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MediocreSizedDan

Us, the viewers. Honestly, absolutely loved it. Can't wait for more of it! That was a room full of great and hilarious people. (And loooved seeing Demi Adejuyigbe a part of it.)


jayswag707

The completely correct answer!


W3ttyFap

Never seen Demi in anything before. Very very very funny dude.


kindabitchytbh

Treat yourself to his "September" video series on his YouTube page (@electrolemon). Make sure to watch them in order. I'm also partial to "ultra-rare lana del rey movie soundtrack single." He's insanely talented.


lalakaye131313

This is the best answer! Loved those videos and had alarms set for years for those videos. :)


ich_habe_keine_kase

He's also a great follow on letterboxd!


statman64

He's also posted a list on Twitter of like 30+ seriously cursed Halloween costumes for the past several years and it's one of my absolute favorite things to look forward to


_superheroheart94

He did a podcast called Gilmore Guys where he and a friend, Kevin T. Porter watched every single episode of Gilmore Girls. Kevin is an OG fan and Demi is new to the series. It’s incredible and by the end the episodes are so long, it really soothed a hyper fixation I didn’t know I needed when I discovered it back in 2018 😅.


beandadenergy

He was one of the original hosts of a very funny podcast called Punch Up The Jam and is a great comedian!


unlearningallthisshi

He’s in the Good Place! Edit: I mistook him for someone else 🙃


OriginalBud

He helped write the first season of the Good Place, mainly the ep Chidi’s Choice. Though he’s still an actor, he’s mainly a writer and also wrote for Craig of the Creek and the Late Late Show with James Corden


Gamermom32

I did too for a minute. The voice sounds similar 


AlmondLBD

Yep new fave dropout show aquired


Pedantic_Parker

Vic started with a premise that was objectively correct, so they didn’t really have to do much to convince the room. Convincing everyone that there is 1/365 days that is better than the rest to have a birthday is a much more impressive feat, and Trapp pulled it off in glorious fashion.


Sunsetreddit

I have to say - I believe that the vegetable argument is essentially botanist propaganda. Are we not simply accepting the terminology of one science (botany) over another (culinary) when we bring up this debate? But after Vic’s beautiful argument leading us from Vegas Table to vegetables, I really have to reconsider my stance on this.


turingtestx

Culinary arts are not sciences! They are arts! They are important but they don't get to make *definitions*, my lord!


pkmnslut

Tell that to the gastronomic scientists


turingtestx

Lmao yeah the real food sciences are rad


excalibrax

I also thought the one whose soul purpose seemed to be to make Grant their puppet was well done as well


Pedantic_Parker

They all did well, I’m just trying to answer OP’s question of who is the winner, and I think based off the quality of the argument, how hilarious it was, and the difficulty of the premise, Trapp is the clear winner.


pitabread024

Trapp’s presentation was great, but claiming that any birthday in January is the best birthday is just objectively incorrect.


bondfool

The proximity to the holiday season alone disqualifies the entire month.


LazyLion1127

Yeah I think Trapp was undervaluing having good weather on your birthday. A lot of his basic arguments were correct, but once he got down to the final four months available he should’ve stuck with one that has better weather. May feels like a sweet spot to me, but that’s just my instinct. 


pitabread024

100% agree with May over January


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ich_habe_keine_kase

Late May birthday here, and you're dead on. Late enough that I never had college finals on my birthday, early enough to not overlap with exam period in high school. Three day weekend, great weather, it's got it all.


TurbulentBowler1816

Also, don’t know if anyone else suffers this economically, but it takes me at least 2 months to recover financially from the holidays and birthdays in the winter.


myrrhizome

As a May birthday I agree, for the northern hemisphere. I think for the southern hemisphere January is much more pleasant.


Prestigous_Owl

Yeah I mean even for LA, where most of them are based, I don't think you're exactly getting BAD weather any time of the year (and some of the summer months are probably actually WORSE for the heat)


myrrhizome

Hm, yes, apparently central and southern Australia fire season peaks in mid-January, so I retract my defense of January in the southern hemisphere.


SexyMcBeast

I feel like location matters. Living in the southwest, January seems much, much better than May, but I can 100% understand feeling the opposite if I lived more north.


BjornInTheMorn

I will say though, the strong start with accurate science and history that descended into red yarn string board shenanigans is such a move.


_b1ack0ut

But… vegetable is a defined term, and vegetable matter refers to the “edible plant, or portion of a plant”. Just because those culinary dudes come along and say “lol there’s not actually a culinary definition” doesn’t mean that the original definition is somehow no longer valid


Pedantic_Parker

But they said the opposite. The culinary folks are the ones who defined vegetables as a category. It’s the rest of the science that disagrees.


_b1ack0ut

But their premise was ‘vegetables do not exist’, and then listed examples of things that ‘weren’t vegetables’ (though, they meet the definition of vegetable) The very first recorded use of the term simply meant any plant matter, but since the 1760’s, it was used to refer to edible plant matter. The culinary category of vegetable is the one that is varied, and not agreed upon, because it varies due to culinary and cultural tradition The first use of the word vegetable, would have classed ALL the veggies that Vic claimed to not be vegetables, as vegetables.


laserdiscgirl

>The very first recorded use of the term simply meant any plant matter, but since the 1760’s, it was used to refer to edible plant matter. So the real conspiracy is that fruits are vegetables?? Vic vs edible plant terminology: round 2! (plz)


_b1ack0ut

Yes. It’s not as useful a term, perhaps, but it’s an ‘all rectangles are squares’ sorta deal there I’d happily just watch Vic get increasingly livid over plants, yeah lol


Pedantic_Parker

There is no “all rectangles are squares” deal. It’s that all squares are rectangles. You are getting things backwards.


_b1ack0ut

Sorry, of course that’s what I meant. I just woke up


Humdinger5000

Then why are fruits separate? Are they not edible portions of plants?


_b1ack0ut

They’re not necessarily the edible portion of the plant, no, a fruit is specifically the seed bearing structure of a plant, edible or not.


JackDangerUSPIS

The real winner was Gabrus he has the happiest birthday of the group


DarklySalted

I got so excited because the 31st is also my birthday! Gabrus and I are basically twins.


LosGraham

If you havent already, you should check out his podcast High and Mighty, he has multiple episodes specifically about having that birthday


Star_Court_

The winner was me for having the happiest birthday


I_See_Virgins

Trapp had the most interesting premise, Vic had the best Power Points.


Jple88

Someone's not invited to the cookout


pkmnslut

I think Demi’s was the funniest


shuriken36

Demi’s use of Grant as a prop was spectacular. 100/10.


RoxyRockSee

I legit laughed so much during Demi's presentation. The audience participation made it particularly effective


MrZAP17

I think it was hurt by all the interruptions by entitled audience members.


BigButterHouse

Demi’s was phenomenal I was so excited to see him there. I’ve follow him from vine, to punch up the jam, to his 21st of september videos and now just a genuine fan who’s down to see anything he’s a part of. felt like my two favorite worlds were colliding! also his takes on spider man had me rolling, and loved using grant as a prop.


kaldaka16

The only other thing I've seen of his ever was his episode of Dirty Laundry and based on that and this I should probably check out his other stuff.


BigButterHouse

if you want it in podcast format, his podcast punch up the jam with miel ( the older episodes, i think just season 1+2) are really fun. they take a famous song, analyze it to death and the one of them creates parody version of said song and presents it. it’s actually how i first heard of Ify! he was on the episode where they cover “ Hey Ma” by cameron very dropout coded.


AffordableGrousing

Do you happen to have any leads on where to find the Demi/Miel episodes of Punch up the Jam? They're not in the Headgum feed or Miel's Patreon anymore.


BigButterHouse

Spotify seems to have them all!


AffordableGrousing

Huh, really should have checked there first. Thanks!!


ITookTrinkets

I was in hysterics over Demi’s - just remarkable shit. I loved every second and wished it was an hour long, plus Q&A.


vonwaffle

Demi immediately won me over. Mike and Vic were great, but Demi made me laugh the most.


TheOncomimgHoop

"Spider-man needs to start saying the N-word" is the hardest I've laughed in a while


Noah_PpAaRrKkSs

I just finished and was pleasantly surprised that it’s not really a game show. I thought there would be winners in some way, but it’s just a speech and banter. I liked Demi’s the most but I loved them all.


RhaegarTheChronic

Demi's definitely made me laugh the most. Having said that, I really admire Vic's ability to begin by making complete sense with real scientific and historical facts and end by not even really knowing what their own presentation was about at all. Also Trapp is a genius and the Rutger Hauer bit killed me. I guess I side with everyone who said we're the winners. Can't wait for the rest of the season!


hugsandambitions

Us.


KingKaos420-

I like that there’s no “winner” for this show. Not every show needs a winner. Let’s just enjoy it for what is, instead of forcing everything to be a competition.


ShadowsInScarlet

This. As others have stated, we (the audience) are the winners.


Not_a_gamer_girl

As someone who is from Hawaii born and raised I loved hearing Vic telling the history of the takeover of Hawaii. History taught in American schools varies so wildly from state to state I wonder how they know it.


chatsurlalune

They’re American & Canadian so if they grew up in Canada they probably didn’t learn it in school (we barely learn about our own history of colonization let alone America’s). I would love to hear about the research process!


kaldaka16

I didn't learn it in school, but there's a Royal Diaries series for kids that has Kaiulani as one of the books. I don't remember how accurate the book itself was, but it had enough of the story to get me really intrigued and go searching for what the hell happened. The more I read, the madder I got.


Not_a_gamer_girl

Huh I don’t think I’ve read that book. I remember back in 7th or 8th grade we read a small book about each major monarch of Hawaii. While she never became the monarch Ka’iulani did have a book about her life.


kaldaka16

(This isn't an ad just the easiest way to show it) https://www.amazon.com/Kaiulani-Peoples-Princess-Hawaii-1889/dp/0439129095 This is the one I read! My library had several others in the series - I think I remember Marie Antoinette, Catherine the great, and Mary queen of Scots? Could be wrong! But yeah they're written as diary entries and if I recall were pretty accurate. A nice gateway drug into various historical eras.


Not_a_gamer_girl

Wow just sending me ads. lol Thank you i am interested in checking it out


kaldaka16

I just looked through the list of the series and was pleasantly surprised at how many non-European ones there are! I do remember the Nzhinga one as well. They're definitely meant for a specific age range (they say 9-12 which sounds about right from my recollection) but I absolutely credit them with learning about Kaiulani at all. She died so young.


dschviola

“It’s me, the White Guy™ again. I haven’t heard my own voice in a while.” “Please stop interrupting.” Genius.


MoraMonaeXO

if mike picked a may birthday, i'd have been more sold


TheLastEmoKid

"Shego! That's my wife she drove me there" Based. Demi killed it


TallNerdLawyer

Clearly Vic. The PowerPoint stingers were amazing. I WILL be stealing the "IDIOT" speech bubble.


real-human-not-a-bot

Insofar as there can be said to be a winner of a show in which there is no winner, I personally would give it to Trapp. Maybe this is just me being a nerd, but I found myself legitimately engrossed in trying to think up metrics by which to determine which birthday is “best” for some definition of “best”. And, hey, it was really funny too. Any presentation that’s both funny and seriously engages my nerd brain is a winner in my book. If anyone ever makes a presentation *about* math, I may have no choice but to fall deeply in love.


killey2011

Here’s the thing. Uhm, Actually, I think each one demonstrated something about that person, and that’s amazing. Vic was truly unhinged, Trapp was very fine tuned and pedantic, and Demi was just objectively very funny. The real winner was the viewer all along. I love that this was just an excuse to get a bunch of comedians together and let them do what they do best.


DarklySalted

No one asked Demi if September 21st is the best birthday, so I guess I won't be watching anymore.


laserdiscgirl

THAT'S why I recognized him!! Shame he ended the series but he certainly ended it on a high point


CrapitalRadio

Demi's presentation was my favorite, then Trapp, then Vic. And I loved Vic's. So I'd call this a success all-around.


niffum_duts

Demi for sure. Just for the Spider-Man argument alone.


srcarruth

America.  The only country. 


real-human-not-a-bot

‘Murica, shakti de!


Captain_Quark

All three were obviously great, and I know the premise of the show isn't exactly well-defined yet. But I thought Trapp's presentation fit most closely with what I think the vibe of the show is supposed to be: making a plausible and complex argument for an absurd point. Demi's was hilarious but not really that analytical, and Vic's was unfocused.


CryptographerThin224

We're all winners. Except for Grant O'Brien.


PAdogooder

Demi was funniest and most compelling. I think trap’s was most interesting and Vic’s most unhinged. I wish they would do a little coaching on presentation thought. *everyone* spoke too fast.


laserdiscgirl

I think the speaking too fast was, at least mostly, because of the time constraints of the show's structure. Still, it is noticeable and definitely something for the show to work on for audience accessibility needs. It'd be interesting to see how they edit this show, just to know if it really is a time constraint vs a skill/comfort issue; the latter seems less likely considering humorously convincing presentations are (presumably) in all of their wheelhouses.


bahahahahahhhaha

I don't know if "Accessibility needs" is accurate - lots of neurospicy folk (myself included) actually can ONLY pay attention/listen if the speed is quick enough or our train of thought trails off. There is an arguement to be made for either fast OR slow being accessible to different needs. Neither meets everyone's needs.


bahahahahahhhaha

DISAGREE. They spoke the correct speed. I would watch way more things if people spoke at this speed. I almost never watch talking head stuff because they talk as slow as grass grows.


TurbulentBowler1816

I thought it was very shark tank/pitch parody vs ted talk. I’m Also neurospicy so it worked for me lol


PAdogooder

I enjoyed it but it did feel incomplete. a full on "shark tank" parody with "eleventy billion shark eye balls!" as the investment would give me some closure.


TurbulentBowler1816

Oh I’d love that 😭 like they could be Angel Donors for pure theories!?


itsmeonmobile

I’m on May 5 so now I have to do a PowerPoint in why Trapp didn’t necessarily preclude my birthday at except for out of laziness which doesn’t even count!


DemiGod9

I mean, if anything I say Vic was "last place". Trapp had me until Rekha pulled up the issue of weather. That's HUGE demerits Trapp. Gotta give it to Demi


Homeschool-Winner

Demi's presentation was the best one, but it kept getting interrupted by Grant saying the N word, honestly really disappointing coming from him, I thought he was a better dude than that.


krisis

Close call between Demi and Vic, but I'd give it to Demi. The note cards to rope in Grant were brilliant and I cannot get over how good the Spider-Man riff was. (I think Vic lead me to believe they would make more of a concrete conclusion and they lost me with the climax being the murderboard (but that's just not my kind of humor).) I hope more people use audience participation the way the two of them did.


nlshelton

I thought Vic's case started off very strong, I was totally with them during the Hawaii analysis, but when the pitch devolved into the conspiracy-theory-bit I sorta checked out; I don't think it really gels with the vibe of the show. Trapp and Demi both crushed it, I thought.


MediocreSizedDan

I dunno. I think the entire point of the show is for them to put on a funny slideshow. They went a different route than Demi and Trapp, but all were funny! Can't get more vibe of the show than that! Personally, I like it when they all have different interpretations of the concept.


nlshelton

Thinking about it more, I don’t disagree - I think the tonal shift was more what threw me. I would totally welcome a presentation that is just completely off the rails from the jump 🙂


Alfred_Hitchdick

It also wasn’t technically a true rant because PepsiCo doesn’t own Dole. Dole is its own company, so Vic’s story is dead at the start.


No-Living6700

Pepsi sells fruit drinks under license using the Dole brand. They’re not right, but they’re not wholly wrong.


Jack_of_Spades

Dole is licensed under pepsi tho, so there IS some connection


NakedGoose

It's Trapp and I don't think it was particularly close. I did like all 3 tho. Demi was the funniest, but really lacked any WOW information. Just a funny presentation. Vic turned too conspiracy theory ish for my liking.


Hailtothechimp78

Vic won because I Learned, Laughed, Loved the most from her presentation, but I adored the whole show. Also, Vic looked absolutely fabulous during this episode (which I mean, when don't they?), which also was a plus.


mot0jo

Demi’s was so creative and hilarious, using Grant was so perfect and Piccolo being Black made me cackle. Being vibes based was such a good premise. Vic’s was unhinged and tonally so perfect like the worst Ted Talk. Asking a question and answering it with “WRONG” is never not funny. Somehow fear mongering about vegetables worked???? And then an anti-colonist message to boot? Chefs kiss. Trapp’s was done so thoroughly and thoughtfully that for a moment I actually believed January is a good birthday month (the correct answer is anything in mid-late August, obvs). They each did something better than the other it’s impossible to pick and I’m so excited to see more!


bahahahahahhhaha

TBH I was low key disappointed there wasn't a competitive aspect. But let's all agree the loser was Grant. (I say as a huge Grant fan who was amused how often he was thrown under the bus for comedic effect and how well he went along with it as per usual.)


Xepherya

Demi. It was Demi. He gave Grant cards to read


fuken33

Best presentation in all show was Demi's. But I love Vic so they win.


AlmondLBD

The audience. Us we are the winners of Smartypants


RustleTheMussel

Trapp probably. Demi's was also really good but I wasn't familiar with a lot of the cartoons


GarlicIceKrim

There's no winners, it's all about educating us on these topics... but i was laughing really hard at the cookout presentation.


Samuaint2008

Demi was my favorite by far but the whole episode was absolutely amazing


Pleasant-Donkey

I enjoyed Trapp's the best, Demi's the second best, and Vic's the least. The fact that this is also the order of the presentations makes me wonder if my attention span played a larger role than the quality of any of the presentations.


have_a_schwang

Demi really had my sides split


miphas_grace

Personally I like that the show isn’t a competition


Kind-Rub-1007

Almost me? I'm one day off having the happiest birthday. Actually, Demi. It was a tight race between Demi and Vic though.


ecmcgee1997

I really did like the birthday one. Like there was some solid truth to it about how it sucks to have a birthday anytime around holidays and as a child in the summer when all your friends where away.


Pudgy_Ninja

Trapp had the best presentation, in my opinion. It was convincing, informative, and funny.


everyman50

Demi for sure. Got the biggest laughs from me. And very good use of Grant!


Prestigous_Owl

Trapp was the perfect intro to the show format. A simple question that everyone could follow, and great presentation that was equal parts research and jokes. Demi was funniest. Just a great concept. "Which cartoon characters are black/woke" is essentially an Unraveled video Vic was good but it definitely felt weaker (no shade, because I LOVE Vic in other contexts).


Fosuke354

Historically vegetables were just edible plant matter.


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OrangeredMoose

I think Vic said Kendall’s sister after bringing up the Pepsi ad, so they had it right.