BB26 Live Feed Update | Day 3: Storage Wars

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[00:01:08] Looking at the stuff from yesterday All the drama, all the strategy And silliness from P.O. to H.O.H. Every single season You know he is the reason You know what's happening Rob said that he could do it Tomorrow he will do it again

[00:01:39] Hello everyone and good morning. Welcome to our live feed update for, I don't know, what's the date? July 19th. I am your host, Taren Armstrong. And we are here for the first live feed update of Big Brother 26. With me to do so, it's Booyah. How you doing, Booyah?

[00:02:01] Now we are officially back. We were kind of back, now we're back. This feels real. I'm excited, man. I'm doing good. Running on good sleep, good coffee. Living at large. Can't wait. Good sleep, excuse me? Listen, three hours can do the body good if you also caffeinate.

[00:02:20] Which is a cheat code, it's a hack. Booyah, I stood up from sitting down and I said, Oh, that's why sleep is important. Let me tell you, man, the way I woke up today, because listen,

[00:02:33] I overslept one live feed update last year and people still talk about it like it's a habit I have. You can say people is Amman. Yeah, Amman. The guy who also overslept way more than me, mind you.

[00:02:45] Anyway, Taren, I had 12 alarms set on two different phones between 9am and all the way to the desperate measures 1045. Happy to say I woke up by the second alarm, 905. I was ready. Yes, we have been up all night watching the feeds.

[00:03:01] More important than ever, as it is much more difficult to go back and see what you missed. But we are here to update you on everything that happened on the feeds. That is what we are here to do every single morning throughout the season.

[00:03:19] You will be informed about the goings on in the house. And so we are here tonight to talk through what was day three of the Big Brother 26 season. As the feed started on day three Thursday, they moved in on Tuesday and the feed started at around what? 2.15am?

[00:03:47] Yeah, just about. And so that was like 11 or so Pacific, which means that there wasn't a lot. I mean, there was theoretically a lot. You said stay up late, but only because there was one particular person that was just up late just talking.

[00:04:11] But in terms of whole house strategy, there's not a lot to go off of yet. But we will do our best to kind of give our understanding of where things lie at the moment.

[00:04:22] Yeah, it was about, let's say, a total run time of three hours with two of them being jam-packed with every whisper you could cram into our heads. And then an hour of endurance for one house guest who just refused to leave and go to bed.

[00:04:37] Yeah, honestly, I think I owe Matt most of my lack of sleep at this point. So that's what we're here to do. Of course, we are here live on YouTube here at RHAP. And if you're new here, if you haven't already, hit the subscribe button.

[00:04:59] Again, we're going to be going live every single morning. You're going to want to be notified when that happens so that you can catch the latest on what's going on here in the Big Brother house.

[00:05:11] All right, so let's get into it because the first update of the season kind of goes back and forth. Sometimes you can be really detailed because it's night one feeds and we're all trying to just understand where the relationships are starting to form.

[00:05:29] However, we are starting on day three. There's a lot we don't know and there's a lot of context that we're missing.

[00:05:35] So I think this update is going to be a bit more summary, a bit more kind of like, this is where we think things lie at the moment because some of the individual conversations that are being had, we don't exactly know what it means yet all the time.

[00:05:53] So that's kind of what the focus will be. And we do in fact have a graphic to pull up that has some names, some faces and some markings for your viewing pleasure.

[00:06:07] And what I will say is that the headline, if you're watching the video and you see the graphic, the headline is we learned fairly quickly that we have an HOH winner and that HOH winner is Angela.

[00:06:22] It is because I, you know, Angela, someone that we talked about her at length, like in the draft and the preseason. And the worry for Angela was Angela might come in a little too hot.

[00:06:36] Might be someone who, because of her age gets targeted or looked at as an early target, early nominee. No worries about that for Angela.

[00:06:44] Angela's not only HOH, Angela has full power to nominate people this week and also has a pretty good front seat to make some alliances and allegiances. And very active, Angela, in gameplay as well, we'll say so far.

[00:06:58] Yeah, active indeed. Listen, I don't know exactly what the competition was, but theoretically it's a good sign that Angela, who is one of the oldest contestants on the cast, was able to win the first HOH.

[00:07:19] That's something that I think is really important for the season. So whether or not it's a disaster is going to be another story, but very excited to see Angela in the top spot as opposed to maybe a more typical first HOH like say Matt, who we will be talking about a lot, I think, this morning.

[00:07:44] So here's kind of where we stand. Angela is the HOH and you can see, maybe a little hard to see, but it's okay. Some arrows on some other players. You saw this in the episode. It's not super necessary to remind you, but I'm going to remind you.

[00:08:02] They cannot vote and they can be nominated. So that's kind of their current status. In the meantime, McKenzie and Quinn both won the upgrade, which means they have the deep fake HOH title.

[00:08:32] They have the HOH power and the America's veto power. We still don't know exactly what those things do. However, there are some things that we have kind of learned. We can't take this concretely. We don't know exactly how this will work.

[00:08:52] But A, nominations have not been made yet. We are anticipating that they are going to be made sometime this morning as of this update. So stay tuned for that. We may know more by tomorrow morning. But nominations have not been made. Angela has some plans for them. We'll talk about that.

[00:09:10] B, nominations may look a little bit different. There was a lot of talk of four nominees. Angela was talking specifically about three people that she would put up. She always had three people in mind. So it's possible that she only puts up three of the nominees and that the fourth nominee is potentially put up by someone else. Maybe a deep fake HOH. Maybe something else entirely. I'm not sure.

[00:09:40] Maybe she does put up four people and she was just really focused on three. But there was talk of four nominees. There was also talk of two chances to save yourself. One being obviously, I would assume the veto. Another one seemingly AI arena or something along those lines was talked about.

[00:10:02] So there's a lot going on. My assumption is that Angela nominates at least three people. There's some kind of AI arena competition that will potentially remove some people, maybe add a person. I think at some point we're likely to get down to two nominees and it's probably through the AI arena competition.

[00:10:33] But then probably the veto comes after we get down to two nominees and then there's a vote at the end of the week for two nominees. That would be my assumption because it makes the most sense to me. But who knows?

[00:10:48] Yeah, that's going to be the big question at this hour. Because if first of all, if Angela has to nominate four people, that is ridiculous. That is literally a quarter of the house. I don't love that at all. But also if she had to do four, why are we only talking about three? The three even made it sound like to me that it didn't sound like she had a short list of three. It almost sounded like there's three and one of them's the pawn almost in a weird way.

[00:11:12] So if it's three, then who's getting the plus one? Because I don't think that clearly this deep fake HOH is an upgrade power. It doesn't seem like it's a weekly part of the mechanic. So is it only this week that we're going to have four? I don't know. I will say this is still better than Battle of the Block, even though we haven't seen it yet. But also, I don't know. What is the AI arena? What kind of comps can Ainsley cook up? That's what I would like to know.

[00:11:35] Yeah, I'm not sure. Again, there's like a couple of things we can speculate, which would be that like, you know, if Angela is nominating three, it's possible that they're talking about four nominees because there's the possibility of four people total. But maybe it won't be four people total every time necessarily. Or it's possible that the four nominees come into play via the AI arena competition.

[00:12:05] Somehow, maybe a fourth nominee gets named prior to the AI arena competition. And then all four people compete or something along those lines. And then two of them stay on the block and then there's a regular veto competition. Whatever the case may be, I'm sure we'll find out in due time.

[00:12:26] The main thing to focus on now is that Angela will be nominating three people and they will have two chances to remove themselves from the block is what we think.

[00:12:38] Yeah, or just one last bit of speculation. What if you nominate two, AI arena happens, it's basically a veto part one, someone can remove themselves, you put someone else up, then a veto happens, someone can remove themselves, you can put someone else up. That's how you get four nominations. But it's only two standard to begin?

[00:12:58] Yeah, I mean, it's certainly possible. But I mean, from my perspective, the way Angela was talking about it, she was like, these are my three. So it seems like she's planning to nominate three, at least for sure. So, you know, listen, you can only speculate so much before it's entirely fruitless endeavor because we can just wait and see.

[00:13:24] Give it a day. Yeah. So, so that is the structure of what we're looking at, or at least the bare bones of it at this point. Strategically, though, we've got some interesting things going on. So I think we'll start with Angela.

[00:13:45] And, or I guess I'll give you a brief overview of like, the very general sort of viewpoint of where we seem to be standing.

[00:13:56] There are a few different kinds of, I think, structure, general structures that the house can fall into, especially early on. We saw this last season, actually, where, you know, we had Riley and her group of people like that were mostly young and athletic and like hanging out. And she was HOH.

[00:14:20] But then there was Sari, who was like a force of nature and she was gathering her own people. And she had Jared as a mole giving her info. And because Sari was such a force, she was able to like actively field, no pun intended, an opposing side to the cool kids.

[00:14:47] Because in other seasons, the cool kids will get together. Everyone else will just kind of be hovering around. But because Sari was so powerful, she was able to create an opposing force. And the game turned into, I called it Hungry, Hungry Hippos, because it was just a scramble for who can pick up the most amount of pieces because there were two opposing sides.

[00:15:12] It seems as though we may have something similar, at least in the short term, for this season. Because as per usual, there are theoretically a group of cool kids that are trying to get together. However, because Angela won the first HOH, she has enough power to field a force of her own.

[00:15:39] And so they don't quite know it yet, but they are kind of playing Hungry, Hungry Hippos for who gets the most amount of people onto their side. Who creates the actual majority for the season? Is it going to be Angela, the HOH who holds the power? Or is it going to be the cool kids who just more naturally gravitate toward one another because they're young and they're fit and they're good looking and they hang out a lot?

[00:16:06] So that's the very general overview of where things appear to be at this moment.

[00:16:12] Yeah, and it's worth noting, despite some of these cool kids not having the HOH, the way they speak really makes it seem like they have the HOH because they're disparaging the HOH before nominations, which I could never have the guts to do this, Taren. I cannot believe what I was hearing when we first started the feeds last night.

[00:16:31] Yeah. So let's start with Angela and then we will talk through where the cool kids may lie here.

[00:16:40] So Angela, as the HOH, is trying to create a big majority alliance. Solid so far. She is a fan of the show. I think she has a general understanding of what she should be doing here, which is, you know, first HOH, make big alliance, be wary of cool kids in general.

[00:17:01] And so good foundation, right? She's trying to create, though, a nine person group. She calls them a group. Not an alliance.

[00:17:14] Yeah. Which seems to be the modern meta of like everyone's scared of the A word. Don't call it an alliance. It's a group. It's a friendship. I guess friendship has been around for a while, so maybe this has always been the thing.

[00:17:30] But it's not an alliance. It's a group. It's a group of nine people. And those nine people are Angela, Joseph. Hold on. Let me go slowly so that you can find their face on the thing if you're watching. Well, it's the top row plus three.

[00:17:52] Is it exactly that? You're right. Yeah. Okay. So it's going to be Angela, Brooklyn, Cam, Cedric, Chelsea, Joseph. And then the plus three are Leah, Quinn and Rubina. Those are the nine she is trying to put together.

[00:18:13] She spoke about this first from our perspective with Joseph, but she also discussed this nine with Chelsea and Brooklyn. And Cedric has been in and out of the conversations throughout. Cedric is, I think, more of we'll get more into Cedric later.

[00:18:37] So that's the nine. And what she wants to do with her H.O.H. is target what she calls consensus players. And in her mind, the three most consensus players to put on the block are Kenny, Kimo and Lisa.

[00:19:02] She says she loves Kimo. She doesn't want to put him on the block, but he's a good pawn because he's not talking to many people. And, you know, like basically a lot of people really like Kimo personally, but they don't have any strategic connection to him.

[00:19:22] And I think this is such a key thing, especially for a super fan. Kimo is that it's it's not enough for people to like you, especially early on. You need to have a strategic connection. If they feel like they can't talk game with you, they can't trust you.

[00:19:38] And we haven't seen Kimo really on the feeds at all yet. But from what other people are saying about him, he is having a somewhat classic super fan start of being a little too gun shy, a little too afraid of talking strategy and a little too reserved.

[00:19:55] And that's why he is potentially going on the block currently as a pawn. Yeah, he's going to be told that he's the pawn. It seems like Kenny is the number one consensus that they're looking at getting out here.

[00:20:10] And like you mentioned, Angela kind of want is trying to go after people who are for a little better, you know, for better or worse, kind of on the outs, kind of don't have a lot of connections or anything.

[00:20:21] What's interesting about Kimo, though, Terrence, despite the fact that he's been very much not involved with anything, he is in a have not room with two of these people that are in this group who if he works his social game or talks to them or bonds with those two, he might find himself some footing here.

[00:20:40] Maybe the other person in the have not room with him as someone who wants nothing to do with any alliances as of right now.

[00:20:46] Yeah. So, so yes, Kimo, Lisa is another person that seems to be a little bit behind the curve when it comes to strategy talking, although she certainly gets a bit into it later in the night and we'll see what kind of impact that has on her standing in the house.

[00:21:04] But she seems like an easy pawn for for Angela and somebody that based on like sort of the context of what she was talking about is like she, Angela seems like she wouldn't be that upset if if Lisa left.

[00:21:20] But, but that's kind of news to some other people in the house who think they're kind of close. So not entirely sure where Lisa stands, but it's it is kind of I think where a lot of people expected her to stand at this point in the game.

[00:21:33] And we'll see if she's able to sort of get herself out of this position, maybe being put on the block, could light a fire under her. We'll see. But as Pouya mentioned, the target for Angela at this time is Kenny. He's the most consensus target she feels.

[00:21:54] Why she feels that way? Not entirely sure, to be honest. Angela did have one on one conversations before the feed started. I don't know if they were on Thursday or if they were. I assume they were before the feed started on Thursday.

[00:22:11] But but basically she did theoretically one on one conversations with every person. And based on those conversations, she felt like these were three of the most consensus people. And that's because they're the people with the least amount of power and they're the easiest names to say clearly.

[00:22:27] And so Kenny is similar to Kimo and Lisa, just somebody that's not really involved in strategy talk right now. There aren't a lot of people that would stick up for him. And people feel easy, feel comfortable saying his name, because what can he do about it?

[00:22:40] He's also one of the older houseguests. And there is maybe a fear that Kenny could ride with some of the guys in the house if they let him get too far. So really, like fairly similar to Tyler targeting a Summer of Steve in this particular instance.

[00:22:58] Like, let's take out Summer of Steve, who would have worked with Faute, even though we're not taking a direct shot at Faute. We're just kind of like cutting off a potential number for them while theoretically keeping the house together. I think is the intent here, potentially.

[00:23:13] And when it comes to like the most directed targeting of Kenny, from my perspective, what we were able to see last night,

[00:23:21] I think Leah is the person who actively seems to want Kenny out the most because of some kind of incident where he said he would keep her safe if he won the HOH, but then reneged on the promise and he didn't. Didn't win HOH in the first place.

[00:23:38] Honestly, it was a little hard to follow exactly why that was upsetting to her, but like it was an, it was a thing. It was a thing that she didn't like. And so she wants Kenny out.

[00:23:48] And and so I imagine that's part of where the push comes from. Yeah. And it is tough because ironically enough, the three people that are potential nominees here, we saw one of them last night and that one was being held hostage in the storage room.

[00:24:04] Wasn't contributing all that much. So it's very difficult to see what Kenny's dynamics are in the house right now. It very much does sound like he doesn't have that many connections. He seems to have a little bit of connection with some of these, some of these bros.

[00:24:19] But again, we don't know the full extent of it.

[00:24:21] And the other thing I do remember, and if I'm misquoting this, please correct me, was later on in the night, Angela was talking to Brooklyn and was talking about how Kenny is someone she feels like if Kenny had won.

[00:24:32] Could have and would have put him up, whereas she didn't feel that way about Brooklyn. So again, I don't know if that's something that she's saying now when she's trying to justify the nomination or it's something she truly feels based on a conversation they had. Mm hmm. Yes.

[00:24:48] So so that's basically where Angela stands. She wants to get that group of nine together. She wants to target Kenny. She wants to nominate chemo and Lisa up with Kenny as theoretical pawns. And and that's kind of like the basics of her side.

[00:25:08] And the nine people, I'll name them one more time, were again, that top row. Angela Brooklyn, Ham, Cedric, Chelsea, Joseph, along with Leah Quinn and Rubina.

[00:25:22] There is kind of another side of the house and they are being spearheaded by Matt over on the right here in the graphic. Matt basically took up residence in the pantry last night.

[00:25:47] He was in there for, I think, nearly four hours without leaving the room while people came in and out. And he talked to them as though he were the H.O.H. And that was his H.O.H. room.

[00:26:03] So from Matt's perspective, he's got a lot going on and his perspective might be correct. It might be delusional. We're not entirely sure yet. But from Matt's perspective, he's very close with Mackenzie. And I think that's probably his most genuine connection. Matt and Mackenzie have a connection.

[00:26:30] And Mackenzie at one point in the night was talking to Leah about how people are already talking about showman stuff. She's saying, I don't see him that way. But it's being talked about because they hang out. They're close. Matt is also close with Quinn and Joseph.

[00:26:55] They kind of have a little bit of a like guys thing going on, kind of, you know, like basically. Joseph and Quinn, you might recognize their names from Angela's group, also are with Matt. And at least Matt feels that way.

[00:27:22] And they also feel like they have Leah or maybe they have Leah. We got it. OK. Leah is a little more complicated. But I would say the at least it initially appeared that the core four of them were Quinn, Joseph, Matt Mackenzie.

[00:27:42] But then as the night went on, it might have actually been more like Matt, Mackenzie, Leah, because it might actually just be changing in real time at this point. But either way, there's a loose grouping of Matt, Joseph, Quinn, Mackenzie, Leah. Leah feels like they definitely have Brooklyn.

[00:28:06] And they also think they have Chelsea, who was in the room with them. So you might be noticing that a lot of those names actually are also in the Angela group. Chelsea, Brooklyn, Quinn, Joseph, Leah are all in the Angela group. So who are they more loyal to?

[00:28:32] I don't think any of them are necessarily more loyal to like super loyal to either one. I think that neither group has been fully ratted out at this point, despite the fact that there are like five crossover members.

[00:28:48] Yeah, it's very fascinating because once we saw this second group form and include five people from the other group that we had already heard about, that's all I was focused on.

[00:29:00] The minute I saw if I would see one of them, I wanted to see what they're saying to other people. And this is the interesting thing. Joseph, who is in both groups, was not in the room when he was added to that second group.

[00:29:11] He is part of this alliance without being there. But also the first conversation I saw for Joseph was between him and Cedric, and he was talking about how he likes Matt.

[00:29:21] He feels good about Matt, but also understands that the rest of them don't quite trust him because he's too honest and talks too much, which was what a premonition once we get to later on in the night.

[00:29:32] So Joseph, I'm curious about where he lands now with Matt and them because it sounds like he did good enough work that Matt feels comfortable with him. But where does he lie? I don't know. Quinn, once the alliance got locked, left the storage room, never came back.

[00:29:47] We didn't see him the rest of the night, so we'll see where he's at. Chelsea is the interesting one because Chelsea talked with Angela right after and never said anything about the alliance, but definitely did kind of grease the wheels up.

[00:29:57] Yeah, he does talk too much that Matt. And what do you have the power of this? If you want to do something, you can do something. Yeah, so it is interesting.

[00:30:05] I think Brooklyn is another one that wasn't really involved, was more talked about as though they had her. And so I'm not sure how much she knows about this potential group at this point.

[00:30:18] I think she seems as though she might be the most likely to say something given that everyone else has had an opportunity to. And she potentially hasn't. And she also does seem fairly close to Angela, which we will talk a bit about.

[00:30:35] But that's kind of the two sides, so to speak. And what's wild is that, again, they're kind of playing hungry, hungry hippos, except they don't know that they're playing it yet. Matt is worried about Angela. He is concerned that Angela is concerned about him.

[00:30:59] And he would like to target Angela in the near future. He would also like to target Lisa if he can, although that may change by the end of the night.

[00:31:08] And he would like to target Cedric, who he feels is just not vibing with him and a potential threat. So Matt's kind of feeling that way and he's trying to sort of grab his different groups.

[00:31:24] And he already feels like he's in with Mackenzie and Leah as a trio. He's in with Joseph and Quinn as a trio, but then they're all kind of aligned. And he's in with Mackenzie as a duo. And so he's really trying to work all these different angles.

[00:31:41] But simultaneously, he's kind of telling everyone everything. It doesn't take much to get information out of Matt. If you have a pulse, if you have a set of ears and you're within earshot, no matter what, he will spill some information to you.

[00:31:58] And for me, the biggest testament to all this was he shared so much with Lisa, who has zero bearings in the house right now. That's like, oh, anyone can get it. It doesn't even seem that special that you were sharing with Quinn earlier.

[00:32:12] It didn't seem that special that you were sharing with that group. Lisa wasn't even part of this, Taren. We're talking hungry, hungry hippos. He did make it seem like he's trying to reel her in.

[00:32:22] I would argue you could have reeled her in with way less bait than giving her your whole game. But that's just me. Yeah. So this is where things got a little more interesting or at least appeared to while Matt was in the pantry, just talking away.

[00:32:42] Making various alliances. Angela noticed that he was in the pantry for hours, very clearly talking a lot of game and got kind of worried. Like, is there something I should be worried about? She talked to the cameras on her own.

[00:33:03] One of the reasons it seems she's putting Kimo on the block as a pawn is that she's concerned that he might join the Matt group. Probably because he's a have not. And so she's watching the pantry, just like, just watching, just waiting for people to leave.

[00:33:25] And Matt never leaves. So she actually confides in Chelsea about it, who actually had just left the pantry. I don't think she even noticed that Chelsea had left. But Chelsea was in there initially, like hands in. We're in an alliance, leaves.

[00:33:41] And then Angela's like, Chelsea, I'm so concerned about what's happening in the pantry right now. And Chelsea was like, oh yeah, totally. You know, so Angela says, I'm worried about Matt. He seems to be worried about me. And I don't like that. Right. Like, and Angela.

[00:34:07] She's a little panicky. And I'm already personally getting vibes of like, oh, because the way she's talking to Chelsea is like, so obviously, you know, we're in a nine. Right. And Chelsea's like, we are. OK. And she's like, so Quinn's going to be part of that nine.

[00:34:29] And Chelsea's like, OK. And she's like, and right now, Matt, he's he's doing something to me. And that's when Chelsea's like, yeah, he's talking too much for sure. And Joseph ends up coming in as well. And they fill him in.

[00:34:46] And the vibe here, from my perspective, is very much like Angela feeling out like, how should I feel about Matt? He seems like he's concerned about me. It seems like he's trying to to like work people to potentially go against me. Should I be worried?

[00:35:03] Should I maybe do something about it? And it seems as though Joseph and Chelsea are kind of like, hey, hey, hey. It's all right. Calm down. Like pretty much at every turn. I'm hearing Joseph.

[00:35:19] I'm hearing Chelsea both kind of say like, you know, it's probably just that he's worried. Yes, he's paranoid for sure. But like you don't want to get paranoid, do you? Like I don't we don't want you to get paranoid. And and maybe that's what's happening here.

[00:35:35] And, you know, like who knows? Like who does he who would even really have like obviously we have all of our people like what could he even really do? Like we've got like, you know, this person and this person we got Leah and Angela. No, no.

[00:35:50] Leah's in there with Matt right now. He's rallying people away. And they're like, is he, though? Is it really that bad? And very much seeming to deescalate.

[00:36:01] And this makes a lot of sense from Joseph, who we already have seen, really would like to keep Matt around, I think because he feels he has Matt, which he does to a degree. We saw him approach Cedric with like, should we bring Matt into our group?

[00:36:18] And Cedric being like, no. And and then Joseph very clearly in my eyes being like, OK, I still kind of think we should. But I hear your opinion. So it does seem like Joseph is trying to hedge.

[00:36:35] Right. He told Angela Matt is worried about you, but I've got an in with him. I can probably make something work. He's trying to do this thing. He may be playing with fire because I think Matt is a lot messier than he thinks.

[00:36:49] And so we'll see how that goes. I think Chelsea is likely doing something somewhat similarly or somewhere similar where she feels like, well, I just made this potential alliance with Matt and these people. I don't want her to target him.

[00:37:04] It makes a lot more sense for her to target Kenny to me because I'm not connected to Kenny in the same way that I'm potentially connected to Matt. And so she's getting some de-escalation talks from both Chelsea and Joseph.

[00:37:16] Yeah, this is going to be very interesting because as of the conversation where we hear Joseph kind of vouch for Matt a little bit and potentially help with the escalating a little bit, they have still not spoken. He has not spoken to Matt on feeds that we've seen.

[00:37:32] So he has no idea how messy Matt was last night and can be in this game. So I'm curious once that gets back to him, if that changes how he feels. But I did get the general feeling last night that Matt's kind of Joseph's parachute in all this.

[00:37:47] You know, like he's got this whole nine thing going on. Oh, y'all don't want him? That's cool. Can I keep him though? You know, it's kind of like, can I have him then? Because I don't mind. I don't mind keeping him in for a little bit.

[00:38:00] So I feel like that is how he's looking at Matt. And it's so funny because Matt's someone who clearly does not want to be like the figurehead of a group.

[00:38:09] But by essentially holding sermon in the storage room last night, I think he looks like the figurehead of a group, especially on the other side opposing this HOH.

[00:38:21] But my favorite thing last night, hands down, was Angela playing hall monitor with this storage room and just keeping an eye on it no matter where she was at any point. Yeah, it was very funny.

[00:38:34] She also, after the conversation with Chelsea and Joseph, she went upstairs and talked to Brooklyn where she explained similar concerns. She's worried about Matt in the storage room.

[00:38:48] She again has this kind of frantic energy where she's explaining a large group of nine to somebody that I just it really worries me. I've seen this energy before. It's very like Devin Shepard. It's very like this is it's very Frenchy.

[00:39:03] It's very like, hey, so Brooklyn, we've I've got the nine now. And she starts naming all of the nine people. And she's like, so it's it's it's it's Joseph. It's Chelsea. It's Cedric. It's you. It's me. It's Cam. It's Rubina. It's Quinn. And oh, yeah. And it's Leah.

[00:39:22] But I don't know. We'll see if we can trust Leah based on what she tells us about what happened in the storage room.

[00:39:28] And it's just like this is just so much like if I were Brooklyn in this spot, I am very concerned about the longevity of Angela and this group based on the way she's just even describing it to me.

[00:39:41] Yeah, I feel like in both the Chelsea, Camba and the Brooklyn comma, the one through line, the one thing that wasn't they had in common was the way Angela walks in. She's kind of dropping this bomb on them. Oh, we have this nine.

[00:39:56] Both of them react like they there was not a nine. It's not like they had talked about. We're locking in a nine soon. It was just like, yes, the nine people. Yes, H.O.H. I understand what you're saying. Let's talk through it.

[00:40:09] It is a little bit intense, these conversations. And I feel like especially once a lot of these people start realizing, oh, that's the nine. But then there are five of us that are also in here. It is a lot. But again, she's the choice.

[00:40:23] So she is 100 percent safe.

[00:40:25] And as much as having a majority of the people in the house being in a spot with you good enough where you can survive the next week, if this energy continues, I don't know how much people are going to be willing to stick their necks out for Angela.

[00:40:39] Because I think Angela could be a little messy herself as well. Maybe not to the math degree, but I think this energy can be very messy.

[00:40:45] And we definitely saw this in the episode, in the premiere with Chelsea talking about how Angela was a little bit too high energy, too intense, a little bit nervous. And I think that's coming across, but just with an H.O.H. key around the neck. Yes.

[00:40:59] So Brooklyn handles this very well, in my opinion. She gets Angela to actually kind of calm down a bit and focus a little more and focus on their connection as mothers. Married mothers, perhaps. I don't know. And Angela's like, oh, Brooklyn, yeah, you're so great.

[00:41:26] Oh, man, I would love for you to sleep up here with me in the H.O.H. room. Oh, but that probably might look a little weird. So maybe we shouldn't. And Brooklyn's like, no, no, we totally could.

[00:41:36] But we'd probably want to bring up Rubina so that it seems less weird because then there'd be three people. But Rubina is already asleep, so we can't do that tonight. Maybe we'll do that tomorrow night.

[00:41:46] And Brooklyn is really, again, focusing on their connection, how it's the two of them. She's really trying to basically make a final two. She says, I want confetti on our heads. And like it's there is basically a final two here that is made.

[00:42:07] Angela even goes as far as to say, like, I also feel really good with Chelsea, but I don't have a final two with her. And so like Angela very much spilling a lot of her game. Brooklyn not spilling her game, just getting loyalty promises from Angela.

[00:42:23] Yeah, I also feel like the thing I will give Brooklyn credit for here is she somehow was able to stabilize Angela's paranoia where she was like, well, I think I think Matt was just trying to like early campaign because he thinks he's going on the block, which also like can we blame him?

[00:42:43] Like if we were going on the block, we would do the same thing. And it kind of just stopped all the things Angela was thinking and feeling about the math situation. Now, obviously, this is Matt we're talking about.

[00:42:53] This energy still could continue today, could bring the paranoia back up. But I thought she really handled that well, Brooklyn did with Angela. And yeah, the word confetti, it put it up there with grateful in the BB vernacular. It's triggering to me. I can't anymore with it. Yes.

[00:43:11] So I will say for the second time in a row now and the third person in a row, Angela has talked about concerns of Matt, concerns of Brooklyn. Concerns about Matt and has been met with reluctance, been met with de-escalation. Let's hold off on the math situation.

[00:43:32] Let's play defense this week. And Angela is agreeing. Yes, there are consensus targets. We don't need to do anything drastic. Maybe if the veto is used, we can think about Matt. But let's go with consensus for now. Matt's probably just a little worried. It's not a big deal.

[00:43:51] It is a big deal. But for people like Brooklyn, who maybe feels like I'm in with both sides, I don't need to start a war here. It may seem like less of a big deal. And that seems to be where the de-escalation is coming from.

[00:44:10] So this like, will she target Matt given that Matt is actively targeting her thing? Seems to at this point be no. It seems like the nominations are sticking. However, there's definitely a huge opportunity for some backdooring, depending on what kind of twists are available.

[00:44:30] The issue with that, of course, though, is that with three consensus, no ally pawns on the block, even if she does want to take a shot at Matt, does she have the numbers if she doesn't set it up properly with her other nominations? That's dangerous.

[00:44:50] So from my perspective here, I don't love the safer play. I don't love going after people like Kenny, Kimo and Lisa, who are all theoretically non-aligned players. Players who can be drawn into your own group. Yes, you don't want too many people. Sure.

[00:45:12] The problem is how many of those nine people are actually in the nine? How many of them are also in the Matt group? Because I can tell you it's five of them and that's concerning.

[00:45:24] Meanwhile, there's another five players who aren't aligned with either side and you're nominating three of them. Whereas maybe you could pull those people in, have them on your side and nominate three people who are actively just on the other side, actively targeting you and great at competitions.

[00:45:42] I don't know. That's just me. Salient points. You know, there's not much I can say to add on to that, especially when you're talking about Kimo being your pawn because, oh, he might get scooped up by the by the have-nots. You are there.

[00:45:58] He is. You're saying he doesn't have anybody. Pick him up. He is available. He seems nice. You seem to be OK with them. Pick him up. Other person I want to talk about real quick is T-Core, T-Core, who they say they're there.

[00:46:11] They don't want to add in because there's going to be too many people. I'm sorry, but once you have nine, might as well have 10. That's just me. Once you get past that number, you might as well add one more because sounds like they like her.

[00:46:21] They're there. They're into her, but they're not looking to recruit her, which I think that's a number left on the board.

[00:46:26] Also, we will dive into and talk about because I know there's going to be people who went to bed last night, woke up and thought for sure, Cedric and Chelsea are going to be nominees because they can't fight back because they're downgraded.

[00:46:38] They're not. They're in arguably two of the best spots in the house. Cedric is very close with Angela. So she does not plan to nominate him, which is huge. And Chelsea is very close to Angela.

[00:46:50] I think Chelsea is in a position where she probably would have been good regardless. A lot of people seem to like her. She's in with both sides. Cedric likely would be a nominee if some other people other than Angela won.

[00:47:04] There are more people looking to potentially target Cedric, but because Angela is the HOH, he should be good this week, which means neither of them are likely to see the block at all if Angela has anything to say about it.

[00:47:17] And also worth noting, the one thing that goes against them, despite them being in this group of nine, they both don't have votes and neither does Angela as the HOH. So if this group of nine does even stick together, that's six votes.

[00:47:33] And how many people stay on the block by the end of the week? If it's Kimo, Kenny and Lisa on the block and Cedric and Chelsea aren't voting and Angela is not voting, you're really starting to look at a low number of votes.

[00:47:51] And Matt, Mackenzie, maybe Tucker, you're starting to look at this is starting to get a little risky if you're looking to take out a specific target.

[00:48:00] So speaking of Kimo, though, or sorry, speaking of T-Core, T-Core was talked about between Angela and Joseph as somebody that people want Angela to put up on the block, but that Angela does not want to do it.

[00:48:20] Joseph said something along the lines of like, we don't need to if people want to take T-Core out, they can do it themselves. We're not going to do it for them, implying that there are people that would like to target T-Core.

[00:48:32] Now, I would assume that means the other side. However, Matt doesn't seem to have a whole lot of like desire to target T-Core either. They seem to be fine with T-Core. They're not like in with T-Core, but they're not seemingly actively targeting her either.

[00:48:51] So I'm not sure where it's coming from, but there is a lot of speculation. I'm not sure where it's coming from, but there is a perception at least that T-Core is a target.

[00:49:01] That's the funny thing because when Matt was vomiting his game out to Quinn, T-Core's name first comes up for me from Matt when he's speculating who the three people that could be in trouble are.

[00:49:15] And so my thought is, is this someone you named to Angela as someone that could potentially be when she was polling the audience kind of thing?

[00:49:23] He assumed that T-Core would be a target like other people assumed that she would be a target and then named her because of that. And then now Angela also thinks that she's a target and it just kind of spirals from there.

[00:49:35] And it actually kind of comes from nothing beyond just like an initial assumption. Yeah, so we'll see more developments with her. But as of right now, it doesn't seem like anybody else but Matt has really said her name for me.

[00:49:50] So to sort of run through the night and then we'll kind of run through a few of the other players that we haven't talked about. Matt continued to stay in the pantry. He continued to talk with McKenzie and Leah for a while.

[00:50:06] Now, we need to talk about Leah because McKenzie started the night very concerned about Leah and Angela. McKenzie started the night saying, we need to get Leah, Angela out. She is the leader of the other side. She needs to go.

[00:50:23] And it was like, oh, damn, I guess Angela is going to be the first target. Then we found out she was the HOH. And so McKenzie seemed to be worried that she had said some things about Angela, I think, prior to her winning the HOH.

[00:50:41] But now Angela seems to be acting different around her. So she thinks that somebody told Angela what she had said about her. And she's concerned that that person might have been Leah because Leah was around when she said it. And Leah appears to be very close to Angela.

[00:50:57] One of the reasons she would like to get Angela out is so that they can have Leah's loyalty and not have to worry about her being loyal to Angela. So Leah is included in both sides to some degree.

[00:51:08] But both sides see that she's included in both sides, unlike many of the others like Joseph, Quinn, Chelsea, Brooklyn. Many of them. Both sides see that she's kind of with both and both sides are not entirely sure if they can trust her.

[00:51:26] However, through this conversation that lasted quite a while in the pantry, there was a lot of discussion about them working together, them being a real trio.

[00:51:35] And I think in real time, we saw that Mackenzie and Matt were kind of softened on Leah and feel much better about her now, I would assume.

[00:51:46] Yeah, it's infinitely confusing because the first instance of feed we get is Mackenzie, who by the way, also goes by MJ in the house. If you ever hear someone say MJ, that's Mackenzie. Mackenzie's MJ. Mackenzie was very paranoid.

[00:52:03] About Angela to the point where she said, we need to get rid of Angela so we can bring Leah in. Bring Leah back by the end of the night. Leah and Mackenzie has spent most of the night together chilling.

[00:52:16] So it is hard to figure out where Leah lies in all this. I because I want to know because Leah has a final three allegedly with Mackenzie and Matt that she proposed is Matt's words. So I'm curious how much validity there is to that.

[00:52:32] I'm curious how close she is to Angela because it seemed like she was until Angela started getting a little paranoid.

[00:52:38] So Leah's spot in the house is very interesting to me, but it's worth noting that despite both sides being a little unsure about her, I don't think she's in danger on either side right now. So here's here's the thing about Matt.

[00:52:50] When he was talking to Quinn, he told Quinn about Leah proposing a final three with him and Mackenzie because he wasn't sure if he trusted Mackenzie or sorry if he trusted Leah. Yeah, he also told Quinn about Tucker will talk about Tucker.

[00:53:09] But basically, he said, Tucker proposed a final two with me.

[00:53:13] Then he told Mackenzie and Leah also that Tucker proposed the proposed final two with him and also told them about his thing with Quinn and Joseph and specifically that Joseph approached him saying like, hey, we can work together secretly. You have your own group of four or whatever.

[00:53:36] I'll make my own group before we'll bring them down to the end and then we'll screw them both over.

[00:53:40] Really outing Joseph's long term pitch to him and outing Joseph as a very cutthroat player because I think because he just spent like three hours talking with Leah and now feels better about the final three with Leah and Mackenzie than the other one.

[00:53:59] And so he ends up ratting both out because he felt, I think, better about both in different moments. And so like Matt is just spilling almost everything all the time. So who knows how this goes?

[00:54:16] This is a thing that I think a lot of players don't take advantage of in the opening days of the game is that there are lots of players like this that will spill way too much early because they're not sure where they're going.

[00:54:31] And in any given moment, they might change their minds on where they're going and start opening up about things that they don't think matter anymore, only to then go back and be like, actually, this is where I'm truly aligned. And that can be really, really telling.

[00:54:46] The kind of information you get early on, a lot of people would be like, oh yeah, Matt told me about a proposed final two with Tucker or like Matt told me about a proposed final three with Mackenzie and Leah. But it didn't go anywhere.

[00:54:57] I didn't hear anything about it ever again. So it probably isn't a thing. No, no, no, no. It probably is a thing. It probably is a thing. In fact, you probably hear more about it if it wasn't a thing.

[00:55:11] If you suddenly hear nothing about it, they probably just realized, oh, we should actually keep this a secret because we're actually serious about it now. You can get a lot of information.

[00:55:20] You can also get a lot of information from the fact that you were getting information at first, and now you're not getting as much information later.

[00:55:28] That means, again, perhaps that like it's like if you go on a date with somebody and they seem really into you and they're telling you a lot, and then all of a sudden, they don't want to go on future dates that often.

[00:55:38] But maybe they'll occasionally pop by because I don't know. I don't know why dating is working in this situation anymore because it's not. But like, it's like they're not into you. They're not into you. You can tell they're not into you. Stop pretending that they're into you.

[00:55:50] You know what I mean? So so Matt is very easily readable in that sense, and he is spilling a lot of information and it's only going to get worse. Yeah, I foresee Matt continuing this this whole like he's like a well-oiled machine, which how much he's spilling.

[00:56:08] I'm I'm going to personally be on storage room watch today. Not in that I want to watch it make make very clear that distinction.

[00:56:16] But I want to see if he goes back there because this could end up being his little HQ and I want to see how likely that is. Yeah. So after Mackenzie and Leah leave, Lisa joins Matt in the pantry and they start talking about like life stuff.

[00:56:36] There's there's like having a get to know you conversation. Essentially, it turns into like a therapy session for Matt as he's talking about like all of the things that he's done in the house and in his life and how strong he is and so on and so forth.

[00:56:55] Eventually, it goes comes around to game and he just again starts spilling so much. He's like, yes, so many people want to work with me, but I don't know who to go with, essentially.

[00:57:06] And he starts telling her about like various proposed alliances that people have pitched to him. And it's like this is this is Lisa, who theoretically seems to have no other game connections.

[00:57:20] So in some ways, this could be good in the sense that like he is maybe one of the first people to talk game with her.

[00:57:26] But in many other ways, she's about to hit the block probably and now has a ton of dirt on Matt, who may be socially in a rough spot soon.

[00:57:38] So like this is a very certainly not a calculated move by this by Matt and and and is just good for Lisa because a she has more ammo on Matt, which could really help get him targeted later in the week if she needs him to.

[00:57:55] B and B seemingly should make Matt more likely to want to keep her around if she is on the block, because just a few hours before he was saying, if we can get Lisa on the block, we would it would be great to vote her out.

[00:58:11] So she seemed like the most likely casualty of a revolt against Angela until this conversation that might have changed some things. Yeah, and not for nothing.

[00:58:21] Matt has been you know, we talked about how he named T-Core as someone who he thought could be a nominee Lisa someone he also said that about. So it's like he knows she could be in danger. And Matt, you made an alliance that has seven people in it.

[00:58:38] Go talk to one of them about your stuff. Why are you sharing all this with Lisa? Yeah. And by the way, it's like specifically he is telling Lisa, like, I feel awful about Angela. Like, I'm really worried that Angela is going to target me.

[00:58:51] And he even like to just to sort of like give you a little example of the kinds kind of conversation he's having. He's he's having like the like remember when Blue realized that like Jag wasn't screwing her over.

[00:59:05] Like like everyone was telling her to and she was like, oh man, Jag. I was going to really betray you. I was going to stab you and I was going to stand up there and I had the most cutthroat speech like Matt is doing that on night three.

[00:59:20] He's like, yeah, I'm not going to lie, Lisa. I got so paranoid. I saw you talking to this other person over there and I thought you were both scheming against me with Angela.

[00:59:29] I man, it's a whole and he's like down here at these like it was like a whole thing. Like, man, I was so paranoid. And it's like, how is that a good thing to say to anybody when you when you've known them for like three days?

[00:59:45] My favorite thing, one of my favorite things, because I've had a lot of favorite things, apparently the the crouching, the crouching on the table, the laying on the floor to look underneath the door.

[00:59:55] There was a lot like this wasn't just people standing around the storage room like it's a water cooler. There was a lot of movement, a lot of, you know, crunches, lunges, laying on the floor. This was a whole activity. And Matt does have the intense eyes.

[01:00:13] He has very intense eyes. The cameras love to zoom in on them. And I don't know what it is. I feel like when you have those eyes, people should or will be more likely to tell you things not the other way around.

[01:00:26] You can't have those eyes and also be the overshare. I just I don't see that that formula works. Yeah. So that's kind of where we are. Right. I want to talk about some of the other players just to give you a sense of what we know about them.

[01:00:43] Last night was very much the story of Angela and Matt. But there were there was plenty of talk about some of the other people, even though we didn't really see much of them. You know, we've already kind of discussed Brooklyn. Cam.

[01:00:55] MIA like you were lucky to have a sighting of Cam. I don't know that I heard him speak. No, he was in one group shot moment in the kitchen at one point, and then he was not there the remainder of the night.

[01:01:09] For whatever reason, he's not being talked about too much with relation to like Matt and his group. I'm sure that if Matt, you know, Matt has talked about like the bros a little bit, but just hasn't talked about Cam specifically that much.

[01:01:26] He is being talked about from Angela's side as somebody that's with with her. So who knows? But he was really just not there. Cedric was talked about again by Matt as a target. Cedric is like fairly one of the more firmly placed people on Angela's side.

[01:01:47] Like they know that he's with Angela. They were like, it's mom and son, basically. And and that's not they don't like that. Cedric also was within the Angela group, kind of what you might have expected from a 21 year old who said he was a natural leader.

[01:02:08] Like he's giving sermons literally and figuratively about like, hey, guys, this alliance is going to be so great. All we need to do is stick together. Will it be nine people to the jury?

[01:02:24] It like like explaining to people how alliances work and how it'll be great if they just work together. But meanwhile, like they're just kind of like waiting for him to finish and leave and then actually talk strategy. Like he he's you know, he's in that kind of spot.

[01:02:42] It seems right now. He wants the nine to stick so bad and he is going to be the first person, I think, to feel a lot of feelings when he realizes there's some dumb shit going on.

[01:02:54] Like people are double dipping or people are playing a lot more fluidly than we just stuck to this group and made it the jury. Because I think for him, that's the ideal situation.

[01:03:04] But again, it's going to be hard to tell, especially when five of the people that he's working with are also in another majority group on the other side. Yes. So so we'll see.

[01:03:15] He seems to recognize that he doesn't get along very well with Matt or the Alpha Bros. So, you know, he he is probably safe for the week. You can never say that with certainty, especially with twists going around.

[01:03:28] But but the question is next week, he could be in some trouble if things don't change. Chelsea, we've already kind of talked about. She seems to be in with both groups. It's hard to say exactly where her head is at this point. Joseph, same kind of deal.

[01:03:44] We've already talked about where he seems to stand trying to play both sides. I think trying to I think trying to use Matt as his like bro meat shield in with the bros so that he's not targeted by them, which is smart.

[01:03:56] But there's a lot going on that he needs to be very careful with. Kenny, as we've discussed, just seems to be a bit loosely floating around the house, not really strategically involved in much.

[01:04:10] I did like that when Brooklyn and Angela were talking, it came up that, yeah, no, Kenny out of nowhere. He's not even he was talking football like, wow, football talk might get you on the block.

[01:04:20] That's funny. Also worth adding into this in case people are listening to this later in the day. Kenny has is one of two house kids that has been awake and has proceeded to clean the entire bathroom. So good for him. Good for him.

[01:04:33] He again was being pushed as a target by Leah. He is the consensus target as according to Angela. And for what it's worth, the way Matt talked about Kenny was that like I think he's it's possible we could work with him.

[01:04:49] I feel like he would go along with the bros potentially. And Quinn was a little uncertain. Mackenzie did talk to him briefly late last night.

[01:04:59] So he is, as I said, possibly in that summer of Steve position with Fouta where it's like he might end up loosely connected to them. However, if he's targeted early, that might mean they rally around him and try to get one of the other players evicted.

[01:05:16] So who knows? Kimo again, we've already kind of talked about. We did not see him really at all on the feeds last night either.

[01:05:23] He seems based on how people are talking about him, like he's a bit too reserved at this point, which is definitely something you can recover from as long as you survive long enough to recover from it.

[01:05:35] But seems to have made that kind of rookie mistake and that may land him on the block. Yeah, and obviously we've only got one night of feed so far. So this week we can track this trend for the remainder of the week.

[01:05:48] But my thought about Cam and Kimo is this a bit of slop fatigue that they were already in bed and gone because that's definitely possible. And maybe with Kimo it's impacting his social abilities more so.

[01:06:00] And also always worth pointing out that reserved and doesn't talk as much with us is also kind of not necessarily code for, but like a thing that you may feel about a person who just doesn't fit in with you as much. Right.

[01:06:21] Because like they're not talking to you as much because you're talking about like, you know, pretty monster trucks, 20 something things. You know what I mean? Like that, like he doesn't relate to as much. Right.

[01:06:37] And he's had like, you know, he comes from a different place and like, you know, and then that becomes he's reserved and it's his fault that we're not talking to him as much.

[01:06:45] And they even said this about Kenny, actually, because Kenny also as one of the older players is going to have a much harder time relating. And they were like making fun of how Kenny was like, oh, you guys don't talk game with me as much.

[01:06:58] You don't got you guys don't talk to me as much. They were like, you can talk to us, dude. And it's like there is something there. So when we say chemo appears to be reserved based on what the other players are saying, is he actually a reserve player?

[01:07:15] Is this a conscious decision that he's making to be more reserved? Maybe. But it's also possible that he just doesn't fit in quite as well initially. And and for that reason, they're pegging him as reserved and that it's that it's like an active choice.

[01:07:29] But really, it's just that like they're spending three hours in the pantry and it would be awkward if he walked in. Like, you know, and that's the thing from that's why I'm talking about the I'm questioning it.

[01:07:42] And I'm thinking maybe slop fatigue could be a factor because if anything, those the preseason interviews we saw of chemo, he's anything but reserved. The man is all energy all the time.

[01:07:51] So I'm very curious if it's the dynamics with the house guests or if it's the the food's not hit like that. Yeah. Leah, who knows? Honestly, she spent a ton of time with McKenzie.

[01:08:06] But based on her like preseason interviews, the mat group does not really seem like the place she would land. It is more of the bro group. But honestly, who knows?

[01:08:19] She was very hard to read for me because most of the conversation was like just hanging out rather than like active strategy. And I definitely just feel like Leah for me is a wait and see at this point.

[01:08:35] I feel the same way that the house guests do, which is just like I don't know where she stands. Yeah, I mean, to be fair to her, we didn't see here for like the first half of the night. And we were like on where's we're on Leah watch.

[01:08:47] And then once we did see her, she was in a room with Matt where it's hard to get a word in edgewise because Matt's just talking. And most people were smart enough to not respond and just not along and not give him any info.

[01:08:58] So I feel like Leah is very TBD for me. And I don't mean the name of the unnamed alliance, which they they did float some names around later that night. Yeah, which well, we can talk about how you feel about those names because I'm curious.

[01:09:10] Lisa, we again, we've mostly mentioned but like I think did do a fairly good job talking to Matt later in in the night. Again, I feel like that's only good for her. Mackenzie felt like she would be a little like paranoid as a as an early play.

[01:09:33] Like again, like talking about targeting the age well before the age of ages even made their nominations. She does have a power. I assume the deep fake, but it could theoretically be. So let's ask.

[01:09:47] Let's let's talk about this because you might immediately debunk what I'm about to say. We don't do they know they have the powers yet or no. Do they know they want to know? Because McKenzie is not acting like she knows she has something.

[01:10:01] Um, I would assume they do. I would think it's been long enough like you would know, but I think they do. Okay. So then this is this is just McKenzie being paranoid whilst also having something in the old back pocket.

[01:10:15] Yeah, I mean, I think it's I think it's because like I don't think she's paranoid. Like I'm worried I'm going to be evicted. No more like I'm I'm worried about like people ratting out my stuff basically.

[01:10:29] Yeah, but but but like early on that, like the feeds came on and McKenzie was really like going on about this and talking about how she like hasn't had a lot of sleep.

[01:10:39] And and so, you know, there was some concern that like, you know, is this is this bad news? Is this going to be bad for her game? Like is she going to be like a frantic player perhaps?

[01:10:53] But but I do think she seemed a lot more steady later on. In the night when she was like talking with Leah and stuff like that. But we'll see. Yeah, people mentioned the lack of sleep as well in the chat.

[01:11:06] I mean, listen, I'm operating on three hours of sleep right now. I seem normal. But if I do this for the next four days, I would also probably not seem like the best version of me. So that's fair. She's also her voice is very much like gone.

[01:11:19] Like I think she's either yelled like used a loud voice a lot or has talked a lot. I don't know. But her voice seemed a little bit lost as well last night. Hmm. We've talked plenty about Matt Quinn, similar to a position to Joseph.

[01:11:36] Theoretically, you know, he seems to be in with Matt. He seems to be in with Angela. A lot of people really like him. He seems to have been open about his athletic background, which, you know, is an interesting choice because on one hand, you know,

[01:11:53] that means that he could be seen as a threat.

[01:11:55] But as I mentioned with McKenzie a couple of nights ago, there is also some validity to the idea of proposing yourself or like being a physical threat in the game because it also means that you are an asset to your allies.

[01:12:09] And right now he seems to be in that asset stage. A lot of people want to work with Quinn. They like him.

[01:12:16] This could backfire later on, but it is helping him get in, get the initial sort of invite to whichever alliances he wants, which might be more valuable in the long term than trying to hide your athleticism, which you might you sort of reveal later on anyway when you start winning athletic competitions.

[01:12:36] So if anything, I kind of like the idea of like, hey, I'm really athletic. I'm going to be great at these things. And then using that to potentially get yourself invited into alliances. Now you do have to still have a great social game, of course.

[01:12:52] And then if anything, later on, you can start throwing comps and be like, yeah, it turns out Quinn sucks. We really overestimated him. Like you can you still have that option if you want. So, you know, I think that Quinn seems to be in a decent spot here.

[01:13:07] Yeah, I think there's a couple of things that work in Quinn's benefit. Number one, very sociable, very much getting along with a lot of people. Clearly someone that people like and want to include in their plans, which is good.

[01:13:19] I think being a social butterfly like that gives you permission to, like you said, kind of list all your assets and have people be like, damn, and he comes with this ability and this ability. Awesome. Love that. And I like him. That's good.

[01:13:32] And then the other thing, Ken, the big factor is I feel like a lot of people associate physical acumen and capabilities in this game with height and size.

[01:13:42] I think his height being 5'6", I think that works for him because he's still not going to be seen as big a threat as say a Matt, which I think it works for him there.

[01:13:52] But also it sounds like so he told them he can run a four minute mile and also mentioned that he plays soccer, but that his sister is better than him, which I think is kind of what you just said, which if he does a little poorly or he chooses to throw or something, they'll be like, well, he did say his sister's better.

[01:14:09] So like that's the thing. I feel like he has the benefit, I think, of whether he does win a lot of things like, oh, OK, he was he had mentioned I'm good with him.

[01:14:17] Or if he loses a bunch of things, they'll be like, well, maybe he overestimates himself because I kind of clocked him as maybe he can't do all those things. And I was right, which again, it's a bit of a win-win, I think, for him right now.

[01:14:28] Yeah. Rubina was not really seen too much on the feeds. She is included in the Angela thing, not really in the Matt thing. So it's hard to say exactly where she stands at this point.

[01:14:42] Really, the players to watch right now, the players in the best position obviously are the five that are theoretically included in both sides. But it could flip. It could reverse.

[01:14:56] It could be that those people end up in the hot seat, depending on how those two sides shake out and the people who were kind of chilling end up in a better spot. But right now they're in a worse spot and in a little more danger.

[01:15:08] But with Rubina, I think that's still kind of like to be seen in terms of where she stands and what kind of strategic game she has. Yeah, the only time I remember seeing Rubina was early on in the night.

[01:15:20] And we also had a moment where McKenzie apologizes to Rubina for calling her baby multiple times and says, you know, I know you're like 13 years older. I shouldn't be calling you baby. I was like, OK, well, as someone who is about what, maybe 10 years older than you.

[01:15:35] Yeah, never remind me how older, how much older I am to you. That's better. Call me baby all you want. Don't tell me that I'm 10 years older than you. That's never going to be good.

[01:15:42] But also McKenzie's calling Kenny dad and Angela mom's like, you've been there three days. How are they your parents? Let's let's stop. Although I guess, you know, some people have given parental titles to some of these house guests outside the house and they've met them for three days.

[01:15:56] So who am I to judge? Who are we to judge? So, you know, I think we've talked about all the extent to which she was talked about as well. So we'll have to wait and see where she stacks up once we see more of her. Tucker, though.

[01:16:15] Was talked about a lot. We did see him a decent amount on the feeds, but no real strategic conversations, just kind of like hanging out, cracking jokes and looking like Jim Carrey.

[01:16:27] And so as Matt told half the house, Tucker did propose the supposedly a final two with him. Matt or Tucker has a reputation for not knowing the game, not really knowing what he's doing in the game, just kind of be in there.

[01:16:48] And Matt telling people that he proposed a final two is kind of changing people's perspective on that. Like, oh, he is a little bit in this game. However, on the other hand, it's also confirming to them that he's very bad at it.

[01:17:04] So so he still very much has that perception. Both sides feel like he's potentially workable. Matt again says, I feel like if you know, if I told Tucker to do something, he'd go with the bros.

[01:17:15] So they both kind of feel like they can get Tucker to come along with them. Where Tucker actually stands as a player, where his head actually is at remains to be seen because I haven't really seen him talk strategy yet.

[01:17:28] No, there's not been a lot of strategy in that regard right now, at least. And I did mention this last night. I feel like this is something that I would say is bad, like not trying to get involved early on is bad.

[01:17:40] You want to get some, you know, lay down some foundations, at least work some people build that connection.

[01:17:47] He's kind of disassociated, but I think right now that's kind of the best spot he could be in potentially because this house seems very much high energy running on paranoia, people adding and subtracting people from their groups every hour.

[01:18:05] If he can stay out of that beef, that could keep him safe for a little bit. So long as he continues cracking jokes and warming up to people and having to do a warm up to him because that I'm not quite sure where he stands in quite yet.

[01:18:19] So I think that's basically the overview here from the first night in terms of where things appear to be. Take it all with a grain of salt. We'll be back next, next. We'll be back tomorrow morning to talk through what happens today.

[01:18:40] In the meantime, I will be live. I am still live on Twitch. It's just, you know, it's I'll be right back on Twitch as soon as this ends. I'll be back on Twitch again. So you can go over to Twitch. The stream has been on since last night.

[01:18:54] It will continue to be on until later tonight. So stay with me with the 24 hour stream by a plushie. It's a good time. But but we'll probably know more by tomorrow and you can hang out with me throughout the day as we learn more today.

[01:19:09] I assume nominations will occur at some point today, but who knows? But anything else, Pouya, that we should mention? I have a couple of quick bites here for you.

[01:19:19] We did have a funny moment where they were in the bathroom and Matt asks Tucker, I believe, and says, has anyone ever made anything with the slop? No chance anyone in this house has ever made anything with slop before. I was like, all right, Matt. Matt said this.

[01:19:35] Meanwhile, Angela is convinced that Matt knows the game because he's working and trying to make these alliances. She was clearly not in the bathroom when this was said. So that was funny. I did find that comical to me personally.

[01:19:47] And I really, really, really want to give kudos to Cedric and Chelsea and obviously Chelsea more because she's better connected. I was saying this. If I was downgraded to this level, I would be so insecure and so paranoid and so scared in that house.

[01:20:06] The fact that they find themselves in as good a spot as they do the downgrade that I thought was a destruction actually ended up being immunity for the week, which is nice.

[01:20:14] But it also I will say it also does help that a lot of the houses basically said it would basically be mean as hell if you nominated these two because honestly, that was the easy out this week.

[01:20:25] It says the people who mostly voted no to adding a player in the game. Let him leave. Wasn't the point let somebody leave? Wasn't that the whole reason why you didn't let the blue angel into the house? Yeah, yeah.

[01:20:41] But no fun night, Taryn, despite it only being about three hours total. It was a good time. It definitely reminded me exactly why I would be parked at this seat for the entire summer. Lovely.

[01:20:53] We also did get our first try at the lack of rewind feeds, which could be a problem. It was definitely a little bit more of a struggle than even I was anticipating, and I was already dreading not having it. I forgot just how much it comes in handy.

[01:21:12] Yeah, definitely annoying. Oh, yeah. So that is the first live feed update of the season.

[01:21:20] Now, there's something that we want to try with the updates this season, which is that like, you know, from my perspective, at least one of the issues I've had with live feed updates is that if I go back to a previous season, it's very difficult to find the update that I would like to see.

[01:21:45] To rewatch and check, because it's just the date. And it's like, well, what happened on that date? When did this happen? When did Matt bring in Bowie Jane? You know what I mean? When did that happen? I need to check. I need to check what that conversation was.

[01:22:09] I need to go back to a live feed update. But how do I find it? I mean, luckily for me, I have notes. But it's very difficult if you don't have notes to find the right live feed update unless you're just going in sequential order.

[01:22:26] So we want to try something, which is that we want to try to name the videos, name the updates. We'll still include like the date and the day and stuff.

[01:22:37] But if we can come up with a name for this update every day, then it'll be a little bit easier to understand what we talked about and what is the name of the day, essentially. And so the problem with that is that I'm bad at naming things.

[01:22:57] So that's where you guys come in. Please suggest some titles for what the name of this update should be. And you can suggest some titles every day, and it'll be a fun little game that we play. So Storage Wars. That is hilarious.

[01:23:16] I was thinking the Pantry and the Paranoia, but Storage Wars could be better. Yeah. So we will monitor some suggestions. Storage Wars Matt is pretty good. It's kind of like we used to do like the hashtags at the end of the podcast.

[01:23:32] Instead, we're just coming up with names of the video. And ideally, we come up with a name that works good for YouTube as well. It's also I think like we want it to be descriptive. We want it to be catchy. That's what we're kind of looking for.

[01:23:49] King of the Pantry is very fun. So I definitely think it's got to be something with Matt in the storage room, but we'll check these suggestions. I don't think I have enough sleep to decide on the spot which one we should go with.

[01:24:03] But we'll see how this works in the future and see if people like it and stuff. But as I said, I'll be back on Twitch very shortly to continue to watch through the day.

[01:24:15] But as you see on the bottom of the screen there, we also have some podcasts coming up at 1 p.m. Eastern. So in just about a half hour, I'm going to be recording again with the Jetlag Crew.

[01:24:25] Ben and Adam have been forced to watch the first two episodes of Big Brother. They've never seen an episode before. And one of them might have seen an episode here or there in the past, but they don't watch Big Brother.

[01:24:42] And we're going to try to explain it to them and see how they react as game designers and show creators. So there's a very fun podcast I'm looking for. I think it's going to be very entertaining, very fun. So check that out. That'll be releasing today.

[01:24:59] It might be live, actually. I'm not sure. Maybe Sam knows. And then it is live. It is live. So it will be live at 1 p.m. Eastern. So tune in for that. I do think I saw that Adam has already tweeted, like, what's going on?

[01:25:18] Why am I watching the same episode again? So we might be in for some fun stuff there. And then at 3 p.m. Eastern, the BB Q&A for the patrons.

[01:25:28] If you are a patron of Rob as a podcast, you can call in and take part in the Q&A. You can also just watch if you would like in the patron group. And if you would like to become a patron, go do the patron thing.

[01:25:44] I think it's a URL that has something to do with patrons. You can probably just Google it. And it helps support the podcast because it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work that we do to stay on top of feeds, especially when you can't rewind.

[01:25:59] So we very much appreciate your patronage. It's robiswebsite.com. Thank you so much for that. So again, I'll be back on Twitch. I got plushies. It's a good time. We'll be partying. We got podcasts coming up. We got scripted shows that we're doing. All kinds of fun stuff.

[01:26:17] What do you got going on? Well, I can be found on Twitter at Puyism. If you want to see what I'm seeing on the feeds, my updates, my thoughts, feel free to check it out on Twitter. I'm also going to be live on Twitch today at 10 p.m.

[01:26:30] Doing my weekly Friday night stream. Twitch.tv slash Puya. Just my first name. Lovely. Easy to keep in mind. As far as podcasts go, Traders New Zealand has been fun with Shannon. Check that out. We're having a good time there. We just wrapped up MILF Matter.

[01:26:43] Myself, Rob Chappell, and Jenny were on for that one. So that was fun. 90 Day Fiance is the show that never ends. Happily Ever After episode 18 went live this week with myself and Sasha. Just found out there's going to be a five-week tell-all. Five episodes worth of tell-all.

[01:26:58] Some shows we say we need more. Some shows we're like, God damn, cut it down. Five is too much. But they are having all the couples live in a house Big Brother style while the tell-all gets filmed. So who knows how that's going to go?

[01:27:10] We'll see. Keep up with that if you're watching 90 Day. But other than that, I'm happy to be back, Taren. Fridays are going to be a delight as always. And I'm feeling good about two out of my three draft picks. So can't complain.

[01:27:24] Yes. Well, thank you all so much for joining us here today. The live feed updates are always my favorite part of the season. It's very exciting to be starting a whole new season with all of you. It's good to be back.

[01:27:40] And I'm looking forward to spending the morning with all of you for the next, I guess, what, like 87 days now? Yeah. 87 ago? Something along those lines. Maybe it's 86 more days after this one. But either way, thank you all so, so much for joining us here.

[01:27:59] And I will see all of you next time. See you next time. We'll do it again.