Bonus: Steve Agee and Erica Rhodes

Summary

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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Bonus: Steve Agee and Erica Rhodes
Release Date: February 23, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this bonus episode of Wrong Turns, host Jameela Jamil is joined by comedians Steve Agee and Erica Rhodes for an extended session of storytelling, centered around the show’s core theme: reveling in the most mortifying and embarrassing disasters of their lives. Eschewing morals and lessons, the episode is a cathartic, laugh-out-loud recounting of Steve Agee’s infamously disastrous “bath story”—involving high school debauchery, a projectile vomiting friend, and a desperately salvaged Mercedes interior. The camaraderie is raw, authentic, and extremely funny—if a little horrifying.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Why This Bonus Exists

• Jameela explains that sometimes the show collects too much gold to fit into a single edit, so this bonus mini-episode exists “as a treat—or an apology” (01:34).

2. Steve Agee’s High School Party Horror

• Steve’s Backstory:

  • Kicked out of high school due to his teenage drinking; his parents sent him to military school in Pennsylvania (02:05).
  • During spring break, he brings a friend from his military school back to California.

• The Party Plan:

  • Invited to an epic college party by his friend Jimmy who wants Steve to drive so he can drink (02:15).
  • Jimmy, Steve, and Matt (the Massachusetts friend) embark in Steve’s dad’s prized Mercedes, despite Steve’s checkered drinking history.
  • Steve swears to his dad he won’t drink—“No problem” (02:32).

• The Party:

  • “It was fucking crazy. It was like something out of a John Hughes movie. Like, drunk people everywhere, kegs. Like, it was pretty awesome.” (03:14, Steve Agee)

• The Disaster Unfolds:

  • Jimmy gets “obliterated” and is found passed out behind a bed.
  • On the drive home, Jimmy projectile vomits all over the back of Steve’s head and shoulders (04:48).
    • “Jimmy projectile vomits. No, all over the back of my head.” (04:48, Steve Agee)
  • Steve and Matt have to pull over and spend 45 minutes at a gas station frantically cleaning the puke, while Jimmy lies on the sidewalk, “crying like Philip Seymour Hoffman in Boogie Nights” (06:18).

• Steve’s Only Priority:

  • He’s not worried about the puke; he’s “absolutely terrified” his dad will murder him if he finds out:
    • “I didn’t give a shit that there was puke all over me. Cause I thought my dad was gonna f***ing murder me.” (05:36, Steve Agee)

• Round Two:

  • No sooner are they back on the freeway than Jimmy does it again—another full-body, full-force vomit over Steve (06:49).
    • “This time, I am now reaching back behind me, fucking hitting him in the face, trying to choke him. And I am screaming, ‘You motherfucker. I’ll fucking kill you. I’m a fucking dead man.’” (06:49, Steve Agee)
  • Another pit stop, another 45-minute cleaning session.

3. Collective Vomit Phobia

• Both Steve and Erica confess to having an extreme aversion to vomit.
  • “Vomiting is my biggest fear in the world.” (05:04, Steve Agee)
  • “I have it too… I can’t even hear the word. Like, the word gives me a reaction.” (05:08, Erica Rhodes)

4. Aftermath and Parental Ignorance

• Steve recalls the trauma vividly but has blanked out the rest of the night.
  • “You know what’s crazy is this is so traumatic to me that I remember it happening. I don’t remember any of the shit afterwards.” (07:38, Steve Agee)
• He later confesses all to his dad over breakfast many years later. His dad laughs until he can’t breathe and confesses he never noticed the residual damage.
  • “I could see spots in the leather from where the acid and the puke, like, ate. And I said, did you ever know? And he’s like, I had no fucking idea.” (08:29, Steve Agee)

5. Spiraling Disaster as Shared Bond

• The crew commiserates about how one person’s bodily function can trigger a “chain reaction.”
  • Co-host’s story: “My dog licked his asshole till he threw up, and then I threw up…” (08:53)
• Erica threatens to quit if “vomit” is mentioned again; Steve is invited back any time for more such catharsis.
  • “Honestly, Steve, like, come on this show however many times you need to. To get all of this off your chest. Thank you so much. It’s a catharsis, isn’t it?” (09:36)

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Notable Quotes (w/Timestamps)

• “It was fucking crazy. It was like something out of a John Hughes movie. Like, drunk people everywhere, kegs. Like, it was pretty awesome.”
  —Steve Agee (03:14)

• “Jimmy projectile vomits. No, all over the back of my head.”
  —Steve Agee (04:48)

• “I didn’t give a shit that there was puke all over me. Cause I thought my dad was gonna f*ing murder me. It was a Mercedes, leather interior with sheepskin seat covers.”**
  —Steve Agee (05:36)

• “Vomiting is my biggest fear in the world.”
  —Steve Agee (05:04)
  “I can’t even hear the word. Like, the word gives me a reaction.”
  —Erica Rhodes (05:18)

• “You know where this is going. He’s like, I have nothing left… We get onto the freeway, two minutes max. Boosh. Right over the back of me again.”
  —Steve Agee (06:49)

• “This time, I am now reaching back behind me, fucking hitting him in the face, trying to choke him. And I am screaming, ‘You motherfucker. I’ll fucking kill you. I’m a fucking dead man.’”
  —Steve Agee (06:49)

• “I could see spots in the leather from where the acid and the puke, like, ate. And I said, did you ever know? And he’s like, I had no fucking idea.”
  —Steve Agee (08:29)

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Timestamps for Key Moments

• [01:34] – Jameela introduces the bonus story and context
• [02:05 – 04:48] – Steve sets up the party, friends, and doomed car ride
• [04:48] – First projectile vomit incident
• [05:04 – 05:18] – Vomit phobia revelations (Steve and Erica)
• [06:49] – Second, even worse, vomiting incident and Steve’s (attempted) revenge
• [07:38] – Steve’s trauma-induced blackout of the rest of the night
• [08:02 – 08:29] – Adult confession to Dad; residual car damage revelation
• [08:53] – Co-host recounts sympathetic vomit from a recent dog incident
• [09:36] – Co-hosts reflect on catharsis and invite Steve back for future horror stories

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Final Segment & Plugs

• [10:06] – Erica shares her Instagram and website; Steve recounts his social handles and current credits (including Peacemaker).
• [10:28] – Friendly jabs about Steve’s “homeless man” cameo on New Girl.
• [10:39] – Jameela plugs the upcoming full episode with Blair Socky and Arden Myron; also shouts out her Substack essay.

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Tone & Takeaway

As promised, the episode is unfiltered, raucous, and gloriously undignified—a living room-style comedy session where disastrous misadventures are celebrated, not sanitized. No one walks away with a life lesson, but everyone leaves feeling slightly less alone in their stumbles. If “dignity goes to die” anywhere, it’s with this crew.

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Transcript

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[Erica Rhodes]

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[Steve Agee]

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[Podcast Host]

well hello there. Sometimes we get really lucky and just really greedy on this show and we get too many good stories and we had such a great time recording with Erica Rhodes and Steve Agee that we couldn't fit it all into last week's episode. But I'm not one to deny you, my friends, a great funny story. So here is a bonus bath story just for you from Steve Agee. Enjoy or I'm sorry Steve, you.

[Podcast Co-host]

You also have another story.

[Steve Agee]

Believe it or not, a bunch of

shitty things have happened to me in my life. So when I was into high school, I got kicked out of high school. I loved to drink when I was a teenager and my parents were exasperated. They didn't know what else to do so they sent me to a military school. This was 86, 1986 on the east coast and, and I think it was my second year there. Spring break, I was gonna fly back home to la, which was great cause it was freezing in Pennsylvania and I had a friend from Massachusetts who had never been to California. And I was like, you should come out with me. And my parents were like, yeah, you can bring a friend. And so we go out to California. I get a call like my second day there from my friend Jimmy, who said, hey, you're back for spring break. And he had just started his freshman year in college and. And it was their spring break at the same time. And he's like, there's a big fucking party tonight, dude. He's like, you gotta come. He's like, the college girls. And it's gonna be fucking crazy. I said, yeah, okay, I'm in. And he said, if I drive to your house, can you drive to the party? Cause I wanna fucking drink. I'm like, yeah. And I didn't have a car at the time, so I asked my dad, can I borrow your car? And he said, yeah, just be careful. I said, okay, I'm not going to drink. Because they knew my, you know, previous tendencies. He's like, just don't drink. I said, no problem. So Jimmy comes over, the three of us drive. I grew up in Riverside, Inland Empire. And this party party was out past like San Bernardino. So it was like a good 30 mile drive. It was a good drive. We go to this party. It was fucking crazy. It was like something out of a fucking John Hughes movie. Like, drunk people everywhere, kegs. Like, it was pretty awesome. And I had really bad jet lag. So did my friend Matt. So about 1 or 2 in the morning, I said, are you ready to get out of here? He said, yeah. I said, okay, we gotta, we gotta find Jimmy. And so we're looking all over this fucking house for him and we finally find him, like passed out in someone's bedroom, like behind the bed. And we're like, jimmy, time to go.

He's like, no way, man.

This is the fucking greatest party I've ever been to.

[Podcast Co-host]

Classic.

[Steve Agee]

And he's unconscious. And so we pick him up, we're

like, it's over, we're leaving. And we have to carry him because he can't walk. I put him in the backseat of my dad's car. I get in, Matt gets in the passenger seat, we start the long drive home. And it's like middle of the night and it's deadly quiet. Just you could hear a pin drop. We're driving. All of a sudden, out of fucking nowhere, Jimmy projectile vomits.

No, all over the back of my head.

[Podcast Co-host]

Jesus Christ.

[Steve Agee]

Back of my head and shoulders.

[Podcast Co-host]

So hot. And then it's so cold.

[Steve Agee]

By the way, it's even worse if

you know what fluid it is.

No, that vomiting is my biggest fear in the world.

[Podcast Host]

Me too.

[Erica Rhodes]

I have it too.

[Steve Agee]

If someone's like, oh, yeah, I'm not feeling too good. I'm like, Are you gonna throw up? I can't see it. Nope, I can't. In a movie, I can't.

[Erica Rhodes]

Same, same. I can't even hear the word. Like, the word gives me a reaction.

[Steve Agee]

And now a guy is puking on my head

hard.

Like hoes. Like civil rights hoes.

[Podcast Co-host]

Like Exorcist. The Exorcist. Civil rights hoes.

[Steve Agee]

Here's how scared I was. I didn't give a shit that there was puke all over me. Cause I thought my dad was gonna f murder me. It was a Mercedes, leather interior with sheepskin seat covers. And so I'm, like, freaking out.

We pull off the freeway, go into a gas station. I pull Jimmy out. He just passes out on the sidewalk. And me and Matt spend, like, 45 minutes using paper towels from the gas station to clean puke out of this car. And my plan was, let's just get it good enough. I'll get up early in the morning, I'll take it to a place that can detail the car and clean it. He's like, okay. My poor fucking friend has to clean puke.

And Jimmy the whole time is just laying there crying. I'm a fucking idiot, man. He's like Philip Seymour Hoffman in Boogie Night. You fucking idiot. You fucking idiot. So we finally hit the fucking car. Good enough, Put him.

Dump him back in the backseat.

I get in, I roll the window down.

I'm like, dude, if you have to

puke again, just fucking turn your head and go out the window.

He's like, I don't have any fucking thing left in my.

You know where this is going. He's like, I have nothing left.

[Podcast Host]

Horrifying.

[Steve Agee]

We get onto the freeway, two minutes max. Boosh. Right over the back of me again. This time, I am now reaching back behind me, fucking hitting him in the face, trying to choke him. And I am screaming, you motherfucker. I'll fucking kill you. I'm a fucking dead man. And I'm fucking, like, losing my shit.

[Podcast Co-host]

I also just spent an hour cleaning up after this, man.

[Steve Agee]

Next exit.

We get off, find a gas station, fucking clean it again for 45 minutes.

Drive home.

I fucking have to take a shower, throw all my shit in the washing machine, get up.

[Podcast Co-host]

I'd shave my head. I would shave my head.

[Steve Agee]

You know what's crazy is this is so traumatic to me that I remember it happening. I don't remember any of the shit afterwards.

I obviously took it somewhere to get cleaned.

I don't remember that.

I just remember the moment sitting in the fucking car, getting doused with fucking puke.

[Podcast Co-host]

That is so horrifying.

[Steve Agee]

Years later as an adult.

This is maybe like, nine or ten years ago. I'm hanging out with my dad. We're at a diner, like, having coffee and breakfast, and I'm at this point now, like, in my 40s, and I, like, don't give a shit. So I'm like, hey, do you remember that Mercedes you had? He's like, yeah. I tell him the whole story. He's laughing so hard he can't breathe.

He had no idea because I was

like, for years, I could see spots, you know?

[Erica Rhodes]

Oh, my God.

[Steve Agee]

I could see spots in the leather from where the acid and the puke, like, ate. And I said, did you ever know? And he's like, I had no fucking idea.

How did you get it?

[Erica Rhodes]

What did you clean it with?

[Steve Agee]

Well, paper towels.

[Podcast Co-host]

And he took it to a place,

[Steve Agee]

and I took it to a place.

[Erica Rhodes]

Okay.

[Podcast Co-host]

Oh, my God.

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[Podcast Co-host]

I don't know how you didn't throw up in the car.

[Steve Agee]

Oh, God. Fear.

[Podcast Co-host]

My dog licked his asshole till he threw up, and then I threw up. Like, I just, like. Because he threw up. I threw up. Like, it was just like.

[Podcast Host]

That is.

[Podcast Co-host]

Have I never told you that before? Yeah, it happened, like, a month ago. He licked his asshole till he vomited, and then I vomited, and it was just like, the worst. It was the worst. Anyway, everyone, that's enough for today.

[Steve Agee]

The end.

[Podcast Co-host]

I think we're not going to do an audience story after that.

[Steve Agee]

Oh, my God.

[Podcast Co-host]

That is horrifying.

[Steve Agee]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host]

What a life you have lived.

[Podcast Host]

Yes.

[Steve Agee]

That's not even the worst. No, that is. That's probably the worst thing. That's.

[Podcast Co-host]

I actually think Erica's gonna kill herself if you tell any more stories. Yes.

[Erica Rhodes]

If one more person says vomit.

[Podcast Co-host]

Honestly, Steve, like, come on this show however many times you need to. To get all of this off your chest. Thank you so much. It's a catharsis, isn't it? It is. I'm so sorry for what happened to you, Erica. I'm so, so sorry for the many, many things that happened to you. Steve.

[Steve Agee]

You'll be okay.

[Podcast Co-host]

Yeah, you're okay. You're both hilarious.

[Steve Agee]

You'll be okay.

[Podcast Co-host]

You're both hilarious, and I love you. Before you go, will you tell everyone where they can find you and what you want them to listen to and watch?

[Erica Rhodes]

Just go to my Instagram, Erica Rhodes, and my website's ericarodescomedy.com and come to shows.

[Podcast Co-host]

Yeah.

[Steve Agee]

Yeah. Also, my Instagramveige. It's on all the platforms. Although I think there's maybe two platforms that I'm on and Peacemaker season one and two are currently streaming on hbo.

[Podcast Co-host]

Max, congratulations. And everyone go back and see New Girl where you played a homeless man.

[Steve Agee]

Try and guess what with zero hair

and makeup where I look horrible enough to not need makeup.

[Podcast Co-host]

Oh, you're a legend. Thank you so much guys. So nice to meet you.

[Erica Rhodes]

So nice to meet you.

[Podcast Host]

If you're still here, we will be back with guests Blair Socky and Arden Myron for a full episode on Thursday as usual. And if you've not checked out my substack yet, my piece about letting pedophiles decide our beauty standards, which is both a bit lulz and a bit harrowing, seems to have resonated with a lot of people. So maybe can check that out. It's free and you might enjoy my substack. It's called A Low Desired Please. I write most weeks about all kinds of different things. Sometimes it's in the theme of this podcast, sometimes it's just deeply, deeply haunting. But anyway, I will see you Thursday for another episode of Wrong Turns. Love you.

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[Erica Rhodes]

Can I make my site softer?

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[Steve Agee]

Can we sleep cooler?

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