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[00:01:43] Hello everyone and good morning.
[00:01:46] Welcome to our live feed update for August 11th.
[00:01:51] I'm your host, Taran Armstrong, and I'm here today to update you on everything that happened yesterday
[00:01:56] on the Big Brother 26 live feeds.
[00:01:58] It was day 26 in the house and we had a veto competition.
[00:02:04] We had a veto winner and of course more talk about what to do for the week.
[00:02:10] And with me to talk about all of it is Mary.
[00:02:13] How you doing, Mary?
[00:02:14] I'm doing great.
[00:02:15] Yeah, if this was a survivor season, we would already be done.
[00:02:18] That's true.
[00:02:21] And yet we're just getting started.
[00:02:23] What are we about a third of the way through?
[00:02:26] Wow.
[00:02:27] Well, it depends how long it is, I guess.
[00:02:29] A little, yeah, I guess a little less than a third of the way through.
[00:02:33] Oh my goodness.
[00:02:35] It's already, you know, almost mid-August.
[00:02:41] So let's talk about it.
[00:02:44] Of course, we know that Angela won the HOH competition,
[00:02:50] but that does not mean that she has any power this week beyond the safety of it.
[00:02:56] And that's because Quinn used his upgrade power, the deepfake HOH,
[00:03:03] to become the actual HOH.
[00:03:06] And Quinn then nominated MJ, Tucker, and volunteer Cedric.
[00:03:15] Cedric volunteered so that he could beat Tucker in the veto competition,
[00:03:20] which we, of course, had later in the day today.
[00:03:24] And that's basically where we stand here.
[00:03:27] Tucker is the target.
[00:03:28] Quinn intends to nominate Rubina as a replacement if one of the nominees wins the veto.
[00:03:34] And that's kind of all we need.
[00:03:39] Not necessarily the decision making I would have made if I was in Quinn's place initially.
[00:03:44] But, you know, you talked about this before.
[00:03:48] Even if Tucker thinks that he's going to win the AI Arena,
[00:03:51] there's no reason to give him two chances.
[00:03:53] So, oh well.
[00:03:57] And his reasoning was, well, he's going to be able to compete in the AI Arena anyway.
[00:04:02] So you can't really backdoor him.
[00:04:03] But like...
[00:04:04] No, but you can make it harder.
[00:04:06] Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[00:04:09] Here's my question.
[00:04:10] Do you think if and when they get rid of the three-person-on-the-block twist
[00:04:15] that people will stop volunteering to be pawns?
[00:04:19] Or do you think that that has been just so ingrained in here that people will still do it?
[00:04:24] I think they will stop, actually.
[00:04:26] Okay, I hope so.
[00:04:28] I think they will.
[00:04:29] Yeah, I mean, we can understand the feel of the safety of,
[00:04:33] well, I get a competition and it's, you know, only two people I have to beat.
[00:04:37] But for as long as Tucker is in the house, at least,
[00:04:40] I would be nervous about going into any kind of competition against him.
[00:04:44] Yeah, and I think it hasn't helped that basically how it works is that
[00:04:50] when you are thinking about who you're going to vote for,
[00:04:53] it's, well, this person is lock safe.
[00:04:56] It's between these two people.
[00:04:58] And so if you think that you would be that lock safe person,
[00:05:01] it adds to the sense of you're probably good even if you do stay on the block.
[00:05:06] Whereas when it's between two people,
[00:05:10] the conversation has to include you.
[00:05:13] Well, but even when you're the lock safe person,
[00:05:16] I don't know that there, I mean, I think almost everyone,
[00:05:20] maybe not chemo week one as much,
[00:05:22] but almost everyone who's been on the block,
[00:05:24] there has at least been one person who has brought up,
[00:05:27] should we consider them at all though?
[00:05:29] And I just, I would want to spend as much time as possible
[00:05:32] not having my name for consideration even at all.
[00:05:36] So, no, listen, I agree.
[00:05:38] But maybe that's just me.
[00:05:39] I just like safety and, you know, not being on the block.
[00:05:43] No, I think that's kind of weird.
[00:05:45] Wow. So weird. Who would have thought?
[00:05:48] Strange thing to want.
[00:05:50] Okay. So let's talk about the day.
[00:05:53] Honestly, there's a lot going on throughout the day.
[00:05:57] A lot of like conversations that lead to nowhere quite frankly.
[00:06:03] And things are very much still kind of in flux right now.
[00:06:09] You know, we're, it's like in a weird way,
[00:06:13] Tucker's big play last week kind of solidified the power
[00:06:19] structure in the game because the collective wasn't really a thing
[00:06:23] and the Pentagon was like ready to burst.
[00:06:27] But then when Tucker takes a strike,
[00:06:30] they all kind of like close down the doors,
[00:06:33] locks the locks and said, well until Tucker's gone,
[00:06:37] we need to defend ourselves with this power structure.
[00:06:42] And so in some ways the power structure is way more solid and
[00:06:45] locked in than it was before.
[00:06:47] But then in other ways, Tucker has made the outsiders completely
[00:06:53] even more chaotic and spread out and ridiculous,
[00:06:57] which they are very annoyed about.
[00:06:59] But like, I mean, I guess Tucker in that way has made it more
[00:07:04] like a normal season, but in a way that is still feeling very chaotic.
[00:07:09] Right. Exactly.
[00:07:11] Yeah, it's been chaotic.
[00:07:13] It's also opened the door for a lot of people to consider.
[00:07:17] Okay, should we should we consider trying to work with Tucker?
[00:07:22] Should we at the very least consider trying to make Tucker feel like
[00:07:25] we're working with him, whether we think it is or not?
[00:07:27] And so there's a lot of like small,
[00:07:31] semi real, semi fake alliances that are being built
[00:07:36] and then almost immediately ratted out by somebody.
[00:07:39] So that's been fun to track too.
[00:07:40] Yeah, I think that's the thing.
[00:07:42] We're like, so okay, I think this is what it is because
[00:07:47] we talked for three weeks about how nothing was being, you know,
[00:07:50] locked in.
[00:07:51] It was a very chaotic and messy house.
[00:07:53] And we talked about how this underdogs alliance might come together,
[00:07:56] become the big thing, which Tucker was a part of.
[00:07:59] But then Tucker blew that up and he locked in the collective
[00:08:04] and the Pentagon into power.
[00:08:07] And so they are now the majority alliance.
[00:08:10] But Tucker is not in that power structure.
[00:08:15] And that's where the dynamic is coming in, I think.
[00:08:18] Because typically when you do have this big majority power structure,
[00:08:21] they're just flat out in charge.
[00:08:23] They're winning all the comps.
[00:08:26] The guy that's winning all the comps usually is creating his own
[00:08:30] power structure.
[00:08:32] And so because there's a big power structure but Tucker is the one
[00:08:36] winning all the comps, everybody is still falling over themselves
[00:08:40] to try to stay good with Tucker because he holds his own kind of
[00:08:44] power outside of the actual power.
[00:08:46] And that's where I think the chaos right now is coming in until
[00:08:50] he loses the comp, I imagine.
[00:08:51] Yeah, and it's preventing the actual power structure from being
[00:08:56] able to do anything really productive because they have the
[00:09:01] numbers but not the power to have the people go out that they want.
[00:09:05] All they can really do is pick off all of the people around Tucker
[00:09:09] until he finally loses.
[00:09:12] Yep, exactly.
[00:09:14] Okay, so there is a bunch of talk pre-veto.
[00:09:20] We see that Joseph and Brooklyn end up competing, I believe.
[00:09:30] And then we get to the veto competition.
[00:09:33] I mean, there's always a bunch of talk about like, oh, well, who
[00:09:38] picked who and why and what are we going to do with the veto and
[00:09:41] then somebody else wins the veto and it never happened.
[00:09:43] Yeah, exactly.
[00:09:45] I was looking forward to the one plan that was thrown out where
[00:09:49] Tucker considered picking Quinn to play in the veto if he got that
[00:09:53] which would have been funny.
[00:09:54] I believe, I could be wrong, but I believe that Tucker did get to
[00:09:59] pick and he did not pick Quinn.
[00:10:01] Did he pick Brooklyn or Joseph?
[00:10:03] I wasn't able to figure that out.
[00:10:04] Yeah, I initially thought he didn't pick Joseph but then he was
[00:10:07] talking like he did pick Joseph later.
[00:10:11] But honestly, it's because whenever he talks to Joseph, they both
[00:10:18] get so bro-y that it's hard to interpret some of the things that they say.
[00:10:25] I was listening to some of it and I had to watch them and like
[00:10:30] read their lips and listen and I'm just like, they're just both
[00:10:34] being like, yo man.
[00:10:35] Oh, yeah, we have got this man.
[00:10:37] Oh, I love you, bro.
[00:10:38] And I'm just, but they both were saying like the exact same words.
[00:10:41] So I'm like, I can't even tell who's saying what anymore.
[00:10:43] It's because Joseph like hard mirrors Tucker when they talk which
[00:10:49] is very unnatural for Joseph and I think makes it worse.
[00:10:53] So we get to the veto competition.
[00:10:59] And in the veto competition, Tucker once again wins the veto.
[00:11:08] So for the third week in a row, Tucker has won a competition and
[00:11:16] should theoretically be safe.
[00:11:19] Except it's Tucker and so you don't know for sure if he's going to be safe.
[00:11:28] Which is hilarious too, that it's like even a possibility that someone
[00:11:33] who is so obviously a target has won the veto and it would possibly
[00:11:37] consider not taking themselves off the block and not even from a misguided
[00:11:42] reason of thinking they're safe, but just to try and win another
[00:11:46] competition and like stick it to the man kind of is just very funny.
[00:11:51] But it could, you know, theoretically, it's a non-zero chance.
[00:11:55] I don't think it's particularly high.
[00:11:56] I do think Tucker will use the veto on himself.
[00:11:59] That's how things appear to be at the moment.
[00:12:01] Yes.
[00:12:03] However, as soon as he won talk immediately went to how can we convince
[00:12:09] him to not use it on himself?
[00:12:11] He's done so before therefore surely we can find a way to perhaps, you
[00:12:17] know, get him to do so again.
[00:12:19] And the obvious way that even I think people in the audience were
[00:12:23] thinking of as well is well, if he knows that Rubina may go up in his
[00:12:29] place, perhaps he will decide he will stick it out.
[00:12:34] He will go to the AI arena instead of her and he will feel much more
[00:12:38] comfortable winning the AI arena than she would.
[00:12:42] Tucker and Rubina as much as you know, I love the two Bina shippers.
[00:12:47] They're not Brent.
[00:12:48] Joel, it's not like this is a massively established relationship where
[00:12:54] one would fall on their sword for the other.
[00:12:58] It's it's just a different dynamic, but not saying it couldn't happen.
[00:13:02] It's just not like a given.
[00:13:04] Oh, yes, for this reason, we should be able to convince him to do this
[00:13:08] because if this was like a blood versus water type of season where
[00:13:14] Tucker felt extremely strongly that he could win the AI arena, which
[00:13:18] has been proven.
[00:13:19] So he's got some, you know, knowledge to back that up that maybe this
[00:13:24] maybe this would be a convincing offer, but I think it's already a
[00:13:28] little bit even up in the air of if Rubina went up if Rubina would
[00:13:31] even a hundred percent go home.
[00:13:33] So I think it would be almost easier to convince Tucker that Rubina
[00:13:38] wouldn't go home so that he doesn't feel like doing this and then
[00:13:41] they would get her out.
[00:13:43] Yeah, I think that they are mistaken in this tactic.
[00:13:48] I think that because the problem is that I don't think people might
[00:13:55] come.
[00:13:55] I don't think Tucker cares enough about Rubina.
[00:13:58] Well, and that's not this is this is not his motivation.
[00:14:02] Like even if he does like Rubina and would be interested in seeing
[00:14:05] her outside the game or whatever continue hanging out with her in
[00:14:07] the game.
[00:14:08] This isn't it's not mode.
[00:14:11] It's not his motivation for why he's trying to to win or something
[00:14:15] like that.
[00:14:16] Like the way to approach Tucker would be more like yeah, Tucker,
[00:14:20] wouldn't it really stick it to Quinn or something if you stayed up
[00:14:24] there and then one?
[00:14:25] Oh, wouldn't that be such a big move?
[00:14:26] So like that would be one type of option another option Quinn going
[00:14:29] up to him somehow convincing him that they're actually working
[00:14:32] together and like that would be such a big move will blindside
[00:14:35] everyone.
[00:14:36] Yeah, you know, there's just so many other ways.
[00:14:39] You need to make it about Tucker story and how this is a cool big
[00:14:42] thing that Tucker is doing for himself not for Rubina because I
[00:14:47] love I agree.
[00:14:48] And yeah, that's that's exactly what I was going to say, which is
[00:14:51] that I think like a the plan that has I think a slightly higher
[00:14:56] chance of working would be like a really playing up the fact that
[00:15:02] Cedric went on the block specifically to be Tucker at the AI
[00:15:09] arena competition and that Cedric is coming for him and that if
[00:15:13] it's Cedric versus Mackenzie versus Rubina on in the AI arena
[00:15:18] competition, obviously Cedric is going to win because that's I
[00:15:23] think how Tucker would probably see it.
[00:15:25] And that if he if Tucker wants to take out Cedric, he needs to
[00:15:30] beat Cedric in the AI arena competition to make sure Cedric stays
[00:15:34] in the block that they can take out Cedric.
[00:15:36] I think that would be a more convincing argument to Tucker to be
[00:15:43] like, yeah, you got to go down there and beat Cedric.
[00:15:45] You're the only one that can do it because it plays to his ego.
[00:15:50] Yes, exactly.
[00:15:52] And which is why is Cedric volunteering while bad for Cedric
[00:15:58] is was the best person to put up there to convince Tucker to stay
[00:16:03] on the block because then it's it's the person that Tucker that
[00:16:07] Tucker wants out and would want to beat.
[00:16:11] So at least that part makes sense.
[00:16:13] The problem is that everyone is saying Cedric is locked safe.
[00:16:18] And if Cedric is locked safe, there's no reason for Tucker to beat
[00:16:21] him in the AI arena competition because he's not a target for
[00:16:25] anybody.
[00:16:26] Yeah, maybe they didn't think that part through enough with the
[00:16:30] plan.
[00:16:31] You have to think about the narrative from Tucker's perspective
[00:16:35] what you're trying to convince him of and in those it can't be
[00:16:39] the same thing.
[00:16:39] You can't say Cedric is super safe, but also Tucker we need you
[00:16:43] to stay on the block and beat Cedric in the AI arena so that
[00:16:46] Cedric could potentially go home if we've already told you Cedric
[00:16:49] is safe.
[00:16:50] Yeah, doesn't work that way.
[00:16:51] Yeah.
[00:16:51] I mean, they haven't even thought of I think that line of reasoning
[00:16:55] or it also even if they had thought of that line of reasoning
[00:16:58] almost a hundred percent chance.
[00:16:59] They would tell someone who would go and tell Tucker this
[00:17:03] because everyone maybe not everyone.
[00:17:05] There are so many people in this house, especially like Joseph,
[00:17:09] but there are others too who are so interested in getting
[00:17:16] themself individually in the best spot that they are.
[00:17:20] Intentionally or unintentionally screwing over all of their
[00:17:23] possible power options in order to just be the one to out
[00:17:28] information.
[00:17:29] So you can name Joseph.
[00:17:31] It's fine.
[00:17:32] Yeah, Joseph is definitely like oh I have a piece of information.
[00:17:36] This is super valuable to me and puts me in a good spot, but
[00:17:40] maybe I could get in with Tucker even even from a fake perspective
[00:17:43] or real perspective.
[00:17:44] Who knows by talent being the first one to tell Tucker this
[00:17:47] information not realizing that that then makes that information
[00:17:51] he had completely I was going to say invaluable but not that
[00:17:55] unvaluable.
[00:17:56] Yes, you know like it's it's just so short-sighted in all of
[00:18:05] these types of moves of like the value of information is holding
[00:18:08] it and then using it and not like Quinn did when he didn't
[00:18:12] tell people about the power.
[00:18:13] There's times when you need to release information, but just
[00:18:17] instantly outing everything you have means you have nothing.
[00:18:21] Well, the funny thing is about that is that Tucker is the worst
[00:18:25] offender of that right?
[00:18:28] And so if you tell Tucker anything it's going to just get out
[00:18:31] everywhere and that was the other thing about listening to Tucker
[00:18:34] and Joseph talk is that because they're both doing this you can't
[00:18:40] win you can't provide information especially to Tucker Tucker is
[00:18:45] going to say no matter what information you provide.
[00:18:47] Oh, yeah.
[00:18:48] Yeah.
[00:18:48] I knew that.
[00:18:48] Yeah, they already said that.
[00:18:49] Yeah.
[00:18:50] Oh, yeah it is.
[00:18:50] So it's like you're not going to impress him with the information.
[00:18:55] He's at least going to play in the moment like he already knew
[00:18:58] most of it.
[00:18:59] Yeah, he's either going to not believe you because he has convinced
[00:19:03] himself of something else or he's going to immediately spread it
[00:19:07] around.
[00:19:08] Yeah, it's ridiculous.
[00:19:10] So good on him.
[00:19:11] At least it's entertaining since it's not gameplay.
[00:19:14] Cedric is still a little worried now that Tucker has won the veto.
[00:19:19] He is going to quickly go to Angela.
[00:19:21] He recognizes the position he's in and you know, this vote could
[00:19:26] theoretically be close if he ends up on the block against say Rubina
[00:19:31] he asks Angela.
[00:19:32] Are you willing to break a tie in my favor?
[00:19:35] And she says yes, she is.
[00:19:38] Is that worth anything?
[00:19:39] No, I don't think it is.
[00:19:43] Yeah, Angela's another one where I've stopped trying to figure out
[00:19:47] where her loyalties actually lie because she has convinced me so
[00:19:52] many times that she's being truthful in a conversation just for the
[00:19:55] person to leave and then she turns the camera.
[00:19:57] I'm not doing that.
[00:19:58] Okay, great Angela.
[00:20:00] And then yeah, I don't know.
[00:20:02] There are so many people in this house that if I was in a house
[00:20:05] with I would need to just not tell them anything just be like, you
[00:20:07] know what normally I say?
[00:20:09] Yeah, try to pick up the people on the outside.
[00:20:11] But when the people on the outside are purposefully providing
[00:20:14] information and not being loyal then there's so little you can
[00:20:18] do. Yeah, I completely agree.
[00:20:21] Like similar to Tucker, I think and it's funny that they're working
[00:20:26] together now.
[00:20:28] You just can never trust that Angela is actually on your side
[00:20:31] because she is so volatile strategically.
[00:20:38] You could use a veto on her and the next week she could be taking
[00:20:41] you out of the game.
[00:20:43] And that's not what's happening now.
[00:20:44] She is with Tucker right now.
[00:20:46] Right now, until she decides she's not. Exactly.
[00:20:50] She's not a reliable.
[00:20:52] Angela and Tucker both.
[00:20:53] Neither of them are reliable allies.
[00:20:55] It's very funny that they're like a bit of a duo right now.
[00:20:59] And the thing about loyalty is that because someone like Angela
[00:21:06] has said multiple times, oh, I'm so loyal.
[00:21:07] I'll be so loyal and you can trust me and blah blah blah.
[00:21:11] If your loyalty leaves the second you suspect that someone is not
[00:21:19] a hundred percent with you before you've had a conversation with
[00:21:22] them or confirmed it or know 100% for sure that something is
[00:21:26] true, then you're not actually loyal to that person at all.
[00:21:29] You loyalty is not a fleeting thing.
[00:21:32] And I'm not saying that loyalty means that you have to be loyal
[00:21:34] despite someone betraying your trust, but I'm saying that loyalty
[00:21:38] means that you verify that the trust has actually been betrayed
[00:21:42] before you just decide to call it a low-budget movie or out it
[00:21:46] or tell someone else or blow up on someone like that's so, you
[00:21:51] know, because there are times when like in Big Brother 20,
[00:21:56] I remember preaching that whole season like, oh, if I was in
[00:21:59] this house, I would really try to pick up Sam.
[00:22:01] I would try to work with Sam and stuff.
[00:22:03] And Sam was a little volatile in her own right, but at least
[00:22:07] with Sam, if you had Sam, you had her for a while and you could
[00:22:13] do a decent amount there with people like Angela or Tucker or
[00:22:20] you know, Kenny when he was in the house or even Lisa.
[00:22:22] It's like just when their loyalty can flip on a dime depending
[00:22:28] on who they're talking to then they're not loyal.
[00:22:32] No.
[00:22:32] Yeah, I mean that's completely right and that's why I think
[00:22:35] a big part of the game and also real life is finding reasons
[00:22:43] to turn on people to take them out and you know, it's just
[00:22:50] a way to in your own mind justify your betrayal of that person
[00:22:55] or your harsh treatment of that person.
[00:22:57] And to find reasons to be loyal to someone outside of just
[00:23:03] hey, we should work together when you can build a human connection
[00:23:07] and a relationship first then loyalty almost comes more naturally
[00:23:12] because you like the person and you want to work with them
[00:23:14] and you've shared information and you've shared things about
[00:23:18] your life that make you similar.
[00:23:20] Now it makes betrayal hurt more when that happens, but it
[00:23:22] also makes you not want to be betrayed and to betray another
[00:23:27] person because you have a connection.
[00:23:30] So it's almost like coming into the game and trying to make
[00:23:33] those personal connections first before just building random
[00:23:38] alliances might actually help what a novel idea wonder if anyone's
[00:23:41] ever thought of that concept.
[00:23:45] Well speaking of two people who do have a relationship a personal
[00:23:50] relationship that has helped solidify their loyalty T-Core
[00:23:54] and chemo.
[00:23:57] They're talking a lot throughout the day.
[00:24:00] But here's the deal.
[00:24:02] I'm not going to take you through the intricate details of what
[00:24:06] they're talking about because I've come to the conclusion that
[00:24:10] it's completely irrelevant.
[00:24:12] Doesn't matter.
[00:24:14] Doesn't matter.
[00:24:14] They're not going to do anything about it.
[00:24:16] It doesn't matter.
[00:24:17] We literally spent the entire day saying, oh Tucker
[00:24:23] won the veto.
[00:24:25] He's probably going to use it on himself.
[00:24:28] Rubina is probably going to go up on the block.
[00:24:31] We got to go talk to Quinn, you know, one of our closest allies
[00:24:36] that we're in a final three with that is currently the HOH and
[00:24:40] is doing something that we don't want him to do.
[00:24:42] We should probably talk to him at some point.
[00:24:50] They met up about three or four times saying they need to talk
[00:24:53] to Quinn.
[00:24:56] Could have talked to Quinn in any of those times.
[00:24:57] They've been saying for days that they're going to rat out
[00:25:00] Leah for all of the things that she said about Quinn and Quinn
[00:25:04] still has no idea.
[00:25:08] We got to tell Quinn about Leah.
[00:25:09] We got to talk to Quinn about where we're moving in this
[00:25:13] week.
[00:25:13] We got to talk to Quinn.
[00:25:15] Let's talk to Quinn.
[00:25:16] Hey, what if we talk to Quinn?
[00:25:20] I will tell you at one point in the night, they finally talked
[00:25:23] to Quinn and mentioned nothing about any of this.
[00:25:27] No, it's worse.
[00:25:29] Not only that they mentioned almost nothing.
[00:25:31] Listen to him.
[00:25:32] Try to pitch working with Leah again.
[00:25:35] Don't bother.
[00:25:35] It's opening.
[00:25:36] Don't bother to say anything about it.
[00:25:38] And then after leaving that conversation, they say we should
[00:25:42] really tomorrow try to talk to Quinn again and there's and we
[00:25:46] need to just look him in the eye and really say everything
[00:25:48] we want to say.
[00:25:49] You had an opportunity to do that.
[00:25:53] I there's there's the lack of initiative is astounding.
[00:25:58] That was what broke me is that after they did talk to Quinn,
[00:26:02] but didn't actually talk to him about any of the things they
[00:26:06] want to talk to him about.
[00:26:07] They it's it was like a sketch comedy skit thing where they're
[00:26:14] they were just like, oh man.
[00:26:17] We really got to talk to him again though about the stuff
[00:26:20] we act like.
[00:26:26] Teeqour and Kimmer Kimmo literally say if Quinn is not
[00:26:29] prioritizing us, then we need to cut him.
[00:26:33] You're not prioritizing him.
[00:26:35] You're not even talking to him.
[00:26:37] This is and I can't even figure out.
[00:26:42] Is it because they?
[00:26:46] Really like they they've already decided they're not working
[00:26:48] with him.
[00:26:49] So they don't really care about trying to talk to him to
[00:26:52] actually make that relationship work that they've already
[00:26:54] got enough other things going on.
[00:26:56] Is it because they're just like I don't know when they get
[00:27:00] in a conversation with him.
[00:27:01] They both just take such a huge step back that they don't
[00:27:03] voice their own opinions.
[00:27:05] Like I can't figure out why they're doing this.
[00:27:08] I think they're just extremely anti-confrontation like
[00:27:12] anything that is remotely confrontational like Quinn says
[00:27:15] he wants to do a thing and they're just and they're just
[00:27:17] and there's like, yeah, it's like Taryn.
[00:27:22] Have you ever had a friend who will complain and complain
[00:27:24] and complain about something their relationship with someone
[00:27:27] or whatever and then you tell them like, oh, well, it sounds
[00:27:31] like it sounds like this might just be a misunderstanding.
[00:27:33] Maybe you just need to talk it out with them.
[00:27:35] No, I don't want to talk to them.
[00:27:36] I already know this.
[00:27:37] I'm just going to complain to you about it and that's how
[00:27:39] they are at T-Core and chemo.
[00:27:40] Just talk to each other about all this stuff about Quinn,
[00:27:43] but they won't actually do anything about it.
[00:27:47] Go over it.
[00:27:48] I wanted so much more from the two of them.
[00:27:51] It's very much like, yeah, there's like relationship problems
[00:27:57] and it's like, well, man, we should really like talk about
[00:28:00] them and then they go to talk about them.
[00:28:03] They're like, never mind.
[00:28:07] And then it's like, all right, I think maybe it's just best
[00:28:10] to end this relationship.
[00:28:13] I'd rather end the relationship with this strategic partner
[00:28:17] than actually have to talk to them.
[00:28:18] Just try to make it work.
[00:28:19] And I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if they legitimately
[00:28:23] told Quinn some of their concerns and pushed her some things
[00:28:26] and had the conversation being more of a back and forth.
[00:28:29] If he knew about Leah, who knows?
[00:28:30] If they had done any of that, I think Quinn would actually
[00:28:34] appreciate that and feel closer with them and feel like
[00:28:36] this is, you know, an active alliance that's trying to
[00:28:39] work together.
[00:28:40] When someone just sits and mm-hmms, and I mean in general,
[00:28:44] not specifically calling out T-Core there.
[00:28:46] I mean in general, when someone just kind of nods along and
[00:28:50] doesn't voice their own opinions.
[00:28:51] If I was having a conversation with someone about a plan
[00:28:54] and they just did that, I would leave going.
[00:28:56] I don't know what they're thinking.
[00:28:57] So I guess maybe I can't trust them and work with them
[00:29:00] because they're giving me nothing.
[00:29:04] So that was that's Tucker.
[00:29:07] That's our CST core and chemo now.
[00:29:11] The plan is of course still Rubina goes on the block of Tucker
[00:29:16] and it seems as though Tucker is likely going to be using
[00:29:19] the veto at this point.
[00:29:21] And so discussion turns to which of Rubina or MJ will we
[00:29:28] vote out because it's not going to be Cedric and there are
[00:29:33] arguments on both sides and obviously T-Core and chemo are
[00:29:36] on the side of let's keep Rubina, but but they're again,
[00:29:40] like not the most active people in the world.
[00:29:43] They certainly in conversations will be like no, we really
[00:29:45] think Rubina should stay but they're not in all of the
[00:29:47] conversations and quite frankly, I don't think they're really
[00:29:51] in charge of this vote.
[00:29:53] If other people decide they want Rubina to go Rubina will
[00:29:57] likely go the influence that T-Core and chemo have right
[00:30:01] now is do we want to make them upset or do we want to remove
[00:30:08] their option of playing the game without us and make them
[00:30:12] more loyal to us by taking out Rubina?
[00:30:15] There's like one path or the other when it comes to those
[00:30:17] two and then the discussion turns to which of the two moves
[00:30:21] is better for our game.
[00:30:25] Yeah, I go back and forth on it because if T-Core and chemo
[00:30:33] feel like the best way to move themselves forward in the
[00:30:36] game is to keep Rubina.
[00:30:40] I don't know actually work with Tucker.
[00:30:42] Like I'm not exactly sure what the full plan is there.
[00:30:45] Then I think at that point you just yeah, you got to push
[00:30:47] for it.
[00:30:47] You got to you got to do what you got to do if their goal
[00:30:50] is just to be non-confrontational be in the background hope
[00:30:54] that they can get farther and then see I can't even say and
[00:30:58] then make a move at some point.
[00:30:59] So I just don't believe that would happen.
[00:31:01] It's like I think they're so they're protected but they're
[00:31:09] not people that are the voice of power.
[00:31:14] And so it's hard even at this point with so many people
[00:31:18] left in the game.
[00:31:18] It's hard to picture like who are they beating?
[00:31:21] How are they winning?
[00:31:21] How do they get there and you need to start thinking about
[00:31:25] that now.
[00:31:26] And so if they actually want to win the game then yeah,
[00:31:34] they need to do something here.
[00:31:36] That's going to be their best for the long term.
[00:31:38] I don't know.
[00:31:38] What do you think like if you're if you're T-Core and chemo,
[00:31:41] what do you think is their optimal move to set them up
[00:31:43] selves up for being safe and also winning the game?
[00:31:47] I mean, I think taking out MJ is fine.
[00:31:53] The problem is that like it's fine except for the fact that
[00:31:58] that like that's that's only like a stopgap solution like
[00:32:02] that's it's fine for now, but they will have to make a move
[00:32:05] later.
[00:32:06] Whereas if you take out Cedric now and pull together an
[00:32:09] Alliance like at least now, I know that you've actually done
[00:32:12] something right, but they cannot lose Rubina.
[00:32:15] They can't lose Rubina.
[00:32:16] Yeah, I think.
[00:32:19] Yeah, I do not think that they should let the Rubina thing
[00:32:22] slide.
[00:32:22] I think that they should be spending this time building an
[00:32:27] actual Alliance that benefits them.
[00:32:31] And then even if you just you can't play this game by trying
[00:32:36] to appease everyone that'll get you to the end, but probably
[00:32:39] not win the most of the people who win have to make a move
[00:32:43] at some point and let their loyalties out there.
[00:32:47] If they just had Quinn on their side and actually talk to
[00:32:51] him, they would be able to make this a lot easier because
[00:32:54] then they can use a person who already has some hate to
[00:32:58] make a swing that benefits them.
[00:33:01] Yeah, if they if they could get Quinn to put up Leah if
[00:33:06] they had been talking to Quinn from day one about all the
[00:33:08] things Leah was doing instead of Rubina and Leah's on the
[00:33:12] block.
[00:33:12] It's Leah Mackenzie Cedric and then you're able to take out
[00:33:16] either Leah or Mackenzie without pissing off any of like
[00:33:20] Chelsea or Brooklyn or anybody that would be mad if they
[00:33:24] took out Cedric while also still building this group with
[00:33:29] Rubina themselves and like loosely Tucker.
[00:33:33] You don't actually have to be like right with Tucker because
[00:33:36] he's too unreliable for that.
[00:33:38] But Joseph is there to a degree as well.
[00:33:41] Do you're starting to build this crew over here?
[00:33:44] You are you're you're taking out one of MJ or Leah who are
[00:33:48] both actually working for Brooklyn and Chelsea and they don't
[00:33:54] really care about that.
[00:33:56] And so like it just it all like you can do you can have it
[00:33:59] all you can have a good structure.
[00:34:01] You don't have to piss anybody off.
[00:34:04] All you need to do is literally just like have a couple of
[00:34:06] these conversations take a little bit of a risk and expose
[00:34:09] Leah to Quinn. Bonus gets Quinn more on your side opens up
[00:34:13] Quinn's eyes to stop working with Leah makes Leah and Mackenzie
[00:34:17] mad at Quinn which benefits you because it's not someone being
[00:34:19] mad at you and keeps you want tension to be in the house.
[00:34:23] That's not directed at you.
[00:34:26] And so creating that would also help.
[00:34:28] There's just there's so many benefits here, but you know,
[00:34:31] they'd have to actually have a conversation with Quinn to do
[00:34:32] that. So so the discussion between as of right now is between
[00:34:38] MJ and and Rubina and again, you know when it comes to like
[00:34:44] Brooklyn and Chelsea who are really the ones who are going
[00:34:46] to decide this vote.
[00:34:49] The discussion is well, do we keep MJ around because she's
[00:34:55] like obsessed with us, but we don't really care about that.
[00:34:57] She doesn't really do anything for us or do we keep Rubina
[00:35:01] around, you know, like if we take Rubina out that's weakening
[00:35:06] Tucker that's, you know, eliminating eliminating an option
[00:35:10] for decor and chemo.
[00:35:11] It makes them more loyal to us.
[00:35:13] So in a lot of ways that quite frankly, that's the very obvious
[00:35:17] choice for them, but but they are willing to consider the
[00:35:21] other option which is, you know, take out MJ and you know,
[00:35:26] she's theoretically better at competitions and and it also
[00:35:29] might be taken out of their hands because if one of MJ or Rubina
[00:35:33] wins the AI arena, they're just going to have to take the other
[00:35:36] one out.
[00:35:37] Right.
[00:35:38] Right.
[00:35:40] So if if one of MJ or Rubina or in the off chance that someone
[00:35:45] else besides Rubina goes up if one of them wins the AI arena
[00:35:50] and Cedric is still on the block at the end.
[00:35:54] How much discussion do you think in the one minute is do you
[00:35:57] think that would be a time when actual discussion would happen
[00:36:00] about whether or not they should take Cedric out or do you
[00:36:02] think Cedric is super safe?
[00:36:03] Not in one minute.
[00:36:04] It needs to be pre-planned and and and chemo and T-Core are
[00:36:09] going to need to be in on that plan likely spearheading it.
[00:36:12] Maybe maybe Tucker can help spearhead it.
[00:36:14] But if Tucker spearheads it, I don't know that it will go
[00:36:16] anywhere.
[00:36:17] So yeah, I think it would need to be like chemo and T-Core
[00:36:22] need to be heavily involved in that plan ahead of time.
[00:36:24] And that makes me feel like it won't happen.
[00:36:28] Yeah.
[00:36:30] What do you think of Tucker's strategy that he said he's doing
[00:36:33] of telling people that he might not use the veto on himself?
[00:36:39] Just just to see where that info spreads.
[00:36:42] I don't believe him.
[00:36:43] I so here's here's where this comes from.
[00:36:45] Tucker talks to MJ and he said, hey, I'd consider using the
[00:36:50] veto on you, but you'd have to give me some info.
[00:36:54] And and she's like, oh, that's interesting.
[00:36:56] Like she's of course would love that.
[00:36:59] And then he later told Angela that he said that to her and
[00:37:03] that he was that he had considered doing this.
[00:37:06] She's like, no, don't do that.
[00:37:07] That's stupid.
[00:37:08] He's like, oh, well, I wasn't really going to do it.
[00:37:10] I was just telling her to get in to see if I would get see
[00:37:13] where it spread, which is the same thing that happened when
[00:37:15] he talked to Rubina last week when he said, I might not use
[00:37:19] the veto or he said, I might do something crazy with the veto.
[00:37:22] And then the second he heard that it it spread around, he
[00:37:25] was like, oh, well, I only told her to see if it would spread
[00:37:27] anywhere and then ended up not using the veto on himself
[00:37:31] and doing something crazy with veto.
[00:37:33] He's 100% being like he's not tyrioning here.
[00:37:39] He is just after the fact if somebody tells him it was a
[00:37:41] bad idea.
[00:37:42] He acts like he did it on purpose.
[00:37:46] It's also like finding out where the information spread.
[00:37:53] There's this thing that Tucker does, which is he'll say something
[00:37:56] that's not really a secret.
[00:37:58] It's not like he's saying, MJ, yeah, don't don't tell anyone,
[00:38:00] but I might I might use the veto on you.
[00:38:03] He's just in an open conversation with her.
[00:38:04] Lee is there says this.
[00:38:07] And then later when he hears that other people have been
[00:38:10] talking about it, he's like, I got them.
[00:38:12] That was just a trap.
[00:38:13] It's like you didn't trap anything.
[00:38:15] You just said something and then someone else passed it on
[00:38:17] because they weren't told they couldn't like that's not you
[00:38:19] haven't learned anything.
[00:38:21] And especially because it's not like MJ even gave you any
[00:38:24] info to try and convince you to use it.
[00:38:27] I guess guess what?
[00:38:28] Because MJ doesn't have any info because she's not actually
[00:38:31] in power in any way.
[00:38:32] Yeah, MJ giving you info is a net negative because if you
[00:38:36] believe it, you've learned wrong things.
[00:38:39] Yeah, it's funny good times.
[00:38:44] So in the meantime, Tucker, he is kind of or at least he's
[00:38:47] telling people that he's convinced that Cam is going to be
[00:38:49] going up on the block.
[00:38:50] They're like, hey Rubina might go up.
[00:38:51] He's like, no, I think it's gonna be Cam.
[00:38:54] Which he might be lying, but also like who knows at this
[00:38:58] point.
[00:38:59] I think Tucker just wants it to be Cam.
[00:39:01] So might as well just I mean, nothing wrong with just thrown
[00:39:03] out a name hoping that eventually at least it's out there
[00:39:06] in people's ears.
[00:39:10] Now we talked about this a little bit.
[00:39:12] Joseph is still very much playing up the fact that he's
[00:39:14] with Tucker.
[00:39:16] And so don't you feel like Joseph kind of wants to be working
[00:39:20] with Tucker also?
[00:39:21] Oh, no, he very much did.
[00:39:23] Like remember he was like he initially wanted to work with
[00:39:27] Matt didn't work moved over to Tucker.
[00:39:30] He said preseason.
[00:39:31] He wants to work with a jock that's winning all the time.
[00:39:33] You can use him as a weapon as a battering ram.
[00:39:36] Tucker was the backup plan and then Tucker blew everything
[00:39:41] up and I think he is genuinely frustrated about that and
[00:39:43] genuinely is like this guy is really dangerous.
[00:39:46] I think he absolutely would have voted Tucker out last week.
[00:39:49] I think he would have voted Tucker out this week.
[00:39:51] I think he will vote out Tucker next week.
[00:39:53] But for as long as Tucker still here, he is going to act like
[00:39:57] he's the bro.
[00:39:58] He is the bro.
[00:39:59] Oh dude, bro and man like the fist pumps the fist bumps and
[00:40:05] like the like the the the hands.
[00:40:08] It's just it's so bad.
[00:40:09] It's so bad.
[00:40:10] It's weird.
[00:40:10] It's awkward, but it's man.
[00:40:11] They're doing it like oh, yeah, we're yeah.
[00:40:14] I can't believe a good great job on the veto.
[00:40:16] You totally did it crushed it bro.
[00:40:18] And and and Tucker's like, yeah, dog.
[00:40:22] That's what we're doing.
[00:40:24] And and so they have that whole thing.
[00:40:30] Tucker tells Joseph about five points the the Alliance that
[00:40:35] again is it's not really even worth like, oh man another
[00:40:39] Alliance exposed except it was never really an Alliance to
[00:40:41] begin with.
[00:40:42] Maybe it could have been if it wasn't immediately exposed at
[00:40:46] least could have been a backup option for an Alliance.
[00:40:48] Joseph says, oh, I'm I'm thinking, you know, you me T CORE
[00:40:53] chemo Angela.
[00:40:54] We're going to flip this game on its head, bro.
[00:40:57] And Tucker's like, yeah, dog.
[00:40:59] We're going to make it happen.
[00:41:04] Look, I know the appeal of.
[00:41:09] The does everyone in this entire house think they're the
[00:41:14] underdog?
[00:41:15] Is there anyone who doesn't think they're an underdog?
[00:41:17] Joseph?
[00:41:19] Right?
[00:41:20] For a good bear.
[00:41:21] Yeah, I forgot about that.
[00:41:22] Right?
[00:41:23] But other than Joseph, I feel like this whole house is just
[00:41:26] underdogs it.
[00:41:27] So it's not like they're because nothing has actually ever
[00:41:30] been really solidified to be a power Alliance like at any
[00:41:34] given moment.
[00:41:35] Anyone's on the outs.
[00:41:36] So funny.
[00:41:40] You might have noticed in all of this Quinn really doesn't
[00:41:43] have as the HOH right now, you know, the his allies aren't
[00:41:49] talking to him about the plan.
[00:41:51] He's already expressed that it's probably going to be
[00:41:53] Rubina.
[00:41:54] There's not a lot that Quinn's really doing throughout
[00:41:57] the day and his position continues to slip.
[00:42:00] He's not using this HOH in the way that he should, of course,
[00:42:03] as we always say to solidify to get information like I just
[00:42:08] I just want to like reiterate just how poorly.
[00:42:13] He is playing this week because he took he took a situation
[00:42:18] where he has two targets Angela Tucker.
[00:42:21] They're both safe right now.
[00:42:24] He has a bunch of people that are talking about him.
[00:42:27] He has a bunch of information.
[00:42:28] He doesn't know and when he did one-on-one meetings with
[00:42:33] people where he talked at them for a lengthy period of time
[00:42:38] and did not get any information from them and like, like,
[00:42:46] like I don't know how this happens, especially for somebody
[00:42:49] who seems to know a lot about the game, but like he's just
[00:42:52] not doing anything with this power beyond like well, obviously
[00:42:59] this is what I'm doing and I'm just figuring out how to tell
[00:43:02] people about what I'm doing rather than like collaborating
[00:43:06] with people getting information and reassessing and I think
[00:43:11] the problem is, you know, the rule which has been the problem
[00:43:14] is that he is too confident in his own like reads and position
[00:43:19] and and plan.
[00:43:22] For someone who has clearly listened to enough of you to want
[00:43:26] the big deep dive mentioned again today has not heard some
[00:43:32] very key points that you are reiterating here about, you know,
[00:43:35] how to use power how to build your HOH how to gain info as
[00:43:39] opposed to giving it away how to keep allies Etc.
[00:43:43] Also has fallen into the trap that I know 100% I would fall
[00:43:48] into despite all my knowledge, which is still somehow thinking
[00:43:51] that I could win a slip and slide despite being 5'4".
[00:43:55] I you know, I feel like I could still do that somehow but so
[00:44:01] yeah, he's in that same boat.
[00:44:02] Very yeah, he tells Joseph if there's a slip and slide I got
[00:44:07] that one.
[00:44:08] I just love Joseph.
[00:44:09] No, you don't have that.
[00:44:15] Yeah, I sometimes I feel like I repeat myself a lot when I
[00:44:21] talk about like various tenants of strategy, but then somebody
[00:44:25] who apparently listens to a lot of podcasts will go on the
[00:44:28] show.
[00:44:30] I'll be like, you know what?
[00:44:31] Maybe maybe I haven't said it enough.
[00:44:32] Do you have you considered releasing just like a 30-minute
[00:44:38] video of like look watch this before you go on you.
[00:44:42] I will not be a fan of you if you don't do these things like
[00:44:47] I will be mad at you and we will be trash-tracking you the
[00:44:49] whole season if you don't do these things genuinely for like
[00:44:53] the last five years before every season.
[00:44:56] I'm like, I should really make that video.
[00:44:59] I run out of time and I don't do it and then the next year
[00:45:02] it comes around and I'm like I should really make that video
[00:45:04] but by the time I think of it and realize I could do it.
[00:45:08] It's like there's it's like a week before they're going to
[00:45:11] be in sequester and like nobody's going to see it.
[00:45:13] Anyway, yes.
[00:45:15] Oh, well, no.
[00:45:16] Yeah, I never actually and also like the you know for the
[00:45:21] record like I'm not the end-all be-all of Big Brother strategy
[00:45:26] and you know, it's not like like watching me or listening
[00:45:30] to what I have to say is going to like make you know exactly
[00:45:34] what to do and it's not about building a guideline for
[00:45:38] how to win or how to play Big Brother.
[00:45:40] What it is is do not go on the show and act like you're a
[00:45:46] big fan of Darren and then not do the things that you said.
[00:45:53] That's what's frustrating is it's when someone is so loud
[00:45:57] and wrong about their their thoughts on the game.
[00:46:01] I don't mind people being wrong.
[00:46:03] Please.
[00:46:03] I would I would hate to have a whole season full of people
[00:46:05] who are trying to play quote-unquote correctly.
[00:46:08] Don't want that but it's so frustrating to see to see some
[00:46:12] people just just say and do the wrong things and I know
[00:46:16] we're on the outside.
[00:46:17] It's it's it's much more difficult when you're actually
[00:46:19] playing the game and you don't have all the information,
[00:46:22] but if I'm sitting there going, oh, I feel like I don't
[00:46:25] have all the information.
[00:46:27] No, I'm just going to consider myself to be right.
[00:46:29] What no go get the information.
[00:46:34] Yeah.
[00:46:35] Um, so, uh, so there's more talk about just again in general
[00:46:41] the underdogs and this is coming from Rubina T Corp Joseph
[00:46:45] like they're mad at Tucker because he screwed everything
[00:46:48] up him going after Quinn ruined their chances of coming
[00:46:50] together and dismantling the power structure.
[00:46:52] It's very frustrating.
[00:46:54] They talk about that a lot.
[00:46:56] We also get Chelsea and Brooklyn talking more about their
[00:47:00] final two.
[00:47:00] They kind of kind of made a final to a little while ago,
[00:47:04] but it really and they've been operating kind of as a
[00:47:07] final two for a little while, but they kind of more explicitly
[00:47:11] lay it out last night.
[00:47:13] And and Chelsea and even you are sorry, Brooklyn even uses
[00:47:18] her like confetti line that she used on Angela in week one
[00:47:23] that but Angela didn't believe it because she thought that
[00:47:27] Brooklyn would want her out because they're competing for
[00:47:30] the same spot.
[00:47:32] But these two again, the one thing I thought Chelsea did
[00:47:36] really well on her Hoh was hook up with Brooklyn that paid
[00:47:40] off in week three and continues to pay off.
[00:47:44] These two are still in the best position in the house right
[00:47:46] now. And despite the fact that they might be willing to lose
[00:47:49] MJ which would diminish their position.
[00:47:52] They are still doing really well in the fact that they're
[00:47:54] linked in together is very effective.
[00:47:58] The one benefit that that I can think of of losing MJ is
[00:48:02] it keeps them.
[00:48:04] Hidden and not.
[00:48:07] I think there is a benefit to not always fighting for every
[00:48:10] little possible piece when you're not really when you could
[00:48:16] be losing other people by trying to keep them.
[00:48:19] I guess I agree and I can I can see why they would see it
[00:48:23] that way but we know that they do need those pieces because
[00:48:28] they're not as hidden as they think because Quinn's been
[00:48:30] ratting them out left and right, right?
[00:48:33] Because I just want Quinn to get on an actual side and then
[00:48:37] stop ratting out things that would be good for him.
[00:48:40] Like he could have worked with he could be in with Brooklyn
[00:48:42] and Chelsea right now if he wasn't ruining everything constantly.
[00:48:48] Here's another question Rubina.
[00:48:51] Let's just pretend that Tucker was still in the block or in
[00:48:54] a future week.
[00:48:55] Obviously, she's working with him, but I do feel like she
[00:48:59] has a lot more possibilities of gameplay that open up if
[00:49:02] Tucker goes home.
[00:49:04] And normally I don't advocate for that.
[00:49:06] But I think that it's just there's always going to be a line
[00:49:08] of people wanting Tucker out that's going to hurt her trying
[00:49:12] to use her as the way to get back at him.
[00:49:15] Yeah, you know, I completely agree.
[00:49:17] I think that like I'm I think 99 times out of a hundred you
[00:49:22] should never want an ally and a locked in ally to leave just
[00:49:29] because they're a target from the rest of the house.
[00:49:32] The problem is I don't think Tucker is a locked in at he's
[00:49:37] not a locked in ally and he's so good at winning that she's
[00:49:39] going to constantly be in danger of being the one to take,
[00:49:42] you know to cut off his legs.
[00:49:44] I guess exactly like like Tucker is is barely an ally at all.
[00:49:51] Like he's basically somebody that will probably never put
[00:49:55] her on the block and I can't even say certainly won't put
[00:49:59] her on the block because I have no idea what Tucker might
[00:50:02] do but he's just a person that probably would never put her
[00:50:06] on the block at least in the next few weeks and beyond that
[00:50:10] she has no influence on what he does who he targets what he
[00:50:14] tells people and at all the while she's being targeted
[00:50:20] directly because of her association with him.
[00:50:23] And so it is actually I think a situation where her game
[00:50:27] probably would improve if Tucker left but it's it's frustrating
[00:50:33] that that's the case because she shouldn't need him to leave.
[00:50:36] He should just be working with her and then it would be
[00:50:40] fine for him to stay but yeah, oh well can't can't trust
[00:50:50] an ally can't trust an enemy in this house.
[00:50:52] Yeah.
[00:50:55] Okay, speaking of Joseph he's going to do some of his
[00:50:59] Taron Armstrong power rankings that he told Quinn about
[00:51:04] earlier in the season.
[00:51:05] We finally get one on the feeds and I think I've learned
[00:51:10] about Joseph that he also like for somebody that watches
[00:51:14] the podcast.
[00:51:15] I get the feeling he hasn't in a while because of a couple
[00:51:23] reasons one.
[00:51:25] He's a Dr.
[00:51:26] Will guy to he calls them power rankings and he lists them
[00:51:33] in order and he's not actually like rating players.
[00:51:37] I do.
[00:51:37] I think this is still helpful and probably easier to do
[00:51:40] certainly but but then three and this is the biggest thing
[00:51:44] for me.
[00:51:47] He was talking yesterday about how the endgame comps are
[00:51:50] mental.
[00:51:52] Oh not good.
[00:51:55] Not good.
[00:51:56] He was like we don't need to worry about all these physical
[00:51:59] competitions right now because at the end game they're going
[00:52:02] to get more mental and that's when we can start winning and
[00:52:05] I was like, oh maybe if they say it enough it'll come back
[00:52:13] and it'll actually happen.
[00:52:16] Like that's a that's a rough one.
[00:52:19] So anyway, here are his rankings.
[00:52:25] MJ in last place.
[00:52:28] He's likely going home Rubina after that.
[00:52:35] She's also likely potentially going home this week.
[00:52:39] Angela after that he says she basically has no chance to win.
[00:52:42] Nobody respects her in the game.
[00:52:45] She could continue to win comps.
[00:52:47] She could continue to win comps and maybe re-ingratiate
[00:52:49] herself, but like not super likely.
[00:52:52] Then Tucker.
[00:52:54] Because he's a complete wildcard and he's and as soon as he
[00:52:58] doesn't win he's probably leaving.
[00:53:01] Then Leah.
[00:53:03] She has some good relationships, but she's doing nothing in
[00:53:05] the game.
[00:53:07] Then Cam.
[00:53:10] He thinks that you know Cam is like likable and social but
[00:53:17] he doesn't give people enough in strategic conversations.
[00:53:22] Then Quinn.
[00:53:24] He thinks Quinn has done a good job of getting people to
[00:53:26] trust him again after the big blow up, but let's be real.
[00:53:29] It's Quinn and he's you know, it's at some point going to
[00:53:34] fall back on him and so far I'm kind of in agreement with
[00:53:39] most of this.
[00:53:42] But then he makes I think a bit of a mistake.
[00:53:44] I think he goes next is Brooklyn.
[00:53:48] And I think this is a very big underestimation of Brooklyn.
[00:53:54] Right?
[00:53:54] He proves that Brooklyn is in a better spot.
[00:53:58] Exactly.
[00:54:01] He does not quite see how Brooklyn has positioned herself,
[00:54:06] which is weird because he has all the information he needs
[00:54:08] to recognize that Brooklyn is in a really good spot, but
[00:54:11] he still is underestimating her and that could be very
[00:54:15] dangerous for him.
[00:54:17] Next he goes back and forth between Cedric and T-Core ultimately
[00:54:21] puts Cedric next and we don't really hear a lot about why
[00:54:27] we also miss his explanation for T-Core who puts after that
[00:54:32] and this one also surprised me.
[00:54:33] He puts T-Core or sorry, he puts Kimo number three overall.
[00:54:40] So he says because he's well insulated which he is but
[00:54:46] I don't know.
[00:54:47] I mean, I think I think from what we have seen is not
[00:54:53] active enough.
[00:54:54] I think he is overestimating right now T-Core and Kimo
[00:54:58] but I think what that does is he knows that the Pentagon
[00:55:00] exists, right?
[00:55:01] I think what it does show me when he's saying that though
[00:55:04] is that he likes them and wants to work with them and is
[00:55:06] putting his allies higher.
[00:55:08] Yes, I think that's true.
[00:55:11] Then he makes himself.
[00:55:15] The number two spot.
[00:55:17] He says, I think I'm doing really well.
[00:55:20] I think I'm kind of crushing right now.
[00:55:23] And like maybe I'm being pretty arrogant there but at least
[00:55:27] he recognizes it.
[00:55:30] I feel like people trust me and that you know, I think I'm
[00:55:37] listen.
[00:55:38] I'm in charge of the big Alliance.
[00:55:40] I'm the leader of the big one.
[00:55:43] I created it at the meeting.
[00:55:45] I was doing all the talking.
[00:55:48] I'm the leader of majority Alliance.
[00:55:50] I'm doing really well.
[00:55:52] And and and people like Joseph, they don't even know or
[00:55:55] people like Tucker.
[00:55:55] They don't even know they have no idea what it's week for
[00:56:04] you don't want to be the leader in no, you don't want to
[00:56:07] be the only one talking and meet what anyway, here's what
[00:56:11] here's what I will say about that also before for you break
[00:56:14] it down any further.
[00:56:16] I like the attitude from an entertainment perspective.
[00:56:20] I'm glad that he is the way he is for this.
[00:56:24] I'd listen.
[00:56:27] I like all of it.
[00:56:29] I like Tucker being Tucker.
[00:56:32] I like Angela being Angela.
[00:56:35] I like Quinn being Quinn.
[00:56:37] I like Joseph being Joseph, you know, I I want to see all
[00:56:43] of it.
[00:56:45] I don't like I don't like that.
[00:56:48] He's clocked.
[00:56:48] Chelsea is being so good Chelsea number one seems to be.
[00:56:52] Yeah.
[00:56:52] Yeah.
[00:56:53] Although I will I will say when I was making that list.
[00:56:55] I went over the names over and over and over and I went
[00:56:57] wait, who who who in this thing?
[00:57:01] I could not remember Chelsea for a second there.
[00:57:04] It's like we've got everyone do we count wrong?
[00:57:06] Who is it?
[00:57:08] Yeah.
[00:57:10] So so that seems to be where he is.
[00:57:12] He says he doesn't really want to win any competitions until
[00:57:15] like final 10 and and because he doesn't need to in such a
[00:57:22] good spot and like the thing is that you know, it's annoying
[00:57:27] because there is there is a path for Joseph.
[00:57:29] I think that Joseph is actually doing a decent job.
[00:57:32] But the problem is that he's overestimating the job that
[00:57:34] he's doing and he greatly overestimates his position if
[00:57:38] he recognized the position he was in I would say he you know,
[00:57:42] he's one of the better players in there.
[00:57:44] He's doing well in the position.
[00:57:46] He's in but I don't trust that he will continue to do well
[00:57:49] because he doesn't recognize that he's in that position.
[00:57:51] Right and and he thinks that part of it is like good.
[00:57:58] So, oh, well, so that was basically the day anything else
[00:58:07] that you wanted to bring up Mary.
[00:58:09] Huh that you know, there's just still so many people who
[00:58:14] are just doing nothing.
[00:58:18] Cam is one of the more egregious ones.
[00:58:21] You could say the same about Leah and Leah have cooled down
[00:58:24] considerably for what it's worth which I guess is technically
[00:58:28] an improvement, but they're just not doing anything strategically
[00:58:31] at all.
[00:58:31] Yeah, and I think that there's just so many people who feel
[00:58:33] safe this week that they're just kind of taking a week off.
[00:58:36] So, yeah, I did also some kind people sent me the clip of
[00:58:43] the moon stuff and it was honestly more funny than I thought
[00:58:50] it was because it was multiple people were like, yeah, we
[00:58:54] don't believe that we landed on the moon and then cam chimed
[00:58:58] in with like, yeah, I I think we landed on a moon just maybe
[00:59:05] not the one that we see right the close one.
[00:59:09] That would be the easiest to get to because because then he's
[00:59:12] like because like we got we've gone to space a bunch of times
[00:59:15] and then somebody was like allegedly and he was like, no,
[00:59:20] I think we have like I just I've just never I've never even
[00:59:25] considered the conspiracy of we've gone to space a bunch.
[00:59:29] We've landed on a moon but not our moon.
[00:59:34] That one was fake.
[00:59:35] That one was on his day.
[00:59:41] It's a wild take.
[00:59:42] It's funny.
[00:59:43] You know what?
[00:59:43] I love that.
[00:59:44] Keep keep doing, you know, build the moments for the montage
[00:59:49] on the episodes go for it.
[00:59:51] That's fine.
[00:59:54] Oh boy.
[00:59:56] So yeah that that was going on there.
[01:00:00] I'm trying to think if there was anything else that popped up
[01:00:02] throughout the day there probably was but yeah, that's that's
[01:00:07] about what we've got.
[01:00:08] So basically what we're looking at right now again, maybe
[01:00:12] at some point Quinn will be talked to and there will be a change
[01:00:15] of plans.
[01:00:16] But on unless that happens Rubina looks like she will be going
[01:00:19] up.
[01:00:20] There's still a little bit of discussion between Rubina and
[01:00:24] MJ who might leave.
[01:00:25] I really think that it's in the best interest of most of the
[01:00:28] majority to take out Rubina.
[01:00:33] So I think that's where it will eventually land even though
[01:00:35] right now.
[01:00:36] It seems like it might be a little bit more leaning toward
[01:00:39] MJ.
[01:00:40] So we'll see about that.
[01:00:41] But of course then the AI arena competition will dramatically
[01:00:46] influence who might leave also depending on who wins that so
[01:00:50] stay tuned for all of that.
[01:00:54] And then of course, I'll be back tomorrow morning 11 a.m.
[01:00:55] Eastern time to see when everything happens today on the
[01:00:57] Big Brother 26 live feeds and tonight's I'll be live on Twitch
[01:01:04] watching the episode for the first time.
[01:01:06] How's the dragon is over?
[01:01:07] So Sunday episode watch parties are back.
[01:01:12] So come and hang out with me there and then I will be live on
[01:01:16] the podcast tonight with one.
[01:01:19] Oh, we Jane to talk through the episode and get Bowie Jane's
[01:01:24] thoughts.
[01:01:26] You know that yesterday Quinn was saying to T Corp and chemo
[01:01:29] that he feels like they can pull in Leah like the Mafia pulled
[01:01:35] in Bowie Jane.
[01:01:38] He knew but we Jane shout out before the podcast as if the
[01:01:43] Mafia existed without Bowie Jane like Bowie Jane was the Mafia.
[01:01:48] What are you talking about?
[01:01:52] With Matt and I.
[01:01:56] All right, so tune in for all of that Mary.
[01:02:00] What do you got going on?
[01:02:02] Oh, not too much.
[01:02:03] You can follow me everywhere at frail Mary and my completely
[01:02:06] random recommendation of the week is if you live in a town where
[01:02:10] you have one of those like old movie theaters that plays like
[01:02:13] older movies go to those very fun went and saw Jurassic Park
[01:02:16] last night like the original very good times very active audience
[01:02:21] cheap movies highly recommend.
[01:02:24] There you go.
[01:02:26] I will recommend having now watched the women's climbing
[01:02:30] final for the Olympics.
[01:02:31] Oh watch that was very very good at least for me.
[01:02:35] I watch a lot of fun, but it was great.
[01:02:37] Very good.
[01:02:38] All right.
[01:02:39] Thank you all so much for joining us and I will see all of you
[01:02:43] next time.