever feels like they're ready to, like, talk about it? Like, what attracted you to this project? To Daddy Issues?

[Vic Michaelis]

When I saw the script for Daddy Issues, I thought, yes, yes, yes. Like, the character of Mildred just really spoke to me, because not only did she have daddy issues, but she worked for the publication Daddy Issues, the magazine about dads. And it just was the first piece of media of its kind that I thought was doing both.

[Rekha Shankar]

And for me, I think playing somebody from the Midwest, I really sort of got into it, you know, and really, it was one of those things where it really ingratiated me to American culture.

[Bethy Squires]

And can I say I was shocked when I found out that you were British.

[Rekha Shankar]

You want me to do a little bit of the character?

[Bethy Squires]

I really. Your accent was flawed.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, okay. Are you ready? I was the barista order for Daniel. Oh, no, no.

[Bethy Squires]

That's the point.

[Rekha Shankar]

It's crazy.

[Vic Michaelis]

I miss that.

[Sam Reich]

I haven't heard that in 25 years.

[Rekha Shankar]

It's unbelievable.

[Sam Reich]

My gosh.

[Jordan Myrick]

I think for me, I wanted to find a project that really let me stand out, because, yes, I am Liam Neeson's daughter, but that doesn't mean I'm not an actor in my own right who's worked extremely hard with little to no help to get where I am here. Harder and harder in a lot of ways.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, do the monologue.

[Jordan Myrick]

No, do the monologue. Do the monologue.

[Rekha Shankar]

You almost got nominated for an Emmy.

[Bethy Squires]

I can't believe we're seeing this.

[Jordan Myrick]

Who's out there? Yeah, who's out there tonight? My family will not stand for this. I have been here for too many years, living too many lives for too many days to be the kind of woman that looks at a man and says to him something that she wouldn't say to anyone else. Thank you.

[Sam Reich]

Really nice. Really nice.

[Vic Michaelis]

That was one of our very generations.

[Sam Reich]

I haven't heard that in 25 years.

[Bethy Squires]

Jacob, you came in the show later. It was a little bit of a controversial addition.

[Sam Reich]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, of course, you know, I showed up as Big Daddy.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah.

[Sam Reich]

Third season. He finally showed up.

[Rekha Shankar]

Can I ask you a question? I've always wondered.

[Sam Reich]

Of course.

[Rekha Shankar]

What was it like transitioning from Secretary of State to an actor on a television show.

[Sam Reich]

Well, I never had dreams of Hollywood. Right. I just knew that I wanted to be the face of a nation.

[Rekha Shankar]

Sure.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Sam Reich]

And I was headed to become the president, and then I was actually just seen at a mall at an Orange Julius. I was ordering. I was ordering a medium Orange Julius, and somebody said, hey, you kind of look like a Big Daddy. And I said, no, that's what they used to call me. Golly.

[Vic Michaelis]

And a lot of people don't know this, but Mark's intro dance entirely improvised.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, sure.

[Jordan Myrick]

He's an incredible dancer.

[Vic Michaelis]

Incredible Daddy. Incredible dancer.

[Jordan Myrick]

Unbelievable.

[Vic Michaelis]

Mark, would you show us?

[Jordan Myrick]

Mark.

[Sam Reich]

Mark.

[Vic Michaelis]

Mark.

[Rekha Shankar]

Mark.

[Jordan Myrick]

Mark.

[Rekha Shankar]

Mark.

[Jordan Myrick]

Mark.

[Rekha Shankar]

Mark.

[Bethy Squires]

Mark. Mark.

[Sam Reich]

Mark.

[Vic Michaelis]

Mark.

[Rekha Shankar]

We'll sing the theme song for you.

[Sam Reich]

You got to remember, my knees aren't real anymore.

[Jordan Myrick]

Mark.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay, you ready? 5, 6, 7, 8. Daddy issues. We got Daddy Issues. Daddy Issues. It's a Daddy Eddy issue. It's an issue.

[Bethy Squires]

An issue.

[Rekha Shankar]

Variety. Variety.

[Sam Reich]

Big Daddy.

[Vic Michaelis]

It's so crazy. That was improvised.

[Rekha Shankar]

Wow. Stunning.

[Sam Reich]

Well, that was what the audition was. They just said dance.

[Vic Michaelis]

Right.

[Jordan Myrick]

Things are so different for men than they are for women. It's really interesting.

[Vic Michaelis]

That's what's crazy.

[Bethy Squires]

Now tell me how you feel about the darker turn that the show took after Big Daddy was killed off by Bigger Daddy.

[Sam Reich]

That was tough. Well, all the writers were on cocaine that season. There was a lot of big ideas flowing around. You know what I mean?

[Vic Michaelis]

And I remember the executive producers originally took issue. I mean, this is what's crazy about the creative process is, like, everyone has their own tastes. So one of the executive producers, Dan Daniels, he said, we don't like that the Bigger Daddy leaps out of the ocean like a whale and chomps the Big Daddy, and that that's how he dies. But our creator loved it, you know, and so who's right, right? Who's right? Is Picasso right or is Vans right? I don't know.

[Jordan Myrick]

It's so true. I think it was really hard for me because having Liam Neeson play Bigger Daddy felt like I had kind of finally worked so hard to find my own space, my own, you know, creative family. But, you know, he is a big. He's one of the producers on the show, and he wanted to play the part. So ultimately, you know, it felt like creatively the right move.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah. And I will say, across the pond, sort of when we did the spin off of this show called Father Troubles, you know, I was lucky to be involved in that creative process, and we sort of righted the ship as to say in that iteration.

[Jordan Myrick]

What I think is so interesting is that in America, a magazine, you can call it an issue, and in the uk, you call it a trouble.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yes.

[Jordan Myrick]

That's so interesting to me.

[Bethy Squires]

Correct.

[Rekha Shankar]

Because it was a pun in our version, and it is a pun over there. Over there as well. Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

I love that.

[Rekha Shankar]

I love that.

[Jordan Myrick]

I love you. I love you.

[Rekha Shankar]

I love you. I love you. I love you. Wow.

[Sam Reich]

I haven't seen that in 25 years.

[Jordan Myrick]

Wow.

[Bethy Squires]

That'S beautiful. The barista came in their own.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah. After Liam came in and the romance started.

[Rekha Shankar]

Well, so sort of what happened then is. If you don't mind me showing. So sort of I would then, you know, a coffee would come in, and I'd go, oh, coffee for Daniel. And then I'd put it on the counter.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Rekha Shankar]

So that's sort of my thing.

[Jordan Myrick]

Excuse me for a second. Excuse me. Sorry. Excuse me for a second.

[Bethy Squires]

Okay.

[Rekha Shankar]

Sorry.

[Vic Michaelis]

So it's tough.

[Rekha Shankar]

It's okay.

[Vic Michaelis]

It's a tough subject.

[Rekha Shankar]

I'm gonna make sure she's okay. Give me one second.

[Vic Michaelis]

It's a tough subject.

[Bethy Squires]

So, like, what was a favorite. Hey, are you all right that you saw there?

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah. What looked good?

[Sam Reich]

I love when we did an episode at Sea World.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Sam Reich]

They had these walruses, and we got to work with these walruses, and they were some of the smartest creatures I'd ever seen.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah. Some people thought that the walruses were clearly reading off scripts or wrote their lines on their paws and stuff, but.

[Sam Reich]

No, they were just speaking. They were just speaking natural English.

[Vic Michaelis]

Natural northeast.

[Jordan Myrick]

No, I'm not. Okay. What, I'm supposed to come here and just talk to you like you didn't me and then my dad.

[Rekha Shankar]

Hey, hey. I did that. What do you want me to say? I did that. Okay. You want me to apologize?

[Jordan Myrick]

Yes.

[Rekha Shankar]

No.

[Jordan Myrick]

Fine. I'm done. Go. Just go back on stage.

[Rekha Shankar]

No. Hey, hey, can you validate my pocket?

[Jordan Myrick]

No.

[Bethy Squires]

Go back stage.

[Rekha Shankar]

Whoa. Hello.

[Jordan Myrick]

Coffee, guys.

[Sam Reich]

That was on Mike.

[Vic Michaelis]

That was on Mike. But I just thought I'd let you.

[Sam Reich]

Know out of courtesy. That was on Mike. No, I was on mic.

[Rekha Shankar]

I'm Rochelle. This is. No, neither of us. And Mike. I'm Rochelle. This is Daniela.

[Bethy Squires]

Just saying that. We all heard that. We all heard that.

[Jordan Myrick]

I heard that.

[Rekha Shankar]

Fun.

[Bethy Squires]

This is.

[Sam Reich]

Oh, boy.

[Bethy Squires]

Points, points, points, points, points. Points. All around. Points all around. Some points.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah. Yeah, I love that.

[Vic Michaelis]

Who's winning? Don't tell me.

[Bethy Squires]

Don't tell.

[Vic Michaelis]

Thank you.

[Bethy Squires]

Don't tell me. I don't Want to know.

[Jordan Myrick]

Okay.

[Jesse David Fox]

We'Ll be right back for Dropout panel changer. Now back to Dropout panel changer. Live from Vulture Festival.

[Bethy Squires]

It's time for our next format, which is Set up this clip.

[Rekha Shankar]

Perfect.

[Bethy Squires]

The panelists have brought clips. How thoughtful of them. Do they know what these clips are? They don't, no. So I'm gonna have you set up a clip. Of course. You've all brought one. They're really good, and they're really germane to what we're talking about. Jordan, will you set up your clip, please?

[Jordan Myrick]

Of course. I love the clip that I brought.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

And I'm setting it up now.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

Just looking at this.

[Bethy Squires]

Just tell me what you. What made you interested in showing this clip?

[Jordan Myrick]

And it's a clip of me.

[Bethy Squires]

It's a clip.

[Jordan Myrick]

So we don't know if it's a clip of me.

[Bethy Squires]

It's a clip.

[Jordan Myrick]

Well, as I said, I absolutely love this clip.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

This clip is actually a clip that I took of my own personal, you know, footage for vlogging. And this. Sam came over to my house for dinner, and this is what that clip is from.

[Bethy Squires]

Okay. Roll it.

[Sam Reich]

I'd like to thank all my fabulous guests. The great Miss Piggy Ernest.

[Rekha Shankar]

DJ Jazzy Jeff.

[Sam Reich]

And the Fresh Prince.

[Rekha Shankar]

The Three Little Pigs.

[Sam Reich]

President Reagan.

[Jordan Myrick]

There he is.

[Sam Reich]

C3PO. R2D2.

[Vic Michaelis]

My main man, Mickey Mouse.

[Rekha Shankar]

Goofy.

[Sam Reich]

Disneyland's first guest.

[Rekha Shankar]

Christine Grape.

[Vic Michaelis]

And Michael Schwartner.

[Rekha Shankar]

Vern Gonzo, and especially my favorite jungle guy, Charlie Fleischer.

[Jordan Myrick]

And as you can see, that was exactly what I said.

[Bethy Squires]

That is exactly what happened.

[Jordan Myrick]

That's when Sam came over for dinner. I introduced him to all my children, and that's what happened.

[Bethy Squires]

One of them had a gun.

[Jordan Myrick]

Yes. Well, all of them have a gun. One of them showed a gun.

[Bethy Squires]

Who would you like to thank?

[Jordan Myrick]

Oh, I would like to thank the people here tonight.

[Bethy Squires]

Wonderful. Vic, you have a clip? Please tell me.

[Rekha Shankar]

Of course. So in my DD campaign that I'm running.

[Jordan Myrick]

Okay, Pandering.

[Rekha Shankar]

I, you know, I think a lot about justice and art, and I think a lot about World War II and sort of contextually how that has led us where we are. I think about art and artists. I think about life. I think about love. I think about my grandfather. He died in 2001, pre 9 11. So we can go ahead and roll that clip. You cannot get a DUI on a horse and stay. Don't count. Look it up. Look it up. Did DUI when I did my buggy, but I cannot get a DUI on A horse.

[Sam Reich]

It's so nice that you have that.

[Vic Michaelis]

It's so nice that you have that memory.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah.

[Sam Reich]

Grief is hard, but when you have moments like that to tap into, that's really.

[Rekha Shankar]

It's really nice. He died because he ran his horse into a lake.

[Vic Michaelis]

Wow.

[Rekha Shankar]

It was hard. You can't get a dui. You can drown on a horse, apparently. So that was hard. Oh, my God.

[Bethy Squires]

My question was going to be, what did you learn from your grandfather? But I think we learned how to play checkers.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah. So. So I have that in my heart, but I'm going to carry that with me forever. Thank you.

[Vic Michaelis]

Sweet.

[Rekha Shankar]

Thank you.

[Bethy Squires]

Very good.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah.

[Bethy Squires]

Right.

[Vic Michaelis]

So I'm not big on TikTok or anything, but I did want to just try some stuff out, so I wanted to do one of those, like, getting Ready with me in the morning videos. I hope I did it right. I'm not like a master at that kind of cap cut editing, but I hope it turned out well.

[Bethy Squires]

Great. Roll it.

[Jacob Wysocki]

And this beautiful television has put me, like I said before, in all sorts of situations. I remember being very scared to it because an Icelandic poet told me that. Not like in cinemas, where the thing that throws the picture from it just sends lights on the screen. But this is different. This is millions and millions of little screens. Who sent light on you? Some sort of electrical light? I'm not really sure, but because there's so many of them, and in fact, you're watching very, very many frames when you're watching tv. Your head is very busy all the time to calculate and put it all together into one picture. And then because you're so busy doing that, you don't watch very carefully what the program that you're watching is really about. So you become hypnotized. So all that's on tv, it just goes directly into your brain and you stop judging if it's right or not. So you just swallow and swallow. This is what an Icelandic poet told me once. And I became so scared to television that I always got headaches when I watched it. But then later on, when I got my Danish book on television, I stopped being afraid because I read the truth. And that's the scientifical truth, which is much better. You shouldn't let poets slide to you.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah, I mean, I know I said I didn't know a lot about cap cut editing. No cuts in there. Yeah, that's just me getting ready in the morning. I think it sometimes helps one to kind of confront the beast, you know, I work in television. Let me tell you how one works. Let me go pixel by pixel and kind of explain. Explain it to be Bjork. I don't know. Be Bjork in the morning. You know what I mean? Put on a bunch of powder. Be white. Kind of get my hair going.

[Rekha Shankar]

Cool.

[Vic Michaelis]

And that was like me in bad. That was a selfie. You couldn't tell, but that was a selfie. That was me and bad. Just with my tv talking about how it works.

[Rekha Shankar]

Can I ask who was running sound on that for you?

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah, that is my dog. I've strapped a hypercardioid microphone. I can explain it tomorrow morning.

[Rekha Shankar]

That's okay.

[Vic Michaelis]

To her collar. And she kind of wiggles down below. And it usually gets pretty good sound, you know what I'm saying?

[Bethy Squires]

This is a bonus point for anybody who wants to answer the question. Has a poet ever lied to you and about what?

[Rekha Shankar]

What was the question?

[Sam Reich]

Huh?

[Rekha Shankar]

Has a poet ever lied to me and about what?

[Sam Reich]

Huh?

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Rekha Shankar]

Me. Every day. I'm a poet and I look at myself in the mirror and I say, today's going to be a good day. It's a thinker.

[Bethy Squires]

Go for it.

[Rekha Shankar]

Think about it.

[Vic Michaelis]

No, no, you.

[Sam Reich]

That's a bonus point.

[Vic Michaelis]

Okay. Well, do I get to go?

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah, I guess.

[Rekha Shankar]

Go.

[Vic Michaelis]

Robert Frost was always talking to me about. About talking to you. Yes, Vic, we have a relationship. Talking to me about roads less traveled. And the guy was trying to prevent me from getting a little veggie burger at the end of one of the roads. Don't go down that road. The road. That's the road that everyone takes. Go down the less travel line. There are free veggie burgers at the end there. He didn't want me to have them. He's a bitch.

[Bethy Squires]

Colin, bonus point on the bonus point for literary reference for both of us.

[Rekha Shankar]

Two excellent literary references that we had.

[Bethy Squires]

Sure, Yeah, I heard.

[Rekha Shankar]

Sure, I heard.

[Jordan Myrick]

Sure.

[Rekha Shankar]

Give me two when we go. One. I think that's good.

[Bethy Squires]

Are you raising your hand or just holding a fan?

[Jordan Myrick]

Yes, sure. The same question.

[Bethy Squires]

Absolutely.

[Jordan Myrick]

Same question. Great. I would say for me, I have seen a lot of slam poetry that I actually think isn't slam poetry. I think is just talking. And that feels like a lie to me to say it's slam poetry and then it's just speaking. It's just a white man in a beret speaking.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah, sure.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

That's a point.

[Bethy Squires]

That's actually points for a trench. That's actually observations.

[Rekha Shankar]

That's a point.

[Vic Michaelis]

You should be giving out a lot of points, Colin.

[Bethy Squires]

You're Doing so well. Proud of you. Jacob, you have a clip. Please set it up.

[Sam Reich]

It's Vulture Fest. It's one of those crazy Hollywood nights. And as every. You know, there's this side of Hollywood that everybody thinks it's glitz, it's glam, it's sex parties, it's Malibu sunsets. But I brought something that sort of shows the kind of. The more real, raw, authentic version of Hollywood. It's sort of an inside look of what Hollywood really is like.

[Bethy Squires]

Wow. Tough stuff. Sounds good. Let's roll it.

[Sam Reich]

Imagine a world where time drifts slowly. A world where music carries you away. Experience.

[Bethy Squires]

Experience.

[Sam Reich]

Pure moods. The perfect soundtrack for your way of life. Direct from Europe, this multi platinum collection has won the hearts of millions. Set adrift with the timeless pleasures of Tubular Bells, this next part took us two weeks into the unknown with the X File.

[Vic Michaelis]

The X File Seed.

[Sam Reich]

No other collection gives you the feeling of pure moods. To order pure moods, call the number on your screen or send check or money order for the amount shown plus shipping and handling. That cash goes straight to me. Call now.

[Rekha Shankar]

Wow.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah, I mean, that's what it's really like.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

Jacob, I don't want to call you out, but there were multiple clips in there from orgies that you've thrown that I've attended.

[Sam Reich]

Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the dark side also has sex parties.

[Jordan Myrick]

Sure.

[Sam Reich]

But, you know, it's not just limited to the good side.

[Jordan Myrick]

Sure.

[Sam Reich]

And of course, the sex parties are pure moods. And that is the music playing.

[Jordan Myrick]

That's true.

[Sam Reich]

Naturally.

[Rekha Shankar]

Can I ask, was it a chicken or an egg with the shirts that you wear and then that clip that we just saw, which one came first?

[Sam Reich]

I'm gonna go Big Bang Theory on this. It was just all created at once.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay.

[Vic Michaelis]

And Vic, I actually had a question for you from that.

[Rekha Shankar]

Please.

[Vic Michaelis]

There was kind of a horse shot in there.

[Rekha Shankar]

Pass.

[Bethy Squires]

The Pyramids commercial says that it's the perfect soundtrack for your way of life. And they really hit that. Your. What does that mean?

[Sam Reich]

Well, if you sell your soul to Hollywood and you do what you need to do and you take the real avenues to become someone of note, that's who you become and that's how you get there. It's sort of just like. Just a full on non obvious direction, you know, sort of like a hidden moment.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Sam Reich]

You clue in, you're there, so you sort of.

[Bethy Squires]

You zag when you think you're gonna zig.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah. And I'm just, really, just really trying to infect the brains of people and Just really let them know, like how they can become their full selves.

[Rekha Shankar]

Of course.

[Sam Reich]

Calling that phone number and sending money directly to that P.O.

[Bethy Squires]

Box.

[Rekha Shankar]

Right.

[Vic Michaelis]

Did you say infect or affect?

[Sam Reich]

Interesting question. Thank you.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah. And now we have a clip for all of you to see. Can we roll that clip?

[Rekha Shankar]

Please Introduce yourself.

[Sam Reich]

Howdy, little lady. It's me, Hayes Steele.

[Jordan Myrick]

Have you seen this yet?

[Rekha Shankar]

Not little lady. That's not it.

[Sam Reich]

And you're witnessing a man who's about to become a billionaire.

[Rekha Shankar]

Really?

[Sam Reich]

Literally a few ticks away.

[Rekha Shankar]

That's a nice watch.

[Sam Reich]

Sorry I was early. My helicopter was fast.

[Rekha Shankar]

So that's what was happening out there.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you have a hard time parking your car? We had to clear it out for my chopper.

[Rekha Shankar]

Well, my car got towed actually.

[Sam Reich]

Interesting. Sorry to hear that.

[Rekha Shankar]

Thank you for apologizing. Maybe I can borrow some of that money to get it out.

[Sam Reich]

Hey, I don't do handouts, ok? I didn't get where I am at by helping everybody along the way.

[Rekha Shankar]

Well, Hayes, I'd love to hear a little bit about how we did get to where we're at. Tell me a little bit about Hayes.

[Sam Reich]

Hayes is the new me.

[Rekha Shankar]

Hayes is the new you. Who was the old you?

[Sam Reich]

Fuck him. He was a piece of shit. He was a little fucking baby with no heart and no drive. He was lost. He lived in Orlando, Florida. Now I live in Boca Raton, baby.

[Bethy Squires]

Woo. How did the teeth feel?

[Sam Reich]

They're awesome. I still have them. They're honestly really comfortable. They just like. They like. You just go like. And they just suck on big.

[Bethy Squires]

Same question. How'd the teeth feel?

[Rekha Shankar]

They just suck right on. Love it.

[Bethy Squires]

We have another bonus. Who wants to set up one last clip?

[Rekha Shankar]

Can we all set it up together?

[Vic Michaelis]

Together?

[Rekha Shankar]

Because we sort of worked on it together. So I think it's fair that we all sort of.

[Bethy Squires]

I think it's a wonderful idea.

[Jordan Myrick]

We asked you to show it, so it feels like we should talk about it.

[Rekha Shankar]

I mean, this process did almost tear us apart. But I'm happy that we're here today and we're sort of able to talk about it.

[Jordan Myrick]

Yeah.

[Sam Reich]

Ye.

[Rekha Shankar]

So yeah. I mean like, does anybody want to take point?

[Sam Reich]

This was right after a sex party we had.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah.

[Bethy Squires]

Okay.

[Rekha Shankar]

We said we weren't gonna say it like that, so.

[Jordan Myrick]

Well, he's being honest. And I think that's one thing our friend group would use a little more of honesty. And it was. It was after a sex party.

[Rekha Shankar]

I'm just saying I can't read your mind. And so you don't have to tell me what you're looking for.

[Jordan Myrick]

It was after a sex party we all had. So just we're all on the same page. It was after a sex party that we had where we all had sex.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah. And this is just sort of the aftermath of that. You know, maybe who had to clean up more. And.

[Bethy Squires]

Roll it.

[Rekha Shankar]

Time.

[Bethy Squires]

Okay, Now I see why you need to thunder.

[Jordan Myrick]

That's got to be a home run, right?

[Vic Michaelis]

And was very fast.

[Jordan Myrick]

You're out.

[Sam Reich]

Ways to buy.

[Jordan Myrick]

Break up, break up.

[Vic Michaelis]

Stop.

[Sam Reich]

You look good.

[Vic Michaelis]

Don't look good.

[Jesse David Fox]

Nice kitty.

[Jordan Myrick]

And that was John Stamos. He was at the party.

[Vic Michaelis]

So watch this. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sam Reich]

Darn it.

[Rekha Shankar]

And here we go. And my leg up. Yeah. My monkey man. Yeah.

[Vic Michaelis]

Okay.

[Bethy Squires]

What the hell?

[Vic Michaelis]

And that last line was offensive.

[Rekha Shankar]

I said I didn't want to pitch this time. And everybody sort of.

[Sam Reich]

Now I hate to drop the facade. I've never seen a frame of that movie. What the fuck was that?

[Rekha Shankar]

Twilight.

[Sam Reich]

What the fuck was that?

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah, Jacob. During the.

[Sam Reich]

People build their whole identity around that.

[Vic Michaelis]

Jacob. I'm gonna tell you the questions Jacob was asking. He goes, what is this Twilight? He goes, this was in the book. Yeah. He goes, what are they doing? I go, vampire baseball. He's like, is this happening?

[Bethy Squires]

They can only play baseball.

[Vic Michaelis]

It makes a field bigger.

[Sam Reich]

If you have superpowers, make it a bigger field. You don't gotta go 90, 90, 90, or 60. 60, 60.

[Rekha Shankar]

They live in Seattle. There's trees everywhere.

[Bethy Squires]

They also respect the game because they're very.

[Sam Reich]

Oh, I'm the weird guy. I'm the weird guy poking holes into this. My bad. Wrong tree to bark up.

[Bethy Squires]

Well, this segue.

[Jordan Myrick]

Oh.

[Sam Reich]

Fucked up.

[Bethy Squires]

This segues perfectly into our next format. Physical challenge. Who can do that thing with the bat like Jasper did?

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah, for sure.

[Sam Reich]

Whoa.

[Rekha Shankar]

Can we see it one more time? Is that possible?

[Jordan Myrick]

Yeah. Can we see the clip again?

[Vic Michaelis]

Please do not play the whole thing.

[Sam Reich]

I'll leave.

[Bethy Squires]

I am not in control of whether the clip will play again or parts of it. But essentially, I can't do it. You sort of are like throwing and catching the bat around. Of course it's great because you see Rosalie also try to do it behind him.

[Vic Michaelis]

I think it's so incredible that the predication of this question is it we know who Jasper and Rosalie are?

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah.

[Vic Michaelis]

I think Jasper had crazy hair.

[Bethy Squires]

Right. I'm in too deep.

[Jordan Myrick]

You're right.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay, I will go second.

[Bethy Squires]

This is a volunteer. This will just volunteer for points.

[Jordan Myrick]

If everyone is like, no, Frank, I Should do it. Reika's really good at baseball, so this is perfect.

[Sam Reich]

Hold on, let me move.

[Jordan Myrick]

I guess we'll all move. Okay.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, yeah, that was pretty good.

[Sam Reich]

Okay, careful.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah, don't hurt. Oh, okay.

[Jordan Myrick]

Oh, she's getting funky with it.

[Rekha Shankar]

I would like to try. And we can do this in any way. I just have to be sort of commanding the ship. Great. Hi, audience. Hi. Who thinks they can do that? I'll demo you $5 if you can do it back. Hey, before we get into this, your name is Vic, if anybody asked. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna get up on stage. Or maybe right here. Is that better? Where's better? Yeah. Okay, here we go. And here I go.

[Sam Reich]

All right.

[Rekha Shankar]

Perfect.

[Sam Reich]

It's okay.

[Jordan Myrick]

Good technique. Perfect. Really good technique, though.

[Rekha Shankar]

Perfect.

[Vic Michaelis]

That was really good.

[Rekha Shankar]

You nailed it. It was perfect. That was perfect. That was ex. Play the clip if you don't believe me. That was literally exactly what happened.

[Bethy Squires]

You did it, and that was you doing that.

[Sam Reich]

I mean, I'll give it a good old college try. If there's a point in it, there's a. Oh, you know, do it. Cool. Take the point. Thank you so much.

[Bethy Squires]

I think the game's over because the bat's gone. We're gonna move on.

[Rekha Shankar]

Thank you.

[Jordan Myrick]

That's good. I didn't want.

[Sam Reich]

Here's my bodyguard, guys. He's willing to take a bullet.

[Rekha Shankar]

That's your bodyguard?

[Sam Reich]

That's my bodyguard, Jacob.

[Rekha Shankar]

Congratulations. That's huge.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah, it's huge.

[Vic Michaelis]

That's really nice.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah. Thanks for being here, buddy.

[Bethy Squires]

Well, if you guys didn't know who Jaster was in Twilight, this next game is going to be hard enough.

[Rekha Shankar]

Sorry, can I ask a favor? Can you just tell us we did a really good job?

[Bethy Squires]

You guys are doing so good. Thank you.

[Rekha Shankar]

We needed that going into this next one.

[Bethy Squires]

For what it's worth, and it's not worth much because again, column's in charge. I'm having a wonderful time.

[Vic Michaelis]

Okay, good.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

Okay.

[Rekha Shankar]

Can we check in the call?

[Jordan Myrick]

So three people over there?

[Bethy Squires]

Woo.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah.

[Rekha Shankar]

Colin, is there anything you're seeing that you like? Anything you'd like to be seeing more of? I know there's people here. We're not. This is not for them. This is for you, buddy. Close. Okay.

[Jordan Myrick]

All right.

[Sam Reich]

I want you to know I want to win this earnestly. I'm not going to butter you up. I just want. If it's my w. I want it to be real and I don't want to suck up for it.

[Rekha Shankar]

And I'll. And I'll say this. I don't care how I win. I'll give you $100. And there we go. And that's what I like to see.

[Bethy Squires]

The next game that we are playing is. Um, actually I have one false statement about Twilight. Sorry.

[Jordan Myrick]

Okay.

[Bethy Squires]

When you hear what's wrong with it cause you'll know. Buzz in with your fans and tell me. Your correction must begin with I'm actually. And I will give hints. And again, I am sorry.

[Sam Reich]

Live sort of a lot of text.

[Bethy Squires]

Look, this is my time to shine to input up on Twilight. Author Stephenie Meyer was second of six children. She named Twilight characters after all of her siblings. Brothers. Jacob, Seth and Paul are werewolves respectively. They are the one who falls in love with Bella's infant child, the beloved runt of the pack and the pack's most hot tempered sister. Are you raising your hand?

[Vic Michaelis]

I'm raising my hand.

[Jordan Myrick]

Wait, go ahead.

[Bethy Squires]

Wait, I'm gonna. Okay, wait.

[Rekha Shankar]

No, I'm trying to read and I'm too dyslexic for this. I think is maybe what the problem I'm running into.

[Bethy Squires]

I'm also.

[Jordan Myrick]

I'm actually.

[Rekha Shankar]

I can't read, I think is what I'm.

[Jordan Myrick]

Rekha, you were before me, actually.

[Vic Michaelis]

Only Jacob is in love with a baby. The other siblings are free of charges.

[Jordan Myrick]

Actually. They talk about the Jaco and Seth and Paul up top. But then later they say, Sam Wolfed out.

[Bethy Squires]

There's a guy named Sam who's also.

[Vic Michaelis]

Oh, but wait, isn't Jacob the only one who's in love with the baby?

[Bethy Squires]

Jacob is in love with the baby? Yes. Seth is the runt. Paul is the.

[Vic Michaelis]

Oh, oh, I'm sorry.

[Bethy Squires]

No, that's. I'm bad at writing. It's fine.

[Rekha Shankar]

No, you're a perfect writer. Actually. Heidi is not a vampire or a sister. She is Bella's mom.

[Bethy Squires]

I'm so sorry. That's Renee.

[Rekha Shankar]

Renee.

[Vic Michaelis]

Renee.

[Rekha Shankar]

Renesmee.

[Vic Michaelis]

Renesmee. Actually, Sam didn't wolf out and maul Emily's face when she tried to break up with him. It was for a different reason.

[Bethy Squires]

No, it was that reason. It's awful, actually.

[Jordan Myrick]

Stephanie Meyer.

[Bethy Squires]

Wait, were you raising.

[Jordan Myrick]

Are you trying to go?

[Bethy Squires]

No, I'm just having a snack break.

[Jordan Myrick]

Is Stephenie Meyer not the second of six children?

[Bethy Squires]

She is the second of six children.

[Rekha Shankar]

Actually, there should be a question mark at the end of that sentence because hotness is subjective. Thank you.

[Bethy Squires]

I'm gonna see if anyone in the audience knows the answer to this question. No.

[Jordan Myrick]

Thank God.

[Rekha Shankar]

If the Vic McHales in the audience can answer. Can I get the point?

[Vic Michaelis]

We can keep vamping, too. Not to make a pun, but no, this is fine. Actually, actually, go for it. Heidi is not a vampire.

[Jordan Myrick]

There's no one named Heidi in the movie.

[Bethy Squires]

She's in the second movie.

[Rekha Shankar]

In the second movie, Heidi looks like.

[Bethy Squires]

We don't know as a vampire. Pope. It's a whole thing. All right.

[Vic Michaelis]

Seth is not beloved.

[Rekha Shankar]

Beloved pack.

[Bethy Squires]

That's true. I think that's just my bad writing again. The actual answer, I'm so sorry. Is that the werewolves in Twilight are not werewolves.

[Jordan Myrick]

Oh, my God. No, no, no.

[Bethy Squires]

You're right. You're right. Bye Bye.

[Jordan Myrick]

I'm gonna be sick.

[Bethy Squires]

They're shapeshifters who can only shift into a wolf. And then there are other things that are real werewolves that are mentioned in one book and then never brought up again.

[Vic Michaelis]

Bethy, what shape am I? A human. Right.

[Bethy Squires]

Lovely.

[Vic Michaelis]

Thank you. And if I shifted into a werewolf, is werewolf not a subcategory of shapeshifter? Correct me. Like a square in a rectangle.

[Sam Reich]

I guess it would depend if you could also become a triangle or not.

[Vic Michaelis]

What?

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah.

[Bethy Squires]

I'll give you a point. If you can become a triangle.

[Sam Reich]

If you could also shape into another shift.

[Bethy Squires]

Be a triangle for a point.

[Sam Reich]

You have to shift into another shape. Pardon me.

[Jordan Myrick]

That's cute.

[Sam Reich]

All right.

[Bethy Squires]

That's a point.

[Jordan Myrick]

Jawbreaker.

[Vic Michaelis]

I'm a shape shifter.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

Why would you be a shapeshifter that can only shift into a werewolf?

[Bethy Squires]

Look, I'm not happy about it either.

[Jordan Myrick]

Are they not werewolves? Because werewolves can. Can't control when they shift. And the Twilight wolves can control when they shift.

[Vic Michaelis]

That might be a really good question.

[Bethy Squires]

It's kind of that. It's that, like, werewolves are moon dependent. The.

[Jordan Myrick]

Those wolves are just mood. Mood dependent.

[Bethy Squires]

It's like a mood for moods still.

[Rekha Shankar]

It's pure moods.

[Jordan Myrick]

It's pure.

[Bethy Squires]

It's deeply in it now. It's over.

[Rekha Shankar]

Thank God.

[Bethy Squires]

Thank God.

[Vic Michaelis]

It took us 10 minutes to answer one question and we didn't get it right.

[Bethy Squires]

But it's the only question.

[Rekha Shankar]

Did you have more of these?

[Bethy Squires]

Now it's time for who says I have? Is it? We are now in a trivia panel. Like a big fat quiz, if you will.

[Jordan Myrick]

Oh, great.

[Bethy Squires]

And so these are celeb quotes, and I want to know who said it. Perfect. I have an interesting mind, but I want to smell like a slut. To be totally honest. Who said it?

[Sam Reich]

Jacob Jaleel White.

[Jordan Myrick]

Mick.

[Rekha Shankar]

I remember this interview. It was Dame Judi Dench.

[Vic Michaelis]

So close Rakha, I thought for sure this was Spongebob.

[Bethy Squires]

Hint. There could be 100 people in a room and all it takes is one person to know who said this.

[Jordan Myrick]

Sure, I said that. And I also said this, but I didn't realize I was mic'd. So, yeah, I said this and then Lady Gaga copied me.

[Bethy Squires]

That's it.

[Vic Michaelis]

Nice.

[Bethy Squires]

She owes you an apology.

[Jordan Myrick]

She copies me all the time. I did the meat dress first.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah, that was so chic.

[Rekha Shankar]

It looked so good on you.

[Jordan Myrick]

Yeah, I hung out with Bradley Cooper first. A lot of people don't know that, but I did.

[Vic Michaelis]

Jordan, I have a question about this. Yeah, I have an interesting mind, but I want to smell like a slut. Those are not, like, contradictions.

[Jordan Myrick]

No, I think those two things are separate. I think you're. I think your mind being interesting and your mind being a slut that has a smell. Yeah.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah. If you are smart, you smell like that vanilla bath and Body Works hand sanitizer. Yeah, that's just how it works.

[Jordan Myrick]

That's just what it is. And by I want to smell like a slut, I mean just I want to. You know what I mean?

[Vic Michaelis]

Of course I know.

[Jordan Myrick]

You guys know what I mean.

[Bethy Squires]

We all know.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah.

[Bethy Squires]

Who said it? I love swimming. Because racing.

[Jordan Myrick]

Mm.

[Rekha Shankar]

Mm.

[Jordan Myrick]

Yeah. Seabiscuit.

[Bethy Squires]

Go for it.

[Vic Michaelis]

Someone on the Titanic.

[Sam Reich]

Is it Michael Phelps?

[Bethy Squires]

It's not, but you're so close.

[Sam Reich]

Damn.

[Rekha Shankar]

I will go with Ryan. And his last name is Loch.

[Jacob Wysocki]

Lochtee.

[Bethy Squires]

You're so cool.

[Sam Reich]

Nice.

[Jordan Myrick]

Good job, Vic.

[Rekha Shankar]

Thank you.

[Sam Reich]

Sort of today's Michael Phelps.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was on the Traitors.

[Jordan Myrick]

Today's season.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yes.

[Rekha Shankar]

And Dropout's casting director, Jazzy Collins, cast the first season of Traitors. Fun fact.

[Vic Michaelis]

Wow.

[Rekha Shankar]

That's true. So I'll take a point.

[Sam Reich]

Fun fact.

[Bethy Squires]

That's huge. Who said it? I wasn't a French pimp. I was an American pimp living in France.

[Rekha Shankar]

Archduke Ferdinand.

[Jordan Myrick]

Mm, mm, mm. I wasn't a French pimp.

[Sam Reich]

I was a French steward.

[Bethy Squires]

That gets a point, because I just like Rich Stewart.

[Vic Michaelis]

Do we get any hint?

[Bethy Squires]

Yes. Will Ferrell does an impression of him.

[Vic Michaelis]

Oh.

[Bethy Squires]

And he holds cards like I do.

[Rekha Shankar]

James Coulee.

[Vic Michaelis]

Whatever the thingy.

[Rekha Shankar]

George W. Bush. Lipton.

[Vic Michaelis]

Lipton. I picked the wrong James. Is that okay?

[Bethy Squires]

I'll get half a point.

[Sam Reich]

Wait, Lipton. State Fucking.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah. So when he was a student living in Paris, he befriended a bunch of sex workers and became their mech. Which is not actually a pimp. It's more like a secretary. Like scheduling it.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

Okay.

[Rekha Shankar]

Of Course he looks like he'd be good at keeping books.

[Bethy Squires]

That sound means it's now time for.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oi.

[Bethy Squires]

Who says, bruv, we're now. Oh, perfect for me in a British panel show, like Big Fat Quiz.

[Jordan Myrick]

Oh, yes.

[Bethy Squires]

Games. Exactly the same. But everyone must use a British accent and the people are British, so it's all part of it. Who said it, bruv? I always say it's so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did because he never saw gps. GPS is the most wonderful thing to watch. My little blue spot walking down the street. I just find it completely magical and unbelievable. Who said it, bruv?

[Vic Michaelis]

I always say I tell this to everyone at parties.

[Bethy Squires]

This person does actually say this frequently in interviews. I found multiple times.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, okay, Innit? Here we go. I'm going to say. Oh, Olivia Coman.

[Bethy Squires]

It is not.

[Rekha Shankar]

No, I've saw this.

[Bethy Squires]

Do you have an Oscar? I believe.

[Jordan Myrick]

Oscar.

[Vic Michaelis]

Pretty Dame Judy Dench again.

[Bethy Squires]

It is a dame.

[Sam Reich]

I don't know.

[Jordan Myrick]

Dame Bragging Smith.

[Rekha Shankar]

Emma. Dame Emma Thompson.

[Bethy Squires]

Nope.

[Rekha Shankar]

No, no.

[Bethy Squires]

More dames. More dames.

[Sam Reich]

I don't know.

[Bethy Squires]

She's in the Red franchise.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, oh. Dame Helen Mirren.

[Bethy Squires]

Dame Helen Mirren in it.

[Jordan Myrick]

Wow.

[Bethy Squires]

She does talk about Kurt Cobain dying and how the Internet really kicked off. No, she just. The Internet beginning and Kurt Cobain dying are just like linked in her brain and she brings it up constantly.

[Sam Reich]

Kurt Cobain would have loved Dropout tv.

[Rekha Shankar]

You're constantly saying that he died before every interview.

[Bethy Squires]

I have Share and subscribe. It's so sad. Who said it? The first time I went to see the circus, somebody died. One of the clowns died. His little car exploded. Joke car exploded on him. His little car.

[Rekha Shankar]

Prince Louis.

[Bethy Squires]

It's not Prince Louis.

[Sam Reich]

Okay, this is the funniest thing I've ever read in my life.

[Vic Michaelis]

I mean, who's this saddest, saddest little British is this, you know, Harry Potter is happening.

[Bethy Squires]

Someone who has been in a Harry Potter film.

[Jordan Myrick]

Oh, Dame Maggie Smith.

[Bethy Squires]

It is not Dame Maggie Smith. One of these days it will be. But it's not.

[Rekha Shankar]

Is it Gary Oldman?

[Bethy Squires]

It's not Gary Oldman.

[Vic Michaelis]

Is it Alan Rock?

[Jordan Myrick]

Come on.

[Vic Michaelis]

No, no. What's his name? Rickman.

[Bethy Squires]

Rickman. Alan Rock is from Garris Bueller's Day. Here's another hint. He once tried to make a handheld pasta dish and told GQ all about it. He called it Piccolini Dolce Ralph and that.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, is it Ralph?

[Bethy Squires]

Ralph.

[Jordan Myrick]

Ray Fines Ray.

[Bethy Squires]

It's not Ralphiens.

[Vic Michaelis]

Is it Hagrid, is it Hagrid, is.

[Sam Reich]

It Hagrid, is it the big tree.

[Jordan Myrick]

That Chris smashes the car?

[Rekha Shankar]

That's a point.

[Bethy Squires]

Because. Because it made me sad.

[Sam Reich]

All I know is I have decided this is how I want to die. My final joke.

[Bethy Squires]

One more hint. Think about some of the other film franchises that have been brought up perhaps needlessly too much in this quiz. Other times. Other films.

[Vic Michaelis]

Oh, is it.

[Jordan Myrick]

Oh, no. Patton is Roplain.

[Vic Michaelis]

The boy that died.

[Sam Reich]

Robert Pattinson.

[Jordan Myrick]

This.

[Sam Reich]

The boy.

[Rekha Shankar]

That is a haunted man. And now we know why this was.

[Bethy Squires]

Robert Pattinson lying on the Today show because he just loves to lie in interviews.

[Sam Reich]

It's not real.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay, can we ask. You've been asking us a lot of questions and we love that. Can we ask you a question?

[Bethy Squires]

Sure.

[Rekha Shankar]

Who's the craziest celebrity you've ever interviewed? Craziest.

[Bethy Squires]

I don't.

[Sam Reich]

Unhinged.

[Bethy Squires]

I don't think I have an answer to that.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay.

[Bethy Squires]

When people are talking. When people are talking to me, they're trying very hard to be normal because they know I'm writing it up. So maybe I just know a very convincing liar.

[Vic Michaelis]

I mean, here's one right here. I believed every second of this.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah. I thought that's how he got the part in Harry Potter is a piece of the soul from the clown attached to him.

[Sam Reich]

And I do hope the points recognize they have stopped talking in a British accent.

[Bethy Squires]

Absolutely. Points demoted for everybody who stops. Okay, babe?

[Sam Reich]

And he is right.

[Bethy Squires]

No, that is correct. That is correct. Okay. And now it is time for a little snack.

[Vic Michaelis]

What?

[Rekha Shankar]

A snack.

[Vic Michaelis]

Is it British?

[Bethy Squires]

British is over. British time is over. Good job. I'm well chuffed. Okay, there are four different snacks. Everybody pick a snack. Take as much as you want.

[Rekha Shankar]

Is there some sort of a secret cheese grade for this?

[Bethy Squires]

Don't worry about it.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay.

[Bethy Squires]

We got carrots, we got cheese. We got a full cupcake. We got little candies.

[Jordan Myrick]

Is this based off my show and we all just get to eat it and go, yum?

[Bethy Squires]

It is based on your show. The food is. Is gas. Big spread.

[Sam Reich]

Vic. Vic. Just really going and taking one of everything.

[Rekha Shankar]

Listen, I've been burned before. I'm taking one of everything. Just in case we have to build something. And I feel like maybe. Can I. Can we. Can we come back?

[Jordan Myrick]

I'm the only one that the rules. Didn't you say pick one thing?

[Bethy Squires]

I did say that. I picked one type of thing.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay. One type of thing.

[Vic Michaelis]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay. It doesn't.

[Jordan Myrick]

I Literally.

[Vic Michaelis]

Love rules, Bethy. I'm not here to break them.

[Rekha Shankar]

And so then. Okay, if it's one type of thing, I will.

[Jordan Myrick]

Vic stole something and hid it. It's for later.

[Rekha Shankar]

I don't think so. It's my hair. Thank you so much. Wait, can I have a couple more of those napkins just in case?

[Vic Michaelis]

What do you think we're about to do?

[Rekha Shankar]

I don't know.

[Vic Michaelis]

Can I have every napkin in the building?

[Bethy Squires]

I would not make you build something without putting any sort of flat surface in front of you.

[Rekha Shankar]

Of course.

[Bethy Squires]

No, what I'm gonna make you do is gastroplugs. Now, before the show started, you gave me your plugs.

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, yes.

[Bethy Squires]

Okay, so now what you're gonna do is put all of that food in your mouth.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah.

[Bethy Squires]

And while.

[Jordan Myrick]

Come on.

[Bethy Squires]

Chewing.

[Sam Reich]

That sucks, dude.

[Bethy Squires]

You're gonna say your plugs. That is timing them. I'll be timing the plugs. Longest plug while continuing to chew wins. And then I will read them so that people actually get to hear where people can find you.

[Sam Reich]

Wait, just so I understand, we're not allowed to say the plug while we're chewing.

[Bethy Squires]

No, you should. That's the only time you're allowed to say the plug. This is an ode to how much people love mouth sounds on a microphone.

[Jordan Myrick]

Okay.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah.

[Rekha Shankar]

We really should have only taken one type of food and no napkins for this, man.

[Jordan Myrick]

I should have just let them take all of it. I've done every single aspect of this wrong.

[Vic Michaelis]

No.

[Bethy Squires]

And what?

[Jordan Myrick]

I suck on this. What's going on?

[Bethy Squires]

Take a little bite. Or a big bite.

[Jordan Myrick]

Do I have to eat the whole thing?

[Bethy Squires]

I would love if you would, but I'm scared for you. And then do your plugs and your time starts now.

[Jordan Myrick]

Okay, let's go. For you.

[Bethy Squires]

And that's time. That is 17 seconds. Time to beat is 17 seconds. Yeah, no, it's good.

[Rekha Shankar]

I feel so scared.

[Vic Michaelis]

Okay, that's really nice.

[Bethy Squires]

There's a table behind you, too, if you just don't want to be holding it anymore.

[Vic Michaelis]

Is it good? I'm like that.

[Jordan Myrick]

I couldn't enjoy the first bite.

[Bethy Squires]

Do you want me to hold your microphone one time in here?

[Jordan Myrick]

Hold up.

[Rekha Shankar]

Thank you. I think this is drunken goat cheese, but I am going to pull off the ring just in case.

[Bethy Squires]

Okay?

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay.

[Jordan Myrick]

I hate you.

[Bethy Squires]

Your time starts now.

[Sam Reich]

Oh, the Milk Duds. Oh, wow.

[Bethy Squires]

You really went for both.

[Jordan Myrick]

Hey, guys, so here's the thing, right?

[Rekha Shankar]

There's a lot of terrible weather, very bad anti slurance bills happening all across the country. This is very serious. And so what we can do to help is you can find local trans organizations in your community or you can go ahead and fill a SPLANS lifeline and you can still put them in the right direction. You can post, you can single boost, or you can go ahead and make monetizing because I don't want to type for a lot of people. But if you can't join, definitely see no booster stuff that you're doing I think is helpful in general.

[Bethy Squires]

40 seconds. And I just realized I forgot to state the plugs after. I'm so sorry.

[Jordan Myrick]

That's okay.

[Bethy Squires]

So for Jordan, Gastronauts is streaming on Dropout now. And you have a dating relations podcast. Happy wife, happy life with your fiance.

[Jordan Myrick]

Yeah.

[Bethy Squires]

And Vic said that there is a scourge of anti trans bills throughout the country. So if you can find a local organization to link up with Tight. If you can't, Trans Lifeline has a lot of good resources. Donate. They also, if you need help, they're a warm line, which means that they do not contact the police if you call and you're in distress. And at least last time I talked to them, they have micro grants for people who need them.

[Jordan Myrick]

Yeah, they're doing great work.

[Vic Michaelis]

Okay, thank you. So I'm going to be at Paxton park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, my hometown, on December 7th. And we're playing Dungeons and Dragons.

[Rekha Shankar]

I feel bug bunny.

[Vic Michaelis]

I'm also the host of Smarty Pants who is currently filming a season crew on Dropbox tv. And we're releasing Season Kun Spring, so be on the lookout for that. And also I have a newsletter out. You can go to my Instagram and.

[Rekha Shankar]

You can find information about my newsletter.

[Vic Michaelis]

And.

[Rekha Shankar]

I go do shows at UCB every single week. I used to be Franklin.

[Bethy Squires]

UCB shows.

[Vic Michaelis]

I used to be UCP. I still dry.

[Bethy Squires]

All right. I'm calling it 54 seconds. Incredible.

[Rekha Shankar]

Reminded me kind of of my grandfather with all the carrots.

[Bethy Squires]

And what was said was a new season of Smarty Pants is filming right now.

[Sam Reich]

Yeah.

[Bethy Squires]

Enrico will also be at Pax Unplugged in Philadelphia doing live action or tabletop role playing. D and D. That's for Colin. Point for Colin.

[Jordan Myrick]

Go.

[Sam Reich]

Hi, everybody. My name is Diego Kawasaki. You can follow me on social media. Jigobaisaki. I'm in a new movie called Breakup Season that's showing at select theaters around the country and it's available on Vog December 6th.

[Bethy Squires]

Great. That's 15 seconds. And that. Sorry, Breakup Season is a film that Jacob is in that is in select theaters now and on vid December 6th.

[Sam Reich]

Check it out. Support independent film.

[Bethy Squires]

Yeah, baby. Okay, who won?

[Rekha Shankar]

Oh, should we.

[Bethy Squires]

Re.

[Sam Reich]

Yes.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yes.

[Sam Reich]

Do a lap.

[Jordan Myrick]

Do a lap, baby. That's a victory lap.

[Rekha Shankar]

Do a lap. Do a lap.

[Vic Michaelis]

Let's go.

[Jordan Myrick]

Let's hear from Philadelphia.

[Bethy Squires]

Pride of Philadelphia.

[Jordan Myrick]

Jump in.

[Bethy Squires]

The bat vulture is a little stuffy.

[Sam Reich]

I'm jealous.

[Rekha Shankar]

That was really exciting. Congratulations.

[Bethy Squires]

Nobody leaves empty handed. You get to keep whatever you didn't chew. And also those fans. Fuck it, you can keep them.

[Rekha Shankar]

Yeah. Oh, the fans.

[Sam Reich]

Really generous.

[Rekha Shankar]

The fans.

[Bethy Squires]

Take a ball. And now we have one last message from Sam.

[Sam Reich]

We're now going to play a game of.

[Rekha Shankar]

Sam says ready?

[Sam Reich]

Sam says the four of you lead the audience in a game of Simon says.

[Bethy Squires]

Sam says, now it's on, y'all.

[Sam Reich]

Wow.

[Rekha Shankar]

Interesting.

[Vic Michaelis]

How do you like to eat that, huh?

[Sam Reich]

Simon says stand up.

[Vic Michaelis]

Simon says poke your nose.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay. Sam says sit down. Wow. Crazy.

[Vic Michaelis]

We're trying to think of their action.

[Rekha Shankar]

Simon says spin in a little circle.

[Vic Michaelis]

Little.

[Rekha Shankar]

Tiny, tiny.

[Jordan Myrick]

If I see it big, you're sitting down.

[Sam Reich]

All right, Stop.

[Jordan Myrick]

Wow.

[Rekha Shankar]

Okay. Sit down. Don't be a liar. Sit down. If you stop.

[Sam Reich]

If you stop, sit down.

[Vic Michaelis]

Smart behavior.

[Jordan Myrick]

All right, Simon says go back to neutral. Go back to whatever your neutral is.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah, don't think you said that.

[Rekha Shankar]

Simon says there's no wrong answers on what neutral looks like for you.

[Vic Michaelis]

Simon says give the person standing next to you a little compliment. Little compliment. Okay.

[Jordan Myrick]

All right. Simon says shout a compliment at us.

[Rekha Shankar]

Simon says it's got to be way more specific than that.

[Sam Reich]

Okay, Simon says say the Pledge of Allegiance. But, like, you don't want to be here. Louder. You guys are silly. Louder. If you win, louder, you gotta sit down.

[Rekha Shankar]

If you did it louder, you're sitting down.

[Vic Michaelis]

Okay, if anyone went louder, you have to sit down. It stinks. It stinks.

[Sam Reich]

It's not Simon says Louder.

[Vic Michaelis]

Okay?

[Rekha Shankar]

Simon is asking if anybody saw the Deaf west production of American Idiot. Okay? If you're standing and you didn't see it, you have to sit down. Okay, here we go. We got to narrow people down somehow.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jordan Myrick]

Okay. No, you go. You go.

[Sam Reich]

Simon says if you don't believe in Bigfoot, you have to sit down. You lose.

[Rekha Shankar]

Whoa.

[Sam Reich]

An honest man. I appreciate the honesty. Yeah, he's real, though.

[Rekha Shankar]

So how many do we have left? 1, 2, 3, 4.

[Vic Michaelis]

Yeah. Oh, my God.

[Bethy Squires]

We gotta leave.

[Jordan Myrick]

Simon says leave.

[Vic Michaelis]

Bye.

[Sam Reich]

Sorry.

[Jordan Myrick]

They told me to. I had to say that.

[Rekha Shankar]

Thank you, guys.

[Jordan Myrick]

So.

[Vic Michaelis]

Everybody, thank you.

[Jordan Myrick]

I'm sorry.

[Vic Michaelis]

Thank you so much.

[Jordan Myrick]

That was put on me. I don't want you guys to leave.

[Vic Michaelis]

Why did you do that?

[Jordan Myrick]

I didn't do it. They told me to do it. They said the last thing. Someone said, simon says leave.

[Rekha Shankar]

We can't end like this.

[Sam Reich]

They have to.

[Jordan Myrick]

But cuz and I got a big 00 clock ticking in my face.

[Rekha Shankar]

Do we clean up?

[Jordan Myrick]

You know.

[Sam Reich]

Good stuff.

[Jordan Myrick]

I think it was good. I think we did a good job. I was nervous before, but I think we did good. Thank you.

[Jesse David Fox]

That's it for another episode of Good One. Good One is produced by myself and Jelani Carter. Guy from Srikishin did our theme song. Rate a review and rate the show on Apple podcasts five stars please. I am Jesse David Fox and you can follow me at Jesse David Fox. Buy my book, comedy book, whoever. Books are sold. Thanks for listening to Good One from New York magazine. You can subscribe to the [e-mail] pod we'll be back soon with new episodes. Have a good one.

[Sam Reich]

Welcome to Good One show about talking them jokes.

[Rekha Shankar]

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

[Sam Reich]

Good one. It's a good one.