- Get ready for a game changer.
Tonight's guests, mama to Precious Plum,
it's Josh Ruben!
Are you his dad?
Gorgug to some, to others it's Zac Oyama!
And Dimension 20 founding father,
it's Brennan Lee Mulligan!
And your host, me!
I've been here the whole time.
Welcome to Game Changer, the only game show
where the game changes every show.
I am your host, Sam Reich.
I am joined today by these three lovely contestants.
Now you all understand how the game works.
- No
- Not at all, you haven't told us.
- No
That's right.
Our contestants have no idea what game it is
they are about to play.
The only way to learn is by playing.
The only way to win is by learning
and the only way to begin is by beginning
so without further adieu,
let's begin.
Josh.
- Yeah.
- The word is,
cow.
- No problem.
Cow.
- I'm sorry that is not the answer I was looking for.
No points to Josh.
- Fuck.
- You don't have to buzz, but I appreciate the initiative.
Zac. Your word is,
duck.
- Quack quack.
- That is correct.
- Huh.
- Okay I see, I see what this is about, okay.
- Brennan, your word is
monkey.
- Very good.
And now the players start to realize—
- Why I've brought them in particular, here today.
- Oh. - We know all the animals.
- This is gonna be easy!
- Josh!
- Yeah.
- Your word is
cat.
- No prob-ma.
Meow.
- And also for a bonus point.
- No, there are no bonus points for bonus sounds.
- Well, I'll just stick with my original answer, meow.
- Very good.
Zac Oyama, your word is,
frog.
- Uh, ribbit ribbit.
- I don't know, if that's point worthy.
- I don't know if it's point worthy and so
I'm gonna toss it up to the other two contestants
to give me their frogs to see one of them is—
- Wait, no problem.
- worthy of the steal.
Josh it's not you yet.
Brennan, give me your best frog.
- Pretty good, Josh, lets hear what you got.
That wasn't it yet.
All right, ready?
All right, no problem I fuckin' got this okay?
Shush.
- If you laugh near this it's not your point.
- All right, I know I understand
here's the frog coming right up. Everyone shush.
- Brennan, stop. Pressure's on,
okay only six seconds left all right, ready?
- Where'd you get six seconds?
- Shush, just shush.
- There's no clock!
- Lower to third dude shush.
All right ready? Ribbit.
- I think that point in particular
goes to Brennan Lee Mulligan.
- Are you fucked up?
- Woo! - Wow.
- What is so dumb!
- Brennan.
- Yup.
- Your word is,
chick.
- I do wonder if we can do better
with our other two contestants and so first, Zac Oyama.
- (makes high pitched, quiet peeping sound)
- I do think, that was an improvement.
Josh.
- Not only am I gonna do a chick,
I'm gonna do a whole hoard them and sort of
bring them to lie in this room if you can imagine, ready?
- Yup.
- Here they are. Just, just imagine
a bunch of little ones.
That's me petting them.
One bit me. One of them just came out of an egg.
That's it just coming out.
- It's not good to touch newborn chicks with your hands.
- That's right, anyway.
- I do think for the theater
of that display the point needs to go to Josh Ruben.
Josh, your word is
donkey.
- No problem.
- Wow! Amazing!
- You devised this episode just for pulls
for the trailer for this show admit it.
That's what this is.
- Knowing it was gonna be the three of you today,
I was just like too excited to go to sleep last night.
- If Josh doesn't get seagull I'm gonna freak out.
- Seagull is nowhere in my plan.
- You get Josh Ruben on and not give him a seagull to do?
- You wanna do a seagull right now?
- I think we're fine.
- I'll just keep going, rat.
You know it's all the same.
- Don't, don't!
I have slides, Josh.
- Give it all to me now we all know—
- Zac!
- I can do this
- Zac! Your word is,
orca.
- Yes.
That splash into the water did it.
Brennan, your sound is
hyena.
- Hold on
- I have to go right into my fi
- There's a deep drawer in a file cabinet
somewhere in Brennan's brain.
- Because I, they don't laugh.
They just that's the closest sound
we approximate so I can't laugh.
- Ahh!
- Fantastic, fantastic - Not close
- I'm going to make this a toss-up.
We will first go to Josh Ruben.
- Hyena?
- Yes.
- No problem.
No problem.
Yeah its not a laugh. It's all it's a little
they're more like, more like this.
It's definitely more like this.
- Shush, I'm gonna need everyone to shush.
'Cause I got hyena right here. Its not your typical,
not your Lion King one, this is like straight out of
Nat Geo, you ready? (makes squeaking howl sound)
You think it'd be a monkey but it's not.
- That—
- Is very good, Josh.
You set me up to think
that was gonna be an unmitigated disaster.
- I didn't know what it was gonna sound like.
- Zac.
- Okay, so.
- This point is going to go to Josh Ruben.
Josh
Your word is
sealion.
- That's it.
- Cool
- Yeah.
- Great, yes that is, in fact correct.
- I'm 36 years old.
- I am 35, Zac.
- I'm 31.
As of, uh the recording of this.
- Brennan?
- I am also 31.
- Good to know.
- It's important to know
that there is four men in their thirties here today.
- Zac
moose.
- Moo. Moo.
- Zac, I'm—
- Moo!
- Did you factor in the antlers?
- I'm factoring them in as we speak!
- Uh, fun fact about moose, they're the last
- Oh my god
- surviving species of North American megafauna.
- No points for Brennan,
- Points for the audience for learning.
- End it it's not the extra credit show,
it's make animal sounds!
Come on dude, I got places to be.
- Josh has to leave in four minutes.
- Zac, I think that point goes to you, well done.
Brennan, your word is
fox.
- Running through his mind palace looking or his room
labeled "fox".
- I'm imagining Brennan in his memory palace
he's pulling out books and they say like ancient history.
- The rise and fall of the Merovingian Dynasty and then
behind that is like a cardboard book that says
what noise a fox make.
- Yeah.
- Uh, okay.
- That is correct.
Well done Brennan.
Point to you, the fox does sound remarkably
like a chirping bird.
We are now headed into our first mini game.
Ash, would you please bring out
the devices.
We're going to give one device to each of our contestants.
I am going to play a sound for you
and then throw it to Josh. Ready Josh, your sound is
- No problem, "it's the cops."
- That is so far from what I want you to do here,
Zac.
- Pretty good, Zac. I will give you the point.
Unless, Brennan can beat you now.
- Don't fuck me.
- I think this point is going to go to Zac.
- Yes!
- Can we get about 15 minutes to jam out?
- Yeah, you know let's hear what you got.
- If the three of you were performing on a subway
I would take money away from you.
We head into round two with with Josh Ruben at 5 points,
Zac Oyama with 4,
Brennan Lee Mulligan with 3.
Josh.
- Huh.
- Your word is,
jack hammer.
That's him keeping the hat on.
The helmet.
- Josh, without a doubt despite the safety concerns,
great jack hammer.
That point is yours.
Zac, your word is
anguish.
- Ahhh!
- Very well done, Zac.
Brennan, your word is
a North Dakotan.
- Um, yeah man I love it here in North Dakota
I moved here about three years ago from the East coast.
I'm enjoying it.
I mean work is, work's been good.
My wife obviously has her family out here so that's,
I get back out to the East coast I'd say once or
twice a year which, yeah, I could be more but
just while we're getting settled it feels like
it's good to try to put down roots here.
- Brennan, I feel like you're trying to
catch me on a technicality.
- So you want me to, eh, to engage in stereotype?
- That point I think goes to you, Brennan,
for catching me, on being reductive.
- Shame on me.
Josh,
- Hmm.
- The Netflix intro
- B-bunn
- Totally, I'll give you that point, well done.
- I had to add a little flourish.
- Zac,
hold music.
_ I like that Zac, I do.
I do wanna see what your fellow players have in mind.
- Please wait while your conference call
is waiting to connect.
- Very good, Brennan let's hear
what you have in mind.
- Your call is important to us.
- Please stay on the line and an operator
will be with you shortly.
- You know I do like your take, Brennan.
The issue is probably one of our
legal ability to use that song and so I think
this point's gonna go to Josh.
Brennan,
stirring creamy mac and cheese.
- Ready, watch this.
- Yeah.
- Hmm.
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry I gotta stop.
That sounds more like slurp.
- Oh, Josh do you, do you wanna challenge?
- Yeah I do. That just sounds like an anxious,
50 year old man slurpin' noodle sauce.
- The fuck is noodle sauce?
- It's the velvee, it's its the, it sound's like
- The fuck is noodle sauce?
- I'm gonna back out of this man.
- You want a mac and cheese stir?
- Josh, I'm gonna as you
to put your money where your mouth is.
- Absolutely, everyone close their frickin' mouths.
I mean eyes.
And mouths. I want you to put yourself in your kitchens.
Here it is. That's the stove.
Here's the stir.
- You know, Josh that is a good stir the issue is
I like Brennan's original when - Get me in there!
Get me in there!
- Oh what?
- Let me have a shot at this.
- Zac, okay you have your shot.
- Whatever man, if I had known this was gonna be the
no holds barred, elbow throwing massacre
this has turned into
I would've played the start of this game very differently.
- All right let's give, let's give the—
- And this is the precedent we're setting?
Get ready for the back half of this episode.
- So I'm feeling like a little thin over here
a little mechanical over here.
I think it's more like a
- This point goes to Zac, I'm sorry.
- Whoa! Fair!
- Yes! Yes!
- Fair. - Well done, my friend.
- Josh.
- Hah.
- Give me,
100 Batmans.
- I love it- holy shit, Josh.
Holy shit.
I would give you more than one point
but that's not how the game works. Zac.
A dinosaur speaks its first English.
- Hi.
Hi.
- The dinosaur's first word is hi.
How wholesome is that?
Brennan,
a vampire, nauseated by drinking blood.
- Ahh the children of the night.
What sweet music they make, and now for me to feed
now for me to f ohh, uh I'm going to sit down.
- Fantastic, Brennan.
Josh,
your parents arguing softly in the other room
about you having been allowed to see an R-rated movie.
- Great, Josh.
Zac.
- Yes.
- A cool bass lick and then the rest of the band joins in.
- Say that was, that was well done but
I do wanna see what the rest of our players have
in mind for this.
- Very well done Josh
- Very well done, Josh
- Fireworks at the end.
- And I did appreciate it at the same time as
I think technically uh, Brennan's sounded more like music.
And so this point is going to go to Brennan.
Brennan.
- Yes.
- A recording of a political speech so old
that it's unintelligible.
- The question put forward today before this August body
is the question of declaimation
Whether or not our territory is to assume the mantle
of a state or whether we are to recede
into the allied colonies.
- Very well done, Brennan, and
I like your interpretation of this.
It wasn't exactly what I had in mind
I do like it and you could still win the point. Josh.
- Yeah 'cause um, I think the word here is old so
theoretically it'd be so old you could barely understand
so it'd be more like, more like this.
savory horse and buggies.
- Josh, well done I'm gonna throw this to Zac
to see what he can give us.
- See, you have like a record or something
- I appreciate all these interpretations and Josh and Zac,
that is what I had in mind by unintelligible
but Brennan, I think your interpretation of this
was exciting enough to me that the point
is going to go to you. I like—
- It was intelligible!
It was intelligible!
- So old, is not modifying recording,
it's modifying political speech, the politics!
- You don't need to like the game,
you just need to play it.
It's time for our next mini game.
Ash, would you please bring out, the vases.
Each of you is going to get one of these beautiful vases.
Ready players, your sound is.
Josh.
- Zac
- Brennan
- Well done everyone,
Zac and Brennan that is a point for you
Sorry, Josh.
- God damn it!
- We are now in round three.
Josh has 10 points, Zac and Brennan are tied.
This is a tight game. Josh, your word is.
- K.
- I do like it. I'm gonna throw it out
to the other two contestants.
- Take the picture.
- Okay, Brennan.
- Yeah so basically what we're trying to do is like
combine long form and short form improv.
The other seven guys
on my team, Chris, Mike, Matt, Chris, Matt,
uh, Skully who's fuckin' crazy and Matt,
they're like extremely funny dudes.
This date's going well.
- That point goes to Brennan.
- Wow.
Zac
your word is.
- We're having fun over here we don't need to go over there
- I will take it, Zac well done.
- Thank you.
- Brennan, you word is
- Okay so everyone looks at Candy Land
and they see a fuckin' mythical place all right.
A lot of fuckin' work has gotta happen
to make this shit run on time
you think a fuckin' peanut butter swamp
doesn't have infrastructural issues
you fuckin' dreamin dude.
Dudes gotta go put the pipes in
to bring the peanut butter to the swamp all right?
And that's where fuckin' 'Fredo comes in baby!
- You just developed an entire world!
A point for you.
Josh
- Yeah!
- Your word is
- Oh, ho ho. Ho ho ho, ho ho.
- Ill take it Josh, well done.
Zac. Your word is
- Ah, too many hamburgers! No, no no no no no.
- I would have taken it but
Brennan clearly wants to throw his option into the mix.
- I just, I said I would throw elbows earlier
I'm going to.
- Whatcha got?
- Allright.
Susan, listen to the voices within you.
You know the hamburger power courses through your veins.
Relinquish control, I, can't, my mother told me,
never to give in, I don't wanna become like her!
- Fuck.
- You will be the hamburger queen.
Whether you wish or no.
- I mean Josh, it's yours if you wanna try but.
- I don't want to. No, that's
- Wow, Brennan. Your word is
- Seeing into forever isn't as scary as people say.
Time is an infinite loop. This moment like all moments
exists in a perpetual state of being.
- That was dark and worth a point. Well done.
Josh. Your word is.
- Yeah I'm gonna stuff my ca, I'm gonna get some fool
I know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna wake up okay and
I'm gonna go to the deli okay, and I'm gonna get a banana
and I'm gonna stook it. I'm gonna stook it up my juice poop.
That's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go to my proos, and
I'm gonna stook a banoonoo up my juice poop.
- Wow that is a point for Josh.
Zac
your word is
- Yellow, my sweet baby.
My corn child.
- You will grow up to be strong for the future.
- I mean that's worthy of a point for sure.
- Aw thank god.
- Brennan, your word is
- Oh my god this is so fuckin' sick
look at this meme my dad sent me
It's fucking me, dead.
Why are you guys sad?
- I'll give you the point for that Brennan, well imagined
Josh
- Ahh, ohh, behold
your god, tomatoes, zucchini, we have a golfer.
There is a golfer!
- I can't wait to buy
from this demon at the farmer's market.
Point for Josh.
Zac, your word is
- Son, I will give you a treat now
if you promise to never again go outside.
- Well done.
Brennan.
- Mhmm.
- Your word is
- Jesus Christ, Ted! You're a horse, I'm a man
we ran afoul of a wizard at the grocery store
and this could be solved if we worked together
but instead you're being a real, and I don't mean,
no pun intended, horse's ass!
- That is a point
for Brennan. Brennan, you are the winner of this episode.
Congratulations Brennan, well done.
That's it for us here at Game Changer, remember
if you listen closely enough, everything is music.
Weird, annoying, indie, experimental music.
Goodnight!
Yeah!