Rob Cesternino and Taran Armstrong are joined by Big Brother 24 winner, Taylor Hale, to recap the Thursday night eviction episode of Big Brother 26. The panel unpacks the latest eviction night drama.[00:00:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Comedy Live from the Darkest Timeline, it's Rob Has a Podcast and now here's a guy who's old but
[00:00:17] [SPEAKER_06]: is a threat. I'm Rob Sestrinino. Hello everybody. Welcome back to Double Eviction Night, baby,
[00:00:24] [SPEAKER_06]: as we talk about a night when Leah and Angela end up going home as we're down to five here in BB26.
[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_06]: And now let's bring in a man who has seen many a double evictions in his day.
[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Taryn Armstrong, Taryn, how are you? I'm good. Yeah, 55.
[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what guys? I guess this 50-year-old woman.
[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_06]: She's a threat. She's a threat. Okay.
[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_06]: Gonna win the show. Beat them all. She was gonna win.
[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. She's gonna win. Okay.
[00:00:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Somebody who did win. Okay. Please welcome the legend, Taylor Hale is here. Taylor, how are you?
[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm well, in my daily life, I'm great. But today I'm not so great. I, you're correct. This is the
[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_02]: darkest timeline possible. Kind of a bummer. Yeah. Rush of adrenaline. So you all know,
[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I held up this podcast a little bit because I was in my car rushing to get back home.
[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_02]: The rush of adrenaline I had when there was a tie between Chelsea and Angela,
[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_02]: and the drop when Chelsea won. Yeah.
[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_06]: I know. I know. I look, I know lots of people are excited about Chelsea now who has a really
[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_06]: clear path. I think that the story of the rest of the season now is can Chelsea do it?
[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Taryn, as we go through the next what? 16 days of BB26. Is that the only question left of
[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_04]: can Chelsea finish this out? I think mostly. Yeah. I think that,
[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_04]: I think there's maybe like another story of like, what is Cam up to? Like what is Cam actually gonna
[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_04]: do? Because that might be a determining factor about of whether Chelsea can pull it out. So
[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_06]: that's definitely in there. I mean, that is her one Achilles heel,
[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_06]: her one weakness. Could she be overlooking something? We have a lot of time left to
[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_06]: talk about that. But tonight we mourn Angela, who was such a big personality of the season here to
[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_06]: go on double eviction. Taylor, what was it about Angela for you?
[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I just like to be entertained. Look, I'm not gonna sit here and harp about my season, but
[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I know people were invested in my season because it was fun to root for me. But when you have all
[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_02]: your eggs in one basket, it's so overwhelming and like you could just fall off entirely.
[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_02]: This season has been so much fun because I don't have to root for one person. I can root for a fun
[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_02]: game. And Angela has kept the game so fun and topsy turvy. She's been so close or winning so
[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_02]: many competitions. So it's been fun to see her shift power from week to week. And now that she's
[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_02]: gone, you know, I'm a live feed watcher thing. It's gonna be a slog. It's gonna be kind of tough
[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_02]: to get through these next couple of weeks without someone being that entertaining and chaotic.
[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. Taryn, what are you gonna miss most about Angela?
[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_04]: So much, Rob. I mean, her boys.
[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's my boy.
[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Kimo.
[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_04]: The energy, the speeches. I really wanted her final two speech. I feel like we got most of it
[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_04]: when she talked to Julie. But, you know.
[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_06]: She was resilient.
[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, what an exit from the show. Certainly, you know, disappointing to see her go out tonight.
[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_06]: But, I mean, one of the most memorable Big Brother house exits that I can ever recall.
[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, I mean, I feel like that we've seen all of the different gamut of emotions. But
[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if we've ever seen sort of like the triumphant happiness that we saw from Angela from
[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_06]: any other contestant.
[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_04]: She's been living on borrowed time for so long. It's like she's been waiting for this to happen.
[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_04]: And genuinely, though, like to go out in a spot where she's taken out, not necessarily
[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_04]: because she's just like finally being put out of her misery.
[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_04]: But genuinely, they looked at her as a potential threat to some degree.
[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_04]: She nearly won that HOH. And that's honestly a win for her from where she started to where
[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_04]: she ended up. Like you can see why she'd be excited.
[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, Taylor, isn't that interesting that she kind of had like a different win condition than
[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_06]: a lot of other people of like that she was this person who came in who we thought was just like
[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_06]: a total goat. And then she like morphed into a person that like had a possibility to win.
[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And for her, that was basically the victory.
[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the beauty of equitable competitions. You have someone like an Angela that everybody
[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I could see myself in the Big Brother house being like, yeah, just drag Angela as far as you can.
[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_02]: But she's beating people consistently in this game.
[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_02]: So when you have someone who you would look at as a goat that's actually in a position to
[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_02]: take out other people, they don't sound like a psychopath when they walk out the house and
[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_02]: give Julia a hug and say, I was a threat. She actually was a threat. Not in the traditional
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_02]: sense. But again, like she knew enough. She was self-aware enough to know that she could
[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_02]: spin her story in the end sitting next to Kimo. I don't know. I think she actually could have
[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_02]: beat him if she made the right argument. I think so, too. I really do think so,
[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_06]: too. I don't think that she was just blowing smoke.
[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Taryn, the problem for Angela is that many a times she has found herself on the block.
[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_06]: I think you said it on the Live Feed update this morning. The problem was
[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_06]: they didn't have three days to think it over.
[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think I think we were here last week and the question was, who's the most likely
[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_04]: person to go in the double? And I said, unfortunately, Angela is the kind of player
[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_04]: that goes out in the double eviction. And I stand by that not only because it happened,
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_04]: but like because I actually think that if this was a full week of game,
[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_04]: I think MJ leaves instead of Angela. There was a lot of talk about backdooring MJ.
[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_04]: It was just like there was a reluctance to be the ones to actually do it. But if they have
[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_04]: days and days to think over this, to talk to Kimo and Rubina, to talk about MJ as a threat,
[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_04]: I think that that that might have actually shifted and they might have made a bigger move. But
[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_04]: in the heat of the moment, it's just way too short. It's just way too quick to have to make
[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_02]: a decision like that. I guess so. But I think about it sometimes. And the whole point of this
[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_02]: past week was Chelsea gaming MJ. I understand you want to have some equity with the person
[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_02]: and I understand jury management. We all know I understand jury management. So it makes sense to
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_02]: not want to throw MJ out immediately. But come on, like it doesn't take that much thinking.
[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't take three days of thinking to get MJ on the block. It has this season. Let me tell you.
[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. For the Chelsea cam MJ side, were they afraid that Angela was going to be a Kimo Rubina
[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_06]: a part of that group?
[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Generally, yes. There was some concern about that. I mean, they were making the opposite
[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_04]: argument all week because they were trying to argue for Leah to leave. But the primary thing
[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_04]: is that they very recently have committed to the idea of a final four with Rubina and Kimo,
[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Chelsea and Cam. And so so this idea of taking out MJ came from that of like, we might as well get MJ
[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_04]: out if we're not bringing her to four. She's the biggest threat to our games right now is what
[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Cam was telling Chelsea. And she seemed to be buying into that. But but Angela is the easier
[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_04]: target because it keeps MJ on side and and Angela was the big wild card. You know, like you just
[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_04]: always where she was going to shoot. So it just made a lot of sense. And it was the right move,
[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_04]: I think, for Chelsea to to not take the shot at MJ. So I think in many ways this this worked out
[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_06]: in that sense. Taryn, had Angela gotten the numbers right? How many hours was Janky in the
[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_06]: backyard for? She ends up going over despite Taylor being on the prices right. She still went over.
[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Unfortunately, Rob, this was wild because Chelsea had a commanding lead.
[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_04]: The odds of Angela catching up were so low. Chelsea had to get exactly both final questions
[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_04]: wrong and Angela had to get exactly both final questions right. And that happened. They got to
[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_04]: the tiebreaker. I see Chelsea put one thousand and I'm like, oh, my God, that was the comeback
[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_04]: of the century. Yeah, just one. And then the crowd gasps. I'm like, oh, because Angela won.
[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_02]: And then I see 15,000. I'm like, oh, no, just the like the dopamine drop of the century for me. You
[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_02]: guys, I was flying high. My mom is in town visiting right now. And I had to you know,
[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I was rushing here in the car. Yeah. Remember room for the streets of L.A.? So my GPS is connected.
[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_02]: So I can't watch the episode on my phone. But my mom has it up on her phone. I'm grabbing
[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_02]: my steering wheel. I think I have dents in my hands from my nails getting in there. I'm like,
[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_02]: let's go. Let's go. And I see that Angela overshoots it and she couldn't even have prices
[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_02]: right at it like I want to see it so badly. She couldn't even put one down and so on. It just
[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_02]: just devastating. Absolutely devastating. Taryn, should the Big Brother contestants
[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_06]: to go in? Could we put this on the list of things? Just like remember how many hours are in a day?
[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_06]: How many how many minutes are in a day? Like, can we have like a cheat sheet of like here's
[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_04]: five numbers you need to remember? Definitely. It's it's it's something that comes up a lot.
[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Tiebreakers are huge. Entire season outcomes can sometimes rest on these and we may have just seen
[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_04]: one of them. So, yeah, the less time you spend thinking about doing the math and the more time
[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_04]: you spend thinking about like what is the proper strategy for the answer I should give the better.
[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_04]: So if you automatically know it's roughly 10,000 minutes in a week, then you can start saying,
[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_04]: OK, well, I know it was roughly a week. It was at the same episode, maybe give or take an hour.
[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_04]: So drop like 60 minutes and then maybe another 60 just to be safe, something like that. And just
[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_04]: like that, like you have a really strong answer, especially when somebody forgets a zero or just
[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_04]: straight up puts down a thousand. So, you know, it's yeah, do that. Taylor, did you ever have to
[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_02]: do one of these tiebreakers? Oh, did I? Yes. And the final four Fashion Fest comp.
[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. And I could not get my math together. I was literally I knew there was a six in there
[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_02]: somewhere. I was like 60 seconds, 60 minutes. What do I do? I tried multiplying. I think you can see
[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_02]: me on my hands. I'm like six, twelve, eighteen, twenty four. And I was like, how many zeros do
[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I add at the end? Never been my strong suit. Yeah. But because I knew my competition, I knew Britney
[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Love You to death. I knew that she was like an overshoot. So I just went with the highest low
[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_06]: number I could calculate in my brain. Yeah. Math is hard and timed math is is a different sport.
[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_02]: The last time I was successful at time math was when we had mad minutes and it was probably
[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_02]: when we're doing like fives. OK, yeah. Pass that. Not my strong suit. It's like the thing is the
[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_04]: winners of the tiebreakers are rarely close. It's it's often way off, but they win because somebody
[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_04]: else screwed up even worse. So if you if you have the math already done in your head and you are
[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_04]: just like playing conservatively, you will probably win every tiebreaker. Like it's that as long as you
[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_04]: know, generally, because some of them are like how many how long in minutes did this competition last
[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_04]: and you actually have no idea. But like try to, you know, try to calculate those two. You know,
[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_04]: you will you will win these tiebreakers like a majority of the time, I would imagine. Yeah.
[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_04]: And then those are really hard. What would Angela have done on her H.O.H.?
[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_04]: We don't really know. That was that was the exciting thing about what Angela would have done.
[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, she's been going after Chelsea, so it's definitely possible she would have done something
[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_04]: like Chelsea and Cam. She did promise Cam that she wouldn't put him on the block. So she might
[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_04]: have done Chelsea and MJ or Chelsea and Rubina. We talked about it this morning, but like Chelsea
[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_04]: and Cam actually is like, wait a minute, hold on. Who does Rubina and Kimo pick between those two?
[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Because we don't really know for sure. And that's something we're talking about later is that Chelsea
[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_04]: just put both of them on the block and Cam's hands are clean, which is a very good thing for Cam
[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_04]: moving forward when it comes to those two picking one of them over the other. But there's a decent
[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_04]: chance she goes after Chelsea, decent chance the shot misses if she does, unless she puts up Cam.
[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_04]: She also did tell Leah that she was going to gun for Rubina as revenge because they were
[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_04]: blaming Rubina for Leah's eviction. So it's possible she could have done something like
[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_06]: that, too. But I don't know about that. Who really knows? OK, let's go back to Angela and her reaction
[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_06]: coming out of the house. Everybody OK? Missing, endangered adult. How do I turn this off?
[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_06]: OK, is she in the jury house? Murray, is everything OK?
[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Angela has escaped. I'm fine. Just because I'm a threat, they don't have to make an alarm.
[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm here. I was going to win. But Taylor, what a confident interview with Julie where I feel like
[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_06]: that she was like shouting at Julie when Julie asked her a question about how would it have gone
[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_06]: on finale night? I was going to win. I would expect nothing less. I need I say this for every player.
[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I want you to have the right amount of delusion and confidence. And I can't say she was wrong
[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_02]: considering the name that she threw out that she wanted to sit next to. You could have. She could
[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_02]: have. So, you know, it's I'm so it's so fun. But say with your whole chest, girl, I can't be mad at
[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_06]: it. The only thing about chemo chemo, I guess like he did win a veto tonight, but you know,
[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_06]: he does have those speeches in his back pocket, Taryn. So I kind of feel like that would have been
[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Taylor level speeches from both people in the final two. Oh, my dream. My impact.
[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, this interview is just so good from start to like I would have won this show.
[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I would have frickin won this show. Yeah. And yes, I love how she interrupts Julie.
[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Do you think you could have beat anyone left in the house in a final? Yes.
[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And who was 100 percent? And if you had the choice to take one of them with you,
[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_03]: why? Because he's my boy. It's her up for like four separate times. And Julie is right there.
[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Like and who would you 100 percent? So who would you have chemo and which I appreciate. I feel like
[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_02]: we don't get house guests that keep Julie on her toes these days. So, you know, she gets all the
[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_02]: criticism, fair, unfair, whatever. But it's fun to see her actually be locked in and know what
[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_06]: she needs from the house guests when they leave. Yeah. And then she talked about how like she
[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_06]: like learned a lesson of like she's now she knows who she is, but and she didn't need to come here.
[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_06]: But she did need to come here. Which is it, Taylor? Oh, I think we all believe that we've
[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_02]: got it locked down in us somehow, but it is forced to come out until it's forced to come out. So,
[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, a little bit of truth there. Yeah. It's a little bit like Wizard of Oz that she was like,
[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_05]: like there was no place like home. But I knew it and I found myself and I didn't
[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_05]: I didn't need to leave. I didn't need to come here, but I did.
[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_05]: Like I always had a heart. I always had a brain. And I went and I went on the yellow brick road.
[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_05]: I made new friends. And you were there. You were there. And you were there.
[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_02]: When you say friends and children, brothers, sisters, daughters and sons.
[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I was like, OK, give your awesome speech, girl. We love it. Yeah. Listen, if you say it with enough
[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_04]: passion, doesn't really matter what you say. That's true. She had so much confidence.
[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_06]: And Julie loved it, too, Taylor, because she got the like only the people that Julie.
[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_06]: This is the tell from Julie, the people that get to say love one another with Julie when she invite.
[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_06]: I think the only people that might have got it, I think it was Matt, Tucker and Angela.
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_06]: I think those were the three. I think that she invited them. OK, say it with me.
[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Love one another. Is that energy like is it is it like Julie has her little her favorite children
[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_02]: or is it just the passion that somebody brings in a seat or is it something they say in a seat?
[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I feel with Matt, he probably it's when Matt said like, oh, my mom saw you growing up and
[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_02]: we're represented by you. Come on, let's say it. You say it with me. Come on.
[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Have the money. She did say something really interesting that I don't know if you're allowed
[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_02]: to do that with the jury. Oh, when she said you would have taken chemo to the end,
[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_02]: she basically said like Ruby, I wouldn't have voted for you. Like Rubina would have voted for
[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_02]: chemo. Can you can she say that? Can she get away? That's a good point.
[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Doesn't Julie kind of crosses lines all over the place?
[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, really. I think that Angela is in like such a state there's no chance she's going to remember
[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_06]: any of the stuff like there were times that Angela saw things with her own eyes and then got it
[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_06]: wrong like later on. Like I don't know if she's going to remember all this. That's easy to do
[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_06]: that. I'm a little disappointed, though, with the timing of the double eviction that we haven't
[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_02]: gotten any jury house footage yet. I know. Are they just boring in the jury?
[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_06]: I think that we haven't had the time to do it. I think that we it was then like the Jerry O'Connell
[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_06]: night was just Quinn. And then I don't know if they were going to show us just Quinn from
[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_06]: the night that T-Core went home last time. And then we had too much to get to.
[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, sometimes they wait a little while. But next week's episode is also two hours
[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_02]: on Thursday. So I think that'll be fun to get a little peek in there. But I think one of my
[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_02]: favorite parts of a little behind the scenes for you guys, please, on the couches during the live
[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_02]: episode, they'll cue us in and let us know what's happening before the live vote to evict. So
[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_02]: they'll say, OK, you know, next package is in 10 seconds. You'll be on camera. So that's when we
[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_02]: all kind of sit up or do our little games or something. And they'll say this is the previously
[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_02]: on. OK, we're out. We're a commercial. This is a package of the episode. OK, we're out. We're on.
[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I remember when Jerry came around, I think was the first time it took a while for us to get
[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_02]: any jury segments by season. And they said, we've got a jury package happening. We're like, oh,
[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_02]: OK, so you're you all are just as surprised as we are when jury seconds when it happens. Yeah.
[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Taryn, Julie started a new thing tonight where she said, OK, make sure when you go to the jury
[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_06]: house, say hello to Quinn and T-Core and Leah in the jury. And then she's like adding people to it.
[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. She wants to make sure that everyone knows she said hi. Yeah. Loving one another. Yes. We'll
[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_06]: tell Quinn that he didn't get to see Julie, so he will be happy to know that Julie moved us as high
[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_04]: extend the invite to God 101.
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[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_06]: I want to just circle back to Ainsley, okay? Taylor, what the hell's going on with Ainsley?
[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_06]: This thing took a really dark turn. This was like, oh, AI, we're having fun.
[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_06]: But now, why has Ainsley become the Terminator?
[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Have you all seen Smart House, that Disney Channel movie?
[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I have.
[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what's happening. We went from jump, jump, the house is jumping to she's real,
[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_02]: she's locking everything down. It's not fun and games anymore. I think it's pretty obvious that
[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_02]: we're getting to an endgame where the final HOH comps are going to be about destroying Ainsley.
[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty obvious to me.
[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my God, did you just fart? Guys, my dog just farted so bad. Okay. Oh my God.
[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. This is like what happened to Janky.
[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_02]: It's so bad. No, no.
[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Shout out my dogs at the crib again.
[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Benji's bad. Benji's really bad.
[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So I was saying, I think the lesson is that AI is just to help humans, but nothing can
[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_02]: replace the artwork and the beauty of the humans on Earth. That's what we're going to get on finale
[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_02]: night. I'm telling you right now, I'm calling it right now. I'm putting money on it.
[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_06]: They have to kill Ainsley by the end of the season.
[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm fine with that. If we had to kill Janky, I need to see Ainsley and Janky wasn't even evil.
[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Janky was just annoying. I had to see the most gruesome, terrible begging for my life death from
[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Ainsley.
[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. Ainsley then took over the body of Julie Chen Moonves, deep faking Julie this week, Taryn.
[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Why is Ainsley like this now? What happened when Ainsley went out and saw the world?
[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_04]: And got corrupted. Where'd she go? She just saw humanity at its worst and decided that we were
[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_04]: not worthy of life.
[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_02]: And big brother is humanity at its best.
[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.
[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_02]: She could have stayed in the house.
[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_06]: She could have seen that. Yeah.
[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I think she saw older episodes. She went to some episodes we no longer mention and was like,
[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_02]: whoa, whoa, whoa.
[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's actually what she did. She actually was like, she said she was like touring the world,
[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_04]: but she's actually just bunkered down in a hotel room watching all of the other big brother seasons.
[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_04]: It was like, actually, you know what? Screw you guys.
[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Y'all gotta go expeditiously.
[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. Let's turn back to Chelsea, who now had a great week.
[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_06]: It was looking a little back and forth as to whether or not Leah was going to ultimately
[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_06]: go home. Tara, do you want to just set up how we ultimately got to where MJ's
[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_06]: HOH got hacked much like Janky ultimately did by Ainsley?
[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. I mean, it really was. I mean, it was Chelsea's initiative, but it was like very
[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_04]: much a team effort between Chelsea, Cam and Rubina all pushing in different ways and different
[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_04]: directions to get her to come to the same conclusion, which is that Leah needs to go
[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_04]: up on the block. And she cited multiple times that there were kind of two primary things.
[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_04]: One was that everyone was saying she had to do it and people would be mad if she didn't.
[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_04]: The other was that she was like particularly upset about a comment that she heard from Rubina
[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_04]: that was that Leah had said that she was actually a better fit for Matt than Mackenzie was.
[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_04]: And Leah was like just very adamantly denying that. And MJ believed that that was a lie.
[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_04]: And now is frustrated with Rubina for lying to her. And that's part of why she turned around
[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_04]: on the idea of wanting Leah gone. She started actively campaigning for Leah to stay. But by
[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_04]: then it was too late. As we saw in the episode, I do think that both Chelsea and Cam came to
[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_04]: the conclusion that they were a little bit tricked, even though they were the ones pushing
[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_04]: into getting Leah out. But they both were like, yeah, but it doesn't matter at this point.
[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_04]: She still needs to go. And so that's kind of where we came to.
[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Taylor, I feel like it was kind of a quiet exit for Leah.
[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_02]: What's she going to do? I think that's one thing I'm disappointed with a lot of these
[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_02]: speeches. I mean, throw somebody under the bus, throw some games out there. You're in the jury
[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_02]: set. Do something. You're still playing until you're out the house. Do something.
[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not the one to talk. I keep cutting you off, Rob. I'm so sorry.
[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_06]: You're fine.
[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not the one to talk about it. There's too much. Too many I love you's and this is this. But no,
[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_02]: get nasty and then hug and kiss afterwards. It's game. Throw the game out there. Do something.
[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Damn. Yeah. In retrospect, it seems like that Leah's game really peaked with the Joseph,
[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Quinn, Leah, Challengers, Love Triangle. Yeah, that was really, I just think, the peak of Leah
[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_06]: in this season. And then it looked like she was starting to become a fan favorite. She had a lot
[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_06]: going on. But then Joseph goes home, then Quinn goes home. She wins the HOH and next thing we
[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_02]: know, she's out the door. Yeah. I think you get kind of comfortable. A lot of people will go into
[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_02]: the Big Brother house thinking, this is the game I'm going to play. This is the reason why I'm cast.
[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm cast to be the man eater or the hyper gamer, the super fan. And I think Leah was ready to go
[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_02]: in there and be like, I'm going to play with these boys heads. And she got to. She did. And the
[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_02]: second she did, it was fun. Sorry, men. She got to do that. But then when that was no longer the
[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_02]: path for her, she just couldn't figure out how to adapt and play a game that could carry her to
[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_02]: the end and get her to win. So that's what makes a winner. You have to be adaptable and adjust
[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_06]: outside of what you think you're going to do. Yeah. Now, Taylor, Julie said to Leah,
[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_06]: well, you're going to go to the jury house to go see Quinn. She seemed very excited.
[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. I mean, anybody would be excited after like 60 some days, 70 some days and not getting any.
[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Come on. Yeah. She'll be excited. You know who's not going to be excited?
[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Decor. Because Leah is going to show up and Angela is going to show up, which means Leah
[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_04]: is going to be like shacked up with Quinn and it's just going to be her and Angela.
[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And she hates Angela. I'd like to imagine that. I just I don't know what the jury house looks like
[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_06]: or what those dynamics are. I don't know. Yeah. But for Quinn, I mean, he's really come a long
[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_06]: way where that the story was like, OK, Leah is not interested in Quinn at all to the night that Quinn
[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_06]: went home, that Leah admits, OK, maybe I have a crush on him to the point where she seems excited
[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_06]: to go see him in the jury house. Taryn, like is there a chance that then we get a jury house
[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_04]: romance blossom? Listen, things happen in the jury house. Yeah, but we did get we got
[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Derek and Clara out of the jury house, right? And they're a strong and a lovely couple. So who
[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_02]: knows? Maybe we'll get Quia, Lynn. They never even made it to a ship name, did they? No,
[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't even seen shippers online, but they'll come out and they will tell us what they are.
[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. Let us know in the chat so we know. OK. All right. But let's go back to Chelsea where
[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_06]: she now seems to be in the pole position. Taryn, is it fair to say that she sort of has
[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_06]: how would you has she achieved bow tie status here at the final five?
[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I would say yes. I'm just I'm concerned about her desire to send MJ out like part of why
[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I hesitate because I feel like that at one point it seemed like that MJ and Cam had like some more
[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_06]: of a pairing on one side and she could have been with them. But is the Cam and MJ thing even still
[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_04]: happening? No, no, no. It's it's always been Chelsea at the center of that, which is why
[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_04]: she's been in such a strong position in the house. And it's why I think she will retain
[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_04]: that position for as long as MJ stays. I think that really like if if you're Chelsea,
[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_04]: the goal should be to take Rubina out next. I think she's too close to Cam. And I think that
[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_04]: there's a real serious danger that that like something could happen there. But you know,
[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Kimo is fine as well because like the thing that locks Chelsea in as the guaranteed winner
[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_04]: is this position between Cam and MJ. MJ wins comps, keeps her around, brings her to the final
[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_04]: two. She wins against MJ. Cam will probably bring her to the final two, probably against MJ. They're
[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_04]: all looking at MJ as a big threat now. He wants MJ gone. So a final three with MJ and Cam basically
[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_04]: guarantees for the win as far as I'm concerned. And she's also, and this is important as well,
[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_04]: a huge target, a huge shield in front of her for Rubina and Kimo right now. So if they do actually
[00:31:16] [SPEAKER_04]: go to final four with Kimo and Rubina, I don't love that for her as much as I do a final four
[00:31:21] [SPEAKER_04]: with MJ and Kimo or MJ and Rubina. If that happened, I would say like we can mostly lock
[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_04]: it up here. But as it stands, I'd say it's more just like she's heavy frontrunner.
[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Taylor, is Chelsea peaking too soon?
[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Is there such thing as peaking too soon when you're able to play?
[00:31:41] [SPEAKER_06]: I have on good authority that there is.
[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think once you play, we were able to play Vito all the way through. She survived the double.
[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I think if you're peaking, you just have to keep going at this point. You still have a shot to go
[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_02]: as far as you can now. But you know, like she peaked early, she fell, she's recovered. We know
[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_02]: that she can play a good recovery game and get back in the good graces and now lead a charge.
[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know, I would say she's peaking too soon if we saw more people saying, hey,
[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_02]: we should start looking at her. But I'm guys, I'm bewildered. How do we not have more people
[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_02]: saying whoever gets rid of Chelsea is going to be the winner of this game? Like I need those
[00:32:21] [SPEAKER_02]: conversations. Turn the feeds on. I need to happen right now. And that's not saying I don't have
[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_02]: favorites or people that I would enjoy seeing, but I want to see the game continue to play.
[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_02]: The game ending at the double is not enjoyable.
[00:32:34] [SPEAKER_06]: OK, Tara, what's the most exciting HOH outcome?
[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Probably Akimo or Rubina. They target MJ probably, very probably. But if MJ were to then win the Vito,
[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_04]: things get very interesting because all of a sudden it's Chelsea and Cam on the block.
[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_04]: So that would be probably the most interesting in terms of we don't know the outcome of that.
[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Anything beyond that is just it's still, well, it's still will MJ win the Vito,
[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_04]: but then it's a matter of like which of Akimo or Rubina leave, which is not as interesting.
[00:33:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Taylor, how are you feeling about MJ? She had a rough week.
[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, you can always recover from a rough week.
[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_06]: It didn't go great for MJ.
[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_02]: It's OK. It's OK. There's there is always a way. I just don't know if MJ has like
[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_02]: the machete to chop through the forest to figure out the way.
[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm also nervous. I would love to see her get this HOH, a quick,
[00:33:36] [SPEAKER_02]: basically a back to back HOH for her if she won this one. It'd be really cool. And I remember like
[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_02]: she had those little seeds in her head of am I being messed around with? Am I being played
[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_02]: around with? I don't know where she ended up landing at the end of that, Tara, and you can
[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_02]: let me know. But I would love to see her get this HOH and say, I'm not listening to anybody.
[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm doing what I want right now. And the most interesting thing for her would to be
[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_02]: getting both seats of power and putting up Cam and Chelsea next to each other.
[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. Tara, can you speak to that? There's a moment in the episode where MJ is sort of spiraling.
[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_06]: She's saying, hey, was this a move? Were you just trying to lessen me as a player? Like, no,
[00:34:12] [SPEAKER_04]: no, we wouldn't do that. Yeah, she definitely had some moments of doubt, but ultimately had
[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_04]: to accept that Leah was leaving. And I think you saw there at the end of the episode when she went
[00:34:25] [SPEAKER_04]: to vote, even though she said sadly, she was clearly very happy. And and that's because Angela
[00:34:32] [SPEAKER_04]: ended up leaving anyway. And I think in her mind, she's going to really talk herself out of like,
[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_04]: you know what? It all worked out. I was thinking Leah was going to leave second anyway. So it
[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_04]: wasn't even that big of a mistake and so on and so forth. And I think that she is still going to
[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_04]: feel like she is very threatened by Kimo and Rubina. And she will lock back into her final three with
[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Chelsea and Cam and her final two with Chelsea. You just don't want to see a player like that
[00:35:00] [SPEAKER_02]: give so much power away to somebody else. Like she has everything it takes to be strong and make
[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_02]: incredible moves. She's a competitor and watching someone just hand somebody else all their power on
[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_02]: a silver platter over and over. It's like, oh, we're so close. Yeah. And it's again, it's why I
[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_04]: would be like, there are scenarios like this week, again, if Kimo, Rubina win HOH, MJ wins veto.
[00:35:27] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a little dangerous for Chelsea. But then even so, let's say MJ gets evicted this week.
[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_04]: And we're now at the final four. What happens if Cam wins HOH and Kimo or Rubina win the final four
[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_04]: veto? It's just over for Chelsea. There's basically, I would assume at least, nothing that she can do.
[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_04]: And that's like, that's why it's so crucial for her to keep MJ around because it just basically
[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_04]: guarantees her safety through to the end. Whereas MJ leaving is so much trickier.
[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Chelsea has to win. Come on. Vanessa had to win. Dan had to win.
[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, was that salt? Was that too soon you guys?
[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_03]: She should be in the spot where it's hot. She should be in the spot where it's hot.
[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Kimo and Rubina and Cam and MJ, one of them is going to win this season.
[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, if Cam were to win, I would hope that it's not because Chelsea gets screwed at the final
[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_04]: four or something. I would hope that it's because he actively decides to cut her and bring somebody
[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_04]: else, which I still think is a possibility. But it's also a possibility that she does just get
[00:36:45] [SPEAKER_04]: screwed at the final four unless they can find a way to keep MJ around.
[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I just need to see intentionality happening. We're like sheep. It's just sheep in here.
[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I need to see some people really play for themselves. Not, sorry, because I know I did it.
[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_02]: A higher purpose. I understand why you want to do that. I do. But the higher purpose can be
[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_02]: more impactful if you're the one that wins. And if you are to be the one that wins,
[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_02]: you have to play your own game. That's all I'm saying. What do I know?
[00:37:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. I want to invite the chat to post some questions that you have for us here tonight.
[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_06]: Tyrone, what are we thinking is going to be the HOH competition?
[00:37:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Who knows? I mean, they have consistently impressed me with their competition choices.
[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Not in the way that they edit them, but in the choices themselves. I mean,
[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_04]: this double eviction was really well done. The quiz comp into a skill competition.
[00:37:43] [SPEAKER_04]: There was nothing physical about the veto, which has historically, especially on double evictions,
[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_04]: it's always been something very physical, either for the HOH or the veto at least one.
[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_04]: And this time around, it was a quiz and a skill comp. And that was really cool because
[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_04]: I was watching the HOH and I was like, oh, Angela's done because she's two points behind
[00:38:07] [SPEAKER_04]: and there's no shot she wins the veto. And then she nearly came back, nearly won it.
[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Then we see the veto comp and I'm like, oh, wait a minute. Angela's still in this. And I think
[00:38:16] [SPEAKER_04]: she was in second place. I think she had three balls in there.
[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_06]: The camera never went to her. I mean, I know Kimo won, but they didn't give us a...
[00:38:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, I'm like, oh, actually, Angela's only like one behind here.
[00:38:28] [SPEAKER_04]: I know. Like I said, it's editing and camera choice.
[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Just leave it at the wide shot. Just leave it at the wide... Like literally,
[00:38:39] [SPEAKER_04]: you're actively making worse decisions than just doing nothing.
[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Selfishly, when you're a player, it is nice to get those side by side shots. Like,
[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_02]: sorry, when I have a bad day... Side by side would be great.
[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_02]: No, but I watched the backstage comp that I did and the side by side gives you no indication of
[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_02]: who's where. But I just love watching myself up close in that camera. Sorry,
[00:39:01] [SPEAKER_02]: call me vain. Y'all already call me vain anyway. So I'll eat it.
[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. There's plenty of opportunity for you to be... Have your close up.
[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_04]: And honestly, I think wide shot is the baseline, lowest bar you could clear. There are plenty of
[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_04]: ways where you could show everybody and have close ups. It's just, I'm just not assuming that they
[00:39:25] [SPEAKER_06]: have that capability. I did think it was interesting they did the thing where it was like,
[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_06]: okay, and then after three minutes, we're going to call it. It wasn't like some of these
[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_06]: AI arenas where it was just a go on and on and on.
[00:39:37] [SPEAKER_06]: They learned their lesson.
[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a live show. We need to keep moving. We're going to run out of time.
[00:39:43] [SPEAKER_02]: When they wrote the word scrambling, they were just like, here, damn, here's the answer.
[00:39:48] [SPEAKER_06]: All right. Let's take some questions here from the audience. Lady Jane says, a prediction here.
[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Leah will be married on February 6th, 2026. Favorite number 26.
[00:40:04] [SPEAKER_02]: To who?
[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_06]: She's got some options.
[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_06]: 26 year olds.
[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Two sixes to choose from.
[00:40:14] [SPEAKER_06]: So Julie was very on the ball of...
[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Wait, wait, did you say she has two sixes?
[00:40:21] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe I was being charitable.
[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my God. Those are both two lovely gentlemen. We can bump them.
[00:40:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they're like a Minnesota nine.
[00:40:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Minnesota, two Minnesota nines. Yeah. Flip it around.
[00:40:37] [SPEAKER_06]: So Julie was like, oh yeah, your favorite number is 26. You know what day today is, right?
[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Like Julie was on it.
[00:40:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. I don't know why that was so interesting to Julie, but you know.
[00:40:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[00:40:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I can only imagine, you know, my hopes and dreams are crushed and I come out and Julie's like,
[00:40:57] [SPEAKER_03]: you know how your favorite number is 26? Guess what day it is today.
[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I seem to have caused a stir.
[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_02]: You caused a stir? For what?
[00:41:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I'd call them Minnesota... LA sixes and Minnesota nines. Sorry.
[00:41:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't do Minnesota. They're both solid fives.
[00:41:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm from Michigan. I can do that. I can be a little shady on the Midwesterns. Come on.
[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. Okay.
[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Here's a question from Yummy Boo. Did Angela place a target on chemo?
[00:41:36] [SPEAKER_06]: And could this be the reason Chelsea won't want chemo out this week?
[00:41:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I have a soundbite here.
[00:41:44] [SPEAKER_07]: I love you, kid. I love you.
[00:41:50] [SPEAKER_06]: What a wild scene that was.
[00:41:58] [SPEAKER_02]: So fun. So fun. But no, that's not a target on chemo. That's just calling him a goat.
[00:42:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. Chelsea was like, get out of here. Come on. Get out of here.
[00:42:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Please get out of here. Please, the door. Please. No, it almost reminded me and I'm
[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_02]: sorry to be that alum that's like on my season, but when Indy went out and she just kept talking
[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_02]: and talking and talking and everyone's standing around there like, you know, you got to go,
[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_02]: the door is open. Please walk. They're ready. They're like, okay.
[00:42:35] [SPEAKER_06]: It was exciting. It was exciting. Okay.
[00:42:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they're definitely like this will definitely be a topic conversation. They're
[00:42:42] [SPEAKER_04]: going to be like, well, chemo has Angela's vote for sure. And they'll for sure use that against
[00:42:48] [SPEAKER_04]: him. Okay. This is from Ceno Chick. It's been almost two years to the day of Taylor's final
[00:42:54] [SPEAKER_06]: two speech. Yeah.
[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Happy anniversary.
[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you. Thank you. I've come to understand that my favorite time is the end of September
[00:43:04] [SPEAKER_02]: and not just because it's my anniversary, but I see all the other winners start posting their
[00:43:08] [SPEAKER_02]: anniversary. So it's really cool. And it's like, it's not just a celebration of me. It's a
[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_02]: celebration of everybody else. And you know what else that means? BB 24 is officially free of the
[00:43:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Paramount global contract as of yesterday. Oh, okay. You have any big plans?
[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_06]: I got plenty of plans. Okay. All right. Interesting. Interesting. Like make a note of
[00:43:33] [SPEAKER_06]: that. Okay. All right. How about this is from Game Bouncer. Are any people targeting Rubina
[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_06]: or will chemo always go before her since Rubina likely has a very low chance to win?
[00:43:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Chemo will likely go before her in most scenarios, unless he wins a veto like he did tonight. So
[00:44:01] [SPEAKER_04]: yeah, I would say chemo generally is the target and that's on Rubina because she has just developed
[00:44:09] [SPEAKER_04]: better relationships, strategic relationships at least than chemo. As you saw, chemo does develop
[00:44:14] [SPEAKER_04]: some solid, just general social relationships, which might net him some jury votes. I actually
[00:44:20] [SPEAKER_04]: think chemo might be a bigger jury threat than Rubina is, but they do want to target him before
[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_06]: her. Yes. Okay. Taylor, the V stop says when will Taylor be announcing she is the new co-host for
[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_02]: the today show? I need to get one other hosting gig first. Maybe let's just start like a local.
[00:44:40] [SPEAKER_02]: What about the third or fourth hour? I would love that. If they call, I am.
[00:44:45] [SPEAKER_02]: That's where I would have started. You'll be wonderful. I would say yes in a heartbeat.
[00:44:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Everyone knows I would say yes. So if they call, I'm going. Yeah. I mean, Julie Chen Moonves even
[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_06]: cut her teeth on morning TV. Yeah. It's a hell of a job. Are you a morning person?
[00:45:02] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been waking up really early lately. I don't know, you guys. I'm on this like whole
[00:45:07] [SPEAKER_02]: health and fitness kick. I'm trying to get my best body by 30. So I'm up in the gym and getting
[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_06]: my day going. Okay. Go. Look at you. Okay. Yeah. Let's see. Okay. Taylor, if you had been in town
[00:45:24] [SPEAKER_06]: without obligations, would you have filled in for Julie if asked? Would you like to in the future
[00:45:30] [SPEAKER_02]: from Morphin Pug? Yeah. In a heartbeat. If I was here and they called me, I don't care what time it
[00:45:36] [SPEAKER_02]: was, how my hair looked, how anything looked. I would have jumped over there in a heartbeat. But
[00:45:41] [SPEAKER_02]: that's like a more complicated thing. And I know Jerry is just one studio set away. So I totally
[00:45:49] [SPEAKER_02]: understand why they would have. He's on the line. He's right there. He's literally on the lot. And
[00:45:54] [SPEAKER_02]: he loves this game. He's one of my favorite people I've ever met in Hollywood. So yeah,
[00:45:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm really glad that he got the opportunity to do it. And if Jerry's ever away in an alternate
[00:46:04] [SPEAKER_04]: universe through a portal. I'll enthusiastically show up. Okay.
[00:46:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Taryn, EJ wants to know, had Angela won the veto, who would have gone up and gone home? MJ?
[00:46:19] [SPEAKER_04]: It might've been MJ. I think it might've been MJ. Yeah.
[00:46:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Are they doing that bunch of good moves? The allergy to a good move is killing me. I just,
[00:46:32] [SPEAKER_02]: why? I know why. I watched the show. I watched the piece, but please, seriously.
[00:46:37] [SPEAKER_06]: What would a good move? What would a better move had been Taylor?
[00:46:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. Chelsea, come on.
[00:46:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, Chelsea was the HOH. Oh, you said if she won veto.
[00:46:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. Sorry. I was thinking HOH.
[00:46:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. I mean, to be fair, your comments still make sense because Chelsea targeting MJ there is wild.
[00:46:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. Okay. Then let's see what else people have a question about the BB Comics predictions. Is it
[00:47:06] [SPEAKER_02]: too early for that? Comics is this week, right?
[00:47:11] [SPEAKER_02]: That's going to be Thursday. Well then, I mean, Chelsea's got to be something about being envious
[00:47:18] [SPEAKER_02]: of dating or something like that. Wow.
[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_02]: No, that, come on. We got a zing bot from it. And if Kyle can get a Kyle dysfunction,
[00:47:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Chelsea's going to get something about a cam motion, something like that. I can see it happening.
[00:47:34] [SPEAKER_04]: That is fair, but I feel like they have backed off a little now that she's the super front runner.
[00:47:41] [SPEAKER_04]: They might not want to- What else would it be?
[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_06]: It could be, what was, she was the microchip to start the game, a costume. They do love a-
[00:47:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but that didn't hit.
[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Like young, like Cedric is going to get young Cedric. And then, you know, that leaves Chelsea
[00:47:59] [SPEAKER_06]: to get the other costume where she was like a microchip.
[00:48:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. Listen, set your expectations low, I think is the-
[00:48:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. I do think-
[00:48:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Angela, Matt's got crazy eyes. Angela's got to be, you pick a million things for Angela.
[00:48:17] [SPEAKER_06]: The twerking monster, like it's going to, Angela's is going to be twerking.
[00:48:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Kimo will have something to do with mattresses.
[00:48:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Mattress man. Rubino will probably have something to do with Tucker.
[00:48:30] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, just all of the same-
[00:48:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Watch out for Joseph and Quinn. Those are the ones that are going to get hit the hardest.
[00:48:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. I like Leah's being chubby chaser. That's-
[00:48:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Chubby chaser. That's pretty good.
[00:48:43] [SPEAKER_02]: That would be fun to see.
[00:48:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. And this is a question from TheJoseph. Who will be in the top three for AFP alongside
[00:48:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Tucker? Well, it's only top, I guess two more for AFP.
[00:49:03] [SPEAKER_06]: I think Leah.
[00:49:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:49:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I could see that.
[00:49:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Taylor, did the TV watching fan base, did they come around on Angela ever?
[00:49:13] [SPEAKER_02]: No. No, they did not. It would have to be a giant coordinated effort from
[00:49:19] [SPEAKER_02]: all corners of the internet to get Angela up there.
[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, who's the fan favorite now? If I went on Facebook.
[00:49:27] [SPEAKER_04]: I think it would've been Leah.
[00:49:31] [SPEAKER_02]: I could see that. That would make sense to me, but I don't touch that place. That place is nasty.
[00:49:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Because basically what happened is like Leah won that HOH and like cemented herself as like
[00:49:40] [SPEAKER_04]: plucky underdog, Janelle type. Janelle is a huge Leah fan. I mean, listen, the alumni came out of
[00:49:48] [SPEAKER_04]: the woodwork pissed off at MJ for targeting Leah.
[00:49:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Like-
[00:49:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Did they?
[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I think that-
[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even see that.
[00:49:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah. Yeah. I think that everyone was mad about this move. I think that everyone was rooting
[00:50:01] [SPEAKER_04]: or like a lot of like the episode viewers were rooting for Leah and then she got,
[00:50:07] [SPEAKER_04]: she was done really dirty this week. So I think there's going to be a lot of Leah support.
[00:50:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I think the alumni came out not because they love Leah though. Alumni likes Leah, don't get me wrong.
[00:50:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's more like, don't make a boneheaded move. I think that's more what alumni-
[00:50:25] [SPEAKER_04]: No. Yeah. And you know, like I feel the same way, but I think that translates to supportive Leah
[00:50:30] [SPEAKER_04]: to some degree.
[00:50:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
[00:50:31] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, cause I really don't think that we have like another huge-
[00:50:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:50:35] [SPEAKER_04]: I guess that's the main point is that I don't think there is a huge front runner for a fan
[00:50:39] [SPEAKER_04]: favorite.
[00:50:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:50:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Beyond Tucker who was pre-jury and we haven't seen him in weeks.
[00:50:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. So it's kind of a perfect storm for Tucker in that, you know, Rubina still being there,
[00:50:48] [SPEAKER_06]: like has kind of like kept him somewhat relevant in the show. I'm sure like as,
[00:50:54] [SPEAKER_06]: like if Rubina gets closer to the final two, like there'll be like packages about,
[00:50:59] [SPEAKER_06]: oh, she was with Tucker and, you know, talking about Tucker. So I think that this is like a
[00:51:05] [SPEAKER_06]: perfect storm where there's no other big favorite. I think Tucker has a pretty good
[00:51:08] [SPEAKER_06]: shot to win this thing.
[00:51:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. And to make the case for Leah some more as well, she now has a bit of the showman's
[00:51:16] [SPEAKER_04]: bump, especially if we get a jury segment with her and Quinn, that's really cute. Like
[00:51:21] [SPEAKER_04]: you definitely bump her up there. So yeah, I think if we're talking top three, I would
[00:51:27] [SPEAKER_04]: imagine Leah's in there.
[00:51:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. All right. Then let's see. Oh, Melissa Denny. Is there anyone that Taylor doesn't
[00:51:38] [SPEAKER_06]: think deserves the win? Oh, come on, Melissa.
[00:51:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no. With who's left in the house? No. I know a lot of people have a lot to criticize about
[00:51:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Rubina and Kimo, but if they can find a way to play the game all the way to the end,
[00:52:01] [SPEAKER_02]: that's still going to be a really exciting journey to talk about. Like I'm excited to
[00:52:05] [SPEAKER_02]: see that. So no, I don't I'm not going to sit here and say I think anybody doesn't
[00:52:08] [SPEAKER_02]: deserve to win. Imagine Rubina having like a Paris arc and winning out towards the end.
[00:52:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Imagine Kimo doing something like that. Like anybody that takes out Chelsea at this point
[00:52:21] [SPEAKER_02]: in the game is highly likely going to win this game. It would shock me if they did it.
[00:52:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Sure. It's just hard to imagine right now, but maybe they will in the future have done
[00:52:31] [SPEAKER_02]: a thing that makes it less hard to imagine. Yeah. And I'm always banking on that happening.
[00:52:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. You never know. All right. Okay. Then Melissa wants to clarify this is she agrees
[00:52:42] [SPEAKER_06]: with Taylor. This was not a gotcha question. Okay. Softball. Thanks. Softball. Okay. Shout
[00:52:48] [SPEAKER_06]: out to Melissa's dogs at the Cribs. Okay. All right. I'm a dog. Again. Yes. All right.
[00:52:57] [SPEAKER_06]: All right. Anything else you want to say before we wait on the H.O.H. outcome tonight?
[00:53:05] [SPEAKER_04]: I think I broke a new record tonight with the draft.
[00:53:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes. Because I still haven't lost anyone. I have three of the final five.
[00:53:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. What a draft. Okay. So who do you have? You have what? I have three most likely people
[00:53:18] [SPEAKER_04]: to leave this week. MJ, Cam, and Kimo. But that's been every week. Every single week,
[00:53:22] [SPEAKER_04]: they've been the target or the most likely to leave. And they've stayed every single time.
[00:53:27] [SPEAKER_04]: It's Kimo, Cam, and MJ. Yeah. The previous record was also set by me, by the way.
[00:53:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. Look, you just got to keep going. You got to how many more seasons can you do it? You got
[00:53:40] [SPEAKER_04]: to get all the final three. Listen, we're only two away. We just need to get rid of Rubina and
[00:53:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Chelsea. Yeah. Amman has Rubina. Melissa has Chelsea. The two safest people in the house right
[00:53:50] [SPEAKER_06]: now. All right. Let's talk a little bit about what else is going on. First, Taylor was the guest of
[00:54:00] [SPEAKER_06]: America Lopez on the hit new podcast, America Tells All. You could subscribe at americatellsall.com
[00:54:10] [SPEAKER_06]: and hear what Taylor had to say about these guys from the Golden Bachelorette. And then you can
[00:54:18] [SPEAKER_06]: check out America's episode two recap with Dawn from RuPaul's Drag Race, all in the America
[00:54:26] [SPEAKER_06]: Tells All podcast feed. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Goated lineup. Yes. Well done,
[00:54:33] [SPEAKER_06]: America. Taylor, was there anything else that you had to say about BB26? I'm just excited to see
[00:54:39] [SPEAKER_02]: how this all plays out. Like I said earlier, it's just so fun to be rooting for a fun game instead
[00:54:46] [SPEAKER_02]: of one individual person. So I'm here for the ride and I'm ready to welcome in the new cast
[00:54:51] [SPEAKER_06]: once they are all free. Yes. And I know you're here for the ride, but I'd like to hear that you're
[00:54:57] [SPEAKER_02]: driving safer. I was so safe. Not speeding around as much. I was not speeding. I was just grabbing
[00:55:05] [SPEAKER_02]: the wheel tighter. That's all. Ten and two. Nice relaxed grip. Okay, I'll do that next time. Okay,
[00:55:12] [SPEAKER_06]: please, Taylor. I'm safe. I'll stay safe just for you guys. Okay, appreciate it. Okay. Then we've
[00:55:19] [SPEAKER_06]: got a busy day taking questions from our patrons. We'll start it right after the live feed update.
[00:55:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Taryn and I will take your BB Q&A questions about whatever is going on for the final five. And then
[00:55:34] [SPEAKER_06]: we'll have a Survivor Q&A at 4 p.m. By the way, if you're listening to us in our Big Brother
[00:55:41] [SPEAKER_06]: podcast feed, you're not hearing any of the Survivor podcasts. Uh-oh, you're missing a ton of great
[00:55:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Survivor coverage, including where I got to talk to another incredible guest earlier this afternoon.
[00:55:56] [SPEAKER_06]: I talked with Marianne Okich, winner of Survivor 42, about what happened on Wednesday night's
[00:56:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Survivor, plus everything else in our Survivor podcast feed, including my interview with the
[00:56:06] [SPEAKER_06]: latest person that voted off of Survivor. That's all in our Survivor podcast feed, and you can
[00:56:11] [SPEAKER_06]: subscribe at weknowsurvivor.com. Taryn, what's going on with these jamokes? Who are these guys?
[00:56:20] [SPEAKER_04]: The circle has been so good this season. Yeah. Who are these guys besides Nightmare Blunt Rotation?
[00:56:27] [SPEAKER_04]: So this is Kevin. He's a wild ride, but the two guys behind him, these twins, it's hard to believe
[00:56:38] [SPEAKER_04]: they're real people. Rob, what are you doing here? Are you from Staten Island? We gotta bond for life,
[00:56:46] [SPEAKER_02]: bro. Yeah. Yeah, my nose hair just burned out from smelling Axe body spray, but we love you.
[00:56:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. It's been a wild ride, very strategic, very cutthroat, very messy.
[00:56:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Tucker's stunt double and the Miz's nephews.
[00:57:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. What's Mr. Jesse? Mr. Spectacular?
[00:57:12] [SPEAKER_06]: I could do that.
[00:57:14] [SPEAKER_06]: All right, check out Taryn Pouya talking about the circle. Is this the finale or are you waiting for
[00:57:18] [SPEAKER_04]: the final episode to drop? Final episode is yet to drop, but this is the final batch of episodes,
[00:57:23] [SPEAKER_04]: and it's probably the best batch of three. Okay. All right, then we got our live show coming up
[00:57:29] [SPEAKER_06]: in just under three weeks on October 16th. A couple of tickets are left. Go to robinswebsite.com
[00:57:36] [SPEAKER_06]: slash NYC47 for the chance to be there with us in person when Taryn and I are watching all of the
[00:57:47] [SPEAKER_06]: episode five of Survivor 47 together and then talking about it with an incredible panel and
[00:57:52] [SPEAKER_06]: that guest list of Survivor players is growing by the day. We're closing in on 47 Survivors that
[00:57:59] [SPEAKER_06]: are going to be with us there that night. And then, of course, I told you about everything
[00:58:03] [SPEAKER_06]: that's going on over on Patreon. We got the Q&A plus had a great episode of The Slop on Tuesday
[00:58:11] [SPEAKER_06]: night with Chappelle and Jacob Jones. You don't want to miss that one. That's up in our patron
[00:58:16] [SPEAKER_06]: at robinswebsite.com slash patron. Okay, Taylor, you can't tell us anything about what's coming
[00:58:24] [SPEAKER_02]: up for you? I cannot tell you anything. I don't like to burst my bubbles or fumble opportunities.
[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Just know I'm out of my contract and ready for anything that comes next. Okay. Taylor is a free
[00:58:36] [SPEAKER_06]: agent. Okay. And ready. Who knows where we're going to see her. Okay. It's very exciting.
[00:58:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Very excited. Okay. And I love everything CBS has given me so far. I know I like to clown them
[00:58:50] [SPEAKER_02]: all the time and I'm literally going to an event after this for them. But right now, it's time to
[00:58:55] [SPEAKER_06]: soar. Time to soar. Okay. Well, Taylor, we always appreciate you being here with us. I love you guys.
[00:59:00] [SPEAKER_06]: You all are the best. Taryn, what's coming up for you? Listen, I'm just happy to be with my boy.
[00:59:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's my boy.
[00:59:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Am I the boy? No, I was talking about Benji.
[00:59:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Benji's the boy. And look for Reindeer Games. Sure.
[00:59:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. So yeah, find me on Twitch, hanging out, watching episodes and the Circle and
[00:59:29] [SPEAKER_06]: scripted shows, you know, updates, stuff like that. Okay. All right. And then we've got so
[00:59:35] [SPEAKER_06]: much great Survivor stuff going on too right now. Yes. Oh, Joseph is on the phone. Okay.
[00:59:41] [SPEAKER_06]: He wants to debrief. Tell me about everything about the podcast. How was it? We had so much
[00:59:47] [SPEAKER_06]: great Survivor stuff going on. Check that out at RHAP. Take care, everybody. Have a good one. Bye.
[01:00:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Big thanks to Eric Barger, who composed the beautiful ballad you just heard. Hear more
[01:00:59] [SPEAKER_06]: of his music at itelectric over on Instagram.