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00:00Originally what I pitched was just two iterations.
00:02It was called You vs. Future You.
00:05I think I said like two weeks later.
00:06And then Sam was like, let's do it a third time.
00:09I know I said I got to be better than myself tomorrow an hour ago,
00:13but I got to be better than myself an hour ago today.
00:15Something about the rhythm of that felt like it was going to really keep my players on their toes.
00:20These players were going to really give it their all each time,
00:24and thus it would be harder to outperform themselves on the second round,
00:27and especially on the third round.
00:28It's worth noting that your third attempt was better than Ify's first attempt.
00:34Hell yeah.
00:35How about that?
00:36Hell yeah.
00:37I'm athletic.
00:38Brennan was the first talent that sprung to mind.
00:40You think Ify because Ify is someone else who is not only competitive,
00:44but also just reads Olympian.
00:46And then Katie, to me, was the funniest choice.
00:52Katie just wouldn't do very well in round one.
00:56Unfortunately for Katie, going up against Katie is Katie, who, I really can't stress
01:01this enough, is the same person.
01:03There was a world in which Katie could actually beat Brennan and Ify for doing worse than round
01:10one and besting herself in every round.
01:12It didn't work out exactly that way, but I think some of that proved itself out.
01:16I was really surprised at just how often our players rose to the occasion and bested themselves.
01:23That's a testament to the folks that we cast for this episode and just how competitive they are.
01:30I feel like we discovered who the two most competitive people at Dropout are.
01:34It's you and me.
01:35A hundred percent.
01:36A hundred percent.
01:37The concept of besting yourself sort of began to fall apart when the metric was a little bit more subjective.
01:42Draw the coolest picture on an Etch-a-Sketch, probably too creative.
01:46How many lemons can you hold?
01:48Eat the least rice.
01:50Build a house of cards.
01:52Catch marshmallows being thrown by Paul Robolino in your mouth.
01:56Get all the items out of the Operation game while wearing drunk goggles.
02:00Perform Fergie's Fergalicious rap from memory.
02:04Haha, listen.
02:05I only poured one song this season.
02:07I gave Sam a hug and it felt like his suit is different.
02:10Is that a clue?
02:11When we reached out to the cast,
02:14we had to book them for two separate episodes without them knowing that it was the same episode.
02:19They came in and played a quick, easy round of classic game-changer.
02:23Sam came up with this idea that
02:26we would interrupt that first day of shooting with a car alarm that wouldn't stop.
02:30So we'd have to call Cut and say,
02:32sorry guys, we have to call it a day.
02:33Hey Art Department, that is yours.
02:35I was trying to brainstorm pretenses for why we were bringing them back.
02:41What if we tell them that there is some element of animation that's going to happen
02:45and we're actually going to be animating the things that they did on that first day?
02:48What if we tell them that there's going to be some sort of behavioral analyst or psychologist
02:52that's going to assess what they did on that day and they would have to face the consequences of this or that?
02:57I was trying to plant the seeds of doubt in their minds so they wouldn't come back knowing.
03:02It was just going to be a repeat of the games and I don't think that they caught on.
03:05We were shooting in a new studio space that was really well soundproofed
03:09so we couldn't actually have a car alarm going off outside
03:13because we couldn't hear it when we were inside the studio.
03:16I employed some of my editing skills to a car alarm sound effect to make it sound a little muffled.
03:22We know who started.
03:24This has been going on for a minute.
03:26Should we cut?
03:27I'm really happy to say it worked like a charm and everybody really bought it.
03:31I guess we'll see you later.
03:33See ya.
03:34Yes.
03:35What the heck?
03:36I think that footage exists of Brennan still trying to help me solve the car alarm problem.
03:42I don't know what the fuck is going on.
03:43Yeah, I cannot.
03:45I see you.
03:47Are you rolling?
03:48It was very funny to see Ify come back after the first day of shooting
03:54wearing almost the exact same outfit as what he was wearing the first day.
03:57What are you all wearing?
03:58Come on.
03:59Yeah, you are in a weird place.
04:00Oh, you're in a weird place today?
04:02Hell yeah.
04:03I can't sleep last night.
04:05I drove from Vegas.
04:07Damn.
04:08And to find out that he basically spent it partying in Las Vegas all weekend
04:13was just the icing on the cake in terms of like setting him up for potential failure.
04:20But he actually, I mean, he did great.
04:22That's Friday, Ify.
04:23We may be wearing some of the same clothes.
04:28But that Ify did not spend two days in Las Vegas walking around.
04:33And that Ify is not currently wearing Crocs like I am.
04:36I'm flying in at a massive disadvantage.
04:40Have you been in the same clothes since Friday?
04:42Would that be weird if that was true?
04:45Our wonderful graphic designer Madeline Lum had a really, really heavy lift this season.
04:49She designed those flags for us and she designed the Olympics logo for us.
04:54They were sort of the symbols that represent the nations of our players.
04:58For Brennan, we had the stripes of the shirt that he's known for wearing on D20
05:02and almonds, his snack.
05:04Katie had her dog, of course, and cocaine and eggs.
05:07If you think of Katie, those are the three things you think of.
05:10Ify's flag was his alien character from VIP
05:13and a peach because peaches are butts and that's cute.
05:17We love peach butts.
05:18And weights because he's a super buff and is a weightlifter.
05:22You are a representation of yourself
05:26and the nation that you're playing for in the games today.
05:30The nation of yourself.
05:31Get ready to eat my dust, Marilyn!
05:33Stop it!
05:34Get ready to eat my dust!
05:35We're having a beautiful moment, Brennan!
05:38The Olympics was crazy.
05:40And I would say probably one of the more challenging episodes for me.
05:44In that context that people really rely on me to say who did what?
05:49What was the score?
05:50What was the number?
05:51Who won this round?
05:52And that information people want very quickly.
05:54I was keeping track of things that I'd never in my life think I'd keep track of.
05:58How much Parmesan cheese can somebody eat?
06:00How long can you get a cat to sit on your lap?
06:03In that time, I'm sort of in the background like quickly with Paul.
06:07We're checking, is that a monster?
06:09Is that real?
06:10Did you just make that up?
06:11Did you say that already?
06:12Cabalache.
06:13Cabalache?
06:14Cabalache.
06:15Cabalache.
06:16Cabalache.
06:17Cabalache.
06:18Cabalache.
06:19Yeah.
06:20It's not a pasta shape I've had, but I've only been to Italy twice.
06:23Are you looking up?
06:25Cabalache, yeah.
06:26I'm sorry for doubting you, Iffy.
06:29That's really kind of what the game came down to, is those really kind of finer details.
06:33We're in touch for round three of the Ulymphic Games.
06:36Good game.
06:41When Sam approached me to find some performers for Ulymphics, I was already like very, very
06:47excited because you can kind of go anywhere with an opening ceremony and how dramatic
06:53you want it to be.
06:54The Crumpers did not know that they were going to be actually crumping to any sort of opera
07:00music, which made it a lot more fun for them as a dancer and a performer.
07:05They killed it.
07:06Good for your pride.
07:08Good for your help.
07:11Everybody try.
07:13Amber was fantastic.
07:15The versatility within her actual vocal range was something that I know that we wanted to
07:20highlight for this episode of Game Changer.
07:22We ended up getting Michael Raynor, who's one of the funniest, most dynamic jugglers on
07:27the internet for a tiny little cameo.
07:29He comes in juggling a tiny racket the first time we do it, and then the second time he comes
07:33out in the racket has grown ten times that size.
07:36Theatrically speaking, there's almost nothing I love more in comedy than something that like
07:40pops in and pops out.
07:43Okay, so...
07:45Okay, but...
07:46Me and Ash have a little routine where we did a couple spin moves.
07:51I think I did like an air basket, and then we're like, we need a big finale.
07:56And so I'm pretty sure I ended up in her arms.
07:58And me and Ash, if you know us, we were theater kids in high school.
08:02There's never gonna be a props job where they're like, oh, by the way, can you just be on camera
08:06for that?
08:07We love it.
08:08I do believe Katie can best her own personal best if she simply believes in herself.
08:12Thank you so much.
08:13Let's just hope she doesn't psych herself out before she starts the actual challenge.
08:16Let's pray she doesn't choke.
08:17It'd be very easy for her to choke.
08:18Stop it!
08:19We were brainstorming this.
08:20We were like, absolutely announcers.
08:22There were a few different versions of this.
08:24One where I was sort of playing the role of announcer the whole time.
08:28One where I was sharing that duty with a co-host.
08:31And the version that I ended up being most excited about was the one where we got two comedians
08:35to play announcer who would almost never look at the players directly, but only provide
08:41meta commentary as to what was happening on stage.
08:44Ify activating the uncle mode on his shoes.
08:48He is wearing, in fact, the worst possible shoes for this.
08:51Crocs famously go underwater.
08:53I'd like to remind Sam that Ify did actually need the Crocs as well.
08:57As I always say, don't trust a man wearing Pokemon gibbets.
09:00First of all, these are Jujutsu Kaisen gibbets.
09:05It seems that Brennan and Katie have done private training with Barilla in between last
09:10week and this week.
09:12It was fun to have that opportunity in this case to build the commentator desk that looks
09:16like it's in our vibe.
09:18We also were leaning on Demi and Jordan to kind of get us in and out of our flashbacks,
09:23but we realized pretty quickly that if we use these graphic treatments, we don't have
09:27to like have Jordan and Demi tee them up every time.
09:30Sometimes we can just jump right into it.
09:32Some of that stuff was scripted, but a lot of their reactions to Brennan, Katie, and Ify
09:38were just off the cuff.
09:39I know that you guys are saying what's written on the prompter and I don't hold it against
09:42you personally, but I will find out who's writing these mean things.
09:45Brennan's already mistaken, not off to a great start.
09:48Oh no!
09:49We're literally not reading what's on the prompter.
09:52That's from the heart?!
09:53What the fuck?!
09:54There is a prompter, but we're just speaking the truth.
09:56This is an actual...