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- [Narrator] Do you remember your transition
from elementary to middle school?
Do you instantly think of the burden of homework,
less play time?
And of course the stress of being liked by others?
As you watch this episode of "Odd Man Out"
and try to spot the fifth grader,
I hope it reminds you of what it was like
to be a middle schooler.
- [Narrator] We brought together seven middle schoolers.
- I am a middle schooler.
- I'm a middle schooler.
- I am a middle schooler.
- I'm a middle schooler.
- [Narrator] One is a fifth grader.
If the group discovers who the liar is
they'll split a cash prize.
If the liar survives,
they win the entire prize.
Who is the Odd Man Out?
- Okay, the hardest test I've ever taken was the SBAC test.
The SBAC test is basically a two hour long test.
That is really hard.
And I absolutely hated.
- For me, it was social studies,
cause there are a bunch of people
and they also like sound the same.
- Hamilton, he made a bank,
George Washington, he killed some people.
Thomas Jefferson, he also killed some people,
- From the beginning,
I was probably most suspicious about Tye.
And so I just like kept my eye on him.
- Mine was a history test.
I hate history.
If there was, could be no history in this world
I'd be happy for the rest of my life.
- Yeah, all their names (indistinct)
- Luke you're quite non talkative.
- So, my hardest test was,
so I'm in sixth grade
but I take seventh grade math now,
you know like sixth, seventh accelerated?
- Oh yeah, I'm in that too.
- Yeah, I did that.
- So, do I just start talking?
I was absolutely gunning for Luke.
There was something in him.
He was quiet.
I feel like middle schoolers are complete extroverts.
They love talking.
Mole.
- And it's like, when you're at school,
you learn like there's not much going on.
But when you miss a day, there's so much you miss.
- I'm usually a healthy child and I'm not really sick
but whenever I'm sick, there's always a substitute.
- I hate my substitute because she will let
every other kid do anything by their self.
Like you could go to the office,
you could go downstairs,
you go to the recess to get something
that you accidentally left.
- Wait, you have recess?
- My sub's only nice to me because she's my neighbor.
- No I'm talking about in elementary.
- She said something about recess.
I was like, we don't have recess.
- My sixth grade is in elementary school.
So we still do have recess.
So, I thought it was kind of the same for her.
You've been a bit quiet.
- I was because you're all talking over me.
(cross talk)
It was, it was really hard to talk
because I had Tye to my left,
he couldn't stop talking.
Okay, and so math right now,
we're learning about the slope.
So, it's basically two dots on a graph
and you have to find the difference between those dots.
- He's not the mole.
Your turn.
(laughing)
- He's just like,
your turn.
- I wanted to be kind of the leader
and I wanted people to see me like
this kid's not the mole.
He's way too aggressive to be the mole
because mole people would obviously be quiet.
But middle school,
- I guess it's red.
- I'm guessing red.
- Wait, no, it's not red yet.
Middle school is the black hole of,
- It's red.
- Wait, no, this is kinda Burgundy.
- It's not it's red.
- This is burgundy.
- Okay, this is definitely red now.
- It's red.
- Yeah.
- I voted for Ahti because I mean
I kind of could tell that people were gonna come for me.
So I had to go for someone
I thought everyone was gonna vote for, to save myself.
- I've been studying middle schoolers ever since they said,
Tye, you wanna be on "Odd Man Out"?
I was like, sure.
I started analyzing everything a middle schooler does
and everything a middle schooler wouldn't do.
- [Narrator] All right.
There's a tie between two people.
The tie is between Luke and Ahti.
- Okay, so I have seven periods 'cause in our middle school
we have that and do y'all have study halls 'cause we do.
And in seventh, in seventh grade math right now
we did rate of change.
And that was, I didn't really, that was the one where
I missed the day before.
And I'm a sixth grader because my play
and in PE in elementary, I didn't do dodge ball,
and this year we do dodge ball.
And,
- [Narrator] And your time is up.
- Okay, so I'm a seventh grader.
I have sixth periods.
My elective is leadership and I didn't be able to
say this before, but my least favorite test are
geography tests 'cause there's so many places.
And it's like, especially when we have to
mark certain states.
It's just really annoying trying to remember all of it.
And then for,
we have to run the mile every week.
And what else do we have?
Oh we are right now learning about the Byzantine Empire.
- [Narrator] And your time is up.
- I thought he was smaller and he was kind of quiet.
(buzzer sounds)
- I guess it's 'cause a lot of people say I look young.
It could be 'cause of my height or 'cause of my voice.
But yeah.
- Okay, who uses TikTok?
- Huh? I do.
- I don't.
- Oh I do.
- That's something mole would say.
Luke, are you the mole?
- I use TikTok 'cause the girls always take my phone
and make TikToks on them.
It's so annoying.
- When you guys went to middle school, like your first day,
what were you most worried about?
- Will I hate my sixth period, my sixth grade teacher?
And I did not, I actually like her.
- Like Tye, I think I can really trust him
because he like, he talks a lot like me.
- I was nervous that we were gonna get a bunch of homework.
- I was worried about my teachers because like as soon
as you walk in, they're gonna be eyeballing you like,
I don't know who you is, explain.
- I was scared of like people not liking me.
Cause in fifth grade, a lot of people did not like me.
- [Sarah] Same, relatable.
- The toughest thing about being in middle school is
the people that you go to school with
'cause kids are sometimes really mean
and they're judgemental but yeah, mostly.
'Cause like they said, I was annoying,
- Oh, same here.
- I don't think you're annoying.
I actually think you're kind of cool.
- Yeah, I like you so far.
- When I got into middle school.
So like my brother and my sister,
they all went through the same middle school as me
and I had some teachers they had
and they were pretty bad kids.
So when I came in I was like, oh gosh,
she sees my last name,
she goes "Starkweather",
and then she just gives me like dead eye.
Like I'm watching you.
- Well Sarah and Luke, they were right next to me,
so I was able to talk to them.
I thought they were being really, really honest.
And I didn't think there was anything suspicious.
- Dude, I remember walking into middle school
and seeing like the eighth graders that had mustaches.
And I was like, I ain't in Kansas anymore.
- I have to like look up
'cause I'm one of the shortest ones.
So they're like right here
and they're like giving me a high five.
They're like up high and I'm like, I can't reach it.
- Hey year, were you guys born in?
- I was born in 2007.
- I was born in 2008, I'm one of the younger ones.
- I was born in 2008, but I'm super smart.
I'm not like, I'm not like one of the short kids.
I'm like the one that goes like, excuse me, is you there?
(all laughing)
- I feel like you're a grown woman
put into a little girl's body.
(all laughing)
- It's the way her sass was.
She was like,
and her emotions and what she did, kind of showed me,
it was like, she is very sassy and I, and to be honest
I kind of enjoyed that.
Okay. So we gotta do this quickly.
- In my opinion you're the mole.
- Where do you guys eat lunch?
Like at lunch time?
- We eat outside 'cause there's these little lunch tables.
(crosstalk)
- Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, it's getting dark.
(crosstalk continues)
Great time for chopping block part two.
- I voted for Tye because he was a bit too outgoing
and I thought something was suspicious.
Yeah, he was really, really loud.
- I voted Tye out because I kind of thought he was the mole
and whenever he dropped his card, it said my name.
- Cause I saw at like the end of her,
like she was writing an H at the end
and I was like, oh, so we come from me now.
(buzzer sounds)
- Oh my goodness.
- Do I get to like say why I'm,
- I was like, what?
And I was like, I'm determined to find
whoever voted Tye out.
- I realize I'm talking a lot, and I'm shooting out people,
people are gonna think I'm a mole.
I realize that a little too late.
So that was kind of bad.
- [Narrator] Raise your hand, if you think the mole is still
in the box and you would like to continue the game.
- What is a myth that you've heard about middle school,
that wasn't actually true?
Like, what your teachers tried to scare you about.
- There's one myth that I don't,
it didn't come from my teacher,
it came from a lot of seventh graders for some reason,
and they're like, oh,
people get in trouble for kissing in the halls.
I'm like, geez.
(crosstalk)
- You fixin''' to get detention.
Detention.
- Oh, it's a myth,
like you get lots of detention for little things
but it's not true.
- The seventh graders told me, like,
you can use your phone in class.
So I came in class with my phone
and then a teacher's like, detention.
- Whoa, what?
- We used to be able to go to Disneyland,
but they said they set one of the characters on fire,
so now we have to go to Knott's Berry Farm, not Disneyland.
- What is the hardest homework that you guys have ever done?
- Math, anything math.
I hate math so much.
- I remember we had a project due on Friday
and my friend, she forgot the whole thing at home,
I was so mad I didn't talk to her for a week.
- Wait, how classes do you have?
- It's already time.
I have six
(bell rings)
(buzzer sounds)
- Oh my!
- [Narrator] Raise your hand if you think
that the mole is still in the box
and you would like to continue the game.
If the lights turn red,
then the mole is still in the box and you lose.
If the lights turn green,
that means that you voted the mole out.
(suspenseful music)
- Dang it.
- Who's the mole?
- Oh my gosh.
I messed up and I was like, I should have raised my hand.
- [Narrator] Now, can the fifth grader please step forward?
(crosstalk)
- I got everyone fooled.
- What I learned the most is to not trust anyone.
Everyone is my enemy.
- Never to trust anybody, never.
- You can't trust nobody.
You can't trust anybody.
I'm gonna start watching my friends a little closer
and especially watch my teachers even closer.
I can't believe that I trusted the mole.
I always try to look at the best of people
and then they back stab you.
Technically she didn't, you know vote for me,
but still back stabs, a back stab.
(poppers pop)
- Oh, congratulations!
- [Narrator] What was the best part
about being in the show today?
- The best part was being able to meet new people.
- I made friends with Luke, well actually all of them.
Especially Sarah, we might actually go to the mall later.
It might be fun.
- The best part was definitely meeting the people
because you know, you get stuck in the box
with some people you don't know might as well
make some friends.
And that's exactly what happened.
- Tye was like really cool.
I think like, as soon as this is over,
we can get each other's numbers.
Like he seems like a pretty cool dude.
- [Narrator] Would you give her your number?
- Yes, I will.
I hope that we could one day, hang out together.
Maybe go do laser tag.
Cause that's something us middle schoolers do.
- Enjoy your money!
- It smells!
(crosstalk)
(all laughing)
(cheering)
- Give me my money Tye!
- Thank you for watching.
Don't forget to follow @tyehale07.
- [Narrator] Can you ask them to follow Jubilee Media also?
- Don't forget to follow Jubilee media.
This was an amazing experience.
I would love to do this again, any day, any time.
Don't forget to follow them,
they're some really cool people.
- When white people call their parents
by their first name.
- First name, I was just gonna ask that.
- Like how can you do that?
- I'm Asian.
- I am Asian.
- I'm Asian.
- I'm Mexican.
- Can they find the mole?
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