BB28 Friday Live Feed Update LIVE at RHAPCon August 28, 2026

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[00:00:43] Hello everyone and good morning Welcome to our live feed update for August 28 I'm your host Taren Armstrong and I'm here to update you on everything that happened yesterday On the Big Brother 28 live feeds Now there weren't a lot of live feeds going on at night But there was some drama so there's plenty to talk about there It was day 52 in the house

[00:01:11] And there was a lead up to a blindside that of course did not happen But that drama again, it still persisted into the night And we got some feeds before they eventually closed for whatever is to come In the year 1000 or whatever So plenty to talk about there And with me today I have someone to talk about it with It's Pooja, how you doing Pooja?

[00:01:40] Give it up for Pooja I am so hungover Hello everybody Happy to be here Yes Pooja, how has your journey been here in Milwaukee? What have you thought of these feeds? The journey's been... Okay, very different questions Journey, phenomenal 10 out of 10, flight easy, people amazing, vibes immaculate Yes Now the feeds

[00:02:09] The highlight may have been this update Yesterday's update The recaps Because let me tell you We got a little bit Taren But as we say every Friday it feels like now We'll make a meal out of it We will indeed make a meal out of it Of course, you all knew D was the HOH Drew, Mallory and Taylor were on the block And as I discussed yesterday Barrett went wild Barrett said

[00:02:38] I'm now choosing violence against the vets Yup And against Drew And he orchestrated a... With the help of Yash And I do want to give a large credit to Yash here as well Because I don't think this is happening without Yash's outreach to Barrett And the suggestion to do this in the first place But the two of them together helped orchestrate this flip against the vets And against Drew And they flipped Melody and Mallory

[00:03:05] Barrett exposed not the crossover name As much as just the fact that he and Drew had been working with them this whole time And so the question on my mind through the day was Will this hold? Melody and Mallory didn't want to get rid of Drew And quite frankly, it's not even necessarily better for them to evict Drew over Taylor At least there's an argument to be made That Drew could be more valuable to their game That he might be willing to flip on the vets It was only just a couple of days ago that he had that mindset

[00:03:36] So, will they talk to Drew? Was the question Will they just be like, hey, what are you thinking? Like, will you vote to keep Mallory? Will you be with us against the vets? Because if not, we're going to vote you out, bro And I can tell you that didn't happen But we were certainly on the lookout for it And so we started the day with Taylor talking to Lala Taylor, of course, is informed that this is the plan Drew is going to be going

[00:04:06] And this is all great for Taylor Because Taylor is now the safest person on the block And so her priority here is I don't want anything to get messed up And by I don't want anything to get messed up What I mean and what she means is I don't want Lala to mess this up She says, Lala, stick to the plan Stick to the plan, Lala Just don't engage in any of it Lala's a boat

[00:04:35] We have numbers, right? She's like, hey, what did I say? Don't engage Stop it Don't talk And Lala goes Okay Don't ask any questions Just don't do anything Stay low key Don't say anything Just keep me Keep Mallory That's it Small ask From Lala especially Yeah, I mean, it's a very weird spot to be in when you're on the block like that

[00:05:04] Like, you're like, this is a Jenga tower Don't touch it Easy I'll touch it, you don't touch it But sometimes, you know, your allies want to do right by you So you got to just remind them, the right by me is to do nothing by me, please Yeah So, Mallory fruitlessly campaigns to Devins Of course, this is not going to go anywhere But Drew talks to Devins afterwards He says that he really does not want to vote out Mallory But he's willing to do what the vets want him to

[00:05:33] Just tell him how to vote and he'll do it He's trying to like, broach the topic in my opinion To get permission to vote to keep Mallory Because he's gotten the vibe that Melody's pretty pissed off And he wants to be able to at least throw her a bone He knows Mallory doesn't have the votes But he also wants to continue to prove his loyalty to the vets Because he's a good boy Um, Devins says We need to rip off the band-aid It'll only get harder to evict Mallory the longer we go on So we need to do it now

[00:06:04] Drew then goes and talks to Barrett And he goes, uh, you know what Barrett? Thanks for having my back Barrett says, of course dude You and me to the end, man Yeah Yikes Woo Drew talks to Mallory in the storage room He says he's gonna pick her up if she wins the blockbuster He's, you know, doing his Drew thing

[00:06:33] And after he leaves, Melody joins And Mallory's like, it does make me sad Like, I don't want him to go And Melody says, I don't want him to go either Like, I'm gonna cry myself to sleep every night for a week But also I gave him a million opportunities To tell me something To tell me anything And the fact that he won't Means he never will Like, fuck you Like, you're hurting my game And you're voting my friend out

[00:07:04] Mallory says, yeah, yeah It makes me sad But the icons, they need to be weakened And If him going on the block isn't enough to flip him against them Then nothing's going to be And so They lock in She does want to know though If Drew is willing to keep her if Haley is on board Because again, Barrett is kind of under the assumption That Yash might actually keep Mallory over Taylor It's not happening, it's not important It doesn't go anywhere But Barrett joins them

[00:07:31] They agree they're gonna vote Drew out And Melody says it breaks her heart But she's gotta do it And so They talk about Haley's vote again And they talk about how to flip Haley Because Barrett says we can drop the alliance name The cool kids made with the icons Like as further proof that the icons were never really working with her I know what it's called What was it called? Red Corner Stupid

[00:08:00] He's like, yeah, it was like a fighting thing Like, did Kamu name it? Probably He says, I have another one too This one's really bad Dee used the bribe on Yash to keep her safe on her next HOH On his next HOH Oh, well that's not good Don't like that Yeah Yes, so lots of information leakage here Pooja And lots of information being dumped

[00:08:29] Now here's the key though Melody left the room before he told Mallory this And as we know Spoilers Mallory's gone now I don't know if Malory passed this information to Barrett I don't know if Barrett intends to tell Melody Or sorry, if Malory passed this information to Melody before she left I don't know if Barrett intends to tell Melody about things like the Red Corner But we do know that this is like an intended sequence

[00:08:55] That Barrett will try to pull Hayley off of the icons by revealing to her things like Hey, I knew about Red Corner like day three You were never with them They will Hey, they have always been using you And there's a chance it works, right? Like Hayley has been a little concerned And she does talk to Drew today on this day About how she hasn't forgotten about her HOA train She was talking to Malory about how the icons have burned her before

[00:09:24] And then she uses those words when she talks to Drew I do think that Hayley is somebody that like obviously has been pulled in by the icons But there's a lot of information to dump And there's some wiggle room there potentially here Yeah, there's a lot there There's a lot to be stacked against them It all comes down to one thing and one thing only Is can the other side get the power so that the people in this situation decide Let me loosen the purse strings a little bit Give some information out there to keep myself safe

[00:09:53] Because they all have a lot of evidence against them Against the icons that can be used They just have to find the time to do it And also they need to not be gifted safety by the icons I think that's the problem Yeah, that would help Taylor and Malory have a couple of conversations about blockbuster strategy And one of them this is the one Taylor proposes She says, listen, since Drew has been talking about potentially throwing this to Malory

[00:10:22] Which he wants to do He's thought about doing because in his mind he's locked safe And if he throws it to Malory Then Malory is also safe And that means Taylor goes and he's able to keep Malory And eat his daddy Devon's cake At the same time No comment So Taylor says, listen, what if I tell Drew That I plan to throw the blockbuster

[00:10:50] That will let Drew feel comfortable Also throwing the blockbuster Because he won't be worried that I'll win And then maybe he'll throw it to you And then we vote his ass out Doesn't end up happening, but you know I would have liked that Barrett talks to the cameras He says, the plan is to take out Drew and isolate the rest of the crossovers He says, I think people at home are probably like Why are you turning on the crossovers? That's not a good read Barrett

[00:11:21] He says, I just want to shake things up I just, I love the icons a lot But they've had it so fucking easy in this game And I just don't want to be the guy that stuck with the icons the whole time You are, but you can change Listen, don't shade Izzy like that Feeds go down, of course, as they do on Thursdays When they come back up, Yash is talking about how Drew Apparently was like, I don't need your vote anyway

[00:11:50] To Yash That guy feels so comfortable I can't wait until we vote him out Malorie asks Drew if Sorry, Melody asks Drew if he thinks Malorie has a chance of staying He says, no But she can win, right? Please don't tell her that I said that though And they share some long hugs It's again, it's like Such a weird and kind of like bittersweet kind of thing

[00:12:19] Where he's guilty about voting out her friend And she's guilty about voting out him Malorie tells Taylor, she's got a plan for the blockbuster If it's some kind of quiz Like spot the difference How many differences are there? They should try to coordinate their numbers So that if Malorie chooses six Taylor should choose like seven Just to try to like stack it

[00:12:47] And make sure that they don't All right, all right Great, thanks everybody They should choose different answers And here's the kicker on this one This actually was a great strategy specifically for this blockbuster too If Melody and Sorry, if Malorie and Taylor had done this strategy and coordinated And gone, because this was not spot the difference But like which panel of screens was the correct one

[00:13:17] If they had quickly eliminated one of them And then conferred with one another and said Let's run to the buzzers And hit the two that we know it's at least one of them They would have been able to lock Drew out of winning this competition Unfortunately, for whatever reason They just did not think of doing that strategy in the moment And we got something else So, Malorie tells Barrett If I leave You've got to stick with Melody And he says

[00:13:48] I have no intention of returning to the icons Don't look at me like a Do you agree with that kind of face Because Again We have seen Barrett get putty At the hands of Deep Plenty So It could happen But I think There's a lot of energy there That I feel like he doesn't want that to be the case But it kind of sucks And I'm about to revert back to what I said about Haley If that side wins power I could see Barrett being like We cool?

[00:14:18] Like you up? Give me a hangout? It could happen But I don't think so I think we're I think he's veering away Yeah, I mean I do I do think it comes down to who wins Of course, there is no winner Next week Just losers Which by the way Like on one hand we've talked about The fact that Obviously if you did not watch last night's episode We were told That there are no feeds Until Sunday But we're still here And we'll still chat

[00:14:48] And that They have some kind of big twist No HOH, no nominations, no veto No nothing And so on one hand That frees Yash from his contracts For a week For that week For whatever this is He could theoretically target them If that's available But also It's one less week That he can burn In HOH Right? So now the next time he can win HOH Is the following elimination And then he has to wait another two weeks Before he can win HOH again And target the icons

[00:15:18] So, if he's not able to take an icon out In whatever this twist is This could end up being worse I have a question Taren I don't know if this has come up yet So apologies if it has If D was to Let's say leave on Sunday Whatever this is Is D's departure Does that nullify Yash putting up the other two icons? That's what I'm saying I think it should It's her deal You break the curse Yeah, the contract's gone if the person that was...

[00:15:48] Yeah, maybe they need to perform a rock ceremony of some sort But like... Those don't go well typically Yeah, yeah I think that if she leaves That should nullify the deal for the other two Because it's her deal She's no longer there It's gone I agree Yeah, I think so Well, speaking of D, she spent the morning Trying to put some fear into Drew Not because she was fearful for Drew

[00:16:17] She thought she did have the votes But she didn't want Drew thinking he had the votes Because she didn't want Drew throwing the blockbuster to Mallory And so she was trying to convince Drew like Hey, you never know what might happen You better not throw the blockbuster And she starts wondering out loud to Devins Like, okay, let's say an enemy of ours wins HOH next week What do you think about like me just exposing the Yash pride?

[00:16:45] You know, like, hey, Yash can't put any of us up And Devins is like, I don't get how that helps us He's bragging She's like, we'll talk about it later We'll talk about it later They also talk about going after Yash soon Devins in particular, he's like, listen, I know Yash can't come after us But he's still dangerous to us in this house He could still win a veto when we go after him It still might take a while to actually take him out So let's make sure we're focused on him moving forward Not good for Yash

[00:17:14] No, but it's not been good anyway So what's a little more bad? I guess so So we get to the eviction, of course We all watched this last night Drew, he did say by the way that he When looking at the clues He was able to quickly eliminate one of the screens And then he just guessed between the other two 50-50 You could say he flipped a coin But he has a never not pass, y'all It's fine

[00:17:45] Better lucky than good So the feeds did come back, as I said And most of it was just kind of drama Specifically between Drew and Melody Melody is just really upset with Drew Drew, during the eviction He cast his vote to evict Mallory And when he did There was an audible In the audience And he heard it

[00:18:16] And when they opened that door He saw All the alumni People he grew up watching Idolizing And he is really shaken by this He is like, they hate me They think I'm a loser That's what Rob would say Yeah They think he's such a jerk So he's like really upset by this

[00:18:45] And Melody is really upset by this Like you, I can't believe That you couldn't even cast a vote Even if you didn't have the votes Even if it didn't matter in any other way You still decided to get into that room And cast your vote against Mallory My best friend in this house And on top of all of it You've been lying to me this whole game And I know you have I can't believe how easy it has been for you To lie to my face this entire game You are literally the closest person to me In this entire house

[00:19:15] And you've been lying to me the entire time Like it's a game? But, you know? More than that And I think you can understand this From Melody's point of view, right? Because like, there's a lot going on there There's a bit of a flirt man's There's a bit of a like There's game, there's friendship And then there's flirting There's the hugging There's the caressing And things are complicated for her

[00:19:42] She, you know, kind of had a situation coming in And so, the idea that like This is a difficult thing for her to manage On a personal level with Drew Does she like him? How much does she like him? What is she doing with all of it? And then on top of it To learn that he has been just lying to her the whole time And playing her It's really getting to her Yeah, and then You might be thinking Well, how is Drew going to respond to these things? Taryn's going to get to the words

[00:20:11] But I needed to bring this one thing up Drew take, you know, he is a fan of the show We know he's watched hundreds of hours of RHAP Everyone but Amon knew that, anyway But, Drew took a page out of the Keanu playbook Last night Not once, but at least twice Drew became the where's my hug guy And let me tell you Melody said, declined No, no hug for you Yeah, he's, she says

[00:20:39] Listen, you sat there and you played in my face like it was fun for you And then Lala comes in and interrupts her a while But, after she leaves He does, he says Can I hug you? You can say no I thought I was going to be doing the droop spot in this reenactment I didn't realize I'd be the Melody No, get away from me, don't touch me Listen, she didn't have the votes to stay, you know

[00:21:09] Melody's like, who cares? Who cares? I trusted you fully as a friend and an ally People have been telling me not to trust you this whole game And I should have listened to them A few minutes later, she leaves She goes to the storage room She's upset in the storage room And he comes in Can you step forward for a moment? Uh, Jacob Jones, eat your heart out He does this

[00:21:38] Don't, don't touch me Literally, he said, don't touch me Sorry She says, I just want to know why Even now you can't tell me that you've been lying to my face the entire game He says, I did I did lie Why? Why did you do that? And then you just want to sit there and bullshit me about how Oh, I want to take you to the final two or whatever Like, oh, let's go to the end

[00:22:09] I do still want to take you I mean, you can, whether you believe me or not He says, whatever You voted out my best friend You were going to weeks ago too And you never told me What kind of ally are you? He has no answer to that He just leaves He goes to D, he says, uh, she's pissed I shouldn't have voted Mallory out That was not good

[00:22:37] He says, you know, the parrot's playing dumb Like he didn't know this was going to happen Like I don't want to, I don't want to like sell him out But like I'm taking all the heat for this Now remember, Drew has no idea that Barrett has sold him out, right? He thinks that Barrett agreed to this just as much as he did And that Barrett is essentially taking the selfish route of being like I get to vote this way I get to look good to Melody and Mallory And Drew is the evil villain who voted with the vets

[00:23:05] And so he's like, this feels kind of lame But I'm not going to rat him out But like, come on Barrett Like, help a brother out here It's like if they were playing hide and seek Drew's annoyed that he can't be like Barrett, they got both of us Come on man, they got both of us Let's come out of our hiding spots He just doesn't want to do this alone And I kind of do like that he has to deal with being on an island a little bit Let him take the heat Even though, you know, Barrett's already been making moves against it Yeah So he talks to Devins and this is when he talks about the

[00:23:36] The vets or the alumni in the audience who were upset with him He said that they were all like, asshole, Drew He feels so bad And Devins says, listen, that's the reason she needed to go She was only going to get more popular And it was only going to be harder, right? So, Yash talks to Taylor And obviously things went decently for them They weren't able to get Drew out, but Taylor stayed, which is great

[00:24:05] Yash says, look, I tried to tell them last week They didn't listen Now look But now Barrett and Melody know So at least there's that And Taylor says, well, hey, maybe we can get Drew to see the light too Maybe he can redeem himself You know, if he wins an HOH or something You gotta try I mean, you're dumb not to try But also it is Drew And Taren, who is Devins to Drew?

[00:24:36] Daddy Devins There you go There you go He wants the dub Do you need to add more stuff to that? You're lucky I didn't add the grunting You know, depending on who you ask, I was lucky Melody talks to Barrett in what is probably the most tragically comedic scene of the night She tells Barrett that Drew kept saying that he would have kept Mallory if they had the numbers But she knows he's lying

[00:25:05] I actually don't know that that's true I think there's actually a chance he would have kept Mallory if they had the numbers They just didn't Well, I saw that there was this claim that like if the votes were gonna be close Like if, sorry, if Drew knew that the numbers were fine Like they would get what they wanted anyway He would have voted to keep Mallory for his own like game Right, so there's two things, right? They definitely didn't have the votes And Drew could have voted to keep Mallory without even making it a tie He still chose not to

[00:25:35] Which is kind of telling to where his loyalty seemed to lay However, if they did actually have Yash and Haley on board And they had four and they needed a fifth I do think there's a world where Drew is their fifth I don't know that he would have chosen to side with the icons over Barrett and Melody and Mallory and all of them In this particular vote But listen, we're never gonna know And as far as Melody is concerned She knows She knows he would not have chosen to keep Mallory

[00:26:06] And Barrett agrees He says yeah, he was trying to save his own ass And she says, oh my God I'm just, I don't get embarrassed And this is the most embarrassed I've been in my entire life I'm not gonna be able to watch the show back And they're in the storage room And so she takes a banana She starts eating it

[00:26:38] Barrett says, I don't think you're stupid She's like, I feel so stupid It's like, it's okay And he leaves And she's just standing there Crying Takes another bite And I didn't know how funny it was to watch people cry while they eat a banana Who among us hasn't?

[00:27:09] So she goes upstairs and she calls her mom on the phone As she does And she says, listen, mom I don't really know who's in my body right now, but it's not me I don't think I've ever felt this stupid in my entire life You've probably been screaming at the television about this all season long I don't know, I don't know how to do this I don't know how to handle this It's very sad

[00:27:38] But this is where Melody is in the game right now She's very upset at Drew And where does that leave her? Right? Like, she still can't work with the icons She still barely has like a relationship with Yash and Taylor and Lala Like they have a working relationship right now She's with Barrett, but Barrett was always closer to Mallory So it's like, do you target Drew? You kind of can't Like, that would be a waste

[00:28:05] So you kind of have to work with him in some capacity But she's so disgusted by him and the relationship that they have And he clearly, you know, has one expectation of what that relationship is And I think that at one point she had the same expectation But now she's feeling like she doesn't want it to go in that direction And so what does she do about this? It's a rough spot for Melody And we won't know how this resolves itself for a little while now

[00:28:34] There's going to be a twist coming and then an HOH And so we'll see how things end up for her But it's not fun It's not It's not However, I think that Melody should absolutely milk the guilt Just milk the guilt Make Drew feel horrible about this Because I agree with you, she should not go after him right now The icons still need to be dealt with But like, keep him at a distance He seems like he really wants that hug

[00:29:04] You gotta get back to the hug You gotta work your way back up I mean, listen, like, she should be able to win this battle You know? Like, your girlfriend, your friends They usually are able to beat your dad By the time you're a teenager, by the time you're in your 20s So, I think she can work on Now that she knows the information Now that she knows for sure he's been working with these people She can get insider information from Barrett

[00:29:33] I really think that they can They can really work on Drew here And I think it's probably necessary Depending on what happens with this twist But the last real thing we get to here before the night ends Is that Drew talks to Barrett He says, listen, Barrett Are you gonna tell Melody that you knew? Cause like, she's really mad at me And Barrett's like, oh yeah, don't worry about it I'll smooth it over for you Yeah, that's not gonna happen Drew says, Barrett I'm starting to feel like Kelly

[00:30:03] In this game They're just putting me up And taking out all my people It's like, yeah, you don't wanna be Kelly I think you're better than Kelly I don't know about that The time machine table The table time machine The table time machine Yeah It says, stand by Uh oh, what's happening? They all gather around the time machine table And they look up And it's quiet And then the feed's cut

[00:30:35] And that is what we have until Sunday nights Yup We'll see what happens with Melody With Drew With Barrett With the Vets With the icons With Yash There's a lot left on the table here There's gonna be no HOH I imagine, we've speculated That it might be some kind of hamster wheelie situation And so, what comes of that? We'll have to find out, Booyah Yeah, we got a long wait

[00:31:04] You get a long break until Sunday night Now, for your own personal Yeah We're assuming someone's gotta leave, right? We're assuming someone's gonna be gone by Sunday night What is the best case scenario? And what is the worst case scenario? Okay, let's assume it's like a hamster wheel, right? Let's assume it's just like somebody gets eliminated via competition Personally, I want the icons to not be eliminated via this mechanism

[00:31:34] I want the icons to be nominated I want them to sit on the block I want them to face the consequences of their actions I want them to not come out of the house being like Whoops, I lost a hamster wheel Otherwise, I would've been great I want the regular game to play out So, if I'm like, who can I lose? That I'm like, it's fine We already, we already didn't We already kinda saw this play out Are you guys with me on... Are you thinking of the same person? Definitely Haley Yes

[00:32:04] Haley, I think is the best case situation Easy Worst case scenario I think Taylor I think Taylor Taylor out here would be really rough Yeah, like Taylor surviving this week And getting to this place where they are in a potential 5-5 split down the middle To leave before she even gets to be part of the war would be devastating Personally, I would hate that Yeah, Yash also But like, if it's a competition Yeah, it's fine

[00:32:33] I mean, we'll see, right? But like, Yash leaving would be frustrating But he's also, he's like bound by this bribe So it's like, I don't even know If he's gonna be able to bring much Like, we don't even know at this point But Taylor would be a big loss Considering how well she has managed to maneuver In a game that like A lot of people in this house have been pretty against her for a while She's now survived a vote twice Despite everyone being like Wow, she's gonna win the game

[00:33:03] So, so that feels like the kind of situation that would be pretty frustrating But we'll see Yeah, I'm sorry I'm just doing the Yash math in my head Of if we go down to nine He's still there He wins HOH He's the HOH There's eight people He can't nominate three of them There's five people he can nominate Yeah Yikes I mean, lucky for him He's still got Drew he can nominate But there's not many more Like, you know Let's say it is somebody like Haley or Drew that leaves And he's only got Drew and or Haley

[00:33:33] And then Someone wins the veto Barrett, right? Yeah And... Lala? Melody? I don't know He doesn't rock with Lala He says it all the time Baby is Lala It's rough stuff But that is the day today We are going to take some questions This was the live feed update specific portion But we are live here in Milwaukee Thank you all for being here by the way Thank you

[00:34:02] It is so much fun to be able to do this in front of a live crowd I know that this isn't quite the update we would have wanted We would have been able to talk about HOH nominations That would have been very fun But we are going to have a good time here So we are going to take some questions We are going to maybe pull up some other podcasters Who want to come up and chat About the twist About the day yesterday And have a little party But I wanted to make sure we had like a normal Like proper utilitarian live feed update

[00:34:31] For all of the listeners at home Who can also enjoy the rest of this experience as well If you are interested But thank you Thank you again for being here It has been such such an honor and privilege And just an amazing experience to be able to do these live Yesterday was so much fun And I really appreciated the response of all of you So thank you so so much It's been amazing

[00:35:01] Alright so we have a mic here If anyone wants to come up and ask a question You can kind of just walk up Create a line And if we want to grab Maggie will come up and chat with us as well Let's grab a mic for Maggie Hi Maggie what were your thoughts on yesterday Well I have been like kind of thinking through scenarios all night I couldn't fall asleep I was too amped up So I was thinking through sort of like hamster wheel-y style scenarios

[00:35:31] Yes I think sort of the idea since it's structured medieval-ish Is that they might be like duels or like pair Oh sorry I'm moving over It might be more like paired battles And then whoever wins gets to pick the next pair So instead of like a knockout It's like a safety chain idea And I think the best case scenario would be Even if the first person who wins is an icon Or someone from that side

[00:36:00] Pretty early on They like pick Barrett And then Barrett goes rogue And you know like starts to pick someone like Yash Or Melody, etc. I also think that if it is a safety chain style thing I think the way that Drew feels right now Is so in the doghouse with Melody Who he genuinely really cares about Yeah That he would prioritize her over even like Devins He would Lauren her

[00:36:27] Yes, I genuinely think so That he would do that So I'm just interested Like I think how thrilling would it be If like say the competition starts with someone like Drew winning And Drew goes to someone like Barrett Or Melody Who then go to Yash So the icons There's some leaks in this chain Yeah, exactly So it's like kind of like the F.A.F.O. for the icons

[00:36:56] The F.A.P.F.O. Exactly, F.A.P.F.O. You said leaks and my ears perked up Do you know something we don't? But no, that's not the case Just like my, truly my Jose scenarios moment That probably once we find out the mechanism of the twist Will be completely useless But that's where my mind was going last night For fun I like your silver lining scenario Thank you I hope we get it Just a thought What is your name?

[00:37:27] How's it going? What is your question Mike? So my question is looking past the My question is going a little bit past the twist Julie mentioned that there Sound like she said the next live eviction on Thursday Like so I think we're expecting That we're going to have a whole week's worth crammed into Like three or four days I would assume so Like if it's similar to the What happened last time right? Because it like basically Rachel was gone

[00:37:56] Very quickly with the hamster wheel And then they just got going with a normal week So I would assume that's probably what we're going to do This time around as well Is a normal eviction scheduled And that eviction will be the first eviction for jury So I think that's what we got here All right, thank you so much for your question Any other podcasters want to come up and say hi? Here's Kirsten I felt peer pressured Maggie was gesturing to me

[00:38:27] What are your thoughts Kirsten? What were you thinking watching some of those feeds yesterday? It's just so crazy Like because first of all then she's like Oh, there's no feeds Oh feeds are up for a few hours So like what are we doing? Like can we please get some organization? I'm glad we got it Because there was some serious fallout That I was really happy that we got to see It would be worse if we didn't get it But yeah, I'm just sitting here hoping, praying, wishing Again pocket Jesus not with me at the venue But with me and my heart and my backpack at the hotel

[00:38:54] Like thog thog thog thog Please let it be her We'll see, we'll see Do you have another question from the audience here? Here let me This The other one I think the mic is fine Or the stand issue Is it working? Yeah So my question was I know Drew doesn't normally play optimally

[00:39:24] But if he were to What could he do this week to get back in the good graces of like Really the icons but also like Melody and Barrett Like what could he do that's best for his game this week? Best for his game is an interesting question I think that like winning in HOH, keeping them safe would be huge But specifically like targeting the icons would be ideal For winning over Barrett and Melody Is that best for his game? Is a slightly different question

[00:39:55] Because you know, Yash and Taylor and Lala are not the biggest Drew fans And so, you know, like where does that leave him? I mean, there's a world where it's him, Barrett and Melody versus Yash, Taylor and Lala And that's not a bad world to live in So there's certainly an argument for it But I think that they're not going to trust him until he can show them an action That he's actually done something And that could have been just a vote

[00:40:21] You know, just a vote tonight or last night that was to keep Mallory Even though it didn't matter, a symbolic vote But he couldn't even do that And so he's really going to have to prove to them, I think That he's with them Yeah, it was actually interesting The word coward's been thrown out a lot this week It was very cowardly of him to not vote yesterday The way he should have voted Yeah, I think keeping the facade definitely would help him I think the other thing and I think everyone can agree with this Just shut up, like keep some things for yourself

[00:40:51] Like truly, don't tell everyone everything Just some of it for you, some for them A little for me, a little for you Well let's be real, that's how he's going to try to make it up He's going to rat out some of the icon stuff Right, but it's too late because other people have used that currency There's not a lot left for you And the problem with Drew is like, he sounds like he's lying when he tells the truth Like if he could do the like talk less, smile more Like Aaron Burr-Hamilton thing, like it would actually do a lot for him Eyes open, mouth shut Here we go Thank you so much

[00:41:21] We have another question here, hello Hi! What's your name? My name's Abby Hello, how you doing Abby? I'd be doing better if we had feeds Yeah, I see the jet lag hat on Yes, yes You liking the new season? Ah yes, first episode of jet lag, out on my Patreon if you want to watch my reaction to it Very good They almost killed Tom Scott What's your question Abby?

[00:41:45] My question is, I know we saw on feeds last night briefly that Melody was in the storage room reading the rule book And I know that Taylor did that before she hid Drew's hair brush So I was wondering what we think Melody might have been reading the rule book for I'm honestly not sure I think, like unfortunately with her mindset, it probably was not something fun But, but you never know, right? Like they did talk about how Drew without his hair brush is like a little cracked

[00:42:14] So, you know, maybe, maybe if they like, like get a hair brush shipped in They can, they can set Drew straight I don't know Do we think we're ever getting the hair brush segment on the episode? Because I really thought we were getting that Wednesday I do think it's possible, but they still have so much to like They have a such a backlog with all of the extra content they've thrown in But given that Taylor is still there and Drew is still there They can always air it kind of like whenever they want So, I don't know, what do you guys think?

[00:42:44] Oh yeah, Mike's here What gave it away? Pooja just transformed into Mike Bloom The ultimate downgrade I found my best James Hewling just popping up out of nowhere What do you guys think about the rulebook? Do you have any, any theories? I find it so interesting because of course I've seen the Big Brother Canada rulebook before And it's really quite bare bones It's basically just like don't be an asshole

[00:43:14] It's like the way that it all like kind of boils down But it seems like the, the US rulebook is like No, these are the terms and conditions This is what you can and can't do I'm like, is Melody looking to see if Drew's allowed to lie to her? Or is it like an actual serious thing? I mean, what is interesting If we're talking about possible destruction of personal property Is that, correct me if I'm wrong And the other nominees' suitcases were in that storage room for quite some time Were they not? There was a time where Drew like briefly blipped in

[00:43:42] Moment of awkwardness and he took it out Like, if you're petty Betty, there's a second where you could be like Let me just like rifle through, you know, all of your personal belongings And make sure that you are not putting back 100% of the things that you left with Is theft okay? Exactly, you know? Yeah, maybe it was a malicious eating of a banana as she plotted Who knows? Oh my god Fun fact, I've been going through some of the Big Brother 2 archives For my, the project I'm doing on Patreon in the off season

[00:44:10] And there was a lot of talk this season about the rulebook When it comes to telling a nominee that they are going on the block And so, what actually happened in the first week of Big Brother 2 Is that Mike Boogie had Will tell Cheryl that she was going on the block Because it was against the rules for Boogie to tell her himself And as per the rulebook, as per them That at that time in Big Brother 2 If Mike Boogie had told Cheryl himself He would have been put on the block instead of her

[00:44:40] Whoa! Which obviously makes no sense And would not have worked in any way But, I thought it was a fun fact Anyway, thank you Can I ask a very quick follow up question? Sure Is it against the rules if Taylor gets evicted for her to take Drew's hairbrush with her? That is a good question The only example I could possibly think of was Pablo There was Pablo with Michelle That wasn't his personal problem And there was also Victoria ripping up Zach's hat But that wasn't Zach's hat, correct? He had taken someone else's hat

[00:45:10] I think, at the very least, she can leave it hidden Right? I think that's fine Just, because like, listen, that's what Kelly did With the bugs It's shades of Survivor Redemption Island When Julie Wolf took Phillip's pink underwear And buried it on the island Like, there's... I think there's some grey area there I don't think we needed to be reminded of that Thank you so much for your question Thank you I, while we're waiting for the next person I will say I've got a little tea Uh oh

[00:45:40] Breaking tea Breaking tea Are we happening now? So, Taryn and I both had very productive conversations Very productive mornings We both talked with Mallory Tea party queen herself She was in some pretty good spirits If you're looking for some spice, you know, she's a lovely person Maybe not necessarily high on the Scoville scale She didn't spill a lot of tea But I've got a little bit that I can reveal at this moment So, I will be doing an exit interview With the next person booted

[00:46:11] I will not have to wait until Thursday To talk to them I'll leave it at that Okay I think that's what we've expected Right, it's more so kind of confirming Yes I think Sunday's episode will be a must-see Okay In more ways than one All right Good to know Good to know All right All right Uh, Mari's up here with us Yes, I wanted to answer some questions Yes Okay, let's answer some questions Hey, how you doing? Hi, I'm Javon Hello, Javon What is your question?

[00:46:41] So, Drew's winning path is closing slowly Can we get the mic a little closer? Sorry about that No worries Drew's winning path is closing slowly Do we see any opportunity for him to wiggle on up? Ooh It's... He was not good in that veto competition Yeah, and everyone I don't know if he's gonna wiggle very well It's tough I mean, listen It's a little bit of a biased opinion But when Mallory told me I don't know if she told you It was that she feels like Drew Is the most unlikable person in the house right now That's the sense we're getting That makes sense

[00:47:11] She feels like, you know, obviously The Yash, Taylor, Lala side not happy Barrett's not happy She didn't even need to watch the feeds To know that Melody is not happy And listen, we've still got a month and change left But we only have a month and change left And I think it's getting to become The point of no return In terms of changing people's opinions about you Especially if we are segwaying into a jury thing Where I feel like those opinions only fester over time Yeah, so it... So he might be able to wiggle his way to the chairs

[00:47:39] But the fact that he might not get the votes Seems to be almost like locking down I can definitely see that Yeah, he's talked all season about how he thinks He can beat the vets in the final two And whether or not that was true before I don't think it's true now I think that Yash, who knows that he's been a vet pet This whole time Would vote for a vet over him I think Taylor, who said if they let the vets get to the end I'd vote for him Would be a vet vote I think Lala would be a vote for the vets

[00:48:07] If he doesn't fix this relationship with Melody I think Melody might be a vote for the vets I think Haley would be a vote for the vets I don't think he's winning against them And I do think he'll need to take a shot at some point If he wants any chance of winning I agree And if his final two with Barrett is what he really wants to There's no way he's winning against Barrett Right, I think that he could have Potentially prior to like the last couple days But the fact that Barrett has now been activated against the vets

[00:48:37] Now I don't think he can Would you say the juggler dropped the ball? I think he dropped all the balls Well Thank you so much Thank you so much for your question Hello, what is your name? Hi, my name is Steph Hello Steph, how are you doing? Good, how are you? Doing very well We've got a lovely crowd We've got some great podcasters And some wonderful questions What is your question? So my question is looking past whatever is going to happen in medieval times

[00:49:06] Who is the most likely primary target for each person? Not who should they target Like who's the most likely And you can just kind of go rapid fire if you want I think Drew wants Yash I think Yash Well he's Can't target the vets Yeah, I was gonna say There's want and there's can't Yash would be Drew Right Because he can't do anyone else Yeah I think Barrett would be That's the question Is like Is this

[00:49:35] Is he gonna stick with this decision Or was this a sign? Is he gonna like actually Take the first shot across the bow And Yeah like I don't think he's throwing another competition after this I'll give you that I know he's talked about how much he wishes Yash would win for him Oh God, I'm scared Which obviously would not work very well I'm Lord, I'm scared And does he go D or is there something still emotional holding him back Like that he would go maybe Devins or Angela instead? I mean I think Honestly, I think he would probably If he went against the vets I think he would do like all three All three And then

[00:50:05] Yeah Who do they decide? I think Devins ends up the target I do That might be you I think Devins is the more dangerous Because Yash too Yash thinks that Devins is the one controlling D And so I think Yash points to Devins I think they're worried about Devins being a comp threat He had the diamond power of Vito So I think Devins ends up being the target I think the icons will likely be targeting Yash next Maybe Taylor or Lala But I think Yash is probably their next target And then I think Melody

[00:50:35] Melody Melody would also be looking at the vets I think Devins or D The vets is kind of open season They can just take their pick at this point I think we're basically looking like a perspective 5v5 With a Barrett in the middle essentially Yes, for sure, for sure But would the vets really target Yash before him becoming H.O.H. again? I, the way that Devins was talking to D about it was like I think we need to start moving in that direction And this is exactly how he started the conversation with Mallory

[00:51:03] Mallory eviction as well So I think that he will keep pushing on this And it does make sense Because the longer you wait in the game The less valuable that him coming after you is Because he could just win and then keep winning And that could be very bad for you Thank you so much for your question Real quick, I have to go head off Before I redo a twin twist And I switch off to Kuya But I'd be remiss Taren You know, obviously this is a big look back At Big Brother as a whole

[00:51:33] But I want to express on behalf of myself And I hopefully think hundreds of people And hopefully thousands of people watching How pivotal you have been To our experience and our enjoyment of the show for a decade At this point I don't think any of us at RHAP feel like This is necessary viewing for the Big Brother experience But like, as an extracurricular You have enriched so much of my enjoyment And understanding especially of What makes these people tick

[00:52:02] I think you are incredibly analytic and empathetic At the same time I think you are a one in 750,000 person And I am so happy That you have had the opportunity To be for someone who has stood in front of a screen For days upon days and years upon years The opportunity to stand in front of a group of people And look in these cameras and see people Who are here for you, listening to you You deserve every morsel of support that you get

[00:52:26] Now glaze me, glaze me, get back here Thank you so much, Mike And you know, it was really fun yesterday To be up here in front of the crowd It's been so fun today But it's even more fun that I get to share this stage With all of my friends here And with the fans, with the questions

[00:52:55] It's been really cool to be able to share that experience as well It really, like, none of this would mean anything If it weren't for all of the people that were watching and enjoying And relating to what we're doing And listening to the stories I'd be spouting off on my own Like I used to before any of this happened So thank you all, really, genuinely It means so, so much to me Now let's get another question

[00:53:24] Hi Hello, what is your name? Anissa Anissa, how are you doing? I'm a little starstruck by all of these podcasters Oh, it's just the lights, they're very bright That's true What is your question? So my question is, when Julie said that there wouldn't be HOH Yeah I know that most people thought Hamster Wheel of Death My mind went to something completely different Because this season has been kind of survivor coded What if they're just gonna do a tribal

[00:53:54] And everybody votes for whoever they want And in that situation, who do you think would get eliminated? And can Yash vote for the vets? That is a great question I had a similar thought Because there was speculation that they could do a survivor twist I was like, why would they do a twist about another show on their thousandth episode? But then, they were so happy to be like, no live feeds, no HOH, no nominations Like, they hate all of their show, I guess

[00:54:24] So, great question If this were just a vote, I think number one, Yash should absolutely be able to vote the vets out He is not the HOH, there is no HOH Yeah Number two, how would this work? Well, we just discussed It's kind of a split house, right? It's Barrett and Yash and Taylor and Lala and Melody And it's Haley and Devins and Dee and Angela and Drew And so, where does that vote go?

[00:54:53] I think the vets probably try to vote out Yash or Taylor And I think that Yash and Taylor and Barrett probably try to vote out somebody like Devins And they need to flip Drew to get six Or the icons need to flip Barrett back to get their six And so, it actually is kind of timed perfectly for something like that So, I don't know It would be better than the hamster wheel because everyone hated that

[00:55:21] Certainly, anything is better than the hamster wheel Yeah, the only thing that gives me pause to that is that Why do we need four alumni there to watch people do a vote? Like, I don't think they're gonna be there for that That's what I'm concerned about I think it's gonna be some kind of competition based But I do like that, especially if you could, you know, fool someone into being a rogue vote And then it's a 5-4-1, that would be even better Yeah, I don't think we should get our hopes up that it's not gonna be a competition Like, to be quite honest

[00:55:50] There's no way that we have jousting and royal court and all of this And it's not gonna be some tournament-style competition Tournament has been my theory for a while Yes, a tournament The league will make sense for that But I wonder if it's a tournament If it's a tournament to crown a victor And then the victor makes a decision Or a tournament to crown a loser And that person goes home

[00:56:19] I would lean loser Because winner is closer to HOH That is true But I think winner is better Because it's more like Big Brother But who knows If Sam is still around here I just wanna make sure how we're doing on time Thank you Okay, we got like 10 more minutes To take some questions Thank you so much Hi Taren Hello, how are you doing? What is your name? My name is Mats

[00:56:48] Like the applesauce But that's the... yeah, anyway I really, I just... I was a bit disappointed this week That the episodes didn't necessarily showcase Taylor's treatment Yes At the beginning of the week And I was just curious Like what your thoughts were on If that's something that the show will Eventually get back to Like, you know, if it becomes necessary Or if Big Brother's gonna Big Brother And they'll just kind of like gloss over it I think that if they can get away with it They'd be happy to gloss over it

[00:57:18] I think in particular This dynamic between Taylor and Hayley And the conversation Taylor tried to have with her And the fact that she's saying she's talking about it in the diary room Means that if Taylor versus Hayley ever becomes relevant Like really relevant Like Hayley's an HOH Taylor's an HOH Something along those lines They probably at that point have to address it But I don't think it's their favorite topic in the world And I think that they'd be very happy if like

[00:57:48] You know, we're all complaining about a hamster wheel instead Yeah, I feel like Big Brother has not really Cared too much lately I mean just based off of the invite list that we saw For who could have been there yesterday And some of the people that showed up I mean it's not to say that I feel like we need to have people be cancelled forever And they should just, you know, never see the light of day But I do think that it does Stick them in a warehouse

[00:58:18] Yeah, just throw them in a warehouse With no lights I do, but I do think that it There is, I feel like there's been like a bit of a shift In terms of like, where the priorities lie And like how much Storytelling Big Brother wants to do About like Said subjects So, yeah, I don't foresee them Highlighting any of that Unless they have to, like Terrence said Did you guys see the warehouse that they stuck all of those players in?

[00:58:48] That was wild Could you believe if we put you guys in a warehouse? You all come out, you all flew out for this event And we're like, thank you all so much for being here Um, you 20, stay here The rest of you, down the street We've got a big nice warehouse With some folding chairs With fillers too Like some of those people were not house guests Yeah So you were like, who is that? We'll give you a voucher for like one bowl of slop It's gonna be a great experience

[00:59:21] Yeah, yeah, exactly One cardboard Zingbot Four screens It'll be a good time Thank you for your question He's gone Hello My question is You mentioned about the house being divided into two groups of five Possibly from here on out Yes Who do you think, from each of the groups Is the lead favorite to get America's vote at the end of the season?

[00:59:49] And like, what pathway would they have to get that vote? That's a great question With Mallory gone Obviously, you know The, the, I think the most likely candidate for a house guest Or favorite house guest is That isn't an icon Is out, out of the window I think right now, Devins and Angela are probably the top two But if we're gonna look at anybody else I do think You guys tell me what you think I think Yash is on the rise

[01:00:17] I think Yash is the best contender For audience favorite Outside of the icons Yeah, it's hard to go against what we've already seen And we saw like, as soon as Mallory and the icons were not available Melody does win that next vote So I do think that if she remains like An active screaming character on the show There is a chance But I think that Yash and Taylor also have like Their stars are rising much more Yeah, I think Just keep screaming girl You gon' get that money girl

[01:00:46] Keep screaming, keep screaming For sure I actually can't believe I was able to do that After these three days Alright, final question Hello Hey What is your name? My name is Jordan Hello Jordan, how are you doing tonight? Tonight? This morning? I'm doing great It's all the same Monts asked the question I was gonna ask And did a great job So I'm just gonna Finish up with some superlatives here Okay First of all, I really appreciate that Like to Rob and everyone who runs this

[01:01:16] Like just that there's so many people Who don't look like me Or think along the same lines as I do Whose voices I get to hear So like thank you to everyone For, I don't know This is just such a great community And yeah And then I'll just finish it off I used to listen to the live feeds To enrich my Big Brother watching experience But now I only watch Big Brother To enrich my live feed listening experience

[01:01:47] There's just so much more I got from y'all So, thank you very much Thank you so much Those are very kind words I appreciate that so much Thank you all for asking such great questions Can I get all of the updaters in here in this room? Can I get you all on stage as we wrap this up? If you want to I just wanna send us off And thank all of my updating friends here

[01:02:13] Here's Booyah and Kirsten and Scali and Mary Here's Jacob Jones Jenny hasn't updated in a while But it's alright Anyone else in here? I think that's all we've got right now But these people They do a lot of work too They are essential To this experience And I am so happy that I get to share it with them As well as with all of you So I wanna give a big thank you to

[01:02:43] All of my updaters here Thank you so much And that's our show That's what we got Thank you all so much for being here This was so much fun to do live It was great to be able to chat with you guys directly And you know, even when we don't have feeds We can still have a good time But they should give us some feeds Thank you all so much