- Hey guys, I'm Kendra. - I'm Bonnie.
- Stick around for after the episode
because we're gonna talk about some
behind the scenes of "Odd Man Out".
- See you then.
- Continue after me.
♪ Oh say can you ♪ ♪ You see ♪
No, stop stop.
♪ By the dawn turn light ♪
Oh!
- By the dawn's early light!
(catchy music)
- [Narrator] We brought together seven US citizens.
- I am a US citizen.
- I am a citizen.
- I'm a US citizen.
- [Narrator] One is a liar.
If the group discovers who the liar is,
they'll split a cash prize.
(catchy music continues)
If the liar survives, he or she wins the entire prize.
- All right, guys, work as a team.
We have to do this together.
- Let's do this real quickly. - Introduce each other.
- Where were you born?
- Does it matter? - Yes, where were you born?
- California, San Diego. - Where were you born?
- San Diego.
- Vancouver, Canada. Dual citizen, US and Canada.
- NorCal.
- Orange County. - Orange County
and, "Does it matter." - What about you?
You said, "Does it matter"? - What about you?
What about you?
- Once the timer started, everyone was just like yelling.
- He's definitely overcompensating
by starting off the questioning.
- Wait, why are you trying to say
(cross talk drowns out speakers)
- No, we need to have your citizen.
We've got 27 seconds left.
- How long have you been in the US?
- What do you think?
- What? (laughs)
- I thought the first speed round was awesome.
It was really cool.
I think I kept my composure and stayed mysterious.
People often look at me as an international man of mystery.
- You can't tell us where you're from?
He looked right into my eyes and said-
- I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you.
- Okay, I'm voting you off.
- He was kind of shady, but then he made it too obvious.
Would they really say that and make themselves stand out?
I think he's good.
Him, he has way too much voice.
- Wait, I'm so confused.
- You're well too well spoken
for an American. (bell rings)
(steady music)
- I thought voting him out,
we could just continue the game.
- He's just too collected.
He's just too well put together.
- I thought he was trying to get himself voted out.
(buzzer blares)
- I felt pretty sad getting voted off in the first run,
but at the same time,
I left the stage leaving an unforgettable impression
on these people.
- [Staff Member] If everyone feels confident
that you already caught the mole,
you can end the game now.
Raise your hand if you have any doubt
and you would like to continue the game.
- Okay, continue after me.
♪ Oh say can you ♪ ♪ You see ♪
No, stop, stop.
♪ By the dawn turn light ♪
Oh!
- By the dawn's early light!
I got really nervous, especially because I'm not a singer.
Like I can't sing for the life of me.
- It's, you know, part of our culture.
You don't have to be able to hit the high notes.
So if she were naturalized as a citizen,
she would know certain things like this.
- I wasn't naturalized, I was born here.
- I became naturalized
and like I did not have to sing the anthem.
It would've been better if we could have just
like approached things a little bit more calmly
and like not like, "Sing for me!" (laughs)
- I was born in America.
- Okay. - I was born in Chula Vista,
which is like San Diego. - Nice, yeah.
Hold on, hold on.
Before we can make any more assumptions,
I think we should get to know each other first
- That's right. - rather than going to-
- We ain't got time for that, bro.
San Jose, El Camino Hospital. - All right.
- Have you lived in NorCal all your life?
- No, my parents got divorced.
- Okay, so you go back and forth?
- So you went to different places?
- Jersey, Korea, yeah.
- Where in Jersey? - Oh wait, you went to Korea?
Morris County, yeah.
I can answer everything but we're wasting time here.
- Because he was never reading questions
about him living abroad,
I think he brushed over it a little too quickly.
And you, Mikayla, sorry, your story.
- Yeah, so I was born in Vancouver, Canada,
and then I moved to the states when I was 10.
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- She's in the clear so-
- Wait a minute, how do you know she's in the clear?
- Are one of your parents Canadian
one of them is American,
so that's how you have your dual citizen?
I got my green card because my dad got a work visa.
- Okay. - And then when were you
naturalized as a citizen?
- I got naturalized October 12th last year.
So 2018. - Yay.
- Yay, America. Okay, so tell me about-
(participants laugh)
- The pleasantries are for later,
not while you're trying to win money, you know.
- Have any of you guys traveled outside of the country?
- We all did. - Yes, obviously.
- But where like?
- I've been to the Philippines.
- Philippines, okay.
I've been to London, Canada, Mexico, and Syria.
- Nice. - Syria?
Why Syria? - Yeah, I'm Syrian.
- Oh, really? - Yes.
- So how did you get your citizenship?
- I was born here in Orange County.
I visited Syria when I was like very young.
I used to because my grandparents used
to live there but- - Four minutes, 30 seconds.
We have to narrow it down. - Okay.
- These two are my biggest suspects right now.
You do have Spanish blood in you.
I can see it. - Yeah,
I do have Spanish blood, but I'm not from Spain.
- See? - Where are you from?
- I'm from Hoboken, New Jersey.
But I was born in and like I said earlier,
I was born in Havana.
He was pointing everywhere but himself.
He became too pushy.
- Gotta eliminate candidates, right?
And I see you as naturalized. - Yeah.
- I see you as maybe born here.
I don't know about you 100%, - Born.
- but after him, yeah, you're sus.
- And then. - "You're sus"?
Oh, we're about to lose.
- I think you're not gonna be a good liar.
(steady music)
- I just wanted like a peaceful environment
that I could hear what people had to say.
(buzzer blares)
- It was in the best interest of the other citizens
to keep me around because I was really here
to play the puzzle, the interesting part.
- What does it mean to everyone to be American?
- Literally just gonna ask that!
- Oh, yeah!
- Freedom to say whatever the heck you want.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- I think it's all about being who you are,
being what you want to be 'cause in other countries,
you can't be transgender.
In other countries, you can't even be gay.
It's the country of just free expression.
- Yeah.
- I don't know, I see it as such a privilege
to be able to like immigrate here when I'm from Canada,
which is like, okay, like I'm not a refugee, I'm not.
Sometimes I feel a little guilty
of being American because like I-
- Don't feel guilty. - But it's like it's such a-
- If you came in the right way,
don't feel guilty. - Yeah.
All of my family's Mexican,
and me having the ability to study here, to have a job here,
it makes such a big difference.
I was definitely holding back information.
Like I didn't tell anyone that I live in Mexico
because I was scared people would turn on me.
Like you said, it's a big source of guilt
because I look at my cousins back in Mexico
and they don't have the opportunities that I have.
I just got lucky because I got to be born here.
- I can kind of feel the same way.
My mom actually grew up in the Philippines.
Her whole life lived in a very poor family
and so she got to move here
because of the freedom and opportunity.
And so she met my dad and I was able to be born here,
and I think that's just so great
that she has given me a life of privilege
where she could not.
What's the worst thing about America to you?
- White supremacy, I would say that's the worst.
- Had she not answered the question the way she did,
I was not gonna vote her out.
That's too much of a non-US citizen coming
across the border.
- There is hate, there's negativity,
and obviously we can't all have empathy
and be positive about everything in the world,
but I wish we all were empathetic
of everyone and everything.
- The worst thing about America right now is
that we have an open border in the south
and we're allowing everybody to come in
and we don't know who's coming in,
and that's gonna ruin your futures.
Not mine, but yours.
- But most of 'em are refugees.
- And most of 'em are not refugees.
I'm a refugee.
- Okay. - I came over as a refugee.
- There are refugees who do deeply need help,
but he didn't take the side of the unfortunate,
and I felt kind of sad to hear that.
- Refugees don't have cell phones, don't have nice clothes,
and don't come over to the United States
so they can have an anchor baby.
You know, you guys are millennials.
You don't agree with me and that's fine.
(participants laugh) The best part about America,
we're very inclusive.
- It's not the first person to tell me
that Mexican people should stop coming into the US
or that Mexican people are a threat to American freedom.
People in America think that
and I've become used to it by now.
- [John] It's the truth, especially here in California.
(bell rings)
When I talk to people that are
of Mexican or Central American, I said, "You know,
it's funny when you're in your country, you're white.
You cross that border,
and now all of a sudden, you're Hispanic."
I believe that she was the mole because of just that.
(steady music)
- I honestly voted John out for strategy reasons.
- I felt so bad because I believed her,
but I didn't know who to vote out
and I also thought I was on the chopping block.
- At that point,
I really felt as if everyone was a US citizen.
So Carolina was my only choice.
(buzzer blares)
- [Staff Member] Raise your hand if you would like
to continue the game.
- I swear if... (claps)
- It's just, "I swear." (laughs)
- If it's you, if it's you, - No, it's not- (laughs)
- I'll see you outside.
(participants laugh)
I'll see you outside. - All right,
if the lights turn green,
you have voted the mole out and you all win the game.
If the lights turn red,
the mole is still in the square and you have lost.
- Okay, it's gotta turn green. - Yeah, yeah, no.
- See, see? You?
- See, I wonder why, I wonder. - No!
- You're excellent. - I'm really sorry.
- Yo, I'm gonna see outside.
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry. - Yeah, I knew it.
- I'm sorry. - I knew it was you.
He knew the correct things to say.
- Before we went up,
he was like being so nice and like,
"Oh, we're in this together, like we're gonna get the mole."
- I'm sorry. - I trusted you.
- I know. (participants laugh)
- As soon as I met them,
I know that I had to manipulate them.
I knew I had to lie to them and I felt bad, I felt so bad.
Sorry, guys.
So I am a Filipino citizen.
I moved to America three years ago only for college.
So I'm here on a student visa.
I really wanna be a US citizen.
So I'm hoping for that one day for it to be the real deal.
Woohoo!
(participants clapping)
- [Mikayla] I can't believe it.
- You guys want some? - Oh, I can believe it, I can.
- The nature of this game, to unfairly judge people.
Being a US citizen can look differently,
it can sound different.
- Everybody can be American,
whether like your skin tone is lighter, darker.
It's not related to your culture,
it's not related to your language.
- We all have different opinions,
we all have different mindsets.
Not everyone's gonna think like you or act like you.
We just have to be empathetic,
understanding of why they're like this and just accept it.
- I think I made an impact and I don't think any
of those people will ever forget about me.
- Guys, this is Bonnie.
She directed the past couple episodes of "Odd Man Out",
which you watched and I hope you loved.
Can you tell me
like what was the most profound thing that you learned?
- Directing the series is like kind of wild
because you're constantly reevaluating
like your own biases through this process.
Like even just in coming up with the episodes themselves,
you kind of have to start thinking about like,
"Oh, why is this an episode I've thought of?"
- And that's what Jubilee is about.
We're all about breaking down stereotypes.
If you're interested in being in an "Odd Man Out" episode,
our casting link is in the description below.
Also, make sure to follow us on Instagram, leave a comment,
tell us who you thought the mole was.
And we'll see you next time.
- Probably. - We'll see you next time.
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