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00:00I'm so sorry to keep you waiting.
00:13Hey, well, you had to finish the Q2Q.
00:16This episode's a little bit of a beast.
00:19I'm not going to lie.
00:21Can't wait to find out what that means.
00:24Siobhan, Game Changer debut.
00:27We just got a few minutes while they reset downstairs.
00:30Okay. Great.
00:31Because I can't have you see the stage before we start.
00:35Oh, my God. Okay.
00:36Great.
00:37I'm going to give you, like, the normal spiel that I do up here instead of down there, if that makes sense.
00:41Yeah.
00:42I'm going to take this off.
00:43You know, this is a game show, but it's not about the points.
00:47No.
00:48It's about having fun with friends.
00:50It's about making Brennan look stupid.
00:54We're all here to do that, right?
00:56Totally.
00:57Yeah.
00:58So, like...
00:59Who's playing cards important?
01:01My pandemic hobby has been cards.
01:04Card magic.
01:05Oh, card magic.
01:06Oh, close-up magic.
01:07Yeah.
01:08Ooh, in fact.
01:09Can I practice something here?
01:10Of course.
01:11Seven of spades.
01:12Okay.
01:13Here we go.
01:14Lou, just so you know, I'm not up to any funny business here.
01:16Just tell me to...
01:17It's a twerk, Mike.
01:18...to...
01:19Stop.
01:20Not up to any funny business.
01:21I'm going to begin a magic trick.
01:23Stop.
01:24Okay.
01:25You can take that card.
01:26Don't show it to your fellow players.
01:27This one?
01:28This one.
01:29This one.
01:30You want me to take this one?
01:31You can take that one.
01:32Okay.
01:33Just take a look at it.
01:34Don't show it to them.
01:35Put it back.
01:36Mm-hmm.
01:37Tell me to stop whenever you want, Brennan.
01:38I wish I had a cool party trick like that.
01:40Stop.
01:41I think cool's strong.
01:42That's pretty strong.
01:43Okay.
01:44A little bit more.
01:45I'll party trick.
01:46Take a look at it.
01:47Don't show it to these two.
01:48Put it back.
01:49Siobhan.
01:50Same deal.
01:51Tell me to stop whenever you like.
01:52Stop.
01:53Right here?
01:54Yeah.
01:55Go ahead.
01:56You got it?
01:57Mm-hmm.
01:58Okay, take a look.
01:59Yeah.
02:00Do you think I could get you to proofread downstairs real quick?
02:01Can I have two minutes to finish this stupid card trick?
02:02You have time.
02:03Sorry.
02:05Okay.
02:06Remember your cards, though, because I want to do this downstairs.
02:09Okay, great.
02:10We'll finish it downstairs.
02:11Okay.
02:12See you really soon.
02:13See you soon.
02:14Oh, hell yeah.
02:15All right.
02:16I am so excited to get back in the fucking dome.
02:19I know.
02:20It's been too long.
02:21I love it.
02:22Yeah.
02:24Okay, I'm going to go use the bathroom as well.
02:26Yeah, I guess I should probably do this.
02:28Brennan, you've set off a bad-
02:29Oh, this one's out of order.
02:30Oh, this door is locked.
02:32Oh, wow.
02:36This door is straight up locked.
02:39They don't want us getting out, dude.
02:40Is this the show?
02:41Get ready for a game changer.
02:45No fucking way.
02:46Tonight's guests.
02:48The dungeon master has become my prisoner.
02:51It's Brennan Lee Mulligan.
02:54What the fuck?
02:55Is this an escape room?
02:56Will she escape?
02:58Survey says no dice.
03:00It's Siobhan Tuckson.
03:02Son of a bitch.
03:03And for what's sticking inside the box, it's Lou Wilson.
03:09This is not okay.
03:10And your host me.
03:13I've been here the whole time.
03:16God damn it.
03:17This is Game Changer,
03:19the only game show where the game changes every show.
03:21I am your host, Sam Reich.
03:24I am joined today by these three lovely contestants.
03:28Now you all understand how the game works.
03:31We don't know how it works.
03:32We understand that part.
03:33That's right.
03:34Our players have no idea what game it is they're about to play.
03:36The only way to learn is by playing.
03:39The only way to win is by learning,
03:40and the only way to begin is by beginning.
03:42So without further ado,
03:45let's begin by putting 60 minutes on the clock.
03:49What the fuck?
03:50Players, you have one hour to escape the green room.
03:55I just found some cards.
03:58Okay, I found three in here.
04:00I found some cards here.
04:01Okay, look.
04:02Looks like there might be some kind of puzzle on the back.
04:04There are tens.
04:05And wait, which cards did you guys get from the deck?
04:07Oh, I got a six of diamonds.
04:09I also got a six of diamonds.
04:10I also got a six of diamonds.
04:11You'll notice the cards in that deck are not the same and might be clues.
04:15Okay.
04:16Oh, damn.
04:17All right.
04:18You're...
04:19Okay.
04:20Also, I'm sorry if I broke that,
04:22but I'm not supposed to break that guitar.
04:24Can you find anything else in it?
04:25Okay, there is a rabbit on here and there's a code thing.
04:28Oh, okay.
04:29So do you see anything that has a blue rabbit?
04:30Okay, so two pillows, five plants, six clocks.
04:35So I think these things are the significant things in the room.
04:38I got the plants in the plant.
04:40I got the guitars in the guitar.
04:42Clocks.
04:43Three jackets, seven plants.
04:45No, this is a vase.
04:47Yeah, the clock.
04:48Another card up here.
04:49Great.
04:50There's a vase.
04:51Smash it, dude. Smash it.
04:52Everyone be careful.
04:53Watch that fucking vase, dude.
04:54Ah!
04:57Baba Booey! Baba Booey!
05:00Okay.
05:01There are cards in here.
05:03Okay.
05:05We got cards in here.
05:06All right.
05:07Okay, so this lines up.
05:10They're lining up.
05:11Oh, oh, oh, oh.
05:12This lines up.
05:13I got the pillows, I got the pillows, I got the pillows.
05:15The pillows.
05:16Somebody's shoes.
05:17There's a shoe.
05:18There's shoes over here.
05:19Shoes over there.
05:20Shoes over there.
05:21Pillow, pillow, pillow.
05:22Here we go, here we go.
05:23Lint roller.
05:24We need to find a lint roller.
05:25We need to find a jacket.
05:26You found the clock.
05:28Ooh, well done, Siobhan.
05:30Important part of the puzzle there.
05:32Okay.
05:33Fire extinguisher.
05:34Oh, can we take this off the wall?
05:36Open here.
05:37Oh.
05:38As usual, nothing but complete and total focus.
05:41You're not getting a fucking joke out of me until I'm out of this room.
05:44Let's go, baby, let's go.
05:45You want bits?
05:46You let me out of the room for bits, motherfucker.
05:48Where's the bacon?
05:49Does this look like bacon to you?
05:51Look over here somewhere.
05:52Hey, motherfucker, what's this look like?
05:54That little shit.
05:55It looks like a shit.
05:56What is this?
05:57It looks like a fucking shit.
05:59What does this look like?
06:00Help me, bro.
06:01Found more cards here in the extend.
06:03Oh, yes.
06:04Here you go.
06:06No, I held this to you so you could tell me what you think it is.
06:09Well, it goes with these, so that's four queens right there, right?
06:12Yes, and this also has a bunch of stuff on it.
06:16We also need a lint roller, Siobhan.
06:18Have you found a lint roller?
06:19Oh, there it is.
06:24Is this good content?
06:27Believe it or not, it's great.
06:29Goddamn.
06:30Did something just come flying out?
06:31Boom.
06:32Got it.
06:34Okay, here's four.
06:36Did we find the jacket yet?
06:38No, I looked through all of these pockets, but I couldn't find anything.
06:41Maybe I'm just missing something.
06:43And then there's tape on the back of the cards that I think we'll be using to create an image.
06:47I've looked in the pockets.
06:49I'm just going to look on the back and see if there's any weird shit that I've missed.
06:53Just so that we're talking and communicating.
06:55Always.
06:56I'm scouring right now.
06:57I'm just overheading everything.
06:59But do we want someone looking to see if the cards contain...
07:03To start putting it together?
07:04To see if there's something there.
07:05We might not be at that stage yet.
07:06Why don't I do that?
07:07If you want to start looking at this shit, maybe me and Lou keep scouring.
07:10Let's also do this.
07:11I might start putting things on...
07:13Just seeing if there's a pattern in the clues while we are casing the joint.
07:18Because we don't want to all give the room a once over.
07:21Yeah.
07:22I mean, do I want to start...
07:25God.
07:27Oh.
07:28Aha, a bunny.
07:29What?
07:30I see bunny ears here.
07:31That's going to give us the code?
07:32Could be.
07:33Lou, have you given up on that object of the ace that you can't identify?
07:37I kept trying to show it to people and...
07:39I will say that's the only breakdown we've had as a team so far, guys.
07:42Somebody's got to help me with that.
07:44Could be a Cheeto.
07:45Oh, Cheeto!
07:47Open up those fucking Cheetos.
07:52Got it.
07:54Here's your fucking Cheetos.
07:56Here's your fucking Cheetos, bro.
07:58Fucking Cheetos, man.
07:59Here's your fucking Cheetos.
08:01We are not animals!
08:05Okay.
08:06So what is this? What's this thing?
08:07Oh, record player, maybe?
08:09Oh, yeah, vinyl?
08:10Oh, it could be a smoke alarm.
08:12Is there a smoke alarm here?
08:14Yeah, somewhere.
08:15Here we go.
08:16Oh, you got it?
08:17Hell yeah, Siobhan.
08:19There you go. Check that.
08:21Get in there.
08:22Get in there.
08:23Yeah, bitch.
08:25Wow, I hope we don't set on fire.
08:27There it is, you bitch.
08:29Fun fact, that room had no smoke detector before.
08:33Classic Sam Reich.
08:35Hey, if they burn to death, I'll just get some new ones.
08:38Which fucking coat has the fucking cards in the fucking pockets?
08:44Try inside pockets.
08:45That's what... I've been trying inside pockets on everything that's a straight-up coat.
08:49Brandon, I swear to God, if you find it on like one go-through, I will end myself.
08:54I will end myself.
08:56This one feels like the bid.
08:57I got bad news for you.
08:58No.
08:59Fuck me!
09:02Okay.
09:06That was not a breakaway, but that's okay.
09:08Okay.
09:09Okay, jacket's here.
09:10Okay.
09:11Okay, so there's a bunny happening over here.
09:13Oh, if we put it on top of this, we'll get the image.
09:17Siobhan, I hate to make your hard work go away.
09:19No, no, no, it's fine.
09:20I started doing this and then I...
09:21Put the four Cheetos on top.
09:22Five plants.
09:27Red, orange, yellow.
09:31Because these could be oriented in different ways.
09:33Yes.
09:34So we got to just be aware of that.
09:36Blue.
09:37Shut the fuck up.
09:39This is not about you.
09:40Shut your fucking mouth.
09:41Yeah, yeah, you need to close your...
09:42Sorry, my perspective right now is like I'm the Joker.
09:46I'm watching you all on seven cameras.
09:48I won't lie, when we could not get out of the room,
09:51that was legitimately...
09:53It was legit.
09:54I was like, hey, what the fuck is happening?
09:56Yeah, fuck you.
09:58What's the paperclip?
10:00Oh, I know where that is.
10:02Oh, there it is.
10:03Okay, great.
10:04Got it.
10:05Here we go, here we go.
10:06Okay, so this is three.
10:08Is there a number on the lint roller?
10:10It said four.
10:11The lint roller I destroyed.
10:13Was it bad that we just started smashing shit?
10:16So rabbit, rabbit, pillow, pillow, lint roller.
10:20So the rabbit's over here.
10:22Clock, lint, pillow.
10:24How many number categories does the lock have?
10:27Guys, there are three symbols on the map other than the rabbit.
10:32Yes.
10:33And there are three rollers on the combination lock.
10:36Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
10:38What?
10:39Three.
10:40Oh, wait.
10:41Oh, what's the pillow?
10:43Oh my God.
10:44So it's my guy.
10:46So it's clock, lint, pillow.
10:49Okay, six, four.
10:51What's pillow, what's pillow, what's pillow?
10:53Two.
10:54Six plus two.
10:55Get us the fuck out of here, man.
10:57Get us the fuck out of here.
10:58We have to crawl through.
11:00Get off of me, you fucking rabbit.
11:02Get off of me.
11:05What the fuck?
11:06Oh, oh, oh.
11:07Okay.
11:08Yo, I saw this earlier.
11:09There's a fucking car around here.
11:12Okay, okay.
11:13I'll steer it.
11:14You tell me where to go.
11:15Okay.
11:16Is this forward?
11:17Okay.
11:18Whoa, whoa, whoa.
11:19It's got a lot of get up and go.
11:20It's got a lot of get up and go.
11:21Okay.
11:22Okay.
11:23All right.
11:24Siobhan, what do we think we need to do?
11:25That's a bird.
11:26Come take a look before we start making moves.
11:27Well, we got to get it onto the bird, I would imagine.
11:28And then what do we do once we're on the bird?
11:30Any clues in there?
11:31Anything we're looking at?
11:32Well, there is a thing that is a bird over here that has another padlock over on it.
11:36Wait, where do you see it?
11:37In the kitchen.
11:39Catch a vibe?
11:40Yes, you're right.
11:41You're right.
11:42Five pins?
11:43Yes, there are five pins.
11:44We got to knock these shits over.
11:46Hell yeah, Lou.
11:48You need to turn the car around.
11:49Okay, great.
11:50Tell me when I'm in the right way.
11:51Yep.
11:52Keep turning.
11:53Okay.
11:54A little more.
11:55Yeah, there it is.
11:56There it is.
11:57Vroom, vroom.
11:58Vroom, vroom.
11:59Okay.
12:00You're turning a lot when you drive.
12:01Like right now, you're headed to the building.
12:02Oh, okay.
12:03All right.
12:04I'm going to calm down.
12:05See, you are hitting the building right now, Siobhan.
12:07You got to reverse.
12:08Okay.
12:09Other way?
12:10Right is the way you need to go right now.
12:11There it is.
12:12Keep going.
12:13Straight, straight, straight.
12:14You're curving.
12:15When you go forward really fast, you curve a lot.
12:17It doesn't really have a slow.
12:19Got it.
12:20It just has on and off.
12:21Okay, Brennan, how much battery do your guys' phones have?
12:24FaceTime me.
12:25I'm going to show you what you're doing.
12:27You didn't count on ingenuity, did you, motherfucker?
12:30I did not.
12:31I'm continuing to look for clues because you guys got this, okay?
12:33Yes.
12:34All of these years of playing video games.
12:37Okay, this is great.
12:38Can you see?
12:39This is so much easier.
12:40There it is.
12:41Never would have guessed that.
12:43See, you see that way it, like, hard bends?
12:46There we go.
12:47Oh!
12:48Okay, first one down.
12:49Plant.
12:50Next level, motherfuckers.
12:51Oh, shit.
12:52Yes.
12:53Ah.
12:54Ah.
12:55Boom.
12:56Oh, shit.
12:57Yeah!
12:58That's a double pillow shoe.
13:04Brennan, can you start pulling these numbers?
13:06Yes, I got it.
13:07I got it.
13:08Pillow, shoe, plant.
13:09Ah, this last one.
13:11You got, but no, but you're right on because we also need to spin that pin.
13:15There we go.
13:16Okay, extinguisher, and you just got to spin that one for me, Siobhan.
13:19You just got to spin him.
13:20Spin him so I can get eyes.
13:21Oh!
13:22No!
13:23No!
13:24No!
13:25No!
13:26On the wheels that are on the ground, spin him hard.
13:29Spin him hard.
13:30There it is.
13:31Okay.
13:32Come on, Siobhan!
13:33Come on, Siobhan!
13:34Come on, spin for Papa.
13:35Spin for Papa.
13:36Ha!
13:37Ha!
13:38Ha!
13:39I'm trying to correct.
13:40Is Samurai still at this podium and not walking outside to help us?
13:41Kick it!
13:42Kick it!
13:43Kick it!
13:44Person who works for the company.
13:45We'll give you $20 if you kick it.
13:46Fight the bourgeoisie!
13:47I will Venmo you $20 as soon as my phone's back on.
13:50Yell your Venmo to us.
13:52We will Venmo you money.
13:53Siobhan, you can do this.
13:54Come on!
13:55Come on!
13:56Flip it.
13:57Flip it.
13:58No!
13:59Okay, okay, okay.
14:00There it is!
14:01Give me my camera back.
14:02Sorry.
14:03Show me where I am.
14:04Oh, I see it.
14:05So, yeah, you need to go around the unhelpful camera person.
14:08Here it is.
14:09Here it is.
14:10Here it is.
14:11This is a bad time for FaceTime to be glitchy.
14:13Sam turned off the Wi-Fi for sure.
14:15Okay, here we go.
14:17Ah!
14:18I believe in you, Siobhan.
14:19You picked the hardest job in the city.
14:21Shut up, Sam!
14:22You don't want my encouragement?
14:24No!
14:25No!
14:26Come on!
14:27Did it go?
14:28It's spinning.
14:29Keep it soft.
14:30I just need a glimpse, baby.
14:31I just need the edge.
14:32I just need the edge.
14:33Now you're mounting it.
14:34All right, now you're fucking it, Siobhan.
14:36Don't fuck the Pim.
14:37Ah, for fuck's sake.
14:38Come on.
14:39Yeah.
14:40Yeah.
14:41Ah!
14:42Meanwhile, Brennan's plugging in the numbers they have so far,
14:45and Brennan, are you just brute-forcing the last one?
14:48I love it, dude.
14:49Ah!
14:50Oh, not again!
14:51Fuck!
14:52Hey, we've done this before.
14:54We know the routine.
14:55Hey, gang, we got it.
14:56Boom!
14:57We got it.
14:58Thank fucking God.
14:59Oh, my God.
15:00You are no help!
15:01No help at all!
15:03And you will be remembered!
15:07Okay.
15:08Oh, okay.
15:09Incredible work, gang.
15:10Here we go.
15:11Hey, fuck yeah, team.
15:12Let's go.
15:13What are we creating here?
15:15Oh, I'm exhausted.
15:17Is this a jigsaw puzzle,
15:18or is this a thing that we have to get a thing through,
15:20or do we build something through it?
15:22So there's a bunch of holes.
15:23I think maybe we line up the holes.
15:25Oh!
15:26Oh!
15:27What is it?
15:28Oh, it's letters.
15:29Ah!
15:30Okay, hold on.
15:31But what is which is which?
15:33And there's magnets on the back,
15:34so they click.
15:36Holy shit.
15:38Okay.
15:39Ah!
15:40Well, which one's got the tiniest letters?
15:42Okay, this one, I think it's this one.
15:44Great.
15:45I think it's the H.
15:46Wow, and here we thought we were just celebrating
15:48our legacy of our work.
15:50Little did I know we were trapped in a prison.
15:52Well, there's that, too, Lou.
15:54No, Sam, you have to choose sides.
15:56Are you sure?
15:57I don't know about that.
15:58Let me just try this one.
15:59Yeah, just try it.
16:00This is a perfect fit.
16:01Oh, it is.
16:02That's a perfect fit.
16:03There we go.
16:04Okay.
16:05Who's got sideways letters?
16:06What on earth would you be trying to spell?
16:08That's a great question.
16:09Asked by a bad man.
16:11Absolute fucking maniac.
16:14Who's got letters in the bottom left corner?
16:16Tiny Heist.
16:17I bet this is H.
16:18So many memories up here.
16:20Fantasy High Season 1.
16:21Oh, yeah, and you're poisoning them.
16:23You're poisoning every single one.
16:25It just means stuff is wrong, right?
16:26Yeah, stuff is wrong, yeah.
16:28I think maybe this one?
16:30L.E.?
16:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:32Ba-bow!
16:33Let me see if this is the one here.
16:34Hold on.
16:35No.
16:36Guys, we're close.
16:38We are close.
16:40That feels good.
16:41E.P.?
16:42Yeah, this is the one here.
16:43This one is not it.
16:44This one goes somewhere else.
16:45Try that on Coffin Run.
16:47Maybe it starts for us.
16:49Not Coffin Run.
16:50No.
16:51I.
16:52Yep.
16:53F.
16:54Wait, no, this is Rogue.
16:56Yeah, that's not right.
16:57This might be here.
16:58Yep.
16:59Yep, there we go.
17:00Game time.
17:01I've been here the whole time.
17:02You motherfucker!
17:05So does that matter?
17:07Or was that just for your fun?
17:09Wait.
17:12Ah!
17:13Oh!
17:14Are we supposed to?
17:15Careful with the glass.
17:16You can take that off if you want.
17:18Kick it, Brennan!
17:19Timbs!
17:20Timbs, bitch!
17:21Yah!
17:22What's up, baby?
17:23Oh, my God!
17:24Holy shit!
17:25All right.
17:26Crime man gang.
17:27Here we go.
17:28Are there cameras in here, too?
17:29Yes, there are cameras in here.
17:30Oh, I fucking hate it, dude.
17:31All right.
17:32Thank God I wore pants is all I can say.
17:34Okay, there's a magnet here and a thing to stand.
17:37You okay?
17:38I'm good.
17:39Some kind of pole.
17:40Okay.
17:41Samuel Dalton.
17:42Time traveler.
17:43Time traveler.
17:44Magician or madman.
17:45Magician or madman.
17:46Born in Cambridge, England, Samuel Dalton apprenticed under various card cheats and has since established
17:51himself as one of London's finest magicians.
17:55But his latest act has us concerned.
17:58Dalton claims he will use electromagnetism to travel to the future.
18:02Future?
18:03Is this another hustle or is it madman?
18:09Okay.
18:10We have a clock here.
18:11God, it is so hot in here.
18:13Now we get sexy.
18:15It's time to get sexy.
18:16Let's go.
18:17Now I actually feel like it's like, are we going to die before we get out of here?
18:20I don't know.
18:21This could be hell.
18:22This is very Sartre-esque.
18:23No exit.
18:24Hell is other people.
18:25Let's just slow our breathing.
18:26Yeah.
18:27Go through all these clues.
18:28Okay.
18:29Friends and colleagues gathered this past Saturday to mourn the passing of Samuel Dalton, who
18:34disappeared during his magic act last July.
18:37July.
18:38Dalton had encircled himself with household objects over the numbers of a clock.
18:42Clock.
18:43Clock.
18:44When a bolt of lightning struck a magnet overhead, leaving behind only his smoldering footprint.
18:48Footprint.
18:49Footprint.
18:50Footprint.
18:51So it seems like it's about objects.
18:52Do we have these things?
18:54Why don't we do this?
18:55There's three of us in this small space.
18:57So let's have someone go out and start collecting the items we need from in there.
19:01And someone else can stay in here and see if the items exist in this space.
19:04Stop.
19:05Can you step out of the way?
19:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:08Hell yeah.
19:13Why are you biting your hand?
19:16I feel like it's simpler than we're making it, right?
19:18I think it is too.
19:19Two.
19:20It says household objects around him in the clock.
19:22All of the things have numbers with them.
19:24Do we put them on the numbers?
19:26Okay.
19:27Siobhan, can you grab a pillow?
19:29The clock, the lint roller.
19:31Brent, can you put these on the...
19:33Yeah, yeah.
19:34Pillow goes on two.
19:35Can you grab the electrical outlet?
19:37A piece of the guitar.
19:38Clock goes on six.
19:41Outlet is queen, which translates to twelve.
19:44The guitar, that goes on ten.
19:46Can you grab the first suede coat from the rack?
19:48The coat, yes, and the Cheetos.
19:50The fire extinguisher.
19:52And the boot.
19:54Oh, and can you grab me a Cheeto?
19:55The bag is right there.
19:56Oh, sorry.
19:57Can you grab the smoke detector as well?
19:59Yes.
20:00I knew I shouldn't have put the stupid thing back.
20:02Lint roller goes on four.
20:04And did you grab the shoe, Siobhan?
20:06Yes.
20:07I think this is eleven.
20:09Seven is a piece of the vase.
20:12Thank you, Siobhan.
20:14You're welcome.
20:15Shoe is eight.
20:16We really like this room.
20:18And shoe is eight.
20:19This is our last one.
20:20Plate goes on five.
20:21Five's right there.
20:26Out of order.
20:28Out of the bathroom.
20:36How you doing, Sam?
20:37What's going on, dude?
20:38How are you?
20:39It's locked.
20:40It's still locked?
20:41There's a thirteenth object.
20:42Oh, the paper clip.
20:43The paper clip.
20:44Oh, the paper clip.
20:45Copy that.
20:46All right.
20:47What number are the paper clips?
20:48I don't...
20:49Oh, I have all the cards right here.
20:50They're kings.
20:51So that would be thirteen.
20:57What the fuck?
20:58What the fuck?
21:03Sam Rice is in here.
21:04Sam Rice is in here.
21:05You guys want to take a minute?
21:07I would love to get brunch.
21:08Yeah.
21:09I'm really hot and there's a great lunch place right around the corner.
21:12I swear to God.
21:13It's so hot right now.
21:14I'm straight up good to take a minute before we go to the next.
21:16Yeah.
21:17You know, saving Sam's not priority.
21:18Saving Sam's not priority.
21:19Anyway.
21:20Let's go make you guys some water.
21:21Yeah, thank you, man.
21:22I could use it.
21:23I'm late.
21:24Sam, be quiet, dude.
21:25What a nice thing for a food dog.
21:28It's very funny.
21:29I was talking to the Sam on the TV.
21:31I was just so confused.
21:32Okay.
21:33You guys want to get through this?
21:34Yeah, let's do it.
21:35Let's go.
21:36I'm late.
21:37Yeah, I know, Sam.
21:38That's good, man.
21:39Hey, what's going on, dude?
21:40That was where the moment we beat the shit out of you.
21:43Jesus Christ.
21:47Do you know how magic has been my pandemic hobby?
21:51You said that, yeah.
21:52Yeah, yeah.
21:53It turns out that that runs in the family.
21:55Oh, no.
21:56Oh, is that your grandfather or something like that?
21:57Great-grandfather.
21:58Got it.
21:59He disappeared in the past, and I tried to form an electromagnetic link to him in the future.
22:04That didn't go so well.
22:06He took over the show.
22:07He's evil.
22:08Breaded.
22:09I had nothing to do with this, for the record.
22:11This is all him.
22:12Oh, fuck me.
22:14Anyway, one of those keys opens the door.
22:16The key is magnetism.
22:18Yeah, let's grab that magnet.
22:20I hope you're comfortable.
22:21I could really use somebody on these knots.
22:23Sorry, man.
22:24No can do.
22:27Brady, you look hot.
22:29Oh, thank you.
22:31That's such a nice compliment.
22:33Well, the good news is it's only, like, you know, 50-plus keys to trip with.
22:42You got anything?
22:48Yeah, I think that with them piled on each other, our buddy could be on the bottom.
22:54Here, I can crash that one.
22:56This one has magnets to it, so this must be the one.
22:59I'm going to tell you something right now, and this is the fucking gospel truth you're hearing.
23:03If I open that door, and we discover that there's more puzzles on the other side, you're taking a flight down the stairs.
23:09You understand?
23:10Straight up.
23:11Straight down the stairs.
23:12I don't know why you're angry with me!
23:14Why would I be?
23:15It's the great-grandfather's fault!
23:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:18Blame Samuel Dalton!
23:20Get some water in case there's a fucking sauna on the other side of that door.
23:23Wow, you guys made a mess.
23:24Wow, we really did.
23:25Yeah, well, you know.
23:26The panic is so real.
23:28That's the difference between walking into an escape room and finding yourself in one.
23:32Yes.
23:33Because I immediately had zero respect for anything.
23:40On the tree.
23:44We got a bomb that we've got to dismantle!
23:46Yes!
23:47Okay, go, go.
23:48All right, we're back in it.
23:49We're back in it.
23:50Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.
23:56Okay.
23:57Fuck this.
23:58Is this your cod?
23:59Well.
24:00Oh.
24:02Okay, here we go.
24:03No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
24:04Don't eat your fucking fist.
24:05Oh!
24:06Yeah!
24:07There we go.
24:09Okay, good, good, good.
24:12Now, wait a second.
24:13Do we know the order they go in?
24:15Yes.
24:16It starts with ace.
24:18Okay, there are all the cards.
24:19Cheetah.
24:20Where's Cheetah?
24:21Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
24:22What if it's only one?
24:23What?
24:24What if there's only one?
24:25What if it's only one wire?
24:27Well, it says this is your card.
24:28A six of diamonds was our cod.
24:30What do you mean a six of diamonds?
24:31All the way back at the beginning of the game, before it all started, we all pulled a card,
24:35and we thought it was a fun magic trick.
24:37But actually, it was the first domino in a series of events that would lead us to fight
24:40each other, you, for me to cite Nuremberg in trying to make a camera person feel bad.
24:45What's six?
24:46What's six?
24:47Oh, it's clocks.
24:48Clocks.
24:49That would be thematically appropriate.
24:50So is one of them clock?
24:51This is one that's clock.
24:52The yellow.
24:53Okay, everyone, everyone put a hand on it.
24:54It's really nice knowing you.
24:55Put a hand on it.
24:56Siobhan?
24:57This is absolutely the right move.
24:58Here we go.
24:59Brandon, get a hand in there.
25:00Okay, guys, here we go.
25:01Three, two, one.
25:08Okay.
25:10Did it stop?
25:12Clock stops.
25:13Clock stopped at 115.
25:14Okay.
25:15You son of a bitch.
25:16You son of a bitch.
25:17Wow, players.
25:19You can go ahead and take your podiums.
25:23I'm sorry, we're not done?
25:24Yeah, now we're doing a fucking episode of Sam Says.
25:26Congratulations, players.
25:28You have escaped the green room.
25:33Your prize, three tickets to Stash House,
25:37the award-winning escape room created by Tommy Haunted,
25:40my creative partner for this particular episode,
25:43so you can keep the fun going.
25:46Oh, can we get to do it again?
25:47That does it for us here at Game Changer.
25:49I am your host, Sam Dalton Reich,
25:53reminding you that there's a little bit of evil
25:56in all of us.
25:58Good night.
26:03♪♪
26:13♪♪
26:23♪♪
26:31What that is, or how it originated,
26:33I just decided to call it Narrow Escape.
26:36♪♪
26:41There's an earlier version of this idea called Narrow Escape
26:44where I had the players each in a phone booth on the stage,
26:48and the notion was it was a three-way escape room
26:52where they couldn't see each other's booths,
26:54but had to communicate via the phones in their phone booths
26:58to navigate their way jointly out of those phone booths.
27:01I think it might be one of those moments
27:03where the notion occurred to me of
27:06I could essentially do a prank version of an escape room
27:09where they don't realize they're in an escape room
27:12until they try the door.
27:13It was immediately clear that we would not be able to do it
27:17without professional support.
27:18It was really fun meeting and talking
27:21to a professional puzzle maker.
27:23Early on, I had followed Game Changer.
27:25I thought the posting on TikTok or Instagram
27:28or the different clips were hilarious,
27:30so I knew what it was,
27:31and then one day someone messages me and says,
27:33hey, there's someone on Twitter
27:35looking for a local escape room designer.
27:38I blasted something out,
27:39and Tommy's name came up no less than, like, four times
27:43as being, like, the preeminent consultant in this category.
27:47A few hours later, sure enough, I get an email from Sam,
27:50and I love the idea, and so I immediately said yes.
27:53Originally, there was no story or lore,
27:55and that's part of what makes escape rooms a thing,
27:58is the theme, and so I was just trying to think of
28:01what could that be, and I'm like,
28:02I think it would make sense to tie into magic
28:04and do you have an evil relative, a twin brother,
28:07someone that can be the doppelganger
28:09that adds to the idea, and then he mentioned,
28:11well, as it turns out,
28:12some people do think I have an evil twin.
28:14It has a name.
28:15Tommy goes, oh, suddenly Satan,
28:17and I guess that's what it's called in escape rooms
28:20and things like that,
28:21where all of a sudden things are satanic.
28:23This whole notion of an evil doppelganger
28:25is inspired by, like, this very teeny tiny meme
28:30that started to occur on social media
28:33where people started to refer to an evil Sam
28:36wearing a top hat and a mustache.
28:40I still have no idea what that is
28:42or how it originated.
28:43I just decided I'm going to take it
28:45and make it my own.
28:48Yep, yep, there we go.
28:49Game time.
28:50I've been here the whole time.
28:52You motherfucker!
28:54It's really about threading the needle
28:55where the reveals and the puzzles feel clever,
28:57and the audience is going to get it
28:59because they're fans of the show,
29:00but then also in a meta level,
29:02the players are going to get it
29:03because they've been on the show before.
29:04Doing a one-time game in a space
29:06people are already familiar with
29:08was a really cool challenge.
29:09It was really about looking at the room
29:10and going, how can we treat this as a canvas?
29:12And what can we do to tweak it
29:14without destroying it?
29:15Having to change it so much
29:16with the budget that we had.
29:18A lot of people in my family are engineers.
29:20On this episode, I really was like,
29:22I'm using my engineer genes.
29:24I have put inlaid magnets
29:27in a perfect formation into these stencils
29:30and designed them in such a way
29:31that they can only go onto the frame one way.
29:34I was pretty proud of that one.
29:35It was really hard.
29:37So you've got to consider puzzles,
29:38first of all, that are fun to play
29:41with players in the room,
29:44but also that are visually appealing.
29:46So you have to make a game
29:47that works on two levels.
29:48What's visually interesting?
29:50What's going to look good on camera?
29:52What props and things do you put in the room
29:54that players are going to notice,
29:56but also the camera will notice?
29:58So this episode,
30:00like every episode of Game Changer,
30:01presents its own set of complications
30:03when it comes to secrecy.
30:05Obviously, we wanted to be able to
30:08truly rehearse the movements
30:11of where our talent and cast
30:14will be going and playing the game,
30:16but we obviously couldn't clue them
30:18into the game at all.
30:21So not once, but many times,
30:24we walked through this very space
30:27with Sam, with pretend players, stand-ins,
30:31with our art team, with our camera team,
30:34our directing team, all hands on deck,
30:37trying to play out the potential scenarios,
30:40asking ourselves,
30:41well, what if they go over here first?
30:43Or what happens if they pull this
30:45before it's time for them to pull this?
30:47I think we did the best we could
30:50laying out all the possible scenarios
30:52to make sure that,
30:53from a crew perspective,
30:55particularly our camera operators,
30:57were ready to jump
30:59when our cast didn't do something
31:02that was supposed to go a certain way.
31:04We were as prepared
31:05as we could possibly be,
31:07and then immediately,
31:09something majorly goes wrong,
31:11because as Siobhan, Lou, and Brendan
31:15are here in the green room
31:16just hanging out,
31:17Lou sees a remote control on the table,
31:21and he starts sticking around
31:22with the buttons and playing on the TV
31:24and pressing this and that
31:25and changing the input,
31:26mindlessly just being a goof.
31:28Behind the scenes, we were like,
31:30No!
31:31What is he doing?
31:32No, no, no, no, no!
31:33Because we needed that TV to work
31:36precisely right
31:37and be on the right channel
31:39so that Sam would be able
31:40to communicate with them.
31:41So we had to kind of stop in our tracks.
31:44We sent our AD up there,
31:46along with Matt, our tech whiz,
31:49and they were just kind of
31:50casually talking to the cast,
31:52being like,
31:53oh, yeah, we're almost ready
31:54for you downstairs,
31:55and let me just, oh, what's this?
31:56And they kind of stealthily
31:57changed the TV back
31:59to where it was supposed to be.
32:00There was a lot of risk,
32:01but I really admired that Sam
32:02wanted to take this
32:03and keep pushing Game Changer
32:04in a direction.
32:05It was really exciting
32:06to be part of it,
32:07and I was nervous
32:08and hopeful it would work,
32:09and I'm excited for people
32:10to see the result.
32:11There were several panic moments
32:12on set on that day.
32:14It was the time where they had said,
32:17I've been here the whole time.
32:19That's like the magic phrase.
32:20It's like my big moment
32:21to press the button on my phone.
32:23No one heard
32:24the very quiet little ding.
32:26Let me relock it,
32:27and it says lock jammed.
32:29Because you were celebrating,
32:30you might have missed
32:32something unlocking
32:33behind that wall.
32:34The door?
32:35Is the door open?
32:36Door's not open.
32:38What unlocked?
32:39Wait.
32:41Ah!
32:42Oh!
32:43Ultimately, it had worked,
32:45and they just needed to push
32:46because, you know,
32:47we had cocked it shut,
32:48so there was no crease.
32:49There's always one tiny thing
32:50that just kind of
32:51doesn't go right.
32:52That was an accident,
32:53but I also think
32:54they adapted well to it.
32:56Okay, all right.
32:57Siobhan, what do we think
32:58we need to do?
32:59That's a bird.
33:00Come take a look
33:01before we start making moves.
33:02Well, we got to get it
33:03onto the bird, I would imagine.
33:04And then what do we do
33:05once we're on the bird?
33:06Any clues in there?
33:07Anything we're looking at?
33:08Eventually, it was like
33:10the day before we were shooting
33:11that we had these
33:12remote-control cars,
33:13and we were trying to figure out
33:14which one worked best.
33:16Initially, the car had
33:18the logo of the dove on it,
33:21and that was what was supposed
33:23to be the correlation for them.
33:25Like, oh, dove logo
33:27leads to dove cabinet
33:30with the safe number
33:32and whatever.
33:33Sam came out,
33:34and he looked at it,
33:35and he said,
33:36that logo's really small.
33:37I doubt they'll be able
33:38to see it from upstairs.
33:40It'd be really nice
33:41if we just had
33:42a huge drawing of a dove
33:45right here in the parking lot
33:46to contain all of the cones.
33:48Give me some chalk.
33:50And I just had to draw
33:52that immediately.
33:54You have five minutes
33:55and three pieces of chalk,
33:57and they're all ground down
33:59to tiny stubs by the end.
34:01But if it's a better idea,
34:03it's a better idea,
34:04and you have to try to do it.
34:05There were a handful of challenges
34:09to this episode
34:10that were different
34:12from normal Game Changer episodes,
34:14which is saying something
34:15because every Game Changer episode
34:17is different.
34:18Sam suggested we start playing with,
34:21I think his suggestion was
34:23that we treat it like a
34:25Ocean's Eleven-style
34:28Steven Soderberg-y thing
34:30where we do split screens
34:32and whip pans and crash zooms
34:35and things like that
34:36in order to really highlight
34:38the important pieces of each puzzle
34:41as they're going through
34:43and solving it.
34:44Then the next challenge
34:45was giving the story
34:47of the escape room
34:49the weight that it needed narratively.
34:52Our contestants,
34:53Lou, Siobhan, and Brennan,
34:55were all very excited,
34:57and sometimes they sped through
35:00some of the expositional bits
35:03that are important
35:05to understand as a viewer.
35:07So Sam suggested
35:09that he re-record a voiceover
35:13in the British Samuel Dalton voice,
35:16and then we would turn that
35:18into a montage
35:19where we momentarily go
35:21into the mind of Samuel Dalton
35:23and live in the world
35:25of the escape room storyline.
35:29I know that we've set the precedent
35:31for what we can do on this show,
35:33and I'm excited to see
35:34what we can continue to do
35:36in seasons to come.