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[00:01:46] Welcome to our live feed update for August 3rd. I'm your host, Taran Armstrong, and I'm here to update you on everything that happened yesterday on the Big Brother 26 live feeds. It was day 18 in the house and I'm a little ill.
[00:02:05] I'm a little sick, so I apologize if the energy level is not quite there. But luckily for me, we had a pretty low energy day on the feeds here as well. A fairly slow day, although things got a little more interesting into the night.
[00:02:28] And with me to talk about it all is Iman. How are you doing, Iman? You see what y'all did to this man? Y'all see what getting rid of flashbacks can do to your local Taran? Okay, it'll F them up.
[00:02:40] Because now they have to sit here and be extra intentional about catching every damn detail of the feeds to the point where you have driven his body to destruction. I blame you, Paramount Plus and CBS and everybody else that's involved in that decision. Anyway, I'm good.
[00:02:55] I am not sick. I am very tired, though, so I have like a lot of shots of caffeine in this coffee. But I'm excited to be here. My first update of the season. You know, yeah, pretty, pretty easy day to talk about. Pretty easy. Yes.
[00:03:09] So let's pull up the graphic. Graphic. Of course, we mentioned it yesterday that Cedric won the HOH. And very quickly, Kenny volunteered for the block. Angela said, I get it. You can put me on the block. Same as last week.
[00:03:32] And then there was a hunt for the third nominee. And the two major contenders were Leah and Rubina. But Joseph entered the fray as a potential nominee for a little bit. But then he said no. So then Cedric did not consider Joseph anymore after that.
[00:03:56] Cam ran defense for Leah, even though Leah tried to get Cam to go up as a pawn. And then it settled in on Rubina. However, as you probably heard yesterday on the update that I was already talking about
[00:04:13] the morning here of day 18, because it was brought to my attention that one Tucker was volunteering while we were doing the update yesterday. And I can confirm now that he did, in fact, volunteer for the block.
[00:04:33] I'm going to start calling him tuck and roll because he just seems to be tucking and rolling onto the block, you know, week after week after week at this point. Like, what is he going to do next week? Just like it's just.
[00:04:44] I mean, I understand, you know, the twist and sort of like the sort of excitement that he can inject to the game, but also just how it really does seem to be stifling the gameplay
[00:04:53] because the very fact that the HOH has to put three people up there, it sort of behooves you and your allies to want to volunteer more often than they actually would, because it's
[00:05:03] like, OK, well, at least we know that there is going to be two targets on the block. You just need one more body. Fine, I'll do it. We seem to have a success rate so far of no one in the alliance going home.
[00:05:15] So let's see if it persists into the next week. A little boring, but at the same time, like I feel like if I were in the house, I'd probably end up like hoping that one of my allies also volunteered.
[00:05:27] But one thing I really wish that Angela would have done was just, I don't know, like, look, we know that she deserves to be on the block for what happened last week. But at least I wanted to see her fight a little bit more, be like, please, please,
[00:05:38] I understand. I'm sorry for what happened last week, but I was just on the block. Can we please not do it again? Is it like, can you think of anybody else? I kind of wanted to see if she would.
[00:05:47] You know, tussle with Cedric a little bit more because they do have somewhat of a nice relationship and I feel like she made him cry before. So I'm like, maybe there's a way in which she can guilt trip him and not to be on the block.
[00:05:59] And then one of his extra nominees could have been a little bit more interesting and got a little bit more movement within this bigger alliance in the house. So I'm a little disappointed, but what can you do?
[00:06:11] Yeah, I mean, honestly, of anyone left in the house, Cedric is probably the person she has one of the best relationships with and had maybe the best chance of staying off the block for. But no fight there. No fight. She was just ready to go.
[00:06:29] It's like, put me on the patch or it's fine. They there are a few kind of theories for like, why is Tucker volunteering again? From basically the fact that he keeps bragging about how he dominated the AI Arena competition,
[00:06:45] probably just wants to win another competition to wanting screen time. He mentioned that, hey, being on the block means I'm going to be in the episodes. My mom's going to see me on the episode. Mom, she gets really worried.
[00:06:56] So it'd be nice for her to see me in the episodes. To which my response is, if she gets really worried, why would you want to see you on the block? Fair enough. And then finally, I think the most popular one, because it's the most shippy one,
[00:07:13] is that he was hearing that Rubina is going to be on the block and decided, you know what, I will do it instead. And I'm curious to see what he will say, because I imagine he will say something in the diarum about this.
[00:07:29] Curious to see what he will say in the diarum about this decision. Yeah, I'm curious too, because we've all sort of been tracking the... Do they have a name? Tubina? Rucker? Tubina, I think is the most common one. Yeah, because Rucker sounds absolutely crazy.
[00:07:48] I mean, Tubina's pretty wild too. But yeah, because it kind of reminds me of Tubi, that horrible streaming service. But I digress. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, they did sort of have a bit of a moment on the feeds yesterday where, you know,
[00:08:05] she was freaking out about being up on the block and he like literally drops his clothes and walks over to her and gives her like a 10 minute hug saying, you have nothing to be worried about. So I can definitely understand.
[00:08:15] I think there might be a little bit of that in there. I wouldn't be surprised. But I mean, OK, again, fine. If you really think that you're going to end up being safe, that's fine.
[00:08:29] I kind of wonder, like, are him and Kenny sort of like trying to borrow from like this same sort of like play possum strategy where it's like, you know, I'm not going to let on how much I really, really want to be here.
[00:08:41] I'm going to tell everybody I want to go home or and or I want to go on the block so that I can pounce in the end. I don't know how likely that is. I'm I'm I'm telling every guest I have, I'm refusing to entertain any conversations of
[00:08:55] Kenny. I just like in my mind and this is like very it's very self-centered, but like I just just refuse to allow myself to believe that somebody like this. Yeah, no, we never mind. Never mind. I know.
[00:09:19] A Tucker is still pushing for MJ to be the block to be on the block, even over himself. He still thinks that they should be flushing MJ's power. Cedric is not a not fond of that idea, though.
[00:09:34] Cedric also really not fond of putting Tucker on the block and is basically even after Tucker volunteers going to go around looking for basically anyone else to volunteer. It's it's a wild series of events as he like is like hat in hand as H.O.H.
[00:09:55] just running around the house like, hey, yes, what do you think? I was a total vibe I got yesterday. I was like this this dude is literally Oliver Twist. It's just like, please, sir, can I can you go on the block for me, please?
[00:10:10] Can I have another nominee? Can I have another volunteer? Yeah. I think, you know, part of it is because like the week sort of have been so it's been you know, it's been very laissez faire.
[00:10:26] And I feel like a lot of people just, you know, after the Hurricane Angela, you're just looking for something easy and nice and just like good and calm. And I think that he's like one of the youngest people in there, too.
[00:10:38] So I feel like there's like a little bit of like naivete when it comes to that. And like less of that cutthroat energy that someone older might have. So, yeah, I mean, it's
[00:10:49] it doesn't seem to be ruffling a lot of feathers because everyone just wants to stay off the block. So in a sense, I don't think that it's like doing him any harm. It's just not necessarily something that is fun to watch.
[00:11:02] Well, ultimately, they do find a solution and he finds the solution weirdly while talking with Kenny, because he's talking with Kenny and Tucker comes in. And the solution is he is going to put Tucker up on the block after all.
[00:11:21] Kenny's going to win the veto, maybe and not use it or whatever the case may be. But he's going to make sure he stays on the block. He stays on the block and to seal the whole deal,
[00:11:33] to really like lock in that both Tucker and Kenny are going on the block. They make a final three. Us three to the end with two of you on the block on my HOH. I want to go to the end, but I also want to go home.
[00:11:57] So if we could try to figure out a way to make that happen, like I'll go home. But y'all will go to the end and I will make sure that you get to the end. Because I'll go home. It's just like, why are we doing this?
[00:12:11] Why are we doing this? And it's just so this shouldn't happen. This isn't normal. This isn't normal where one of your allies is HOH and you're talking about making it to the end. But you're also talking about going on the block and potentially going home.
[00:12:26] Like what is this conversation? Yeah. Listen, they really want to bro it up. They really want to take out some of the women. And and if that's if that's the goal, if that's like the thing driving, Kenny's like maybe a couple more weeks.
[00:12:50] Yeah, it's like a little Energizer bunny all of a sudden just like, oh, OK, I can bro down real quick. But if I happen to fall off the wagon along the way. Oh, well. OK. All right. All right. They're going to shake it up. Come on. They're shakers.
[00:13:10] He can shimmy shake right out of the house for all I care. Yeah, enough. Enough. So they lock in a final three alliance and and then like the shakers, just the shape. I think so. Something like that. God, just the shakers. God damn. We're in the trenches.
[00:13:38] Well, listen, they are. They're shaking things up. Never before has a final three alliance been H.O.H nominee and nominee. And that is, of course, what happens? Tucker, Kenny, Angela on the block. Yeah, that's real shook. That is real shooketh.
[00:13:56] People will just stop saying that in the D.R. when it comes to these games and in Survivor, because there's always people that are on the show that are like, I just can't can't wait to just shake things up. And I'm like.
[00:14:08] Everything is still on its right side. I don't I'm not trembling. Nothing seems to be moving. Yeah. Lots of fun. Thanks for that. Yeah, yeah, I made a tweet yesterday. I said, oh, man, looks like they finally got flashbacks to start working
[00:14:30] because I'm looking at the feeds and seeing last week's nominations. And I felt bad because a lot of people are like, oh, you had me there first. Oh, damn, that sucks. Well. We can only wish.
[00:14:54] I listen, I honestly I almost wrote this is a joke in parentheses at the bottom, but then no joke. No, no, no, no. You got it. Look, if y'all thought that there was actually flashbacks coming just from that. Oh, we are in we are in the trenches.
[00:15:14] What can I tell you? Hungry. So, man, the feeds got slow after the nomination. Yeah. Not a lot was happening. There's you know, there was a conversation between Cedric and Chelsea about like, OK, what happens if we do need a renom?
[00:15:39] And Chelsea was pushing it should be Leah. She was saying, Leah, I think you could put up Leah. And he was like, but I don't want to put up Leah and then have her not go home and still have MJ and Leah like now against me.
[00:15:54] She said, I think Leah, I think we have the votes to send her home if she goes up. So there is talk of a Leah back door. If one of the nominees uses the veto on themselves,
[00:16:08] which is an actual thing that we have to talk about because some of them might not. So Leah in some trouble. I don't understand this logic because you already know. Cedric, already, you know that Leah has had your name in her mouth. About going up and going out.
[00:16:29] So I don't understand why it's this. I don't want to do it because then they'll be against. They're already against you. It reminded me so much of I caught a stream of Cody Calafiore's like recently after he had won
[00:16:40] Big Brother 22, and he was going over like strategies to win the game. And one of the things that he always kept coming back to was you never want to give anybody a reason to go after you because like once you do that,
[00:16:53] like once you like release the floodgates, then it's like then like all bets are off. And I'm like, but why wait when you already know what's going to happen? Like you knew that there were people coming after you and you.
[00:17:05] There's no reason for you to wait for them to be vocal about it. They've already been vocal about it. You know as much your allies are telling you as much. So I don't understand why it's this. Let's just have like this.
[00:17:16] You know, walk on an eggshells until somebody decides to do something. It's just it feels strange. That is like his mindset. But I mean, I guess it's like that also is like that wishful thinking thing where it's
[00:17:27] like, well, she hasn't said it to me and I haven't seen it with my own eyes yet. So until that happens, I have to pretend like there's a facade. So just in case, you know, but that would be that would be smarter if you were then
[00:17:39] also trying to go to Leah and talk to her, but you're not doing that either. So it's like. What are we waiting for? Exactly. It very much is like if you know there's a problem, you should either be attacking the problem or defending against the problem,
[00:17:55] not just hoping that it doesn't exist anymore. So speaking of Quinn very much wants Angela gone. There's some talk of getting Kenny out because despite the fact that Kenny wants to leave, he is still seemingly vehemently anti-woman in the house talking about women's alliances
[00:18:19] and talking about targeting the women. And so the women are kind of like, I don't care if he doesn't want to be here. He's still quite annoying strategically for us. So maybe it would be better to take Kenny out. But Quinn is like, are you kidding?
[00:18:33] Like we just kept Angela one more week when I really wanted her gone. There's no way I'm letting Angela stay this week, too. So there's a little bit of tension there as well. Yeah, it's kind of funny.
[00:18:45] I think it would be so much more iconic of all the women were like, oh, he wants to go. Well, keep his ass here and then so he can be surrounded by all these girls, all these women and let his ass walk out on his own.
[00:19:02] So that's really like where most of the day falls. I guess one other thing, it's not super separate from what we're about to talk about. But it's funny because there's more talk of it happening right now is that Quinn is very much onto Kenny being a cop.
[00:19:21] No, it gives me major cop vibes. He was saying last night and now today he's talking more about how he thinks Kenny's a cop because he's bald and the show loves to bring on cops who pretend they aren't cops.
[00:19:36] I mean, and that that American flag tattoo is quite the giveaway, too. Like I feel like not a lot of people just have the American flag on their body. So. That that tracks that tracks they do love, they love the cops.
[00:19:51] What's funny is that if this rumor starts spreading, Kenny might think that Cedric spread it because he admitted to Cedric he was a cop the night before. And it would be funny if he was like, nobody could have known unless Cedric told. It's like nice work, detective.
[00:20:12] Can't wait for the next case. Yeah. So, OK, here's the main story of the day. This is where things actually got a little interesting because all day long, Joseph has wanted to to get the collective to meet up.
[00:20:27] Now, Joseph, of course, has nothing else going on really other than the collective, except for his renewed sort of connection to Tucker, which happened the day before. The Renaissance. Yeah. Yeah, Tucker.
[00:20:43] He had he had early on after he gave up on Matt onto Tucker to be his like comp piece that he used as a weapon, as he describes and and renewed that relationship the night before Tucker told Joseph about Quinn's power.
[00:21:00] And Joseph is otherwise very all in on the collective. He was a big part of trying to form it initially. But then Angela called it a low budget performance and it kind of died on the vine. But Joseph has single handedly been trying to keep it alive.
[00:21:18] And so he he worked to get a meeting going because there have been zero alliance meetings all season. And and Joseph, you know, he's a fan of the show. He recognizes that alliance meetings can be effective, although he might have also
[00:21:37] recognized that being a hyacinth in an alliance meeting might not be effective. But, you know, right, right, right. So he set a time and it was very much one of those things where it's like,
[00:21:52] I don't know if anybody else has this experience, but you're like, yeah, let's totally hang out. We'll definitely hang out at some point. And then it never happens. They're like, well, no, we're totally well.
[00:22:00] And then at some point, just like, all right, we need to just set a date. And then we will finally do it if we actually be like, OK, on this day, let's just hang out. That was this collective meeting. It was like at 1230.
[00:22:13] In the HOH room, yeah, collective meeting be there or be square. And and so most of the people. Some people said, yeah, I'll see you out there. Yeah, I mean, you know, not a bad shout from Joseph.
[00:22:35] Definitely, you know, you do want to make sure that people feel included. You know, he mentioned that that was what was sort of like maybe that's why, like T-Core and Kimo might feel a little disconnected is because there isn't. You know, you guys haven't sat down.
[00:22:49] And part of that was because Angela sort of was a big roadblock to that. So they kind of ousted her out for Brooklyn. But yeah, I think I I do think that it happening so surgically
[00:23:02] in the way that you just described can sometimes leave people also feeling like. OK, this doesn't feel organic anymore because it just had to be like, what are we scheduling play dates now? That's that's how this is going to work. OK, all right.
[00:23:15] Well, she didn't get this from the beginning, but OK. Yeah, pretty much. Now there is another small, funny side plot here, which is that Joseph is annoyed that Brooklyn has been invited to the alliance because she was not an original part of the alliance.
[00:23:34] But of course, she's in every other that actually exists. And so it just so happened that like she like she already knew about it. And it was like, oh, it's a little bit Brooklyn's here. And he's like, how did Brooklyn get the invite? He doesn't even know.
[00:23:51] And now he's not annoyed because he dislikes Brooklyn or because like he doesn't want Brooklyn to be a part of the alliance. He's annoyed because, as he warns Cedric later, Brooklyn is smart. She's going to realize that she was the last person invited to this alliance.
[00:24:09] And therefore, at the bottom, we can't have that. She's going to do something about it. Very funny coming from Joseph. Yeah. Yeah, very much so. And I do also wish that he would have gone one step further in his questioning about like, how did that happen?
[00:24:29] Who told her? How did she get invited? Because we know it was like members of the Pentagon that filled her in. So you would think, OK, you know how alliances work, you know that there are probably sub alliances within the alliance.
[00:24:42] Who do you think told her about it? And why haven't they told you about it telling her? So I'm hoping that this starts to like get his wheels turning. I mean, he did a lot of cam talking last night.
[00:24:53] So it feels like he is sort of trying to, you know, figure out this structure. And him and Cedric do sort of agree that they're going to, you know, keep an eye, even though Cedric, you know, like a little bit more in with her than he is.
[00:25:07] Yeah, I mean, very, very interesting. Interesting. Yes. Yeah, he it's the conversation with him and Cedric where he was like, hey, you know, we we should be careful about about Brooklyn being invited because she's smart. She's going to realize she's the last person invited.
[00:25:27] It was very funny on many levels, because obviously Joseph is like at the bottom of the collective, which barely exists in the first place and doesn't recognize. And he's worried that Brooklyn is going to recognize that she's at the bottom of this
[00:25:41] non-existent alliance, but also because he's saying it to Cedric. And there's a double meaning here that Joseph doesn't even know about, which is that Brooklyn has realized she's at the bottom of an alliance that Cedric invited her into the Pentagon. So it's like an actually very correct read.
[00:26:01] But for a fake situation and the fake situation is the one that he should recognize he's in. It's very good. It's it works on many levels. Anyway, the collective come together and and they have a meeting and Joseph is very much running this meeting.
[00:26:22] He's like, listen, I don't want to be doing all the talk and then proceeds to do all the time. Kimo is sleeping downstairs. He is not he does not end up getting into the meeting. They Joseph runs this meeting.
[00:26:38] I really want to set the tone, the vibe, I should say. If Lisa had organized this meeting, the vibe would have been totally different. Oh, oh, my God, everywhere. But unfortunately for them, Lisa was not there. And so this meeting was the most low energy.
[00:26:59] It was like this was like a meeting of eight me's right now because I'm sick. Like it was like. Yeah, yeah. This was a company call, OK? This is a company call that you got like on Friday at like 4 p.m.
[00:27:15] when you are just trying to get out. Very much that very much that indeed. Yeah, I was shocked that that Joseph sort of like did sort of run point as much as he did because of the fact that he has been trying to stay so.
[00:27:35] You know, on the lower key side of things. So when he was on the talking in the beginning, I was like, oh, hold on there, buddy. Like, you sure you want to, you know, initiate everything right now? So yeah, I definitely had that thought going in.
[00:27:48] Yeah, so he's running this meeting and and they agree Angela should be the target. And he should probably be next. They discuss renom options, Rubina or Leah. And and Joseph is like, yes, this is going so well, guys. I just feel like we just need to stick together.
[00:28:11] We just need to make this simple and easy. Like don't nobody get too cute with anything? You know, hey, like seasons that the seasons that are the most boring are the ones where things are easy. They're like, oh, so are we going to be boring?
[00:28:26] And he's like, yeah, but who cares? And then Brooklyn Johnson, she's like, that's why we created Young Cedric. Oh, wait, I think I missed that the first time watching. Not Young Cedric. Young Cedric is their contribution to making their season not boring. Oh, my God. Oh, God.
[00:28:52] Yeah, I mean, I hate it. I mean, I get it because like again, like as a fan of the show, you want to watch things, you know, we want to see dynamic stuff going on in the house. But if you really, really want to win sometimes.
[00:29:05] Yeah, like it is, you know, trying to keep the game on a leash can be very effective in getting you towards the end. But I hate that like Joseph admitted to knowing that and then saying who cares? You could have at least just not said anything.
[00:29:18] Because now it just makes me even more upset that it's happening. So, uh, so Joseph continues to run the meeting. They kind of they kind of like, all right, so we're going to do this. We're going to be together. We're not going to question anything like we're solid.
[00:29:35] We're going to run this game. It's going to be great. And everyone is like, yeah, sounds great, Joseph. And like, so done. Like, yeah, I think that's that's about it. Oh, OK. All right. Well, thanks, everyone for coming to the company call.
[00:30:02] Hope you enjoy the rest of your night. Sleep well. And they all kind of start shuffling out. And and then Joseph, after talking to Cedric, also leaves. He's buzzing. He goes out into the backyard. He goes up to the balcony. He's like, let's go. This is exhilarating.
[00:30:25] Oh, man. Making alliances and big brother is exhilarating. This is who? All right. And it's just like, I don't know how he got that. And from the meeting, he was just this is I love your analogy, Amon, because it really is like like trust fund VP calls a
[00:30:47] company meeting that everyone hates being at the whole time. And then afterwards is like, I'm so good at my job. They were pumped. They loved the music that I had to intro myself. Oh, my God. So inspirational. Productivity is going to shoot up 300 percent. Yeah.
[00:31:11] With your powers combined. No, I don't know, man. It's a it was it was interesting. I mean, again, I was kind of I was glad that he was sort of. You know, talking about the Brooklyn situation again.
[00:31:24] So I'm hoping that he continues to pull at that thread because that's where things can get very interesting. But yeah, it's not I don't think I would have expected this. But I feel like I think that he has maybe that this warped
[00:31:38] perception of the house where it's like it's been so, you know, sort of like topsy turvy a little bit since the Angela H.O.H. And then people try to sort of try to cool things down with Chelsea being empowered that I feel like he thinks now
[00:31:53] that he's been lulled into the sense of, well, there's no way that real things could have been happening in the house without me yet, because like it's been pretty part of the course so far. So let me be the first one to initiate things.
[00:32:04] And it's like, oh, that one of the first things that you should know about Big Brother is that if you're sitting still, someone else is moving at all times. It might not be the whole house. It might not even be the majority of the house.
[00:32:16] But somebody in there is doing something else without you. You have to account for that at all times. Yeah, it's it now to me, to his credit, he does. He does say, you know, making the lights. I mean, it's very exhilarating.
[00:32:32] It was a lot more awkward than I thought it would be. So, yes, go there. Go there. Stay there. Think about that. He starts talking about end game plans. He would really love to bring Cedric to the end because he
[00:32:48] thinks nobody respects Cedric in the game and that he can beat Cedric in the final two, which everyone is dunking on him for. I will join them because I totally disagree with him here. I think that he is exactly what Cedric he is explaining Cedric
[00:33:03] to be and Cedric is not. I think that, you know, I don't know that everyone like super respect Cedric as a game player, but they all really like Cedric the very least. And some of them do respect Cedric as a game player, and they
[00:33:16] think that he is downplaying his abilities. His next targets are MJ, Rubina and Kenny after Angela. He says he wants to use Tucker as a weapon, and he's not sure what to tell Tucker at this point. We're going to find a quick answer to that.
[00:33:34] But, hey, listen, this is fun. This is great. You know, hey, you might think I'm just laying back. They're all underestimating me. I'm just doing nothing. But there's a purpose behind everything I do when I'm sitting out by the pool. I'm not just hanging out.
[00:33:52] I'm being seen by the pool and I'm watching people. Is the purpose behind everything I do? I'm here to play aggressively. That's what I'm here to do. So watch out because, hey, I'm the star of the show is what he says after he called to the side.
[00:34:10] So Joseph exit stage left and stage right. Joey Rodriguez. That's where we're at now. He's in the second stage of his evolution. I didn't think we'd see the day, but it looks like it's happening. Yeah, Joe Joseph, the star of the show. And listen.
[00:34:39] He's not wrong about this podcast. At least he's a star of this podcast. Yeah. You know, I think someone that was hold on there reminds me somebody that was controlling his Instagram. I think he has an official Instagram being run by like family
[00:34:52] or friends, and it was after the draft podcast. Someone sent this saying, oh, I think it's gone now. Damn it. I should have saved it. It was something along the lines of like, I won't let you down, Rob, because Rob drafted him or whatever.
[00:35:09] Something about a huge shout out to the podcast. We love Joey Rodriguez, something like that. I can't remember what it was, but it's just they seem to be just as confident in Joseph as Joseph is as confident in Joseph. So you know what? I love it.
[00:35:26] Very funny stuff. Now, after the diorama, he is going to talk to Tucker. And this is late into the night. Like Tucker's he's frustrated. It's hot. Can't sleep. So he talks with Joseph and Joseph tells him all about the collective and the meeting and fills him in entirely
[00:35:52] and says, hey, I'm working to keep you safe from this group. And Tucker, of course, being Tucker just takes it all in stride. And they start talking about plans again, like Joseph wants to use Tucker as a weapon.
[00:36:08] He wants to use Tucker as a way to take people out within the collective. He thinks Tucker is going to win some competitions. And so they talk about targets. Tucker is kind of looking at Brooklyn. Now, Joseph did mention that he wants Brooklyn to make the jury.
[00:36:27] He does not want to target Brooklyn too early because he thinks that Brooklyn will be a great juror. But Tucker is a little concerned about Brooklyn because he's still on this kick of like her leading the women. And so there's a little bit of a disagreement there.
[00:36:45] But but they talk about how she's been brought into this group and that she seems to be very close with Chelsea. And and Joseph is concerned that it was maybe Chelsea that brought Brooklyn in. And that is maybe something to be concerned about.
[00:37:02] I mean, you know, not entirely wrong. I mean, they are they do they do have the Pentagon together. So, you know, I think it's I think it's definitely watching off of Brooklyn is definitely not a bad shout from both Tucker nor Joseph. So, you know, I think so.
[00:37:23] If we could back up like two seconds during the meeting or after the meeting, I think because Joseph and Cedric and Cam stayed behind a little bit and they were talking about the power and Lisa not having it.
[00:37:37] And I think that it's somebody in the collective that does have it. But they're not sure who it is. And Joseph says that as long as it's like used in the best interest of the collective, they don't have to tell me. And I was like, wait, what?
[00:37:52] When you want to be in the know about someone in the collective, y'all just had this meeting, y'all just had this board meeting and someone just brought a lot of asset to the table and you don't care which one it is.
[00:38:05] I was so just like that just didn't make any sense to me. And yeah, I mean, yeah. So, I mean, obviously Joseph knows, but there was this conversation, yes, about like like it's probably T-Corp or Quinn.
[00:38:21] And as long as they use it in, you know, in service of the alliance that they're not that concerned about it. But but like, again, it's like who knows? And I don't know that like like I think I think Cedric probably feels that way thinking it's T-Corp.
[00:38:41] But I don't know if he thought it was Quinn. I feel like he has already expressed that he does feel kind of weird about Quinn not telling him if it's Quinn. So it's OK, so I'm losing track of who knows in which people
[00:38:54] have had the conversations about it because it feels like every time there's like a bigger group of people talking about it, there's like this Mexican standoff of. I know, but I'm not going to say anything. What do you know?
[00:39:05] And I'm like, wait, who when did who and who find out about who and who told them? Like, it's so confusing to me now. This is this is the this is the Quinn power tracker. First, Quinn knew about his own power. OK, and he told Angela.
[00:39:21] Then he told yes. Yes. For a while, it was just the three of them. But then Angela told Tucker. The Tucker didn't believe it at first. And so he confirmed it. And then Tucker now knows. But Quinn does not know that Tucker knows. OK, Tucker then told Joseph.
[00:39:39] Yes. Now Joseph knows and Quinn does not know that either Tucker or Joseph knows. And Kimo also doesn't know that Joseph knows. So. Who doesn't know everybody other than those five? But they all know that it still exists. Many people suspect that Quinn is likely.
[00:40:05] Because everybody knows about MJ. She didn't told everybody. OK, makes sense. Got it. Thank you for that update within the update. So so that's I mean, and that's that's basically the day like we have this funny little circle of Joseph kind of orchestrating this collective meeting,
[00:40:32] really getting in his head about being the star of the show, working on this final two with Tucker. And here's the thing again, a lot of people are dunking on Joseph and rightfully so. However. Also, Joseph is actually doing stuff.
[00:40:52] And in a house of people not doing stuff, Joseph might be delusional. He might be wrong. About the placement of where he is and where other people are, whatever. But if he's the only one actually pushing to do things, his delusion might become reality.
[00:41:13] We have seen this happen before. That is how the committee work. That is how the committee formed. The committee was a fake alliance until Memphis was so adamant about it being a thing. And then they just won a bunch of competitions that it became a thing.
[00:41:29] And the same might happen here if Joseph is the only one actively pushing for these things to come together, they might be the things that come together because in the meantime, the other things are still waiting. Quinn and T-Core and Kimo are still waiting for one of
[00:41:47] their people to win power so that they can solidify their thing. And in the meantime, Joseph has ratted them out already. And in there now, they're like their misfit group as they are now being labeled is very much out in the open.
[00:42:02] And Rubina is a big target because of it. A lot of people want Rubina out now to cut this off at the knees before it can even have a chance of starting. And it really is like we've seen this time and time again.
[00:42:15] There's a reason why the house was shaped in Paloma's vision at the beginning of Big Brother 24. Whoever pushes the hardest is likely going to be able to shape the house. Angela herself shaped the house in week one before she
[00:42:30] gave up on it because she didn't think it was going to work, but it did work. The collective is still here somehow. Matt is gone and his barbershop alliance is decimated. All you need to do is actually push. And sometimes reality shifts in response.
[00:42:50] I mean, it's it's certainly a possibility. I mean, if everyone else is too a little too gun shy to really do anything about it, then I mean, I see no blockage in the path forward minus the wrong person winning H.O.H.
[00:43:11] I think all it takes is, you know, because these in this age, which seem to be relatively a little bit more equitable. All it takes is for somebody like Kenny to mistakenly win the H.O.H. even when he wants to go home or somebody or somebody
[00:43:28] like a Rabina to win the H.O.H. where she can really. Whatever, which way she wants to go is what's going to happen. So, yeah, I mean, it's definitely it's definitely a possibility. We'll just see how how much finesse and how much
[00:43:42] social capital he's actually willing to spend on making it happen, because I feel like so far it hasn't been a lot. And he sort of just like did it all in one night. So I'm like, OK, so now what? Where do we go from here?
[00:43:55] Yeah, and that's and that's kind of the funny part about it, which is that, like, he is definitely dramatically overestimating his current abilities in terms of like the relationships and where he stands. And that's why it's so funny that there is a chance
[00:44:07] that like and here's the thing, too. It might not work out for him, but what he is doing, the remnants has a very good chance of dramatically shifting the course of this game. And so it'll be very interesting to see how this plays out.
[00:44:23] And and and I, I will say thank you, Joseph, for giving us any content to talk about from yesterday because otherwise a dead day. So what do you think that Cedric should be doing right now? I, I obviously think.
[00:44:37] That, you know, fine, do the two nominees that are willing to go up there, Angela Fine, Kenny Fine, there's no bad blood there because you're so worried about getting blood on your hands. That third nominee. I just think straight up should be either Leah or MJ.
[00:44:55] Maybe you throw MJ up there so that she's forced to use her power so that if Leah, if she does win, then you can just put Leah up and Leah can't be saved. I just think one of the two of them makes the most
[00:45:05] sense, probably Leah more so, because if you don't want the blood argument, you can say, I'm sorry, but I literally have heard that you have been coming for me, which is not, which is not, is the truth. So she's not even like, she can be mad about it.
[00:45:15] So I just, this whole, like maybe backdoor Leah thing. I mean, it can still work, but I just feel like putting her up outright right now probably would have been the better shot for me. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. There's two options. There's Rubina. There's Leah.
[00:45:31] I actually don't hate either option. But depending on which way you go, I think there's a couple of major things here. You don't want Angela or Kenny to leave. Both of those people love you. Quite frankly, neither of them should really even be on the block.
[00:45:54] What he should have done, I think, is just outright target one side or the other. You can outright target MJ and Leah, or you can outright target Rubina. And the problem is he feels like he can't target D4 or chemo because they're in his alliance.
[00:46:16] But you can outright target Rubina, basically. So of course you do need probably one of them on the block. Tucker maybe volunteers for the other spot. That's fine. Tucker is not like, Tucker is a great person for him to have nominated, I think, because he's a better
[00:46:32] person than Kenny or Angela, because Kenny and Angela love Cedric. Tucker is fine with Cedric. So Tucker on the block with maybe it's Angela, maybe it's Kenny. Probably not Kenny at this point, but who really cares? Maybe it's Angela. But then yes, throw up Leah or Rubina.
[00:46:57] Where he is now, I agree. Leah or Rubina as the replacement. But you want them to leave if you do that. And that might be hard to do, and it might split the entire house. Which is why if you decide to put up, say, Rubina,
[00:47:13] then you need to go to MJ. You need to be working on your relationship with MJ and Leah all week long. Pulling them in, and you should be striking at Rubina and taking her out and cutting off that as they see it misfits alliance.
[00:47:30] Or you can the safer route in the short term, at least maybe a little more dangerous in the long term, because Rubina is a more dangerous long term player. But the safer option, the short term is you take the shot outright at Leah.
[00:47:44] And if you do that, you should be working on your relationship with Rubina, T-Core and Kimo to make sure that they understand that you're making this. You're taking the shot for them and getting in on their misfits alliance thing. You know it's happening. You know they're building something.
[00:48:04] Get in on it while you're HOH. Use your HOH to get in it. He said yesterday, man, I really honestly would have expected some thank yous. T-Core and Kimo wanted me to not nominate Rubina, and I didn't. And they haven't even been up here to say thank you,
[00:48:20] which yes, it's bad on them. But it's also bad on him. He should be getting in there. He should be developing those relationships as much as possible. If he's doing them a favor, he should be making sure he gets something out of it and not expecting
[00:48:36] them to come to him. Especially with Rubina because she was freaking out the whole day. And I mean, girl, you also didn't really make any attempts to make sure something happened between you and Cedric. I feel like you let T-Core sort of like lull you
[00:48:50] into a sense of security because T-Core told her prior, hey, I'll make sure I'll do whatever I can to make sure that you are not on the block. It's like, that's great. Yeah, you want your allies to be working for you,
[00:48:59] but what are you going to do as well? So that's number one. Number two, yeah, I feel like if you want the congratulations, then yeah, you got to make sure that you have this sit down with Rubina, whether it's you that initiates it or not.
[00:49:14] It should be her. Have her come to you. But yeah, let them know, like, yeah, so I'm totally not going to put you up this week. Everybody on this side of things is safe. I really want to work with you in the future. Yada, yada, yada.
[00:49:27] Give her the schmoozy, schmoozy, schmooze and then throw Leah up on the block. And then you're covered from all bases because then you have Rubina's fine, hopefully. And then everyone is going to fall into place with Leah being the target.
[00:49:41] But again, it feels like a lot of worrying from a lot of people in the house, Cedric or Rubina, but know what are you going to do to fix it? It's just like, I'm going to accept things as
[00:49:53] they are, or I'm going to pretend that they don't exist. That's a little weird. It's a little weird. Yeah. I mean, famously, Kevin Jacobs and Big Brother Canada, like the biggest mistake that he made in that season was the wishy-washy decision
[00:50:10] where he needed to just like choose something and then work to make that thing happen and make it work for him. And that is like his biggest piece of advice for players now is like, be decisive. Don't spend too long trying to decide between
[00:50:29] two options when you could be spending that time working to make that option better for yourself. The man who never chooses finds himself without a choice. Exactly. And I think that a ton of people in this house have this problem. They are just, should I go this way?
[00:50:46] Should I go this way? Should I go this way? What about this way? And none of them are actively working to make those choices actually work for them, which is again why it leaves a hole so big that somebody like Joseph can walk into it right now.
[00:51:02] This is a hostile takeover. Welcome to my video store. So we will see. Veto competition will be today. It's definitely, it's an interesting circumstance to find everybody in. And I mean, I don't know, Cedric, I feel like I mean, one of your allies,
[00:51:27] one of your allies who you seem to be like the most close with in the core is just like such dead weight right now. Like Cam, he doesn't really do a lot. And even when you went and told him about the NOMs,
[00:51:43] he was just like, oh, okay, you're gonna put Tucker up? Well, I mean, I guess that's fine. Like it's just at least with Chelsea, you like can bounce ideas off of her. And like, she'll tell you, she'll come to you with info.
[00:51:55] She'll tell you this is probably what you wanna do, even if there might be a little bit of stuff on her end with some of those intentions too. But still like, it just, I feel like with T-Core and Kimo and Rubina, to a lesser extent Rubina,
[00:52:08] those, they be talking, they be talking. So it might behoove you to like get in good with them. So like when this whole breakdown of the collective does begin and this little Brooklyn Quinn versus the core happens, cause it's gonna happen soon. At least then you'll have,
[00:52:27] you should start working on people like T-Core now because Brooklyn and T-Core are like becoming like this. So he's really got to move. He has to move now. And his HOH is the perfect time to do it. And I just hope that maybe depending on what happens
[00:52:39] with the Vita today, that that might shift some things around and cause him to think. But I just don't know. The complacency is the theme right now for a lot of people. So, yeah. All right. Well, that's what we have for you then.
[00:52:54] Thank you all so much for joining us here today. I will of course be back tomorrow morning 11 and be tuned up to everything that happens today on the Big Brother 26 live feeds, including the Vito results. So stay tuned for that. And then Sunday night, that's tomorrow night.
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