BB28 1000th Episode Thursday Eviction Recap LIVE at RHAPCon, Week 7

[00:00:19] who's about to present the Guinness Book of World Records for Worst Twist! I'm Rob Cesternino! Everybody, how are you doing? Okay, they were so much better like 10 minutes ago. Of course, wait till you hear how loud they clap for him. It's Taran Armstrong!

[00:00:50] Rob, I watched the video of last night and this didn't work too well but um, I think I have to do it again because what the fuck was that? Mmm.

[00:00:59] Rob, A lot of screaming here. Uh, just to set the scene, uh, we are live here with about 500 or so of our closest friends. We were, the vibes were immaculate. We're having so much fun. Everybody's like, yes, Big Brother 1000! Then we got to the Blockbuster. Yeah.

[00:01:24] Rob, A lot of friends. That didn't go great. And then we got, then we got to the Twist! And it was like, okay, okay, okay, and then Julie said, by the way, no feeds for three days. Rob, A lot of friends. Yeah. That was pretty lame. Rob, A lot of friends. They don't respect you when it shows. Rob, A lot of friends. No, they don't. Well, they're just mad that I have more episodes than them. Rob, A lot of friends. Closing in, Guinness Book, Guinness! most live feed update episodes.

[00:01:53] Most live feed update episodes? Sure. Time show, competitive reality. Competitive show, yeah. Where's that guy with the plaque? We have to pay for it. They paid for it. They paid for it. Yes, okay. So congratulations to Big Brother on 1,000 episodes and we have a lot to talk about from Live Eviction, the 1,000 episode celebration, which was mostly fun. A lot to recap there. But Taron, that I guess that celebrating 1,000 episodes

[00:02:23] of Big Brother, it goes hand in hand for them to maybe they treat you so good. It's a little bit like being in the crossovers, right? It's like some days it's like they love us. They love us. We're eating. And other days it's like, yeah, so we're going to have to take away the live feeds for three days. I think that's why Barrett resonates so much with so many people. Because we all hate that he just rolls over, but at the end of the day, that's what we do. They know he's going to come back.

[00:02:53] They know he's not going anywhere. Yeah. Okay. But let's get your take on this. It sounds like we are headed towards some sort of dire fest meets the hamster wheel of death where... Two fan favorites. Two fan favorites. where alumni are also visiting from the overhead to... It should be a big episode on Sunday, but what's your reaction to everything? Yeah, you know, I mean, listen,

[00:03:23] we watched the thousand episode special bit at the start of this, and it was really cool. It was like, it was emotional. It was, you know, reminding you of the last 26 years of watching the show if you've been doing it, or maybe the, you know, last month of your life if you just binged it all. And it's really cool, and there's really something special here with the show. It does... It feels insulting to end the episode on now we're going to do something completely different.

[00:03:52] We're going to completely remove every staple that the show has, HOH, veto, nominations, whatever else, and also we're taking away the live feeds for three days. Like, how is that the big thing that you have been pumping up for weeks now? Your thousandth episode, a celebration of your show, to not even explain what the twist is, to then be like, and we're going to surprise you, we're going to take this away and surprise you on Sunday with this thing that's very different. Like,

[00:04:22] even if it's good, it just doesn't feel good as fans, and that's kind of what we're used to when production is involved. They don't, they don't really seem to care much about how the people who really love the show feel, or at least the people who are deeply involved in the show on like a very like day-to-day basis, and that's frustrating. It's frustrating. Right. It's going to be a pivotal moment, potentially, and somebody is going to go home,

[00:04:52] we're going to lose another person, and then there's really not going to be much of a record of how that's going to go over three days. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's frustrating. I mean, listen, I'm really tired, so, secretly, I kind of love it when the live feeds go down. It really is, I feel like I just got nominated, and I was like actually kind of hoping to get nominated, but it's the way they did it, you know what I mean? Yeah.

[00:05:21] It's the way they said that in the speech. If it wasn't for that, I'd be totally fine with this. Yeah. I mean, for your personal travel schedule, they timed it really well. They really did. That's a nice help for you. I mean, listen, they took my money, but it was really a monkey's paw, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. So, like, at least, you know, you have some time to recharge for the home stretch, but for it to happen this way, I mean, I guess there is some interesting context in terms of

[00:05:51] that there is a way that one of the icons could potentially go out in this twist. We don't know what it's going to be. Rachel. It would also be lame, though. Like, that's the whole thing. Even if it's a result that you want, it happening in a way that isn't the natural state of things on the show feels cheap. You know what I mean? It doesn't feel earned. It's exactly what happened with the coup d'etat. But listen, that's how we feel. And at the end of the day, also, for as much as I'm like, yeah, this is the day-to-day people, this episode was the thousandth episode

[00:06:20] also for the people who watch the show regularly, who don't pay attention to the feeds, who aren't here for a live show. And those people do matter as well. And they love the coup d'etat. And they love it all. And so, you know, we can only complain too much. This show means a lot to a lot of different kinds of people. And so, you know, we can be frustrated here, but it's still a show. It was a celebration of 1,000 episodes. Not necessarily 2,300 days of live feeds. A lot more than 1,000 days. Yes. Yeah.

[00:06:51] So, Sunday night, do we know, is it a supersized episode? We're headed towards a normal one-hour episode? Sam is holding up one? Chad, give me the answer. One hour episode on Sunday. Okay. All right. Yeah, you know, it seems as though they're going to be outside. It seems as though we're going to, you know, again, like skip the process. I'd kind of speculated some kind of like tournament, which actually kind of fits the medieval theme

[00:07:21] a little bit, right? Like, we're seeing some kings and some queens. I'm wondering if it's like they on high are orchestrating some kind of tournament where people are competing for their lives in some way or another. I could see that being something that they might do. Yeah. Do you think that whatever they're doing will transpire over, say, like 24 hours and then they need that time to edit the Sunday episode or do you feel and then they just want to keep it a surprise of who went home?

[00:07:51] Yeah, I think so. I think that they will be doing it tonight. They'll probably be finished by tomorrow because why would they change their schedule? Right. They could change ours. Well, because I know there's a celebration also going on with the 1,000th episode. So I'm not sure how that's going to work. I guess that's not our problem to figure out. No, it's their problem to figure out. That's their problem to figure out. Okay. All right. So that's the backdrop for where things are going. We really,

[00:08:20] there was a lot of excitement and buzz in the streets of that Drew, the Drew eviction party here tonight, which also got canceled. Yeah, we all learned the truth. We learned the truth and Drew is now two for two in the blockbuster. Yeah. But unfortunately that we did not get the flip. Was it, was everything set up for Drew to go home? Yeah. So first of all, there will be a live feed

[00:08:49] update tomorrow, regular time. We'll have an exit interview with, with the pipe queen and then a lot, another live live feed update. Thank you, that less interesting, but still interesting. We'll talk through the day today. There was some stuff to talk about and then we'll, we'll make a show of it. It'll be a good time so make sure you tune in. But yes, the bottom line is through the day, nothing had changed significantly to the plan to evict Drew. And it did,

[00:09:18] it almost seemed like maybe he knew something might've been up, but I think by the end of it, probably not. We'll, I would say we'll see tomorrow, but we'll see on Sunday. We, just how much. Yeah, we saw a very emotional reaction from Barrett who voted to evict Taylor. Were the crossovers expecting Barrett to vote with them to take out Mallory? No, he had, we saw the scene, he had told them, I'm not doing it. You can do it if you want, I'm not going to do it.

[00:09:48] I talked about this this morning. They did hear from Haley because Barrett tried to pitch Haley on keeping Mallory over Taylor that he was doing this and Haley was like, I think he wants to get rid of Drew too. They were like, no, come on. And they had this big meeting. So I think absolutely what they will do is they will try to be like, I know that sucks so much, Barrett. And now, I know you don't have anybody else, so come back home. When you look at me, you can see home.

[00:10:18] What? When you look at me, you can see home. What? When you look at the pipe queen, you can scream. Yes. Will there be any ramifications for Barrett going against them or you think that they're understanding that ultimately it didn't matter? Well, this is the thing. Ramifications matter when the game operates normally. Yeah.

[00:10:48] An HOH wins and who that HOH is depends on, like, then sort of like cascades the effect of who needs to be worried, who needs to explain themselves. If Barrett wins the HOH, then it's the vets being like, we're so sorry, Barrett. We never meant to do, we never meant to burn you like that. If the icons win, if Devin's wins, then Barrett's like, yeah, I was really upset about Mallory, but I'm actually so chill now.

[00:11:19] And if nobody's HOH and they're just competing or whatever, then none of that needs to happen. There's no strategy that needs to happen at all. I was just thinking about last season with the White Locusts that they brought in poor Tyler to somehow be involved with the killing off of Rachel. and now this season, we're going to have this twist, which may be unpopular, and now we're going to kind of like launder it through.

[00:11:49] Your most favorite alumni in the history of the show are actually doing this. I believe you have a prompt. Yeah, it could be Keanu. Famous line. Yeah. And so, if you want to hear about what they're doing, of course, you can check out, a lot of them are on ChatBCC at, go to BB28.chat to see what's going on, including Chateau BCC tomorrow night where they're playing a Big Brother game for $10,000 tomorrow night. It's a lot of dollars.

[00:12:18] It's a lot of dollars. It's more than the bribe. More than, double the bribe. Yeah. All right, Taryn, I want to bring some people up. Any other top-level thoughts from tonight? Yeah, you know what? I think the main thing is, I know that we were all kind of coming into this episode looking forward to the drama of a potential blindside, but there's something actually that Drew said when he was nominated by Haley that actually proved to be very true for Drew that week. He said, I'd rather be lucky than good,

[00:12:47] and he is not good. But he is lucky. Yeah, in the blockbuster, did he nail it or he just got lucky? He looked at one clue. He guessed, right? And here's the thing. He had been talking about maybe throwing this to Mallory because in his mind, Mallory winning meant that Taylor would leave and he would be safe and that Mallory would be safe. If he won, then Mallory would leave. And that's why when he won, he was tearful because he just ruined Mallory's chances. I really think there's a chance

[00:13:17] that his goal in that competition was, I'm going to guess one of the two answers I believe this is the case and hope that Mallory picks the other one so that one of us wins this. Like, I'm okay with her, with me getting this wrong and her getting it. Um, but he got it right. Uh, the coin flip. It's always coming down to the coin flip. It's always coming down to the coin flip with him. Okay, all right. Uh, well, this is actually really cool and, uh,

[00:13:46] I guess by the magic of the 1,000th episode of Big Brother, we're able to do this. But we have a special guest here tonight. Uh, straight out of the Big Brother 28 house, it's Angela. Angela. Yes, Angela. Sure.

[00:14:12] Being called crazy eyes.

[00:14:49] Yeah. Let's welcome back. It's Pooja and Maggie. Maggie Chance. From my friends. Yes. We're all your friends here. Yes. Okay. Uh, how's everybody doing?

[00:15:18] I'm good. The feeds are on right now, so that's good. Yes. Okay. Don't fall for their crumbs. I know. Yeah. Wait, wait, are they? Yeah. Damn, please. Yeah, no, they're probably on until the timetable. I have a great idea for the live feed update on, uh, Sunday, which is that chat BCC game, right? Isn't that the, when is that? Is that Saturday? That's going to be Friday night. Okay, then nevermind. Well, listen, well, maybe it could be Saturday. Yeah.

[00:15:48] at some point. All right. So, all right, Amon, how are you feeling? I mean, for my draft, okay. Yeah, that was good. Was tonight a bit of a coming out party for Barrett? Listen, I, I don't care at this point. I really don't. I'm sorry.

[00:16:16] I know that there are some buried people out here and that's fine. Be who you are. I, I, the tears, the, the, the late ass, let's flip this shit. I, it's falling on just like deaf ass, excuse me, hard of hearing ass ears. I'm just, I'm just, I just can't right now. I can't. You can't with the ass? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I, like I said earlier,

[00:16:46] I, better late than never with me sometimes. Like, you're doing something. I should take, I, I, I accept that. I mean, I, I, I do too, but I get it. But like, at the same time, I want you to feel the consequences of your actions. So like for Mallory, like she's a great girl, lovely gowns, beautiful gowns, but it was time for you to go, honey. And you did it to yourself. So for Barrett as well, like if you're,

[00:17:15] you can't pick up like the pieces after putting all of them behind the vets this entire time and your game ends up being crappy for whatever this twist is going to be, you did it to yourself. So I just, I just don't have sympathy. Like I just don't. Yeah. I mean, okay. I actually, I'm into what's going on with Barrett right now. Honestly, mostly just because he is a part of our community. So I was feeling quite sad that I was like,

[00:17:45] wait, he, he's one of us. Like he knows what he needs to do. And then he got activated and I was like, okay, great. Like he is one of us. He knows what he's doing and who knows how it's going to work out. But like, I feel proud of our, our, our Barrett, you know, like he really is. I don't know. I, I'm very proud of him that he was at least trying something because for a while I was kind of like, and he's doing nothing. So I'm happy that it was a coming out party for him. And I hope that he can continue down this path. And,

[00:18:15] you know, I was ye of little faith and I love to be proven wrong. I've said that many times and, um, I'm, I'm excited to see what Barrett can do, you know, sort of down the way. Yeah. I mean, the thing with Barrett is like the reason we were frustrated with him is that he was throwing these HOHs. He was, he was bowing to the vet's wishes at every turn and it put him in this position where he was like 127 days. And he was like, I'm stuck.

[00:18:43] I've got to cut off a limb. Which limb is it going to be? They want me to cut off my right leg. So screw them. I'm going to cut off my left leg. And it was like, yeah, go Barrett. It's like, I think we need to see him actually move forward and take a strike at the other side and like actually start making some moves if he has the ability to. I'd love to also talk about the loss of Mallory, who I think we all liked her spunk.

[00:19:12] And we liked her fire. And we liked her. I would like to go dancing with Mallory. This is a formal invitation. Come to Bushwick. Let's go dancing. Right? Like she's so fun, you know? Yeah. I mean, I like that you address that to me. Like I would go dancing in Bushwick. No, no. I'm saying you're the one talking about her. Sure. I think we should mosh with Mallory. She would like that. I think. I think that would be good. First time for everything. But that being said, Mallory,

[00:19:42] like, I don't know. I mean, listen, I, Julie, Julie talked to Mallory and Julie made a point. She didn't exactly smack her on the back of the head. Exactly. But she said, Mallory, set the record straight. Did you try your hardest in that HOH competition? And Mallory had to sit there and say, no, I didn't. And I probably should have.

[00:20:07] And we need this because Mallory literally watched a tick tock of somebody saying, don't throw competitions. And she still did. And now we have in the episode, somebody literally standing there. Do not throw competitions. This is what happens. You need to take your fate into your own hands and actually do something in the game. Don't be worried about who you're going to nominate. You have to nominate people. You have to do these things. What are you there for,

[00:20:36] if not to win power and make moves? So, yes. Yeah, I guess you could say, Taryn, and maybe this is, we're trying to find the silver lining in tonight. This was the marquee 1,000th episode. And that means probably a lot of people are going to remember this episode. That's the takeaway. That should be the takeaway. Do not stand in your own way. Really don't. Because you have the opportunity to do things in this game. Whether you try it late or not. Better late than ever. You could have done something. You didn't.

[00:21:06] You get to be the 1,000th episode boot. Let this be a lesson to everybody else. Don't let that happen to you. Yes. There's been so much conversation this episode too about, are we going to keep it in the family? You know, with Big Brother and Survivor. And the thing that I love about Survivor is that it feels like it's a constant war. Keep it cute, Amon. It feels like it's a constant war between the producers and the players about trying to outsmart one another.

[00:21:35] And the game evolves very quickly over there. And I feel like we are on the same curriculum for Big Brother for so many of these faux pas that we see year after year after year. So, yes, I echo what Taryn and Pouya said earlier, Julie, drag the hell out of them. Make these mistakes so visible so that no one does them again so that we can stop having the same conversations. Because when players get smarter than production, and let's be serious, there's a low-ass bar, no offense. When they get smarter, the game will get better

[00:22:03] because they'll be forced to make twists that actually make sense. So I just, yeah. I just, yeah. Well, here's where I'm with Mallory, right? Because for as much as we say the survivors, they're not afraid to piss people off. They're making moves. The game evolves quickly. This should have been Dee last week. Mm-hmm. She was bailed out by a diamond power of veto. She did the exact same thing that Mallory did, made the exact same mistake, was put in the exact same position, but she was bailed out by a twist, and Mallory was not,

[00:22:32] despite them both being voted by America. Such a good point, Taryn. And you know what? I would also scream if that happened to me. All right. Yeah. Maggie, Pouya, Aman, anything else you want to say? Happy 1,000, everybody. Happy 1,000. What a special episode to watch with everybody. So cool to be here with all of you for that, the 1,000th episode. Let's bring on, we got another panel coming up here. We have Chantel, Mari,

[00:23:01] and Asia. How are you? Good, good. All right. How's everybody doing? Good, good. Great. A little teary episode, minus some of the results. Yes. What was the thing that got you the most teary-eyed? Definitely not just the montage, but seeing the awards. And I have to say,

[00:23:30] the Cookout winning Best Alliance. Yes! Because I will reiterate, that is the most dominant alliance in Big Brother history. Not close. The only alliance to get every single member to the end and did it in such a way that they dominated the game, were nice to people. You know what I'm saying? They fought amongst themselves. Right. And they still do. I think Sarah Beth might disagree.

[00:23:59] Well, you know what? But we got, they're cool now. It's fine. Yeah, yeah. It's fine. And they did it in an entertaining way as well. They had that house turned upside down. People didn't know what was happening. And it was just amazing to watch. So if anybody else had won that, riot. And I don't think it'll ever be duplicated. No. No way. No. And it was also, it was history making, you know? And I think like seeing them like on different magazine spreads and seeing how it's just so well received

[00:24:28] by everyone. It's like, it's like, I feel like it's such an honor to have experienced that and like, and see it still playing out. So very proud. Yes. Yeah. And, and very cool to see it. Cause again, like, you know, in this community, obviously, you know, we, we were all like Daniel Reyes, obviously she should win the best and ever win. We're, we obviously would say cookout. Uh, but the fact that this was sort of on the show recognized by those TV viewers

[00:24:58] that we've been talking about, that's really cool. That's really special. Uh, and, and it was really, really cool to see them all up there five years later. Uh, looking, looking, Yeah. They have such a fun dynamic between all of them where, you know, and they, they podcast together all the time. So they sort of like have the banter built in, but I feel like everybody kind of has like their lane of what they're going to. And I thought that they all were really fun with Julie. Uh,

[00:25:28] big D was like on, uh, great laugh lines. So I thought that was so cool. And the six of them are so different. Uh, I feel like a lot of times you see alliances where naturally you'll come together for like, you know, you, these are people you would gravitate to in the, in the real world. Right? Well, the cookout, a lot of them probably wouldn't be friends in the real world if they met just naturally. Like think of how much conflict Tiffany

[00:25:57] and big D had, but what they, and present tense, and present tense, and all of them. Yeah. Uh, but they, they just showed how hard, they, they showed how hard it is to replicate what they did because it only took one. Only one of them had to be the one to be like, oh no, I'm gonna just go with Sarah Beth or oh no, I'm just gonna go with Claire or oh, like this is what's best for my game because I actually came here for myself. I actually didn't know who y'all were

[00:26:27] before going into this game, but the fact that they did it for the bigger cause knowing, look, we've never had an opportunity where six black people have been in the house at the same time for, in order to ensure that we can get our first black winner of proper U.S. Big Brother was amazing. Yes. The mission being what kept them together even through the arguments

[00:26:55] and all of the, the drama and seeing, and we, we've never had six black people since. Yeah. So, they said never again. Never again. But, but seeing that and seeing it done in such a way that people had no clue, again, was very, very, like to me, entertaining. Like I know some people might have thought it was like a steamroll, but the fact that they had to continually be like, yes,

[00:27:26] I, this is my person, this is my person, but this mission, we've got to stick to the mission so it's the six of us. That's another reason why it will never be replicated again because, you know, we, the mission is complete and it's been surpassed as we've seen the last three winners. We have Taylor, we have Ashley. Yes. Chelsea. Chelsea. Yeah, Chelsea. too, you know, like it, it's been great. Jack, maybe. I mean, I mean, but Jack,

[00:27:54] like the diversity since then, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? Every season, I wanted three. Yeah. Every season since then, people have talked about the structure of the cookout. They always talk, this is just like the cookout. We'll be just like the cookout guys. They don't understand it, Taryn. They don't. They don't understand what it takes to actually hold that structure in the way that it was held. They all want to replicate it, but none of them can.

[00:28:24] Yeah. Were there any of the other awards that were given out tonight that were interesting? Well, the favorite Big Brother winner going to Dan, that was, I mean, that was, I was like, yeah, that was kind of a given. I mean, I think I voted for Taylor, but I completely understood why Dan won and it was great seeing him up there. Yeah, it was interesting seeing Janelle win and, I mean, yeah, like I can get

[00:28:54] like comp beast, but best to never win. I feel like, I don't know how often she's in that conversation. Like, I know she's played, you know, 15 times, but like, and so, you know, it's impressive the stats that, you know, Julie read off, but I don't know. I just felt like the people, the, she had some tough competition. Well, I was surprised it wasn't Daniel Reyes, especially considering that Daniel Reyes was just on Big Brother Unlocked. She had done Traitors more recently. I think that was a negative.

[00:29:24] You think that was a negative against Daniel for the Big Brother people? For the, yeah, I think like the, the people who were watching the TV show probably never even saw Daniel Reyes on Big Brother. They probably saw her on Traitors and unjustly didn't like him. Yeah, okay. I'm fortunate. Yeah. I did like the format of having like an awards show here on like the first half hour. That was kind of cool. They probably could have leaned into that more in terms of like what they ultimately ended up doing. Like probably could have been

[00:29:54] like its own episode instead of trying to shoehorn it into an actual eviction night, but I guess that's not the 1000th episode. That's the way the cookie crumbles. I was like, where was the best showman's award cowards? Oh, wow. They showed clips. So you thought that we did something. If people were still together, you know, I'd love to have seen where are they now and who is the best couple and you know, the best kiss. We all know where it was going. Lyric and Rome. Yeah. Jack. Yeah, Jack. Yeah. Lyric and Rome,

[00:30:22] they really carried a lot of water for them in the montage. They really got a lot. They did. They got a lot. That montage was so nice. Like just being reminded of every like the highs and lows of this show over 20, 26 years. Right. They said 26 years is just, it was amazing. I truly was like tearing up. I was like, oh my God, this is why we love Big Brother. And then immediately following we are dreams are crushed. This is Big Brother. I was like, oh, in one episode, I understand.

[00:30:52] It was really nice to see that like those of us, you know, in this room, we're all really big fans, right? So seeing all the moments that we love and adored in that montage was really cool because I feel like a lot of times we think the show doesn't really connect with the super fans and it's like, oh, I was expecting to see moments that we had forgotten about but I was really excited that it was just like a whole collection of just like, I want to watch it again. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Asia, Mari, Chantel, thank you so much.

[00:31:22] Thank you. Okay, we'll see you soon. All right, now let's bring in, we have Mike and Kirsten and Grace. How's everybody doing? I am hunky-dory because I was watching feeds and Melody is pissed at Drew. Oh my God. Yes? He went in to hug her and she said, don't touch me. Can I say,

[00:31:51] I'm not a live feeder and I sometimes feel a little bad about that. I know, but everyone can boo but at Wisconsin, I've been watching in the basement. I think today I'm going to get into the live feeds. You can't just drop watching in the basement with no context. Yeah, the next few days I'm going to watch the live feeds nonstop. We do keep her in the basement. You just weren't supposed to tell anybody. Oh my God. It's the way Rob said, how are you doing? And I just wanted to be like, not well, bitch.

[00:32:21] Sorry. That's okay. All right. So what's on your mind from tonight? I, like, we could have had it all. Exactly. Big Brother has only ever done this to me, personally. They set you up and then they don't give you what you want. This was Big Brother.

[00:32:51] They were dashed. It's what always happens. We're going to be okay. It could turn out okay. It could be fun. Yeah. That's the dream. It won't. Yeah. And I know it won't, but we go into this situation where we're going to have some sort of unconventional eviction here. And so, Taryn, you talked about this as you went through all of the different scenarios of like,

[00:33:21] looking for all the loopholes in the deal that Yash made with Dee. And one of the things you did talk about was that like, well, it doesn't say anything about a hamster wheel of death. And I wonder, could there possibly be a way for Yash to go after the vets if he would be so bold? I'm imagining it right now. Like, they're dressed in, you know, medieval armor, right? Suits of armor. And they're doing some kind of battle. They physically fight.

[00:33:50] And they turn to Yash and they're like, oh, well, Yash, you have to keep us safe on your next H-O-H. And he says, I'm no H-O-H. Straight up king of Angmar, that shit. Exactly. Yeah. Can I throw out a possible cockamamie theory as to what it could be? Please. Because I think the determined theory makes sense. And let me just clarify here. I am no authority on this, okay?

[00:34:21] You probably have with your fraternity down the street. You do think about tournaments. I also think personally about the plague. Okay. That's not fair. You're always thinking about the plague. You would say that all the time. Yes. It's his Roman empire. So I think about the idea of passing something from person to person. Could we have a safety chain on Sunday? I think it might be too soon. I think COVID is too close behind us for that.

[00:34:51] Yeah. But that was certainly in Celebrity Big Brother, Big Brother OTT. Yeah. I mean, Mon Juan. I think they're just taking, they're going to take the things we hate the most and combine them. So it's going to be like janky worlds plus the white locust plus, like, I don't know, something else we hate. If they want to bring in something we love, they could do like a regular game style thing. Does the safety chain, is there any, like, the person who's most at the bottom

[00:35:20] sort of has to win for it to be best case scenario? Like, Taryn, is there a good outcome in a safety chain scenario? Like, who could win where you could get to an icon being eliminated? Well, that's why you probably should not do like a regular safety chain. But what they've done with the hamster wheel of death is like, it's basically a reverse safety chain where the person you're picking is being put in danger. So it's not so straightforward that you can just pick all your allies down a line and then force, you know, the other people

[00:35:50] to leave. So, yeah, I mean, they said it's never been seen before, but like, you know, I feel like it's the same as the wording with the bribe. It's like, what does that really mean? What have we really not seen before? And what are you actually forgetting that we did in season four? To clarify, this is a show in which the host said tonight that someone's first time in a blockbuster was their second and that a man finished in third place when he actually finished in fourth place. So I feel like the fact checking

[00:36:19] and semantics need to be worked on. You know what? This is not the night to get on Julie because I thought she had a pretty fun episode. She's pretty punchy. That's Julie. Julie kept asking questions that she didn't want to hear the answer to. What's your favorite color? You can only choose red or blue actually. How mad was she that Mallory got both of the votes right? So mad. That's her favorite game. That's her favorite question. She does love to do that. Well, I mean,

[00:36:49] she asked the cookout why she's not in their group chat. She's literally like... Yeah, that was a good question. I think she's really drafting off with that Will chocolate drop moment. No, literally. I can do this, right? I'm okay. Literally. She was asking if she's their lemon drop. They had her to a group chat. Taryn, what did you think about your boy Dan Giesling speaking on the show for the first time in years? Oh, I mean, that was great. I mean, like, the whole montage was great. You know, watching my childhood,

[00:37:17] my life evolve over the last 26 years. But seeing Dan up there, seeing the montage of season 10, obviously I watch it all the time, especially for the book that I wrote about it. But it was really, really cool to see him there. For him to say all the things that he always says, you know. The greatest hits. Never give up, you know. Control your emotions. Those things that really meant so much to me when I was watching season 10, when I was watching season 14.

[00:37:47] Dan really does, for me at least, represent such a key element of the show and he is the pure embodiment of it and he just is who he is. Yeah, big night for Dan. Big night for Dan. Best moment and best winner racked up a ton of the BB Emmys. Are we surprised we didn't get more interviews? Because last night, you and me and Taryn and David Bloomberg did a draft of like, who's going to show up at this event? And we went with four pretty big names in Dan, Dr. Will, Derek,

[00:38:17] Taylor. And Ron Levinsky. And of course, Mike Levinsky, who unfortunately got snubbed in the best showman's category. Some Ron, some Don. But I feel like Dan and Janelle were the only two that got like the sit-down interviews, which was interesting to me. The cookout. And the cookout. Yeah. Sorry, yes. Look, if we could be a fly on the wall at the fly on the wall meetings. Oh, you forgot the Guinness Book of World Records guy. I did forget about... Has another show done 999 episodes? Like, no, we should have done

[00:38:47] one more! Yeah. All right. Grace, Kirsten, Mike, anything else you want to add tonight? I'm so happy to be a Big Brother fan. Like, this, like, shit sucks, but... It's our shit. It's our shit, and we suck it. And I'm happy to suck it all with you for 26 more years. Get Mike off the stage. Sasha Joseph could not be here tonight. I wanted to share one of her takes

[00:39:17] from Blue Sky. She said, Big Brother 28 said, we've hated you for 1,000 episodes and we will hate you for 1,000 more. Amen. Hate one another. It's fair. All right. Thank you so much. We'll see you later. Thank you. All right. Let's bring in, we've got Scally and Jenny and Matt Liguori.

[00:39:47] All right. Jenny said, I'm really bad at stools. Okay. I'm no pipe queen. Glad we had a DS there. Yes. Okay. Scally, how are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. You know, they say misery loves company and I have lots of company tonight, so I'm feeling pretty good. We're in good company. Yeah, and you know, I'm trying to be optimistic. I feel like a lot of us before the whole Barrett switch were like fine with Mallory getting what, you know, was basically coming. So Taylor's still here. I feel like the moves are in motion,

[00:40:17] so I'm going to try to be an optimist. It could still happen. Yeah. I mean, it's so hard to tell because we don't know what's going to happen at the twist, but I mean, like what is the next thing that the house is talking about doing after this week, Taron? It's war. Yeah. I mean, it's war and now it's medieval war, but it's war. It's Barrett and Melody and Yash and Taylor and Lala theoretically versus Drew and Haley and Devins and Dee and Angela

[00:40:46] and it's a split house, but it's more complicated than that because Lala's been working the other side and Haley's still technically a free agent and Drew is, I think, still going to continue to be torn and so there's a lot of room to play there. It would have been a war for the HOH and now it's a war for whatever this twist is. I guess what I'm wondering is the two sides that you're naming there. There's obviously people on both sides that don't really

[00:41:15] have game relationships with some of the people on the other side, but there are still people in the middle that they maybe picked a side here, but they still have relationships with other people on the other side that kind of muddies the situation and I think that allows for an interesting thing that could play out especially with not knowing what the twist could be. I don't know.

[00:41:44] I think that that makes it a little bit interesting. It's not like five people that don't like the other five people and have no relationship with it, so it's just a matter of who gets HOH. Well, apparently there's no fucking HOH. The lines are blurred as we like to say. They're very, very blurred. The other part of it, though, is that somebody's going to go home and then when we come back on Sunday there is going to be a new HOH as well, so this is going to be like a real... Maybe. Maybe. We don't really know for sure, but theoretically if they're finished up the twist.

[00:42:14] I thought the twist could have just been that they were going to cancel the show at 1,000. I just had it right here. Well, that's been seen a lot over the world actually. Yeah. Can I shift gears a little bit? Please. I think I'm picking up on something this season or I don't know if this is brand new. Big Brother players hate Survivor players. They really do? No, I don't think that's the case. But you know what? There's a lot of Survivor players that talk crap about Big Brother. It's territorial.

[00:42:44] Especially before this summer, a lot of the Survivor players talk about Big Brother and they're like, I don't watch Big Brother. And there's a lot of Survivor players who love Big Brother and are really into it, but there are a lot of Survivor players who look down at Big Brother. And someday you're going to find yourself walking up to a Scottish castle and you really need each other. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think... And it's really some of the other Survivor players that are the bigger problems. The Big Brother players are cool. They're awesome.

[00:43:14] You love them. I think for a while there was a notion that there is a general perception that Survivor takes itself a little more seriously than Big Brother. Billy Eilish boomerang idol. Yeah. Coin of destiny. I need all the Survivor players to look inside their own souls after Mr. Beast appeared on the show. But I think that was the perception and I think that there were from the player's side of things also that perception sometimes. That the players of Survivor

[00:43:44] sometimes took themselves a little more seriously because they were on the more serious show. They were on the more cutthroat show. It's great. you sit around doing nothing all the time. And now there are two Survivor players on Big Brother and they're dominating and I think the Big Brother players are feeling a little bit like no, no, no. It's not real. But I also think that if you brought in a couple of multiple time Big Brother players into a Survivor season with new players they would dominate also. Hayden did very well. Hayden did very well. Rachel wants to play Survivor.

[00:44:14] I think she would do great. Exactly. And if only Beast Mode Cowboy the spices. I think it's just In fairness to Beast Mode Cowboy he was doing pretty well until he got medevaced. I think it's just perception. You know? It's just like yeah, of course any veteran player would do well in this spot but like it's the fact that it's those players. You know what I mean? Yeah. And nobody talked about Sari like this, right? Absolutely not. I mean Sari's too beloved. One of a million. And also

[00:44:44] by this point Sari had been flipped on. True. Mm-hmm. All right. Scali, Jenny, Matt, anything else you want to say? It was just really cool. That whole opening montage I didn't realize it was going to take 30 to 40 minutes but Thank God. I mean and not just to get to watch that like Taryn has been saying and everybody's been saying but like to get to watch it in this room was really cool. Could you rank all 60 clips that were in the blockbuster on the diary room? We're going to put them on the wheel. Okay. Put them on the wheel, baby.

[00:45:14] I was so far away I could not make out what one of those clips were. Did they announce the best showmance and if No. They did not. I know. And I was like why? Because they're cowards. Was that the only other vote that they did not announce? I think there was a couple other ones. Here's what I want Corey in America I want Corey in America to clip the Mallory diary room where she's calling Dee a coward and then just sub in production Yeah. For not acknowledging for not acknowledging the showman's victory. Because who won, Rob? Do you know? I don't.

[00:45:44] Who was your vote? Voted for Roman Lyric. I think we all know Corey in America. I think they won. You saw the episode. I think they I mean I heard they actually won. I didn't actually look at the ball. It was a strong lead. What do you know, Taryn? Wasn't it a public results? Like wasn't that the whole thing? Okay. I'm not losing my mind. It was there. Okay. All right. Congrats. Scali, Jenny, and Matt. Thank you so much. You guys are great. Okay. All right.

[00:46:15] How are you all doing? All right. Let's bring in Matt Scott, David Bloomberg, and Jacob Jones. Yes. Matt, I've never seen you in a cowboy hat before. It's truck time. It's truck time. Someone needs to check the pubes. Oh, never mind. Sorry. Never mind. Let's mix it.

[00:46:45] No, I'm good. I saw Matt in that hat. I did not make the connection. I came up to, I was ready to be like, oh, look at the hat. And you just stared at me and went, it's truck time. And I turned around and I walked away. It was too funny. I couldn't do it. It happens. I feel like I need to take it off to be myself at one point. If it goes back on. Now, they worried that Chuck's hat was too tight. Is that too tight for you? You know, I do feel like the circulation was definitely cut off.

[00:47:14] We'll just kick it away. Kick it away. Yeah, get rid of it. Oh, gosh, no. I feel like it's more like, tonight was like, it's suck time. It's suck time. Don't, listen, we already had Mike Bloom up here. Yeah. Uh-oh. PG-13. David Bloomberg, 1,000 episodes and you've watched them all. Yes. And it all led up to, as Taryn said, them doing the opposite of Big Brother,

[00:47:41] which as anyone who watched or listened to Why Rachel Lost last year knows, I loved so much. I had so many good things to say about it. Do you like the throwbacks back to Big Brother 1? Um, eh, it's Big Brother 1. Isn't it really even the same show? It's not. But it's good that they can cut back to it just for like, Julie's looks. Yes. Yes. We're not gonna ever show any clip from, uh, although I do believe,

[00:48:11] that's wild. Yeah, I do believe that Chicken George was in the audience. He was. Yeah. Oh my God. How about that? The fact that they acknowledged it was impressive. I really thought they would gloss over it and just pretend like it didn't happen. They love Big Brother 1. So, I watched most of the episode tonight and I had the pleasure of being next to Jacob Jones and it was a treat, you know, uh, incredible night for me. So, but Jacob, you were, you were hot by the end of the episode. He's always hot.

[00:48:41] I was hot and bothered. Well, Terry, say it again. You heard me. All right. Um, no, I was hot and bothered by the episode, Rob. Um, I was hot by the part of the reflection of Big Brother. I feel like watching the show and being so passionate about our show and being on this thousand, thousand episode is, it made me a little emo. Yeah. It was, it was like my first episode of Big Brother was when season 12 Brittany Haynes had a blue and white plaid dress on and it's when she won her

[00:49:11] first HOH. I woke up on my grandmother's couch and I was like, oh my God, let me zoom back and let me watch the episode and I did and I fell in love with it and then Big Brother 13 and then Big Brother 14 happened. Tonight I was pissed off. Now, what bothered me about tonight was, I'm not the biggest Drew fan. I've came up here before and I've said it. I'm sorry to those that are, but I'm not. I was excited for the blind side. I was excited for the shock factor. I was excited for the oohs and ahs that we did not get. Hopefully this twist will weigh something up and I will still

[00:49:40] get my happy ending. Yeah. I didn't know a better way to say it. You know what I mean? I was like, damn. But you know, I will say to your point, like I love when Big Brother makes us feel something. Yeah, but not hatred. Yeah, but I'll take hatred because I just feel like we're talking about the white locust twist still. We're going to remember it. We're going to hate it, but we're still here. We're the people who are going to show up no matter what, right? Don't encourage them.

[00:50:10] They showed all of the moments in the montage and the white locust clip got booed. Yeah. And then I think it went right to like then Cody and Jess in bed and then they booed again. I mean, the thing for me is and I can't speak for everyone, but tonight was the perfect example of good angry and bad angry because Mallory leaving was upsetting in many ways, but you were like, you were like, no,

[00:50:40] like why did this have to happen? That's, I feel like how a lot of this room felt, but that's like the, that's part of the experience. You have to feel those lows in order to feel the highs of, oh my God, Barrett is flipping. This might happen, right? The bad angry is, oh, they're just shutting the feeds off and there's going to be some twist and like, oh my God, okay, whatever. But I almost wish like we could look back and say, oh, they're rage baiting us. Like they want us to be, they don't want this. They don't want this. They don't want to get booed by us.

[00:51:10] They think it's great. Yeah. They think it was so good that they're bringing it back again and pretending it's something new. I mean, I did like seeing Brittany Haynes walk out. I did like seeing Tiffany Mitchell walk out. I like seeing, I'm not going to say I like seeing Cody walked out, but Kamu just got eliminated from the challenge. So it was very, oh, oh, spoiler alert. Kamu. He said Kamu. He said Kamu. He said Kamu. I said Kamu. He's talking about last week's episode.

[00:51:40] Challenge lovers, I am sorry. It slipped out. It slipped out. He said Kamu. I said Kamu got eliminated last week. David. Yes. All right. Shout out David Bloomberg. Very few shout outs tonight. I don't know. You know what? And we're okay with it because I'm like, I love the, I don't love the family shout outs. I love the shout outs of people who are in this room, people we know,

[00:52:09] the Rob Sesternino shout outs. Like that, you know, who cares about family anymore? I will say for Drew, I know he's not the most popular person here, that at least he didn't do like crazy shout outs. Like, your boy's still here. Woo! At least he's like, all right, he read the room a little bit for the first time. He could have pointed at the camera and gone, you can't handle the truth. He'd be like, what's popping honeymoon, Vez? The Barrett bit

[00:52:38] in the diary room when voting turning into him just like being unable to do it fully. And Julie being like, I'm sorry to do this to you. Yes. That was good stuff. That was good. That was powerful stuff. I really liked that. I actually preferred that than Barrett's like voting when he's like, oh, I'm confused. What is this room? What's going on? To troll in the hair. Oh, hey, Barrett. Oh, hi, Julie. I preferred that much more. No, I hate that. Okay. I think the fact that he, to speak to what we're talking about, the fact that he had done that

[00:53:08] every single time set this moment up in a way that it wouldn't have been set up otherwise. All right. We've got one more guest to get to. Jacob, David, Matt. Chuck. Chuck. Okay. Take care. Happy trails, Chuck. All right. All right. Be sure, listen to Why Mallory Lost This Weekend with David Bloomberg and Chappelle. Okay. All right. And so, we,

[00:53:38] listen, we need to fix the vibes. The vibes are, the vibes got off, Taryn. They were so good this morning. They were great this morning. You had the biggest live feed update of the season. Everybody was pumped up and now the vibes are kind of down. We need to fix what's going on. And so, to do so, we'll bring back a great friend of the podcast, an Etsy witch. Hello.

[00:54:08] Yes. Etsy witch, do you have a name? I believe it was Morgana of the Marketplace. Morgana of the Marketplace is here and we're ready to change the vibes. This isn't Chappelle. What gave it away? Listen, everyone. The Etsy witches have been busy this week, but unfortunately, we were getting signals

[00:54:37] left and right. They were crisscrossing. We were being told, keep Taylor, keep Taylor. And we were being told, screw the vets over, make them have drama. What happened? When Drew wins the blockbuster, those two concepts kind of don't work together. So, oopsie. It feels like Drew

[00:55:07] was able to just kind of like blindly put down C and win this. That feels very anti-Etsy. witch to me. You're right, I forgot. Drew, Drew's fans were also contacting the Etsy witches. Yes, there was one Drew fan very loud in the back earlier. Is that why his friend said he was, he was R.I.P. Drew when this, he was trying to like bait everyone into thinking

[00:55:36] that they didn't even need to hire the Etsy witch? witch. That's what we call ironic. Yeah. Well, Etsy witch, tonight we saw the man from the Guinness Book of World Records come out to present Big Brother with not one but two Guinness Book of World Records. No, I, I've heard someone else who might have two Guinness World Records. Yes, who is that? A good friend of mine, Frail Daddy.

[00:56:06] Is he crawling somewhere? Oh, he's normally just back there somewhere. Yes, what are his records? He, juggling, you know, there was an alliance called the Jugglers. Drew's in it. Oh, things are making sense now. Yeah, yes, I was going to ask, do you have any Guinness Book of World Records? Oh, the Etsy witches, we got a couple over the past couple years

[00:56:36] for, for, first off, breaking Etsy one day. The site went down from all of the Etsy witch, first. That was a record. That was a record. There's, and we, you know, we really, really work tightly with Guinness, actually. Yeah. A lot of the Etsy witches, big fans of the, of the stout as well. Makes sense. Now, they're going back

[00:57:06] to the year 1000, and I feel like that's really a time when witchcraft was at its peak, right? They were not kind to the Etsy witches back in year 1000. You guys were able to keep afloat though, right? Well, see, oh, oh, oh, oh, too soon. Too soon. Okay, so, I want to take from the crowd, what do we want the Etsy witch to work on?

[00:57:36] This is what happens when we have a big twist. People don't even know what they're rooting for. You don't even know what you want. Okay, how about, could we manifest a live feed leak? Skippy falls asleep and turns the feeds back on. I will definitely get working on that. And, and you know, one more thing about the Etsy witch, which is funny. Sometimes we channel people who are dead. Sometimes we channel people who are alive.

[00:58:05] And if you were, if you saw me earlier and thought, who is that supposed to be? The Etsy witch? Well, oh, wait, hold on. The, M Vegas. Yes. Kristen. Who works on so many levels. I'm back. I'm back.

[00:58:34] Rachel Riley confounds us all. Well, all right. Well, Etsy witch, thank you for changing the vibes around here. Appreciate it. Incredible. Reminds me a lot of Frail Mary. Yeah, there's something really weird about she had a name tag that said Mary. I think, uh, somebody check on Mary because I haven't seen her in a while. Somebody stole her name tag. All right. So, all right, we're going to wrap up here for night two of RehapCon. We still have a big day three coming up

[00:59:04] here for everybody who's in the room. Friday morning, there will be an exit interview with Mallory and Taryn. uh, you're going to be solo on that one. I'm playing in a survivor LRG at RehapCon. How do you think you'll do? I don't know. We'll see. I mean, you're kind of going to be the icon. I, you know, I kind of feel like that the vibes are kind of bad against the vets. I don't like that. Um, but yeah, give my best to the pipe queen.

[00:59:34] I will. We'll have a good time. We'll talk about pipes. We'll talk about queens. Uh, then after that at, uh, it will be, noon Eastern for you at home. 11 central for everybody here. Taryn and Pooja will be live to talk about the, uh, live feeds from today. Yes. And it turns out we have live feeds right now. So, uh, there will actually be some fallout from this eviction to talk about. So that'll be very exciting. Okay. Uh, then, uh, plenty of,

[01:00:04] uh, stuff to come, including a very big Sunday night Big Brother episode, which we will have a recap for you as well. So be on the lookout for that. All right. Taryn, what else? Uh, you know what? Find my Patreon. I was streaming during this whole thing if you want to see what it's like to be at a live show, uh, while staring at my face. Check that out. Check it out. It's a good time. Okay. All right. Then also on Chatbcc, check out the $10,000 game that's playing out

[01:00:32] on Friday night. Go to bb28.chat for that. And, uh, these, this is, it feels like the right room to say this. Are you all interested in knowing where we're gonna go for Survivor 51 this fall? All right. I have, I have two dates and locations for you. All right. You heard it here first. Okay. On October 14th, we will be in

[01:01:02] Washington, D.C. Okay. The crowd is like, eh, okay. And then on December 9th, I will be in my home state in Charlotte, North Carolina. All right. Oh, bigger response. I'm excited. I'm driving to that one. All right. All right. Thank you all so much. Everybody here with, this was amazing to be here with you tonight

[01:01:31] and everybody at home. Thanks for joining us. We will see you tomorrow. Take care of a good one. Bye.