- Those are all just assumptions.
- I didn't know she was a nerd! This isn't fair!
- As cliche as it sounds,
you literally can never judge a book by its cover.
♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
- (FBE) Would you say you're a judgemental person?
- I think all of us judge a little bit, you know?
(laughs) That's as much as I'll say.
- Everyone I've ever met in my life always goes
"wow, I thought you were such a bitch before I got to know you."
Like everyone always said that to me growing up,
so I know exactly what it feels like. (laughs)
- (FBE) Well today, we're gonna put your judgemental natures to the test.
- Mm-hmm. - (FBE) We've asked five strangers
to answer some personal questions. - Uh-huh.
- (FBE) Your goal in this challenge is to predict their answers
after seeing the person for just one second.
- Oh my God, I hate that! Are you kidding me?
- This kinda goes against everything I was raised not to do, though.
It's like oh, we're gonna tell you to judge a book by its cover. (laughs)
- (FBE) First I'll show you one second of footage of the stranger.
To help you out, this footage is actually in slow motion,
so you'll get two seconds to look at it.
- Okay.
- (FBE) Then I will ask you three questions.
For every question you answer correctly, you'll gain a point.
For any question you answer incorrectly, you will lose a point.
(Mikaela gasps) And you can also choose
to skip a question for no points gained or lost.
- I'll just stay at zero the whole game.
I'll probably come in like second. (laughs)
- (FBE) First up is Lucas.
- Lucas, like the kid reactor?
- (FBE) No. - Oh.
I like 'em. I think we're gonna be friends.
- You know, he started to pose, cool.
- (FBE) Alright, so first question. Yes or no answers.
Does Lucas enjoy camping?
- Yes. - Let's say no.
- No, he doesn't enjoy camping. - (laughs) I wanna say yes.
I saw him and I thought "lumberjack".
- Looking at him, I wanna say yes.
So I'll go yeah.
- He's wearing a denim jacket, he's got a rugged beard.
You would think so, but I think you're gonna start off
with something that's gonna throw me off,
so I'm gonna say no.
- (FBE) Question number two.
Does Lucas know how to dance?
- Yeah. - Yes.
- No. - Let's say yes.
- Sure! I think he's a dancer.
- Yeah, I feel like he would line dance or something.
- (FBE) Question three, does Lucas listen to Kelly Clarkson?
- Let's say yes. - No.
- Yeah. - No.
- I'll go with yes. (laughs)
- Yeah, he might surprise me. He might be a secret Kelly fan.
- (Lucas) I kinda don't, 'cause I was an Eagle Scout
when I was younger, or I am an Eagle Scout.
- So he did, technically. - (Lucas) And two Jamborees.
So I can do it, but it's not something I'm gearing up for.
- Okay, so he can do it, just doesn't like to do it.
- Yeah! See I knew it, Lucas!
Me and you, baby!
And then I'm getting everything else wrong.
- He just looks like, I don't know,
he looks like the type, like the way that he's dressed,
and his beard, he looks like he smells like firewood.
- (Lucas) Ooh, I love to dance. Tap dancing, actually.
- Got that one too.
- (Lucas) One of the things that I like to keep up with,
'cause it's fun, and I like to do it.
- Ah, love that!
- Me and Lucas, I told you! We're gonna be best friends!
- I don't know why I was not expecting that.
He just doesn't look like the type.
- (Lucas) How do I feel about Kelly Clarkson? (laughs)
I feel very strongly about Kelly Clarkson.
- Damn!
- (Lucas) She's the best vocalist of our generation,
what she doesn't with her talent... - I'm highly impressed.
- (Lucas) And she's also from Texas, and I'm from Texas.
- I love this! - (Lucas) All for her.
- Okay, okay, I'll take it. (laughs)
- Those were all just guesses, dude.
Those were all just assumptions. I got 'em all.
- Okay, I was wrong about that also,
but I love that he's a Kelly Clarkson stan.
- I think it's a place where I could start a friendship.
I feel like I already know him, but I don't know him enough, you know?
- (FBE) So next, we've got Karen. - Karen.
- Karen. Okay, Karen.
- Alright, what about Karen?
- (FBE) Has Karen ever been in a physical fight?
- No. - Yes.
- Let's say yes.
- Yeah, she has. - I'm gonna go with no.
- I feel like she could get scrappy. I don't know,
but I'm gonna say no.
- (FBE) Does Karen play video games?
- Oh, no, I don't think she does.
- Let's also say yes. - Yes.
- Yeah. - No.
- I'm gonna go with yes.
- (FBE) Does Karen have tattoos? - Let's say no?
- Yes. - Yeah.
- I feel like Karen might have a tattoo
she got when she was younger.
- Yeah, she has tattoos.
- I don't think she has tattoos.
I don't think they were as big back in the day.
It's so hard, 'cause you're grasping at straws,
and you're trying to use context clues,
and stereotyping really, it's pretty [bleep] up.
- (Karen) I have been in a physical fight.
- She's scrappy, I knew it.
- (Karen) And it was not fun. (laughs)
- Usually they're not. - (Karen) I don't recommend it.
- She looks so sweet. I wasn't expecting that.
- Oh never mind, I thought she'd be into it.
- (Karen) I do play video games. - Another one.
- (Karen) RPG games like Baldur's Gate.
- Wow!
- (Karen) Dragon Age, Skyrim. - Skyrim!
- (Karen) Assassin's Creed,
I really actually would like to pick up that one.
- Hell yeah, I didn't know she was a nerd, this isn't fair!
I needed to hear her talk a little bit, ugh!
- That's a very obscure one, I wouldn't have guessed at all.
- I'm not entirely surprised.
There's something about her that seems really fun to me.
- (Karen) I do have tattoos.
- See, didn't know that one. - (Karen) I have 10 tattoos.
- There we go.
- (Karen) You can see that I have... - Yep, I, this is the exact vibe
I was picking up off of her.
- Oh, she's sleeved up.
- The thing is, if I knew she played video games,
I could guess that she had tattoos.
- Almost when she took off the jacket,
she became like housewife Karen to like cool Karen, you know?
- (FBE) Third, we have Tony. - Tony.
- That shirt, we love it, so he has style.
- He looked like a little player.
Like the way he did like the little collar pop.
It was like mmm, okay, Tony.
- I like the pose you chose for Tony. Hey, I'm Tony, eh?
- (FBE) Question number one. Does Tony enjoy sports?
- No. - Let's say, let's say yeah.
- No, I don't think he does.
- I think Tony's a sports guy.
- Yes.
- I'm gonna go with no.
I feel like he was too into his outfit.
- (FBE) Is Tony a father? - Yes.
- Yeah, he has kids.
- I feel like he might be a dad.
- Let's say no?
- I'm gonna say no as well.
- I can picture him having a kid. (laughs)
- (FBE) And does Tony make more than $150,000 per year?
- God, that's hard. I'll go with yeah.
- Yes.
- [Bleep] yeah. Did you see that bracelet? (laughs)
- You know what, yeah. I'm gonna say yeah, he makes bands.
- I'll go with yeah. He was well dressed.
- Let's skip that one.
I don't wanna make assumptions about money.
- (Tony) I am not a die hard fan of any sport.
- Oh. - (Tony) I do not watch sports.
I do not get sports, I do not understand,
although I do watch the concerts during the Super Bowl.
Those are my favorites. - Me too!
(laughs) We're the same.
- I think that's the only reason we watch the Super Bowl at my place
is to watch the commercials.
- So I got one.
I feel like the more I got to see him now,
the more I'm like, I feel confident in my other answers.
- (Tony) I am not a parent, but I hope to be one one day.
I love kids, so I hope to be a dad,
not a daddy, 'cause that's different.
- (laughs) Okay, got that one.
- I totally thought he had one kid.
- I feel like he'd be a really good parent,
so if you're watching this, go have a baby. (laughs)
It's that simple.
- (Tony) I do not know anyone that's making 150,000 dollars a year.
I would be lucky if I make 30,000 in a year.
You know, she's on the struggle bus, but she's not broke.
(Mikaela laughs)
- He didn't have anything that would make me think
that he's trying to maybe compensate for the lack of wealth
or whatever, that he thinks he wants to show he has money.
- It's weird, because my brain is trying to make
all these weird connections.
It's like okay, he's wearing a nice looking bracelet,
so it must mean he makes a lot of money,
but that's not the case.
He just has great style.
- This is kinda like interesting.
It's really cool, 'cause then you get to see, and you get to
learn about a complete stranger, which, I don't know, I like that.
There's something interesting about that.
- (FBE) Next up, we've got Kait. - Alright, Kait!
- Nice smile, Kait.
Okay, she seems sweet.
- Okay, Kait, got it.
- (FBE) Alright, question number one. - Yes.
- (FBE) Can Kait name the Gen-1 starter Pokemon?
- Whoa, cool. Let's say yes,
'cause I think most people can.
- Yeah, who can't?
- No. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, she can, she can.
- I feel like she totally could.
- She looks like she was probably like around my sister's age,
and I know my sister can.
I'm gonna go with yeah.
- (FBE) Has Kait ever run a 5K? - Yeah.
- Yes. - Let's say yes.
- I'm gonna go with no.
- No, I'll go with no, I don't know.
- Yeah, I think when she was younger. She was a kid.
Kid Kait ran a 5K.
- (FBE) Is Kait more liberal or more conservative?
- (sighs) Looking at her, I feel like she's liberal,
but I feel like that's gonna surprise me,
so I'll go conservative. - More liberal.
- Conservative. - I'm gonna refrain from that one.
- I'm gonna go with more liberal.
- We're in California, it's pretty hard to find a conservative.
She's gonna be a conservative, watch.
- (Kait) I have no idea what the Gen-1 starter Pokemon is.
- The [bleep] Kait? (laughs)
- I totally was like, she's like one of those cool girls
who's like yeah, I know like Pokemon. (laughs)
- By the way, it's Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur.
- (Kait) I have never run a 5K, I hate running.
- Aww. - (Kait) It's the worst.
- Okay, she looks like she could be athletic.
- Damn it! (laughs)
- Got one still, that's good.
- (Kait) I'd say I'm on the more conservative side.
- Oh, never mind!
- When I see a person of color, I tend to automatically assume
that they lean more liberal.
- I think I'm more on the conservative side
than the liberal side, so maybe it's that side of me
that's like "everyone's a liberal!"
- You don't know Pokemon, and you're a conservative,
and you're living in southern California?
That's an anomaly. Where'd you find these people?
- (FBE) Last up is Enny. - Enny?
- (FBE) E-N-N-Y, Enny. - Enny.
- E-N-N-Y. That's such a cool name.
Whoa, your hair's amazing.
I also love that shirt too, dang. Style points!
- She has a little gold glitter under her wing.
I love it, okay. (laughs)
- She looks so shy. (laughs)
- I love how everyone just has cool poses, you know?
- (FBE) So would you say Enny is more introverted or extroverted?
- Introverted.
- I'm gonna go with introverted. (laughs) Just right off the bat.
- Let's say introverted? - Introverted.
- Even though she has a very like popping style,
I feel like she might be kinda quiet.
- My girlfriend likes to color her hair, and she's very introverted.
So I think I'm going to say introverted as well,
just based on that stupid connection.
- (FBE) Does Enny speak another language?
- Let's say yes.
- Yeah, I feel like she speaks like French or something.
- Yes, French.
- Yeah. - Yes.
- I'm gonna go with yes.
'Cause I feel like it's really common now
to speak another language.
- (FBE) Was Enny popular in school?
- No. - No.
- Let's say yes.
- No.
- I'm gonna go with she wasn't popular in school.
- If she was an introvert,
I think it's pretty hard to get popular.
So I'm basing it on that, and I'm gonna say no.
- (Enny) I'm a super introvert.
- And she has an accent.
- (FBE) I think people do expect that I'm an introvert,
'cause they can see how shy and awkward I am
when they meet me.
- Okay, got that one.
- One right now, we're good, we're good.
- My sister, she's very introverted, but her fashion is extroverted.
- I feel like I know a lot of introverts
who have very like popping styles,
and that's kinda like they're like "yeah,
I like dressing like this, but I don't want to talk to you."
- I can speak a little bit of my mom's language, Yoruba,
and I speak a little bit of French.
- What'd I say, French! (laughs)
- Told you!
- I speak a little bit of my mom's native African language as well,
so I think, I just like connected with,
I don't know, she reminds me of me, I think that's why
I answered all of these the way that I did.
- Go, hey, we got two! One more, let's go, three!
- (Enny) No, I was not popular at all.
- Three for three. - It's okay, I wasn't either. (laughs)
- See I only guessed that for like, 'cause I knew she was an introvert.
- Yeah, she's literally me, so that's why I answered
the way that I did. (laughs)
- (FBE) So there were a total of 15 possible points in this episode.
And a low score possible of negative 15.
- Oh damn. - (FBE) Your final score is seven.
- Wow, okay, was that good or bad? - (FBE) Very good.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- You know, I feel like that's a good in between.
That's in between would be zero, and that's a little more.
I feel like that's a solid C, so I feel like I passed.
- I feel like I did better than I thought I was gonna do,
but it's definitely hard just to read people
off of one second.
- As cliche as it sounds,
You literally can never judge a book by its cover.
This was a good learning lesson.
- (FBE) How did this challenge make you feel,
knowing that you had to judge people?
- Um, I feel like we do it every day.
Good or bad, like you start judging someone.
- I think it's totally natural for everyone to have
a judgment at first, but I know for myself
that I'm totally like, I wait, to make a final decision.
- You realize that there's not much you can base these assumptions on.
Your appearance has almost no relation
to the things you may or may not know.
- It felt like I guessed half of them spot on,
and half of them completely off.
You're just never gonna know
unless you go up and talk to the person.
- (FBE) And the last thing,
what do you want to say to our audience
who might find themselves judging people?
- I think it's normal,
but you need to make sure you keep it inside.
If you come at people negatively, they're not gonna like you,
and you'll have negative experiences with them. (laughs)
- You should really get to know somebody
and see what they're all about before making assumptions about who they are.
- Just know that everyone's going through different things.
You have no idea what that person or that person,
or I am going through.
- The only way to get to know someone is go talk to 'em,
so shut the computer, go talk to someone. (laughs)
Go make a friend today.
- Thanks for watching Judge In One Second
on the REACT Channel.
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- Bye!
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